8 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dynamite (Nov 9)

1. A Bad Tease Of A Match Nobody Wants

10 Rush
AEW

Christ, the latest chapter in the story of 10 was an atrocious advancement of a monumentally bizarre, contrived and weightless story.

The original idea, in what is now a drastically altered timeline, was for Andrade to attempt to recruit 10 into the AFO. It was bad and redundant enough to begin with; a routine AEW means of, one would expect, building to Andrade Vs. Hangman Page at Full Gear. Page defeated Rush to further what was a cliched means of booking an upper midcard "banger". Then, Andrade was put on ice after trying to get himself fired by assaulting Sammy Guevara, and after that, Page suffered a concussion in his match against Jon Moxley. The whole thing collapsed, it was a parody of an AEW storyline to begin with, and now it's...back on, for f*ck's sake, with Rush playing the role of Andrade.

Rush still wants 10 in what AEW can't bring themselves to call the RFO because they know full well this b*llocks - their longest-running storyline outside of the Elite's saga! - is just that.

John Silver called Rush a Rushbag, and if this thing needed to get any worse, he used a pun-based "more like" insult that a WWE creative writer would think is lame.

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