Man, nobody likes the Mid-Atlantic reviews, it seems like. I don’t care, I still love them.
TONIGHT! Um, nothing really. Tomorrow is AEW Revolution and everyone is pretty pumped for that, it seems like. We’re into the weird dead zone now between WandaVision’s end and the beginning of Falcon & Winter Soldier. And now I’m gonna have to go back and watch Age of Ultron again, aren’t I? DAMMIT, MARVEL. You magnificent bastards.
Smackdown’s ratings were up a bit again.
UFC is tonight as usual and features three title matches and the only one featuring someone I’ve heard of is Amanda Nunes.
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 05.01.82
I had wanted to do some Crockett stuff earlier in the week, but I already had Superstars in the can when he passed so I figured I might as well get it posted first. But what better way to pay tribute to an all time great promoter than by taking a look at Slaughter’s Privates for our weekly check-up.
Less than two weeks until the Snyder Cut is a real thing that happens. Much like the Chinese Democracy album, I’m not going to be 100% convinced it actually exists until I can watch it. I mean, I probably WON’T watch it because FOUR HOURS LONG, but I’m still at even money that it’s all an elaborate troll on us all.
Speaking of trolling us all, Disqus put new “moderation rules” in place that you have to opt out of, which basically filters out comments that it considers “toxic”, which has been resulting in some people’s comments getting put into moderation against my wishes. I’ve removed the rule so it shouldn’t keep happening, but if your comments go missing, DON’T PANIC and rage quit the blog, just shoot me an e-mail because I likely just need to manually approve them as a worst-case scenario.
Also, with Revolution this weekend, I’d like to once again thanks those who ordered the show through my affiliate link on Fite, and would request that if you’re planning on ordering the show from there, please do so at the following link because I make a couple of bucks off it for the blog:
Man, for a series that started out as previews that looked like an odd sitcom spoof, this ended up as a mind-bending, meme-generating, home run of a debut for the Disney Plus Marvel shows.
I will say I much prefer the weekly format to the Netflix content dump. Makes it easier to follow along with the zeitgeist.
My only major disappointment was that what seemed like a giant step towards a multiverse just ended up as a cruel nerd-baiting tease instead. He he, Bohner.
Discuss it here, and spoilers will be plentiful, I’m assuming, so enter at your own peril if you haven’t watched yet and have been waiting to binge it!
So unfortunately the news got buried a bit by the Wednesday Night War last night, but Jim Crockett Jr. finally passed at 76 after going into hospice care due to a series of failing organs and worsening health. Obviously his shows were a huge influence on me as a fan, and on the people now running AEW, and hopefully Vince buries the hatchet once and for all and gives him a tribute and/or puts him into the Hall of Fame. RIP.
Of course AEW features Shaq and Jade against Cody and Brandi Jr. in the main event, plus a 10 man tag with the Dark Order against Big Money Matt and his crew.
NXT will feature Lorcan and Burch defending the tag titles against Ciampa and Thatcher.
I’m off to see the Croods with my daughter so I’ll catch Dynamite a little later. Have a great night!
So…free YouTube content removed, all the stars gone, no crowds for the new show, and you have to pay to watch it on FITE.TV. So that’s a hard pass from me, sorry. The moment is gone, William Patrick Corgan. Maybe just accept it.
TONIGHT!
AEW Dark presents another gaggle of matches, plus Impact returns with another show I’m not watching.
