12 Ups & 1 Down From AEW Dynamite (November 8 - Results & Review)

10. Laying It Out In Black & White

This was the best week yet for Hikaru Shida Vs Toni Storm, and that's before a brand new character entered the frame elsewhere on the show. More on that later, because this thankfully had much more on Storm and Shida's issues right now.

The 'Timeless' Toni Storm persona has always been most effective when her insanity is forced to interact with the real world she inhabits in AEW. Her demands were met with the scene taking place in black and white, but the Champion flatly refused to see her Challenger as anything other than a real human being in living colour.

Shida dared to drill into how any of this had happened, and Storm, with conviction, blamed Shida directly. The defeats, the losses and the heartbreaks have sent the former titleholder into a spiral that she genuinely believes she has burst out of as result of this personality shift. Winning the belt back fixes it, which was made all the tougher by Tony Schiavone's reminder that Shida hadn't been pinned or submitted in 2023.

With genuine doubt cast over the result following developments later, this became a hotter and more unpredictable match with wider implications on a women's division that - whisper it - might be morphing into a real division. Perhaps this divisive feature will have a happy ending after all.