4 Ups & 7 Downs From AEW Dynamite: Fight For The Fallen (August 17 - Review)

3. MJF & Adam Cole Go Down Under, Then Get Deep

The backstage wackiness was more miss than hit for Better Than You Bay-Bay, but the quality of their live audience portion was yet again so utterly fantastic that the lightweight skit element of the story almost deserves a pass.

Old Australian stereotypes and tired gags tested the patience on a Dynamite that had already done too effective a job of trivialising the biggest wrestling show ever, and a bizarre Tony Khan cameo was just about the last thing anybody could have predicted for a payoff. Roderick Strong adding sore foot to his injury list after kicking MJF's car was a riot, but the best of everything really was saved for the live crowd.

Having used the mess-around to build the Ring Of Honor Tag Team Title match, the two talked business under the brightest lights. Adam Cole invoked infamous lines from Stone Cold Steve Austin in discussing his desperation to win. Hiding his heel turn in plain sight a la 'The Rattlesnake', or deftly dropping another red herring? The less we all know the better, and MJF's AEW origin story here was extraordinarily effective in selling why he simply had to win on the company's biggest stage. That was broken up by an Aussie Open ambush, and after despatching the heels, the two yet again looked like they might come apart before hugging it out.

Call this programme too comedic for the World Title if you still feel it in your guts, but no feud has taken the sheer scale of the Wembley supercard as seriously, and this was yet another glittering example of how it's been such a storming success.