Biased Thoughts: AEW Dynamite #176
Sames Auto Arena, Laredo. Texas. 3,1k Tickets Sold. February 15th 2023
Orange Cassidy, The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn vs Jarrett´s World (***) Fine comedy match.
Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli vs Rush & Preston Vance in a Tornado Texas tag match (***1/2) Really fun match, started very slow but started to get heated after some blood and exchanges, good stuff.
Mark Briscoe vs Josh Woods (***1/4) Other fun match, I think this is some of the last ROH stuff we will see in AEW BUT I would love to see Mark in AEW more than ROH to be honest, he has potential to have some great feuds vs any heel in the card.
MJF and Christopher Daniels segment was very good, they have been trying to heat up the feud between Max and Danielson the last few weeks and I think is working. Good job.
This first hour has had a lot of fun stuff but nothing really blow away like the previous weeks with tremendous matches, a bit of more segments and promos help to heat up more the storylines. A good NJPW Road To feel to it.
Jack Perry vs Brian Cage (***) Fine match, the important thing is that Christian Cage is finally back and we can get the payoff of their storyline.
Adam Hangman Page vs Kip Sabian (**1/2) Meh. They really don´t have chemistry, now into more important things really interesting post match with the BCC and the Dark Order. Texas Death match is official for Revolution.
Ruby Soho vs Britt Baker vs Toni Storm (**1/4) This was bad, the crowd didn´t gave a shit and even the interference was just there. This angle had some heat but it really needed Mercedes to get to the next level because the Saraya and Toni Storm segments have been horrible. At this point if you can´t get Varnado just do Hayter vs Saraya and the rematch between Hayter and Storm and call it a day. Bring some real hoopers from Japan, bring Prominence do a invasion angle, present them as a threat and run Suzu Suzuki vs Jamie Hayter in a death match. Bring Veny or I don´t know, something.
Rating of the show: 6/10
The Revolution card at the moment:
- MJF vs Bryan Danielson for the AEW World Heavyweight Championship in a 60 Minute Iron Man match.
- Adam Hangman Page vs Jon Moxley in a Texas Death match.
- Samoa Joe vs Wardlow for the TNT Championship.
- The Gunns vs The Acclaimed vs The Winners of the Tag Team Battle Royale vs The Winners of the Casino Tag Royale.
Extra Notes:
- This was a very meh card and it was a meh show.
- Low energy in general.
- This crowd just didn´t care in a lot of things AEW usually gets huge pops.
- A Road To show basically.
- Hopefully next week is much better.
- The Elite vs BCC feud has to start in Revolution or the Dynamite after Revolution.
- The PPV to be succesful need hot episodes, this last 2 Dynamites before Revolution have to be FULL of HOT angles no bullshit.
- Great to have Christian Cage back.
