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COMPLETE AEW DYNAMITE BLOG

It's Wednesday Night, and you know what that means.

Actually it means I'm a week late in publicly thanking Mike Johnson and Cory Strode for covering for me last week, both on the Revolution Post Game and Dynamite's Post Game Party.  Real life got in the way and I can't thank them both enough for handling things literally at the last second. They are both great guys!

Now that we got that mushy stuff out of the way, it's time for this week's restaurant quality edition of AEW Dynamite.  A little history gets made in our main event as the women take over as the feature attraction.  Thunder Rosa and Dr. Britt Baker have done a tremendous job since their AEW arrival.  The argument can be made that Hikaru Shida deserves the spot here.  I won't argue anyone on that.

I also will not argue that our opener, Penta El Zero vs. Cody Rhodes, should be a banger.  You know, I'm really enjoying the interplay with Penta and his translator.  He's got a real wickedness in his eye.  Dang, they're starting off hot! Rhodes, strikes me as the type of opponent that can slow Penta down a bit, and I don't mean that in a career momentum way, but in a way that FTR can slow down Private Party.  Cody's become a real ring general since his ROH run.  BTW in case you were wondering, I love the hell out of AEW separating the Lucha Bros for a bit.  They've been hurt by both the Covid absence and not-so-great booking.  Too many key losses in big match situations for my taste.  Cody with a standing hurancanrana off the top rope.  Now here's where I have to vent. That rana was beautiful. Dangerous even.  We're way past the point that that move is a finisher, but within 20 SECONDS, Penta is laying the hurt on Cody. Ergo, the move meant absolutely nothing.  No word of lie, Penta is selling a tope suicida way longer, about 30 seconds.  A Canadian Destroyer and a Cody Cutter doesn't get the job done and neither does a Cross Rhodes.  So now we're kicking out of everything.  When you give us everything, then anything means nothing.  Cody is going to have to murder this guy and, even then, I expect him to kick out.  That's not good, guys!

Cody's Figure 4 can't end this.  I'm starting to have Jamie Kennedy Scream 3 Flashbacks when he talked about having to cryogenically freeze the bad guy ad decapitate him.  And, of course, Cody wins with a rollup.  Hey, it had action.  It had the spots (ironically not from Penta).  It just had zero meaning.  Great action but something we'll never remember tomorrow.  At least they're furthering the QT Marshall storyline by having him be the last one to come out and save Cody.

Alex Marvez with the Young Bucks.  I've got 1 1/2 as the under/over on how many actual questions he gets in.  Matt's cutting a heel-esque promo and then gets interrupted by Don Callis.  If you had the under, you win. I enjoy Callis.  There, I said it.

OK folks, it's Jade Cargill time. I didn't want it. I fought against it, but here we are. Please make this quick.  NOT because I don't like her, but she could be exposed.  Dani Jordyn is already in the ring, ala lamb being led to slaughter.  Good looking pump kick and German that I think may have injured Jordyn.  That landing looked rough. Face first power bomb and that's all she wrote.  It was quick and I can't fault Jade for that suplex.  Now she's jawing with Red Velvet, who JR just called the number 1 contender.  WHAT?!?!?! I like her, please don't get me wrong, but, much SCU, she's beaten a few enhancement talents on Dark AND just took the pin 2 weeks ago.  No way should she be ranked when Thunder Rosa, Britt Baker and Riho exist.

Recap of the amazing turn of events last week when MJF thought he infiltrated the Inner Circle only to have it backfire.  Luckily, he knew it would backfire and had a fresh new group ready and waiting.

Here comes the new crew, MJF, Tully Blanchard, FTR, Shawn Spears and Wardlow.  I like the grouping but I'm going to question Tully Blanchard and MJF sharing the promo duties.  They're both great, I'm just worried they won't mesh well.  Damn Tully is awesome on the mic. Cuts a great intro and hands it off to Max. I'm just going to lay back and listen.  Please address the logic issue...

The group looks to be called the Pinnacle.  Good name.  Spears looks PERFECT for this group without the beard. This is MJF at his best.  I'm not ready to forgive Le Dinner Debonair but his passion was a good step.

 

 

We come back from commercial.  Obviously, Matt Hardy signing Butcher and Blade ends their association with Eddie Kingston.  I like them.  I like their look but In just don't see them working as part of a stable.  You've got Butcher, the maniac muscle and Blade, who looks like the proverbial picture in the dictionary about what a wrestler looks like.  They have a ridiculously hot woman in their corner.  I just think this act deserves a chance to stand on its own.  Nothing about their entire AEW tenure has screamed "natural" to be.  I'd like to see what these guys could do as a standalone act.

Seems like we've got some issues between Bear Country and Jurassic Express.  All this leads to Matt demanding to be tagged in and nail a twist of fate for the pin on Marko Stunt.  Absolutely fine for what it was.

Eddie Kingston and Jon Moxley join us ahead of their big tag team match tonight.  I wasn't here last week but I give AEW a lot of credit for giving the mic to Kingston last week to try and explain away the debacle that was the final explosion at Revolution.  Eddie and Moxley work really well together.  Damn they brought up SouthPaw Regional Wrestling!  I can't believe Eddie Kingston toiled as long as he did for so long.  Guy is freaking money.

Dasha is with Christian Cage.  I'm giving this 2 full questions on the under/over.  He resents being called a workhorse, but rather he's THE workhorse.  He wants an AEW World Title shot against Kenny Omega.  At least he acknowledged he needs some W's to get there.  He answered one question so tonight is an under kind of night for interviews.

The Good Brothers vs. Eddie Kingston and Jon Moxley wastes zero time in kicking things off. I'm wondering if they'll acknowledge the Good Brothers' loss to FinnJuice.  I've argued with a lot of people about Gallows and Anderson.  Never saw it. People MUCH smarter than me disagree but I just never saw it.  They need a mouthpiece, a Callis.  Old school fans would agree that Gary Hart would have made a great manager for them.  Magic Killer on the floor takes Moxley out.

Picture in Picture commercial time.  We got a graphic for Thunder Rosa and Britt Baker.  I'm excited for this one.

The announcers need to stop trying to get over the main event of Revolution.  Let's move on.  It failed.  Great psychology here as Moxley FINALLY gets tagged in.  Old school piledriver by Mox followed by a horrible tope suicida on Anderson.  Horrible in the sense that I've made harder contact with my keyboard tonight than Moxley made with Anderson and Anderson acted like he was shot.  Small package by Moxley gets the win for he and Kingston.  At least here, they didn't go for a series a of finishers before the simple roll up.

Here comes the AEW World Champion Kenny Omega with a chair.  I like the fact that Eddie made the save before they even teased a chairshot.  Good Brothers beat them down.  No reference to the Impact Tag Team Title change.  We get the classic stomp on the ankle of Kingston wrapped up in the chair.  No one is coming to help?  Oh good here come the Bucks as Moxley has his throat wrapped up in the chair.  Bucks won't do the Too Sweet signal.  Kingston is screaming about wanting to fight.  He's injured.

Tony Schiavone brings out Sting and Darby Allin.  I'm giving it 2 questions, tops.  They've got a star on their hands with Allin, great choice for the TNT title.  Darby grabs the mic before question 1 gets asked.  I need a job as an interviewer there.  Darby open challenges the Dark Order and Lance Archer with the interruption.  He wants a title shot, that's obvious.  Jake Roberts called Darby a weenie.  Yep, a weenie.  At least he seemed menacing to Sting.  Oh good! Here comes Team Taz, presumably to get run off and beaten down again. Brian Cage offers respect to Sting, great heel move and then he walks off.  As if this group wasn't beaten down bad enough already.  I just can't...

We get some words from Scorpio Sky, possibly his best 20 seconds of mic time in his entire AEW tenure.

Rey Fenix against one of the TH2 members, Angelico.  Did I miss something?  I know TH2 means nothing but to have Angelico be the "already in the ring" guy pretty much puts the final nail in the act's coffin.  Unfortunate, but, hey, not everyone can be big stars.  Hopefully they invested the $3700 they got from Big Money Matt well.  Fenix with a win.  It was what it was, but it's in a bad spot.

Alex is back with Miro and he GOT A QUESTION OFF!!! Miro has moved on from Chuck Taylor and Kip Sabian interrupts to tell him that he's not done after what happened to his wife at the wedding.  Miro with a line about having your wife at ringside is a bad idea.  Kip accepts last weeks challenge from Orange Cassidy and Chuck Taylor.  ANGLE ALERT! Miro breaks off from Kip after they lose.

Dark Order accepts the open challenge for next week.  John Silver meets Darby Allin next week for the TNT belt.

Main event time!  Good luck ladies. I am 1000% rooting for you both.  The absolute 2 best personalities in the AEW women's division in a lights out match.  Britt Baker.  Thunder Rosa.  These two women are stars, no doubt in my mind.  Rebel (REBA) with a crutch shot early.  No DQ's and falls shall count anywhere.  Hikaru Shida is watching in the back.  Thunder Rosa has a busy week, as she meets Kamille at the NWA PPV this Sunday, winner gets Serena Deeb.  Rosa misses a cannon ball onto a chair.  That looks like it hurt.  Jade Cargill is looking on as well.  This is kind on intriguing what they're teasing.

Britt with some some good brawling here.  She's come a long way.  Still has a long way to go, but she sooooo much better than she was a year ago.  And Thunder Rosa is bleeding.  Blood in women's wrestling is pretty unique.  We head out to picture in picture.  This is one of those times I'm really glad they're doing it because this is a fun brawl so far.  Rosa with chair shots but HOLY TOLEDO Baker nails a superplex on to a pile of chairs. There's no way to fake that and I NEVER want to hear that they know how to fall.

Rebel introduces a ladder and Baker gets immediately slammed face first into it.  Baker takes a ladder to the face off of a dropkick.  That woman can get by doing a lot less and Baker is now bleeding.  I have never seen a double juice brawl in a women's match.  Britt is dripping heavily and Thunder Rosa is biting her.  FLATLINE into the ladder by Baker and she is pouring blood.  Give these women credit.  They're giving us absolutely everything.  Rosa with a Death Valley Driver onto a ladder.  Cody and Fenix likely had their match with the intent of saying "follow that" and these wrestlers are doing it.  This is brutal, and I mean this in the best possible way.  

Holy Jeez we have thumbtacks.  This is a grudge match!  Rebel gets dropkicks through a table and Baker gets a full powerbomb into the tacks.  Britt is a bloody mess.  At this point who wins and loses doesn't matter to me.  Thunder Driver off the damn apron through a table on the floor wins it for Thunder Rosa.  By god, these women would have had 20,000 fans giving them a stand ovation if there was a big crowd.

Guys, there were some ups and downs tonight for sure, but this show can't be considered less than a home run with what we just saw.  Thanks for reading but, seriously, go back and watch this one.

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