[02/19] AEW Dynamite: First ever steel cage match (No escape!) / A night of debuts

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Battle Royal was lit. Raven in the building, Ortiz acting a fool as usual, Luchasaurus/The Butcher face off and him showing out, OC saving Trent from elimination :laff:, OC not immune to The Caloway Special, Matt hitting that clean ass Superkick and Sammy selling the hell out of it :wow: That was great.

Brandi is a bad muthafukka :noah: she looked good enough to eat in that Leopard print

PAWG on PAWG violence between Shanna and Stackedlander, pretty good match. Heel Britt is great, gave Tony his own personal Starbucks cup.

Nyla pretty good on the mic :leon:

Mox with the homage to DDP with taped up ribs, great hard hitting match from Cobb & Mox. Skateboard D with an innovative use of it as a weapon, thought he was about to pull off a kick flip when Cobb went to suplex him. :dead: at him also stealing Sammy's cue card gimmick because he can't speak presently.

Great fukkin match between Lucha Bros. & The Hangovers, Revolution gon be the night Hangman finally has enough.

Them AEW action figures are nice.

Cody with that Angle-esque moonsault off the cage :damn: Wardlow has star potential, he has the look and looks like he knows what he's doing in there.
 

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I don't know why, but I expected an at least halfway Cage-level physique from Wardlow. Dude needed that. As it was, it was two guys the same height and maybe 30lbs size difference having a match. Not much difference. There needed to be that - dude needed to be a monster for the story they wanted to tell with Cody here. Problem is, Cody is legit 6'3+ so even if they had Cage at the time, there's a massive height difference. Cody too big in the landscape of AEW to be the overmatched babyface ever. He gonna have to do a lot of work to be a different kind of face before his eventual turn, because there's no way he can ever be the fight-from-beneath kind of babyface given his size.

That being said, dude is literally in a different world from the rest of this show. Everyone else on the show doing PWG and Cody legitimately doing JCP. And it makes him immediately different from everyone else on the show, and... ultimately? Above them. Cody > Kenny Omega in AEW and it is not close. But it really does feel like watching two different shows. That's positives to that, but man if the dissonance isn't sharp going from Lucha Bros/Page&Omega to Cody in a cage. shyt is crazy.

But fukking all the praise in the world to Dusty goddamned Rhodes, man. Like... for all the second/third-gen people in the business, his kids, man... there's just something they came up under where they see wrestling different than everyone else, and I'm glad that shyt is still alive in 2020. It doesn't need to be on every show and the style de jure, but it without a doubt should continue to live in pro-wrestling, and who fukking better to carry the flag than Virgil's fukking kid, man. :ohlawd:
 

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Might have been the first time I've heard Nyla talk, and she was pretty good :leon:

Have to agree with J.R. not trying to deal with that Statlander alien nonsense :mjlol:, she can wrestle but the gimmick is :skip:. Good to see Shana back, surprised they haven't featured her more, as she is good in the ring.

Tag-title match was fire. Rey Fenix is :wow:

Cody doing the moonsault from the cage :bryan:

If I knew people IRL that were still into wrestling, I might have went to the show next week in Kansas City :francis:. Kenny/Pac Ironman should be a great match.
 

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The PPV would be on a weekend i gotta work :beli:

Glad they made the distinction that BOTH team members have to be eliminated.
 

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I still think he's doing an extreme (no pun intended) version of Orton's trolling about leaving, but Matt Hardy in this sandbox with some creative leeway would be really good.

Dynamite live from the Hardy Compound that actually ends with someone getting blown up with dynamite on some

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would be:ohhh::mjlol: :russ::wow:
 
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