Dynamite - 9/7/2022

[The Natural]

Love the different ways Bryan Danielson can finish matches.

[Raziel]

Sammy vs Darby?  Man, with Sammy's total disregard for his opponent's safety and Darby's total disregard for his own safety, I'm not expecting Darby to live past Friday.

[DEAN]

ALLRIGHT!  AEW!  It's MJF!  SHOOT ANGLE!  It's Tony Khan!  Everything has been VACATED!  Well, I'm excited!  SAMMY GUEVARA GETS THE STRAP~!  MJF is OVER in Buffalo!  A Ti-Cats Sucks! sign!  MJF IS BETTER THAN MOSES!  MJF assumes the roll of THE ROCK!  MOX!  MJF HEEL TURN!  SHOOTING!  MJF vs MOX will be fun.  MOX did pretty good for a guy who should be on vacation.  SAMMY! SAMMY! SAMMY!  HOLY SHIT!  DANIELSON vs HANGMAN!  I am... sad... that we can't have the TRUE best wrestler in the tournament.  ADAM MOTHERFUCKING COLE!  Adam Cole vs MJF for the strap will be so fucking awesome.  JANE!  PENTA! REY FENIX! PAC!  PENTA BEATING THE FUCK OUT OF DANHAUSEN!  LORD, LET IT HAPPEN!  Oh, I forgot about the recent PAC/Orange Cassidy dustup!  IT'S A WORK THOUGH!  PENTA and Cassidy fuck around early and then they kick it into gear.  These trios belt matches are so reminiscent of late 90s WCW Lucha Libre matches- just a distillation of the spectacularness of Lucha.  Rey Fenix is Super Calo, PAC is Blitzkrieg and PENTA is La Parka!  Oh yeah, I always forget that TRENT totally fucking rules.  Danhausen injects himself!  Alex and Danhausen BEGIN! A LEGENDARY! FUED! A LOT OF COOL SHIT HAPPENS!   This match is fucking GREAT!  CHUCK IS ISOLATED!  THAT GNARLY PILEDRIVER!  DARK THINGY!  NEW CHAMPIONS!  AWESOME!  PAC as a double champion is a GREAT idea. ALEX vs DANHAUSEN vs JOSE in a TRIPLE THREAT!  Preston Vance is TURNING EVILER!  The RUSH cameo was awesome. Penelope Ford is with Kip Sabian!  THEY ARE SHOOT MARRIED!  THEY SAY IT ON TV!  It's TONY STORM!  She is married to Juice Robinson.  They should wrestling Tay and Sammy for the straps and make Toni a double champion.  I will not comment on or notice Ford's pants.  I am so very old.  Ford is awesome on offense while we are in picture in picture.  I'm so glad she's back.  Storm is awesome leaning into her offense and making it look even more hellish.  WRECKED EM!  An odd looking Pendulum DDT!  UNBELIEVABLY, TONI STORM RETAINS!  Daddy Magic is MAGIC on the stick!  Shane Strickland is a HEAT MACHINE!  The ACCLAIMED are OVER in Buffalo!  BEE WEE BEE CEE!  Sammy vs Darby will obviously RULE!  It's Wardlow!  Will he be able to beat Tony Nese?  Nese is in the STATE of New York!  It's like a home game for him!  NEW CHAMPION!  I CAN FEEL IT!  Nese does creepy things with Wardlow's pecs.  WARDLOW PULLS THE UPSET!  NESE BEATEN IN HIS HOME STATE!  Josh Woods saves Smart Mark Sterling!  Josh Woods vs Wardlow could be good.  Woods is a total animal and could manhandle Wardlow a little before getting mauled.  Bryan Danielson!  They are soo putting the belt on him.  Lord Regal is so in love with Excaliber.  HE"S AN ECCENTRIC ENGLISHMAN!  Hangman Page!  He was trained by Jimmy Boogie Woogie Man Valiant. They channel fucking Ric Flair versus Wahoo McDaniel and it makes this wrestling match AWESOME.  Danielson works the arm of our Hangman.  AFFECTING HIS CHOPS!  Oh man, this match is fucking awesome.  NICE Death Valley Driver by Hangman.  This match is fucking GREAT.  Crowd RISES for the LaBell Lock!  REAPPLIED!  Oh man, this match is FUCKING GREAT!  DEAD EYE! FOR TWO!  BUCKSHOT LARIAT!  DUCKED! ROLL-UP! FOR THE WIN!  Danielson MARCH TO THE BELT BEGINS!  That was fucking GREAT.  Stokey Hathaway!  Setting up stuff for Rampage or just beating up a dude?  HOLY SHIT!  CLAUDIO vs DAX HARWOOD!  THAT should be good.  Daniel Garcia has a HYPE MAN!  GARCIA is WAAAY OVER in Buffalo!  Oh man, this match is AWESOME.  Yuta wrestling Secret Heel is fun.  This is fun Suplex clinic.  Oh man, this match is fucking GREAT.  This episode is FUCKING GREAT!  GARCIA WINS AND BUFFALO EXPLODES!  That was a fucking GREAT finish.  Man, there is nothing like a giant wad of great pro wrestling to wash the stink of SHOOT BACKSTAGE bullshit out of your... mouth.  Or something.  That was a fucking GREAT episode of DYNAMITE.  AEW RULES THE ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD.

[Valcourt]

Jericho with the spoiler. 
No JR. 
No Shit chants from the crowd about the drama. 
Fire Mox promo. 
Garcia and Yuta banger. 
Dragon and Cowboy banger. 
Glad Ford is back. 
Great way to block the Max Rap. 
 

Great show!

[S.K.o.S.]

To state the obvious, they never mentioned Punk or any of the Elite by name. Which maybe, slightly, suggests the same punishment is being given to all of them?

[(BP)]

That first twenty minutes was an incredible reset, but I can’t believe that Tony even books himself as having his balls in a vise by talent. 

[John from Cincinnati]

Just now, Raziel said:

Sammy vs Darby?  Man, with Sammy's total disregard for his opponent's safety and Darby's total disregard for his own safety, I'm not expecting Darby to live past Friday.

Taped Rampage, so tonight. Everybody brace yourself. 

[The Natural]

[John E. Dynamite]

And this is just hitting me... they shut that crown down IMMEDIATELY. No CM Punk or Elite chants. Even that initial BOO TONY CHEER VACANT TITLE weirdness lasted seconds. They just fed the crowd big matches and didn't let them breathe, didn't give em time to think.

Edited September 8, 2022 by John E. Dynamite

[Nice Guy Eddie]

Not much to add, but a great show tonight in spite of all the drama. 

[For Great Justice]

That was….a very professional job of getting past this? Color me impressed 

The Acclaimed are the most over act in pro wrestling? That was nuclear!

And yes I didn’t want another tourney but 100% #TeamDarby here 

[DEAN]

10 minutes ago, Gordlow said:

Two GREAT matches. White hot crowd. Claudio vs Dax, Sammy vs Darby, and Deeb on Rampage. I should be 100% stoked. Man. Fuck CM Punk.

I counted THREE great matches- the Trios championship, Dragon/Hangman and Garcia/Yuta.  Fuck, if they do episodes like this,  I hope Punk and the Bucks throw chairs at each other every week.  BE STOKED, MY BROTHER!

[Log]

2 minutes ago, John E. Dynamite said:

And this is just hitting me... they shut that crown down IMMEDIATELY. No CM Punk or Elite chants. Even that initial BOO TONY CHEER VACANT TITLE weirdness lasted seconds. They just fed the crowd big matches and didn't let them breathe, didn't give em time to think.

They’ve got a ton of guys/gals on the roster that are over. When you’re not trotting out the latest guy you’re trying to shove down the crowd’s throat against their will, they’ll play ball with you. 
 

Great show. They handled everything about as well as you could hope. And I’m actually looking forward to see where all the stuff they set up tonight goes. 

[S.K.o.S.]

Thought the Stokely segment would have worked better if he'd kept talking after they beat up the production guy for telling them to end the segment. Instead, they, you know, ended the segment. Just like the production guy wanted.

[HarryArchieGus]

Gutsy performance from this great 'bloated' roster! 

[The Natural]

What a trilogy by Bryan Danielson and Adam Hangman/Wangman Page. 1-1-1.

[Jamal]

Penelope and Toni were great just beating the Hell out of each other. I like how Toni went from her initial "I'm just happy to be here" to "I'm the champ now, bitch" lol 

[StevieNippz]

All I can add at the moment is it's kind of a bummer for Best Friends not to win but it looks like everything else is turning out way better than I thought it would.

[HumanChessgame]

TK's opening announcement was the best way they could have possibly addressed this. I was pleasantly surprised at the lack of obnoxious chants from the audience. The in-ring stuff, especially Daneilson/Page and of course Yuta/Garcia was top notch. MJF's promo was incredible. I would like a bit more explanation of why MJF is aligned with Stokley but that will undoubtedly come. Moxley needs to come up short in the tournament and start a heel turn.

[The Natural]

 

[Matt D]

1 minute ago, Jamal said:

Penelope and Toni were great just beating the Hell out of each other. I like how Toni went from her initial "I'm just happy to be here" to "I'm the champ now, bitch" lol 

I only caught part of the show but Penelope playing foul on the handshake went a long way. Was a good one.

[chriskbrown50]

10 minutes ago, John E. Dynamite said:

And this is just hitting me... they shut that crown down IMMEDIATELY. No CM Punk or Elite chants. Even that initial BOO TONY CHEER VACANT TITLE weirdness lasted seconds. They just fed the crowd big matches and didn't let them breathe, didn't give em time to think.

Which is actually a great way to deal with the situation - address upfront with no comments then just go for a show. Kudos to TBS for giving AEW ad free up front although the later matches did have a bunch of ads. In many ways, this was the anti-WCW/WWF way to deal with it. Sweep it under the rug. Mox was simply great - and the end with Garcia/Yuta/Danielson was some really great stuff too. Garcia gets made in a few weeks. 

Edited September 8, 2022 by chriskbrown50
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[HarryArchieGus]

6 minutes ago, John E. Dynamite said:

And this is just hitting me... they shut that crown down IMMEDIATELY. No CM Punk or Elite chants. Even that initial BOO TONY CHEER VACANT TITLE weirdness lasted seconds. They just fed the crowd big matches and didn't let them breathe, didn't give em time to think.

Am I way off to suggest that Buffalo crowd was more deserving of a Vince McMahon produced 3 hour Raw?

[The Natural]

Shows what a deep roster and having stars does in a great response to losing CM Punk and the Elite.

[For Great Justice]

The ending felt a bit like a figurative passing of the torch of the “this dude is the best technical wrestler on the show if this was for real” label from Dragon to Garcia. The Dean Malenko Title.