Color yourself shocked; I actually sat down to watch the last episode of AEW Dynamite, which happened to be the 6th anniversary episode of the program. It is also the first bit of AEW programming that I’ve watched since whatever the last PPV was from the summer. All In? All Out? One of the two? I don’t recall. I’m sure it’ll pop up on the archives if I look it up, but it doesn’t matter.
We begin with Nick Jackson of the Young Bucks gambling all his money away and now the Bucks are so broke they can afford an entrance. Meanwhile, they are still having competitive matches and occasionally winning… hey, I said that I haven’t been watching the shows. I never said that I didn’t keep up with results. On this occasion, however, they fall before Kenny Omega and the Bro people… and then after Kenny cuts a closing promo, the lights go out and he’s attacked by Andrade, fresh off an uneventful run in WWE after an uneventful run in AEW and… look, I’m trying to figure out WHY they’d bring back Andrade after doing practically nothing with him the first time around. And even worse, the guy was fired from the other place and… I don’t know. This feels like something out of the LOLTNA playbook.
Speaking of which, I would be remiss in not mentioning the arena, which looks sparsely populated and almost reminds me of the Impact Zone. I’m not sure you want to remind of the days when TNA was at its absolute worst, but whatever… I’m not a sicko or something.
Kyle Fletcher retains his TNT title over the returning Orange Cassidy in a pretty good match that ended with the Hologram guy tripping Cassidy and allowing Fletcher to get the win. Apparently, this is actually “dark” Hologram and not the real deal, who is out with an injury. Okay, so not only are we ripping off TNA hiring practices, but we’re also ripping off Sin Cara Mal and Bon or whatever that whole deal was. I realize that people want AEW to follow other playbooks other than the ECW/CZW/XPW/IWA ones, but I’d figure they’d be following the playbooks from those who have booked successful money-making angles, not the Wrestlecrap book of plays.
There’s a multi-man tag match that I largely don’t pay attention to, which means I missed the bit where Hangman Page hands over a belt to Samoa Joe and Joe feels slighted. We then have ourselves a title match booked for a future edition of Dynamite. That should be fun.
Main event tag match saw Darby Allin and Kris Statlander defeat Wheeler Yuta and that Marina person, which is then followed by Statlander being wooed off by Timeless Toni while Darby is beat up by the Death Riders again to end the show… meh.
Yeah, some angles have me baffled somewhat, but the in-ring work remains solid and so if that’s all you care about, this will serve you fine. That’s all for tonight. Later.
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