12 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (Oct 2)

1. Total Collapse

AEW's decision to completely abandon any semblance of logic in Dynamite's main event was maddening.

Jon Moxley interfered in Kenny Omega, Ortiz, and Santana vs. The Elite. He struck after just a few minutes, with the brawl quickly taking him and Omega out of the ring and through the crowd. A hot little angle, but why wasn't he disqualified? He put his hands on an active competitor! It would've been a fart of a finish, but this is supposed to be the "real sport" wrestling promotion and they're out here ignoring blatant DQs on night one of television, just because.

Another problem with the Moxley angle was that TV viewers couldn't see any part of what was going on in the ring while it was happening. That's what happens when you try to do two things at once. Jericho, the former LAX, and The Young Bucks could have been sat in a circle singing Kumbaya and nobody would have been any wiser. Completely abandoning it for 2-3 minutes didn't work out.

And to make matters worse, the crowd were noticeably colder once the focus shifted from Omega and Mox back to the match. This was always going to happen after a man was suplexed through a glass table, of course, but this should've been accounted for.

There was plenty of good in this match and angle too, though these problems were immersion breakers.