5 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Dark (Nov 8)

2. The Total Video Package

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If there's one thing you can say WWE do better than any other company, even their darling rivals down in Jacksonville, it's the hype video package. From Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels WrestleMania XII meeting of masters to the unanimously agreed all-time-greatest, reverential trail ahead of WrestleMania X-Seven, Stamford's editors have hitherto went unmatched.

Well, they may need to watch their backs. The video package promoting Cody's clash with Chris Jericho, airing during Dark, was the sort of legitimately stirring rhetoric we'd have expected from WWE in their pomp. If anyone was still on the fence about checking Full Gear out, they'd have been thoroughly converted after watching it.

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Benjamin was born in 1987, and is still not dead. He variously enjoys classical music, old-school adventure games (they're not dead), and walks on the beach (albeit short - asthma, you know). He's currently trying to compile a comprehensive history of video game music, yet denies accusations that he purposefully targets niche audiences. He's often wrong about these things.