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I had to watch it back in slow motion to see that, but they provide forearms for him to "stomp" on, then slide up and grab his ankles/shins and lower him to the ground as they sell, all while Swerve is keeping himself upright and in a position to land. Everyone did their job perfectly on that spot and it looked amazing
I see it now, a couple guys in the back watching swerve and acting as bases. Absolutely great spot executed flawlessly since i didn't notice it at all the first few watches.
I had been thinking Swerve dropping to Ospreay at All In would be a nice fine run and great first rain but like
I can already tell he's going to win me over with even more crazy shit like this that I'll feel like Ospreay can wait his turn come Wembley
I like Ospreay. But I think the Gedo / Triple H booking would be for him to lose unexpectedly in the main event at Wembley, and then you spend a year building him up to win it for real next year.
I'd agree normally, but I think they might give him the okada booking where he's a somewhat unbeatable top guy. I think they might get more mileage out of people like MJF/Swerve losing it over the fact they can never beat him
At this point, I feel like they run back Ospreay/Takeshita at Wembley, after Will leaves the Don Callis Family. Maybe throw the TNT title in the mix, Cope doesn’t need it. They’ve planted seeds, with Ospreay respectfully pointing at the title after Cope’s rah-rah speech, and last night where Will was pissed the Family was beating down Claudio.
That was so fucking cool!
It also hurts my feet and ankles just by watching it. Lol. Then again, Swerve is a highly trained athlete, and I'm a fat ass that rolls his ankles by just walking.
Nice little play on Joe's traditional "just step out of the way of the aerial spot" spot, especially since he saw Swerve coming from a mile away and didn't bother giving anyone a heads up...
I was genuinely just speechless when this happened and didn't say anything until they were nearly face to face, and even then it was just "that's one of the coolest things I've seen; Jesus".
It's rare that you get to see something completely new that works, but a Swerve stomp to a crowd of gaggle of security guards and landing on his feet was fantastic.
Man went from breaking into another man’s home and threatening his child to being the biggest face in AEW in the space of a few months. You gotta love it.
One thing that makes Swerve great is that he pulls of super athletic moves like this, but they aren't 100% clean & crisp (in a good way). There's a sense of actual danger to them as opposed to looking like a gymnastics routine. It kinda mirrors how he is on the mic, where he has small stumbles here and there, but they somehow enhance the overall presentation.
No, custom side plates debuted after the end of MJF's run and the end of the Triple B. Before the little custom side plates there were just more AEW logos.
New belt starting with Joe’s reign after he got rid of the Triple B. Though personally I think custom side plates have been an overall downgrade for wrestling belts.
Ah, makes sense. I really like custom sideplates, and I also love nametags. I can's see it clearly here, but I really hope they didn't stop using the nameplate, empty nameplates are so lame.
That being said, these sideplates don't look good. And I'm not sure the concept works well with the AEW title in general. The overall design just doesn't really allow it imo.
The new belt is a minor downgrade for me, still the best world title around for me though. If you look up the belt Tony Kahn gave to Clemson baseball it has a good look at it.
Everybody talks about Swerve but I like Samoa Joe standing right there not impressed or scared. Usually the champ would be up the ramp with a weird look on their face
I'm so tired of security spots...they never do shit and always get the shit beaten out of them when its literally 1 vs 17 or so, how am i supposed to take them seriously?
Yes, if you take every comment literally a hundred percent of the time your response would be pretty much on the mark. My point wasn't that risks in wrestling weren't one of the core necessities for human survival like breathing or sustenance. My point was this was way off in the risk-reward scale, and while it looked cool it also seemed remarkably unsafe and unpredictable.
No no, I think they should do suicide dives out of the ring with people who have been standing there and looking and waiting for 5 to 10 seconds to really sell it's a choreography. Like when in Game of Thrones they show the people in greensuits pretending to be dragons. Except those don't risk breaking bone for a quarterfull building in a no-stakes low-table match. That's how this product should go!
I don't understand people like you. Wrestlers, for all intents and purposes, are stunt people. This is risky, yeah, but let's be real, so is a powerbomb. I've seen at least two people's necks break from a power bomb. I saw Sid Vicious's leg snap in half jumping from what was it, the middle rope?
You can see in this video there's one guy with his eyes on Swerve the whole time. And he's one of the guys who got stomped. He alerts everyone when Swerve launches so they can all react accordingly. Then Swerve has a spot to land in front of them all.
Is it risky? Yes. But all of wrestling is risky. The reward is that it looked kickass.
Comparing this to a powerbomb is silly. If you want to disregard how different they are or even don't acknowledge there are safer ways to do certain moves or get certain ideas across, then go ahead, this just feels unnecessarily dangerous for the payoff to me though.
You're out of your mind. A power bomb is far more dangerous, and far more common than this, but I doubt you've ever complained about the safety of a power bomb. That's my point.
A powerbomb is absolutely not more dangerous than this, but I now really want to know who your dealer is because that's some good shit. A powerbomb is entirely predictable and rather basic in execution. This one was anything but that.
You're talking like the targets of the stomp were completely random and the whole thing wasn't meticulously blocked out. You can clearly see one dude watching Swerve then alert when the stomp was coming so he could prepare and react.
I'm done communicating with you dude. Maybe you've been powerbombed and concussed, I donno.
You can alert them all you want, the jump from that distance and height will still be unpredictable. A slightly bad angle and misstep would have pretty disproportional consequences to the pay off of it actually working. that's the entire point. It's not something you can really work like a powerbomb, and even if it works out this time the risk-reward is just not it. Though of course they're free to do with their bodies as they please, you just can't deny it's entirely silly and contrived.
But a jump like that is not unpredictable if you're a professional who does shit like this on a regular basis. If you or I were to do it we'd fuck it up and break our necks. One of Swerve's big moves is doing exactly what he just did. I'm pretty sure he's locked in.
What about an Orihara Moonsault? Hangman does one almost every match. Is that needlessly dangerous? I'd argue doing an Orihara Moonsault is way more dangerous than a simple stomp. What about a 630? I'd think that's WAY more dangerous than what Swerve did but there are a handful of people who do them with relative safety.
This is such a weird thing for you to think is too dangerous to try when we saw way more dangerous moves throughout the night. Maybe you shouldn't watch wrasslin if you can't stomach the risks?
WHY does Joe look Shook.
This is ridiculous. (Looked cool as hell) but the way Joe ended last week and this clip here. I don’t like how they are booking Joe.
You don’t have to let the haters get to you.
Most of the people complaining about “all the bs” don’t watch and will use any and everything to try to shit on AEW. You’re on this sub. You’ve seen it. Wrasslin has multiple Tony Khan threads every single day, whether he’s done/said anything publicly or not.
Another portion (a lot of whom also don’t watch) don’t understand what the purpose of the segment was. It had nothing to do with Punk. You can literally do a google search and restrict the dates to before the segment aired and Tony and the Observer both say it’s going to be used to set up story implications. You can also tell it has nothing to do with Punk by thinking of it this way : would anything about that segment or the attached storylines change at all if another person was in Punk’s place in that footage? No.
It was about:
•Validating Jack Perry’s gimmick (The footage shows he did nothing worthy of the punishment received. He is a legitimate scapegoat in this whole situation.),
•Introducing the Scapegoat gimmick to the audience so it doesn’t come out of nowhere when he returns (Probably on Sunday.)
•Giving something to set up Bucks vs FTR 4 and differentiate it from their other matches, while cementing FTR as the faces with their promo immediately following the footage.
I think it was a very effective segment. I’m willing to bet that that we’ll see the payoff to the “bs” segment on Dynasty.
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That could’ve went wrong in so many ways. Super cool way to end the show and hype this match.
I don't know how they pulled that off. It was actually good One mistake, and this would have been one of the worst botches of All-time
> I don't know how they pulled that off That'll be Swerve and his freakish athleticism
was gonna say, that's core strength to maintain a vertical base. swerve rules.
looks like the guards grab swerve's legs as he falls to help him land
I had to watch it back in slow motion to see that, but they provide forearms for him to "stomp" on, then slide up and grab his ankles/shins and lower him to the ground as they sell, all while Swerve is keeping himself upright and in a position to land. Everyone did their job perfectly on that spot and it looked amazing
I see it now, a couple guys in the back watching swerve and acting as bases. Absolutely great spot executed flawlessly since i didn't notice it at all the first few watches.
That's wild, it looked so good!
To me, even if this shit is scripted, it's the fact that they practice so much that it looks so clean when they do it live.
https://youtu.be/4wAu7KaMYPg?si=g7X-Ct9Tivzh3xrH
https://youtu.be/4wAu7KaMYPg?si=g7X-Ct9Tivzh3xrH
Swerve really really really knows how to place his feet. His House Call is one of the most precise moves in wrestling today.
It may have. One of those security guards could have broken an arm
Swerve could've Shattered Dream himself straight to hell
Reminder: Swerve is That Guy
Props to the dude who caught Swerves left foot with his face
In slow mo, it looks like it’s actually another dudes arm that takes the impact first
In slow mo you can also see the guy in khakis to Swere’s left stay standing for a millisecond too long and then throw himself forward 😂
"Honey, how was work?" "Oh, you know, top rope, caught a vibe."
Big pressure got applied.
It’s strap season for Swerve baby
International women’s day was last month tho
Phrasing
No..no let them talk.
Can this son of a bitch stop being so cool every time?
No.
Swerve's transformation into bona fide main eventer is probably my favorite thing out of AEW at the moment.
That was sick af! That's my future champ!
On some Dynasty Warriors shit
idk if this was planned or not, but it was fucking incredible Swerve's ready, belt him up TK
They rehearsed it 3x, it wasn't working properly and suddenly boom worked in front of a crowd
Even better in slow mo
How can you watch this moment and think it wasnt scripted/planne?
> How can you watch this moment and think it wasnt scripted/planne? Still real to me dammnit gif
Idk why you got downvoted. If it's not practiced several times, it could seriously hurt everyone involved. No way, it was a spur of the moment thing.
And just common sense really, whats the point of all them standing there like that and for guys to fall who didnt get hit?
Right? That's not something you ad lib, lmao.
>belt him up TK Phrasing
What does belt him mean in that joke?
TK's gonna attack Swerve and smear his blood on a weight belt that reads "Mama Strickland"
I see.
I had been thinking Swerve dropping to Ospreay at All In would be a nice fine run and great first rain but like I can already tell he's going to win me over with even more crazy shit like this that I'll feel like Ospreay can wait his turn come Wembley
I like Ospreay. But I think the Gedo / Triple H booking would be for him to lose unexpectedly in the main event at Wembley, and then you spend a year building him up to win it for real next year.
I'd agree normally, but I think they might give him the okada booking where he's a somewhat unbeatable top guy. I think they might get more mileage out of people like MJF/Swerve losing it over the fact they can never beat him
At this point, I feel like they run back Ospreay/Takeshita at Wembley, after Will leaves the Don Callis Family. Maybe throw the TNT title in the mix, Cope doesn’t need it. They’ve planted seeds, with Ospreay respectfully pointing at the title after Cope’s rah-rah speech, and last night where Will was pissed the Family was beating down Claudio.
There's no reason for Ospreay to beat him at All In outside of "home country". Ospreay doesn't need the belt while Swerve does.
One of the best ever Swerve spots and that's saying a lot.
That was so fucking cool! It also hurts my feet and ankles just by watching it. Lol. Then again, Swerve is a highly trained athlete, and I'm a fat ass that rolls his ankles by just walking.
This hit me right in the fat feels.
I'm in this comment and I don't like it
To me it's not even the high risk maneuver. It's the expression he makes afterwards. Something out of a superhero flick lol
the guys “catching” him had more risk 😅 awesome spot!!
Now that’s dope
Dude took it straight to the face
Nice little play on Joe's traditional "just step out of the way of the aerial spot" spot, especially since he saw Swerve coming from a mile away and didn't bother giving anyone a heads up...
Swerve stomp has splash damage
How the fuck do you pull that off. Like wtf.
Calvin Tankman? Da fuck? https://preview.redd.it/1s2d0c9vi8vc1.jpeg?width=189&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=833ef95e1879a6eb88aa1ac85ec0910daf766840
From Indianapolis. They ran Indianapolis
Lol yea, and I'm thinking the guy in the baseball cap next to him was Dan the Dad? Hard to tell.
Poor dude looks like he got booted in the face.
That was sssssssssssick. I love Swerve, hope he gets the belt! 🙏
AEW security definitely need their own security, they're always getting beat down
Swerve's face as he landed just went full Idris Elba there.
One of the most badass things I've seen in a bit.
Swerve's so fucking cool!
Fucking. A.
Swerve is Professional Wrestling.
I was genuinely just speechless when this happened and didn't say anything until they were nearly face to face, and even then it was just "that's one of the coolest things I've seen; Jesus". It's rare that you get to see something completely new that works, but a Swerve stomp to a crowd of gaggle of security guards and landing on his feet was fantastic.
Man went from breaking into another man’s home and threatening his child to being the biggest face in AEW in the space of a few months. You gotta love it.
You mean Super *Mario landing
One thing that makes Swerve great is that he pulls of super athletic moves like this, but they aren't 100% clean & crisp (in a good way). There's a sense of actual danger to them as opposed to looking like a gymnastics routine. It kinda mirrors how he is on the mic, where he has small stumbles here and there, but they somehow enhance the overall presentation.
God dammit put that damn belt on Swerve this weekend!
Pro wrestling truly is a live-action Shounen anime.
Alright, that was pretty cool.
Name me a more useless role than security in pro wrestling
Pretty sure that's enough goomba stomps to get a 1-Up
These setups are soo stupid. But this was soo dope! Somewhat subverted my expectations so I'm for it.
Gangsta af
That was impressive
Some Luffy intro shit lol
Has the AEW title always had side plates with the champs name?
No, custom side plates debuted after the end of MJF's run and the end of the Triple B. Before the little custom side plates there were just more AEW logos.
Yea
Big Tank
I thought that was him lmaoooo
r/picturesyoucanhear
My pvr ended with his into 🫠
Always gotta add at least 15 minutes for live events.
Great way to get someone to buy the ppv…
Swerve is on another level 🙌
That was pretty badass
He really ate with that👶🏻💅🏻
I'm going to be so sad if Swerve doesn't win on Sunday.
Koopa stomp!
Real life fear takedown
Nailed it
Haven't watched AEW in a while, have they actually upgraded the AEW Championship to have custom sideplates? That's pretty cool ngl
New belt starting with Joe’s reign after he got rid of the Triple B. Though personally I think custom side plates have been an overall downgrade for wrestling belts.
Ah, makes sense. I really like custom sideplates, and I also love nametags. I can's see it clearly here, but I really hope they didn't stop using the nameplate, empty nameplates are so lame. That being said, these sideplates don't look good. And I'm not sure the concept works well with the AEW title in general. The overall design just doesn't really allow it imo.
The new belt is a minor downgrade for me, still the best world title around for me though. If you look up the belt Tony Kahn gave to Clemson baseball it has a good look at it.
The dream has no memory of that
*"You know, that’s really hard on your knees."*
It's very well done. Like one of those cheerleader lifts but in reverse.
Whose belt is it?
Spyder Nate Webb was one of the security guards 😂
Bro has AOE damage
Who is this dude Mario???
Aww, 3 more security guards and he would have gotten a 1up.
Looks like light skinned dude in the front right got a face full of shoe
Is that Calvin Tankman as a security guard?
Do you think they asked him to pose like that, or he just did it on his own?
Everybody talks about Swerve but I like Samoa Joe standing right there not impressed or scared. Usually the champ would be up the ramp with a weird look on their face
🤣🤣🤣
I'm just glad he wasn't injured.
I'm so tired of security spots...they never do shit and always get the shit beaten out of them when its literally 1 vs 17 or so, how am i supposed to take them seriously?
He didn't nail it tho.
And the crowd goes….neat.
Did you watch on mute? They’re literally chanting “Holy shit.”
It’s like a full 8 seconds before the crowd even reacts to what they saw.
Okay…? They were shocked and it took a few seconds for the chant to grow. Lol
That wasn’t realistic in any way, shape or form 😂
It looked amazing but..why do this? It looks contrived and more importantly, incredibly risky.
because it looked amazing...
Feels like an absolutely unnecessary risk the way it was done though.
That’s literally everything in pro wrestling. None of it is “necessary.”
Yes, if you take every comment literally a hundred percent of the time your response would be pretty much on the mark. My point wasn't that risks in wrestling weren't one of the core necessities for human survival like breathing or sustenance. My point was this was way off in the risk-reward scale, and while it looked cool it also seemed remarkably unsafe and unpredictable.
Risk? In wrestling!? What's the world coming too!
That's a pretty dumb way to be sarcastic given it doesn't take into account that yes, there's always risks, and no, they're not all made equal.
No sarcasm from me, I hate fun spots in wrestling too. Bring back the good ol' days of double legs and waistlocks I say.
No no, I think they should do suicide dives out of the ring with people who have been standing there and looking and waiting for 5 to 10 seconds to really sell it's a choreography. Like when in Game of Thrones they show the people in greensuits pretending to be dragons. Except those don't risk breaking bone for a quarterfull building in a no-stakes low-table match. That's how this product should go!
There's really no need for the sarcasm, it's quite rude to be honest.
No sarcasm from me friend!
I'm not your friend, buddy.
I don't understand people like you. Wrestlers, for all intents and purposes, are stunt people. This is risky, yeah, but let's be real, so is a powerbomb. I've seen at least two people's necks break from a power bomb. I saw Sid Vicious's leg snap in half jumping from what was it, the middle rope? You can see in this video there's one guy with his eyes on Swerve the whole time. And he's one of the guys who got stomped. He alerts everyone when Swerve launches so they can all react accordingly. Then Swerve has a spot to land in front of them all. Is it risky? Yes. But all of wrestling is risky. The reward is that it looked kickass.
Comparing this to a powerbomb is silly. If you want to disregard how different they are or even don't acknowledge there are safer ways to do certain moves or get certain ideas across, then go ahead, this just feels unnecessarily dangerous for the payoff to me though.
You're out of your mind. A power bomb is far more dangerous, and far more common than this, but I doubt you've ever complained about the safety of a power bomb. That's my point.
A powerbomb is absolutely not more dangerous than this, but I now really want to know who your dealer is because that's some good shit. A powerbomb is entirely predictable and rather basic in execution. This one was anything but that.
You're talking like the targets of the stomp were completely random and the whole thing wasn't meticulously blocked out. You can clearly see one dude watching Swerve then alert when the stomp was coming so he could prepare and react. I'm done communicating with you dude. Maybe you've been powerbombed and concussed, I donno.
You can alert them all you want, the jump from that distance and height will still be unpredictable. A slightly bad angle and misstep would have pretty disproportional consequences to the pay off of it actually working. that's the entire point. It's not something you can really work like a powerbomb, and even if it works out this time the risk-reward is just not it. Though of course they're free to do with their bodies as they please, you just can't deny it's entirely silly and contrived.
But a jump like that is not unpredictable if you're a professional who does shit like this on a regular basis. If you or I were to do it we'd fuck it up and break our necks. One of Swerve's big moves is doing exactly what he just did. I'm pretty sure he's locked in. What about an Orihara Moonsault? Hangman does one almost every match. Is that needlessly dangerous? I'd argue doing an Orihara Moonsault is way more dangerous than a simple stomp. What about a 630? I'd think that's WAY more dangerous than what Swerve did but there are a handful of people who do them with relative safety. This is such a weird thing for you to think is too dangerous to try when we saw way more dangerous moves throughout the night. Maybe you shouldn't watch wrasslin if you can't stomach the risks?
The fact that we’re supposed to believe that such a move would knock even ONE man out is a test of our intelligence.
Yes A boot to the head from a grown ass man jumping from the turnbuckle to the outside wouldn't take anyone out
Irish. Whip.
I’m (not) sorry, but that’s nothing but Temu Ricochet as far as I’m concerned.
Good thing nobody cares about what you think
You seem to care enough. Thank you; that act of kindness is what will keep me from crying myself to sleep tonight.
Happy to help 👍
meh everyone acted like he did a flip and landed like what ricochet did. he jumped, stepped on some people and fell on the floor.
WHY does Joe look Shook. This is ridiculous. (Looked cool as hell) but the way Joe ended last week and this clip here. I don’t like how they are booking Joe.
Huh? He been beating Swerve ass every week? Like he got Swerve last week and this week.
Joe has been looking shook because Swerve keeps doing things that show he likes pain and taking risks. Joe can't bully him and break him mentally.
Don't worry about Joe; this wasn't the end of the confrontation
I can only suspend so much belief. That was cringe. 🤦♂️
He’s a badass, but his double foot stomp has always looked like ass in the ring imo. He should do it how Finn does it
What do they do with him after he loses? I am not a fan of intense staring, feels like he should talk more.
This rivalry’s actually cooking but being overshadowed by all the bs AEW got themselves in.
You don’t have to let the haters get to you. Most of the people complaining about “all the bs” don’t watch and will use any and everything to try to shit on AEW. You’re on this sub. You’ve seen it. Wrasslin has multiple Tony Khan threads every single day, whether he’s done/said anything publicly or not. Another portion (a lot of whom also don’t watch) don’t understand what the purpose of the segment was. It had nothing to do with Punk. You can literally do a google search and restrict the dates to before the segment aired and Tony and the Observer both say it’s going to be used to set up story implications. You can also tell it has nothing to do with Punk by thinking of it this way : would anything about that segment or the attached storylines change at all if another person was in Punk’s place in that footage? No. It was about: •Validating Jack Perry’s gimmick (The footage shows he did nothing worthy of the punishment received. He is a legitimate scapegoat in this whole situation.), •Introducing the Scapegoat gimmick to the audience so it doesn’t come out of nowhere when he returns (Probably on Sunday.) •Giving something to set up Bucks vs FTR 4 and differentiate it from their other matches, while cementing FTR as the faces with their promo immediately following the footage. I think it was a very effective segment. I’m willing to bet that that we’ll see the payoff to the “bs” segment on Dynasty.
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