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Post by thenicks on Feb 1, 2022 19:36:33 GMT -5
This is my first post in the forum so i wanted to start the message saying that is a previlige to finally write here after following last year proyect as a guest.
I tend to agree with those who view the match as a five star or even the best AEW match so far.The way the match built off their previous encounter and other Danielson matches was gracefully executed. I really loved how violet and urgent it became and (besides the fact that i'm kind of a mark for him) Hangman did an excelent job in playing his role in this regard. I can really add anything more about Danielson work in this match that what's alredy being said but heck, that man's a GOAT candidate for sure.
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Post by Cap on Feb 1, 2022 20:35:56 GMT -5
Welcome to the board (or to being active).
I am pretty confident that this is the best AEW match in my eyes. I'll be really interested to see how this match does. A few AEW matches got more votes than I expected last year, but many of those matches happened in the hand full of months leading up to the ballot. There will be over a year between this match and the next ballot, meaning it will have a lot of time to sit in people's minds a bit. I - for one - will be shocked if it doesn't end up my list.
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Post by microstatistics on Feb 2, 2022 23:36:36 GMT -5
Needs a rewatch to verify that it truly is top tier but I'm leaning towards the "best match in AEW history" side as well.
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Post by microstatistics on Feb 17, 2022 22:26:25 GMT -5
Great start with Danielson attempting to dictate the pace and psych out the champion and an urgent Page having none of it. But the champion became overzealous, hurting his arm which Danielson began to target. I liked how the arm work was only one line of attack and wasn't going to enough (on its own at least) to beat Page. That's why I didn't mind Page using it for offense, especially since he sold the pain whenever he did. I really liked Bryan's punches and palm strikes to the cut after Page was busted open. Later on, he dug his nails into the forehead to help setup the LeBell lock in another neat moment. The double suplex spot didn't bother me since it was about positioning rather than impact so there was no no-selling involved. The learned psychology spot involving the ring post was cool. Headbutts aren't usually my thing (except the ones thrown by Fujiwara directly targeting the bridge of the nose) but the exchanges here were solid. Commendable fatigue selling and continuity with the past in the final third of the match.
I was impressed by Page here with his dynamic offense, strong selling, and no-nonsense approach. Still, Bryan, perhaps unsurprisingly, was the star with his arrogant heel veteran act. He was drunk on overconfidence, to the point where he was even taunting the judges, and oscillated between proactive mastery and complacency. He put over Page big time as well, as the latter powered out (figuratively and literally) of multiple control segments leading to a decisive finishing stretch. ****1/4
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Post by KB8 on Sept 9, 2022 12:17:56 GMT -5
I think I actually preferred their first match to this one, which isn't something I'd have expected prior to watching them considering one match lasts an hour and the other does not last an hour, and also one has tonnes of blood and the match that lasts an hour only has half that much blood. But this was pretty great, even the parts that didn't have all the blood! I liked the opening stretch a lot. Danielson has wrestled a goodly amount of sixty-minute matches in his long and acclaimed career while Page has wrestled exactly one. If it goes the distance this time it'll be decided by the judges, and even if the last match ended with Page on top, Danielson is obviously confident that the same won't happen again. His jumping jack horse shit was just about my favourite part of the first match so I loved him doing it straight out the gate here, killing some time while riling up Page into the bargain, even doing it right in front of the judges while Jerry Lynn scribbles something in his wee notepad. It had the feel of Mayweather almost toying with someone he knew he'd dominate on points by the end. Then Page decided none of that would be happening and melted him with a tope. Page in control is good stuff, but the match goes up a level when he tries another tope and Danielson chucks him into the guardrail. Danielson is Danielson working the arm and of course it's good, then Page takes a header into the steps and the match goes up a level again. Danielson was a demon attacking the cut and trying to draw as much blood as possible, leaving a small puddle of it on the immaculately shiny steps. I thought the strategy shift from him played out great. He went after the arm when that opportunity presented itself, which of course made sense because it takes away the stupid slingshot lariat thing that's way too stupid for a name as cool as Buckshot, but then an even better opportunity arose and Danielson let his vicious side take over. When Danielson gets cut open as well (with a nice ode to Unified, but not idiotic as fuck) you maybe question that strategy shift. Danielson never blazed his trail engaging in bloodbaths and ripping at cut open foreheads. He's a technician, he operates with precision, he'll pick you apart limb by limb and in the end, one way or another, you will submit. Playing Hangman's game was RISKY BUSINESS, DADDEH. Prolly. Either way the home stretch is super dramatic and had about as good a duelling headbutt exchange as you can get without it veering obviously into the sort of demented headbutt carry on someone with a history of concussions should not be doing. The bit where he collapsed in a heap to avoid the lariat ruled, mostly because it wasn't played as an Omega avoiding the Rainmaker moment but rather because three seconds later he was rolling Page up in the small package. Truly a moment of playing possum that even Bret Hart would've been proud of. Coincidentally these two had a third match on Dynamite the other night so I'll probably watch that this weekend. I'd also be happy if they just gave Danielson the belt and let him have an AEW equivalent of the ROH run. But cap every match at like 12 minutes or something. I would like that.
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