7 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Dynamite (6 March - Review)
Dynamite gets a facelift, the Dream Match factory reopens its doors & Kazuchika Okada is ALL Elite
It's an exciting time in All Elite Wrestling.
There's been a lot of talk about the return of "The Feeling" over the last several months. Though it's hard to define - as it probably should be - those that watch the show know what they're feeling and know what they expect from AEW and those two things seem to be coinciding on a regular basis for the first time in a while. Sunday's Revolution pay-per-view was a universally-praised celebration of that. Though imperfect, it was almost made better by some of its imperfections. Things that worked shone by contrast, and things that didn't were low stakes (the forced scramble) or left minimum damage (the World Heavyweight Title three-way) in their wake.
The momentum from the Revolution build and execution was set to continue into a Dynamite that was far more than a pay-per-view FALLOUT or Big Business GO-HOME you might have become familiar with. Tony Khan promised a massive night in Atlanta, for more than just the aesthetic changes that the show also needed. WWE lasted four years before Raw became War, but had changed other aspects of it in half the time. These adjustments, like the booking ones, were required and the same's been said about AEW for some time now.
Was yet another significant Dynamite about to become required viewing too?