AEW Dynamite 12/28/22 Review - NEW YEAR'S SMASH WITH SAMOA JOE THE KING OF TV
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Solomonster reviews the New Year's Smash episode of AEW Dynamite for December 28th, the final episode of 2022, with Samoa Joe reigning supreme as the TNT champion, The Elite forcing a Game Seven against Death Triangle in two weeks and a tag team match between Top Flight and the Blackpool Combat Club that served as a great example of using veteran talent to help put over the younger stars on the roster.
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| 0:00.0 | Samoa Joe is still the king of television after his TNT title defense tonight on dynamite |
| 0:06.8 | against Wardlow, the TNT championship featured again in the main event. |
| 0:10.6 | One of the things I love about this Samoa Joe run is TNT champion that title getting |
| 0:15.7 | more shine TNT title getting love in the main events on TV. |
| 0:20.1 | Wardlow is going to have to try to challenge for the title in the new year because Samoa |
| 0:24.5 | Joe is going into 2023 still as the champion. |
| 0:28.0 | He handicapped Wardlow coming into the match tonight. |
| 0:31.2 | He targeted the knee. |
| 0:33.1 | That was the story they told. |
| 0:35.2 | So Wardlow didn't just lose fair and square. |
| 0:37.7 | He fought on one leg, even though he looked pretty good, jumping up on the top rope, |
| 0:42.7 | doing sentons and all kinds of flying moves, whisper in the wind like he's Jeff Hardy |
| 0:47.5 | out there, jumping off the top rope, but he's got one leg. |
| 0:51.7 | So the selling was not exactly on point. |
| 0:55.0 | But Samoa Joe not only has one challenger in Wardlow who got his ponytail cut when the |
| 1:00.7 | match was over to let you know that this feud between these two men is not over, but Darby |
| 1:05.9 | Allen showed up and Darby Allen chased away Samoa Joe with his skateboard. |
| 1:09.9 | So not only is Samoa Joe restoring some value back to a TNT championship that was devalued |
| 1:18.1 | during the reign that Wardlow had through much of the summer in the fall, something I |
| 1:22.2 | do not blame Wardlow fought for that is at the fault of Tony Khan. |
| 1:26.2 | That's his feet. |
| 1:27.2 | The booking of Wardlow over the summer in the fall was awful. |
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