6 Ups & 6 Downs From AEW Dynamite (September 13 - Results & Review)
4. Women's Number One Contender's 4-Way Dance
Toni Storm is going to be one of the most over babyfaces inside Arthur Ashe Stadium next week, and looking at the ticket advances, the show’s gonna need the noise she brings.
Her victory and performance wasn’t enough to drag a mostly-heatless and sloppy Number One Contenders match over the line, but it must always be said that the wrestlers involved in matches for this division are only ever half to blame at a maximum. Here, they can shoulder some for a couple of timing issues during the multi-woman spots and Baker not really connecting at the all-important conclusion.
Beyond that, the booking can yet again be held to account. The Hikaru Shida/Britt Baker tension feels manufactured and has twice now been deployed illogically. When they were tag partners, Shida raged at Britt not tagging her in. As opponents, she raged despite Britt not tagging her in the face with a kick. The latter made ‘D.M.D’ look gullible too, especially when she took the brunt of something resembling a beatdown from her former friend afterwards.
That whole scene was all a bit of a mess too, and wasn’t the only thing that wasn’t helped by…