[AEW Dark Spoilers] Finish to Ricky Starks vs KC Navarro
Posted Feb 17, 2021, 1:03 AM UTC
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Between this and Hobbs' match, I'm guessing Team Taz had a flight to catch.
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Those end of the night Dark tapings. People gotta get to bed.
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They don't get paid by the hour.
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Ricky is going to look so great when he gets the TNT title someday. Hopefully sooner than later.
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The rare “beginning and finish”
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After watching the 35+ minute Hiromu vs Sho match, I think all wrestling matches should be under 10 seconds. Bravo.
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New Japan house style ruined what could’ve been an AWESOME 20-25 minute match.
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That’s been a complaint of mine with them for awhile but now it’s at it’s worse
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It makes me appreciate the ridiculous 4+hour shows where nothing of importance happened in the first half cause matches felt like they should have been the length they were yet making the crowd want more. Now its every main and semi main have to be long cause the rest of the 5-6 match card just isnt meaty enough and you want the crowd to feel like their money was worth it.
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This has been a problem for a while, even before the pandemic. Okada and Taichi went 32 minutes for no reason, outside of it was the main event. The only non tournament main event in New Japan in the last year or so that I can remember going under 25 was Shingo vs. Goto, which was 20 minutes, and it ruled.
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No kidding. A) Not every main event or featured match needs to go 30+, and in fact those should probably be rare. More importantly, B) Not every wrestler is capable of having a compelling 30-plus-minute match.
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They think that by making everything be an “epic” everything is automatically special. But it just makes everything normal.
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It's getting ridiculous. That's why G1 has some of my favorite matches of the year. They can't go over 30 minutes.
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Team Taz don't get paid by the hour. I know the Sting/Darby part of the Revolution feud is kinda lame but Team Taz doing their best NWO 1996 impression is pretty awesome.
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Haha did the Sting chest pound and wooo. A small nitpick but I wish the song continued from where it stopped after the 3 count.
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Ok is this the quickest match in AEW history? I feel it is.
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There’s been a few other immediate finisher pin matches, I think Moxley and Shida had ones.
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MJF had one on dynamite once, before announcing he was looking for a group to join.
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Oh yeah true I forgot about Shida's. Shoot someone needs to do a comparison video with all the quick finish matches
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you forgot Orange Cassidy vs Willy Hobbs....
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Abandon squashed Anna jay was also very fast
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True, but Anna did get a tiny bit of offense in before she was overwhelmed.
The only pinfall I can think of that was as quick as Starks and Navarro was Kenny Omega pinning Sonny Kiss in the Eliminator Tournament, and even then they both circled the ring for a tiny bit before Kenny rushed in with the kick and OWA
So I still feel Starks and Navarro was the quickest
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Tru Kenny dispatched sonny real fast but the OWA takes way longer than a spear to perform! We need the NJPW stats guy on this!!
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alex reynolds vs mox is still the fastest match
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Coldest spear finish ever.
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I need AEW to groom Ricky into a main-eventer asap
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they're obviously trying- they've kept him consistently in their rankings.
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I think he'll be there this time next year
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I need AEW to groom Ricky into a main-eventer asap
Going to have to win a match with someone that's actually signed besides Christopher Daniels first.
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KC is either really working this, or Ricky just about killed him. https://twitter.com/kcwrestles/status/1361843670102720515?s=21
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Considering these Dark matches were recorded probably two weeks ago, yeah he's working it.
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If it starts a storyline that could be fun. I like when they have their own storylines on Dark.
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It didn't look like a particularly good spear ... which often means it actually did hurt.
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I’m really hoping they are just waiting to pull the trigger on Starks for an actual live crowd cause that man has world champion written all over him.
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It's wild to think Ricky Starks has never wrestled for AEW with a full crowd.
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Question about wrestling rules - is it normal for the ref to ring the bell before both opponents are in the ring together? Navarro's feet hadn't even touched the floor.
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It's at the referee's discretion. The ref can just ask both participants in the match if they're ready and start the match, it doesn't really matter where the wrestlers are as long as they both declare their readiness to compete. The ref asked Starks and Ricky said he was ready, then the ref checked with Navarro and he nodded to the ref from outside the ring to say he was happy for the match the start. The ref acknowledged that KC obviously had some kind of plan and allowed the match to begin. Neither man was doing anything "illegal" so the ref was well within his rights to start the match.
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Thanks Regal
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Okay, but hopefully this starts an angle between the two because the promos will be must watch TV.
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Now, if only he could get a singles win on Dynamite
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This is a perfect loop with the music, and I can honestly let the camera cut slide and say the clip is too.
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I didn’t know they still make em that small
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Don't really like the spear as a finisher for Starks I don't think it suits him as he is not really a power guy, Roshambo(Dominator) is much better for him.
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Yeah, this didn't look that great.
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I think it's a good-looking spear, just due to his size and style it doesn't look credible as a finisher.
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MORE SQUASH MATCHES ON DARK PLEASE AND THANK YOU.
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And also the start, and the middle. Ricky's theme basically never stopped playing.