6 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dynamite (14 Sept)

1. Trios Champions Lose Filler Tag Title Match

There was plenty of fun to be had as the Lucha Brothers battled Swerve In Our Glory for the World Tag Team Championships. Specifically, the clash engineered a handful of eyeball-popping spots that rank amongst 2022's most giffable moments, highlighted by Penta Oscuro executing a perfect Destroyer on Keith Lee, having springboarded over Fenix... who had just blasted Swerve Strickland with an avalanche Spanish Fly. Absurd. The kind of moment that gets the blood going.

But despite these obvious sugar highs, the bout was messy. Penta spent an immersion-breaking amount of time holding Swerve in place for Made In Penta at one point, waiting patiently while Lee and Fenix worked on the outside. This was to facilitate Keith throwing Fenix through the ropes to break a fall. Again, spectacular, but stunted.

Beyond that and other mechanically cumbersome moments, this was a weird piece of booking. Lucha Brothers have credibility as beatable challengers for a team with a bigger match on the horizon. The problem is that they, too, are champions right now, having hoovered up the Trios Championships following the All Out mess.

And here they are, losing a relatively arbitrary television match.

Alex Marvez was right when he interviewed PAC later on. Death Triangle didn't look good tonight.