an-ineffable-arrangement

[allelitewrestlings]

The segment last year on Rampage has become one of my favorite segments I've ever done in AEW. That was a breath of fresh air, because that was something I've always wanted to address on television, but I wanted to make sure that it was fun, it wasn't serious, and I felt like it was perfect.

[dgsource]

[fishwikipedia]

real ones know Jaime D. on youtube is the only one keeping wrestle video makers from leaping off of bridges from stress in large numbers

[sonnykissed]

Can you imagine paying hella money to go sit close to ringside at a wrestling show and be on camera and the guy in front of you stands the whole time

[ghostly-fulcrum]

Bryannnnnnn😭😭😭

As if u didnt just spit on him recently shut up💀 The amount of time these two take to still be like ‘i like him:)’ is so funny like get off the pot the yearnin is CRAZYYY

[blizzardsuplex]

Chris, you have to understand something: Austin, Texas? You don’t walk out...

Roderick Strong’s promo on Chris Jericho from AEW Road to Austin, 5/16/2023

[milesworld96]

Favorite thing in aew is seeing Darby getting fucking ragdolled

[acenixx]

CM Punk saying "So called EVPs who couldn't manage a Target" in that scrum was actually insane, but what's more insane is that The Elite never came out dressed as Target employees.

[wrestlezon]

loved the composition for this shot. amused me

[are-we-really-doing-this]

SLIM J v. AR FOX REMATCH AFTER GOD KNOWS HOW LONG ON DARK AND NOBODY THOUGHT TO TELL ME???

Sonny is looking great, btw

[allelitewrestlings]

Q: You're now known as MxM. Shouldn't it really be M+M?

[dgsource]

[aerodaltonimperial]

the junglecorpse story primer

so i've been pretty obsessively cataloguing everything between them in my last year or so of being in AEW fandom, and since they are my Hyperfixation™️, i thought i would put together a little primer for the people who may not have been spending every waking thought thinking about the chemistry these two end up having with each other and how their story has played out. there's some videos in here that are fun watches and hopefully this adds a little bit to the knowledge bank!! (i love wrestling so much lol)

2019//

as far as we can tell, their first time ever wrestling was in 2019, which is what we like to call "the lost 2019 bar match," on february 24, 2019, at the high hat in los angeles. when we say lost, we literally mean lost. i would cut off my left arm to get a video of this damn match-up. the only video we have is a short bit from when they were hitting each other with empty water bottles, shown here. (tumblr won't let me embed these links without crashing.)

there's also one photograph of this match, posted on instagram, by a wrestling photographer:

according to cagematch, darby won this match. given how many people in that crowd have phones out, i cannot BELIEVE that we haven't been able to hunt down the rest of the videos, but here we are, crying into the abyss that we can't find this. someone has it. name your price lol. i'm very open to negotiation.

2020 //

the only thing that 2020 had in it was another "lost match," this time from the jericho cruise, so we hate jericho even more for refusing to video the matches there so we can see them when we do not have $5k to go on this trip. but this one is just a 3 v 3 match, where private party and darby beat jurassic express (jack, lucha, and marko). probably not life-changing, but i still want to see it, as a completionist.

2021 //

by 2021, they had both been in aew for several years and were settling in. darby had the TNT belt, and jack was working up through both the singles division on his own, and the tag division with luchasaurus. surprisingly, they never matched up on their own! but in april of 2021, aew asked twitter to pick darby's next opponent for the TNT, and twitter chose jack. this is where things get interesting.

darby makes a promo talking to jack about the match that gets posted on darby's twitter here and reposted to aew's twitter here. (the link doesn't work to the video anymore, but don't worry, i backed it up on my yt account because i knew twitter would implode eventually.)

this is the first time, that we can find, that anyone has gone after the "if you stop being such a goodie two-shoes, you could be great" angle with jack. this promo actually pre-dates christian cage even joining AEW (he would join in the next month or two)! but this thread remains pulled alongside jack's next several years of kayfabe stories, so it's worth pointing out that darby may have been the first person to use it.

video link to youtube

jack makes a follow-up video for this and it gets posted on aew's twitter, and as luck would have it, that tweet no longer exists. i'm not sure where it went, to be honest. it wasn't much except "i've proven myself" and "my record is great now." it's worth noting that neither of them tag the other in their promos, which makes me laugh. darby calls jack "jungle jack," which also makes me laugh.

they have their 2021 match, which is amazing, and don't worry, i also have that video link, so if you'd like to watch it, the full thing lives here. after this, darby loses the TNT belt to miro, and jack wins the battle royale after throwing christian cage out of the ring. important story beats for both of them.

2022 //

in 2022, they end up on the same side of a 6 v 6 match that i'm assuming was kind of just random match-ups, on june 1st at the kia forum. we've watched it, because of course we have, but it wasn't anything particularly interesting haha. however, in january of 2022, jurassic express wins the tag belts. they hold them until that summer, when they lose them, and christian turns on jack. lucha then also turns on jack. jack's heel turn gets majorly delayed due to christian's injury that takes him out through the whole end of the year. at the end of 2022, junglehook starts up after hook comes out to save jack from getting the shit beat out of him (this is the start of his heel turn).

2023 //

and then we get to 2023, the year that i was watching and promptly lost my mind, because we got the pillars storyline! right before this, jack beats christian in the coffin match, which finishes that particular aspect, but it butts right up to the pillars stuff. i've waxed poetic for like 4k about how jack was supposed to be a heel in the pillars story, but everything got delayed due to christian's injury, and they had to run him as a face for this because too many people were involved, and that's not really the point here, but it sure makes a lot of the decisions made in the pillars story fucking unhinged as shit lol.

i've made a video for the junglecorpse moments in the pillars storyline that is here if you have 23 minutes to experience the absurdity of what they chose to do here.

but abridged version is that jack and darby have to team up for the pillars tag match, and don't seem to get along well. they run a full thing where mjf asks jack to betray darby (so they lose) and jack gets up in his face, and then darby walks in to see it. after this, darby comes out for jack (and sammy comes out after) to save him from LFI killing him after jack beats rush.

prior to their tag match, they run this promo with the two of them, where darby references the lost 2019 bar match (DOES HE ALSO SIT AND THINK ABOUT IT FOR HOURS??? LIKE I DO???) and also mentions that they would probably be friends if they weren't wrestlers, which is worth holding onto lmao.

in the actual pillars PPV 4-way at double or nothing, they run a large segment of jack having the belt and a clear shot to take darby out with it (and win) and he doesn't end up doing it. they make a big thing out of it. this is insane given that a month later, jack turns on hook at forbidden door 2023 and eventually takes the FTW off him. i wish to speak to whoever thought this was normal. he couldn't cheat to beat darby, who he supposedly doesn't even like, for the world championship, but can betray his best friend for an unsanctioned belt a month later??????? this makes me insane. don't touch me chompie.

also worth mentioning is jack tweeting this during the storyline, with nothing else attached to it. merry early christmas to me. (jack tends to post a single photo for important story beats, with no text on it. he's done this for quite a number of things within the last few years. weird that he did that here, when they had one tag match together.)

2024 //

and that bring us to this year! jack is back in AEW after his unjust and sad-making time out. anarchy in the arena happens at double or nothing 2024, and jack and darby spend 75% of the match beating each other up alone backstage. jack hits darby with the bus, darby sets jack on fire. it's lovely.

if you haven't seen the video that leaked of jack preparing for the fire spot in the early part of 2024 with a stunt team, it's worth watching. (no sound)

darby is out again to recover since i don't know how he managed to get clear for AITA in the first place, and then he comes back with an obsessive single-mindedness to call out jack perry by beating up brandon cutler. jack then also beats up brandon cutler in the strangest mating rituals i've ever fucking seen lmao. INTRICATE RITUALS!!

that's all i've got right now, but hopefully this ends up being a decent overview of all the stuff i tend to reference in my fics. 💚💚💚 sorry tumblr won't let me embed these videos in here, but it kept crashing the draft, so i had to revert them all just to links. homophobia.

[buffyfan145]

Just saw Kevin Von Erich did a podcast recently (linked in the comments) about a variety of subjects including "The Iron Claw", he and his sons being on AEW, wrestler MJF, and more, and nice to see him praising it again and especially Zac Efron and Harris Dickinson's performances!!! 😀 He said how impressed and honored he was for Zac playing him and doing all that research to portray his family even with the changes (which he's totally fine with and understands why the studio did that as Chris was originally going to be in the movie). Then he gave a special shoutout to Harris as he said he "even fooled me a few times that it was Dave". 🥹 I noticed it even more after I saw the movie and found all those videos of David on YT and Peacock and Harris nailed how David was including the accent. Just great to hear more from Kevin and how much he loved the movie.

[shanie]

Does anyone know a good YouTube video about wrestling butterfly effects?

I've only seen one and it's not the best.

Dave Meltzer being a hater wasn't a butterfly effect to AEW, Kevin choosing the long road to WWE was.

And Sami going off script with UCEY wasn't a butterfly effect for WM 40, Roman getting Covid was.

The whole point of butterfly effects is that they are seemingly trivial things that have widespread ripple effects.

And I would love to see someone really nail the moments down in a yt video.

[blizzardsuplex]

Roderick Strong + moving his arms/hands from AEW Road to Baltimore, 5/2/2023

[First public wrestling GIFs! I went on tumblr and lurked on someone’s blog (shoutout shes-a-voodoo-child who I can’t seem to tag...I’m bad at this website) and now I can’t unthink the notion that Roddy never knows what to do with his hands.]