12 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (Feb 5)
9. Santana Kills It
Who knew Santana could talk like this?! What a promo.
It began with Alex Marvez trying to interview the Inner Circle backstage. "Shut you *ss!", Chris Jericho said, snatching the microphone away, before brilliantly asking "what kind of piece of trash takes a spike and puts it in another man's eye?!". Lovely.
After that, it was Santana's time to shine. His was a short diatribe lasting less than a minute in total, but the Proud and Powerful man came off dangerous, threatening, and real. This was - and this is written with the highest possible praise - a slice of prime Eddie Kingston. You believed every worked Santana said as he claimed Jon Moxley had thrown gasoline on the flame after the worst month of his life and next week, it's eye for an eye.
Lord knows what an eye for an eye match entails, but we're here for it.