6 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dynamite (June 26)

by Jamie Kennedy

1. That Main Event

Kenny Omega Jungle Boy
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Forget the crummy Matt Hardy and Christian Cage ending for a second, because that main event merits serious praise.

Kenny Omega ditched the lame comedy that has become his life and got serious for this AEW World Title match. That, in effect, made Jungle Boy seem like more of a credible challenger than he would've been had Omega decided to goof around with Don Callis and take him lightly.

JB seized his main event chance by matching Omega all the way (no mean feat), and he came across as someone who will inevitably be AEW Champ himself someday. That, if AEW are being honest with themselves, was more than they could've expected from this short Double Or Nothing-Saturday Dynamite build over the past month or so.

It's heartening to know that this is only the beginning of Boy's journey towards superstardom. Hopefully, this headliner also acts as a lesson to Tony Khan that Omega is waaaaay more effective when he isn't acting like some jokey fool or playing up to nerd culture in backstage skits.

What did you think of this week's AEW Dynamite? For more wrestling, check out 3 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE SmackDown (June 25) and 18 Things You Probably Missed From WWE Raw (June 21)!

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Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.