5 Ups & 5 Downs From AEW Dynamite (June 22)
4. Good Match, Bad Booking
Replaced in the typical Dynamite opening slot with the aforementioned promo, the match pitting Orange Cassidy and Roppongi Vice against Will Ospreay and Aussie Open was just over 10 minutes of very good wrestling in an era where that's basically the minimum expectation on any wrestling show.
With some of the excellent work simply too easy to overlook with everything going on in the promotion at present, attention instead turns to the booking of these characters and the mess that's been made ahead of Forbidden Door.
Not to go to bat for Billy No Brains, but assuming he beats Orange Cassidy, his record in AEW will be 2-2. "All Elite Wrestling had Will Ospreay for a month and they 50/50 booked him" is legacy-staining sh*t whether you love the former IWGP Champion or not. Aussie Open being booked as his token loser mates exposes the transparency of the limp storytelling - "protecting" United Empire representatives Great O-Khan and Jeff Cobb by not featuring them doesn't exactly whet the appetite for them working a pay-per-view, as doesn't a fake forged friendship between FTR and Roppongi Vice.
Too late to fix it, but shouldn't have broken it in the first place.
Speaking of which...