October 12, 2024 AEW WrestleDream (12 Angles) - REVIEW

Commentary: Excalibur, Toni Schiavone, Nigel McGuinness, Jim Ross 

Location: Seattle, WA

Venue: Tacoma Dome

Attendance: ~7,164 (pwmania)

PPV Sales: ?

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The Malapert Smark Podcast Review System:

🤯 - Mind Completely Blown!!! [+10]

🔥 - This Was Fire!! [+5]

👍👍 - Loved It! [+2]

👍 - Liked It [+1]

OrangeCassidy 1/2 👍- Kinda Liked It [+0.5]

👊 - Indifferent [0]

👎 - Didn’t Like it [-1]

👎👎 - Hated It [-2]

🤮 - Made Me Sick [-5]

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12 Angles

Totals for WrestleDream 2024:

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark 

👍 4

👎 5

👊 2

Total: -1.0

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Angles:

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1) Jay White Defeats Hangman Page In Grudge Match

ONE SEGMENT (20:40)

-Match

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “WTF?! Why did they go through all that trouble to elevate Hangman against Swerve, to lose like this? Although I am a Hangman Page fan and especially his recent character work, this is disappointing as a wrestling fan. I don’t get this at all. If Jay White goes over Page, fine. Then don'T book these two together right now. Fuckin’ hell, Toni Kahn. Smh."

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2) Mariah May Defeats Willow To Retain Women's World Championship

TWO SEGMENTS (15:50)

-Video Package

-Match

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I said i would give this match an honest chance despite Mariah’s awful heel turn and ridiculously over the top out of no where heel antics. But I just couldn’t. Her character kills this for me. And the booking? Heel wins clean over the beloved baby face.😕 Idk man. This Mariah thing didn’t work out. I hope they can move on from it at some point. It doesn’t get any real heat, and they just beat their top baby face flat."

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3) Jack Perry Defeats Shibata But Attacks Him Postmatch, Daniel Garcia Comes To Shibata's Aid

TWO SEGMENTS (14:48)

-Match

-Postmatch Afterbirth w/ Perry, Shibata, Garcia

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Surprisingly quick match. But small little pop from me for Daniel Garcia coming out to help his old rival. After all the wars these two had for the ROH Pure Wrestling Title, and all the times Daniel García disrespectfully thrusted his hips into Shibata’s face, it’s nice to know two can still have mutual respect like this."

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4) Surprise MJF Return, Gets Revenge on Daniel Garcia... MJF Reveals He Found His Diamond Ring, Adam Cole Shock Return Prevents Further MJF Attack On Garcia

ONE SEGMENT (6:51)

-In-Ring Segment w/ MJF, Garcia, A Cole

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Nice little string of surprises. AEW are the worst at keeping secrets so I’m glad they tripped me out a little. I was a little curious why MJF have his receipt to Daniel Garcia immediately after Garcia returned. We were thinking the last image we got of Garcia in AEW could have been him beating MJF’s ass and leaving for WWE. Instead, right after AEW locks him up, they send him out there to get humiliated by MJF immediately. So Wth? They just erased everything they did. Idk man. The booking confuses me."

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5) Takeshita Wins International Title In 3-Way, Fletcher Finally Turns On Ospreay 

THREE SEGMENTS (29:56)

-Video Package

-Match: Takeshita (w/Callis) def. Ospreay & Ricochet (3-Way)... interference from Callis, Fletcher

-Postmatch Afterbirth: Ospreay beat down by Fletcher, Takeshita as Callis watches

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “This was finally some enjoyable stuff to me from the Don Callis Family. All this made no sense to me for the longest. Why were baby faces in the stable with such an evil weisel. But I guess we got this one nice moment with Fletcher finally turning. The booking for Don Callis Family overall has been disjointed, but the angle on this day, in a vacuum, was enjoyable."

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6) Jerry Lynn Tells Orange Cassidy He Can Be the Man If He Tries, Hook Agrees

ONE SEGMENT (1:02)

-Backstage Rene Interview w/ Orange Cassidy & Jerry Lynn, Hook enters

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “🙄. All right, well put the strap on him then and get it over with. We all know this is AEW’s destiny. Let’s just embrace it."

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7) Swerve's Turns Down MVP's Offer To Manage Him, Altercation With Shelton Benjamin Almost Erupts... MVP Calms Down Benjamin...

ONE SEGMENT (14:42)

-In-Ring Segment: Swerve, Nana, MVP, Benjamin

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I liked this segment. I’m sure Shelton Benjamin can still go. So this will be good for Swerve. The intensity of the situation looked good. If Lashley enters the scene now then it would get pretty interesting…🤔"

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8) Hologram Defeats Beast Mortos In Singles Action

TWO SEGMENTS (21:01)

-Video Package

-Match

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “This match lacked substance to me. The work looked fine but no story here."

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9) Darby Allin Defeats Brodie King In Singles Action, King Shows Allin Respect Post Match

TWO SEGMENTS (20:18)

-Video Package

-Match

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “These two can work well together. They finally had a good scene together on Dynamite. And Darby got a win to elevate him after a bad loss to Moxley. So All in all, I think this served a small purpose and it was ok."

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10) Young Bucks Defeat Private Party...Stokely & Top Flight Look On From Audience

TWO SEGMENTS (27:35)

-Video Package

-Match: Jackson & Jackson Def. Quinn & Cassidy... Stokely, Action, Darius, Dante & Laila in audience

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I’m KINDA surprised Private Party didn’t go over, but not really. It sure seemed like it was gonna happen, though, after the pre match video package. But nope. EVP’s rule all day. The nightmare continues…"

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11) Mark Briscoe Defeats Chris Jericho To Retain ROH World Championship

TWO SEGMENTS (20:52)

-Video Package

-Match: M Briscoe def. Jericho (w/Bill)...Interference from Keith, Orange Cassidy & Romero

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I wrote in my Rampage review that the only way this would have a payoff is if Chris Jericho was badly humiliated so the crowd could laugh at him. But that didn’t happen.“"

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12) Brian Danielson Full Time Wrestling Career Comes To An End, Losing World Championship To Jon Moxley... Darby Tries To Help Prevent Moxley's Stable Postmatch Beating of Danielson But Wheeler Yuta's Heel Turn Stops Him, Moxley Stable Tie Down Allin While Yuta Suffocates Danielson With Plastic Bag

THREE SEGMENTS (44:23)

-Video Package

-Match: Moxley (w/Shafir) def. Danielson

-Postmatch Afterbirth: Moxley, Danielson, Pac, Claudio, Marina, Darby, Wheeler... Private Party, Jeff Jarrett, Orange Cassidy, Adam Cole, Hook, Daniel Garcia, Mark Briscoe

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Well i didn’t predict this. I’m disappointed that Moxley was chosen to do the honors. The crowd was SEVERELY deflated. And then on top of it all, instead of waving to the crowd to end his career, they suffocate him with a plastic bag again.🤦‍♂️ I think this is low rent. No one’s buying it. Classless way to end Danielson’s full time career. Faking severe injury, trying to work the audience. SMH… as for the angle itself. If the payoff to all this is all just to bring in Shane-O-Mac, I hate to break it to people, but Shane’s not that good. I remember him. We only tolerated Shane because his dad was so damn entertaining. So I’m disappointed in this. If Danielson is legit hurt, they coulda got some more juice out of him if they didn’t have him in so many worthless Dynamite matches."

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Other:

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A) Mercedes v Aminata Announced For Dynamite… Stemming From Altercation on Preshow