Ups & Downs: AEW Dynamite Review (Mar 20)

Our AEW Dynamite review as Simon Miller recaps Julia Hart and Skye Blue attacking Mercedes Mone, Hook vs. Chris Jericho, Eddie Kingston vs. Kazuchika Okada, Adam Copeland vs. Christian Cage, Toni Storm and Mariah May vs. Thunder Rosa and Deonna Purrazzo, Swerve Strickland vs The Butcher and much more.

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Christian Adam Copeland and aarda was shown turning up to Dynamite at the start of the show but nobody will beat aarda cuz he turned up in a damn Ferrari so I’m sorry if we are talking about the best 180 gimmick change from nowhere in 2024 he is the front runner Timeless

Tony storm won it in 20123 unless somebody’s going to do something crazy I’m giving it to the raid maker also hello my friends and welcome to ups and downs the review show that just says ha that’s great oh oh that sucks balls shouldn’t have said that I Mass regret

It although given the words that came out of my mouth it does kind of tie into the main event what am I talking about you’re going to find out let’s up those doubts we then cut straight to Tony Shani who was in the ring cuz we were

Going to have a repeat of last week here came Mercedes Monet oh I can’t help but laugh cuz some people are so damn mad about her entrance music and yes the CEO chants are incorporated into the tune but that is to encourage fans to shout out CEO it’s not rocket science my

Friends it is not too plus 2 equal potato also if you are getting this irate I kind of feel like you need a real problem Mercedes also doubled down on the fact that she is so happy to be back because that injury she did suffer a couple of years ago almost took her

Out of the game completely she then rolled a video to prove all of this and all the things she has done since she left WWE which goes to show how she has spent her last seven days video in it she had a good line where she said that

Minor setbacks make for major comeback and she’s here to launch a global Revolution that’s H sounds like a lot of work she also told sky blue and Julia heartt that they mess with her unfinished business and when you do that to Mercedes Manet you end up bankrupt

That doesn’t actually make any sense but sometimes things just sound cool exhibit a I think the man has been gone so long she forgot about wrestling rule 4.1 cuz she had said these guys’ name around about 72 times so the lights went out and here they came blue tried to jump

Mane from behind as well which meant Julia was able to come from the other direction and for a little while they were kicking her ass until of course people came to make the save because given the on rampage Willow Nightingale and Chris statlander were going to be

Taking on these two they did run down when the lights went out and Julia har and sky blue vanished damn it they have magical powers the thing is though when they came back on Willow nigh girl was just there with a chair and maybe just maybe she was considering hitting

Mercedes right in the back now she didn’t do this but man I was howling imagine that the lights go out you do have a weap and in that moment you decide maybe I’m going to knock her brains in it does make sense though cuz of course we have

To do that match in order to kind of sew up lucs although we should not turn Willow heel maybe there was some teasing here I don’t think that would be the best idea the match though that will rule I do like that we’re putting Mercedes man in the TBS title picture

Though or he’s heading in that direction cuz it makes it feel even more important and that’s what you want to do with all of your championships so yeah I just thought this was a good opening segment right now Mercedes does seem to be getting some attraction towards aew this

Is a good thing up when we got the best new combo in professional wrestling cuz Alex marz was with the elite I’m just going to tell you straight up I need all of these four guys doing something every single week cuz Matthew and Nicholas Jackson were now pleased that Alex is

Calling a card about his full name but by next week they expect him to do it in Japanese they talked about how great and handsome marder is which made me laugh because it was so over the top and given that he is going to be facing Eddie

Kingston in a continental champ sh match they are barred from ringside but as EVPs they will be by the production Chuck making sure they show all the best replays this gimmick rules I kind think Car Pro in Japanese before switching to English telling Eddie he’s going to come

For him he’s going to whoop his ass he’s also a little bit annoy at Alex marz cuz yeah you should know this in Japanese Nicholas Jackson put the icing on the cake as well cuz when all these guys did leave he kind of went yeah Japanese like he was totally unhinged honestly they

Make me laugh out loud because you know in the ring they’re Next Level performers but behind the scenes they’re just wonderful Goofs I’m giving it an up this is my favorite part of wrestling and I don’t even care if you don’t agree we went right into that too because it

Was a car of taking on Kingston for that Continental Title whatever the flub we’re calling it we weren’t mucking around now I do love Eddie more than you’ll ever realize but this was just good booking cuz a Carter has come from New Japan where he was mostly a champion

He had a championship match in two weeks and he won the damn thing also it just works for Edward Kingston that dude has so much sympathy now he’s just gone and got even more Kingston did Smash a card at early to to the point they fell to

The outside which when the rain maker basically baited him back in the ring we hear DDT the bgs were then shown backstage with Tony KH as they W telling people what to do for the television when we went back to the ring and a c was basically going Eddie Kingston I

Tell you this guy understandbly annoyed King Den he came back with a bunch of suplexes when a carer hit that wonderful drop kick from nowhere where and he h an air R crash got a one two o and he then got the back fist which was also another

Near fall and don’t forget he has won matches with that when they basically smacked each other hard that they both went down so they were kind of on each other’s level but you could just tell what was going to happen it really did power up Edward though cuz he pulled his

Singlet straps down I think a Carter must have seen this and gone I don’t want none of that what did he do he went up to him and poop he poked him in the eye what an ass hat now Kingston was still able to hit an Inori but when he

Tried to go for the back fist I guess he was a little bit blind so aarda scored with the landslide he hit him with the rain maker he just pinned him and he didn’t even care he was super duper pleased Matthew Nicholas backstage then told Tony KH to hit all the pirate

Technics which we did do when this somehow got better cuz instantly pack walked out and he looked at a carer as we know in professional wrestling when you do do that things are super duper serious also means our pay-per-view match is going to be a c versus pack

Which actually does make sense cuz on collision pack was all like oh man I’m going to make some noise noise unless I get a decent appointment well here’s your noise so this was absolutely huge for me it was like taking Christmas Hanukkah and my birthday and wrapping it

Into wrong I am giving it up in a true nerd turn though I am going to slip her down in there because at first I thought oh amazing aard has become the Triple Crown Champion but no we’ve actually split that thing up so I think now Eddie

Kingston has two of those belts and the rain maker has the other one I have no problem with that really but it just feels way too soon to do that and also aw just has too many belts like they just do it’s not a bad thing I’m not

Going to lose sleep over it just from my wrestling perspective this is what I believe sometimes less is more so yeah it’s getting it down but am I going to think about this ever again well maybe next week it’s certainly not going to ruin my life really was then backstage

With swer Strickland this guy really hates Samoa Joe he has totally done with Joe trying to embarrass him to the point he’s got that chain and he wants to strangle Samoa and from nowhere he was like I’ve been so inspired by Mike Tyson’s turn to training I do am

Offering up an open challenge like man I don’t think anyone expected him to say that sth is just a guy right now though cuz he is the right place and the right time so I hope we do pull the trigger at aew Dynasty I mean anything he’s

Touching right now turns to Gold FR was then embracing her paycheck too cuz we were back with her she was talking to Willow Chris and stokeley haway now nine girls all hyped up because when they do compete in the street fight later she would have had more street fights in aew

Than any other woman when statlander was like oh yeah I meant what I said Julia heart and Sky Blue tonight we’re going to end you this is where Mercedes walked in and at first he was like e thank you very much for helping me earlier when

She was kind of going to shake Willow’s hand she was like you know what I’ve had enough of you because of course once again her last match when she would got injured was against Nightingale and then earlier she was going to hit her with a chair maybe we also threw in the broken

Ankle talk here as well so once again I presume we do do this a pay-per-view and mad get her win back once again there’s nothing wrong with that sometimes the reason is obvious is because it’s obvious when we did the right thing there you go but it was hook versus

Chris Jericho and I started to scratched my bald head cuz I was like well there’s no way hook should lose cuz he’s on a tear right now but on the other hand this one over here Chris Jericho he has been defeated a lot recently so are we

Going to do it by Jo we did hook also must have moved to Berlin for this match cuz he just hit so many German suplexes and Jericho kept landing on his head to the point the ref had to go up to Chris and listen man do you really want to

Continue here you getting your ass whipped I mean even when Jericho went for 1980s Classics like the double ax handle just went no and he gave him another suplex and for a good old while you could even call this a squash match and of course look at certain times

Jericho did have a light at the end of the tunnel like when he hit the Lion Salt and he got a few shots in there but then they climbed to the top of tea the T ble was like whatever you plan to do you are not going to be allowed to cuz

He applied the Red Rum Jericho was in trouble again this really summed it up too cuz despite being in Canada when Jericho turned that into the walls of Jericho the fans all started to boo but hook must have felt this in his tum tum and he reversed it into the most

Devastating move in all of spots and surprise roll up and H damn he got the one two three I made noises there was more to this as well because TZ on commentary tell us oh wait a minute I think that’s the first time hook has

Ever got a pin forall win in all elite wrestling all the rest have been by submission now Chris did fist bump him after this and let on a promo said I have one last thing for you next week so we’re going to have to see what happens

There but do not do the rematch unless Hook is going to win because once again ever since he did have that match with Samo Jo he has just been building and building and building he doesn’t need to suffer an L right now but I was so into this and seeing the wonderful head

Warrior come of age but it makes me proud it’s not true it’s just a weird thing that I have said I’m giving it enough we think up to Adam Cole who was sat in a chair I guess he was at home or something he is not happy with WL this

Is because he had one job which he didn’t do which was defeating samoo for the world championship and of course Adam Cole made an accident on purpose verbal typo here cuz he said I should be world champion I didn’t mean I I meant you I got to go WS you rooll in the

Undisputed Kingdom now though is to protect all the other titles which means that we cannot lose the RO belts Rodney can’t lose the international title one either now as ever Adam’s delivery was excellent here and this actually isn’t his fault because he doesn’t write the stories but this felt so similar to

Everything we did with MGF and Wardlow a little bit confused by it I felt like i’ gone back in time Back to the Future for and it’s certainly not bad by any stretch of the imagination and I do actually feel quite sorry for aw cuz this story has been completely train

Wrecked because of injuries but yeah once I had thought about that I couldn’t unthink it got to give it down I want to point out that’s a shame by the way but you can just tell we’re trying to wreck on this thing as best as we can so once

Again it just comes down to things we did not expect what are you going to do we kept the talking going on this episode of dynamite as well cuz here came Willow spray bra I don’t know what happened to William but he’s so over like crazy and anybody who was going oh

He’s going to have to learn the American promo style which was fair well I think he mastered it in about two weeks like he is just so unashamedly himself that it comes out of the screen and you feel it we also kept him super baby face cuz

He was all like look last time I was in Canada with aw I did some bad things which I AP oliz for let’s make up over some maple syrup he knew what he doing ory then talked about how great that Brian Danielson versus shabbar match was

When he was like hey Brian do you remember when you went to Japan you did all those great things well they weren’t as good as me I totally smashed that place and he made a joke about shoes you should just go and watch it the whole point though is that the aerial assassin

Did one up Brian Danielson when it came to Japan so now he wants to fight shabata next week so he can one up him then so that when we get to aw Dynasty he can also whoop Daniel’s ass to prove that willos spray is the guy so our

Story now is not only I think I’m the best but you think you’re the best it’s also whatever you can do I can do better I mean I’m sure next week they’ll come out and be like you know what I have better parents I really cannot wait for

This match though and we’re also getting Shabbat versus Osprey and we’ll even mention the fact they had faced each other in New Japan seven years ago and Shabbat beat the piss out of him that’s what he said I really do think it’s going to be a match that we are talking

About for a long time though cuz I don’t think Brian or William will let it be anything else and this was just a super duper baby face promo he should probably be the world champion come all in it’s going to be a moment in time it is

Getting it up we got reminded that our main event was going to be Christian Cage versus Adam copin and I Quit match for the TNT title when we went back to everything with the Women’s Championship because it was Mariah May and Tony storm taking on Di petzo and thunder Rosa

Thunder and Di went crazy at the start of this to before pero started roughing up Mar May when Thunder jumped off her partner’s back and crushed some people in the corner it’s like the Hardley boys Luther then tried to interfere which actually worked very well cuz the

Timeless one then started to work over Thunder when all of a sudden she was like oh my hand it’s so warm what am I going to do and she hit a cross body and she got the hot tag now she absolutely killed Mariah May with this boot I was

Actually running wild when all of a sudden Thunder saw her shoulder was like you know what I’m going to hit you and that counts as a tag you may even call it a blind one now she was able to take out Mariah with a DVD when Tony storm

Took over and wored her with sweet cheek music but when she went for Storm Zero thunderosa turned it into the most devastating move in all of sports entertainment and she got the one two three G just pinned the flaing aw women’s champ Tony storm was totally

Stunned by this as well as you would expect and Di was looking at her like I can’t believe you did that but once again I see what we’re doing here we probably will do Thunder Rosa versus Tony storm at the pay-per-view with thunder going uh by the way I never lost

My title properly and yes I will say that doing two surprise rolls up on the same show does stand up like a sore thumb but actually within context here they did work and I just like the fact that all these people are involved in the world title picture and you have all

Those other people involved in the TBS title picture the women’s division is cooking right now give it that na wwth did do his open challenge I’m so damn happy cuz this got answered by the butcher now look sadly for that guy we haven’t seen him in a while properly I

Think he must have been too preoccupied with his shop cuz there was a bit of man meat slapping in here but otherwise good grief Strickland whooped him at one point the butcher even hit that larat and SW just landed on his feet and said no I don’t want anything to do with that

When he booted the butcher right in the head he hit the house call he hit the swerve swamp and he went straight into like an arm bar and arm scissors butcher was like well I need that to cut my meat and he tapped out so I suppose the idea

Is that the butcher is kind of Samoa Joe esque in the way that he does work and swerve just went through him so he does fight Joe maybe he’s going to do the same thing we also got more from cometary in Reverse cuz they were like

Oh wait a minute we think this is swerve ever first tap out within aw so we are just adding in the information strigler then got on a mic afterwards and basically said he hates s Mojo and the only thing that makes him sad is he does

Have this chain and he wants to strangle Joe but his damn neck is too big so I do think we have to bring down the crime counter cuz he did said he was a little bit sad about not being able to strangle someone I think Samo Joe felt the same

Cuz he marched to the ring and he had a face like thunder not Rosa now he wanted to use logic to respond cuz he was like why should I give you anything I defeated you at a revolution you should be going to the back of the line the

Problem with swerve though is that he thinks the impossible is possible and when people start to do that then the fans start to believe it even though deep down in the real world this is a part of crap all that happens is that sjo does arrive and smashes you in the

Face I was like this guy is so damn good so you know what if he has to take out swer Strickland that’s what he’s going to do we think got right twist because Don Callis walked out and I was like why are you here and he got so many booze I

Started to laugh he was like listen I want to use logic too and outside of the Don Callis family do you know how many times the kestra has lost recently it’s a whopping zero therefore maybe strickler needs to think about losing to this guy before he even considers Samo

Jo I’m pretty sure swerve was like man I’m going to burn your entire family down cuz he is crazy but as he is in open challenge mode he said fine I will take on to kesa next week I like that’s it this run of dynamites is absolutely

Preposterous so this just got me so damn pumped and swerve is that guy like he really is when we get to aw Dynasty it should be him versus Joe and he should become the world champion any other scenario does not make sense look at the t-shirt it’s getting it up I enjoyed

This a lot which was true of the main event too cuz my word this thing was totally rare I me the crowd were Ching Holy Ship instantly as Christian Cage and Adam cop did get in the ring for their TNT tile ey Quit match and honestly as soon as the bell went ding

Ding ding they went Absol absolutely nuts I mean they were in the crowd within seconds which is when Copeland got a Pittsburgh Penguins journey and put it over Christian when he went and got a Maple Leafs one so you could see what he was doing here and because they

Were wearing hockey shirts what did they do they had a big old hockey fight and the audience went totally mad this was great this carried on throughout the whole building too when Christian is such a wonderful he went to hide in the woman’s bathroom when they got

Back to the ring what did Adam Copeland produce that’s right it was ladders of course it was Adam then slammed Christians back into that thing and it looked horrible but cage wouldn’t say I quit and actually he leveled up he’d be watching the rest of the show he poked

Adam in the eye and he threw him into of the Ring post damn it Copeland was busted open everybody then started going through tables including this crazy bump when Christian went to the top rope and cross bodied Adam through one which was L up against Barry barricade when they

Basically speared each other at the same time and looked really nasty cin then thought he’d kill his former fake brother when he just threw him off the stage when he ran down one of the entrance tunnels I like what the flub is he doing and he came back with a hockey

Goal and not only did he throw cage into that thing but he threw him into the net so I guess he scores a point I don’t know it was all going cop’s way as well until Shane or Wayne turned up and she had a hockey stick to continue on this

Theme she just went woo and she smashed Adam right in the penis this is something I love about professional wrestling if you did this in real life the reaction would be so over the top but in sports entertainment you go oh you take us slow fall it really makes me

Laugh Christian was inspired by this too cuz he got the damn stick and he smashed it over Adam’s back when he essentially like planted it in Adam Copeland’s jaw area so he was throttling him and saying well you better say I quit but he wouldn’t we then introduced a barbed

Wire chair because of course we did but before we did use that Adam Copeland locked in the crossface but this is when it turned out that patriarchy did have a plan here came luchasaurus and here came Nick Wayne like why have you waited 10 minutes you could have got involved AG

Ago thankfully an thought this though he had a counter so out came Danny Garcia and Matt Mard this is when Copeland grabbed luchasaurus and he gave him a DD T into the bad wire chair I was like well that’s how the dinosaurs died out should have know Adam copen then climbed up a

Damn ladder and did a cross body onto the patriarchy on the outside which is absolutely crazy when they got handcuffed to the ropes when I think they were going to attack Shaya she was like you know what I’m done like a proper cow she ran away we then

Experienced the worst moment of all of our Lives cuz after Adam had just booted Christian in the balls over and over again he introduced his friend Spike which of course is a 2×4 with spikes on it and he got it and he just went boom

And he hit Christian right in the dick I felt this I man it had so much force don’t know why I’m laughing it was horrific so it’s no more kids for him and his crotch was totally ruined and when copelan was like fine you’re not

Going to quit I’ll smash you in the head instead given that cage was handcuffed a te of the turnbuckle he thought better of it he did say I quit I thought this suited the character perfectly deep down he’s just a bit of a wimp Adam then

Flipped him off one last time before he did raise a TNT Championship above his head because he had won that thing as all the pyate Technics came down and Daniel Garcia was here too going I actually think Adam should lose it to him and the cycle continues this was

Absolutely brilliant though it was such a good Main Event because it was so damn fun and all the praise to Christian Cage and Adam Copeland they defy the aging process it’s ging up which brought to the end of dynamite and honesty if you backend this with the one we did last

Week too I think aew is on a right rle right now I felt good about life when this ended which is the point of my entertainment program up now please do click the video on the screen which is ups and downs for Monday Night Raw so you can experience all my lame opinions

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