This was the Winter is Coming edition of AEW Dynamite. We get it every year. And winter was a pretty solid show overall with the main event of Samoa Joe defending the AEW World Championship against Eddie Kingston. I like Eddie Kingston. Eddie Kingston has not been back for very long. It's only been a few months. But this was the biggest match since Kingston came back from the injury layoff.

And he challenged Samoa Joe for the title. I didn't come into this show with any expectation.

He was actually going to walk out with the championship, which he did not do. But what we got

between them, maybe the most surprising part about the match

isn't even so much anything they did in the match. The match pretty much was exactly what I thought

it would be. But Samoa Joe retains the AW World Championship fair and square, and he gets

Eddie Kingston to tap out. We may have gotten a preview of Saturday night's main event

tonight with John

Sina and Gunther. Hook got ejected from the match very early on. We didn't see the ops for the rest

of the match. There was no cheating. There was no, you know, nefarious tactics. And now it's on to

World's End, where it looks like we are heading for yet another match

between Joe and Hangman for the AW World Championship, which it seemed that way coming into

the show.

And that was the most surprising part to me.

I was, I would say, pleasantly surprised that we didn't get the usual round of interference.

It was kind of refreshing.

But it also made for kind of a flat ending to the

show. Taps out Eddie, who everybody loves, or at least in the crowd today, everybody loved,

and then the show just ended. So a little bit of a flat ending there. But the show, I think,

opened and ended in the same way, where we had a solid opener and we had a solid closer.

The opening match was for the AW Women's World Tag Team titles.

We've had this tournament going on now for many, many weeks.

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