It took a burning house to produce some intrigue, but at long last, Hangman Page cut perhaps one of the best promos of his entire career to build to this cage match with Swerve at All Out. I mean, the whole thing with Swerve buying his “childhood home” and airing it on TV, only for Hangman to find out about it and burn it down was a bit hokey, but I’ll be damned. I’m almost convinced to buy this All Out PPV just to watch this match… almost.
That one angle alone was enough to produce one of the better Dynamite shows in a while. And you can tell that I enjoyed this Dynamite show moreso than the usual output because I’m using the generic Dynamite musings banner rather than anything with a bemused Shaq, anti-AEW bots, or Tony Khan in a neckbrace. Unfortunately, we’re still trying to get Jack Perry over as a top heel and I’m still not buying it, but Mariah May vs. Nyla Rose was a fun match with a slow start, Okada finally put his working boots on for a free TV match with Kyle Fletcher that was pretty great, and the trios match between the BCC and the Ospreay/O’Reilly/Orange express (for lack of a better term) was a fun party match. Even the Mercedes segment was somewhat tolerable, even if it was every boring Mercedes promo I’ve seen her cut in WWE for years. You’d think having an Emmy Award-winning writer to personally write all your verbiage would be more creative than that, but alas…
So… yeah. Not much to say about this one. This was a genuinely good episode of Dynamite. Probably the first one I’ve seen in a while. I’m almost tempted to buy this show now… almost.
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