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Ups & Downs - AEW Dynamite Review (Jan 21st)

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

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0:00.0

So we kicked off this week's episode of AEW Dynamite with MJF our world champion coming to the ring.

0:05.0

He said Tony Schiavani had three chins, which was very mean and as always, he is better than us. But he also was like, if you're watching a different show on a different channel, and they say that they're best in the world, well maybe they're talking about their ass. Was this a CM Punk reference? I genuinely don't know. Also, my friends, walking to Opps and Downs, the only rest of review show you need.

0:23.7

Sorry, I did miss A.W. Dynamite last week, but I had a personal amount to attend to. I did some calculations. I think in 10 years I have missed a total of 50 wrestling shows, which is embarrassing. Somebody should find me out of a cannon. What the flub am I doing with my life? However, we are coming up to the 10 year anniversary, which we won't celebrate because it's not something to celebrate, but I still appreciate you. Let's up those doubts. Then turned out all those videos and wins for Brody King did mean something, because he did walk to the ring. He was like, ha ha, MJF. Given what you did do last week, I should rip out your spine,

0:56.7

but I'm not going to do that.

0:58.0

That was interesting. He was about to commit

0:59.8

a fatality, and then he just changed his mind.

1:02.3

Somebody should tell Johnny Cage.

1:03.6

The reason for this, though, is that he just wants a match.

1:05.8

If he beats MGF up now, he knows

1:07.7

that's never going to happen when he laid his claim. He was like, I want to take

1:11.6

you on Maxwell Jacob Freeman and bless M. Jeff. He said, listen, all you've done is beat a bunch of jobbers. His words not mine. Why don't you go beat somebody of note and then get back to me? My Geese title shot counter thing in a jig that we came up with at the start of the year is totally boned. I think we've only had two across WW and AW. But this is a good thing.

1:30.9

Because somebody walking up to somebody else just going, hello, my boy, could I please have a title shot and then getting a yes, that is stupid, and why doesn't everybody do it? Brodie King then barked to M. Jeff, who ran away, which was quite a surreal situation. But once again, we have just planted another seed that Friedman has about 62,000 different people coming after his belt. I mean, there is Brody King, there's Swirf Strickland, there's Angman and a Page, there's Kenny Omega. There's probably somebody else that I have forgotten. And this is what you should always do when you enter a new year. You look through your roster and go, who do we want to give a push to?

2:51.5

And Brody King makes all the sense in the world because he's massive and he's kind of terrifying. So he introduces a totally different kind of threat, especially when it does come to all it wrestling. So I am giving this an up. I mean, it was mostly a tease. Although for the rest of the night, MGF was going to watch all of his challenges in action, because he knows the walls are closing in, even though he's probably going to beat all of them. We then basically got a video reminding you that MGF does have a bunch of challenges when we cut to Hangman Adam Page and JetSpeed because of course on collision they'd become the brand new Chio champions. However, they hadn't come up with a name, so they were going to come up with the name. Now, Kevin Knight, I think, suggested jet set rodeo, which is actually pretty good, whereas Mike Bailey wanted to call them horsecock. Now, he wasn't able to get that out in the way that he did want to, but that is what he has offered to the world in 2006. Horsecock. We then learn next steps because hangman Alan Page said that he is going to be taken on Shabata on collision, so hopefully we do get to that one-on-one match with hook eventually, whereas in the main event it's Kevin Knight versus Swarff Strickman, which is massive, and it's Mike Bailey versus Samojo. So, you know, Kevin even said to hangman, what do I do to beat swerve? And Pagebase was like, I don't know, bro,

5:07.3

you better figure it out. But I like this. It goes back to what we were just talking about. Take someone who is down there and try and put them up here, like a book. We then went right into Samoro Joe versus Mike Bailey. And if you've been watching wrestling for a while, this did feel like two generations coming together. And Samojo was the power guy, and Mike Bailey was the quick agile guy. It was just such a treat to watch. And listen, of course Mike didn't win here. I don't think anybody expected that. But he did do exactly what we said he should do. I actually think he comes out the other end of this match, which is a terrible phrase, feeling like a much bigger deal. I mean, that mother hubbard just hung with Samojo. He also got a horse cock chant, so there's no going back now. I'm sorry, don't walk into my house and say to me, oh, WW and AW, New Japan are all the same. I watch all wrestling because I am a massive nerd, and I tell you, it's not often, you hear the chant, Horsecock. Now of course, halfway through this shabata and hook came down to car's distraction because they aren't part of the ops. Unless I miss something, sometimes I do. It doesn't really feel like AEW is going to mention why Powerhouse Hobbs disappeared. And I'm kind of in the middle with all of this. On the one hand, I totally get it. He is going to debut in WWE, so I suppose outside out of your mind. But on the other one, I always kind of feel like you should put your audience first. And if you are an AEW watcher and you consume everything they do, all of a sudden this guy was there and then he vanished. You don't even get like a Simpson poochy clipframe thing when it goes off the screen. I don't really know what to do here because I can completely understand. And maybe if I ran my own wrestling company, I'd be like, look, he's gone, he lost, that's the reason the opportunities don't have the trio belts anymore. We should just move on. At the same time, maybe we should have just done something more down. I'm going to leave it. it's a very very difficult situation and given situation, and given that lots of people did ask me, of course I want Powerhouse Hobbs to do well. And if Tomaso Trump, who has just left WW, he goes to AEW, I want him to do well as well. A promotion is just an entity that exists. These are real life human beings. I want them to be able to go wherever the flop they want, and I want them to to have a really good tie. Samoa Joe, of course, used that and he once again distracted the referee to stop Mike Bailey when he was on the top rope, but eventually Bailey was going after Samozo's leg, so Samo Joe was going after Bailey's leg, and man, I tell you, when Mike Bailey hit this flurry aboves to get a one-two-oo. If you wanted to believe you could, me deep down on my tum-tum,

5:22.1

I didn't actually think he was going to do it, but they did a fantastic flurry a booth to get a one-two-oo. If you wanted to believe you could, I mean deep down

5:21.4

in my tum-tum, I didn't actually think he was going to do it, but they did a fantastic job with making you believe. At 1.2, Bailey was caught in the kikina clutch, and he turned it into the most devastating move. In all the sports, they were a surprise route for another one-two, so once again, we were giving him loads. When he went back to the top rope and hook and shabar

5:37.5

to a basic going, da-da-da-da-da-da.

5:39.5

And the referee didn't know what was happening. Samojo cut him off, he hit the muscle buster and he got the one, two, three. But if you were going to read the fictional wrestling history books, it would tell you they cheated. Once again, MGF was watching, I'm sure we get to Samojo versus him soon, but Mike Bailey can now walk around going,

5:55.7

I was this close to being Samojo, And if it wasn't for his stupid friends, I would have doubt. It's also a former world champion. And of course, it doesn't matter what you do with Samojo in 2006. That guy is Teflon because he is so good. I am going to give this an up. I mean, in many ways, this is what you want from AEW, a guy from the old school, a guy from the new school, you put them in a ring and fight. When things went totally nuts, because on the weekend on collision, the death riders and the Don Callis family had finally fallen out. We've been teasing that for a while. And then four days later, they were having a street fight. Now, listen, it was a very good fight on the

6:27.8

street and the amount of effort that was put in here was absolutely redonculus. I am just going to give that a little bit of a down. I just think when it gets to a stipulation like that, you've got to earn it, which is a stupid thing to say, but you don't want to do them just for the sake of doing them, or at the same time, if you don't want to be a geek, you just got

6:43.9

a street fight on a totally random episode of Dynamite for free.

6:46.8

There's also Moxie Garcia and Yuta taken on Enchi Cerro, Rocky Romero and Lance Arch as

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