9 Ups & 5 Downs From AEW Dynamite (Aug 12)

4. RIP Best Friends' Gear

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A backstage promo saw Santana and Ortiz talk smack on Best Friends after destroying Sue's car last week. The Inner Circle duo revealed that they'd stolen Chuck and Trent's gear, pulled out a couple of bleach bottles, doused the attire, and snarled that they weren't going to apologise for what happened.

Who could possibly care about that?

The car thing worked. It's an established thing in AEW's universe after Best Friends' Fyter Fest ring entrance and the babyfaces are wacky enough to pull it off. This, however, was WWE RETRIBUTION levels of lameness.

Santana and Ortiz are to be taken as dangerous, violent, edgy guys, yet their strongest retort was destroying a bag of t-shirts?

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