December 2021

Wake up, babe. New Black Terry just dropped. This was a deathmatch taking place in a literal junkyard between a 64-year-old and a 69-year-old. If that's not enough to pique your interest, then I don't know what will. Like Terry's match with Wotan five years previously, this was an insane spectacle where salty men attack each other with stiff strikes and beer bottles in an arena that will make you want to take a bath just looking at it. The moment in this where they get into a stand-off with both men holding broken beer bottles was wild, only to be topped a few minutes later when a near-septuagenarian gets leveled by a pane of glass. The amount of blood bot…

Adam Page defends his AEW World Championship. The most cliche compliment one could give to a 60-minute broadway is that it never feels like it's going one hour, and such was the case here, so I'm saying it! This did not, in any way, feel its length. The work is extremely compelling right from the get go with a really nice dynamic between the two. The highest of highs that this match reach are in Danielson's big work on top; he is punishing with his onslaught towards Hangman's mid-section & arm, and later on the cut on his forehead. All absolutely WONDERFUL stuff. Page was good too throughout-- off the top of my head I can't recall any performances of his that I w…

You won't see any forearm exchanges here, just a bunch of slick grappling and realistic striking. Izuchi caught Sasaki off-guard early and downed him with a high knee, but would ultimately be on the back foot for most of the match. I enjoyed Izuchi ramping up the intensity in the latter stages of the match and nearly eking out the win.