I watched my first episode of AEW Dynamite.
It reminded me a lot of the WWE Attitude era, except with some bigger moves… even some of the same guys were there. I’m not really sure all of the dynamics, who’s supposed to be the mega-heel, what the storylines are. I’m sure I’ll pick it up in time.
CM Punk’s debut reminded me a lot of Chris Jericho’s on RAW back in 99… except like 30 times louder.
I haven’t seen NXT in a while since WWE Network mysteriously stopped working for me a couple years back. I will say that I think the NXT wrestling is of a considerably higher caliber. Although AEW is significantly better than RAW/Smackdown. Production value of AEW is like Attitude era WWE, it’s a lot higher than the current RAW/Smackdown stuff. Not sure if it’s “PG” because there was blood and they were much more free about their language, but not quite Attitude era level, they didn’t have guys like Jerry King Lawler calling his opponents fags.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
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