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AEW DYNAMITE - EPISODE 83: BLOOD & GUTS

May 5, 2021

Jacksonville, FL - Daily’s Place

Commentary: Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone, Excalibur

Attendance: 1,600

Viewers: 1,090,000

-Jon Moxley & Eddie Kingston d. Kenny Omega & MT Nakazawa

-Cody Rhodes d. QT Marshall

-Britt Baker d. Julia Hart

FOUR WAY TAG TEAM MATCH/#1 CONTENDER FOR AEW WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES

-Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian d. Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus, The Acclaimed and The Varsity Blonds

BLOOD & GUTS MATCH

-MJF, Shawn Spears, FTR & Wardlow d. Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara, Santana, Ortiz & Jake Hager

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Dynamite 5th May, 2021 Video

Full Video: https://moxleysasylum.smugmug.com/Jon-Moxley/Videos/AEW/2021/i-NrFtQxk/A

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can we please get more nakazawa on dynamite? look at his face when he got his sunglasses he was so happy

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AEW Dynamite IGNITE for 5/5/21 | Blood and Guts

The first-ever #BloodandGuts match is upon us. Who will spill the most blood during this match? #AEWDynamite IGNITE for 5/5/21 | Blood and Guts with @WWEBNRL

It is time for Blood and Guts! The first Blood and Guts Match was originally going to take place on March 25, 2020. As with many things, the Covid-19 Pandemic ruined everything. But finally, after over a year, we finally get a Blood and Guts Match! This first-ever Blood and Guts match will continue the very personal feud between The Inner Circle and the Pinnacle. Let us find out more about this…

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Mount Fuji, Japan- Photographer Takashi Nakazawa spent 7 years shooting Mt Fuji through its ever changing scenes. 

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Mt Fuji, Japan. Award-winning photograph by Takasha Nakazawa

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allelitewrestling- Mox is HERE on #AEWDarkElevation, 2 days before he & @eddiekingston81 battle @kennyomegamanx & MT Nakazawa Wednesday at #BLOODandGUTS! ⠀ ⠀ Watch Elevation Now at YouTube.com/AEW

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So Matt just told me that Nakazawa is now “MT” Nakazawa as a dig in QT Marshall. He’s the lackey. Like, Nak even comes into to the ring with a fucking Apple.

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i wanna see eddie beat mt nakazawa’s ass

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AEW Fake Rankings, 5/16/2021

Men's singles division - babyfaces

Darby Allin

Cody Rhodes

Orange Cassidy

PAC

Hangman Page

Christian Cage

Lance Archer

Sammy Guevara

Dustin Rhodes

Jake Hager

Men's singles division - heels

Kenny Omega (AEW men's world champion, Impact world champion, AAA mega champion)

MJF

Miro (AEW TNT champion)

Brian Cage (FTW champion)

Matt Hardy

Shawn Spears

Anthony Ogogo

QT Marshall

Powerhouse Hobbs

Nick Comorotto

Unranked: Alex Reynolds, Christopher Daniels, Colt Cabana, Danny Limelight, Dante Martin, Frankie Kazarian, Lee Johnson, MT Nakazawa, Wardlow

It feels premature to rank Darby Allin so highly. But given that Chris Jericho's hurt, Kenny Omega's a heel, and Jon Moxley's chasing the tag title, I can't argue any other babyface is ahead of him. Cody's clout and presentation goes a long way, but that only goes so far when he's been barely been on TV and feuding with QT's band of trainees. AEW deserves a lot of credit for giving Allin the ball and letting him run with it. Even though he just lost the TNT title to Miro, his chase to get it back ought to be even hotter than his run as champion.

A lot of the key fueds right now involve factions--Cody's Nightmare Family vs. QT's The Factory, Jericho's Inner Circle vs. MJF's The Pinnacle, and the Hardy Family Office vs. the Dark Order, Orange's buddies vs. Pac's Death Triangle--not to mention Team Taz and Kenny Omega's group running around. As a New Japan fan I dig it, but it does make it kind of tough to decide where one faction's minions rank relative to another's.

Men's tag team division - babyfaces

Jon Moxley (IWGP United Stats champion) & Eddie Kingston

Santana & Ortiz

Best Friends - Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta

Lucha Bros. - Penta El 0M & Rey Fenix

Jurassic Express - Luchasaurus & Jungle Boy & Marko Stunt

Evil Uno & Stu Grayson

Varsity Blondes - Griff Garrison & Brian Pillman Jr.

The Gunn Club - Billy Gunn & Austin Gunn & Colten Gunn

Matt Sydal & Mike Sydal

Alan Angels & Preston Vance

Men's tag team division - heels

The Young Bucks - Nick Jackson & Matt Jackson (AEW tag team champions)

FTR - Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler

Scorpio Sky & Ethan Page

The Acclaimed - Max Caster & Anthony Bowens

Private Party & Marq Quen & Isiah Kassidy

The Butcher & The Blade

TH2 - Jack Evans & Angelico

Chaos Project - Luther & Serpentico

Cezar Bononi & Ryan Nemeth

Unranked: Sonny Kiss & Joey Janela

(Names not listed on the AEW website's roster are noted in italics.)

With Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian disbanding their team, the top title contenders on AEW's official rankings are Garrison and Pillman. However, the team that's actually getting a title shot at the May 30 pay-per-view is Moxley and Kingston, because they trashed the champs' dressing room. Just in case you were wondering why I bother doing this when AEW does it every week.

Women's singles division - babyfaces

Hikaru Shida (AEW women's world champion)

Thunder Rosa

Tay Conti

Kris Statlander

Ryo Mizunami

Big Swole

Red Velvet

Leyla Hirsch

KiLynn King

Women's singles division - heels

Britt Baker

Nyla Rose

Jade Cargill

Abadon

Penelope Ford

Diamante

The Bunny

A year ago I was griping that AEW wasn't doing enough with the women's division. They're still not giving them enough time on the main show, but it definitely feels like Shida, Baker, and Statlander are more important to the product now than they were back then. I wanted them to bring in more women and give them a chance, and that paid off big time with Thunder Rosa. Swole, Conti, Abadon, and Velvet feel underutilized, but I'm confident that will change. Cargill is going to be great once they decide she's ready for more than simple squash matches. Granted, There are others on this list that seem to be just...there. But it's amazing how much less frustrating that is when more than two women on the roster are getting pushed.

No matches in over 30 days: Awesome Kong, Emi Sukara, Karl Anderson, Leva Bates, Doc Gallows, Mel, Peter Avalon, Riho, Shanna, Shawn Dean, Serena Deeb (NWA women's world champion), Yuka Sakazaki

Same old story with Riho, Shanna, Sukara, and Sakazaki (travel restrictions), and with Kong and Mel (no idea). Deeb is booked for the May 19 show, which is probably a relief for the NWA, since they can finally book some title matches again.

When the AEW/Impact storyline started, I expected a lot more Impact wrestlers to appear on AEW programming than just Gallows and Anderson. As it turns out, even Gallows and Anderson haven't wrestled much on AEW lately. I'm really starting to wonder what the point is for all of this.

Part-time/semi-retired: Dasha Gonzalez, Paul Wight, Rebel not Reba, Sting, Tully Blanchard

I feel weird having Tully here but hell, he's probably had more ring time in 2021 than everybody else in this list put together.

Inactive

Anna Jay (right shoulder - dislocation)

Brandon Cutler (orbital bone - unspecified injury)

Brandi Rhodes (pregnancy)

Chris Jericho (right elbow - dislocation)

Kip Sabian (right arm - storyline injury?)

John Silver (right shoulder - dislocation)

Ricky Starks (neck - fractured vertebrae)

Darius Martin (knee - unspecified ACL injury)

Miro "injured" Sabian's arm recently, and Sabian announced on Twitter that he's getting surgery. So is he just playing into the storyline on social media, or is the storyline designed to cover for an actual injury? Either way I don't expect him back in the ring for a while.

In contrast, Jericho's arm injury is legit but he's still appearing on TV and trying to get a match like it's no big deal. MJF challenged Jericho to a Stadium Stampede match two weeks from now, but Jericho reportedly needs 4-6 weeks to recover. So either the reports are overestimating how hurt he is, or Jericho's going to have to creatively avoid doing anything physical...or they'll have to postpone the match right after setting the date. I'm not sure what they're thinking with this one. (Maybe Jericho could call his new buddy Mike Tyson?)

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AEW DARK: ELEVATION - EPISODE 6

Taped: April 8, 2021 Aired: April 19, 2021

Jacksonville, FL - Daily’s Place

Commentary: Tony Schiavone, Paul Wight

-Hangman Page d. Spencer Slade

-Britt Baker d. Tesha Price

-Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus d. Jay Lyon & Midas Black

-The Hybrid2 d. Vary Morales & Andre Montoya

-Brian Cage & Ricky Starks d. Mike Magnum & Stone Rockwell

-Abadon d. Skye Blue

-Orange Cassidy d. Prince Kai

-Private Party d. Colt Cabana & Alex Reynolds

-Thunder Rosa d. Shawna Reed

-Best Friends d. Hayden Backlund & Kit Sackett

-Leyla Hirsch & Ryo Mizunami d. Nyla Rose & Madi Wrenkowski

-Austin Gunn d. Aaron Solow

-Ethan Page & Scorpio Sky d. Carlie Bravo & Dean Alexander

-Kenny Omega, MT Nakazawa & Konosuke Takeshita d. Matt & Mike Sydal & Danny Limelight

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Don't tell nobody but my secret ship is MT Nakazawa and Kenny Omega 🤭 I shipped em ever since that dynamite scene where the young bucks visited Kenny's house and Nakazawa was the one to greet them. There's just something about the boss that appreciates assistant dynamic that works for me.

Um yes???? I'm all for that dynamic plus in this case Kenny has always seemed to treat Nakazawa pretty good even now I believe

Plus it also fits in the villain/good guy trope that I love since Naka technically isn't a heel? At least I don't think so

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I guess I was tagged in this by @lucky-unlucky-cat

Rules: Answer 21 questions and tag 21 people you would like to get to know better!

Nickname: Not any people would use on a daily basis, but sometimes people call me smurf, blueberry, etc

Real name: Don’t call me Shirley

Zodiac: meh

Favorite musicians or groups: ERSO ermagherd so much; TKO; Mount Eerie, Silver Mt. Zion, Colleen, Autechre, Stereolab, Minor Victories, Cat Power, Blood Red Shoes, Au Revoir Simone, Blonde Redhead, The New Pornographers, all kinds of post-rock, most classic composers, Glass, Reich, Stars of the Lid, Jeremy Soule minus the sexual harassment, Vasks

Favorite sports team: I’m not a sports fan

Other blogs: creatively names @analytik2 (memes etc), @estonian-is-horrible and some dead ones

Do I get asks: Quite often about StatCounter because 7 years ago I wrote one article that Google picked up

How many blogs do I follow: 357 but only like 20 are active

Tumblr crushes: lol too old for that

Lucky numbers: whatever is the number that gets added to my bank account balance

What am I wearing: Generic stretchy grey jeans, company t-shirt because I’m cheap, and a 7.5 year old cheap hoodie from Prisma

Dream vacation: Iceland but without tourists and cars --- or --- 365 days of autumn, just traveling the world in a constant state of spring or autumn

Dream car: a horse

Favorite food: anything that Vegan Restoran V makes, honestly... but maybe I’d say sárma or langoš or svíčková if nostalgic

Drink of choice: cocktail of guarana powder, maca powder, and hemp flour, with condensed milk or chocolate & some hot water - this shit gives me life

Instruments: like... Node.js? /s ... playing a little bit of double bass and keyboard, playing synths and learning orchestration, so I guess... aLL iNsTrUmeNTs???/// harpsichord rulz

Languages: I barely speak English, but I know words like cat, gluten and garlic in maybe a dozen

Celebrity crushes: I’m not gonna name all the ERSO section principals, am I? Also Alexis Krauss, Donna Jackson Nakazawa, Lotte Kestner, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Iliza Schlesinger, etc. Anyone wise or kind-hearted or funny, basically.

Random facts: Chemicals in vinyl records (LPs) cause cancer. Treatment-resistant depression can usually be improved with Trans-cranial Magnetic Stimulation.

I tag: Orange monkey with a death mark

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National Geographic Traveler Magazine Cover Announcement

Last month we published The Trip that Changed My Life story on Your Shot. It featured fifteen images to be considered for the cover of June issue of Traveler Magazine. The editors, George Stone, Anne Farrar, and Jeff Heimsath, went through 20,000 submissions to select the final fifteen. Now, they have selected the cover image. We are happy to announce that Your Shot photographer Takashi Nakazawa's image of Mount Fuji with cherry blossoms and a pagoda in the foreground has been chosen as the cover image. Read our conversation with him below and see the selected photograph!

Q: What’s the story behind this photo?

This five-storied pagoda is not a temple tower. Rather, it is a tower to memorialize those killed in war, and it is called "Chureito pagoda" (or simply "Chureito"). The Chureito can be seen with Mount Fuji in the background, and it is rapidly rising in popularity among overseas travelers—especially when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom. Many people come to see this beautiful view of Mt Fuji, and they use their smartphones to share the joy of this sight all over the world. When I see this scene, I feel very happy to be able to overcome the unfortunate history, and to be sharing peaceful, calm, and wonderful sights with the world.

Q: How was this image made?

Cherry blossom season is very crowded with many tourists and photographers. I took this photo without a tripod, taking turns with tourists and other photographers. The photo I took was darker than what I saw with the naked eye; the color was also dull, and the contrast was not clear. I used Photoshop Lightroom CC to adjust the brightness and contrast. As a result, I was able to reproduce the bright spring day I saw. By the soft light of the cloudy sky it became a peaceful atmosphere of spring.

Q: What do you like to take pictures of, and why?

Of course I like to take photos of Mt Fuji, because Mt Fuji is beautiful no matter what. And Mount Fuji shows us various expressions depending on season, time, weather, place etc. It has been 7 years since I began taking photos of Mt Fuji. I shoot more than 10,000 pictures a year, but I do not get tired of it yet.

Q: What was the first photo you took? Or the first photo you took that was meaningful to you?

When I was a junior high school student, I took a photo of my friend who is running a hurdle race at the athletic meet. When I saw the finished photo, I was deeply moved by the scene of my friend frozen against the flowing background as if time had stopped. It was a scene that cannot be seen with the naked eye. And since it was a black-and-white photograph, it remains strongly impressed in my mind.

Q: How would you describe your photographic style?

I live in Tokyo and do a job different from photography. Therefore, at the end of every week, I will take 1-2 hours by car to go to Mount Fuji. Most of the time, I enter the Mount Fuji area in the middle of the night, and I’ll stay in the car for 2 to 3 days to shoot. Sometimes I climb an hour or so in the middle of the night and take photos of Mount Fuji from the top of a nearby mountain. After enduring the loneliness and fear of the dark night, it's a great pleasure to shoot a superb view.

Q: “After enduring the loneliness and fear of the dark night, it's a great pleasure to shoot a superb view.” That quote really stood out to me. Photography in general can be a very lonely activity. Is that where those feelings come from? I've been thinking about this, as I have been traveling alone over the last year and find that there is a battle to the loneliness while you try to see new sights and experience new environments. Do you feel the same?

I think that traveling alone is lonely, but I think the expectation of excitement is great. I think that shooting alone is the same. In my case, the theme is Mount Fuji, so I often go to the same place. Especially because I want to take in the spectacle of night sky or a wonderful sight of dawn, I often climb the mountain path alone. When I climbed the mountaintop at an altitude of 2700 m, it was covered with a deep fog. I was the only person in the darkness of the night when nothing could be seen. Even if I used a flashlight, it was just a white fog around me. It was a world wrapped up with solitude and fear. At that time, I felt relief hearing other voices on the radio. I felt relieved that there is connection with people somewhere. I think it is a human instinct. That day, the mist never cleared up, so I got off the mountain in the morning.

Another time, when the mist cleared up and I met a wonderful, spectacular view, I forgot about the solitude and fear and took pictures of the scenery. But I think that my instinct for human connection allowed me to feel the joy of being able to share that scenery with people all over the world.

Q: You are now on the cover of Nat Geo Traveler Magazine. What does this mean for you and your photo career?

I wanted people around the world to know the splendor of Japan through my photos of Mount Fuji, so I have posted them to Nat Geo Your shot. It's a great honor to have my Mount Fuji photo on the cover of Traveler magazine, and I'm extremely happy to have people in the world see these wonderful sights of Japan. I would like more and more people to visit Japan and see the wonderful sights. This goes to show that anyone has a chance to be published in the magazines of Nat Geo if you join the Your Shot Photo community and post excellent photos.