6 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (26 April - Review)
MJF and Sammy Guevara's comedic charms elevate yet another uneven Dynamite.
What's going on with AEW at the moment?
Has the return of CM Punk Discourse overshadowed the product yet again? Is it a "microwave baby" take to suggest that the promotion is cold at the midway point between pay-per-view cycles? Or is it just lacking?
After a superb few weeks after Revolution, the show over the last three has once again reached wildly uneven territory. It's becoming the norm.
Worked shoot edgelord promo trains in the Four-Way Pillars storyline. A very gotten-to "satire" of the wrestling media in QTV, which seems to function more as a way for QT Marshall to prove that he knows better than everybody else than an effective means of pushing Powerhouse Hobbs, the irony of which is too much to bear.
A women's division in complete stasis, with last week's very effective (if not particularly well-executed) angle being the rule-proving exception. At least two storylines, involving Matt Hardy and Smart Mark Sterling, centred around legal administration.
Where are the intensely personal, emotionally resonant one-on-one feuds?
Will Tony Khan's increasingly boring obsession with linking together so many wrestlers fade when he doesn't need to cram them all onto Dynamite?
Will Collision resolve the weird, incessant development of wrestlers - FTR/Jeff Jarrett, Jeff Jarrett/Jay Briscoe, The Acclaimed/Daddy Magic & Cool Hand Ang - attempting to co-exist in four-man tags?
What about the other incessant need to form temporary alliances to put off singles matches? Keith Lee has aligned with Dustin Rhodes and Adam Cole months after the Swerve Strickland match should have happened. Worthwhile build, or just pure procrastination?
Was this week's Dynamite similarly convoluted and unfocused...?