4 Ups & 7 Downs From AEW Dynamite: Fight For The Fallen (August 17 - Review)
1. The Young Bucks Vs The Gunns
Wrestled at the sort of speed that suggested that time might have been cut, the sprint energy from the wrestlers was the best thing about a match that never really looked like it belonged in the headline spot nor captured audience imagination enough to fake the feeling.
The Bucks decking The Gunns during their awesome entrance was a great touch and sold the growing hostilities between The Elite and Bullet Club Gold, but these four specifically working the TV back-and-forth formula on double speed was jarring. Matt and Nick Jackson aren't just challenging for the AEW Tag Team Titles at All In, but for the right to definitively be called the best tag team in the world once again. To that end, it was important they looked dominant against such overmatched opponents. Having to spend a decent amount of the limited time selling wasn't ideal, even if they picked up the forgone conclusion victory in the end.
FTR making the save during a post-match beatdown was good all-babyface booking (and the two teams coming together at all before Wembley was welcome in the era of the Collision/Dynamite soft split), but only during that aftermath did any of this feel like time well spent rather than slightly squandered.