Ups & Downs - AEW Dynamite Review (April 22nd)
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| 0:00.0 | So Darby Allen is the brand new AEWO champion, and of course, MGF is furious about this. |
| 0:04.8 | So even though Darby was meant to come out at the top of the show on this week's episode of Dynamite, out came Max. He was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe it. That's not how he speaks. Also, hello, my friends, and welcome to Ups and Downs, the only professional wrestling show you need. and today's episode may be very low energy and it may be a bit calm because somebody may be dying on their ass. |
| 0:24.1 | Is it me? It's absolutely me. I basically only just landed and I haven't slept yet, but if the content game is going to continue to come into my face, which was a terrible choice of words, I am going to take my cum and throw it back in their face. I can't believe I said that. If you're a child, just ignore it, just hit the bleak button in your head. But given that I am talking about WrestleMania weekend, of course. Thank you so much to everybody who was so nice and who was so kind. I feel bloody humbled. Of course, I'm still bald. Let's stop those doubts. M.JF made sure to go through all the hits there as well, because he is the best world champion ever, and Hangman Adam Page can never challenge for that title again, when, of course, he said, ha ha, remember somebody kicked out the one-winged angel, and it was me, Maxwell Jacob Freeman. Now, also, let's just rewind time here. That kind of happened, but Kenny also had him down for around about 42 count. |
| 1:11.2 | I really do hope that MGF continues to talk about this as well. It should become like the Undertaker Street. We just go on and on, on about it. I don't want to be that guy, but nobody has ever kicked out of Jay Cargill's version of the one-winged angel. I'm just saying. Now, of course, that's an absolute lie, because Jade hit it once in WrestleMania and Rear Ripley kicked right out. |
| 1:28.6 | And even though MGF demanded Darby Allen |
| 1:30.6 | came to the ring so he could whoop his ass, instead, out came the brand new TNT champion Kevin Knight. And if you knew deep down your tum-tum or AWT teasing here, well, you knew, unless you're going to ignore your tum-tum but then how do you know where to eat now of course |
| 1:44.1 | kevin light was all like man i'm so bored of you talking like a winy little bitch it's that word that w w w and a w is totally obsessed with when he talked about the fact he is the t t t champion and by the way axel jacob friedman we did have a match a couple of months ago and i had a visual pinfall on you, so maybe you should think about that. That's when MGF took the mic and said, |
| 2:03.4 | fine, great, you had a visual pinfall on you so maybe you should think |
| 2:00.9 | about that. That's when MGF took the mic and said, fine, great, you had a visual pinfall on me, but let's remember how it did end Heatseeker 1, 2, 3. It's a good point. Freedmen also thought it was hilarious that Kevin Knight would ever be friends with someone like Speedboy Mike Bailey and essentially here because they did fall out. Kevin Knight was happy to put the TNT title on the line. |
| 2:18.6 | MJF wanted that TNT title |
| 2:20.1 | because he's lost, lost his world championship. And even though we had a referee in the ring, as soon as the bell was about to go ding, ding. That rhymes that must be true. Hempchiff went, I'm not doing this again. I will see you next week. So we've definitely been going through his wrestling catchphrase book. So here is a deal. There's a couple of things I liked about this. One, Kevin Knight is growing as a performer and quite clearly AWS huge plans for him. So I suppose the last part of the game is to get the promos down and this is the best that I've ever heard him. There's still plenty of room to grow, but it's like we always say here on this stupid show. How do you expect somebody to get better unless we put them in that position to begin with? I thought Kevin Knight showed great potential here. And honestly, it may be a year, 18 months, two years, that dude is going to be at the top of the top. Part two of all of this absolutely ties into a little conversation that MGF and Derby had later as well, because I totally believe when we do do MGF versus |
| 3:08.0 | Kevin Knight on next week's episode of Dynamite, Maxwell Jacob Freeman is going to cheat his |
| 3:12.1 | ass off, he's going to become the T&T champion. We may be about to merge those two belts, |
| 3:17.3 | being the world champion and that T&T belt, but we will wait and see. And again, I'll talk |
| 3:21.6 | about that when we do get to a main event, but I am going to give it an up. This was a good way to distract MGF in the short turn, and once again in terms of Kevin Knight, we are just giving him all the power. He's essentially he, man, up. René McKell was then talking to the demand because they are going to be having a six-man tag team match on Colleged against Chris Jericho. Although Jericho's totally screwed, because he doesn't have any friends. Now, because Rick O'Rickshed said, the demand are going to wit Chris Jericho's ass, Chris Jericho turned up, since you can't say that, because I have now copyrighted. Chris Jericho gets his ass kicked by the demand every single week. Listen, I want to be that guy. Chris Jericho, you're obviously a legend. |
| 3:58.7 | I don't think that's how copyright works. He's still allowed to say these words. He just can't monetize it. It's just so damn dumb, though, which means I liked it straight away. I'm still such a big fan of ricochet calling his version of the Lion's Salt, the Rico Salt, whatever the hell it's going to be. And basically, just to catch you up with what did happen later, so a minor spoiler. |
| 4:17.5 | Chris Jericho went and hired the hurt business because they are going to be his employed friends. As we do know, they are in the business of hurting people, but also it ties back to the fact that Who had a feud a few months ago, it was the demand, it was the hurt business, so we just wrap this up, |
| 4:31.5 | a nice, neat little pangage. |
| 4:34.1 | Well, of course, we had one of these AEW Flabew sideways, we're just going to have a match |
| 4:37.6 | for the sake of having a match, and it was Broly King versus Leo Rush, but it was the Blackheart version, |
| 4:42.6 | and I really don't understand why people have a problem with this. |
| 4:45.3 | It is such a bizarre character, but it makes Leo Rush way more interesting. Like he was great as Leo Rush, he wasn't doing badly, but now you kind of keep an eye on him and you think to yourself, that dude's got problems, because he's running around like a loon. He had a great plan as well, because when Brody King threw himself into Barry Barricade by accident, Leo Rush did take over, and man, he was splashing this guy on the outside, and he was just trying to do it on the inside too, which is actually a terrible plan, because I think when he went for number three, Brodie was like, I know what you're going to do, he killed him. I mean, he really killed him with the Gonzo Bomb, one, two, three. King wasn't messing around either, because he is going to be watching Darby Allen versus Tomaso Chumpelate, which is our main event, when he was like, oh hi there, whoever does win, I'm coming for you. And he even addressed the fact that he is friends with Darby Allen, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want that title. So this was just a massive Geese title shot moment, which did make me giggle. And listen, I do understand we sold this by saying, well, on Dynamite here, on AW in general, Brodie King has won seven matches in a row. There's also a lot of other wrestlers that were a bunch of matches and they are not allowed to have a title shot, so it's not a big deal. But I am just going to give it a mini down for the reasons just came out of my mouth. Geese title shot is just so ridiculous, especially on this episode of Dynamite, because as you will see, other people are like, you can't have a championship match unless you have something to offer me too. I suppose you can actually argue this by going, well, Brody King and Darby Allen are friends. I'm talking about the people that aren't buddies. If now you do win a bunch of matches, you should automatically get a title shot. Well, sometimes that doesn't happen. However, I'm still giving the matching up. Brody King is flipping brilliant and should be the world champion one day. And as for this Leo Rush, well, I just like it. I'd actually do a bunch of videos now, explaining where this character did come from or make a bunch of videos with someone someone going, we don't know, man, but it is crazy, like the Joker, up. We then had this great promo with Tomasso Champa who basically said, you know what, I've never been the guy, I've never passed the airport test, people have always been against me, but that's why this is going to be my love letter to wrestling, and I'm going to become the champion and it was brilliant. When we cut to Adam Copeland, who basically said, hey, FTR, we want one more match against you because me and Christian Cage are the best tag team of all time, and because you probably won't accept unless I give you something, if we do lose that double or nothing, we shall retire as a team. So there you go. If Cash and Dax |
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