10 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (Jan 22)

7. What's Beef?

MJF Wardlow
AEW

A slick, well-produced video package preceded MJF vs. Joey Janela, highlighting all that has happened between Cody and young Maxwell since 'The Salt of the Earth' turned on his former mentor.

This was brief, to the point, and effective. We were treated to recaps of the 1 January promo in which MJF laid his stipulations down interspersed with footage from last week, as Cody accepted each and every one of them. Between all of this was footage of a welder crafting steel, presumably for the upcoming Wardlow cage match, and it was presented in an entirely different tone to the Jungle Boy vignette to help it stand out.

The increased use of video packages on Dynamite will pay dividends later on. Last night, it succeeded by recapping AEW's most personal rivalry.

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