My star ratings
Well I won't leave you waiting in anticipation. You want to know how good the matches were, and I'm here to tell you.
Opening Three Way Tag *** 3/4
Wow, Private Party was fantastic. I loved that Best Friends won as I think they are a very pushable team.
Bates's butt in shorts *
Eh, the only thing good about this match were the late 2000's style skimpy outfits around the crotchal regions of the rasslers. Librarians suck.
Jabailey vs Nakazawa ** 1/2
This shit was hilarious. Obviously the work was bad from Jebailey but holy shit I was laughing. I liked it.
Daniels vs CIMA ***
This was a solid show opener with good rasslin. Daniels is still very good but he does have Matt Hardy back so...
Rose/Riho/Sakazaki ** 1/2
I didn't love this match but there was some good work, the Japanese girls were too unbelievable for me in working over Rose.
Page/Boy/MJF/Havoc *** 1/2
Solid stuff but a little shot. However it was so well put together, giving everyone a direction afterward.
Cody vs Darby Allin **** 1/2
Match of the night as far as workin and story goes. Cody was incredible, one of his best performances and Darby came off like an immediate star. I love the GF barometer and Darby was a star to my GF at the end of this. He can be a main guy in AEW after this. Great match to establish the time limit draw being a thing in AEW. The post match angle was what wrestling hasn't had in so long. True confusion. Is he hurt? Well thankfully he wasn't. But that was some Von Erich level concern for Cody. Wonderfully done.
Elite vs Lucha Bro's & Laredo Kid *** 3/4
Really fun match, it had some small hiccups though. I am a little "over" the Lucha Bro's... they don't sell anything so it's just move move move. Some of this match was on turbo and it just went to fast. I love the Bucks and Kenny, I wasn't too hot on The Mexicans in this match but still, it was a great match.
LIGHTS OUT MOX and JOEY ****
I loved this. I'm 32 but when I was around 14 I discovered the Death Match scene via my exposure from HAVE A NICE DAY. I became a tape trader and collected tons of Japanese Death Match classics. As I've gotten older my taste has changed greatly and I don't really get into the death match stuff, unless I see it live and I won't lie I mark the fuck out, because I never got to see that stuff when I was 14 live, so I have a lot of nostalgia marking ability.
This was fucking great to me. It escalated and escalated until I literally screamed like Joey Style OH MY GOD! When he dropped poor Joey on his bare feet on the tacks. I loved it. I cannot rate it higher than Darby and Cody because what it took to pull off their match I have more respect for. But, again... fucking loved this. And I LOVED seeing Kenny get rabid on Mox. Such a great beat down from him, with the return at the end to hit the double arm DDT on the stage. Great ending.
Also I wish Kenny would stop dying his hair to skank girl who bangs hot topic employee at the mall look.
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