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

1. All-Star Tag Delivers

A banging all-star tag pitting Jon Moxley and PAC against Kenny Omega and Hangman Page provided Dynamite's biggest highlight, with the bout delivering to a level befitting the names involved.

Moxley and PAC's dislike for each was established earlier. The announcers noted that while they were cut from the same cloth, PAC blasting Omega in front of Mox the previous week didn't mean they were buds, and when Tony Schiavone added that "the team that works together as a unit is usually the team that wins," the story was established.

The villains showed surprise cohesion after Omega had jumped Moxley at the ball, desperate to beat the sh*t out of the former Dean Ambrose after having his head drilled through a glass table. A bout rife with energy, physicality, and heat followed. Each man fought with fire. They all had something to prove, and in the end, they concocted a memorable finish that worked for every character and story in play.

Omega and Moxley brought in their respective wire-wrapped weapons, with Mox winning the exchange, knocking Kenny down with his bat. PAC was having one of this. Not wanting to lose via DQ, he disarmed his partner then barked in his face, telling him to use his head. Moxley's chaos element kicked in as he drilled PAC with the Paradigm Shift, bailed, and left 'The Bastard' to the wolves, with Page and Omega isolating him for the win.

So Hangman Page proved himself a worthy ally after recent discrepancies, "the old Omega" resurfaced with another victory, we got another wrinkle in Kenny's feud with Moxley, and now a rift between Jon and PAC as well? So many boxes, all ticked.