Biased Thoughts: AEW Dynamite #174
2 Hours. +4k Tickets Sold. February 1st 2023
Jon Moxley vs Hangman Page (****1/2) This was an amazing match, one of the stiffest in AEW history and a tremendous crowd pushing for the hometown guy. Spectacular.
The Acclaimed and Ass Boys were fine in their segment, let´s see what they do next week.
Konosuke Takeshita vs Brian Cage (***3/4) First Dynamite win for Konosuke Takeshita, a future World Champion, Brian Cage was great. Tremendous first hour.
Bryan Danielson vs Tim Thatcher (***1/2) It was a very good match, in my opinion better than the previous Bryan match vs Cage. Nice Grapplefuck. Now talking about the real heat the segment between MJF and Takeshita was GREAT setting up a Eliminator´s match for next week that should be tremendous, after this segment MJF gave a shit load of money to Rush to do only one thing, KILL Bryan Danielson.
Jade Cargill vs Red Velvet for the TBS Championship (***1/4) Best Jade Cargill match in forever, Red Velvet is great. I think there will be a rematch sooner rather than later.
Darby Allin vs Samoa Joe for the TNT Championship (****3/4) One of the most brutal matches I´ve ever seen, the best AEW match of the year. Joe is incredible and this is a peak Darby performance. AWESOME.
Rating of the show: 9.5/10
Extra Notes:
- About the house shows, I think will be a nice experiment but at this time I don´t know how they gonna do. Will be interesting if they turn a profit on that either way I think is good to give some people more reps and test the drawing power of your wrestlers, fans shouldn´t care about this but I find fun in all that data.
- Takeshita´s push is great, been in World Championship contendership is never bad.
- This streak of tremendous Dynamite shows is for the books and rival the previos streaks of January to March of 2020 and July to September of 2021.
- I will give them time but I don´t know if giving Wardlow the TNT Championship back again is a good idea, specially how well Darby and Joe have been as midcard champions.
