Biased Thoughts: AEW Dynamite #177
Footprint Center, Phoenix. Arizona. 7k Tickets Sold. February 22nd 2023
Orange Cassidy vs Wheeler Yuta for the All Atlantic Championship (****1/4) This boys cooked, tremendous defense with a hot crowd. BCC is acting more heelish every week that passes.
We got this contract signing between Jericho and Starks, was very well done, Jericho got baited. This feud really needed it.
The Acclaimed vs Big Bill & Lee Moriarty (***1/4) Very good match that the crowd really helped to get to the next level, tremendous first hour.
Jack Perry was about to commit murder in live TV but got hit in the balls by one of the biggest haters in pro wrestling history, Christian Cage, great heated segment.
Saraya vs Skye Blue (**1/2) Was a wrestling match, even with the hot crowd the post match angle wasn´t great. This angle hasn´t worked in a while, hopefully they change it up after Revolution.
Bryan and MJF had a incredible heated segment, the promo wasn´t the home run, it was the brawling, incredible stuff in this show.
The Tag Eliminator Royal (***) Really fun battle royal. The heels been Jarrett and Lethal won in a very comedic way vs the Best Friends. I expect some matches to happen like Rush vs Fénix and Top Flight vs Aussie Open as well of extending the feud between Jarrett Associates vs Best Friends.
Jon Moxley vs Evil Uno (***1/4) Great extended squash with some hope spots and great visuals. The post match angle was hot and basically set up a trios match between Hangman, Silver & Reynolds vs Mox, Claudio & Yuta. Can´t wait.
Rating of the show: 8/10
Extra Notes:
- This crowd as well of the majority of towns AEW has been visiting deserve PPV´s and more Dynamite shows, today was another tremendous crowd.
- A lot of hot angles is what they needed and they delivered in that department, all the angles got great reactions.
- Peak AEW delivers great angles and tremendous matches, I think we are close to getting that perfect mix.
- The Elite vs BCC will be THE ANGLE in the summer, I´m really hyped.
- A great bounce back from a very weak show last week.
