8 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite: Fight For The Fallen (28 July)
3. WWE Stuff
Ricky Starks' Championship Celebration played out like a bland copy-and-paste Raw segment.
Though Starks cut a good promo in the wake of his FTW Title win, saying he knows what it means to be a star while Brian Cage has been trying to figure it out for 17 years, what happened when he put the microphone down was too goofy to invest in.
Cage cut Starks off, stomped down the ramp, and decked a couple of the New Orleans jazz musicians who had played Starks to the ring. A bass drum and trombone got wrecked while Ricky gawked on, conveniently waiting for Brian to come inside. When Cage did come inside and the heels bailed, AEW borrowed one of the worst in-ring confrontation tropes by having Brian pretend the ring ropes were inescapable prison cell bars. Rather than chasing Team Taz up the ramp, who he should want to destroy after costing him the FTW Title, he just stood there. How p*ssed off can he possibly be if he isn't actually going to go after these guys?
AEW should be looking to close these logic leaps.