7 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Dynamite (12 Oct)
Orange Wednesday in The Great White North as AEW crosses the border and Jon Moxley crosses the line.
All Elite Wrestling seemed to completely fall out of the conversational contraflow in the last week or so, and maybe that was no bad thing.
Between the return of Bray Wyatt to hotly debated Extreme Rules and Monday Night Raw shows in general, the events of Friday's Rampage/Battle Of The Belts double header almost completely disappeared from view. As - fortuitously - did yet more controversy that engulfed last Wednesday's Dynamite. Sammy Guevara and Andrade's backstage fight before the show put AEW back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, and had The Fiend not had a weird old dance at ringside on Saturday night, we'd probably all still be pontificating on it now.
But dance The Fiend did, and AEW's first Canadian Dynamite represented the latest New Year/New Me refresh for a company that could desperately do with finding solid footing ahead of November's Full Gear pay-per-view.
"Chris Jericho Vs Bryan Danielson" is probably offered as a synonym for "solid footing" in pro wrestling thesauruses, but where would the third outing slot in between a TV ripper and one of the year's bigger in-ring disappointments? And what else did Tony Khan have in store for the organisation's north-of-the-border debut?
Let's light the fuse...