5 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (23 Mar)

2. Complete & Utter Chaos

Your mileage will vary on Andrade Hardy Family office vs. Sting, Darby Allin, and The Hardys will vary depending on how you feel about matches devolving into complete mayhem, but the palpable sense of chaos created here was completely unlike anything else on the card.

Putting The Butcher and The Blade in matches like this is effectively a cheat code. Awesome in their Bunkhouse Match and the bruising Falls Count Anywhere with The Young Bucks, they always stand out in this kind of environment. Here, Butcher built on his awesome Rampage singles match with Allin with another great showing, swinging the smaller man against a tunnel's sides before launching him down some stairs.

This bout was so unhinged that production literally couldn't keep up. Every second, something big was happening in some corner of the arena. Pops came out from all over the building as bodies flew around with reckless abandon, crashing into each other and the environment, inside the arena and out.

Jeff Hardy's dive from a concourse ledge through Butcher and Blade (who were on tables) will get most of the headlines, and understandably so. The guy has only been in AEW for eight days and he's already going all in. Fair play.

And yes. Sting's transition from catching Isiah Kassidy and moving him into the Scorpion Deathlock was a little awkward, but why nitpick? This was a wild, unrestrained hoot of a match that won't win any year-end awards, but was an exhilarating joy nonetheless.