8 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Dynamite (4 October - Results & Review)

4. An Awesome Night For Wardlow

Wardlow returned to AEW screens for the first time since he lost the TNT title on the premiere episode of Collision, and it went incredibly well. About as well as it could have possibly gone.

Assaulting poor Griff Garrison work a scary sense of energy, he stamped on his face as if it were on fire. He then repeatedly power-bombed Griff as if he'd been told that he would die if he didn't create a hole in the ring canvas within 10 seconds. This was a late '80s video nasty of a squash. A near-perfect example of the "Erm, is that guy actually OK?" genre.

Mirroring the awesome Jon Moxley quasi-turn of late 2021, Wardlow ripped his opponent to shreds and walked immediately out of the arena. That "Mox is in a foul mood" arc was abandoned for understandable reasons, but a reboot of sorts is promising.

That brief, forgotten period was electrifying, and on yet more brief evidence, Wardlow can channel that feeling.