Ups & Downs - AEW Dynamite Review (Apr 1st)
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| 0:00.0 | Well, what a start to AEW Diamondite and actually if you were tuned out at the wrong time, you would have thought there was a pyrotechnic accident, Tony Schiavalli was just standing around going, oh my gosh, while their fireworks going off. But after a big old delay and a big old, what's going on here, my son, who returned to AEW. Club me sideways, it was Christopher Jericho. Also, all of friends, while they're ups and downs, the only wrestling of you show you need, |
| 0:22.6 | because there was a show called AEW Dynamite last night, I am going to take the finger of power and give the good bits up and the bad bits are down. That's just what we do. We've been doing it for a long old time, some would say too long, and yet somehow we are still here, here, but I appreciate you. |
| 0:36.1 | And one day we'll all have a big group hug. |
| 0:38.2 | That sounds kinky, let's go. |
| 0:40.9 | All of this did make sense as well, because AEW was in Winnipeg, and do not forget Chris Jericho is from Winnipeg, you idiot. But yeah, mostly, he came down, he did a little twirl around the ring. He did this, come on, because that's what all professional wrestlers do. Everybody cheered, and he got the microphone, then he said, I am Homer, because he was happy to be back in AW and happy to be back in Winnipeg. You see, it was like a double on Trunder, and then he left. But it is totally crazy because so many people, myself included, thought Chris Jericho was going from WWE, and one of the reasons I was so bawdy about it is because people I trust the would know, like, I don't know, man, I think he is going to make the jump, which just proves professional wrestling is totally crazy. But I do think this is a net positive. If you want to talk about active wrestlers and people that can still go in the ring, who has more experience than Chris Jericho? |
| 1:28.3 | You could probably count it on one hand. Maybe two. |
| 1:30.3 | He's also totally instrumental in terms of building AEW, so there is that connection there, |
| 1:35.3 | and he did take a year off TV. So if one of your big criticisms was, oh my gosh, he's around all the time. |
| 1:40.3 | Well, going away for 12 months should mean absence makes the heart grow fonder. Now, we still have to get it right, and I would strongly advise against not putting Chris Jericho because we've done that too much. But if you find the correct storyline, it's going to click once against Flavid Chris Jericho. Now, if I was going to have one criticism, it was that I think we should have had more here, but at the same time, once again, what was the |
| 2:01.1 | criticism last year? |
| 2:02.1 | Ah, he goes too long and his segments go on forever. So here it was a get in, get out, do your thing, and then we can build to the promo next week. It isn't up for me though, and to be honest with you, I also thought it would have been an up if he had gone to WWE. I'm just going to use these words I keep on saying. |
| 2:17.7 | Chris Jericho does have some benefits before he does decide to call it a career ender. That's not what people say. I believe they call it retirement. I think this is going to work out very well, and that Jericho and Tony Carr will have come up with something good. Give it it it up. We then had the funniest cut of the year because we went backstage and it looked like John Moxley had just run into some barrels. Like, gone, oh man, I'm going to have such a good time and then, sure, the camera panned out a bit and Will Osprey was beating him up. He also smacked Wheeler Uter as well when the rest of the death writers did chase him away and yet put a one on the dead car encounter because Osprey finished his |
| 2:51.5 | second by going John Moxley, I am going to kill you. |
| 2:56.4 | It was a really heavy segment start to AEW as well because one of the reasons Chris Jericho |
| 3:00.5 | was a surprise is because we are meant to have the MGF Kenny Omega contract signing and |
| 3:05.4 | because both these guys had been told if you get physical, Kenny you will you will lose your title shot, and then Jeff, we will strip you off that championship, they went to the ring, they got a pen, and they just signed. I was like, wow, we didn't get anything. M.J.F. was they going to say something, but Kenny and Mega stole away the microphone and said, listen, nobody came here to hear you do your little rehearsed speech, and do not forget Maxwell Jacob Friedman. The main reason that people come to AW is to watch the best wrestle. This is one of the reasons why Kenny is going to win that championship as well because he is the best, but also when he was close to death's door due to his diverticulitis, who was there for him and who continued to give him strength. It was the fans, so now he wants |
| 3:42.0 | to give something back. What a baby face. Kenny also wanted to make sure that MGF never gets |
| 3:46.2 | his stupid mitts on this championship again when Maxwell got the microphone. It was all like, |
| 3:50.6 | ha ha ha ha, let's reveal the truth here, Kenny Omega. You did have that diverticulitis, |
| 3:56.2 | and one of the main reasons you are desperate for this title shot is because you've been told by a doctor. You did have that diverticulitis and one of the main reasons you are desperate for this |
| 3:58.2 | title shot is because you've been told by a doctor your intestines could explode at any time |
| 4:03.3 | and you'll be dead. Of course that would mean that he wasn't able to cement his legacy and also |
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