>>13484783Ok, first impressions on the match. Bryan and MJF both stare at each other and MJF dude does the classic heel thing of just getting out of the ring. He gets back in for an armdrag and the crowd is like "woahhh" for the armdrag. It was just a normal armdrag and the AEW crowd was impressed by it. This is a pattern that I noticed. The crowd going "ooooh, ahhhh" at very simple basic moves. They're not doing some special variations, just the normal moves that any midcarder in any promotion can do just as well. And the acting as usual is very bad. Like when Bryan goes for the headscissor he's not even squeezing him hard or long enough for the move to do anything, MJF copies his series of moves and they both kip up at the same time. No botches yet but none of this is any special, you can see all this is any Shelton Benjamin or any luchador midcard match. Then you see hilariously bad "ring psychology". So neither men are injured or tired yet but for some reason they keep doing a series of pins on each other knowing neither one is beaten up enough to be pinned yet. This goes on for way too long resulting in admittedly hilarious moments of more synchronized ballet. It doesn't look like a fight, it looks like a ballet routine they practiced. None of the hits had enough impact, they immediately sprang up and rushed to the next spot. The series of pins look very very fake because the guy being pinned doesn't move his body enough to make it seem he's pushing out of it, it just looks like the guy pinning intentionally rolls himself over. The simple solution to make this look realer is just to be more expressive with your body while being pinned but I guess that's too much for these two workrate dudes. (My posts are taking long because I'm screenrecording, cutting with a program then slapping it to a site to crop it so fuck me) I can already tell what kind of match this is and why smarks pretend this is some legendary showcase (even though there's no ring psychology)
