4 Ups & 6 Downs From AEW Dynamite (22 Feb - Review)
1. Christian Cage Speaks...
...or can't. And the show was surprisingly better for it.
For a programme that required promos to keep it hot, the wordless brawl between long-standing rivals Christian Cage and Jack Perry was one of the more memorable exchanges between the two.Perry drilling Cage before he got a chance to spout his bile was as logical as it was hard-hitting, and the wily veteran ending the segment on top preserved his character while further enhancing the morals and ethics of his former partner.
Bloodying up the babyface might have been more effective if the floodgates (bloodgates?) hadn’t been flung wide open of late, but Christian doing this instead of verbally going low when MJF also had to was quietly inspired booking. The match - surely a stipped-up brawl planned for Revolution - no longer feels like a non-kayfabe case of a company getting around to finishing what they started. The hatred feels renewed, and very real.