4 Ups & 6 Downs From AEW Dynamite (22 Feb - Review)
3. Jon Moxley Vs Evil Uno
Evil Uno's blood pouring through his mask like loose clay being forced through a Play-Doh fun factory was a reminder that Dynamite is again the home of the type of wrestling video nasty you used to have to wait eight days on dial-up to download.
The grisly impact of Jon Moxley's violence made for an effective visual, but the match only really lived up to the billing and that was the problem. Mox can (and has) elevate many while beating the ever-loving sh*t out of them, but this simply wasn't one of those nights, and the reminder of how easy it is to become unmoved by such visceral suffering is a damning call-back to the excesses of 2022.
As was the case in Dynamite's closing moments; Moxley had barely a minute left to escape the show without bleeding a gusher himself, but Hangman Page and some barbed wire (and when's that ever gone wrong in this promotion?) put paid to that dream.