I believed tonight’s episode of “Dynamite” was peak “no person was cleared, and that is what we got,” however the one really good thing we did get was the return of 1 “Aerial Assassin,” Will Ospreay. He returned to the ring tonight against Blake Christian after returning to AEW, following neck fusion surgery just six months ago, at Revolution on Sunday, to confront Jon Moxley and the Death Riders.
Ospreay had a very good match against Christian, and good for “Vanilla Baby” to get a while on “Dynamite” against an enormous star like Ospreay. I’d imagine which means Ospreay and certain AEW President Tony Khan have plenty of faith in him, which is cool for him. The more essential part about all of it, nevertheless, was that AEW got Ospreay on the show to kick things off, something this show really needed by the tip of it. His return was probably the most exciting thing on the show tonight, which was missing plenty of fundamental players, or not less than those fundamental players getting physical, after Revolution.
While the match was good, Ospreay’s promo after it was great. I’m still not entirely sold on him going after Moxley and the Death Riders, since Mox has been leaning more babyface in recent times, but they did take Ospreay out at Forbidden Door, prior to him leaving for neck surgery. Ospreay, after all, still remembers that and is kind of furious about it, so not less than all of it is sensible. And, Ospreay’s fiery promo tonight helped sell me on this all a bit of more.
Ospreay told Moxley that he didn’t need a weapon to snap someone’s neck. He could do it “along with his bare f****** hands,” which was a fireplace line, despite the apparent need for a censor there. That brought out the Death Riders, and when Ospreay tried to go after Moxley, he got PAC as an alternative, which also made sense. I would not mind seeing Ospreay work his way through the Death Riders, taking them out one after the other until he gets to Moxley. We have seen that before with other feuds with Moxley, but with Ospreay, it doesn’t feel like a stale angle.
While I didn’t find this overall episode of “Dynamite” anything special, I sure am glad Ospreay is back. There’s still quite loads occurring around MJF and the AEW World Championship scene, like with Kenny Omega and Swerve Strickland vying to be the primary contender without delay, so a smaller feud with the Death Riders to get Ospreay back within the swing of things might be exactly what he must be doing without delay.
Written by Daisy Ruth