It's Official: AEW Is As Good As WWE Is As Bad

AEW Dynamite Vs. WWE RAW is a squash match in 2021, and one side ain't the Road Warriors.

by Michael Sidgwick
Kenny Omega
Impact Wrestling

Some of you are going to not like that title very much, so please remove the foam from your mouth, re-insert your pacifier, and bear the following in mind:

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That might betray the title somewhat, but f*ck it: it feels official enough to your writer at this point. The last 30 minutes of this week's AEW Dynamite will reinforce that feeling.

The closing fire of last night's show can be traced back to All Out. Kenny Omega, seething at the loss of his AEW World Tag Team Title, stormed out of Daily's Place talking in conspiratorial tones with the Young Bucks, who were as mystified as the audience. Everything soon became clear, after the details were drip-fed in plain sight; in a bid to become 'The New Japan Kenny Omega', the Cleaner charted a backwards and literal path. He masterminded a plot with Don Callis to remove the AEW World Championship from Jon Moxley and to keep it, he enlisted the help of his old Bullet Club stablemates the Good Brothers. He couldn't rely on the Bucks; in a parallel development of the sort at which AEW excels to build an intimately connected universe, after some introspection of their own, they refused to revert back to their old heel ways ahead of Full Gear.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and surefire Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!