8 AEW Double Or Nothing Impulse Reactions

8. SoCal Uncensored Vs. Strong Hearts

Opening the show with an exhilarating six-man that mirrored the instantly iconic Barely Legal Michinoku Pro match more so than the Joshi scramble kater in the card, SCU gave the audience their first bout of fan service with firecracker victory over CIMA's Strong Hearts group.

Set to take on Kenny Omega at the company's Fight For The Fallen supershow in July, CIMA brought T-Hawk and El Lindaman to help him make a big impression on countless new eyes that may have been engaging in the promotion and possibly even the six men involved in the march for the very first time.

Not unlike several of the matches on the card, the action lacked a prevailing narrative strand to cling onto, but it didn't stop each man going b*lls out with the boy-poppers ahead of the Being The Elite favourites wrapping things up around the 14-minute mark.

The lack of some of OVE's acrobatic unknowns was a minor knock on the card after press conference promises from The Young Bucks, but the Strong Hearts side were rightly positioned as equals to the massively-over Christopher Daniels, Scorpio Sky and Frankie Kazarian trifecta. The contest was, subsequently very very good, if not exactly different from the elite norm.

Authored by Michael Hamflett

Contributor

Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation for nearly 10 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 65,000,000 total downloads. Within the podcasting space, he also co-hosts Benno & Hamflett, In Your House! and Podcast Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Podcast. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, Fightful, POST Wrestling, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has provided in-person coverage of some of the biggest pay-per-views and Premium Live Events in wrestling history, including WrestleMania, Survivor Series, All In & Double Or Nothing in destinations such as New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live.

First Posted On: 26th May 2019

In this post:

AEW AEW Double Or Nothing