I used to be initially so excited to see that girls were predominant eventing a “Dynamite,” since that does not occur often, but once we got to the road fight AEW World Championship rematch pitting Jon Moxley against Cope, things began to feel off by way of pacing for me. Moxley and Cope had a match that had all of the makings of an AEW predominant event, for higher or worse. It was actually a greater match than the pair had at Revolution with much more storyline implications by the tip of all of it. The actual fact it was a street fight with a fairly gruesome bump when Cope’s Spike, principally a baseball bat with nails, got stuck to this point into Moxley’s back the referee could barely pull it out, just spelled “predominant event” to me, so seeing it by 9 p.m. was form of jarring.
Outside of the Spike spot, there wasn’t much to put in writing home about on the Moxley versus Cope end, however the interference from the Death Riders, FTR, and Willow Nightingale was good, albeit extremely expected and almost the usual for these men anymore. Wheeler Yuta had a fairly good table spot, and the final chaos of everyone across the ring made it feel like an enormous, well-overbooked, predominant event match. After Moxley defeated Cope and he and the Death Riders had taken their leave, it was Nightingale, Money Wheeler, Dax Hardwood, and Cope within the ring. Despite being called “Rated FTR” for his or her trio and the fans being told how close of friends the three of the are, Hardwood refused to assist Cope up and left the ring, and shoved Wheeler when he confronted him. Breaking up FTR for a bit actually looks like an enormous story, and, to me at the least, that felt like something that AEW would normally end the printed with.
With the brutality of a street fight done for the night, the pacing of the remaining of the show for slightly below the hour left felt weird after that. It will have irrespective of who predominant evented, so this is completely not me taking a shot at Megan Bayne and Kris Statlander. The Will Ospreay versus AR Fox match felt slow after the road fight for the corporate’s top title. The “Hangman” Adam Page interview with Renee Paquette also felt a bit misplaced.
I’m interested to see why Tony Khan made this decision. If he was attempting to make up for the crap finish of Cope versus Moxley at Revolution, this wasn’t precisely the method to do it. The match could have easily traded places on the cardboard with Bayne and Statlander and made things flow a bit higher. If I can take anything good out of all this, nevertheless, it’s the actual fact it’s Moxley happening to Dynasty to hopefully be beaten by Swerve Strickland. The Death Riders story continues to not be exciting, and tonight, it wasn’t doing it for me even on a distinct spot through the night.
Written by Daisy Ruth
