Welcome to the Busted Open After Dark podcast. I'm your host, Tommy Dreamer, talking everything AEW Dynamite from El Paso, Texas.

And what a night it was for Kevin Knight.

This is the busted open podcast.

Got to open up with the beginning, with MJF and Kevin Knight in an excellent title match. MJF, man, I love

watching him work. I love watching him be the bad guy. When I watched this match, it had a lot of

stuff that I remembered seeing it firsthand, different styles, but listen, Kevin Knight

will be a main player within AEW. He's already stepped up big time. Tonight was not the

night for Kevin Knight, but we'll get into that. I thought Kevin did a great job of portraying

a credible challenger. We've seen him in tag matches. We've seen him in trios matches. We also saw

him get a few upsets in the Continental Classic, and here he is facing MJF. I really enjoyed the match, like I said.

It reminded me of a lot of stuff that I had seen,

but just different.

It reminded me of sometimes Masato Tanaka versus Mike Awesome.

It reminded me sometimes of Rob Van Dam and Tommy Dreamer. It reminded me sometimes of Sabu and Rob Van Dam, some intricate

spots and intricate movesets that the fans really, really enjoyed. My favorite part of a lot of this was two things. When people want to

criticize different types of styles or this high-paced type of match or when they, you know,

say there's no psychology, there's no rhyme or reason for

people to do stuff. And I will look at this match and say everything they did made sense.

The match built. They had a great pace. They never took their foot off the gas pedal until both men were so tired and they had to.

They pulled out so many big moves and so many, I'm trying to win. Kevin Knight looked like he was trying to win the world title.

MJF looked like he was trying to retain his title.

And he did a great job of also making his challenger even credible.

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