8 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Dynamite (16 Mar)

7. Welcome Back, Hardys

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Though not without a few moments where it felt like Matt and Jeff were struggling to get through the gearbox, The Hardys' first televised tag team match since April 2019 was a success of superior agenting.

The Hardys' experience opposite Private Party paid off. Understanding that the pops were going to come from Jeff, who was working his first AEW match, they laid the bout out with Matt taking the heat for a prolonged period, building to an almighty hot tag. Said tag prompted one of the biggest pops of the night. When the Hardys played the hits, culminating in Jeff hitting the Swanton Bomb for the three, all felt good, right, and proper.

A cool match to put together in storyline and out (Private Party have previously spoken on how important the Hardys were to them as influences), this had an air of the house show about it - but in a good way. Good, clean, crowd-pleasing fun, with Sting and Darby Allin making the save when Andrade Family Office circled the ring after the bell.

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