Dynamite 9.23.20
9/23/2020 10:07 PM
Kip Sabian & Miro/Joey Janela & Sonny Kiss

So this was a little wonky. Kip and Joey have some history on the show and irl, and Joey's pre-match recorded promo was hilarious and great. His laugh-- perf. I love Joey, honestly, so seeing him cut loose some, or at minimum just have more of a presence on the show is always a plus. 

Beyond that, the audience is still trying to decide whether or not Miro is a heel, because they alternate between cheering and booing him throughout the match. TBH it felt like the faces were Sonny & Miro while the heels were Janela & Kep. When Miro was fucking up Sonny they would cheer for Sonny, and when he was beating up Joey they would cheer for Miro. Funny stuff-- makes me wonder if The Midnight Express is gonna make Joey more likeable to the AEW crowd or if they'll just see him as getting in between them and Sonny. They LOVE sonny. But Joey hasn't had much to do beyond lose and his little thing with Kip that was back in 2.5.20 and then on Dark #21. That was back before COVID when Dark/Dynamite were significantly more intertwined. The whole end to that feud was on the dark match. Coincedentally, I think that was the last match the Stronghearts were in. I continually forget they were involved with this, even more surprising that they had a match this year. 

Despite whatever else, this match was sloppy as many people seemed to forget what was happening. I expected them to hold Miro back longer for a good hot tag but he jumped in right away. Dude looks fierce af. I still think he's gonna turn on Kip and go full babyface just because people want to like him, but with tonights reaction I think it could go either way and it would work. I'm honestly not sure when Kip/Penelope's wedding is scheduled for. We'll see what happens. They get the win regardless. 


Eddie gets a match

Eddie comes out to quickly, essentially cash in that "I didn't lose the battle royale" chip from the last couple of weeks. This is happening out of storyline because Lance Archer tested positive for COVID earlier, so he's out for two weeks minimum. This is going to really fuck with this whole storyline, but they covered easily this week and I think they have a cover for next week too. Basically Eddie says he gets a match with Mox to make up for his illegitimate loss in the BR with his typical fiery monologuing. Mox comes out, they go to nose to nose, refs break it up, match set. 


Evil Uno/Adam Page


So once again Omega comes out on commentary to basically bury Adam during the match. It was also supposed to be a tag, but Kenny reiterates that he's done with that division. He says their goal was to beat every team, they almost did, no shame, the end. Every time Uno gets Page in a near fall, Kenny is like YEP THATS IT, only to sigh and continue on once Page kicks out. 

This is the first Evil Uno singles match in the history of AEW, I think is important to note. They both put up some good moves and get a lot of action, pretty half and half. Hangman goes for a bunch of moves before the buckshot, thinking he can get him down without it, but ultimately he can't Kenny notes, yep, we know what's coming. The crowd shouts BUCKSHOT, BUCKSHOT, BUCKSHOT. Page nails it. 

Tonight we saw a more confident Adam Page. He wasn't looking for Kenny, and he didn't need him. They might do this Kenny on commentary thing one more time, but if not the point has been made. Their team is over. Kenny is getting flustered he isn't getting singles opportunities. Their paths will cross again soon. 

Importantly, Knox seemed to be helping Uno throughout the match. Maybe it was incidental, but few things rarely are in AEW. For example, at one point Uno used Knox as a bodyguard then lifted Hangmans boot up into Knox's hands which Uno then used to help him do a move. Hangman tried the same thing later with Unos leg but Knox just dropped it. Curious. Very curious. 


Matt Jackson

Tony comes back to talk to Matt about his behavior over the last couple weeks. As Matt throws the door open, Tony flinches expecting the superkick. Matt calms him down, says he's sorry about their behavior, but they've been through a lot recently. Tony keeps asking about FTR which pisses Matt off, so he takes Tony's phone, slams it on the wall, then throws a wad of cash at Tony as he shuts his dressing room door. Nick is nowhere to be seen. Tony is sad, but says he keeps everything stored "ON THE CLOUD" so he hasn't lost any data. Reba tweets that Brit will take him phone shopping. 


Orange Cassidy/Brodie Lee

This match-- mwah. Chefs kiss. So last week, I wrote about how this match seemed really out of place. No real build up, story, threat, just bam, OC & Brodie. Ok. Go. And that's still true. However, this match, so good. Okay, so I theorized to myself over the Jericho/OC feud that OC was kind of dropping some of his good stuff because Jericho didn't want to fuck with it. It worked in story as with each increase in the feud it got more and more serious, but that's not OC at his best. In fact, with each fight, it got less and less interesting. 

However, it seemed to me in this match that they were trying to marry the Dynamite DO with the BTE DO a little bit. Silver was featured prominently, as were the DO goon squad. Brodie was screaming at his boys and Anna throughout the match while OC was pulling classic OC shit (Ducking under his clotheslines by just dying mid ring). In fact, the finish was Silver jumping in and taking the Orange Punch for Brodie so that Brodie could do his lariat, the same one that killed Cody, to kill OC. 

Now, an OC/Best Friends and DO story would be amazing and funny, but those hopes will be dashed by the next few segments. 

Dark Order lays a beating on OC when all the sudden the lights cut, Cody's music plays, and out of the fog comes a rejuvenated, dark haired, suit wearing Cody who seems like he's back and better than ever. OC scoots off as well as Brodie, and cut to commercial. 


Insane Brodie promo 

Honestly, just watch it.


So this was good as hell. Brodie rules. Cody will respond next week. 


Matt Hardy & Private Party issue challenge to Jericho

Hardy comes out limping, talking about the attack that occured last week. Says the guy had a mask, he has no real clue who did it, but it seems likely it was probably Jericho because why wouldn't it be. Natchy, Jericho comes right out because he sits backstage waiting for someone to say his name. Sammy is back, whole IC is back together. 

Jericho says sure, fuck it, let's go. Eventually Isiah challenges Jericho to a match. He says yeah, everyone expects him to lose, but he might surprise him, and he'll make Jericho his "Le Champion Bitch". This is lifted almost entirely from Scorpios far superior promo on Jericho from 11.20.19




Isiah will lose this match, and they will remain uninteresting. Isiah was at least fairly good on the mic, but he had his boys right there with him. 


20 Minutes

FTR is out with Tully jerking each other off about how good they are. Tully is having an off night on the mic, tbh. Tony lets them talk and they say they're gonna challenge SCU to a 20 minute title shot on Dynamite next week. Tully makes a bizarre comment about how unless SCU wins... they lose? I'm not sure what to make of this. If there was a further stipulation and Tully just forgot it or something. Either way, Tony notes Best Friends are the number one contenders. Then, Best Friends come out. They say fuck it, let's go right now, we're still banged up from the street fight but whatever. 

Like the cowardly bullies they are, they say oh no, you're too beat up, we'll do it later, and bail. Chuck says even PnP weren't scared to fight. He calls FTR weenies, which they are. They hug it out. 


Shida & Rosa vs Ivelisse & Diamante

Of the Rosa matches, this was by far the weakest and that was very disappointing. No promo from anyone, just right to the point. Ivelisse and Diamante just aren't match the energy from Shida/Rosa IMO. The match isn't as fast as any of the ones before it and everything looks choppy and weird. Rosa saves Shida multiple times before Shida gets the pin with the Falcon Arrow. 

I expected this to set up a further match with Shida/Rosa, maybe a double title match, but they take their respective belts and that's that. Not a lot to say about this. Ivelisse, despite no-selling a lot last week, at least looked like she was trying, so that's something. I don't know. The Shida/Rosa match was good, Rosa/Ivelisse was fine, but this just felt like nothing, despite it having the rare setup in the women's division. I was very disappointed. I was looking forward to this the most of all. They're my two favorite womens wrestlers. 


Jericho and MJF meet again

Jericho at first comes out and says he respects Isiah's tenacity before MJF crashes the party. They flirt for a minute before simultaneously shouting THEN WHY DID YOU CALL ME A LOSER. They both make excuses, saying it wasn't directed towards the other, and at the end they say, hey, you know what, you're alright. 

These two people shouldn't be allowed near each other. They evil energy is too much and too high. 

Theres a lot of interesting places to take this though. If MJF manages to get a wedge in the Inner Circle, that could be something. They keep sort of pointing towards the direction of something breaking IC up, but it never really pans out. I don't know what it would take, but I know if anyone is crazy town enough to do it it's MJF. 


Mox/Kingston

This match is a slow lumbering hard hitting match as far away from technical as you can get. They spend most of the match throwing each other, chopping the hell out of each other, and generally avoiding a lot of big moves. Honestly the slaps and chops in this match were nuts. Mox slapped Eddie once so hard it was like he nearly blew his ears off. You could see the sweat just hang in the air. Mox puts Eddie in a piledriver, they trade German suplexes, and then Mox ends up putting Eddie out the same way he did Brodie. Rear naked choke into a KO. 

The victory is short lived as the Lucha Bros come out to pile onto Mox while Eddie gets his bearings. Will Hobbs cleans them up only to get taken out. Darby comes out, then Butcher, Blade, Taz, Starks, Cage etc. all beat up our three friends. The show ends with Mox Hobbs and Darby dead as hell with the heels standing there like the nWo. 


To be quite honest, this episode was inferior to last nights Late Night show. The Adam Page match was good because Hangman, and the OC/Brodie match just delivered specifically for me the whole way through and let OC be OC again. Beyond that, the energy felt off due I think to the show being shuffled around significantly following Lance's COVID diagnosis and the cancelation of the 6-man tag scheduled for tonight. They're working their way back to it, but it just wrenched it so bad. 

It seemed like they had to just the match timings or something, because everyone seemed off at the beginning then at the end. The post-mox win beatdown, it seemed like they had maybe 1-2 minutes more than they were supposed to, and it led to a lot of like "okay they've won, now what" feelings. 

Overall Grade: B

Pros:
  • OC/Brodie
  • Cody returning
  • Jericho & MJF
  • Brodie Promo
Cons:
  • Disappointing end to Thunder Rosa's time on Dynamite
  • Crowd died halfway through
  • Messy matches
  • Private Party/Jericho feud is already boring
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