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Pops & Botches: AEW Dynamite – 11.10.21

AEW Dynamite Pops & Botches Recaps & Reviews

 

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

Heya folks! It’s time to go home! No, no, no. That doesn’t mean quit reading this article, it means it’s our last show until AEW Full Gear just three days from now, live on pay-per-view (or however people watch AEW pay-per-views these days). Seriously, when will we get an AEW Network? Sounds like a good opportunity for Paramount+ or whoever. HBO Max, you wanna take a crack at making some money? Do you remember last week, when I was geeked beyond all measure that our sweet, dear, Miro was joining the AEW World Title Eliminator Tournament? Yeah? Well, he won and now he’s ready to face Daniel Bryanson Saturday at Full Gear. That is probably going to be a great match. Also, we wrote a love letter to the Moxleys and can’t wait to see Jon get back and whip somebody’s ass. Hey, wait a minute. Whatever happened to Max Moon?

POP: Dragon, Slayin’

Apparently, if you mention the good name of an American Dragon in the intro, you get the American Dragon on your TV screen. He’s out to kick off Dynamite with what I am assuming is about to be a kick-ass match with Rocky Romero. Oddly enough, The Best Friends lead Romero out and Orange Cassidy comes down to be in his corner. The announce team realizes this is going to confuse us stateside rasslin’ fans and explains Kazuchika Okada has invited the faction to join his NJPW group, collectively known as Chaos. Well, that makes sense, I guess.

My favorite part of this entire match comes somewhat early. The American Dragon locks Rocky Romero in the Romero Special and tries to flip it to the Dragon Sleeper. Nice little easter egg for those of us paying attention. I see you, Bryan Danielson. I see you. Hell, he even pulls out a modified Batista Bomb! My second favorite part of this entire match (and high on the list of any Bryan Danielson match), is when he holds homies’ arms and stomps their face off. It’s so violent yet so beautiful. Violently beautiful? Beautifully violent? It’s fucking, awesome, okay?

Danielson and Romero have a decent match. Although, I must admit, I don’t think the American Dragon broke a sweat. Like, at all. His hair was still dry and moving flawlessly across his face. That being said, he beat Romero into submission. I say that only because as Danielson locked the Tequila Sunrise in, Romero tapped before Bryan even got all of his weight leaned back to add the pressure. That’s fine. I’m willing to overlook it as a botch and just assume he was done from all the other moves Danielson hit him with. Sounds good, right? Yeah. We’re going to go with that.

After we get back from our commercial break, The Inner Circle Jerks come down for their in-ring interview segment with Tony Schiavone. Unfortunately, we don’t get to see the aforementioned interview segment. Why? Because American Top Team and the Men of the Year ambush them from behind and leave them laying on the ramp. All five members of Inner Circle just get absolutely demolished. To cap it off, the Men of the Year lift Jericho up to Dan Lambert on the ropes and Lamber powerbombs him through the table! To add insult to injury, Lambert locks in the Walls of Jericho to make Jericho tap (with hand-slapping assistance by Scorpio Sky of course).

POP: Thunder and Lightning Bugs

It’s not common we get a six-woman tag match, which the announce team astutely called a Trios match. But here we are! Britt Baker (D.M.D.), Rebel (Not Reba) and Jaime Hayter (I don’t really have anything for her parentheses) come out for their six-wom Trios match against Tay Conti, Anna Jay and Thunder Rosa. This is a perfect matchup, too. Conti vs. Baker, Thunder Rosa vs. Jaime Hayter and well, Reba and Anna Jay were there too!

I’m not going to lie. These girls kicked ass tonight. Sometimes, literally. This match was full of energy, excitement, enthusiasm and urgency throughout the entire thing. You thought I was going to use another e-word, didn’t you?! Anyway, their moves were crisp, the story made sense and the finish was a textbook example of how to cast doubt on Saturday’s finish. After Conti hit Rebel with a reverse kick and hammerlock DDT (while staring at Britt Baker!), Baker did nothing to help Rebel. The commentary team quickly points out it’s because Britt is scared of Conti. Let’s be honest, although it was a great way to make you think she has a shot at winning, let me remind you, Britt Baker fears nobody. NOBODY!

BOTCH: And That’s a Rap

Well, it’s been awhile since we got an AEW Dynamite rap from Max Caster. I wonder why? Here we go!

Yo! Listen! Listen! Yo! Yo!

The Acclaimed on the mic –
I’m the showboat
Jungle Boy stutters
Every time he cuts a promo! Uh, uh!

You can’t get the words out.
Hang with the Acclaimed
And we’ll teach you how to work out!

You look so pathetic,
I wouldn’t kiss you
Even though
you’re my fetish.

You’re so progressive
I gotta emphasize
Cuz you leave your girlfriend….
alone With seven guys!

I’m a Junglllllllle Boyyyyy!

The match turns out to just be Jungle Boy vs. Anthony Bowens but hey, we got a Platinum Max rap so I’m still not upset. Great Dark Order gig at the end there. Well done, Max. Maybe you’ll wrestle on Dynamite sometime soon! Speaking of wrestling, I think the more I see Anthony Bowens wrestle, the more I like him. Originally, I thought he was the Janetty but it’s possible he’s a Michaels. I guess we’ll have to wait and see where these two end up over their careers. What we can all agree on is that Bowens is absolutely not Jungle Boy.

This match could’ve been great with a little background or story on it. I understand not all of the matchups have a story but give me something. In this instance, the match just proved to be a stepping stone to get to the post-match bullshit. After Jungle Boy traps and taps Bowens in a snare, Bobby Fish showed up to beat him down. After Jungle Boy gets a thorough beating, Christian and the giant-ass dinosaur show up. The Christian and the dinosaur chase off the Fish. That sentence makes sense to me.

BOTCH: Wait, Another One?!? Already???

Seriously, I don’t like purposeless matches where the post-match shit is the bigger topic yet here we have it again. These Best Friend fellas sure are popping up a lot tonight. However, Yuta Wheeler draws the short stick in this showdown. He gets to go against the monster, Wardlow. It is nice to see Wardlow again. He’s a babyface waiting to break out.  He makes quick work of Wheeler and leaves the ring area immediately.

As I promised, there were shenanigans after the bell. The Hardy Family Office runs down to jump the Best Friends. It culminates with Matt Hardy jumping in the ring from his front row seat and giving a Twist of Hate (their words, not mine) to Orange Cassidy. Apparently, a Twist of Hate is a Twist of Fate with a chair wrapped around the opponent’s head. In this case, it was Orange Cassidy’s head that was freshly squeezed in the chair.

When we get back from commercial, we get this. And now all I want is an Eddie Kingston and Ruby Soho feud. Don’t judge me:

POP: Fly the Highest

Finally! I get to see my boy, Lio Rush, in a Dynamite ring. Look, I know I we were all clamoring for the Sydal’s and Top Flight rivalry but it’s turned into a friendly feud between Matt Sydal and Dante Martin. Now Lio is in Dante’s ear (and corner) since his brother’s hurt and speaking of hurt brothers, Lee Moriarty gets to play Mike Sydal tonight. This is going to be wild. A fun match in four GIFs:

We have agility…..

We have speed…..

We have savvy…..

And finally, ladies and gentlemen, we get the finish:

It is GREAT to see Lio Rush wrestling again and I hope he’s able to stick around for a long time. I’m not going to lie, I hope we never see Top Flight again. I’m all in on the Highest Flight. Give me a two-hour barn burner between Lio Rush and Dante’ Martin against the Lucha Bros. I’ll take it. I’ll pay for it. I couldn’t imagine a more creative match than those four. Who knows? I bet Rey Fenix can give a Spanish Fly to Dante’ and they do six flips before they even get to the mat. Sold.

POP: Opposites Attract

In a match that everyone needed but nobody knew they wanted, The Bastard Pac is here to fight with one half of the Luchadon’ts, Dax Harwood. As the title states, this is definitely an opposites attract situation. In a surprise to nobody, it was awesome. These guys threw everything at each other. Oh, you want a slugfest? Have one. Standard power wrestling, perhaps? Here ya go. Wait, wait, wait, PAC wants to take it to the sky? Okay, how’s this? It was just fantastic.

Sometimes, the match would favor Dax’ preferred style of wrestling. And sometimes, it would favor PAC’s style. These two guys went out there and changed up styles multiple times throughout the match, which added a sense of urgency and doubt over who was the favored wrestler. Not until PAC locked in the Brutalizer did we know who was going to win. And Dax tapped so fast! You may be wondering why I didn’t Botch it since it had run-ins after the match. This match was borne of a feud match and guess what? So was all the post-match stuff. Check it out. Boy, it sure took a long time for the Lucha Bros and Cody Rhodes to show up and dispatch The Luchadon’ts, El Idolo and Black. Wait, does this mean Malakai Black and Andrade El Idolo are in The Pinnacle now? Has anyone asked MJF about this?

What a fun main event! Well, main event match. The true main event was this:

Kenny Omega beat the (literal) bloody hell out of Hangman Page to close out the go-home show! If my brain has been trained as I think it has, holyshitAdamPageiswinningthechampionshipSaturday!

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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