7 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Dynamite (6 March - Review)
3. Will Ospreay Vs Kyle Fletcher
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Welcome to All Elite Wrestling Will Ospreay, and welcome to All Elite Wrestling the expectations for Will Ospreay being as high as they were when Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks first became weekly TV wrestlers back in 2019.More on those men elsewhere, but the new signing has similar pressure on his shoulders. Good news though - unlike the over-ambitious launch storyline that sought to minimise The Elite’s talents in favour of getting other roster members over, ‘The Aerial Assassin’ is being booked exactly in line with his immense talent.
Victory over good mate Kyle Fletcher was inevitable here, but that’s two crowds in a row that have been treated to Ospreay effectively operating on the only setting he knows, and millions of viewers at home watching on pay-per-view and free television being given reason for them to see it themselves. Both he and Tony Khan will seek to prove exactly how much pure S-tier wrestling is the draw, and never was that clearer than when Bryan Danielson emerged for a show-closing stare-down framed around the Dynasty graphic.
AEW hasn’t felt like the dream match factory for a while, but maybe the simple reality was that it was missing a few dream match wrestlers. In Will Ospreay, a bar-raising one has just walked through the door.
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