7 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Dynamite (12 Oct)

Orange Wednesday in The Great White North as AEW crosses the border and Jon Moxley crosses the line.

by Michael Hamflett
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All Elite Wrestling seemed to completely fall out of the conversational contraflow in the last week or so, and maybe that was no bad thing.

Between the return of Bray Wyatt to hotly debated Extreme Rules and Monday Night Raw shows in general, the events of Friday's Rampage/Battle Of The Belts double header almost completely disappeared from view. As - fortuitously - did yet more controversy that engulfed last Wednesday's Dynamite. Sammy Guevara and Andrade's backstage fight before the show put AEW back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, and had The Fiend not had a weird old dance at ringside on Saturday night, we'd probably all still be pontificating on it now.

But dance The Fiend did, and AEW's first Canadian Dynamite represented the latest New Year/New Me refresh for a company that could desperately do with finding solid footing ahead of November's Full Gear pay-per-view.

"Chris Jericho Vs Bryan Danielson" is probably offered as a synonym for "solid footing" in pro wrestling thesauruses, but where would the third outing slot in between a TV ripper and one of the year's bigger in-ring disappointments? And what else did Tony Khan have in store for the organisation's north-of-the-border debut?

Let's light the fuse...

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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation over 7 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 30 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz", Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 50,000,000 total downloads. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett