4 Ups & 6 Downs From AEW Dynamite (22 Feb - Review)
Downs…
6. Tony Khan's Important Announcement
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"Important" did some heavy lifting in the graphic that first appeared on Friday's Rampage and then days later front and centre on the Dynamite line-up graphic. As did "Tony Khan", for that matter. He quite wisely dipped out lest he make himself even more of a meme, handing over to Adam Cole to confirm that "AEW All Access" was coming soon to TBS on Wednesday Nights.
It'll surely be a great show with a great roster full of great moments but this was a meeting-that-could-have-been-an-email first world problem supplanted onto a wrestling show.
The network possibly requested that they get more attention than a mere tweet, but after his interactions with Ariel Helwani, Khan's profile is a hotter space than Dynamite itself right now. Precedent has been set, and this got nowhere close to living up to any.
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