The moment I saw the match announced on Reddit, I first rolled my eyes, sighed heavily at the extreme stupidity of it, and then grinned waiting to hear Jim's take.
I want Jim to watch the entirity of this match. No skips, no stopping during a stupid spot, not giving up midway, but from start to finish just to hear Jim burst a blood vessel while recalling the match. Also, no destroying the notes.
Undertaker never stopped doing the rope walk. The only reason he didn't do it against Goldberg is because they had to call an audible and end it quick before somebody died. And he didn't do it in his match with AJ Styles because it wasn't filmed in a ring.
@Phinneus Prune Undertaker didn't do the rope walk every match. When he was ABA he stopped doing it. He only started doing it again for special matces.
To be fair for the past like 5 years Taker was only wrestling 3 matches a year tops so seeing him hit "old school" was nice to see. Archer does it every week and it just makes me think of Taker lol. Then again I'm not of fan of redoing iconic moves the way wrestlers use them as filler like Canadian Destroyer, The "Cutter", Spear, Super Kick and especially The Stunner.
Who cares AEW is nonsense and can't be taken seriously. Nia jax is hated but everytime I've watched this circus botches galore. Omega is supposed to be good botch merchant buck boys everyone stop group together and dive for example. Aew is watched for a laugh NOT wrestling
@@MattAlbie not entirely,I enjoy the AEW Product,and I for one am actually looking forward to this match but I also like hearing Cornette lose his shit on topics so when I heard as who he likes to call "Kenny Olivié" say that I knew he was gonna flip shit and it was gonna be a good listen
@@TheArtistV1 I'm just ribbing you for saying the same exact literal thing every single Cornette fan says on every single Cornette video about every single topic. It becomes funny after a while to see how unoriginal Cornette fans can tend to be, just parroting the same 10 or so statements.
Why would a heel who's a champion issue a challenge to a match that clearly favors the challenger? Isn't it the champions job to issue a challenge that favors him and the challenger has no chance of winning? I don't get it
@@markfroman738 I could only see kenny olivier having an advantage in two things. A "twinkle toes dance off" and a sing song promo competition and neither of those are wrestling matches 😆
@@jadoc3767 on the individual level, yes, but lets be honest, even back in the days of the NWA and whatnot, stories, characters, how matches were set up, fueds, it was all pretty silly as well.
I immediately thought of that there is no way they going get away with the Terry Funk vs Mick Foley match they did in Japan that match was nuts barbwire as ring ropes, bed of nails along with barbwire exploded boards
I am only 19. So I havent been watching wreslting too long. But for about a decade now. I have also seen 90s wreslting. I can without a doubt. Say todays wreslting is way better than back then ring wise. Some stories are still lackluster. I just think its funny that Jim has so much to say about todays business. But isnt doing anything about it. Even though he has the power too. My opinion is he is a whiney little bitch and needs to find a new hobby
@@dustinbricker1449 lol bro he tried but either People do him dirty or like with aew he was offered a job and he said no because of shit like this. Also today's wrestling is just gymnastics so just cause they're doing more flips doesn't means its better wrestling just face pace athletes who do a bunch of nonsense and think they're stars when the business is at a all time low.
@@MrElephantBeach Yeah. I know. But my point is literally. If he shits on it show much. He has the power to make a chance for the better if he wants to. But instead he just bitches and has a following of mostly older people that agree with him just to do so. I just dont like when people have the potential to do what they shit talk on. Then he just does this. Honestly just makes no sense. If he has all these plans then do it. Plus AEW might be completey different with his input. Idk
@@tompanzer8192 He doesn't though. He just wants it to make sense. Wrestling can make sense and not be mind numbingly stupid in modern times. The logical next step for wrestling's evolution isn't Chris Jericho getting dunked in orange juice by a guy who fights with his hands in his pockets; fights on football fields; or two dudes brawling in a swamp with teleportation. It's also not a bunch of guys standing around forever waiting for someone to dive on them. This shit is dumb.
@@tompanzer8192 why would it be out of touch when this entire promotion, as Cornette and Brian Last remind us constantly, was marketed as sports-based presentation with advanced analytics and blah blah blah and instead, you get bad WWE and wannabe Japanese independent promotion. That’s not out of touch when you promote something and then present the complete opposite.
@@tompanzer8192 Have you ever watched any wrestling from the 80s? Believe me, it's far more entertaining than anything any wrestling promotion is doing today. Let me put it in perspective for you. This past weekend I binge watched the first 5 Royal Rumbles. There are always undercard matches. On the early Rumbles these matches were pretty much filler. There was very little build up and they meant pretty much nothing in the grand scheme of things. Think of it as any match featuring the Dark Order. Those matches were far better than anything that any wrestling promotion has done in the last 5 years or more, including WWE. A match featuring The Orient Express (Pat Tanaka and Kato(Paul Diamond in a mask)) vs The Rockers (Marty Jannettey and Shawn Michaels). The Orient Express were one step above jobbers and the Rockers were a highly underutilized tag team due to their size and an apparent poor locker room reputation. In a match with little buildup they had a better match than any match you would see today. If being in touch means I've got to like the crap that passes for wrestling these days then I prefer to remain out of touch.
@@peterlee6374 no instead WWE has demonic possessions and teleporting playground equipment. Yeah AEW had a teleporting Matt Hardy but after fan backlash they quickly dropped that gimmick. WWE just beats a dead horse with the leg of a previously killed horse.
@@peterlee6374 AEW is far from perfect. But at least Dynamite can have a couple of great matches consistently every week. 90% of the matches on Raw last for 3 mins and usually end with a DQ or with a roll up. What was the last great match that was on Raw?
Canadian TomBradyFan The Veny va Sakura match was decent thanks to Veny but of course the slow, fat out of shape “veteran” Mercury cosplayer has to go over.
@@o.w.omarquito2047 I actually got a kick out of it. It was an hour when I wasn't doing anything anyhow like the old superstars of wrestling on Saturday mornings. Nothing I would take seriously and the lady announcer was funny having a heart attack at good moves. I saw a few botches and botched 2 counts but overall I was just eating dinner and watching TV. Its does seem to me though that these girls were dressed for final fantasy. I played FF7 to 10 and I thought one was dressed like Yuna from FF7 and one Rhiona from FF8.
@@MorganTyler86 the whole Adam Page thing pisses me off. The guy has the most potential out of the whole company and they aren’t putting him in brutal exciting singles matches
Real ish thought you were talking about Kofi..And that proves how right you are Eddie didn't even cross my mind and he was getting talked about in the vid
@King Slayer I feel bad for Tully, he's been stuck in this shit, & this coming Dynamite show, he's booked to tag with FTR vs the Jungle crew & obviously he'll be booked to do comedy shit with Stunt, I mean, Khan's lucky Tully isn't as opinionated here in 2021 as he was back in the 80's because back then he would've told Khan to kiss his ass.
@@pwnedeful problem with Russo was in wcw and then tna he had almost crate Blanche to do what ever he wanted, he was the head Booker who had the final say along with hogan and bischoff In wwe he had to run thing pasr vince before it went to tv We all laugh and shit on Russo BUT he was head writer and of creative from 97 to October 99 and in that time lead wwf to beating eve in the ratings He was head writer for the show at the time of the rise of stone cold the Rock HHH DX kane and it was doing 5 million a week
Cactus Jack and Terry Funk death matches were always the best. Back in the early 90's, you could buy that both were crazy insane people. This one in AEW is gonna be so hokey with Jon the Plumber against Kenny Olivea the Ballerina.
I guarantee you, Moxley wakes up every night, goes to the bathroom, and punches the wall while muttering: "King of the Deathmatch? That should be what fans call me!"
Exploding barbed wire death match. Seems like something a legitimate sport federation would sanction - Your employees can literally get limbs blown off by explosives, even Tony Khan couldn’t afford that lawsuit. 0 logic. This kind of magic is more logical in small pirate promotions where you’d expect a lack of legal team
If a person gets caught in barbed wire and/or an explosion takes a good chance of permanently being injured or killed. So what does it say about not just the match, but the product when neither happens? In other words, what’s the point?
@@Chaz4543 basically. I understand completely aew wants to give these indie wrestlers a chance wwe would not give them and I appreciate that but damn some of the things they do are insane makes wwf characters in the mid 1990s look like hall of famers it's that stupid
Can ANYONE explain to me at all why the hell Kenny Omega would ask for this type of match? I mean hasn’t he been criticizing Jon Moxley for weeks for this style of wrestling, now he asks for it? It’s like Triple H asking for a death match against Cactus Jack. Again why is a heel who SUPPOSEDLY hates hardcore wrestling asking for a deathmatch? I’m not even a hater of AEW, but make it make sense fellas. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Like Orton asking Undertaker for a Hell In a Cell or Jericho asking HBK for a Ladder Match. Makes no literal sense for a heel to demand a match that the face specializes in
@@abhishekacharjee9931 randy make since because he's cocky and wants to "kill a legend" as for Chris and Shawn I wouldn't hbk technically specialized in ladder matches
@@ghoushinobi4695 It was their feud in 2005, Taker returned and challenged Orton in HIAC, which Orton was scared of. In their 2008 feud, after Jericho became the world champion, HBK challenged him in a match he wanted , A ladder Match ( HBK atleast made the match popular with Razor Ramon)
Get the bong loaded/spliff rolled/beer ready/popcorn in a bowl boys. Buzzkill my own comment but i genuinely believe as a student of the language, it's that Olivier speaks fluent Japanese and that gives the sing song inflection to his tone. I will also add that people say the best way to learn a language is to get a lover in that language so blame Ibushi for it.
I remember that electric cage match in TNA Jim is talking about, it was the worst thing ever. There were times when the light flickering didn’t even match up with the wrestlers touching the cage, a four year old could see through it
@@MasterBrice890 the 'Fire Russo' chants if I'm not mistaken were mostly during the feud between Abyss and Sting, when they had those 2-3 really awkward gimmick matches (Last Rites Match, Prison Yard Match and who knows what else)
The point was for him to look like an egotistical heel but it definitely didn't come off that way and it's a bad look having a guy known for baby oil on himself to be there playing with the kids. Also he didn't even grab his title.
@@Collinzmusic I don't dislike Omega as much as a lot of Corny fans do but I think he should talk less and just have on the suits and the sunglasses. Callis is a good talker. When Omega talks it definitely takes away some of his likeability. The "jazz hands" he does all match is also distracting.
@@VibrationPsy Well I don't watch any modern wrestling and haven't for over a decade (not missing anything from the looks of it) and even I love this show. Saying I'm hyped for season 3 would be an understatement.
@@jasonholtby8944 You're a bit late to the party on this, bro. It was announced all the way back in October and it's gonna be the biggest season yet with 14 episodes. The episodes that have been reported and revealed so far include Brian Pillman (2 part season premiere), Collision in Korea, The Smith Family, FMW, XPW, Nick Gage, Dynamite Kid, Chris Kanyon, and Bruiser Bedlam. The hype train is going at full speed for me.
AEW Fans: "But WWE killed Owen first so it's OK" I'm jaded with WWE with all the pointless gimmick matches that lose their meaning when they happen just because of a date in the calendar instead of getting storyline build ups - it's needlessly inviting injury and the spectacles happen so often that they're no longer significant. However, going back to a ludicrously stupid FMW gimmick match? In a fed who overruled their own referee stopping a match? This is just reckless and while I hope your prediction is wrong, I can see exactly why you think it.
An exploding barbwire match sounds interesting on the face of it, but with the people involved I already know what to expect. It’s going to be the same as their lights out match
I’m going to be 23 in a couple weeks. I grew up during the Ruthless Aggression Era. Smackdown from 2004-2009 I looked forward to watching every week. My parents would even watch it with me from time to time. I tune in to watch Cody, MJF, Jericho, and FTR. It’s embarrassing to try to explain to them who Orange Cassidy, Luther, Serpentico and these other low end Independent wrestlers. It’s sad.
He says moxley thinks of himself as a crazy lunatic and he should've been in the locker room with some real lunatics I could only imagine moxley and New Jack in the same room lmao
That Archer rope spot is a fantastic bit of athleticsm but god why on earth is he doing it to smaller opponents? That's something he needs to do once to show the people he can do it, and then saved for a time where he's put against another man of equal size in a big match
