can’t believe mjf lost that match. because for all that people love him, mark brisco isn’t on that same level of serious wrestling that mjf is. hes a fun wrestler, he does cool stuff, but he’s doesn’t feasibly win that match. we’ve seen maxwell wrestle for an extraordinarily long time. we’ve seen him beat champions. and we’ve seen him play dirty and bloody. mark does bloody stuff, but the scale is different. are they trying to make mark a serious competitor? do they want this feud to go on longer? i don’t get it. we didnt have him come interfere with the hanger match either, which would've been a good reason for him to lose that match, so he could focus back on hanger. im just. they have this incredible worker in max friedman who is genuinely a once in a generation talent, who can act on camera and in the ring, who can wrestle like a maniac, who is so dedicated to this company that he has a tattoo of their logo and that he showed up when he could've been on his honeymoon. and they have this fascinating storyline of MJF's self-destructive behaviors and self-doubt and self-loathing and how he channels it outwards and how some of his external anger isn't uncalled for, because the fans really have fucked him over. they have hanger and him pulling the exact same move, and not only did he get booed when hanger got cheered, hanger won. these things he tells himself aren't just born of the ego he has created to live with himself, they're not just lies, they're real. and they. they keep putting him in this feud solely based on... what? MJF being an asshole, as is characteristic of him, and the class warfare, which is also characteristic of MJF? it's not born of any genuine thing, really. it's a much more clearly manufactured feud, and it doesn't do anything interesting with either character that couldn't be done with some other wrestler on either side. it's a fine feud, but it's not unique to their relationship. and in comparison to what they started between hangman and mjf before it? it's boring.
what the fuck. what the fuck. what the fuck. im genuinely so sick of this. its not a fun "oooh we're teasing marina wrestling in an aew ring again" thing. we've had several great times for her to hop in there and assert herself as a serious competitor, not just an aggressive protector and peacemaker of and for (respectively) the death riders. great. commentary mentioned her being violent. every once in a while we get her doing some underhanded thing that is violent. but like. we get stokely doing underhanded things that are violent. they're out of excuses for marina not wrestling- she has to be cleared to wrestle since she recently did AN INTERGENDER TAG MATCH WITH YUTA on ROH. im not expecting anything that good on aew because tony is afraid of intergender matches (or maybe just women), but come the fuck on. i love the death riders and i think the dynamics are so interesting and so important but we can't just see marina as a bodyguard/caretaker. claudio is also a bodyguard and a caretaker, and he's been swinging fully grown men around in a ring. come on. in this ppv alone there were at least three opportunities for marina to make a really interesting comeback, and i'm not even getting into the opportunities from before her recent tag match.
haha yay!!!!!! the jurassic express!!!!!! awww i love these guys so much. I really liked them when i started watching aew/wrestling, even before I knew much about wrestling. then i stopped watching aew for a while, and i made a brief return and jack perry was the scapegoat and luchasaurus was no longer vegan and i was so disappointed. then i returned for real like a year ago and neither of them were there and i was bummed. I was so excited for luchasaurus' return, even if it wasn't quite how i remembered him. and now jungle boy is back. and so is the jurassic express. i am so damn happy. the way jungle boy looked at his dinosaur, how he knew luchasaurus had his back, the big hug... nearly started crying.
