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COMPLETE AEW DYNAMITE BLOG

By Cory Strode on 2021-05-05 20:00:00

It's Wednesday, and you know what that means/. Once again, AEW Dynamite is at Daily's Place in Jacksonville Florida, and our announcers are Jim Ross, Excalibur, and Tony Schiavone, and tonight is Blood and Guts! And, for the first time, we get a parental warning at the top of the show.

It's also the night where Anthony takes over the play by play and I get to blog, so it's a change in how I get to watch the show.  Plus, I can add more stupid jokes like saying that Sting is being presented as Darby Allin's dad. 

They have the two rings set up, and it's a live show, since they show the audience and run down the card.  They kick off the show with Kenny Omega and Michael Nakazawa taking on Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston.  Don Callis says Kenny Omega is not there tonight and Nakazawa will fight alone.  As Kingston and Mox come to the ring, Kenny attacks them, which makes me think they should have held off on him popping up until a bit later.

The ref had no control of the match, and JR asked if it was a Texas Tornado match since the match was just a brawl between the four men.  After Michael Nakazawa gets in a low blow on Kingston, it becomes a more standard tag team match, with Eddie Kingston being the guy who has to take the beat down.  When Mox gets the hot tag, he beats down on Nakazawa, and Nakazawa has blood coming from his mouth.  

The story of the match becomes that Omega leaves Nakazawa to get beaten down by Kingston and Mox, and they quickly go to the ending where Kingston holds Nakazawa and Mox clotheslines and pins him.  Right after the pin, the Young Bucks come out in full tourist gear and the Good Brothers come into the ring and attack Mox and Kingston, so it's time for our FIRST post match beat down.  Omega comes out to finish the assault on Kingston.

Odd that they didn't have Callis on Commentary this time.

We then get our first announced match for the Double or Nothing PPV, Hikaru Shida vs Britt Baker.

Next is the next chapter in the Factory vs Nightmare Family feud as it's QT Marshall vs Cody Rhodes. I miss Cody coming out of the floor for his entrance, but I love that Arn still comes to the ring with his Perkins menu. The story of the match is that they are just gonna FIGHT, and the announcers say QT has to get Cody to wrestle him to win, but they haven't set up QT as a better wrestler than, well, anyone.  

Cody is good at these emotional brawls and QT still needs to be established as a threat.  So, QT gets in the face of Arn Anderson and Arn attacks him, causing refs to come out and break it up, giving a little bit of drama as we go picture in picture.  The announcers put over that Dusty Created the Blood and Guts match and discuss the past Wargames matches without calling them Wargames. They have a nice sequence in the middle of the match where QT hefted Cody for a pile driver and they switched it four times.  

Both guys overplayed the “This should have won the match” standing in disbelief to give the other guy to recover. Cody gets the win after locking QT in a figure four after helping QT stand up and...Yep, Cody is bleeding now.  Does this mean we will get blood in every match?  Ugh.

Anthony Agogo comes to the ring and nails Cody with the body shot and covers him with a Union Jack.

We go to the back for Ethan Page and Scorpio Sky where Sky quotes from the 1989 Batman movie, and he tells Sting and he is the franchise now....b**ch!  Page then goes over all of Darby's injuries. Darby interrupts and a brawl begins and we see we are on the upper concourse at Daily's Place.  So, Darby takes a tumble down the stairs.   Yet another chapter in the most probably short career of Darby Allin.

Kids, don't do what Darby does.

Britt Baker has the next ,match against someone already in the ring, so we know what is gonna happen here.  I also see that they are alternating which ring they work in.  Rebel coming to the ring with her crutch, utterly unable to even fake using it. 

Julia Hart from Bloomington Minnesota, where I work at one of the group homes I work at.  Julia's ring gear makes her look like a cheerleader, and she taps out to Baker's Lockjaw in less time than it took me to write that last sentence as the announcers build toward Baker's match with Shida at the PPV.

Then, it's the return of Technique with Taz as he breaks down Christians frog splash and kill switch.  Taz talks Christian down and goes on about how Hobbs destroyed him.  

Now, it's time for a match that makes me happy that I am NOT doing play by play. The Varsity Club vs Jurassic Express (Marco Stunt is back with them), SCU, and the Acclaimed. I am still not won over by them, but I seem to be in the minority.  

The winner gets a match with the Young Bucks, and they have also said that if SCU loses, they break up, so it's going to be them winning with the build they have done for the Bucks and SCU.

Unlike our first tag team match, the ref is enforcing that only two people in the ring until we get to the picture in picture where everyone is brawling as they go to the small screen.  Luchasaurus gets a spotlight in the middle of the match that makes him look like a monster, and makes me wish they would do more of that.  The story of the match was that SCU was using verteran planning to make sure they won the match, but the match was too short for that story to be told well.  Instead, it just seemed too short for as important as the match should have been.

But, this show is about the....Blood and Guts match, so everything else just seems shortened. 

They have a video building up the match between Jon Moxley and Nagata for the IWGP US Title next week. Mox cuts a good promo, but having gotten beat down in the first segment, it didn't have the impact it should have.

It's now time for Tony to get the Big PPV announcement from Kenny Omega as they set up the Blood and Guts cage.  Kenny comes out wearing one title and Nakazawa is carrying his other belts.  Tony says that next week we get Pac vs Orange Cassidy and the winner gets to face Omega at the PPV.  Kenny puts over Pac as someone who has beat him before.  

Orange Cassidy comes out as Kenny is saying it will be him vs Pac.  Kenny does a nice job here of putting over that he just can't believe Orange Cassidy has a chance to be in a title match.  Omega also takes Cassidy's sunglasses and puts them on Nakazawa after putting over that they are expensive.  And that Cassidy stole the sunglasses idea from him. 

We then get another interview segment, this time with Miro and the announcers let us know that Kip Sabian is out due to injury.  Miro announces that next week, his first title match is in place, and he has Darby Allin.  

And with 45 minutes left in the show, it's time for Blood and Guts.  The whole show has built to this, and every match has been short and doesn't move anything forward to keep the crowd hot for this match, much like the only shows with a Big Stipulation Match and a bunch of lower card matches that were just to keep the audience excited.  

No promos, just fights. Stands look almost full and the crowd is rocking Jericho's entrance music.  It's the Inner Circle vs the Pinnacle.  Pinnacle is in normal gear, and the Inner Circle are in modified prison gear with stenciled lettering on the back.  

The match starts with Dax Harwood and Sammy Guevara and they have fine minutes until the next person enters the match.  The crowd is red hot for Sammy, and there was a bit where Dax pinned Sammy, allowing the crowd to boo and the announcers reminding us that it's submit or surrender, no pitfalls.  They have a solid back and forth, using the cage and Dax is the first guy busted open.  

Spears is next in the cage with a chair so Sammy gets the beat down, including a chair shot to the head. 

DON'T DO THAT.

We do not need chair shots.  Seriously.

Ortiz is next in with a chair and he gets his flurry of offense. Spears and Sammy are balancing on the ropes between the rings, and after Ortiz tosses a chair at Spears, Sammy hits a beautiful Spanish Fly.  Sammy is now busted open as Cash Wheeler enters the ring.    

The Pinnacle members have the advantage until the next member of the Inner Circle comes in and Sammy gets tossed around like a superball. Santana is next in and her rescues Sammy from a sharpshooter. They go picture in picture through the commercial, and they need to keep up with tight camera shots, because when they go wide shots, you can't tell what is going on. 

Wardlow came in during the commercial and Jake Hager is next in and we are told that the prison on the back of the Inner Circle's jumpsuits are the prison in their hometown. Hager has Dax tapping out to the ankle lock, but no tap outs until everyone is in.  Hager and Wardlow go at each other until MJF, the last Pinnacle man, comes in and the audience lets him know what they think he is. There is a sequence where MJF taunts Jericho, who is outside the ring.  

Lots of bloodstains in the ring.  The Pinnacle goes to their ring when Jericho comes in and they beat down on Santana. Cash and Dax are heavily bloodied. They ring the bell, so it's submit or surrender.

Both teams are in their respective rings and they charge to meet in the middle.  Everyone pairs off and they brawl until Jericho uses his bat on everyone.  Spears tries to climb the cage and Jericho attacks him as we go to picture in picture again.

When they go big screen again, the mat has been pulled up on one side, and Sanatana and Ortiz are able to hit a double spike driver on FTR with Sammy's help.  Spears gets locked in the tree of oe with a chair in front of his face, and Sammy goes coast to coast to drop kick the chair into Spear's face.  Jericho has taken a turnbuckle off the post and is using it and the clamp as a weapon.  Santana has a fork and goes after MJF.

Violence for the sake of violence.  

The Inner Circle is standing tall at this point in the match.  MJF is busted open and Jericho is able to give him a straight fist to the forehead. Wardlow gets a spotlight, attaching each member of the Inner Circle, but they are able to take him down with chairs.  We go into the final picture in picture as the Pinnacle looks to be all but destroyed. 

When we come back, MJF has escaped to the top of the cage and Jericho is climbing up the scaffolding afterward.  We see that Tully was able to unlock the cage, and Jericho attacks Tully afterward.  Jericho locks in the walls of Jericho on MJF on the top of the cage, and MJF escapes with a low blow.  MJF locks in the Salt of the Earth and Jericho is able to escape.  

Someone is going off the cage.

We have no idea what is happening in the ring as we focus on MJF and Jericho fighting on top of the cage.  MJF puts on the Dynamite Diamond ring for a punch and now Jericho is busted open. As MJF sets up to toss Jericho off the cage, Tony Schiavone is swearing.  MJF says if they don't surrender, he will toss Jericho off the top and Santana yells that they surrender.    

MJF looks out to the crowd and Jericho gets up.  MJF then shoves Jericho down to the stage and the medical staff come out to check on him. We go off the air with a bloody MJF standing in triumph. 

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