7 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Dynamite (6 March - Review)

2. The Young Bucks Have Some Announcements

The Young Bucks had earned the smug grins they were sporting during their backstage announcement segment, and not just because Sunday's Revolution match against Sting and Darby Allin was yet more proof that they are hitting a vein of form not witnessed since 2021.

The parody was instantly apparent, and welcome too. It was about time somebody within AEW sent up Tony Khan's idiosyncrasies, and the EVPs were the perfect pair to do it. Especially when the bit itself was the good kind of bait-and-switch. With stilted deliveries and fake smiles, Matthew and Nicholas saving the news for a live action segment poked fun at a dumb wrestling trope in the sort of way the pair used to do all the time back when they were being accused of killing the business. And when they actually made it to the ring, they proved why those accusations were always misunderstood.

Benching Hangman Page and (hilariously) firing Kenny Omega from The Elite whilst questioning the validity of his absence was, as people much younger than your writer have probably already stopped saying, based. It just so happened to set up one of the biggest rematches in the history of the company too, and the manifestations weren't about to stop there...