Hello and welcome to the AEW Dynamite preview on Michael Cidrick and the absence of Adam

Wilborn and I am joined by fellow Dudley Boy Michael Hanford to discuss everything that's

in store for us on AEW Dynamite tonight. But before we get into it, if you're a fan of

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on WrestleCulture. Hanford, are you psyched for tonight?

I am, I am, I am. AEW has done everything it needs to do to sell me on full gear. To the point

where I'm actively looking forward to previewing the things that we already know are happening,

you know, like there, there's been some shoulder programming over the last 24 hours that it just

feels like they can't actually top on Dynamite tonight. And with one of the other major programmes

as well, I've got this feeling that there's very little that they can do on this episode that can

make me feel as excited for the pay for you as I already do. But that's a good problem to have,

that's the challenge that the great wrestling show is supposed to rise to. So I'm kind of,

if anything, I'm welcome in being surprised with how much I enjoy this Dynamite. I didn't get

long to pontificate on it last week, but I thought it was pretty lousy last week's episode.

And for a variety of different reasons, but one of them was the sense that, ah,

have they peaked for this entire pay for you two weeks early with one glaring exception, which I

can't wait for us both to enjoy. But otherwise apart from the obvious, have they peaked a little bit

too early with the built-in spare view? If anything else, this Dynamite could be a night to prove

that feeling wrong? Yeah, no, I'm in agreement. Last week's Dynamite for me, and we've already

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