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Yeah Chris is right.

The talent is still there being tragically misapplied. The fans WILL get behind people like Owens or Zayn or Nakamura if they are pushed correctly.

And they still have Cody as an ace in the hole. They can be fine. For the first time int ages that is a possibility

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Yeah im not reading any of that bullshit

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What I did not love was anything about the Ricky Starks and Swerve in our Glory segments. Its around this time that they bring out a Shark Mascot for Discoverys Shark Week - everyone thought we were being shown Chekovs Shark Mascot but as it turns out no it was just corporate synergy. Swerve and Lee come out and the sheer order of magnitude that Swerve is cooler than Lee continues to amuse me. This whole segment was spent getting over some rapper and what I am assuming is going to be some kind of Swerve/Tony Nese match with this petition to fire Swerve they were passing around. How the fuck does this happen? I was really disappointed that the bucks lost the titles but I was told getting them to Swerve and Lee was always the plan. I hope that wasnt the case because they clearly have no plans for these guys and this segment was dreadful. They've got a week or two to right the ship but the tag scene looks ready to get stuck in the mud here. Where was team taz? The Bucks didn't even get pinned to lose those titles they didn't wanna come out and say something? I get that FTR are busy for another week but I really dont get why they even had this segment.

Speaking of pointless, oh boy this FTW title match. Tony Two Dimes from NXT 2.0 was here looking like a job guy. But he got promo time and then took the lions share of the offense in this FTW title match. Ricky is an excellent worker and oozes charisma. He ended up doing the peoples elbow during picture in picture while the rock was on screen and its starting to not feel like a ridiculous comparison. Ricky dispatches this fool in like 7 minutes and says he is feeling good and calls out anyone else. Danhausen comes out and the eyes begin rolling but I assume this is gonna be a squash to set up Hook vs Ricky. But no - instead Ricky appears to be afraid of Danhausen. As in "got squashed by Tony Nese in less than a minute" Danhausen. I dont get it. This was just poorly put together start to finish - very 2000 wcw with our guy Ricky playing the role of AJ Styles.

There were women. It was Quarter 7. Lets move on.

Barbed Wire Everywhere. Kingston. Jericho. Both these guys usually deliver in these plunder heavy matches and the issue between them has been HOT. So naturally this was the biggest turd AEW has laid in over a year. Eddie and Jericho couldn't get onto the same page at all. The plunder and wire spots were pretty sloppy and just weren't...intense. This was all just very ginger. It did not feel like Kingston wanted to murder this man.

The match was built around the JAS being in a shark cage and an Anna Jay heel turn where she helped Tay Conti free the Jericho Appreciation Society from the cage by beating a one armed Ruby Soho who I guess is meant to be Eddies romantic partner? and if things were off the rails before this about the point where the train headed the opposite direction appeared. Tay Conti could not figure out how a padlock worked and the match ground to a halt for close to 2 minutes. Fortunately the bars are wide enough that Garcia and Parker could eventually squeeze through and try to keep things going breaking up the least convincing 2.9 count ever for Kingston. The BCC and Ortiz showed off to run off the JAS and Eddie once again locks Jericho into the stretch plum where Sammy Guevara comes back and helps Jericho do an assisted Judas Effect. I guess Sammy was supposed to have been a big return but I didnt even notice he was gone and we had already seen Tay so I dont know why they thought this would be a surprise.

Why on earth did Jericho need to win here? Eddie immediately tosses Jericho into a barbed wire box to get his heat back and make sure we all knew this match was 100% pointless. Very post goldberg wcw.

This was a rare miss for Dynamite featuring some decent ideas that just didn't work and some bad ideas that were never gonna work. But it also featured a near Match of the Year contender tag match and that excellent FTR promo so on the whole...good show?

I decided to write about dynamite

This episode of dynamite really felt like a throwback to WCW in so many ways.and here I thought I would break down my thoughts on a newsworthy and frustrating show. There are times this is good and there are times this is bad. Tonight it was mostly bad.

This show felt like 1999 WCW - over the top gimmicks on workers who would be better served just working. Brody King is a good worker and has a unique look. I dont really dig the thousands of tattooes aesthetic but some people do. Presented correctly this man would have fans. But not this might. Brody works like a horror monster - which was the entire basis of his partnership with PCO. Very slow and menacing and when the crowd buys him as a killer it can be very effective. Despite Darby Allin's best efforts, much of Kings offense was met with silence until we got toward the end of the match and the crowd started buying into the guy. The match was fine but hardly the lit fuse Dynamite typically leads off with.

Speaking of ways in which this show resembled throwback WCW - its Sting! He has a shmoz with Brody and gets caught in a 2 on 1 beat down with House of Black and takes a mist to the face. So here comes goth sting. Or maybe since he is already goth he will revert to surfer Sting? Miro comes down for the "Who's side is he on" nwo angle following up on his tease that he might join the House last week on Friday. Regardless this is the issue with the house of black. This feud which features 5 excellent wrestlers and sting is now probably gonna mainly be about whatever this black mist is gonna do to sting. Its like the old baseball adage - just throw strikes. You have a lot of talent here and the bells and whistles actually distract from that and turn what should be a hype feud into something dreadful

Fortunately from here we transition towards early 90s and late 80s WCW. This tag match between The Best Friends and The Blackpool Combat Club (Yuta and Moxley) was excellent - go out of your way for this one. This is the sort of thing I was talking about. There were a lot of threads going into this one. The BCC in general really went hard after Chuck Taylor and Orange Cassidy claiming they were soft in the lead up to Yuta leaving the Best Friends. This happens to them a lot. People see the Best Friends being goofy and happy and dressed in tye dye and tale them lightly - forgetting these fellas have the bonafides as tough gritty bastards when the time comes. These guys have a win over Miro. They won that nasty street fight with Ortiz and Santana. When they goings get tough the Best Friends buckle down and kick ass. Then they hug it out and head for the McDonald's.

Anyway, Chuck has mostly been a good sport about the student he calls his son jumping ship to another teacher. Trent on the other hand was always a bit surly when it came to Yuta. The BCC came out ready to do their usual routine and we had Regal and Orange at the commentary booth, Orange doing his routine where he doesn't say anything and generally being aloof about the whole situation.

This was immediately the dynamic of the match. Trent was wrestling with intensity that we do not usually see from him - with a chip on his shoulder for all the insinuations that he isn't gritty and tough clearly gnawing at him. Chuck on the other hand was very respectful and treating his wrestling Yuta as a sporting exhibition between teacher and student. Trent was going in pretty viciously on Yuta while he was tied up in the ropes and chuck saved him and tried to talk Trent out of being such a bastard - but then Yuta took a cheap shot on Chuck and from there it was on. Gloves were off. The real chuck was here and as he got more vicious it awoke moxleys protective side trying to counter Chucks new viciousness.
Everything here was tense and as the match heated up and Regal continued to insist Yutas improvements as a worker were because of Regal this finally set off Orange who began getting very protective of Chuck and Trent and was clearly bothered by this idea that they weren't real top level wrestlers just because they smile and like each other. Yuta ends up isolated for most of the match as Chuck hits Moxley with a nasty suplex combination. Wheeler kicked out of pair of back to back piledrivers and ended up stealing the win from Chuck with a SeatBelt pinning combination which a surprisingly salty Orange Cassidy said he learned from Chuck. This was excellent. An absolute epic told in the ring and this clearly isn't over. Yuta got the pin but they didn't beat the best friends and despite outward appearances prior to tonight The Best Friends really arent okay with being called soft dorks and I hope we dont have to wait another 2 months for follow up here.

We kept the good times rolling with and FTR promo. FTR hair gives this nothing WWE ass promo about the Briscoes and that's fine but the real main event here was Dax Harwood or as I might start calling him Magnum DH. He gives this promo about his daughter and how hard she had to fight to mend the hole in her heart to live a good life. And that metaphor is such a good one. A hole in your heart. Something missing and the notion that you can work your ass off and become whole - this got me emotional between that and how much this mans daughter clearly means to him. And he says he needs to retain these titles to create a legacy she can be proud of. These promos always get me because its clear this guy loves his kid and shes gonna be proud of him no matter what but the idea of it is so simple and plays on emotions we all feel. This would've gone great in 1980s JCP, you can just imagine Magnum saying all this as he prepared to take on Flair. Dax is gonna fuck around and become a main event level singles star at this rate. Anyway I loved everything about this.

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