We got fans back in the building tonight.

It felt a little bit weird.

Having actual flesh and blood people in the audience tonight.

But I gotta tell you, it was nice.

It was nice. It was the closest thing maybe to normal that I have felt watching a wrestling TV show in many months

It definitely added a different feel to the show tonight on dynamite. I don't know where Excalibur was. Excalibur, they tweeted a photo earlier today of Jim Ross and

Tony Shevani and Excalibur was with them and Justin Roberts was in the background, but no Excalibur on this show.

So obviously he's back, but he wasn't on camera tonight.

Chris Jericho did join on commentary.

There were a lot of things that happened on this show.

Not the strongest episode of dynamite,

but we're going to get into it all here tonight on the Sala Monster Sounds-Off edition. This is your AEW dynamite review. Let's get into it. It is a Thursday night and this is your AEW dynamite review here for August 27, 2020, I am the solemn monster.

Usually we don't do dynamite on a Thursday,

but everything's, you know, up is down, left is right.

It's 2020, nothing makes sense anymore. I am the solemn monster. Thank you for choosing me for your dynamite coverage as you did last night for your NXT coverage. I am back here 24 hours later. We're doing it all over again. The only thing that changes are the

initials last night it was nxt tonight it's a ew I thought actually a very good

episode last night of an xt so how did a ew stack up tonight?

It was a good show

not one of their strongest shows.

This was not a favorite show of mine.

I usually don't do the rating stuff,

but if I had to go 1 to 10 on this show,

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