A little late with this one, but to be fair, I had to play catch-up on a few things, a couple other IRL things also came up, and I’ve been getting more unwanted sleep. Regardless, I was able to watch this show via PVR recording and honestly had little to say about it.
I mean, let’s get it out of the way. I largely enjoyed the show and there were some fun bits. Darby retained the AEW Title over Takeshita in a fun match before we get the contract signing for the PPV match with MJF, which is officially TITLE (Darby) vs. HAIR (MJF) at stake. As if you needed a dead giveaway that MJF is winning the title back because I doubt he’s going to be cutting that mop of his. There was also a really great match between Ospreay and Ace Austin, with Ospreay getting the win and also his training with Mox and his Death people continue, which I’m actually turning a corner on bit by bit… I’m waiting for this moment to be ruined, eventually, but that could be a trigger warning on my part. Kevin Knight retains his TNT title over the returning Brian Cage, who looked pretty good after a long injury hiatus… and then Speedball Bailey wants a shot at the AEW Champion next week, so we have our last Darby defense before the ride comes to an end this coming Sunday. And of course, the obligatory party match, which I largely skipped due to other stuff happening in the background, but I don’t think I missed much there.
Anyway, we’ve got the go home for Double Or Nothing coming up and if things work out, I might be able to catch the PPV this coming weekend and hopefully do some musings on it, since that’s the whole payoff of this mini sojourn of sorts through the Darby era of AEW World title matches. We’ll see about doing the Dynamite after DoN before closing out this run of musings, because June will be wrestling free.
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