My Late Coherent Wrestling Wednesdays: The Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic Tournament Thoughts, Did Britt Baker Redeem Herself From Her Promo At the Rage Episode?

Well, I said that I was going to review last week's episode of both AEW Dynamite and NXT but didn't expect to publish it almost a full week later and what is my latest excuse? 

Well, I overslept 7 hours past the time I usually wake up (don't know how is that possible. Yay science?).

I'm not gonna talk about everything that happened on both shows considering that there are sites for that but rather state my highlights as well as some of my nitpicks. 

I say nitpicks because last week's edition of NXT and AEW Dynamite were an enjoyable night of professional wrestling television. 

Hopefully, I could review the latest edition of both shows tomorrow but for now, here are my thoughts. 

NXT 

The Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic Tournament Thoughts. 

I've seen like all 5 of these of course and I've reviewed one of those aka last year's tournament (ahh, the days were NXT was only an hour-long) and this was the weakest out of all 5 dusty classics. 

Now, that doesn't mean that this entire tournament was bad but rather it was quite the exact opposite. It was a solid, enjoyable tournament that satisfied me overall but it wasn't as good as last year's tournament. 

I was, however, surprised as to who won the whole thing and it was given to the pairing of Matt Riddle and Pete Dunne. 

I thought an actual tag team like a Grizzled Young Veterans would win this tournament but like last year, a random partnership up of two talented guys wins this whole thing. 

We don't know how long the partnership will last but given that Aleister Black and Ricochet were stuck as a tag team a good 2 weeks after the tournament concluded, I'll be surprised if they lasted longer than a few weeks. 

The match is made official between The Undisputed Era in Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish and the recent Dusty classic winner for the tag team belts at Takeover: Portland and will see how it builds up going into Portland.  

Randomly enough, I'll give my quick ranking of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic Tournament by year below.  

• 2016. 
• 2019. 
• 2018. 
• 2015. 
• 2020. 

And yes, for some reason, NXT didn't host any Dusty Classic in 2017 which was rather odd. It seemed as if they forgot they had a tag team division. 

Keith Lee Will Face Dominic Djakovic For The North American Championship? 

I somehow forgot to mention Keith Lee's big win on my last week's review and all I can say is about Lee's North American title win is *queue the overused but appropriate chant considering the context* "You deserve it" *series of claps* "You deserve it" *series or claps*. 

So, how did Dominic Djakovic become a possible challenger for the North American championship? Well, there was a segment between Keith Lee, Dominic Djakovic and Damian Priest. 

Both Djakovic and Priest argued with each other as to whether Dominic or Damian deserves to face Keith Lee for the championship, leading to a match. Dominic won the match and we got ourselves a clear contender for the gold. 

We don't know if this match-up is officially scheduled but we will find out soon and I can't wait for the match to happen soon enough. 

Will Dakota Kai Get Her Revenge Win? 

The way this match has ended should've been saved for their Takeover match. However, this was a good one.

Candice LeRae took the chair from Kai and that distracted her to which Tegan Nox hits the shiniest wizard for the win. 

I'm excited as to what Nox and Kai will bring to the table in Portland. If you thought that match was good, imagine how better it would be in a bigger stage like a Takeover? 

AEW. 

Jon Moxley Calls Out Chris Jericho. 

All I can describe this segment was that Jon Moxley inserted himself in a 10 on 1 fighting odds (so, basically every Dean Ambrose segment in WWE right?). 

Moxley has been in the top 5 most popular videos in AEW's YouTube channel so, from an analytical perspective, this makes a lot of sense. 

While I don't mind Chris retaining the big prize, A possible Moxley reign as AEW champion is something I'm definitely intrigued by. 

The Young Bucks vs The Butcher And The Blade. 

This is the best match I've seen from The Butcher and The Blade or as I like to call the entire group, the BBB. Young Bucks wins here with the Meltzer Driver to The Blade. 

After the match, Matt and Nick Jackson were attacked by the BB and Young Buck's elite members in Kenny Omega and Hangman Page made the save to which Page told Matt Jackson to literally hold his beer and delivered the discus clothesline to the Blade. That bit from Page was funny. 

I for some reason, expressed my concern of Page drinking alcohol on television because when I think of "drunk person" storyline, I think of that awful Scott Hall storyline from WCW and so far, It hasn't offended me but will see in the coming months if I still feel the same way or not. 

Did Britt Baker Redeem Herself From Her Promo At the Rage Episode? 

Yes, she did. In my humble opinion, this was a  very good promo. She crapped on Tony and especially Jim Ross who she said quote "sloppy barbecue sauce sales rep you can't even our roster's names straight." Ouch. 

By the end of that promo, Baker because she's a doctor, diagnosed Tony Schiavone with moderate to severe gingivitis which was straight-up hilarious. She should do more of that on the rest of the roster. That was. Fun. Ny. 


That is all folks. Like I said earlier, I'll hopefully review the latest edition of My Coherent Wrestling Wednesdays tomorrow talking about all things NXT and AEW Dynamite. 

The question is, what are some of the highlights on both episodes that I've missed? Let me know in the comments below and follow me on Twitter @omartheplayaguy. Anyways, stay safe smarks.