8 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dynamite (6 September - Review)

1. Flowers For Chris Jericho

Chris Jericho is a vastly underrated tag team wrestler.

The Thrillseekers. That short-lived cult sensation of a team with Eddie Guerrero. He worked the best tag team match (and the best match full stop) in the history of WWE Raw. JeriShow were better than they had any right to be. And, further, Le Sex Gods are a tremendous team that should have had a proper run at it. Jericho has such a mind for laying out tag team matches, and Le Sex Goods Vs. Aussie Open was so electric that it felt like it was taking place in a far hotter and more bustling market.

In a very good and effective sequence, Sammy Guevara was out-chopped, and how, by Kyle Fletcher. When Sammy roared back with a barrage of forearms, he actually got a major babyface reaction. It's been a long time coming. In general, watching Jericho and Sammy kick ass together was a lot of fun, and that's the point! You're meant to mourn the fact that you won't see them together for much longer.

Deeper into the match, both members of Aussie Open - who looked like monsters throughout in their best AEW showing yet - each carried Jericho and Guevara around the ring and smashed them into one another back-first. Jericho was singled out for the double team onslaught, but in an awesome cut-off spot, Guevara nailed Mark Davis with a Spanish fly as he charged at Jericho into the corner. This was all the more effective, and plain nice, after the (storyline) miscommunications between the two.

In a scorching sequence, Fletcher killed Jericho over and over again. A brainbuster looked particularly gnarly. But Jericho kept getting up, and up, with each near-fall more convincing than the last, before winning with the Judas Effect and proving to a miffed Sammy that he's still the star if the team.

Lively, dynamic, dramatic and red-hot in places, if you wonder why Jericho has such an ego on him, watch this.