AEW Dynamite 10/7/2020

 AEW Dynamite 10/7/2020

I'm just doing some selected matches here

Will Hobbs vs Brian Cage

I heard a lot about Hobbs and wanted to check this out.

The FTW title thing is stupid. It got a bad start as Cage lost almost as soon as he debuted it, without the title changing hands.  There was just no real storyline reason for it, nor was there the time to give it a storyline.

An FTW title could have worked if say Taz showed up and started having matches for it. Maybe something like a tournament or an open challenge series. Then you have a match for it at the end and it has some credibility. Or if Cage had won matches for months and couldn't get a shot at the AEW title for some reason. Then maybe Taz could have started making pitches for him to get a shot or protested for him to get a shot for a while, until he just decided to give him the FTW belt. That could have worked. Instead they just debuted it without much storyline.

I'm not really a fan of Cage. I want to be. But he's just not a Sekimoto, Shuji Ishikawa, Yuji Okabayashi or any of the other great hosses. He's just an indy guy that does power spots instead of head drops or flips. His forearm strikes are bad. He doesn't really build matches up and his gear looks awful(Why the heck is a big scary heel wearing neon?).

I didn't like this match. The match shouldn't have happened yet. Hobbs is still green and has a lot of work to do like getting better strikes and other things and Cage was not the guy to teach him to do it. And even if somehow was, this was about 2 years too soon. This should have been some King of the Monsters type of stuff that was built up for months, instead it was just thrown out here IN THE OPENING MATCH. Not even the main event for a guy who everyone thinks is the next big thing. Not good, not good. This arena was also not the right setting. There's just a sound vacuum and the people who usually yell either weren't yelling as loud or the micwork wasn't as good.

AEW needs to take Hobbs and send him off to New Japan for a year or two where he can learn the basics and get some experience, then bring him back and do this. Then you will see a much better match. Unfortunately, I think he's going to end up as Brian Cage 2.0 since he's hanging around a promotion full of people who don't know the basics.

And I also had to comment on the end here where Darby Allyn runs off Cage and Starks. It'd be bad if Allyn ran off Cage, but he ran off Cage AND Starks. Little 150lb Darby Allyn ran off a hoss and his friend. Who the heck booked that?

FTR vs Jack Evans and Angelico

This was a mess. Evans was either drunk or injured, or both.

Evans did two flips just getting into the ring and then he does a capoeira move that the camera cuts away from. He goes onto botch 3 moves in less than a minute and completed botched some flip from the top later on, along with hitting his own partner on a dive JR awkwardly brought up. This match went 100MPH with so much done that I couldn't keep up with it. AEW is exposing FTR weekly and instead of making other teams better, is just making them worse. The Rockers vs The Brainbusters, this was not.

The Young Bucks then superkicked a cameraman after. They said the cameramen were spying on them, but the camera's were there during the whole match. How couldn't they notice them? Best Friends then came out with a graphic of FTR in hot dog costumes. That was an immediate fast forward for me. If this was WWE this would be ripped to pieces, but this AEW and reddit will love it.

Dog Collar Match - Cody Rhodes vs Brodie Lee

The one thing I can say that AEW does well is that when they have a big gimmick match or a gimmick show, they do hype it and get you interested in it. Greg Valentine being there was a really cool touch. Cody's whole entourage is just weird with Brandi and Arn. It doesn't flow at all. John Silver may have the worst look in wrestling right now. I did not like that they didn't show them putting on the dog collar.

I didn't like this at all. There were no basic holds or strikes or anything and they went straight into the spots. John Silver bled for some reason and they put Brodie through a table DURING THE BREAK. Cody threw around Brodie like nothing, even though he's supposed to be this big bad dude and they rushed through everything. And even though both guys were all bloody, they were still able to do all kinds of flips and and cool moves without any trouble.

I'm going to stop here as I've had enough of this wretched show. Can you believe some were calling this the best Dynamite ever?