11 Ups & 0 Downs From AEW Dynamite (May 31 - Review)
9. Bullet Club Gold Call Out FTR
Setting the tone for the whole evening, the San Diego audience took an angle that had played as mid and forced it into feeling main event.
Good booking helped too. Jay White and Juice Robinson were rewarded for their awesome sh*t-talking last week by getting an in-ring segment to do more of it, and raised the ire of new rivals FTR in the process. Free for new business after their win over Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal, Cash and Dax answered the call, and new ally Ricky Starks saved them from a Bullet Club Gold sneak attack to set up one last singles match with ‘Switchblade’.
Everybody to a man felt part of something heated, and in the case of all but the Tag Team Champions, for the first time in a while. In terms of sequencing and protecting the meritocracy, this was an enormous step up from prior weeks, and the simple folding of an old story into a new one was a welcome sight for a show loaded with freewheeling midcarders for far too long.