AEW Double or Nothing May 28, 2023: Live on PPV from Paradise, Nevada

[Death By Looch]

I couldn't resist and started watching today...

This Battle Royale... well, I do have some problems with it. Just like with the Casino Battle Royales the overall idea, here it's the everyone starting outside and have to get into the ring to "officially" enter the Match, sounds cool on paper, but that is all. In action it's just... Why would anyone even enter the Ring before, let's just say... 16-19 opponents have been eliminated? Now, it's not that I'm the total logic police, so I do can forgive it... but then you also have the fact that it is unbelievably chaotic to watch and overall quite messy (be it for the live audience, I imagine, or the viewer at home), since you don't have a real overview, which doesn't get better by the fact that you also have Managers and Stablemates near the Ring.

Admittedly, this could of course also be used for some interesting booking ideas. I'd still always prefer a Battle Royale with some sort of staggered entries.

...and I don't wanna sound too critical. I'm not even finished with it and there was a good amount of good stuff in it. I'm at the point with OC and Swerve are both down after their phenomenal sequence (after Swerve eliminated Bill).

 

[Comrade Khan]

at least they did the entrances on the preshow and swerve chilled on t he outside for a while. but ya, i can see ur point about staggered entrances as well

 

[Death By Looch]

OC DID IT!!!

 

[Death By Looch]

at least they did the entrances on the preshow and swerve chilled on t he outside for a while. but ya, i can see ur point about staggered entrances as well

Ya, I saw the buy-in and it's nice to see them doing all the entrances at all and Cage and Swerve waited both, yes, but that just makes everyone else going in there right from the start like in the good ol' TNA reversed Battle Royales, seem kinda dumb .

 

[Death By Looch]

Oh look... Jericho vs. Cole starts like it's a preview for Anarchy in the Arena...


...aaaaaand Sabu already killed two men.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Will b curious how u feel about this one

 

[Death By Looch]

It might be just me, but it feels like the audience is a bit more on the low energy side... Could also maybe pick up later on, but yea during slower phases you can REALLY "hear" the quietness.

 

[Death By Looch]

Will b curious how u feel about this one

Well now you have me intrigued as fuck

 

[Death By Looch]

Jericho looked a bit too long into the Fire extinguisher... memes incoming

 

[Comrade Khan]

It might be just me, but it feels like the audience is a bit more on the low energy side... Could also maybe pick up later on, but yea during slower phases you can REALLY "hear" the quietness.

Nope not just you , was a tepid crowd at times

 

[Death By Looch]

Jericho using the fire extinguisher into the air... same energy as

 

[Death By Looch]

Nope not just you , was a tepid crowd at times

Shame... I mean, I still think it's better than piping in crowd noises, but still a shame. At least they aren't completely dead and come alive here and there.

 

[Comrade Khan]

not the worst crowd but its certainly not a rabid aew crowd that often show up so for aew standards it was a bit dissapointed. they do pickup on the kast 3rd of the show though so its not the worst thing

 

[Comrade Khan]

OC so GOAT lol

 

[Death By Looch]

not the worst crowd but its certainly not a rabid aew crowd that often show up so for aew standards it was a bit dissapointed. they do pickup on the kast 3rd of the show though so its not the worst thing

Last 3rd of the show, huh... I presume that's like mostly the Four Way and Anarchy? Seems like they maybe just hit a crowd yesterday, which was mostly interested in 2-3 matches, instead of the overall thing.

Anyways... it doesn't take as much away from the show, at least for me. In most cases I can separate what's going on in the ring from what's happening beyond the barricades.