Ups & Downs - AEW Dynamite - New Year's Smash Review (31st Dec)
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🗓️ 1 January 2026
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Simon Miller is here to review AEW Dynamite - New Year's Smash, featuring MJF bringing back his Triple B World Championship, Willow Nightingale ending Mercedes Mone's epic TBS Title run, Jon Moxley vs. Josh Alexander, and big moves for Samoa Joe, Brodido, Kenny Omega, Swerve Strickland, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | So happy New Year, my friends. We've all made in 2006, which actually is quite a blessing when you do think about it. |
| 0:04.9 | Also, it's a very big month for me, because in a few weeks, I have been making wrestling content for about 10 years. So we all should cry from our seeing devices, but also go, that's not a bad run. And I know, there's always that one guy going, you'd be making content for a decade. You're still not very big. All right, there's not much I can do about that. |
| 0:21.6 | But the better news is that our first show of 2006 is AEW done. for a decade, you're still not very big. All right, there's not much I can do about that. |
| 0:21.6 | But the better news is that our first show of 2006 is AEW Dynamite, and who came out to kick things off? It was our brand new champion MJF. And actually, that's kind of like a trend at the moment. If you want to feel warm and fuzzling your tum-tum, all of a sudden AW or WWE, a lot of wrestling promotions will give you a new title holder. |
| 0:39.1 | So yes, for the 10th year in a row, which is totally nuts. Let's take the finger of power, give the good bits and up, the bad bits of down. Now, MJF is a weird dude because quite clearly he'd hired somebody to take off his fur coat, like we saw him pull off in a vehicle before he walked to the ring and someone just went, ta-da, and undressed him when, of course, he got into the ring and he was all like, |
| 0:57.4 | ha ha, I am the brand new world heavyweight champion. I do have my triple B back and hangman and |
| 1:02.3 | swerb and Samoa Joe. You've got all these cool nicknames for yourself and that's all great, |
| 1:06.4 | but only one name matters to me, and that's being a chap. MGF basically put himself over for a few minutes and also called his opponent donkeys. So no wonder of all the people, Kelly Omega appeared on the big screen, because he probably heard this going, you can't call me a donkey, I find that very offensive, although I tell you this. Of all the people that could have interrupted MGF, I was not ready for Kelly, and it actually made me go, well, that's very intriguing. I am intrigued because I'm an idiotic. |
| 1:30.6 | Now, my anger actually made me go, well, that's very |
| 1:27.9 | intriguing. I am intrigued because I'm an idiot. Now, Magh actually went full on here because he said, look, I know that I'm closer to the end of my career, that I am at the start, but I can't retire thinking, oh, why didn't I go after the World Championship one last time? Because MGF, you are not the guy that you once were, and I'm certainly not, so even if I have to climb my way back to the |
| 1:46.2 | tippity top, I will see you soon. I massively appreciated this. Kenny and Meggin's not, though, he's title shot. He's going to earn his way there, and given that we are the start of the brand new year, if wrestling as a whole, could have that as a trend, as opposed to someone going, hello, good sir, |
| 2:01.5 | could I please have a championship opportunity and a champion with a heel or face going, of course, my old boy, and that's absolutely fine. I, for one, would like it. No, M.GF just laughed this off because, ha ha, Kenny couldn't even be bothered to come to the ring, because he's a big scaredy cat. When Hangman and Paige swirped Strickland did come to the ring, but my gosh, |
| 2:18.8 | did they make a massive faux par Strickton did come to the ring. |
| 2:18.1 | But my gosh, did they make a massive faux par? They tried to come through the crowd when the useless wrestling security stopped them. I was like, you've been doing this for a long time. If you had walked down the aisleway, you would have been able to get there. Of course, Maxwell just ignored them and said, listen, dudes, it's all about wins and losses, so maybe you should get some of them before talking to Tony Khan. |
| 2:35.7 | So once again, we are moving away from Geese title shot when Hangman and Swirb broke free and blessed M.JF, he couldn't have ran faster. Although this cowboy's crazy. He got the microphone and he said, hey, MGF, just so you know, I'm going to strangle you. Somebody call the cups. |
| 2:51.6 | Swerf Strickland promise the same, so we're going to see a murder when Samo Joe popped up with a big screen. And he was having a meltdown because how dare you two be so damn disrespectful? I am the rightful number one contender. And by the way, I've got Hook to my right, and I've got Will Hobbs to my left. and Hook is coming after you, hangman. |
| 3:07.8 | And you know what, Powerhouse is coming after you, swerve. |
| 3:10.7 | This didn't phase, stripped an old page at all, because the cut-long story short, they said, well, how about next week, we have a lights out match, and my legs actually went wibbly jibbley. You remember Hangman v. swerve when they were doing one-on-one lights out matches, but now they're |
| 3:24.5 | going to be a team, it goes back to what I just said. If you enjoy watching death in wrestling, do I have the show for you? I really did like this a lot because it was like an AW-segment on steroids, because now, and there was going to be more through the evening, M-JF has to worry about Smojo, he has to worry about hangman, and he has to worry about swerve, and you think three would be |
| 3:43.5 | enough, but it's not as you know. MGF has to worry about Samojo, he has to worry about Hangman, and he has to worry about |
| 3:41.7 | swerve, and you think three would be enough, but it's not, as you shall see, but I am going to give it enough, it was just enjoyable, it was just fun, and I like the fact it is kind of telling you wink, wink, wink, nudge, some good things could be coming, but I'm very worried about that tag team match. I mean, how far are they going to push the line? The conglomeration |
| 3:57.9 | we then getting excited about the new year as well, because of course, Mercedes-Wenae is taking on their own Willow Nightingale later for the TBS title. And Mark Briscoe is a bit like maybe Ted Turner will turn up. Now listen, he did tie this in, but I was like, damn, we are like 20 plus years, 25 years removed from WCW dying, and we're still talking about 10. He's also going to make sure that he does give the death riders D's nuts because they are going to be taken on each other later. When we had more stuff between Tony Storm and Orange Cassidy, and Mina Shirikara can't handle this at all because she walked in like, what are you doing Tony? And Storm was like, there's nothing sexual here, b-b-b-b-b-b. |
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