8 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dynamite: Fyter Fest Night 2 (Jul 8)
5. An Absolutely Incredible Match That Was Pretty Much Wrestling Perfected All At Once
The Young Bucks & FTR Vs. The Butcher & The Blade & The Lucha Bros. was just transcendent. Wrestling, bloody hell.
The Young Bucks are the best pro wrestling storytellers in the world.
They are about one million f*cking times better at telling stories than Vincent Kennedy We Make Movies McMahon.
Cry about it.
Fail to understand it.
Doesn't make it less true.
This was the second chapter in a long-term storyline, the storytelling was fantastic, and the storytelling was germane to - and driven by - an absolute turbo banger of a match that incorporated a spot so demented, creative and blow-away spectacular that a crowd didn't need to get it over.
When Fénix annihilated Matt Jackson with a Canadian Destroyer onto the other six men to the outside, your writer legit sputtered. A spit take without the spit. But it wasn't about the spots. It was about the story.
It was about Dax Harwood responding to the outrageous rope work that led to Nick Jackson drilling Fénix with a hurricanrana by turning away from the apron with hats-off incredulity - or was that barely contained disgust? Was Harwood, with one awesome detail, putting the Young Bucks over, or burying them?
Or, thrillingly, both?
It was about FTR and the Bucks furthering the strand of mutual respect in a series of incredibly timed tandem spots - Matt Jackson's blind tag to Dax Harwood was storytelling so layered it usually takes months to unfurl - or was each team flexing on the other?
A perfect match with...