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

5. Kenny Omega Sits Down With Jim Ross

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A divide has opened up between the AEW audience about the shape, nature and overall quality of the All In card, and on a night designed to flesh out the remainder of the show, further discussion and debate was assured after segments such as this.

Despite his his decreasing presence on broadcasts, Jim Ross remains an authoritative pillar in segments such as these, and the Daily's Place sit-down between the legendary announcer and Kenny Omega was important-by-default even without the massive shadow Wembley Stadium's iconic archway was casting over the conversation.

Omega drilling further into his longstanding relationship with "Uncle Don" was treading over old ground save for a bizarre edit that appeared to suggest Callis had been sending him dodgy supplements when he was younger, and the Bullet Club Gold ambush that followed was as fake-feeling as Hangman Page's report from "the hospital" where a trios challenge was issued. A little more on that later, though.

Confirming all the weekend's lightning rod rumours, Kenny will team with partners old and new in Kota Ibushi and Hangman Page to take on the Bang Bang Gang and Konosuke Takeshita in a match that will likely be awesome on the strength of the six men in the match. But for the second segment in a row, plenty of viewers were left pondering how a minimum of three of the combatants had found themselves working a match-to-build-a-match on the biggest show AEW will ever promote and biggest show in wrestling history.

Hokey short-notice hostilities to go on a card for reasons that feel more for the wrestlers than the fans? Get ready for some more of that...

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