10 AEW Dark Matches You Must See
3. Jurassic Express Vs Panda X-Press (November 24th 2020)
A routine win for Luchasaurus and Jungle Boy had a can't-miss quality thanks to their opponents - a couple of working pandas. Somehow, this seemed to fly under the radar too.
Cursed perhaps by the calendar - AEW took a hit around Thanksgiving as pandemic-addled friends and families did everything they could to be together, rather than watch wrestling - this high banter tag match didn't seem to charm an audience increasingly engaged by banter wrestling and (at the risk of overstating the novelty of a guy in a full on panda head) esoteric ideas.
AEW has presented itself as a buffet since the beginning, but never had they looked more like one when an act with the same name as a famous West Coast all-you-can-eat tried to take on a boy and his dinosaur.
Outside of a small heat sequence at Jungle Boy's expense (a panda hitting a frog splash was the highlight), the match mostly played on Ultimo Panda's rotten conditioning and hilarous mask - particularly when he squared up to Luchasaurus late in the day.
Wrestling's not knowingly stupid enough, without it eventually offending the sensibilities of the fanbase. This did loads of the former and absolutely none of the latter.