5 Ups & 6 Downs From AEW Dynamite (Apr 7)

4. Is This It?

Best Friends Kris Statlander
AEW

Last night's Death Triangle/Best Friends angle didn't need to exist.

This felt like tacked-on filler. A PAC/Rey Fenix vs. The Young Bucks match announcement would have worked as a tweet and while this helps set up Best Friends as potential challengers should the Death Triangle duo win, Orange Cassidy, Trent, and Chuck Taylor accosting a duo who'd won their opportunity fair and square, in the ring, felt random, despite their past grievances.

"Oh, and we have an alien with us now" was such a lame, inconsequential follow-up on Kris Statlander's return too.

Trimming this segment and throwing an extra 2-3 minutes onto, say, JD Drake vs. Darby Allin would have been welcome here.

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