Every Major AEW Show RANKED From Worst To Best
7. AEW Dynamite: Homecoming
A massively, massively important show, Homecoming reversed the hex of AEW's worst moment and the attendant backlash. Running unopposed, AEW secured a very strong rating that compelled TNT to offer the company a new, vastly improved deal complete with a rights fee.
It was also a steep challenge to book.
There are few or no happy endings in episodic television, only hooks, but AEW needed to book the babyface Elite strongly after they were framed as fodder on December 18. Tony Khan, in inspired form, acknowledged the question staring down the company - Is AEW still good? - and answered it in the fiction. Are the Elite still Elite? the cold open asked, and the main event answered it. Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks defeated PAC and the Lucha Bros. in a jaw-dropping trios ripper, but Hangman Page, transmogrifying into a meme before our delighted eyes, was removed from the scene. He refused to join in the celebrations. Ingeniously, Khan both answered the question and let it linger.
Cody Vs. Darby Allin was a fantastic match. MJF's stipulations reveal - via a typically magnificent promo - created two appointments for the shows on which Cody would endure the crack of the belt and the mesh of the cage. Jon Moxley was going to do something awesome with that car. You could just feel it.
You could feel, too, the gloom surrounding AEW lift in two hours of palpable relief.