My TV provider had the start time for the show fucked up so I missed the pre show and Samoa Joe match while spatchcoking some chickens for smoking. Thought the arena looked great and as a West Ham fan and Bobby Moore being the "Master of Wembley" it was great to see a show there. Sound was a lil messed up at points but the crowd was great.
Match of the night was FTR vs Young Bucks for me, best tag teams of this era and good on AEW for Revivaling tag team wrestling.
Jericho vs Will wouldve been match of the night but I felt Ospreay took much too long on 2 or 3 spots and it took me out of an otherwise great match. The build up and match shows Jericho can still go with the best and should be considered one of the greatest (taking away him never being a top guy in the fed or WCW, he did add tons of prestige to the AEW title and AEW itself when it began)
Main event was great story telling if a little much, as always MJF is a generational talent. He might be one of the only special attraction draws who almost never wrestles who isnt a Genetic Freak.
@WPG You need to start working your local indys with a creepy chef gimmick named Alfred Spatchcock.
The main event wasn't the best wrestling match but the storytelling was immaculately done. The feel good swerve ending wasn't necessarily the direction I wanted it to go but Im happy to keep the ball rolling on this one. I actually think I enjoyed the tag match more from a wrestling perspective because MJF was super on.. had the crowd in the palm of his hand the whole match and the pop he got for the kangaroo kick was amazing. Might have been my favorite single spot of the night honestly.
I feel you on the Jericho Ospreay match...I know Jericho is your boy. I felt the same way about the 6 man with Kenny, Ibushi, and Hangman... On paper that should have stolen the show but it dragged bad and the finish went over like a beer fart with the windows rolled up. 20 minutes of building up to a shitty roll up finish? The crowd just went silent.
Stadium stampede started cold and ended absolutely nuts. Some classic ECW style madness and the finish was great. I thought it was hilarious Eddie took a 10 minute break in the middle of the match and then came out huffing and puffing for the finish spot while Claudio worked his huge muscled ass off all over the arena for the entire thing and then ate the pin.
Women's match was ok but it's kind of fucked up that Emi Sakura's whole thing is Queen and she wasn't even on the preshow while Saraya came out to it for a shitty vanity pop. I hope she drops the belt in like a week, she's just not very good compared to some of the girls nowadays.
Sting and Darby was fun. I'm starting to think getting his hands bound behind his back is Darby's kink. Sting butt smooshing Swerve through a table was my other big smile of the night.
Trios champ match was good too but Brodys white tights were too big and looked like a diaper. The acclaimed aren't that good in the ring (and Billy never was and still isn't), but HOB can get a decent match out of damn near anyone.
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