AEW Blood & Guts Live Discussion- May 5th 2021

[Santa Hoss]

Didn't think twice at the fall. I thought MJF looked like a star at the top of the cage. People looking for stuff to criticize

Are you sure it's not just people expressing their takes on what they're seeing as folks typically do?

 

[Santa Hoss]

I was critical of the flagrant crash pad, cause this is is meant to be a bump that I'm assuming leads to Jericho being gone for a while, but the fall looked cushy as hell and I can't take that seriously. Having said that, I was still very complimentary of the match and I'm not gonna go as far as to say that the crash pad ruined the angle. It was just something that could have been executed better.

 

[Evans]

 

[Roy Mustang]

I was critical of the flagrant crash pad, cause this is is meant to be a bump that I'm assuming leads to Jericho being gone for a while, but the fall looked cushy as hell and I can't take that seriously. Having said that, I was still very complimentary of the match and I'm not gonna go as far as to say that the crash pad ruined the angle. It was just something that could have been executed better.

Thinking it could be executed better is totally fair because it could have been. The people acting like the whole match is shit I've seen on twitter made me roll my eyes.


Blood and Guts was what I wanted it to be. A war. NXT version is great in it's own right but it ain't War Games. It's a great match but it never feels like a war. This did. Overall loved it though pacing of the end/ the post-match spot could have been done better.

 

[Tremendez]

The crash pad could have been better, but the actual finish of the match was just what I wanted. MJF threatens to "kill" Jericho, so Sammy surrenders. Perfection.

 

[Chris]

The crash pad could have been better, but the actual finish of the match was just what I wanted. MJF threatens to "kill" Jericho, so Sammy surrenders. Perfection.

I don't even mind this finish in theory, I just think this part could have been executed well too tbf. It did have that chaotic "did that just end the match" vibes that the old WarGames matches had tbf though Some of my favorites back in the 80s and 90s had lackluster finishes by most people's standards I think

 

[Chris]

*executed better

 

[Comrade Khan]

yeah, i enjoyed the show overall and tghe match itself was hardcore a.f and i loved it

 

[Chris]

I think the WarGames at Great American Bash '89 ended like 2 minutes after Hawk entered last bc he got someone in a hangman's neckbreaker and they just tapped like that lmao

 

[Chris]

And that's one of my favorite PPVs ever, though there's def better WarGames matches from the era

 

[Chris]

And this ending was better than that for sure

 

[Comrade Khan]

yeah its not liek ive never seen a crash pad in other companies before either. its a bummer. but it was more a short at the wife.

 

[Comrade Khan]

where as the explosion was a full on

 

[Comrade Khan]

(also it was free fucking tv!)

 

[Chris]

where as the explosion was a full on

In a way I'm still more forgiving for the explosion too bc that seemed to be a full on accident where in this one everything went as planned lmao