AEW Revolution 3/6/2022
I did my best here. It was a 5 hour show, I watched it on a stream and I had some other stuff to attend to. I did not see the Sting tag or the AEW Women's Title match, but perhaps I will later.
Leyla Hirsch vs Kris Statlander
Tony Schiavone is in the ring. Kenny Omega's music hits and Don Callis came out. Don said we don't deserve Kenny. He said Adam Cole will win the title tonight. He said Omega was the only one diamond in this business.
QT Marshall vs Hook
QT said you have to do things yourself if you want to get them right. He said he will show us what being coldhearted is all about.
Hook shoulder threw him annd STF'd him. Hook flurried him then threw him out. QT then threw him out. He tried to step kick him but took a capture suplex on the outside. QT dropped an elbow then Hook suplexed him. QT raked the eyes and got knocked off the top. Hook then did a head and arm suplex then won with a tazzmission.
Hook needed to win. I wasn't sure if they were going to give QT any offense here, but they did and now we can hopefully see Hook in more competitive stuff.
The House of Black vs Penta Oscuro, Erick Redbeard and Pac
They said the time limit on this was "Buy-In time remaining" which I found amusing.
I missed some of this, but HoB got the win here after. There were apron package piledrivers, canadian destroyer kickouts and in true Booker of the Year fashion, Redbeard was pinned in his debut.
Chris Jericho vs Eddie Kingston
Eddie won this one. They went overboard with too many german's and a suplex off the apron that essentially ended up being kicked out of. They took a bunch of bumps on their head and they really had as strong style of a match as you really could. It still was good but they did too much here and I didn't really think they worked much with the storyline they had going on at all. I was also really surprised Santana and Ortiz didn't even come to ringside here after being an essential part of the build.
AEW Tag Titles - Jurassic Express vs The Young Bucks vs Redragon
Real spotty and fast paced with little selling as you would expect. Saurus kicked out a canadian destroyer (our second of the night) and did his usual flips. JB hit a few new spots here. JB took a horrible looking wheelbarrow german then a top rope exploder and still was kicking. Saurus held Kyle up at his waist and JB SSP'd from the top, mostly nailing his own man. JB kicked out of a belt shot and one of the Bucks did a run up the buckles tornillo on Lucha. JB took a BTE trigger and JB ran up the buckles and hurricanrana'd a Buck. Lucha then came off the 2nd inside rope and did a tope con hilo. Jurassic Express then won with their back body drop flip into a sit out powerbomb.
Not a lot of logic or braincells used in this one. Just 20 minutes or so of people hitting cool spots and big moves.
Face of the Revolution Ladder Match - Winner gets a TNT Title Shot - Orange Cassidy vs Christian vs Powerhouse Hobbs vs Ricky Starks vs Wardlow vs Keith Lee
Keith kind of has to win here since its his first big match and Wardlow kind of needs to also. Dan Lambert and co were shown in the stands.
Some of the big spots here were OC being thrown over the top onto the ramp area almost by Lee, Wardlow pushing Lee and Hobbs off the ramp onto tables and a ladder OC was hanging on being lifted and OC climbing onto it and trying to grab the ring. We also had cool spots with Wardlow and Hobbs pulling a ladder apart, Wardlow climbing the ladder with people on him and him powerbombing Starks on a bridged ladder before Wardlow won. They also threw a Danhausen appearance in this.
Ladder match are spotfests but I did like this one as the big guys smartly used their size and brought some unique logic and storytelling into it. I just don't get the logic though on having Keith Lee in here just to lose.
Tony Schiavone came out on the ramp for a contract signing. He brought out Isaiah Swerve Scott/Shane Swerve Strickland. I think he's good but the roster is stacked and it's hard to see where he's going to fit in. The crowd was chanting for him but I gurantee these people weren't the ones watching him on NXT.
TBS Title - Jade Cargill vs Tay Conti
This is basically being used as a cool down match. Tay has some goofy facepaint on over her eyes and looks awful with it. Jade wore Jade from Mortal Kombat gear and had a fat black guy playing guitar for her. He did a good job but his hands were bigger than the guitar.
Jade kissed her to start for some reason and pump kicked her in the back. Tay tope con hilo'd Mark Sterling off the top then Jade pump kicked Anna Jay hard into the table. Jay chaired Jade in the head and Jade spinning slammed Tay. Jade hit a frogsplash from the top for 2 and Tay hit a nasty sit out piledriver. Jade then won this one with her chickenwing bomb.
The match wasn't anything too special and didn't have a ton of logic or flow to it.
Dog Collar Match - CM Punk vs MJF
MJF had Punk's music play for part of his entrance, then it cut over. Punk came out to his old ROH theme and his old basketball shorts.
The stream I was watching really struggled during this one. I bet I missed 5 minutes or more easy. It was long and bloody and Wardlow came down to the ringside. MJF wanted his ring and Wardlow couldn't find it, then after MJF got nailed, he gave it to Punk. Punk then hit MJF with it to win. Maybe a little longer than it needed to be but it looked like a real good one.
Jon Moxley vs Bryan Danielson
The finish was bad on this one. Mox just kind of rolled on top of him and won it. The crowd was totally done for this after a long night of seeing everything and their slower strike based match just couldn't compete. They also bled a ton here off an accidental headbutt.
William Regal came in after to break up their post-match fight. Regal slapped Mox then headbutted him, getting some of his blood on him. Regal then slapped Bryan and made them shake hands.
AEW Title - Adam Page vs Adam Cole
I hated this. As with all big Cole matches, they did way too much and didn't sell much at all. No logic or storyline, just big moves and kickouts. They kicked out of a panama sunrise on the floor, a top rope moonsault bodyslam(the Ultimo Guerrero special), a samurai driver off the apron through a table and at least one buckshot lariat.
Overall thoughts: This went almost 5 hours and it was just too much for me. I give credit to the crowd for staying invested on this one. I thought the dog collar match, the ladder match and the Eddie/Jericho match were some of the better matches on the show and I thought Page/Cole and the tag title match were some of the worst matches on this one. For AEW standards, having 3 matches I liked was an upgrade.
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