6 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite: Fyter Fest (20 July)

2. Raw In Our Glory

Swerve In Our Glory's championship celebration was a clichéd WWE Raw segment.

It's a shame. Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland are likeable, extremely talented, and have great chemistry. It was particularly nice seeing Lee becoming a champion last week given how wildly his fortunes have varied over the past few years. The match was awesome, too, and worthy of a great follow-up.

But "great" this certainly wasn't. Lee and Strickland spoke well but were forced to crowbar constant references to ringside rapper Kevin Gates in. This continued when 'Smart' Mark Sterling and Tony Nese came out. Nese ate (decent-looking, admittedly!) punch from the rapper while Sterling, his goofball manager, ended the segment with a faceful of cake, having claimed his petition to have Strickland removed from the AEW roster was nearing completion.

Overfocused celebrity appearances and bad slapstick comedy are two things the AEW product benefits greatly from avoiding. More sparing use of Gates and complete evasion of the cake spot would have felt more appropriate here.

Or, y'know, Swerve In Our Glory being confronted by an ascendent tag team in a wrestling angle.