6 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (October 25 - Results & Review)

Downs…

4. Hangman Page & The Young Bucks Vs The Hardys & Brother Zay

Another case of The Young Bucks trying and nobly failing to make magic with their heroes, the mere announcement of this match generated familiar cries of nepotism and scorn. The Bucks are the Number One contenders to the AEW Tag Team Championships, but are yet to appear to care about that. It's the bit for them not to care about much, yes, but the work becomes a shoot when any storyline motivation is replaced by a real life one to keep Matt and Jeff Hardy on television.

Brother Zay was there too, and he was unquestionably the most entertaining of all the challengers. His zipping and whizzing, even on defence, stood in stark and awkward contrast to his partners' clunky and/or glacial exchanges with the Champions, but such is life when two decades of mounting injuries exist between them.

There was a very big (and very great) post-match angle later on this show (more on that later) that at very least required Hangman Page to be in the ring in Philadelphia, but this match never once felt like the optimum reason to . Especially when the five percent of doubt around The Hardys and Zay winning the belts was eradicated within the first five minutes. The weight of indifference hung heavy in the tiddy of this one - five people wrestled as if they had little-to-nothing going on in AEW's bigger picture, and that's so odd when two of them don't.