5 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (August 9 - Review)
1. All In Takes Shape
At long last!
With a spry 17 days until the biggest event in company history and a show that, again, stands to be potentially the largest paid show in wrestling history, a fleshed out card began to emerge. This was a pleasing development, and a welcome response to very valid complaints in recent weeks that the show was feeling like a decidedly secondary concern.
The Young Bucks answered in the affirmative to FTR's Collision challenge, teeing up a dream rubber match. The Women's Championship tournament brackets all-but confirmed the participants for that four-way. Regardless of anybody's opinion on the hows and whys of it happening, the homestretch towards Chris Jericho Vs Will Ospreay appeared in view. The aforementioned coffin match got its own graphic. Adam Cole and MJF will surely get their Zero Hour wish granted. Most fascinating of all was Kenny Omega's confirmation that he'll sit down with Jim Ross next week to discuss what he's going to be up to. Friend Hangman Page and enemy Konosuke Takeshita are both free, could one or both figure into that?
The focus was at last on London, and it massively helped in elevating an otherwise-innocuous edition of the show.