9 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dynamite (May 19)
4. The Acclaimed Eat Sh*t
Fair to say @JonMoxley was NOT a fan of @PlatinumMax's entrance rap.
Tune into #AEWDynamite Now on TNT to see Mox + Kingston take on #TheAcclaimed, with a place in the tag team rankings at stake! pic.twitter.com/LAmlBIkLy4
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 20, 2021
"Call your girl, she all in my mentions, trying to hit me up for some Oral Sessions."
Max Caster, man. Ever since this guy started getting harsh with his bars, The Acclaimed have been awesome. Caster and Anthony Bowens are going to get over huge when fans come back in full capacity - and last night might have been their best pre-match work to date, both in Caster's rap and the "Lunatic Cringe" promo prior to that.
Appropriately, as this was also their best AEW match.
The Acclaimed vs. Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston was built around great dynamics. Mox and Kingston were bellicose and 100% not up for Max and Anthony's bullsh*t, clobbering them at the bell and controlling the early stages before they were cut off. Caster and Bowens, meanwhile, were in full-on shortcut mode, attacking Eddie's recently-injured knee and forcing him into desperation mode ahead of Moxley's hot tag.
Hoisted by their own petard, The Acclaimed fell when Moxley smashed Max with a boombox intended for his head, doing so as Rick Knox took a chain away from Caster. A wheelbarrow Paradigm Shift put an end to it.
Mox and Kingston couldn't have asked for a better Double Or Nothing warm-up. The Acclaimed, meanwhile, are getting over as a money heel act, and made for great foils for the freewheeling folk heroes.