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

1. My Guest(s) At This Time

It's to Renee Paquette's (more on her shortly) immense credit that she took the one line interviewers are permitted to say backstage in WWE and turned it into an eight year run in which she immediately became broadcasting royalty akin to other tenured legends in the role. She has brand new hurdle to try and hop over in All Elite Wrestling.

Paquette's presence magnified the continuing issue with interview interruptions being used as fake-feeling match set-ups. She elevated the scenes with her presence alone, but segments featuring Matt Hardy, Private Party, Ethan Page, Stokely Hathaway, Nyla Rose, Vickie Guerrero, Marina Shafir and Anna Jay were much of the infuriating norm.

Nyla was a so much of a popper in her promo that she almost earned an Up for her work alone, but 'The Native Beast' was a desert Rose and even AEW knows it. MJF called out the "trope" in his promo elsewhere on the show, highlighting that it's a known internal problem. Why, then was it not actually addressed? Doubled with Tony Khan's requests for referee improvements falling on deaf ears and the company looks like a place too prepared to put up with its nonsensical faults rather than challenge clichés and lazily embrace all the things that caused WWE to lose a monopoly in the first place.