Biased Thoughts: AEW Dynamite #175
2 Hours. 4,2k Tickets Sold. February 8th 2023
MJF vs Konosuke Takeshita in a Eliminator´s match for a AEW World Championship Opportunity (****1/4) Insane wrestling by two wrestlers that are destined for gret things, the angle afterwards was great.
Jamie Hayter vs The Bunny in Eliminator´s match for a AEW Women´s World Championship match Opportunity (***) The match was going really well until Bunny got hurt, hopefully Bunny can make a full recovery. The crowd has been tremendous.
MJF did one of the wildest promos I´ve heard. Great stuff, and god timing to start getting the Champion hot again.
Ricky Starks vs JAS in a Gauntlet match (***1/2) This worked, added some heat for the Jericho a match and some future matches for Starks. Well done.
Bryan Danielson vs Rush (****1/2)
The Elite vs AR Fox & Top Flight for the AEW Trios Championships (****) Going from brutal bloody brawl to exceptional spotfest, the level is just otherwordly, The Elite are in top form and Top Flight as well of AR Fox were awesome.
The Acclaimed vs The Gunns for the AEW World Tag Team Championships (***) This was average but in a show like this it looked bad, the level of workrate in AEW is just insane. The Gunns winning are fine for me but if you don´t like them well I understand they are levels behind the top tag teams workrate wise but in storyline sense specially The Acclaimed as the chasers sounds like VERY good TV. I expect The Gunns to drop them in Revolution either to The Acclaimed or FTR.
Rating of the show: 9.5/10
Extra Notes:
- Anothe GREAT show with tremendous matches and one of the best performances by MJF carrying some segments.
- Takeshita is a tremendous talent and will win a Championship soon BUT I see him been a big part of The Elite vs BCC feud that is building.
- Texas deserves a PPV, they´re a HOT CROWD everytime AEW has a show there.
- The weakest point of the shows are Saraya because her promos don´t land and the vibes are weird, I think Storm should start to be the one to do promos for that storyline.
- I think the Starks vs JAS storyline has been fine, but some people are acting really weird about Jericho either way is a nice midcard feud to heat up the Starks man.
- I know The Elite vs BCC is taking its time to set it up to have a full summer of matches and story between both factions, but I want more Hangman in AEW, that storyline should be weekly content in Dynamite and Rampage.
