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Ups & Downs - AEW Dynamite Review (Sept 4th)

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

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0:00.0

So Gabe Kidd was rude at the start of this week's episode of Dynamite because the commentators were running down what was going to happen on the show when Gabriel did walk out and he pretended to be a clock. He was all like, tick-tok, tick-tok. When he started to go, ha ha, I bet Darby Allen is in the rafters outside Gabe Kidd. We're in the ECW arena. It most definitely does not have rafters. Dobby then did appear and these two started to have a big old fight.

0:02.6

At one point, Tina, the turnbuckle got exposed and everybody was going into the steel, so Darby went up to the top rope and did a coffin drop. When Wheeler Yuta came out, probably to tell us all, I'm turning into the cousin it, and I don't know what to do about it, when Darby, I presume before the show, had put a skateboard under the ring and he'd stuck

0:39.9

thumbtacks in it and yes, he did an Olly off wheelers back. I want you to allow that to set into your

0:45.7

brain. We are no longer in toto anymore, Kansas. That's not the line. Some reason the death

0:50.6

riders then very slowly walked to the ring, they probably didn't want Darby to do a kickflip off their back when the hook sign went up and hook came out when he was totally mugged off instantly by Samoa Joe and his operations because they just rang by and because we did have a bunch of people in the rig and out of the ring and out of the ring, everybody started to fight mostly because the death riders are a bunch of dickheads and nobody likes it. Samoa Joe's boys really did replace hook faster than life replaced my hairline and Willow Nightingale was out there as well. So it is kind of good in the sense that after all in what wrestling usually would have done would disband with the death riders, but actually even though they have lost their world championship, they're still being a bunch of goobers.

1:28.2

So the baby faces are like, well, as long as you keep doing this, we'll be fighting back, I believe it's called war. Now, I would like to know when Marina Shafir and Willow Nightingale are going to settle their beef in the rings. It feels like it's been going on for 47 years. Tony Chavani made me laugh out loud on commentary

1:26.0

because he was all like, oh man, this is where AW is so great and unique.

1:29.9

Like that is true, but I was also a bit like Tony. When the show is on,

1:49.5

I think you should sell it as, oh my gosh, horrific, terrifying, especially because Gay Kid and

1:54.4

Darby Allen then fought to the back. Gabe Kid was going to hit him with a hammer, so

1:58.8

put a one on the crime counter, especially because then Darby Allen reversed it, put Gabe Kidd in a body bag, and he just drove away, and he threw powder in his eyes. Now I double-checked, I went into my police book, you can't do any of that, so put another one of the crime counter, so essentially the start of this week's episode of dynamite was just crime. So this was totally insane. I am very intrigued what we are going to do because we just did the big boty band match at Forbidden Door. I don't think you can get away with doing another one, but we have to wait and see. But when a wrestling show does start and it turns into Dr. Robotic because you just get so much chaos, well me personally, Simon Mello, howello, working to ups and downs. The only wrestling will show you need, that didn't come out right at all. I am going to give it an up. Like, we just went. It's like, we forgot we're meant to do an opening wrestling promo, and everybody just started to fight. But sometimes you do need to get the violence out, which is not a euphemism,

2:52.2

and think about the multiple directions you could go. I think overall, there was 47,652 individuals involved.

3:01.6

What it was indeed, with Sainzmanet versus Alex Windsor for the TBS title, which has to be one of the

3:06.6

craziest 180 switches ever,

3:08.6

because he went from that madness right into a good old-fashioned wrestling fight.

3:12.7

And look, Alex Winsder has been brought in as a top guy, so now she feels like a top guy,

3:16.7

and imagine right now not thinking Mercedes is doing the best work of her career.

3:21.3

Like, of course, you're allowed your opinion, but I just do not get it at all. She just has match after match after match in any style against anybody, and at the very minimum, she always has a pretty decent match. Windsor also got a half crab here, which did confuse me, because she's most definitely a full human, when the same is like, well, I'm going to reverse that into the backstabber, and we did get a lot of submissions here before they started to fight.

3:43.3

I mean, Windsor even got this gnarly sharpshooter into the ropes, means you had to break at five when we got the least devastating move in all of sports entertainment, the blue thunder bomb. Did it work? Of course it didn't. It never does.

3:40.0

Also fair play to AW because around about halfway through this, Justin Roberts did get on the microphone and said,

3:44.7

oh hi, there's only 10 minutes left because it was a 20 minute time limit. And AEW does need to do that more, which is why it's good they did do it here. Because it got me, I was like, oh my gosh, they're going to go to a time limit, but they did not. So now the next time we go to a draw, I will not be expecting it. Blink 182 were seeing about this, the small things. Manet then got the back stabber, so Windsor came back with a power bomb as this was wrestling tennis, and on the outside, Alex Windsor did get a sharp shooter, and it certainly looked like mistakes Manet was submitting to me, so we have got that visual, and it feels like we're going to have to run it back. But of course, back in the squared circle, Alex had not had a chat with Danny Garcia, and when she applied the sharpshooter, again, she leaned way too far back, when Mercedes was like, I know what to do because I am an experienced veteran, and she hit the most devastating move. In all the sports entertainment, with the roll-up, and she got the one, two, three, and she was allowed to celebrate for around about two seconds. Now it did look like they were going to shake hands, but of course, Moena just popped her right in the face, and she applied the statement maker when, yes, the OG Rio returned. She stomped Mercedes-Mene's so hard, I thought she may have exploded her brain. They had a little bit of fisty cuffs. And now, add to all out, going back to what we just said, how Mercedes-Mobile wants to fight everybody. It will be Mercedes-Moray versus Rio. And I just think that's some good eating, because again, Rio is an OG character. Messerese Manet came in, what, two years ago, whenever the flub it was, these are the kind of matches we wanted to see, especially in All-Leat wrestling. When they love doing matchmaking, we're going to give it an up. It's a good match of the future. This was a really good match. You can't ask for more than that. Maybe free pizza, but what are you going to do? Renee Bacet was then with Samoa Joe and she wanted to know what is going on with Hook. And Samoa was like, yes, what is going to go on with Hook? When Hook just walked in and said, well, I'll tell you what happened. I got injured and you replaced me before my body was even cold. That hook, you didn't die, man. I think somebody's lied to you. Hook also told them he doesn't need anybody else to fight their own battles, and Powerhouse Hobbs was here, and he seemed to quite like Hook. When Samojo said, listen, it was me. I made this decision, and it's all about opportunities, and I saw an opportunity, so I took the opportunity. I was like, wait a minute, wait a minute. Is that what the ops dance for? So it's Samojo and the opportunities, which kind of sounds like a 1970s ripoff band of people that wanted to be the Beatles. Joe wasn't a little bit mean because it was like, hook, you weren't ready, but Hos was ready, so I made the switch. And look, regardless, we are going to look out for you because you're still our buddy. That confused me as well. Is that what? The ops can only have three people in it? We can't possibly expand to four. And what I would actually do here is I would circumvent expectations, make it look like they are going to be friends when Hook beats them all up and says, I don't forget, man, I'm like a flippant elephant. I do like the fact we did this though, because now we have explained that one time Hook did come back and they looked at Samoa Joe like I don't like you anymore. But the biggest storyline of 2025 is how going to be why Samojo will not have a group with more than three people in it. I tell you, man, I don't care what anybody says. I flippin love pro wrestling. Rickshaw and the Gates of Agony will then hear, and Rickashay made it very clear. This has nothing to do with 80W Hurt Syndicate. You have been annoying me for many years and that's why at All Out, we the future are going to beat your old asses before we go on to future superstardom. And later on We saw the Hertz syndicate, and they agree to this, and MVP is going to be in that match. I'm giving it an up. I can only presume that MVP doesn't have many of these left in him, so anytime he is going to scrap, I get excited. They also think that will be a pretty good trios match, And eventually you can probably throw the titles in there too.

7:35.0

Also want to give a quick shout to Taz who did get inducted into the ECW Arena Hall of Fame

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