6 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Dynamite (15 Mar - Review)

5. What's The New Acceptable Word For 'Banger'?

Because the Blackpool Combat Club Vs. The Dark Order was it. What an electrifying, wonderfully detailed match this was.

The Blackpool Combat Club are already a tremendous heel unit. They're defensive, nasty, bitter sore losers who can't take the defeat like men. In awesome contrast in a superb trios match with the Dark Order, their babyface opponents didn't complain when the BCC didn't play fair. After Wheeler YUTA clocked Hangman Page in the face with the ring bell, Evil Uno and Stu Grayson looked at one another and made an unspoken pact to storm into the ring and go down swinging. They'd rather have lost the right way than win with dishonour, and this awesome body language and physical sequence tore the house down. Stu Grayson's bait and switch dive was amazing in particular.

With YUTA slouched by the bottom turnbuckle, assisting the misdirect in a splendid detail typical of this promotion, Grayson cleared the whole thing and floored Claudio Castagnoli on the outside. The babyface comeback was plotted and paced so well that people thought Mox was going to take a clean fall at the hands of Evil Uno. Given the apathy and incredulity that greeted their formality of a singles match last month, that was sublime storytelling. Moreover, people last week deemed the continuation of Mox Vs. Hangman puzzling. Where can it go after Texas Death?

Wherever the fans want it to, on this evidence: the two men were kept apart so well here that the tease of a show-down sent them ballistic. AEW truly is the let it play out promotion.