AEW Dynamite - April 14, 2021

[MoS]

First Dynamite of the post-War era. Let's see what the new normal is. 

[Enforcer]

Tonight’s show Is stacked. Looking forward to Anthony Ogogo’s debut. 

[MoS]

So if we are just pretending that the OMG WE'RE EMOTIONAL thing didn't happen with Matt last week, I am fine with it. Sometimes retcons are good 

[sek69]

If they're framing it as accepting tough love from Don that they didn't want to hear, I can accept that as a defense to the ACT-ING we got last week. 

[Enforcer]

That match was great. Rey Fenix is out of this world. 

[MoS]

I usually watch with a friend, but he can't watch tonight cuz he is at the hospital with his wife of 10 years, who is giving birth to a baby. Feels like when this match had begun, he was getting married to her. 

That finish was great though, and an excellent way of establishing the Bucks as the dickish heel champs 

[Enforcer]

Mike Tyson is totally costing Jericho the win tonight...

[sek69]

I want John Silver's rehab segments to be the new Randy News Network.

[Enforcer]

I can get behind Ogogo knocking jobbers with body punch. 

[sek69]

Just now, Enforcer said:

I can get behind Ogogo knocking jobbers with body punch. 

Yeah, it's like Walter's chops. I can believe an Olympic level boxer can lay a dude out with a body punch.

[MoS]

Tyson is wearing pink shorts....

[Enforcer]

I taught that Jade/Red Velvet really over delivered. I love Red Velvet a lot. 

[MoS]

1 hour ago, Enforcer said:

I taught that Jade/Red Velvet really over delivered. I love Red Velvet a lot. 

Agreed. Jade also has excellent presence. Just please have a manager cut her promos. 

Jericho is still wrestling kind of like a heel, although I get this is a blood feud 

[Ryan Faulconer]

How ‘bout them ‘bucks!!!!!

I haven’t seen the ladder match with Uno/Greyson from PWG but this is the best Young Bucks 2-on-2 match I have ever seen .  The matches from Revolution and Full Gear are up there for the Bucks.  Tonight they didn’t look like they were racing to ge their shit in, as the kids say.  I still think New Japan Matt & Jeff are them at their absolute best.  This match finally put more character over as they worked a fevered pace.  Let us hope this is the start of some new Bucks’ style and not just something they pull out every now and then to show they are heels. 

[sek69]

I'm thinking all the times we all thought the Bucks were tweeners it's just that they aren't good at being babyfaces. They're so natural at being heels, maybe they just can't pull off babyface.

[MoS]

Yeah I absolutely definitely like the character they showed tonight. Now if they would just stop talking about having matches of the year, I'll be golden. That's right out of Shawn's playbook

[MoS]

I really like Statlander, and she seems to have come back from injury like she hasn't missed a step 

[sek69]

I loved Ricky Starks being appalled that Team Taz had to wait more than an hour for Christian's answer, and Taz's response was "well, you're not wrong" 

[sek69]

It's great that Team Taz is two dudes that will murder you while two other dudes talk shit on you the whole time (while Hook looks on menacingly). 

[Enforcer]

I want Taz and Christian Cage cutting promo on each other every week. 

[MoS]

I just saw an ad with Ice Cube and Stone Cold talking to Mr. T about laundry detergent and I am super disoriented 

[Enforcer]

I didn’t like that they took the focus away from the match. 

[MoS]

1 hour ago, Enforcer said:

I didn’t like that they took the focus away from the match. 

Yeah same here. I thought the match started great, devolved into overbooked convoluted bullshit involving a 65 year old playing a justice-doling cowboy, became plodding with weak contrived spots in the middle, and I thought they were going to lose me. But it kicked up several notches in the last part, had a great conclusion and a legitimate holy shit finish. 

A much better episode of Dynamite than last week's. Might actually be the best in several weeks now. Looks like they are building Mox and King to take the tag titles off the Young Bucks

[Enforcer]

1 hour ago, sek69 said:

Yeah, it's like Walter's chops. I can believe an Olympic level boxer can lay a dude out with a body punch.

That is what i liked about Tank Abbot in 2000 WCW, I could totally by that he could ko someone with one punch. 

[Enforcer]

8 minutes ago, MoS said:

Yeah same here. I thought the match started great, devolved into overbooked convoluted bullshit involving a 65 year old playing a justice-doling cowboy, became plodding with weak contrived spots in the middle, and I thought they were going to lose me. But it kicked up several notches in the last part, had a great conclusion and a legitimate holy shit finish. 

A much better episode of Dynamite than last week's. Might actually be the best in several weeks now. Looks like they are building Mox and King to take the tag titles off the Young Bucks

I am a mega Sting fan and I am intrigued to see where this storyline with Lance Archer is going but it should have been done at another time, not during the match.