AEW Dynamite Grand Slam Review - AEW MAKES HISTORY IN NEW YORK CITY!

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Solomonster reviews AEW Dynamite Grand Slam from Arthur Ashe Stadium, the company's New York City debut, before a record crowd of more than 20,000 fans. Kenny Omega and Bryan Danielson delivered a clinic to open the show with some fantastic pro wrestling before a molten hot crowd, and a finish that keeps things open for a championship rematch. Plus, the ladies headline the show for the AEW Women's championship, NYC turns against Cody Rhodes and a rant about people having issues with AEW honoring Owen Hart and working with his family. Get one FREE audio book of your choice when you use audibletrial.com/solomonster to sign up for a 30-day Audible trial!

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0:00.0	When WCW died in 2001, the wrestling business was never the same.
0:11.0	The wrestling went on.
0:13.0	A lot of those guys migrated over to WWE, other promotions sprouted up, but it was never
0:18.8	the same.
0:19.8	One of the worst things to happen to the wrestling business was the death of WCW.
0:24.2	And they mismanaged themselves into oblivion, they have nobody to blame for it but themselves.
0:29.2	But the business as a whole suffered because of it because when there's no competition,
0:34.1	when there's no real competition, everybody suffers, the fans suffer, the talent suffers,
0:41.5	everybody suffers.
0:44.2	Tonight was special.
0:46.5	Tonight was special.
0:47.5	What AEW did tonight?
0:49.7	Was they put more than 20,000 people into Arthur Ashe, Stadium in New York City, 20,177
0:59.2	to be exact.
1:03.0	Making of the highest attended pro wrestling event of any kind for any promotion.
1:09.2	In New York City, very likely since the year 1980, going by legitimate attendance counts.
1:19.2	And in just a second year in existence, AEW put up numbers that haven't been seen
1:25.5	in North America outside of WWE since WCW ran a Monday Night Show with the Georgia
1:31.7	Dome in 1999.
1:34.5	You have to go back over 20 years to find a promotion on this continent to do numbers
1:43.0	like that.
1:45.1	For a company that again didn't even exist three years ago.
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