11 Ups & 1 Down From AEW Dynamite (29 Sep)

4. Day-One Wrestler, First-Time Champion

Structured differently to any other match on the show was Sammy Guevara vs. Miro, which was all about the TNT Title challenger swimming against the champion's dominant tide, chipping away at his defences before finally crafting a workable opening.

Guevara was battered, hossed, and smacked around. It was a sympathetic selling performance from a day-one wrestler still awaiting his first title reign in AEW, who found success by repeatedly exploiting opportunities to smash Miro's skill into the ring post. When Miro got too cocky, pacing the arena as if he owned it, Guevara burst to life, put holes in the big man's defences, and edged closer and closer.

Miro looked to exploit the exposed turnbuckles late on, as he'd successfully done against Eddie Kingston at All Out. Unsheathing the fourth and final one proved fatal, however. Interrupted by Fuego Del Sol, from whom this storyline came in the first place, he was blindsided by Sammy kicking him into the exposed steel, hit with the GTH, and felled, finally, by a 630 senton.

A good match rather than a great one, this told an effective story nonetheless. Miro had slipped into cockiness in recent TNT Title defences, allowing his opponents ways back into their failed challenges. This helped present him as a dominant champion while still ensuring his foes came out shining. In Guevara, he met somebody skilled enough to punishment (albeit via Fuego assist), and while Miro's reign ended with miles left to tick off the clock, this was an earned, satisfying win for an AEW original.