October 19, 2024 AEW Battle of the Belts XII - REVIEW

Commentary: Toni Schiavone, Nigel McGuinness

Location: Stockton, CA

Venue: Adventist Health Arena

Attendance: ?

Live TV Viewers: ~304,000 on avg (wrestlinginc)

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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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6 Angles

Totals for this episode of Battle of the Belts:

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark 

👍 3

👎 0

👊 2

Total Score: +3.0

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Angles:

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*1) BCC Beatdown of Top Flight Going On As Show Starts From End of Collision...Moxley Puts Up Trios Titles Against Dark Order... BCC Defeat Dark Order, Attack Dark Order Post Match, Garcia & Private Party Make Save But Orange Cassidy Is Torn On Involvement

THREE SEGMENTS (9:12)

-In-Ring Fight: BCC (Mox, Pac, Wheeler, Claudio, Marina) attacking Top Flight (Darius, Danter, Action, Laila)...enter Dark Order (Uno, Silver, Reynolds)... Moxley promo

-Match: Claudio, Pac, Wheeler (w/Mox, Shafir) def. Uno, Silver, Reynolds...Mox involvement

-Post Match Afterbirth: BCC hold down Silver while Marina breaks his arm... enter Daniel Garcia, Quinn, Kassidy, Orange Cassidy

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I liked how the chaos bled over from Collision to Battle of the Belts. I like Moxley booking his own matches. I don’t know what he would book his team to defend their titles, but ok… Also, although Orange Cassidy seems like he should for sure want to protect AEW from this, being the star that he is. But I am still enjoying the twist in the storyline. I liked the imagery of OC walking out on AEW through the tunnel."

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*2) Okada Defeats Kyle O'Reilly To Retain Continental Championship

ONE SEGMENT (20:50)

-Match: Okada def. O'Reilly

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Expected result. Not really fun watching Okada in the ring these days. Still waiting for that Okada AEW banger."

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*3) Anna Jay Defeats Mariah May in World Title Eliminator Match To Earn Shot at May's World Title

TWO SEGMENTS (16:25)

-Anna Jay Promo Package discussing Mariah May

-Match: Jay def. May

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Well i am happy about the result. Obviously Anna Jay is not going to win the title now but it’s a still a strong solid win and should help her character. As for Mariah, I haven’t been able to get a grip on her maximum evil gimmick that came out of no where. I feel a super evil character can work, but she’s a little unbelievable doing it. It hasn’t worked for me."

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*4) Hologram Attacked By LFI

ONE SEGMENT (0:53)

-Backstage Promo: Rush, Dralistico, Beast Mortos... Hologram attacked

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “All right so, LFI just had a thing with Outrunners and FTR a few minutes ago. Wth did Hologram do to deserve this! Although it makes little sense to me, I still like LFI trying to shake things up."

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5) Don Callis Family Pick Up Tag Team Win

ONE SEGMENT (5:00)

-Match: B Cage & Archer (w/Callis) def. Jack Cartwheel & Jon Cruz

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Caught Jack Cartwheel over on ROH Thursday night. Thought he looked good against AR Fox. This was just a job today…Useful Victory for Callis’ boys. Maybe they can make use of these henchmen sometime soon. Time these guys start doing some nefarious things!”

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*6) Undisputed Kingdom Disappointed In Beast Mortos

ONE SEGMENT (0:51)

-Lexi Backstage Interview: Strong, Taven, Bennett, Mortos

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I want more of this!"

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