7 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (Mar 24)

2. Good Lucha Things

Laredo Kid's return to AEW for the first time in almost two years saw him score a pinfall on Brandon Cutler, felling the Young Bucks' associate with a Spanish Fly at the end of a popping lucha-heavy six-man.

This ruled. All action from start to finish, it featured lots of interchanging teamwork, big dives, fast exchanges, and momentum swings. Differing styles were played upon early as Matt Jackson and Penta el Zero M, the two "slowest" workers in the bout, clobbered each other, but the match was more about pumping adrenaline than anything else.

The Bucks found their flow late on, working towards Risky Business. Cutler, who didn't look out of place at all, shone with dives and a nice springboard elbow. Still, it was The Lucha Brothers and Laredo who took the W, Penta and Fenix immobilising the Bucks on the outside so that their partner could finish Cutler off.

An excellent, layered post-match angle followed, as the increasingly unhinged Kenny Omega clobbered Laredo Kid and tore into the Bucks for choosing Cutler over him, when he chose friendship about all else. He threw up Too Sweet for the Bucks one last time, but the Jacksons weren't playing. They aren't with him, they walked out, and the Lucha Brothers, fed up of the sound of Kenny's voice, clobbered the World Champion, superkicking the microphone into his soon-to-be-bleeding maw.

Built from the immense history between the Bucks and Omega, the Bucks/Cutler relationship, the Bucks' old feud with the Lucha Brothers, the upcoming Death Triangle/Bucks clash, and Kenny's history with Laredo Kid in AAA, this was the kind of angle that can only exist in storytelling universe as rich as this one.