5 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (8 Feb - Review)
The Good, The Bad & The Jericho of a show that offered the full AEW experience for better and worse.
Dynamite has been on a creative roll lately.
Ahead of February 8th, the Revolution card wasn't crystal clear beyond the main event, and numbers for the flagship or Dynamite having exactly been soaring, but the product overall hasn't given any cause for concern. Tony Khan is - as we are insufferably reminded every other second on the socials by terrible stan accounts - cooking.
In MJF and Bryan Danielson, he's made impeccable use of two polar opposite characters with the knowledge that fans know much of the bluster is a red herring. The 60-Minute Iron Man match stands to rule, and the booking of the 'Salt Of The Earth' against can't-miss factory Konosuke Takeshita was designed to hide that in plain sight.
All of that was there to double down on what we already knew. What else did the company have in mind for one of the more predictable shows in recent history. Championship Fight Night had more to it than your average Battle Of The Belts, and the outcomes weren't anywhere near as obvious as you might have thought.
Let's light the fuse...