It’s the go home for Double Or Nothing coming up this weekend, which means let’s have the obligatory opening party match seeing the Bucks Of Jericho get their asses kicked by that fucking geek Rick O’Shea and his geek squad before the Hurt people come along to even the odds. This Stadium Stampede match is going to be a fun time for the people at home; not so sure about the people in the arena. We’ll see what happens.
Mark Briscoe defeat Tomasso Ciampa in an Anything Goes match and boy, if you wanted a relentless brawl between two hated rivals, this was the match for you. Tremendously heated conflict, the crowd was easily into the violence, and the right guy went over to earn a bit of redemption and revenge over the Psycho Killer person. This is, of course, followed by a brawl between Swerve Strickland and that Bandito person that is supposed to lead to an ROH title match… because Swerve wants a World title, but not necessarily the one that matters, apparently. Eh.
It’s not all fun and games, as Willow Nightingale has to surrender the TBS title due to injury and forfeit her spot in the Owen Hart Tournament, which is a thing that happens every year. I feel compelled to remind you that AEW has a tournament named after Owen Hart – who obviously never competed in AEW – because his widow wants nothing to do with WWE… and I don’t necessarily blame her, either. This is followed by a 20-minute draw between Jon Moxley and Kyle O’Reilly, which will lead to a no-time-limit match for Mox’s title (please don’t ask me which, I’ve forgotten) at the PPV. And then we have an interview with Stat and Shida, with Shida being a bit dickish. Hey, as long as Shida is getting TV time of worth, I don’t care where this story goes until it’s off the rails.
Six-woman tag match of little consequence follows before we get our main event of Darby Allin defending his AEW title against Speedball Bailey; a fast-paced, hard-hitting match that sees Darby retain the title and set the stage for our main event of Darby vs. MJF for the title and MJF’s head of hair… which I’d imagine Darby would want to cut and use as a wig… probably the most extreme thing he could pull off at this point. I mean, once you’ve climbed Everest, what’s left, really?
Apparently, there’s a Collision that follows this, but I didn’t catch it. Mick Foley will be making his AEW debut in the PPV preshow, for anyone who cares. How many mistakes will that guy make on the air, referring to guys by their WWE names or what have you? Should be an interesting trainwreck of sorts.
I’d imagine that I’ll try to catch the PPV this weekend in some form or fashion, although if that doesn’t end up happening, I’ll probably still do the post-PPV Dynamite before bringing this run of musings to a close. Either way, it’s been quite a bit of fun watching these Dynamites, which turned out to be quite entertaining shows that I was more content to sit back and watch rather than take copious amounts of notes.
Later, kids.
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