Author: dtm666

You know… sooner or later, I’m going to have to get a new banner for these Dynamite musings. After all, next week is the final show on TNT before the move to TBS. Maybe come up with something a little more generic, but in any event, we’ve got the Holiday Bash and there’s quite a bit of stuff to touch on here, so let’s not dawdle.

Kyle O’Reilly made his AEW debut, running in during a match between Adam Cole and Orange Cassidy that saw him kick the latter down while the ref was distracted by Bobby Fish, culminating in a win for Cole after a pretty good match. Orange’s buddies try to run in for the save, but get killed by the formerly known as the Undisputed Era, which prompts the Young Bucks to come out and be confused by Cole bringing in all his old NXT buddies… well, maybe not Roderick Strong; he might be resigning with WWE if rumors are to be believed.

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Yeah, so Winter came… and it sucks. All this snow, all this ice, all this cold… kill this shit and let’s get to spring as soon as possible.

In the meantime, we had Dynamite open with AEW World Champion Hangman Adam Page defending the title against Bryan Danielson in a match that saw both guys work their asses off for sixty minutes before

Some would argue that having a time limit draw for a first title defense makes the champion look weak and ineffective. I suppose it depends on the situation, but the match ended with Hangman hitting the Buckshot and had he a couple seconds more, he would’ve pinned the guy. To me, that told me that Hangman could hang – no pun intended – with Danielson and a rematch where there MUST be a winner is the only way to sort this out. A time limit draw in this case doesn’t make the champion look weak; it makes the challenger lucky he gets to have another shot down the road. You know what would’ve made the champion look weak? Having him lose the title in his first defense and that didn’t happen.

After that match, the rest of the show was an afterthought. There was a Wardlow squash, followed by a pretty good Shida/Deeb match that fell under the radar and didn’t quite catch on. Not because it was a bad match; on the contrary, it was a perfectly fine wrestling match and on any other night, it would’ve been a highlight. But this is a fine wrestling match following Hangman vs. Danielson; there was no way they were going to be able to follow that up. Finally, MJF beat Dante Martin to retain his Diamond Ring gimmick, which shouldn’t have been a surprise since… what the fuck is Dante going to do with that ring?

Stick around for Hangman/Danielson, take or leave the rest of the show. It’s up to you.