Ups & Downs - AEW Dynamite Review (July 22nd)
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🗓️ 23 July 2026
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| 0:00.0 | So Will Spray! |
| 0:00.8 | And Kenny Omega was Super Friend 9,000 to start this week's episode of AEW Dynamite |
| 0:05.3 | because Will was all like, oh, don't forget the last time we team Ken are you all out of breath. So don't hesitate to tag me. So Maker was all like, you have a bad neck, Will, so maybe you should think about that. I was like, man, that escalate quickly. Of course, it's just a tease, the tension is growing. and John Moxie then got in on this |
| 0:19.4 | because he walked in the room and said, |
| 0:21.0 | man, there's no tension in here at all. |
| 0:23.2 | And he left again. |
| 0:24.0 | I don't care what anybody says. T's attention is growing and John Moxie then got in on this because he walked in the room and said, |
| 0:21.0 | me, there's no tension in here at all. And he left again. I don't care what he says. This was very reminiscent of a Dean Epper segment back in the day in WW. And don't forget that John Moxie was very good at those, especially when he was the Mountie. That's the dumbest one ever. The problem is, well, you know, he just became a goofy idiot all the time, which he does not enjoy. |
| 0:39.0 | And I will admit, the fact that Kenny Omega Will, Osprey and John Moxie were going to be a team was kind of nuts. Surely Kenny would have been like, I don't want a team with that guy, but AEW dealt with it very well, as you shall see in our main event. Also, that my friends are one-to-ups and down to AEW Dynamite, the only only wrestling review show you need. Now, let's address the elephant in the room. You may have seen an announcement this week that come the end of the year, at the start of next year, I am going to be involved in something called The Last Match, is a pro wrestling, musical, theatre production that also has professional wrestling stuck in the middle of it. If you're a long-time viewer, you'll remember I went on tour in 2004 in the United States of America with this show. Now it is coming to London. They're going to do |
| 1:15.6 | an extended run. And yes, AW have come on board as one of the sponsors, one of the partners. And now |
| 1:20.3 | some people are going, oh my gosh, I knew he was so damn biased. But one, I'm not biased because |
| 1:25.4 | I'm not professional wrestling more than anything else, but also |
| 1:28.0 | I've been doing this job for 10 years. This deal was made like a week ago. Just do the maths. Anyway, that's not why I brought it up. I just want to say thank you because so many people did get in touch and said wonderful things. I appreciate you a lot. Let's up those doubts. It was no playing around either because the first match was Darby Allen versus Kevin Knight for the TNT title. And what else can I possibly say? You know the deal with Derby. He walks in or I guess gets to the backstage area and says, listen, Kevin, you come up with 52,000 ways to destroy me. And damn it, I'll probably be game. But even when he tried to crush Kevin through Timmy the Timekeeper's table, that damn thing didn't break. |
| 2:02.9 | And I was like, ironically, can somebody give Darby Allen a break? And I just really enjoyed this because, one, Kevin Knight was going to cheat to win, and there's all this craze on the internet right there going, oh, I can't believe Kevin Knight is made a victim redemption pay-per-view. Of course it means from a star power point of view, it doesn't have the same impact as I say Kenny Omega versus MJF. |
| 2:20.8 | But I love that we are seeing the rise of Kevin Knight in real time. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't work. You never know. You could have the most talented person ever and sometimes it doesn't click. But up to this point on July 23rd, 2006, I think AW's doing a great job. I think Kevin Knight is leaning into it more and more and more. He's not going to win at the pay-bue on Sunday, nor should he. But I think this is a good old plan. And if he can become somebody, it is a mainstay in the main event scene. We're quite obviously going to do that with Carl Fletcher too. You always want to recycle the goods. He also went crazy here and threw Derby into simmer the still steps at one point and man, there was so much blood because AW is one crazy tamale. I thought I actually didn't stop Alan at all because later on he then gave basically an avalanche code red to Kevin Knight. I did that thing I always do when I stare off into the distance and realise this is just an episode of TV. |
| 3:08.3 | Now, I've reached the referee got bumped, which always means one single thing, and that was what Kevin Knight was going to use the T&T title. But Darby was able to duck, dive and dodge. He then hit the Scorpion Death Drop, when he was like, maybe I should use the championship, which was a terrible idea, because he kind of distracted himself. himself. Because basically Kevin there did use that old championship, he smashed Derby Allen to protect the guy, I suppose. When he hit an awesome coast to coast and the UFO splash, he got the one, two, three. He retained his T&T title, but you can just imagine Darby Allen maybe even at redemption saying, hey man, I now need redemption on you. It's not a euphemism. So it's just a really good title match and again, to just get this on dynamite. I do hope once Kevin Knight is done with Kenny and Megal, we can really push this TNT title. Although at the same time, as we were told, Kevin Knight now holds the records for the most successful defensive of that damn thing. So it's not like we ain't trying. Up. Car Fletcher and Ricard then walked out right afterwards because of course secretly they hate each other, but we're also going to get Don Callis segment, which is probably why AW cut to the break here. It takes a long time to get 52,799 individuals and get him in a ring. Now Mark Davis started because of course he wants to smash Andrade at Red. Actually I don't know which way that is going to go. I think there's multiple options when Carl Fletcher made it very clear. You, Kevin Knight, I don't like you and you're so great that you defend your TNT title, but I am going to defend my belt and I hope you do become Kevin two belts because maybe I'll kick your ass. |
| 4:31.1 | They're looking at each other. They're definitely going to fall out. Kevin even said to Carl, |
| 4:34.4 | don't forget, man, I always defend my title on my own terms, unlike you. Carl Fletcher was so dead, |
| 4:39.4 | man, is that right? One, I am taking on Bandido at Redemption and I don't want anybody at ringside |
| 4:43.9 | and actually me and Akada are about to take on Brandido Bandido Bambolowo and once again no one's allowed to interfere. I was like Carl, you get too easily wound up. It did just mean that it was Brodido versus Protocarda, whoever pronounced their name, and get it wrong all of the times. And I just thought this was an absolute treat. Like Brodido Bandido Bandido Bandwool, aren't like a proper |
| 5:04.3 | tag team at the moment. In the sense, this is more to build the Bandido because of Carl Fletcher feud. But after redemption, if you wanted to put them back in the tag title scene, nobody would mind. And even though secretly deep down Carl Fletcher and Akada hate each other, you could do the same with them, although I enjoyed the finish of this, even though there was some shenanigans, because Brodido, Bandido, are the like proper tag team who worked together all the time, whereas Akada and Carl Fletcher, we know they've got problems, those two fools lust. But the bad guys deep beat up Bandido for a while, at one point O'Carter even went and barked to Brody King, because he's just insane. But eventually King got this wonderful hot tag and the DVD |
| 5:38.6 | hit on Carl Fletcher to end this thing is absolutely ridiculous. When they were able to turn it around as well Brody could feel it in his tutsy toes that a rainmaker was coming so he ducked and dived and dodged out the way and of course it met Akada accidentally maybe on purpose hit Carl Fletcher and this guy doesn't care at all. |
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