13 Ups & 6 Downs From AEW Dynamite (Nov 27)

1. The Tag Division's Booking

Best Friends
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As stacked as AEW's tag division is and as much as the promotion deserve our trust when it comes to matters like this, the booking has been pretty confusing thus far.

While there's an express need for AEW to build new stars up to the same level as their more established acts, thus building depth, it feels like they're already undermining immediately pushable tag teams. Last night saw the Lucha Brothers lose to Best Friends. Previously, we've seen both Pride & Powerful and The Young Bucks eating shock defeats to less over teams.

Putting the ascendent units over should always be the long-term plan, of course, but it feels like this is all happening far too early. Maybe book one of these three massive teams underneath early on. Maybe use their star power to build long-term programmes with the less prestigious teams, leading to a huge, star-making victory at the end of the road, not the start of it.

Here's hoping that the booking team has a plan. At the moment, there's no semblance of a structure. Everyone's just farting around in the middle, So Cal Uncensored aside.

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