Yes I know my Madonna music study is coming. First 5 random thoughts.
1-I can't believe the Packers shit on the Bears parade. What a lame ass game.
2-I can't believe Seth Rollins flew in from where ever to go to this game.
3-I can't believe Becky Lynch went with him and actually said go Bears.
4-I can't believe the Miami Dolphins got more for two guys who are not equal to Khali Mack's ability than the Bears got. (This is going to be a long ass season for us Dolphin fans)
5-I can't believe football has started already. This summer flew by too quick.
Ahhh yes that was fun. Now onto last weekend.
So I went to my first wrestling show in over 10 years at the Sears Centre in good old Hoffman Estates. It was All Elite Wrestling's All Out. One year ago, before AEW, Cody and the Young Bucks worked with Ring of Honor to bring All In, a simple show that the three of them put together to shut down dirt sheet writer Dave Meltzer. He said they couldn't sell out an area with 10,000 people and the rest as they say was history.
I was very excited because one of my greatest live memories was seeing Chris Jericho's debut on Raw back in 99. So to see him possibly win the AEW title and be the first champ was so cool to me. I was very excited to see Jon Moxley as well, but he had to bow out due to injury. I went with my buddy Jimmy AKA Hawk (who may be one half of a super duper radio podcast thingy we are doing in October) and his son and friend, and had a fabulous time.
The opening battle royale with the women was a little confusing. I liked the concept of four groups coming out every 5 minutes and then a last person who drew a joker. I didn't know many of the women on the card, but I knew enough to enjoy it. Fantastic finish and I love this feud that's developing between the good doctor Britt Baker and Bea Preistly. The other match during the buy in pre show thing was Private Party vs Jack Evans and Angelico. Super high energy match and Private Party has some skills yall.
When the event started it was SCU as I expected going up against Jungle Boy (who I just found out is Luke Perry's kid), Luchasaurus, and newly signed Marko Stunt. It was a cool match, next was Kenny Omega vs Pac (who filled in for Mox) and it was a much slower match than I expected, but I was hyped because it was my first time seeing Kenny live.
The Cracker Barrel clash, a hardcore deathmatch between Jimmy Havok, Darby Allin, and Joey Janela was a car crash that was so fun. I really loved it and I am not always a fan of hardcore styles. It must have been the barrels. There was one spot where Havok did a move like a slingshot to Janela, and the chair landed right side up with Janela sitting in it crossing his leg and waving to everone. Great shit man!!!!
The Dark Order vs Best Friends was up next and I thought this would be the match I didn't care about, but it was a really fun match. Especially when Orange Cassidy showed up. This guy never takes his hands out of his pockets. Even when diving through the ropes onto a group of masked men. The joshi style match with Riho against Hiraku Shida was a very quick match and I really liked the emotion behind it. There were stakes as the winner would take on Nyla Rose who won the Casino Battle Royale at the beginning of the night. I liked it and look forward to seeing these two women more moving forward.
The next match Cody vs Shawn Spears was a great match. My biggest reservation with AEW is creative. Cody booking himself to win. He is undefeated as a singles wrestler at this point and I didn't like that he won the NWA title last year at All In. I mean I was OK with it at first, but he didn't defend the title as vigorously as Nick Aldis did, who ended up winning the back belt in a couple weeks. If it was a PR move planned by Billy Corgan, I am OK with it then. And listening to Chirs Jericho's podcast about how it's not Spears time yet, made me feel better until I saw Jericho gets Cody at next PPV. More on Jericho in a bit.
The Young Bucks vs the Lucha Brothers easily was the match of the night. Holy shit what a rollercoaster ride. This has been talked to death but man that Canadian destroyer off the ladder, holy crap. Pentagon had his mask taken off. The tables, the falls, the spots. It was so crazy.
And then the main event, my man Chris Jericho vs Hangman Page. The match started slow but I think they had to fight off the hangover from the ladder match. It left me with such a high it took a couple minutes for me to get back on the horse. Oh yeah Hangman came to the ring on a fricking horse. Unreal. Jericho got the win, I went crazy, night over.
We had a very strange experience at the Wendy's drive thru on the way home but all in all great night with good friends good times. And we had Georgios Pizza before hand which is the best pizza ever.
I think AEW is going to keep growing and puts on a great show. It will be a while before they create noise for the WWE, but with them going head to head on Wednesday, it will be fun.
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