5 Ups & 5 Downs From AEW Dynamite 200 (August 2 - Review)
Ups…
5. 200 Up
All Elite Wrestling celebrated turning four in January, and with Dynamite's 200th episode effectively toasted the same birthday here, and the company and show's lifespan is now long enough to justify taking a rose-coloured look at its impressive legacy.
As is always the case, the best way to honour something like this is to knock the show out of the park, but as far as making use of nostalgia for one of the first times, this was vastly superior to 95% of the Raw tribute shows over the last twenty years. The entrance tunnels and neon explosion graphics were back, Tony Khan teed up a video that served as a reminder of just how impressive a broadcast its been at its peak, and some of the old clips used during wrestler entrances were tremendous at bedding them further into the Dynamite's ever-increasing lore.
Neither overwhelming or underserving, the execution of the reasonable self-aggrandising was measured impeccably. Nobody minds a "This Is Awesome" chant when it's - in Khan's own words - justified.