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AEW Dynamite 1/7/26 Review | LIGHTS OUT MATCH... No, Really, Pay Your Light Bill Tony

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The Solomonster

Tv & Film, Sports, Tv Reviews, Wrestling

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Solomonster reviews AEW Dynamite from Oklahoma with the return of Jim Ross and some background into his recent D-Von Dudley controversy, a LIGHTS OUT main event with Hangman Page and Swerve Strickland joining forces but there were LOTS of lights out moments on this show... and the Don Callis family gets even MORE NEW MEMBERS.

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0:00.0

Oh, tonight it was the return of the AEW Dark.

0:05.3

Pay your fucking light bill, Tony.

0:07.5

I don't know what was going on with the lights tonight.

0:10.5

But we actually had a lights out main event on this show, which is kind of funny that they

0:15.3

had issues with the lights going out in multiple segments, including a main event that was billed as a lights out match.

0:23.4

But they did not intend for the lights to actually go out during said match.

0:27.8

But yes, that's what we got.

0:28.9

We got Hangman Adam Page.

0:30.8

And we got Swerp Strickland, together on the same page, on the same team.

0:35.1

Tag team partners against Hook and Powerhouse Hobbs lights out, which means

0:40.6

no rules, anything goes. This match went almost, I think, 20 minutes beyond the top of the

0:48.3

hour, so we more or less got a two and a half hour show tonight. And in the end, Hangman got his

0:53.5

revenge on Hook. For his role in costing him the

0:56.8

world championship back at full gear.

0:59.8

Finally got his revenge.

1:00.9

No Samoa Joe on the show tonight, which probably could have used him.

1:06.0

We did have MJF and Bandito, who had a little bit of a face-off after Bandito's match.

1:12.8

They, of course, have a big World Championship match coming up next week.

1:16.8

That's going to be on what they're billing, the maximum carnage episode of Dynamite.

1:23.1

And that was probably the best part of the entire show, honestly, as far as just, you know, the back and forth between them, MJF was his usual self.

1:31.9

He had his translator out there with him, John Cruz.

1:35.9

And Bandito stood tall when it was all over.

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