6 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Dynamite (16 Nov)
2. Mox & Max In The Mix
Even when Jon Moxley is bad, he's good.
His words in the evening's show-closing angle seemed knowingly glib, and if that scans as generous then you try and not be won over by the glint permanently placed in the man's eye. A charmer and a perfectionist in equal measure, he doubled down a mistake he'd made earlier in his promo about the date of Full Gear to make a mini-moment with MJF just before Dynamite went off the air.
Before that though, the fans didn't seem to know what to make of the Champion refusing to take the Challenger seriously, which is probably excellent foreshadowing about 'The Salt Of The Earth' doing something f*cking awful to all of us the second he's got the belt. Unfortunately, words that might age like fine wine in the future stunk like off milk today.
MJF beating up The Firm felt pointed in doing away with any doubts of that split being an Aces & Eights-style misdirect, and the 'Generational Talent' more than held up his end of things on the microphone as usual, but possibly because of the faux all-babyface vibe, this was the coldest this otherwise-red hot match has thus far felt. After Hangman Page Vs CM Punk and Jon Moxley Vs CM Punk, did we even need another build insistent on blurring the lines?