Wrestling Wednesday: What Have I Done to Deserve AEW Revolution?

Wednesday is my favorite day of the week. For months now I’ve declared Wrestling Wednesday a vacation day during which I do little more than watch All Elite Wrestling. I stream AEW Dark on YouTube and then enjoy AEW Dynamite on TNT. Sometimes I end up watching more than five consecutive hours of wrestling on Wednesdays.

Wednesday is also the busiest day at this website each week. Why I don’t know, especially on Wednesdays when new content isn’t published to the site. That’s why I’m writing this: I don’t feel I deserve the AEW entertainment I consume each Wednesday. And the volume of that entertainment increases immensely when a pay-per-view like Revolution is around the corner. This week, I’ve already enjoyed wrestling on Sunday and Monday, with AEW Dark and AEW Dynamite yet to be consumed, and AEW Revolution coming on Sunday. In all, I expect to enjoy approximately 12 hours of professional wrestling in just over a week. The cost: $50.

So what have I done to deserve all this AEW entertainment? My friend, Chad (this one), said a six-person, tag team match on Sunday brought a tear to his eye. It was some of the best women’s professional wrestling I’ve ever seen, and I did nothing to deserve it. I didn’t pay a dime. It was on B/R Live for free. The following day on YouTube, AEW wrapped up its women’s eliminator tournament with a match between my favorite female wrestler, Thunder Rosa, and the “Native Beast” Nyla Rose.

All this free entertainment makes spending $50 on AEW Revolution an easy decision. I started watching AEW because my friend, Chad, told me the company treats its talent like employees rather than independent contractors like WWE does. But it was the level of entertainment that got me hooked. I hadn’t been into wrestling since Goldberg was robbed of the WCW Championship and his undefeated record. Now I give it all the energy I stupidly expended on Duke University men’s basketball, Minnesota Vikings football, and Minnesota Twins baseball.

I used to scream at the television like a madman when watching sporting events. Now I hardly exert myself at all, except on Wednesdays. And I’m never screaming in anger when watching AEW. Even when my guy, Orange Cassidy, is robbed, I’m enjoying the way the writers robbed him in order to create a reason for a rematch. My first pay-per-view purchase was to catch “The Rubber Match” between Orange Cassidy and Chris Jericho fittingly called “Mimosa Mayhem.” The winner had to throw the loser into a vat of mimosa. It was totally worth it, and I now have a t-shirt to commemorate Cassidy’s victory. I also have a “Freshly Squeezed” flag to wave on Wednesdays, so all my neighbors know what day it is. I’ve even made AEW a part of my online dating profile since I hope to be a ring announcer someday.

So in order to make myself feel I deserve all the AEW entertainment I consume each week, I will write about wrestling every Wednesday for Go Gonzo Journal. If you don’t like wrestling, I urge you to give AEW a chance. They treat their talent well relative to WWE and the rest of professional wrestling. They put on a great show every week. They execute some of the best acrobatics I’ve ever seen, and their non-wrestling content is some of the best television I’ve ever seen. I got my friend, Chad (not this one), to sit down for an episode of Dynamite, and minutes later he was standing. Now he, his daughter, and his son-in-law are fans.

If that’s not enough, consider this: the AEW Revolution card includes a ladder match, a casino tag team battle royale, a street fight featuring Sting, and an exploding barbed wire deathmatch for the AEW men’s championship. You can purchase AEW Revolution at B/R Live.