6 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (17 May - Review)
The Elite is complete, Pillars unite against MJF and Chris Jericho & Roderick Strong touch grass.
More on Tony Khan's big smiles later in this article, but he was more than entitled to be sporting them after AEW's latest money-spinning television venture was revealed at WBD's upfronts just hours before the May 17th Dynamite hit the air.
Collision will launch on Saturday 17th June, and unconfirmed figures circling in all the usual places ahead of the news had the number of zeroes at nine. It's a big figure, a big story and a big moment in the company's history. But we are not network executives (apart from the ones reading in between meetings - hello!) or billionaire businessmen. We are wrestling fans being asked to part with money for a pay-per-view in two weeks. It's possible to celebrate the good news for the long-term health of the company while panicking slightly about the short-term after one of the weaker supercard builds in AEW's history.
May 10th's turbocharged Kenny Omega/Jon Moxley steel cage main event was a statement of intent from build to shocking conclusion, but could Khan build on that and everything else on his show to prove that his creative head was still as switched on as his commercial one?
Let’s light the fuse…