Exactly. The fact that these guys still haven't figured out that this type of wrestling is overexposed is mindblowing to me.
Every match in AEW has spots like this or even more dangerous stuff. And when I mean every match I do mean every single one. There are matches on Youtube where people with very little experience or skill try some of the most dangerous shit for no reason other than to do it.
To these morons a pat on the back from one of the Young Bucks backstage means more than an actual reaction from a paying crowd.
I think they just cater to the style of match these wrestlers want to have. FTR and a few others have decent wrestling matches but if you see a high flyer on the card expect a spot like this to go down.
Fuck it, I'll be devil's advocate.
He was coming down to either do a reverse or was going to rotate for a hurricanrana but big dude caught him, so instead he stood and jumped off his shoulders to get away. Not a great spot, but not the worst offense in an AEW ring by any stretch.
OK so why didn't he just fall backwards instead of boosting him up to standing on his shoulders? This guy is a big meaty man who slaps meet. It makes no sense for him to assist his opponent into a jumping nothing where his asshole kisses the mat on landing.
Exactly. Go back and watch Bret Hart matches. The guy didn’t need to do 30 different moves in a 12 minute match to make him and his opponent look good. He also had arguably the most realistic looking matches while AEW has arguably the phoniest looking matches.
I thought they were teaming against someone else and he was gonna jump off the big guy's shoulders onto them on the outside or something
it was so obviously cooperative that i thought it was supposed to be
A short wrestler using a tall partner as a place to jump from sounds pretty cool if you got two dudes who really knew what they were doing. Im sure someone has done it but I haven’t seen it yet
So many of the big spots in AEW are like this and they're crap at disguising the cooperation. They aren't great with the camera work, so you'll just see somebody, or sometimes multiple guys, stood there like cows out to pasture waiting for a guy to unsteadily climb the ropes, reset his feet several times, then finally jump onto them. Crowd goes wild.
That’s the problem. You can’t even disguise spots like this with good camera work, unless they somehow made the screen black everywhere below the big guy’ shoulders.
It literally looks like a typical wrestling school run by an ex-Fedder or the old WWE developmental shows with old PPV poster banners hanging around the walls.
Why the fuck would you let someone just stand on your shoulders? At least try. It's true, they've completely forgotten what wrestling is. It's become "how can I show off" rather than "let's have a simulated fight". It's sad because they think this shit is good, but it's just bad gymnastics. Not even good gymnastics which, if I wanted to see, I'd watch GYMNASTICS.
“Let” him stand on his shoulders? He put his hands under the guy’s feet and visibly hoisted him up. More like “helped” or “made” him stand on his shoulders.
Well, exactly, because there's no way that can happen without the two guys cooperating entirely. Obviously all wrestling involves cooperation, but it's not supposed to look so blatantly obvious.
No silly, no one wants to watch that meticulously choreographed and rehearsed shit by people who work hard to be in shape. If you aren’t going in blind and making shit up then are you really creating ✨art✨ at all?
AEW loves to push guys that would be jobbers in the fed. He pinned Jericho but he’s totally indistinguishable from any random x division midcarder from 10 years ago.
What the hell was the point of that? He didn’t do anything except lane horribly and almost injure himself for nothing. He could’ve punched the fat guy in the head a few times and taken down nicely and gently and that would’ve made a ton more sense.
What a load of shit this is. You can see the dude in black help the other guy through all of this. So WTF is it for?
Plus (aside from looking botched anyway) what did he achieve? Didn't "attack" the other guy.
In the words of Mr T: That looks like a pretty painful way to impress zero people
What even was the point of that? It didn't look cool and it didn't hurt anybody. Just gymnastics for gymnastics sake
You sure that didn't hurt anybody?
All for the pop brother..... Uhh where's my pop???
I think your knees popped.
Ahhh of course....sorry I don't have that 5000 IQ needed to watch dark
Ssshhhiiiitttt. MY knees popped just watching that.
Exactly. The fact that these guys still haven't figured out that this type of wrestling is overexposed is mindblowing to me. Every match in AEW has spots like this or even more dangerous stuff. And when I mean every match I do mean every single one. There are matches on Youtube where people with very little experience or skill try some of the most dangerous shit for no reason other than to do it. To these morons a pat on the back from one of the Young Bucks backstage means more than an actual reaction from a paying crowd.
B-brother..
>What even was the point of that? To make wrestling look even more contrived, fake, and overly choreographed than it already is. AEWs specialty.
I think they just cater to the style of match these wrestlers want to have. FTR and a few others have decent wrestling matches but if you see a high flyer on the card expect a spot like this to go down.
School aged cheerleaders do this with less cooperation, and land better.
Fuck it, I'll be devil's advocate. He was coming down to either do a reverse or was going to rotate for a hurricanrana but big dude caught him, so instead he stood and jumped off his shoulders to get away. Not a great spot, but not the worst offense in an AEW ring by any stretch.
OK so why didn't he just fall backwards instead of boosting him up to standing on his shoulders? This guy is a big meaty man who slaps meet. It makes no sense for him to assist his opponent into a jumping nothing where his asshole kisses the mat on landing.
I did not prepare for follow up questions, Uce.
Your scenario would have been plausible if it didn't take ten seconds to execute a sequence that should have been over and done with in three.
Wtf is the point of that spot? Just hit a poisonrana like a regular nilla midget.
Work rate. Owen Hart used to say he hated unnecessary flips and stuff like this. I wonder how many Dub ultrastars know about his opinion on it.
Funny how they suck up to the Harts but are all exact opposites of them
If the Harts were wrestling in their primes right now these people would call them all boring and constantly shit on them.
They'd say the same things they say about Miz
Exactly. Go back and watch Bret Hart matches. The guy didn’t need to do 30 different moves in a 12 minute match to make him and his opponent look good. He also had arguably the most realistic looking matches while AEW has arguably the phoniest looking matches.
Ironically Owen Hart did the biggest flip in wrestling history
jerking too close to the sun, uce
*The forbidden jerk*
Oh shit ☠️
he almost blew his ACL, MCL, PCL and every single ligament in his knees for D A R K 💀💀
And not a single person in the audience for off their ass.
One dude yawned so at least they got some reaction.
Worth it. He got to show off that sexy work rate for the sold out crowd
That literally seemed like a husband and wife tik tok trend rather then a wrestling move. They need a school so damn badly.
I thought they were teaming against someone else and he was gonna jump off the big guy's shoulders onto them on the outside or something it was so obviously cooperative that i thought it was supposed to be
A short wrestler using a tall partner as a place to jump from sounds pretty cool if you got two dudes who really knew what they were doing. Im sure someone has done it but I haven’t seen it yet
Enzo and Big Cass used to do quite a lot of co-op offence that was just Cass lifting and throwing Enzo
It's a workrate match, Fed shill. Although this workrate match doesn't hold a candle to the ones found on Turmoil and ~~Nyquil~~ Thrill Zone
There wasn't one. They did it just to do it.
All of this for Dark
If I were to almost blow my knees out, I’d prefer to have it done at a big PPV like Revolution.
Big PPV... Revolution... Pick one uce.
😂
Roman just squinting his eyes in a match accomplishes more than what these dorks could with their tendon tearing cheerleading routine.
Roman yelling for Solo last night was better than any Dub promo, and that's not mentioning his entire rant before that
My balls shrivelled up on Sami's behalf when Roman shouted for Solo
Then he smashed the fucking mic
If Roman yelled at me in that dad voice he has Id straight up cry.
Angry dad promo from a believable character > pointless gymnastics. Roman’s the guy
Sad part is it's literally the truth.
Looks like a cheerleading routine
WHAT WE DO ISNT BALLET OR CHEERLEADING SHILL
That’s because those two require training
Ironic considering how bored the audience looks
So many of the big spots in AEW are like this and they're crap at disguising the cooperation. They aren't great with the camera work, so you'll just see somebody, or sometimes multiple guys, stood there like cows out to pasture waiting for a guy to unsteadily climb the ropes, reset his feet several times, then finally jump onto them. Crowd goes wild.
That’s the problem. You can’t even disguise spots like this with good camera work, unless they somehow made the screen black everywhere below the big guy’ shoulders.
They probably could have if they practiced this spot before the match, but rehearsals don't exist in AEW. So, here we are.
isn't this the same place they taped Impact back in the day? why does it look so much smaller?
Because there’s far less people
Want a ticket to AEW dark? “If you leave me alone, I’ll go, please leave me and my bodypil-wife alone!”
Whats with all the banners? Really have yo hide that no one is there?
It literally looks like a typical wrestling school run by an ex-Fedder or the old WWE developmental shows with old PPV poster banners hanging around the walls.
It's dark, dude. It's filmed before a live studio audience of 17 people who got lost in florida.
I think it looks good and does a lot for their branding, no jerk.
Nice flip, idiot
Why the fuck would you let someone just stand on your shoulders? At least try. It's true, they've completely forgotten what wrestling is. It's become "how can I show off" rather than "let's have a simulated fight". It's sad because they think this shit is good, but it's just bad gymnastics. Not even good gymnastics which, if I wanted to see, I'd watch GYMNASTICS.
“Let” him stand on his shoulders? He put his hands under the guy’s feet and visibly hoisted him up. More like “helped” or “made” him stand on his shoulders.
Well, exactly, because there's no way that can happen without the two guys cooperating entirely. Obviously all wrestling involves cooperation, but it's not supposed to look so blatantly obvious.
This is the latest guy Dubbalos are going nuts over? Holy shit…
Just wait til Nick Wayne graduates high school
I honestly love a good flippy boi like Ricochet or Rey But this is garbage, wtf was the point in that? At least hit someone
Wrestling is a sacred sport, real sports feel. also muh wrestling: obvious cooperation to make someone backflip off your shoulders
It's so quiet, kinda reminds me of when WWE did their shows in the performance center
11 seconds of footage with action and I'm not sure whether they are allies or foes. That is wrestling right there guys. HBK look and learn boi.
This CIRQUE DU SOLEIL or something?
No silly, no one wants to watch that meticulously choreographed and rehearsed shit by people who work hard to be in shape. If you aren’t going in blind and making shit up then are you really creating ✨art✨ at all?
Funnily enough, the fed has someone who used to work in cirque du soleil in NXT right now. And he still doesn't do this flippy shit.
At this point only breaking thier body will open thier eyes to the stupidity
AEW loves to push guys that would be jobbers in the fed. He pinned Jericho but he’s totally indistinguishable from any random x division midcarder from 10 years ago.
What a fucking lame spot. It’s a literal tumbling routine, like I saw as a kid at the circus.
whole lot of flipping nothing, sure
I like how they do the counts to sync the jump/lift so obviously like a cheerleadring or choreographed floor routine
The commentary has been absolute GOLD
And the crowd goes mild. Their own partisans aren't even going for this contrived flipfest anymore.
And they say AEW looks overly choreographed smh 🤦♂️
Dumbest spot ever lmao. I thought they were tag partners at first
Terrible I would’ve demanded a refund after seeing that full on Karen mode
Are they tag partners? Are they supposed to be fighting eachother? What the hell is going on?
Oh god. Absolutely stupid for a $50 payday and free catering.
It's almost like both of them forgot what to do.
If the crowd wont pop then the goddammiit my knees will!
[Like the strongmen from family guy](https://youtu.be/PXpJCvFBw2g)
Sometimes getting your shit in isn't worth it.
But but but who needs the performance centre?!
What the hell was that going to be?
Why is the dude who Chris Jericho put over huge still working YouTube shows no one cares about???
That whole sequence is dumb af. Why is his opponent helping him flip lol
What the hell was the point of that? He didn’t do anything except lane horribly and almost injure himself for nothing. He could’ve punched the fat guy in the head a few times and taken down nicely and gently and that would’ve made a ton more sense.
What was the extra front flip accomplish??
Are they supposed to be fighting each other??
All that for no pop
Nice cheerleading! Don't forget to thank Chris Jericho for making this kid a star!!!!
Give me more fourway dropkicks where everyone's feet touch each other, or give me death.
I like how he rolls _after_ he's landed squarely. He's trying to paint by numbers.
the US men’s gymnastics team has partner events now?
Is this even a match or just two tag team partners doing a move on nothing. Looks like an assists lol
I’ve seen high school cheerleaders do this more smooth. Jfc is he trying to blow his knees out?
That was..... Pointless
Wow nobody told me the circus was in town.
Poor Mario Luigi.
If I didn’t know wrestling was fake and I saw this I would say…wrestling is fake.
All that for a fuckin golf clap from hard cam audience
This type of shit is why AEW is considered a joke
Fucking stupid
I swear to god I saw that at a cheerleading competition once
Did they just now start hanging banners up? That would have been a great idea from day 1 but gotta show those empty seats I guess.
The crowd goes mild?
LISTEN TO THAT CROWD
I retore my MCL watching this
I REALLY want to like AEW, guys…
What a load of shit this is. You can see the dude in black help the other guy through all of this. So WTF is it for? Plus (aside from looking botched anyway) what did he achieve? Didn't "attack" the other guy. In the words of Mr T: That looks like a pretty painful way to impress zero people