14 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dynamite (16 Oct)

6. Cunning Stunts

The Lucha Brothers vs. Marko Stunt and Jungle Boy will split opinion like nothing else on the show because Marko Stunt isn't just tiny, he's f*cking tiny. "'Mr Funsize' is too small to be a believable pro-wrestler," they'll say, adding that him going up against Fenix and Pentagon for close to 11 minutes just isn't realistic.

While there's merit to that argument, it's blind to how Stunt was presented last night. Marko didn't go 50/50 with the Lucha Brothers. For the most part, he was getting his *ass kicked. He was surviving. He was hanging in there. He wasn't dominating or controlling Fenix and Pentagon and only really attacked in short, sharp, crowd-popping bursts, with the layout putting him over as a hard-to-kill cockroach rather than somebody on the Lucha Bros' level - and that's absolutely fine.

The Luchasaurus injury created a different Jurassic Express dynamic. The usual face-in-peril/big hot-tagger layout was abandoned, with the trio's smaller members adopting shock-and-awe offense instead, blindsiding the Lucha Bros. early on. Watching Penta and Fenix abusing Stunt was something else, though. Marko is so small that every bump he takes looks absolutely brutal, particularly when Pentagon swings him around by his goddamn hair, and the Fear Factor/double stomp combo that finished it looked like a deathblow.