5 Ups & 5 Downs From AEW Dynamite (November 22 - Results & Review)
Downs…
5. Jay White Vs Rush
Jay White and Rush had a perfectly acceptable wrestling match and if there's a better advert for how perfectly acceptable wrestling has not and will not ever be the lone answer to a creatively barren company's problems, your writer is yet to see it.
The LFI are ostensibly babyfaces now, but Rush and White felt like they were working an all-heel match without the competitive chicanery. White nailing a low blow at the first and only opportunity in a contest that robbed the pair of their respective entourages was a nice reminder that 'Switchblade' excels as a tournament villain, but a quarter of an hour of move exchanges didn't exactly generate the energy that allow you to feel earnestly angry at his misdeeds. If anything, it's the sort of thing Rush would have done given the chance, so more fool the recently-returned star for blowing the opportunity.
This wasn't a bad booking for the Continental Classic, but it was one of three of matches on this show that most definitely should have been mid-tournament encounters rather than cold openers.