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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.