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AEW Revolution predictions Mar 7, 2021 16:44:10 GMT -5 robeiae likes this

Post by Optimus on Mar 7, 2021 16:44:10 GMT -5

My picks are bolded. I'll probably get most of these wrong...

1) Pre-show match: Riho and Thunder Rosa vs. Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. and Rebel

2) Casino Tag Team Royal: Too many teams to list. Seems to be just a huge mess of a match. I have no idea who will win (not really interested in this match but it might still be entertaining).

3) Miro and Kip Sabian (with Penelope Ford) vs. Best Friends (Orange Cassidy and Chuck Taylor).

I actually kinda think that Miro and Kip will win this one but I also suspect something's gonna happen with Miro. Maybe he'll go crazy and destroy everyone including Sabian. But I kinda think/hope that they're about to really do something to set his character loose and it might be in this match. At least, that's kinda what I'm hoping.

5) Tag team street fight: Team Taz (Brian Cage and Ricky Starks) (with Taz) vs. Darby Allin and Sting

Most likely Allin and Sting but AEW has surprised me before. Either way, this has been kind if a lame rivalry, so I'm looking forward to them putting it to bed.

6) “Face of the Revolution” ladder match (winner receives a future TNT championship match): Cody Rhodes (with Arn Anderson) vs. Scorpio Sky vs. Penta El Zero Miedo vs. Lance Archer (with Jake Roberts) vs. Max Caster vs. TBA.

This pick is more of who I hope wins. I think Cody and Archer have good shots at actually winning. But I doubt Cody wants a title run right now with his baby on the way. Not sure that Archer is ready for it. And I think Sky would be a good champ and deserves the push.

As far as who the surprise "TBA" participant is, I have no idea. So...either Christian, Rob Van Damme, or that dude who used to be with IMPACT that everyone keeps talking about (that I've never heard of b/c I don't watch IMPACT).

7) “Big Money Match”: Adam Page vs. Matt Hardy

I say Page but also wouldn't be surprised if they swerve me on this one.

8) AEW world tag team championship match: The Young Bucks vs. Jericho and MJF

If Jericho and MJF don't win, I kinda think Sammy Guevara is gonna be involved somehow. Maybe he and MJF have been in cahoots this whole time? I read a "theory" about that online. Sounds plausible I guess.

9) AEW women’s world championship match: Hikaru Shida vs. Ryo Mizunami

Ryo has had some good matches lately but I'm not sure they're gonna put the belt on her right out of the gate b/c she doesn't have much name recognition over here yet.

10) AEW world championship match: Kenny Omega vs. Jon Moxley (Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch)

I think Kenny will win but it'll be a helluva match. Moxley's wife is having a baby in a few months, and he's been saying cryptic things in his promos about being "gone" or "dying" or "leaving" etc., so I kinda think Moxley may be setting up some time off of TV. Also, Omega's been a pretty good heel champ so far, so I think he'll keep the belt.

11) Surprise "Hall of Fame worthy" new AEW signing: I have no idea. Could be Christian, could be Rob Van Damme, could be Kurt Angle...could be someone nobody's thought of yet. Angle posted a video yesterday lacing up his boots and putting on his gear, but that could've just been to troll people. Hell, I wouldn't put it past McMahon to have told Angle to do that so they could bring him back on Raw this week as a way to poke at AEW.

Who knows? Looking forward to finding out who it is and if the person actually lives up to the hype.

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AEW Revolution predictions Mar 7, 2021 17:06:19 GMT -5

Post by robeiae on Mar 7, 2021 17:06:19 GMT -5

Heard a rumor the knew signing is the WWE's Ricochet, the key being hall of fame worthy, i.e. someone who isn't already at that level.

Predictions:

AEW Championship "exploding barbed wire deathmatch": Kenny Omega vs. Jon Moxley.
Street Fight: Sting and Darby Allin vs. Brian Cage and Ricky Starks.
AEW World Tag Team Championship match: Young Bucks vs. Chris Jericho and MJF.
Adam Page vs. Matt Hardy.
Face of the Revolution Ladder match: Cody Rhodes vs. Scorpio Sky vs. Penta El Zero Miedo vs. Lance Archer vs. Max Caster vs. TBA.
AEW Women's Championship: Hikaru Shida vs. Ryo Mizunami.
Miro and Kip Sabian vs. Orange Cassidy and Chuck Taylor.
Casino Tag Team Royale: One of the Dark Order teams
Preshow match: Riho and Thunder Rosa vs. Britt Baker and Rebel.

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Optimus Illuminati Posts: 2,508	AEW Revolution predictions Mar 7, 2021 17:54:53 GMT -5 Post by Optimus on Mar 7, 2021 17:54:53 GMT -5 You think Starks and Cage will win? That would be an unexpected outcome, imo, and might set up some cool future directions. They need to do something with that story, though, because it's gotten stale for me.
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AEW Revolution predictions Mar 7, 2021 19:12:54 GMT -5 Optimus likes this

Post by robeiae on Mar 7, 2021 19:12:54 GMT -5

Well, I don't think Sting is going to be an every week wrestler and I think Taz is probably owed some pushes for his stable. And you're right, it's not working as a rivalry. Better to let Cage get over and reboot Allin to take on some smaller dudes.

ETA: Oh and I think you're right about Sammy being involved. I think he's going to come out to apparently help the Young Bucks, but then *accidentally* take out one of them, allowing Jericho and MJF to win. And can I say this: Poppa Buck annoys me.

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AEW Revolution predictions Mar 7, 2021 19:30:22 GMT -5 robeiae likes this

Post by Optimus on Mar 7, 2021 19:30:22 GMT -5

Yeah, I agree. Only reason I think Allin/Sting might win is because a loss would likely implicate Sting in future matches to get his revenge and I just don't see him doing any/many more of these (that's why it's likely gonna be a cinematic match tonight). I suppose it could also end in some ambiguous way that doesn't have a clear winner, per se, or ends in a way that kind of lets Sting off the hook story-wise so that he doesn't have to have another match anytime soon.

Guess we'll know soon. Gotta go make a bunch of unhealthy food now to stuff down my pie hole for the next 3 hours or so while I watch my failed predictions...

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AEW Revolution predictions Mar 7, 2021 23:56:16 GMT -5

Post by Optimus on Mar 7, 2021 23:56:16 GMT -5

Alright, so I got more right than wrong. 6 for 8 in predictions.

Had I known they were gonna do the surprise switch for Maki Itoh in that first match, I would've changed my prediction. Once Baker said that Reba/Rebel (whatever) was "injured" and they brought in Itoh, I knew Rebel would get involved and Baker/Itoh would likely win. Oh well. It was a nice surprise, so I'm not gonna complain.

Was kind of surprised the Jericho and MJF lost. But, I smell some treachery and betrayal coming up on Wednesday's Dynamite. Either Sammy is gonna double-cross Jericho and be shown to have been in cahoots with MJF all along, or MJF is gonna turn everyone on Jericho who will then join Sammy as a face. Either way, I think this is possibly setting Jericho up for one last face run in his career (even tho as a heel he's still kind of a face with the crowds). Whether he is a face along with Sammy, or he's face by himself and Sammy stays heel and rejoins the Inner Circle, I think Jericho's about to turn (though I could always be wrong).

Wasn't surprised when Ethan Page (i.e., dude from IMPACT I'd never heard of but lots of people were speculating it'd be him) was the surprise entrant. He was one of my "it's probably one of these 3 people" guesses, but only b/c that's what other people had said and not because I actually know what I'm talking about.

Christian being the new hire wasn't too surprising either (he was my top pic). He could be really good in AEW depending on how they use him. But they've blown it on other talent so I guess I'll just wait and see if they can capitalize on his talent and the attention he'll bring. Cue the AEW haters who will make fun of them for saying they weren't just gonna bring in ex-WWE guys (granted, they said they wouldn't bring in anyone they thought could help them, but that AEW wasn't some "save haven" for the wrestlers that WWE just throws in the dumpster).

Exploding barbed wire death match was pretty good but didn't live up completely to the hype or to its potential. Also, the ending was pretty lame. The "ring explosion" was basically 4 sparklers and a loud fart. I think they must've had a pyro malfunction on that because I just can't believe that's the big explosive ending that they were intending. Still, I suppose I'd rather the ending be a dumb, unimpressive flop than for someone to have gotten unnecessarily injured because they went too big with the pyro.

Overall, I'd rate this PPV as "pretty good but not awesome." They've had worse but they've definitely had much better.

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AEW Revolution predictions Mar 8, 2021 0:05:18 GMT -5

Post by Optimus on Mar 8, 2021 0:05:18 GMT -5

Haha, kudos to Mox for saying what we were all thinking. Could've made this a part of the storyline (and saved some face) if they'd aired it:

Edited to add: Welp, looks like Miro's getting in on the joke too, so maybe they will try to make lemonade out of that lemon for storyline purposes. Would be a pretty funny way to make up for it. Just make the lameness into part of the story:

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AEW Revolution predictions Mar 8, 2021 6:25:48 GMT -5

Post by robeiae on Mar 8, 2021 6:25:48 GMT -5

Yeah, the end of the Moxley/Omega match was lame. It's too bad, because if it had just ended with the pin, it would have been a great match.

I thought the opening match with Itoh was pretty good. Itoh's timing was poor, but then she was working in Japan less than two days ago. I think it will get better.

The Young Bucks/Jericho/MJF match was excellent, I thought. And I agree with you: Jericho is obviously going face, as MJF is going to go the "he's an old man" route, I would bet.

The women's championship match started slow, became very good, but then ended poorly, I thought. And I knew that when it took forever for Shida to get the win that Rose was gonna come out at the end. I actually thought she was going to prevent the match from finishing.

I thought the tag team battle royal was quite excellent. Some good stuff happened there.

The rest...entertaining. Didn't much care for the ladder match. That was not well scripted at all; it was basically on a loop. There were good moments, but just not enough of them, imo.

And I guess I got only 4 right.

Interesting side note, since we were talking finishing moves earlier: they made a point of saying no one kicks out of Omega's, though it looked like to me that Moxley did kick out of it and then set off the explosives. Regardless, that's the line. And Sting won with his, only using it once. Ditto for Hangman, who had no problem kicking out of the twist of fate.

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AEW Revolution predictions Mar 8, 2021 13:33:44 GMT -5 robeiae likes this

Post by Optimus on Mar 8, 2021 13:33:44 GMT -5

Moxley didn't really kick out of the Angel. He put his foot on the rope at the last second and set off the "explosives" but didn't kick out. I think they did that to keep the "nobody's ever kicked out of this" thing going but still allow Mox to get out of it somehow.

Yeah, the tag team royale was better than I thought it'd be and the ladder match was worse than I thought it'd be. I agree that it didn't seem well-scripted. Still glad Scorpio won.

Agree that the Young Bucks / Inner Circle opener was really good.

Seems like they're going to spin the "no-splosion" there at the end into the story, as it being Omega's fault for shitty construction. I think that would go over a lot better if Kingston hadn't tried hard to sell it by pretending to be knocked out at the end (even during Mox's post-show speech). If Kingston had instead lifted his head up with a "what the hell?" look on his face (sort of like Joker in the Dark Knight during the hospital bomb scene), then it would've been a brilliant way to turn that around. As it stands now, it's clumsy. I don't blame them for leaning into it to try to save face but I do wish they'd done a better job of it. Nobody's perfect though and technical issues like this happen sometimes. Not a huge deal to me because AEW is still consistently entertaining. The occasional hiccup is fine with me.

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robeiae Thaumaturge On a down bound train Posts: 6,692	AEW Revolution predictions Mar 8, 2021 14:35:28 GMT -5 Optimus likes this Post by robeiae on Mar 8, 2021 14:35:28 GMT -5 What they should have done is hype the possibility of a huge explosion, had a kill switch to stop it, then have Kingston fight his way through to hit the kill switch with one second on the countdown clock.
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