3 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dark (Mar 10)

Downs...

4. An Unfortunate Flop

Isiah Kassidy
AEW

The collective inexperience of Private Party, Sonny Kiss, and Brandon Cutler showed in last night's Dark main event. While worked at a good clip and intermittently more exciting than anything else on the card, this a messy, illogical collection of spots with little connective tissue, as wrestlers regular stood around conveniently waiting for their opposite number to do whatever it was they were trying to do, making the whole thing look overly cooperative and tough to get lost in.

It's a shame, because Kiss is infectious and underutilised and Private Party are an extremely promising young team. Regardless, none of these wrestlers is the finished article yet - the match highlighted this.

A problem throughout this show was established wrestlers taking too long to defeat wrestlers they clearly outranked, which was certainly the case here. Private Party are, per AEW themselves, a top-five tag team, so why did it take 12 minutes for them to overcome a couple of performers who can't buy a win in 2020?

Weak.

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