AEW Dynamite 12/2/2020

 AEW Dynamite 12/2/2020

 Dynamite Diamond Battle Royale

We will have no winner here as the final two face off in a match for the diamond next week. Multiple people refuse to get into the ring, and why rush really? MJF does an inset saying his diamond ring for winning is not only his run, but Sammy G's and Wardlow's ring. Matt Hardy is now back to wearing his old Hardy Boyz fear. Page eliminates Serpentico and the Dork Order celebrates with him. Sydal takes a DVD on the runway to get eliminated. Spears gets eliminated and Tully looks on with the announcers saying he didn't meet expectations. Tully gives Spears a steel slug and he hits Sky with it, who takes a hall fall on the elimination. Silver accidentally eliminates Reynolds and Silver takes a hard fall on the outside too. Marquen has the worst look you have ever seen.

Page gets close to being eliminated but the Dork Order catches him on his fall and throws him in. Then he hits his buckshot lariat in a cool spot and gets promptly thrown out. Miro cleans house with 4 elims as the Inner Circle chills in the corner. The IC triple attacks Miro and we get a Wardlow/Miro staredown and punch trade. The problem is both Miro and Wardlow look the exact same size as MJF and Sammy. We get the 3 IC members vs Jungle Boy. Jungle does gymnastics on the apron with Sammy and they get on the top rope. MJF then throws both off and him and Wardlow survive. Orange Cassidy is apparently still in this and in typical AEW fashion, it stays true to the tag line of "Where the Big Boys Lay" as he eliminated Wardlow. This promotion has a fetish for making its hosses look like goofs like I've never seen.

The battle royale wasn't bad but the finish of Wardlow taking the loss was dumb.

Frankie Kazarian vs Chris Jericho

Kazarian's hair looks so fake. The IC interfered during most of this match. They had an ad for the Go-Big show, which was more interesting than the match. Jericho took an ugly single spanish fly from the top which Jericho would not have been doing. Who doesn't do a top rope spanish fly in the 2nd match on the show? Kazarian had Jericho in a boston crab. One of EXLAX tried to interfere but Hager stopped him. MJF tried to throw the towel in but Sammy stopped him. They have more people at ringside than in stands here and Jericho won with a surprise Judas Effect back eblow. MJF jumps to go hug Jericho after and Sammy and the rest push MJF/Wardlow. Jericho got on the mic and told everyone to shut up and stop it and they either all decide to work together or they all break up. I mean, what's the argument against breaking up, really?

The Bucks did an interview and said they superkicked the announcer in the face. They are supposed to fight The Hybrid 2 next week. The Bucks said if H@ wins they will give them the show. The Acclaimed interrupted and made fun of the Bucks' new book. Max of that team then started rapping...and TH2 jumped the Bucks. I popped for Max yelling "World Star". SCU broke it up. It's kind of hard to feel bad for them after they said they superkicked an announcer.

Britt Baker vs Leyla Hirsch

Baker's jacket is really really gold. Hirsch is really small and legit looks like a midget. She pushed as a Russian but then they talk about how she spent all of her life in the US...They push that they have a women's group for wrestling fans and of course it begs the question of whether those "women" have penises or not. They did some decent technical wrestling and Baker hit the weakest superkick ever. Reba interfered here and this was the 3rd match in a row with outside of the ring shenanigans. The match pretty much fell apart after the break and Baker won with a Ring of Saturn with a hand in Hirsch's mouth. Rosa then jumped in and started pounding on Baker. Reba just watched...why? The refs broke it up and even though these girls are maybe 150lbs tops, they couldn't hold them back. Come on.


Darby Allin and Cody Rhodes vs Ricky Starks and Powerhouse Hobbs with Taz

Darby came to the ring on a skateboard. Hobbs got a nice lariat on Darby on the outside. Starks and Hobbs also both picked up Darby and threw up and let him fall down. Hobbs did a cool overhead suplex where he grabbed Darby by his ears. We had our 4th match in a row with a distraction/interference with Taz and Arn both getting on the apron. Cody did a nice Cody Cutter and Darby won over Starks with the Coffin Drop. Maybe went a little longer than it should but was fine. Hobbs hit Darby after the match and then tried to pound on Hobbs. He then took a 2v1 and Dustin Rhodes got involved. Cage then got involved with cool gear tonight hitting an F-5. A 3v1 happened and then STING came out. Snow fell during his entrance with some cool music and he stared down everyone in the ring. The problem is Sting is retired and I just don't see what can be done with him unless he's going to wrestle again at age 61. And I just don't see him managing someone.

Shida did an interview. She said Abadon is doing zombie cosplay. A metal pipe fell in the background and she left, saying she wasn't afraid.

Moxley did a promo in front of a storage area. He said him and Omega were two warriors on top of a mountain with swords. Then he did a Pat Patterson call out saying they would "make them go absolutely banana", which Pat had said before.

Jon Moxley vs Kenny Omega
Moxley is 21-0 this year. This is the main and it's just starting at 9:25. Please don't go past 10. It became clear from the start that this was going long. They went slow and tried to mimic a good match but I'm not really a fan of either guy in ring. Then they brought in chairs and sat down on them while they hit each other. The lack of a real crowd did not help this. At 30 minutes, Moxley suplexed Omega into some heaters at ringside and they called the staff to look at Kenny. Kenny's uncle Don Callis came down and asked for the match to be stopped but Mox hit him. Omega then hit him with a mic which made him bleed. Kenny of course being Kenny then was no longer hurt. Whether that was a fakeout or just bad selling is hard to tell with Kenny's poor work. Kenny then beat Moxley to win the title in a long match with a pretty weird finish. Callis and Kenny ran straight out of the arena in an apparent heel turn. Callis said to tune into TNA Impact on Tuesday to find out what happened. Okay, well that got even weirder.

And if it wasn't enough, during all of this, Eddie Kingston got into the commentary booth and called out Lance Archer, though it was real easy to miss. Apparently they had a brawl which they chose not to air on TV.

Final thoughts - One of the least offensive AEW shows I have seen, though that ending was bad. No idea why AEW would want to work with a TNA that is practically dead and leagues below them. Props to TNA for getting the exposure though.