7 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dynamite (July 12 - Review)
6. Darby Allin & Sammy Guevara Vs The Jericho Appreciation Society
With Darby Allin and Sammy Guevara's parity so recently re-established in the Four Pillars feud ahead of Double Or Nothing, it fell to this match to make Orange Cassidy and Daniel Garcia equals too. The agenting was then so sublime that it felt like another International Championship defence has to be forthcoming.
Cassidy and Garcia exchanged a flurry of intricate cradles, with the switches between holds as slick as the minds that thought to do them. This came either side of the two constantly coming to blows, which also served as backdrop for Allin and Guevara to engage in their own typically bananas back-and-forths.
A great piece of tag team business was knowingly marred by Swerve Strickland and Prince Nana causing the faces to lose by decking Darby Allin while Orange Cassidy and the referee were otherwise distracted. Allin was left prone to be hit with the GTH, though 'The Spanish God's insistence on a handshake at the end suggests that JAS chemistry between the two going into the final may not be quite as tight as the bond between their frenemy foes.
Speaking of which...