9 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dynamite (23 August - Review)
1. Another Heatless, Just There Women's Match
The view never changes.
On last night's episode of Dynamite, in the penultimate match, two women wrestled in front of a mostly disinterested crowd. The action stood no real chance as a result, but it only ranged between solid to good. It only went seven minutes, and even if they were permitted to go crazy in lung-bursting sprint, to equalise the customary, paltry bell time, the match - being a women's match on an episode of Dynamite - was butchered by a commercial break.
Between the booking of yet another vaguely related Outcasts offshoot fixture, the commercial break, and years' worth of conditioning, this stood no chance whatsoever of being memorable and functioned only to A) get the token women's match on the show because they evidently feel like they have to, not that it helps the optics one iota and B) set up, in the most numbingly basic way imaginable, a challenger for TBS Champion Kris Statlander at All Out.