Biased Thoughts: AEW Dynamite #173
2 Hours. +5,2k Tickets Sold. January 25th 2023
Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara vs Ricky Starks & Action Andretti (***3/4) Great opener fill with great high flying, all were great. Andretti that his position in the card is been discussed is hilarious, he´s there to eat some pins and some win when the story of the other character needs it.
Darby Allin vs Buddy Matthews for the TNT Championship (***3/4) Really good match between this two. Darby´s reign has been the best since Miro in terms of booking and the best since his first reign workrate wise.
JungleHook vs Ethan Page & Matt Hardy (**3/4) Fun little match to build JungleHook as a tag team and give them another win vs The Firm.
Hangman Page vs Wheeler Yuta for this weeks Rampage and Hangman Page vs Jon Moxley for next weeks Dynamite, CAN´T WAIT.
Bryan Danielson vs Brian Cage (***1/2) The weakest match for Danielson in this sort of MJF trials he is doing but a very good match that focus on one thing only, injure Bryan´s arm, the match and the angle where Takeshita save him was great.
Toni Storm vs Ruby Soho (**) This was whatever and using the distraction via entrance was bad. Not good.
Mark Briscoe vs Jay Lethal (*****) This was just the perfect way to honor an all time great. RIP Jay Briscoe.
Rating of the show: 9.5/10
Extra Notes:
- The main event was tremendous, Mark is a strong guy to keep it together during the match, Lethal was great.
- Takeshita been in the World Championship feud as a third wheel is tremendous stuff, I can´t wait to see what´s next.
- Action Andretti discussion is boring because the dude clearly has a secondary role, the main points of this feud is having Starks as the big winner and creating problems within the JAS, specially García with both Jericho and Guevara. That he has this wins don´t mean that he´s gonna receive this main event push.
- The Outsiders vs Originals storyline has potential, but we need some great segments and matches soon.
- Another great show with a really good crowd, some people think this was a bad crowd but I don´t think that, I think that the previous crowds since december have been all timers.
