12 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite: Bash At The Beach (Jan 15)
Ups...
12. What A Beauty
Jim Ross tweeted a video of Miami's Watsco Center looking very bare and very ordinary on Tuesday evening, giving the impression that Dynamite's Bash at the Beach special would go down without a cool set design. Fortunately, those concerns were premature, as while AEW didn't quite go all-in on the concept, they at least put significant effort into playing to the theme and making the episode look and feel distinct.
Wrestling is an aesthetic business as much as a lot of other things, and Bash at the Beach looked lovely. The neon colour palette, Miami Vice-style logo, prop-laden stage, and Justin Roberts decked out in a cream shirt and trousers like a dad on holiday provided the window dressing. The entrance tunnels were flanked by sand, too. It was class.
Perhaps the show itself could've played to the aesthetic a little more, though this may have provoked criticism for being too gimmicky. A gentle Up here regardless.