My Coherent Wrestling Wednesdays: Cameron Grimes' Best Match So Far?, The Dark Order Emerges At Last.

Corpus Cristy, TX. A crowd this is notorious for having little to no reactions is as lively on the recent episode of AEW Dynamite as any Monday Night RAW audience reaction all year. I know it sounds like an oxymoron but I'm not lying. 

Anywho, this is not only an AEW Dynamite review but as well as an NXT review so which show was better? NXT by far. Dynamite had some logic holes filled with meh matches for the most part. WWE's yellow brand was the exact opposite. 

NXT  

Highlights.

Adam Cole vs Finn Balor For The NXT Championship. 

 "The Irishman's title reign lasted as long as the movie "The Irishman"" in Mauro we love and in Mauro we keep. 

They weren't lying when they said that the match had limited commercial breaks. The bout started off slow, to be honest, but it picked up in the second half. Both guys took a series of kicks from both guys until Balor hits the Pele kick and when Balor layed down the mat, Cole immediately pinned him but Finn kicked out. 

Speaking of kicks, Balor delivers a dropkick on Cole through the barricade followed immediately by a coup de grace but Adam reversed that into the last shot and Balor kicked out of that one. 

As Finn was going to hit the 1916, the returning Johnny Gargano showed up and Cole strikes Balor with the second last shot to keep NXT's biggest prize in his possession. Great to see Gargano once again. The build of this feud is gonna be gud *Booker T's voice*. 

Cameron Grimes vs Kushida. 

Holy crap, this was a fun match. Grimes did a quick sitout rock bottom of some sort to which Kushida countered that with a moonsault to Grimes on the outside. Kushida then delivered a sunset flip from the top rope. 

Cameron ends this match with his double stomp finish on Kushida's chest. This match surprised me. Kudos to both guys. 

Shayna Baszler vs Rhea Ripley for the NXT Women's Championship. 

Ripley throws Baszler with a superplex that landed hard on the mat. The horsewomen in Marina Shafir and Jessamyn Duke showed up and Rhea got rid of them for a while but Baszler immediately took that as an opportunity to hit Ripley on her elbow on the steel steps (yikes, that was brutal). 

Ripley kicked Shayna which accidentally knocked out the ref in the process to which Baszler reversed Rhea's cannonball on the outside. 

Baszler then hits the DDT to Ripley on the chair without the ref's knowledge and after the referee finally woke up, Rhea kicked out as Shayna was pinning her. 

Shayna Baszler applied the Kirifuda clutch and Ripley used the ref's shirt to get out of that manoeuvre leading to the Australian hitting the Riptide from the top rope and wins the championship after a year-long reign from the submission magician. 

A good main event that subverted expectations. I know this a bit early but Shayna's definitely winning the women's Royal Rumble match but that's just me. 

Some Other Things That Happened. 

Damian Priest vs Killian Dain - Dain has targeted the ribs throughout the match with various of brutal moves like a splash, dropkick etc. But, Priest somehow prevails this encounter with the reckoning. Decent match.

Io Shirai vs Santana Garrett - Shirai wins here with the picture-perfect moonsault. I hope they utilized Santana Garrett to her fullest potential because she's a great talent honestly. 

Pete Dunne vs Travis Banks - Will Banks get a second upset win like last week? The answer is actually ye……...no. Dunne wins with the bitter end. One week, Banks wins a match in an upset and the next week, he loses. I didn't get why that decision has been made. 

AEW 

Highlights. 

"Le Champion" Chris Jericho vs Jungle Boy. 

For a 10 minute match, it was some edge of your seat type of action. Jungle Boy hits the diamond DDT from the middle rope and Jericho survived that one. A Judas effect and the walls of Jericho later transitioning into the lion tamer and the time ran out but the match went on for some reason.

After Jungle Boy delivered the package pin, Jericho left and the match was over. Tony Schiavone and Chris Jericho had a funny back and forth to which Jericho mentioned Jon Moxley and how Jon should think about his decision to join the Inner Circle. 

I had some problems with this match like how Jungle Boy got up from the Judas effect like it was a basic clothesline, how the match continued after the time limit but overall, I enjoyed this encounter. 

The Young Bucks vs SCU In Frank Kazarian And Scorpio Sky For The AEW World Tag Team Championship. 

A pretty good main event. After The Bucks loses this match, The Dark Order showed up to not recruitment them but rather to make a statement. I don't know about you guys but I feel like that’s how The Dark Order should be introduced to the masses with the video recruitment packages leading to an ending like this. Props to AEW for correcting their mistakes.

Some Other Things That Happened. 

Kenny Omega And Hangman Page vs The Lucha Brothers - Fenix kicked Omega's head off with a quick roundhouse kick. Page accidentally clotheslined Omega which means that the brothers did a double team package piledriver and won the match. 

After a disagreement between Omega and Page, Pac told the cameraman to follow him and Pac opened the room for Micheal Nakasawa. That disagreement was literally unnecessary but the Pac aspect of the segment was aight. 

Awesome Kong vs Local Jobber - Awesome Kong won the match obviously and then, she cut the enhancement talent's piece of hair. I don't get the propose as to why Kong cuts a piece of somebody's hair. They might write the narrative where Kong get stronger as she sniffs a piece of hair? Who knows but AEW. 

Britt Baker vs Kris Stadtlander. A Number One Contenders Match For The AEW Women's Championship  - Another "take it or leave it" type of match. Stadtlander wins with the package piledriver. Brandi Rhodes showed up basically saying to "join us" like Cultaholic's main slogan and Kris said no which led to Rhodes hitting her. Meh. 

The Butcher And The Blade vs Cody Rhodes And Darby Allin - I find it really odd that Chris Jericho in an interview said that Darby Allin "reminds him a lot of Jeff Hardy" and then on commentary, Jim Ross called Allin a "strange enigma" which if you don't know, Hardy used to call himself the enigma without the strange part of course. Coincidence? 

Anyways, this was a meh match. The babyface team wins with a springboard cutter from Cody. 

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