7 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dynamite (January 17 - Results & Review)

1. Another Typical Night In The AEW Women's Division

Deonna Purrazzo Anna Jay
AEW

Deonna Purrazzo Vs. Anna Jay wasn't as good as the former's reintroduction against Red Velvet. In her match, Velvet dared go for hold-for-hold with the submission specialist, who punished her insolence with a dominant introducory showing.

Here, Jay actually managed to get the advantage in an early cradle trade-off before the match settled, bleakly, into Dynamite Autopilot: presumed loser actually gets in a lot of offence before the expected result happens. It might have worked on its own misjudged terms, but in a further issue, Jay just wasn't as sharp on the mat as her opponent.

It's very early for all that numbing back-and-forth, which was so even that Purrazzo's Venus de Milo submission win felt anticlimactic, it was applied so shortly after a forearm exchange. Purrazzo should at this point be the unsolvable puzzle that Toni can't begin to approach.

Instead, she is already victim of the picture-and-butchering that is life in the AEW women's division.

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