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Pops & Botches: AEW Dynamite – 08.11.21

AEW Dynamite News Pops & Botches

 

IT’S WEDNESDAY NIGHT. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!

Heya folks! It’s me, Irishblade! Did you miss me? Did you think I was dead? Wait, what? You didn’t even realize I was gone?? Blasphemy, I tell you! Oh well, that isn’t important. What IS important is that I. AM. BACK. I’m feeling froggy so I just might try something new this week! Once again, a deep and heartfelt thank you to the one, the only, El Scorcho for saving my ass last week and covering for me whilst out and about. To get you completely, 100% caught up on everything important from last week, here ya go:

Beautiful Bobby Eaton died.

Seriously, that news alone cast an entire pall (non-bearer) over my wrestling love last week but damnit all, the show rolls on. So as long as the show rolls on, so too shall I. Let’s GO.

We start off with a little vignette with MJF and Wardlow to announce the fourth Labour of Jericho – a match against Wardlow. Apparently, it’s going to be a straight one-on-one match. Wardlow’s definitely beating the 30 year veteran and preventing him from facing MJF. I’m suuuure that’s exactly what’s going to happen.

POP: Dante Martin. That’s it. Just Dante Martin

Speaking of wrestling matches, The Elite is on their way out for some hot trios action! I absolutely can NOT explain how excited I am to see Dante Martin back in the ring. Unfortunately, he’s teaming up with the Sydal Sludge AND going against the World Champ and his Tag Team Champion buddies. Let’s go, Dante! *clapclap clapclapclap* Between the Sydals, Dante Martin and the Young Bucks, there was undoubtedly going to be a bunch of high-flying, a lot of jumping, mixed in with some flipping and just overall craziness. Oh yeah, Kenny Omega was there too.

They constructed this match perfectly. As promised, we received all that speed wrestling and innovative offense mentioned earlier. Whenever Omega would tag in, the match would slow down (as it should with a more grounded superstar) and that would make the high-flying stuff very exciting when it resumed. The clip above states a new star shone bright and they are not wrong. Not only did he absolutely hang with the top champions in the company (don’t tell Miro!), he even gave us a callback to the Kid and Razor Ramon finish near the end of the match. Unfortunately for him, he fell victim to a One-Winged Angel and the BTE Trigger that gave The Elite the win.

BOTCH: Stupid Fans

Tony Schiavone gets in the ring to interview The Elite but before Don Callis can take the mic and proclaim the Young Bucks the best of all time, Christian Cage and Jurassic Express show up.  While hyping the contenders vs the champs, the crowd goes full WWE and starts chanting CM Punk and Yes! Don’t ever go full WWE. Be better AEW fans. H/t to Christian for saving it by calling Callis a jagoff. This all leads to a huge announcement that Cage and Omega will go head to head for the Impact Championship in the first ever match in AEW Rampage history on Friday. What a debut! As for the Young Bucks and Jurassic Express, they’ll face off on next week’s Dynamite in a match for the straps! The Elite is in trouble!

POP: 2.0.1.0

Daniel Garcia called out Darby Allin for a match. Boy, he’s clearly an idiot. Darby has the power of the Stinger with him! All Garcia has is 2.0 which…..where is 1.0? I give Garcia points for going after one of the top dogs in the company. Especially coming off a six matches in seven nights run like he is on. This was my first time getting an extended look at Daniel Garcia. He impressed me a lot in this match.

I appreciate how well Garcia and Allin looked going against each other. I would be more than willing to enjoy a feud between the two. I’m not sure what 2.0 was out there for other than the post-match skirmish but hey, we’re just out here collecting trios. Maybe we just need to create a Trios Championship or something. Anyway, Garcia had all the gumption in the world but that doesn’t help when you go against the Best in the World:

POP: The Three Best Friends that Anyone Could Have

The Best Friends (replacing Trent with Wheeler Yuta) come out to face the Hardy Family Office. Tonight’s iteration consists of Hardy and Private Party. The entire Office family comes out though so we get Bunny bouncing around, Blade stalking around and TH2….just being there. In their defense, they did get sort of involved on the outside after Nyla came down to hit Kris Statlander. Why would she come down and do that? Just keep reading friends. That’s what you call a tease!

Apparently, if you bring enough people out to ringside with you, there’s a decent chance there will be absolute and utter chaos breaking out eventually. Unfortunately for Wheeler Yuta, the chaos is something that he couldn’t overcome or wasn’t prepared for. By the time Hardy hit the Twist of Fate on him, Yuta was too far gone to be able to kick out.

POP: Beast Slayer

Remember earlier when I said Nyla attacked Statlander? Well, here’s why. They had a match!  Big shock, right? Nyla Rose, being the ultimate opportunist as she is, jumps Statlander right after the bell rang to start the match. This really set the tone for this to be a …. uh, hoss match. I’m sorry, what are we calling the female version of a hoss match? As a TRUE gentleman, it feels weird calling them hosses. Either way, it was great to see Nyla in there with someone that could look at her eye to eye.

This match ruled for so many reasons. In addition to them being able to go toe-to-toe, they complemented each others’ styles really well. Vickie Guerrero disabling Orange Cassidy by screaming in his face was absolute gold. I wish I could find a GIF of Statlander eating a spear from Rose while she walked on her hands but you can imagine how sick it was. One powerbomb and an Area 451 later and the Beast (native edition) has been neutralized.

POP: As Promised – Brittsburgh

Dr. Britt Baker, DMD is greeted with a true champion’s welcome as she returns home *cue Mick Foley’s voice* right here, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! The best part of this whole segment was the Baker version of Terrible Towels. It makes so much sense yet I was not ready for it. Hell, let’s just call it my favorite segment of the entire night. Red Velvet couldn’t even ruin it by running down and attacking the champ. Who is the heel here?!? Beautiful Britt is going to murder Red Velvet on Friday and I can’t wait.

BOTCH: Oversaturation

The Good Brothers are back again this week. I don’t watch Impact but I’m interested to know if they actually wrestle on Impact. Can someone hit me up and let me know? I see them an AWFUL lot on my AEW programming and I’m not a big fan of it. It’s not even that they’re taking opportunities from AEW’s up and comers or anything, it’s more that they don’t do a damn thing for me. I think Karl Anderson would benefit from a singles run and Gallows….can go back to the farm where he came from. The Brothers of Goodness win with the Magic Killer and blah blah blah. Give me more of the Jurassic Express dominating Young Bucks at basketball.

By the way, it was a clean block.

POP: Labour Four Love

Going from a death match against Nick Gage down to a standard wrestling match against master technician, Wardlow, seems like MJF doesn’t understand how advantages work. Maybe he should have built it up so Jericho was as gassed as possible when he faced him, ya know, assuming Jericho can get past Wardlow this week to fight MJF next week. I get it though, either Wardlow wins or he beats up Jericho so bad, he can’t show up next week.

MJF is at ringside so of course he gets involved by raking Jericho’s eyes before Wardlow could tap to the Walls of Jericho. Unfortunately for him, he was caught by Aubrey trying to give the Dynamite Diamond to Wardlow. Jericho is a 30 year veteran guys. Have you not read his book yet? He crushes Wardlow with Floyd then a Judas Effect and we have MJF vs Chris Jericho set up for next week!

The fact that Shawn Spears came out and attacked Jericho without a chair is a gross misuse of his nickname. Since it led to a Sammy Guevara appearance made it all worth it, however. So I’ll take it. MJF also announced the stipulations for next week’s final Labour of Jericho – no Judas Effect and no Judas music! Oh man! Taking away the finisher, that’s fine. But his hokey singalong entrance music? That’s next level heel shit Friedman. NEXT LEVEL!

That’s all for Dynamite this week! I missed you guys while I was away. I hope you enjoy your week everyone! Feel free to leave a comment below (good or bad, I’ll answer them all!) and share the column with your friends, family and followers. And seriously, join the Discord for good talk with good people. You can find me on there, Instagram or Twitter (all are @robbywardshow). Please hit me up with what you liked, what you hated, what you think I can change. I’m all ears! Wrestling united!

     

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