10 Highest-Rated AEW Dynamite Episodes So Far

It was pivotal to AEW's success that Grand Slam Dynamite was a runaway hit. They'd faced tougher challenges prior, sure - hell, for them to even get off the ground is a victory to be proud of - but something about the 22 September 2021 Dynamite felt different altogether.

Was it the venue, New York's Arthur Ashe Stadium? Was it the card, opened by Bryan Danielson vs. Kenny Omega and headlined by Britt Baker vs. Ruby Soho? Was it the atmosphere created by the 20,000+ in attendance?

Yes.

Everything came together to create this wonderfully-executed broadcast. So well laid-out was this broadcast that it may be the single greatest broadcast of a weekly wrestling show ever. Danielson and Omega's thirty-minute epic felt like a breeze, despite taking up a quarter of the show's total runtime. It instantly refuted the myth that lengthy matches can't also be engrossing, leaving the New Yorkers gasping for just one more minute of their masterpiece.

Britt Baker and Ruby Soho's Women's World Championship clash, MJF walking over Brian Pillman Jr., Sting appearing to be in his prime as he and Darby Allin battered FTR, Malakai Black again falling Cody Rhodes while proving himself as a star athlete by obscuring Rhodes' black mist-coated face in the winning pinfall; everything felt magical.