AEW: Revolution 2021

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Originally Posted by Conspiracy Victim Vito Yeah, like I said, the story is no longer about how it was a great show with tons of matches that delivered, it's a show that will always be known for a huge fuck-up at the end. People who have watched and mostly enjoyed AEW (including a lot of this board) know it's a fuck-up but got enough out of the show/the product as a whole to happily continue watching Wednesday. The core fanbase isn't going away. But anyone who came into this show on the fence? They're gone. That's how bad the ending was, the kind of thing that can single-handedly actively get people to turn away. And of course it's also endless ammo to the anti-AEW crowd.

I've been skipping Dynamite and skimming episodes on demand since Omega took the belt. It's certainly not to the level of trash WWE is at, which I don't even read the results of anymore. But this PPV was easily the worst that I've seen from them. Sure the tag title match was good, the street fight was cool and the battle royal was a big surprise but compared to the rest of the best we've seen from AEW this was a pretty low standard on all accounts. Take it from someone on the fence. This show did no favors.

Also while I don't watch Japanese Deathmatches any longer and have zero interest in them. I did have a phase when I was like 13 or so where I traded tapes and got ahold of all the classics from Big Japan, IWA and FMW. With the Onita praise AEW did I had pretty high and brutal expectations for this main event tonight. And the thing is with these death matches, they look brutal, but it's all superficial. They didn't even go that far with this one, they had gimmicked barbed wire through half the spots. When Mox got up from the DDT off the apron I was thoroughly slighted that he didn't have blood pouring from his back. Call me a savage but if they say Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match, I want a fucking serious ass death match. Hell TNA got the barbed wire massacare right every time.