8 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dynamite: Fyter Fest Night 2 (Jul 8)

4. The Perfect Result

The result was perfect.

But first, something else about that match that ruled, because that match absolutely f*cking ruled: did you notice how much Pentagon laid it in to Dax Harwood?

He's a snug striker, but there was something else behind those slaps. He pasted the sh*t out of Harwood's face to a level that stunned the commentary team because FTR had buried the supposed lack of stopping power in the Lucha Bros.' game. Long-term targets of FTR's rhetoric, Pentagon very clearly issued a receipt in the glorious parameters of the narrative.

Matt Jackson took the fall, but it hardly buried him. It did in a literal sense, under a delicious pile of bodies after that deranged Canadian Destroyer, but the pure insanity of the spot protected him. Matt's loss here allows FTR to subtly and slyly underscore their credentials as the greatest tag team of the century. Nothing is definitive, and it won't be until that dream match finally materialises, but this is a compelling means with which to very gradually heat it up.

The result also elegantly put FTR in frame to face the Lucha Bros. at Fight For The Fallen in a match that should hold very important ramifications for the World Tag Team Championship match at All Out. Meanwhile, this high-profile win may also enable the Butcher and the Blade to challenge Kenny Omega and Hangman Page under the lesser lights of Dynamite.

Perfect, purposeful wrestling and booking working in synergy.