10 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Double Or Nothing 2021
Ups...
10. How To Do A Pre-Show Match
The fans were big into Serena Deeb. She was afforded very respectful reception in thanks for her role as an architect of AEW's renewed Women's division.
By the midway portion of her outstanding Buy-In match against Riho, she generated booming chants of "Let's go, Riho" on behalf of her opponent because it turns out that she is just as great at manipulating a crowd as elevating women to her pristine level. Deeb has already become one of the world's standout wrestlers last year. With a crowd to work, she became one of the world's standout workers last night.
This match was awesome. Deeb showed aggression and cast a withering glance towards Riho after evading her dropkick. She blew off the outstretched hand, inciting a slap battle before Riho evaded a back elbow with a more dazzling cartwheel evasion. Pissed at being outdone, Deeb drew the heat by killing Riho's poor knee and using the cables to strangle her neck. Casting a smug look to the crowd, Deeb scraped Riho's face away from hers.
The dynamic established, Deeb and Riho worked a just terrific pro wrestling match, with Deeb using Riho's flexibility to make her submission game look utterly excruciating. Riho's fire rocked the crowd, who popped daft for her forearms, stomps and one disgustingly awesome suplex head-drop, but her exuberance allowed the masterful Deeb to lull her into the maw at the finish. Deeb, diving underneath Riho's lunging knee, applied a single leg crab in one beautiful, fluid, deadly motion. Deeb was surgically attached to that knee, she worked it so well, and she retained the NWA Women's Title by smashing it into the apron before applying the Serenity lock.
Furious, ****+ stuff on a pre-show.
LFG!