6 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dynamite (March 27 - Results & Review)

6. Tag Tournament Match Is Decent, Mostly Just There

Trent Mike Bennett
AEW

Best Friends Vs. The Kingdom ranged from fine to good. It was a lean TV match, with little depth, that the crowd nonetheless seemed to enjoy. It was a match with some cool moves about which there's little to say, really. You knew who was going to win. The heels had already won the other west bracket quarter-final.

To be slightly pedantic, there was no real need for Trent to take a Mike Bennett piledriver on the apron. It won't kill the move or anything so stupid but it felt like they knew they were going to have the fourth-best match on the card and attempted to over-correct. It was self-conscious and pointless. Also, to set up the Kingdom's finish, Bennett got into position mere seconds after taking Orange Cassidy's Stundog Millionaire. This wasn't delayed selling, nor a fired-up no-sell - just some lazy match construction. The pace of the match was exciting. Taven kicked Orange right in the temple a nanosecond after he hit the stunner, which was a pulsating sequence, but there was next to nothing in the way of connective tissue.

In the only result that were ever possible, Trent rolled up Taven with a flash jackknife win. It was a strange finish, the sort that should be saved for an ultra-competitive match, but whatever.

None of this felt like it truly mattered, but the execution was crisp enough to get the fans animated.

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