5 Ups & 5 Downs From AEW Dynamite (8 Mar - Review)
4. Lacking Juice
Ricky Starks was a late but shrewd addition to the Dynamite line-up.
The supposed "benefit" of him beating Chris Jericho at Revolution might have been lost if 'The Ocho' was back on Wednesday no-selling the defeat and 'Absolute' himself was nowhere to be found. Starks taking television time to openly question what was next for him felt liked a lived in character choice for somebody desperate to pull away from the recent vortex he was trapped in.
The problem was with who extended their arm in rescue.
When the Bullet Club logo flashed up on screens and the iconic entrance theme played, the arena fizzed with excitement that known free agent Jay White might well have made his choice. This made the surprise appearance of Juice Robinsion doubly disappointing - not only did he feel like a step down the ladder for Starks, but Robinson not being 'Switchblade' (after an indifferent on-screen run in AEW thus far) was itself a letdown.
Everybody's mostly blameless for that, but does it even track narratively? Starks got ostensibly the biggest singles win of his career on Sunday, and now has a lower card filler match with Robinson as the provide. As for the man he defeated...