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AEW Dynamite 4/16/25 Review | The BEST DYNAMITE ALL YEAR As AEW Passes WCW Monday Nitro!

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The Solomonster

Tv & Film, Wrestling, Sports, Tv Reviews

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Solomonster reviews the Spring Breakthru episode of AEW Dynamite from Boston, passing WCW Monday Nitro in total episodes on the Turner networks, and they could not have picked a better night to do so.  One of the very best episodes of Dynamite they've ever done.  Mercedes and Athena battle for the first time, Will Ospreay and Konosuke Takeshita tear the house down and The Death Riders are DETHRONED for the Trios titles.  Let's talk about it.

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0:00.0

It was a night where AEW Dynamite officially passed WCW Monday Nitro in terms of total episodes.

0:08.4

This was the 289th episode of AEW Dynamite beating out Nitro's 288 episodes where even Eric Bischoff tried to be magnanimous and issued a comment congratulating Tony Khan and his staff on their milestone.

0:25.1

AW puts on the best episode of Dynamite all year.

0:29.9

They were in Boston.

0:31.0

I love that venue that they were in tonight.

0:33.2

They were in the MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston.

0:37.5

And this crowd all night long, they were hot for everything.

0:40.4

They were loud.

0:41.7

They were loud and they were hot and it helped.

0:44.5

But it wasn't the only reason that the show was so enjoyable because we got some great

0:48.5

in-ring action up and down the card.

0:51.0

We had some, a couple of great moments here on the show tonight.

0:53.7

The great matches, though, were really what stood out on this show.

0:58.6

And the big moment at the end of the show, the death riders, at least for one night only,

1:02.6

the death riders have been dethroned.

1:04.9

We have brand new AEW Trio's champions.

1:09.0

And they are Samoa Joe, Katsuri Shabata, and not Hook, but Powerhouse Hobbs,

1:15.2

replacing Hook, who unfortunately, and I didn't notice it when I was watching the show last week,

1:20.4

but I did see the video that went around after Dynamite, poor Hook, laying in the ring at the end of the main event last week,

1:26.0

puking his guts up in the ring, which is never a good sign.

1:30.0

And I think there were some reports out that, you know,

1:31.9

claiming he didn't have a concussion, but, you know,

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