I hope everyone had a nice Easter weekend. Mine consisted of a family brunch and a trip to AEW Collision in London. I want to take a second to thank our friends Barb and Alex for setting us up with tickets to that second thing. Twas extremely amazing of you to do that and trust me, a fine time was had by all. I think even Carin, who has just about 0 interest in wrestling, will remember it. At times it seemed like she was having almost as much fun people watching as I was having watching the matches.
This was my first live AEW show, and I absolutely got our friends’ money’s worth out of it. It ran about four hours between the Ring of Honor segments, the live Collision and the episode of Rampage that they filmed when that was over.
There were quite a few memorable parts, but I think my favourite was Adam Copeland coming out to start Collision. Everyone lost their everloving minds, including perhaps the one guy in the entire building who was determined to boo him out of it. Between that and Matt Cardona showing up as a surprise to except the open challenge, that segment was easily the coolest of the night as far as atmosphere.
Sadly the video is missing Adam’s entrance and the first “this is awesome” chant they got when they had barely touched, but hopefully you get the idea.
Like I said, this was my first time at AEW, but probably not my last. If you’re on the fence about going when it comes anywhere near you, go. Trust me. You’ll enjoy yourself.
And now, enjoy this compilation of Easter news bloopers to wind things up. I hope you’re having as good a Monday as those rabbits did, or at least that you got to eat some nuts this morning.
Dude, I don’t know what else possibly would have lived up to that. That was supposed to be a make up present for the 40th birthday of yours that we missed because of stupid Covid. So that was like four birthdays all roll in the one. Eight dollars a year. Lol. Glad you liked it. Still sorry about the lack of commentary. I did what I could.
Here’s something to think about. On my actual 40th birthday, AEW had only existed for a few months. Where have all those years gone?
Try not to worry too much about the commentary thing. It’s frustrating that you and Carin both asked about it and got the wrong answer, but there’s nothing either of you could have done to stop that from happening. That’s on the building and to an extent AEW. It would have been neat to have commentary especially for Carin, but it’s not something I’ve ever had at any of the live wrestling I’ve gone to. Thankfully I’ve watched so much wrestling in my life that I can generally get by ok, but it should be something that’s available as an accessibility accommodation especially when for at least half of the event there are live commentators commentating in the building because it’s live on television. Any technical hurdles don’t seem like they should be impossible to overcome, but maybe there’s something I’m not considering.
But it was still a great time, and I appreciate you making it happen.