IT’S WEDNESDAY, YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS…
AEW is LIVE from MVP Arena in Albany, New York! Tonight’s card includes:
– Darby Allin vs. Swerve Strickland
– AEW International Championship: Orange Cassidy vs. AR Fox
– Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Lucha Bros. vs. Best Friends
– Pac vs. Gravity
– Britt Baker vs. Taya Valkyrie
– A promo from MJF & Adam Cole ahead of their big match this Saturday
And much more!
Show starts at 8pm EST | 5pm PST | 7pm CST | 6pm MST | 9pm AST | 1am BST
AEW can be seen on: TBS in the US, TSN+ in Canada, ViX in Latin America, ESPN in Australia, and FITETV/DAZN in the UK, EU, and elsewhere.
Enjoy the show!
Joining late? Sort by newest to keep up!
I found this week’s to be a bit of a step below the last stretch. They’ve been on a real hot streak though lately so a down week one of these days was sure to come. With all of The Elite getting the week off though and them holding significant MJF/Cole developments for Saturday this was bound to happen. The in-ring action was really good though, as always. Swerve/Darby is such a good pairing that you can never complain about a Wednesday when you get to see them do what they do.
That sign about the Women’s division says it all though regarding them. I can’t help but wonder what the root cause here is, is it a WBD thing by any chance or just a Tony thing? You’ve heard scattered reports over the years about how WBD does have an influence on who gets screentime and whatnot and in ROH you’re seeing a much better booked women’s division. I can’t help but wonder if it’s a WBD directive to limit their minutes due to historically lower ratings for their segments and to focus primarily on the marketable women like Britt/Jade/etc which is hurting the division at large.
I think you’re right: WBD has a lot to do with the women’s match time. I remember a “report” saying something similar a few months back. I hate to say it, but it also doesn’t help that many of the wrestlers they feature are pretty green.
As for the episode: it wasn’t the best Dynamite…especially coming off Blood and Guts. And It doesn’t help that the two most anticipated matches of the week are both happening on Collision (Tag and Ladder match). I was watching Dynamite but looking past it at the same time, if that makes sense.
Completely agree with you. Very MEH episode. I kept thinking that although not every episode can be great, if I’d paid to go see this show, I would’ve felt let down.
Sacrificing Wheeler Yuta is always fun!
Chaotic main event leading to pandemonium causing more questions than answers. Pretty good Dynamite.
One of the reasons I love AEW is that they introduce me to all these awesome lucha’s I wouldn’t know about if they didn’t exist. Gravity’s great. And so is the wrestler.
That was the great thing about Nitro hour 1 back in the day!
Can we start making sure teams are easily identified by their tights.
From the wont angle it looks like Mox and Chuck are a team. Casual viewers need to be able to quickly identify who’s who in a matchoke this and I feel like they could have done much better.
Definitely. This used to be a major pet peeve of Taz’s back in the Dark days.
I can understand there being limitations on Dark where you have performers who may only have so much gear available or with them. Yes I can understand what’s going on but my friends trying to get back in to wrestling can’t, especially in a chaotic match.
All great points. It’s happened twice in the last few weeks (Acclaimed and Bollywood Boys). I wonder if it has anything to do with AEW’s seamstress retiring?
I doubt it, the newer costumes look really good, I don’t know how involved the seamstress and costume design people are with the day to day matches.
I dunno I think it would be simple enough to bring someone who works for the company down line up 4-6 guys and say can you tell whose on whose side? See what their answer is and why and see how to change it.
Stables and teams should have something of a style guide.
BCC Black, Red, and white. Cant just be black and white cuz of HoB
HoB Black and white
The Acclaimed Pink and white with some black and Bowens gets pride themed gear
Best friends Lighter blues and blacks
CMFTR Pink and black
Bullet Club Gold Black and Gold
Young Bucks/Elite The pants and the Jordans are always coordinated, I’d like to see all them in a more coordinated look when it’s The Elite or The Golden Elite.
This isn’t hard, it’s not like I’m limited to the Fight Forever CAW system…
Here’s AR Fox vs Swerve (Killshot) in Lucha Underground that I feel obligated to post
deleted by creator
WTF!
Darby is INSANE
Terrible mental health days this week but Dynamite helps so much. I’m so proud of Orange Cassidy for making it big and landing a bigger role in AEW <3
I wasn’t sure about him at first but now OC’s one of my favourites. And I hope everything’s okay. If OC doesn’t help, a healthy dose of MJF and Adam Cole should do the trick :p
AR Fox teaming up with Swerve is always a good time
Pacs chaotic music and him faking a turnbuckle pose always pops me
Dax is big mad about MJF’s impression of him lol
I was surprised he could even cut a promo what with Punk’s jockstrap still in his mouth.
Pretty good show. Jerk Perry is tailor-made to be a heel. I thought that promo was some of his best work in AEW. And the MJF-Cole partnership is gold. I don’t know if they’ll win Saturday but their chemistry is too good to end soon.
I like Britt but I wanted Taya to win. She deserves a bigger spotlight.
