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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?