AEW Dynamite 5/28/2021
Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2021/05/aew-dynamite-5192021.html
Darby Allin with Sting vs Cezar Bononi with Pretty Picture
Cezar hit some awful strikes early and threw around Darby, slamming him onto the stage. He was trying to pin him and it looked silly as Cezar is like twice his size but can't hold him down. Darby hit more offense that was really hard to buy and won this one easy with a coffin drop.
Darby calls out Scorpio Sky and Ethan Page to fight right now. Sky mocked him for it. He said at the PPV, it would be the end of one legend and the birth of two more. Pretty Picture then jumped Darby and Sting and Sky/Page joined in. As expected, The Dark Order came out to save them.
They bring out Paul Wight to officiate a weigh-in between Cody Rhodes and Anthony Ogogo. Paul says there will be no shenanigans and this will be "a serious weigh-in". Paul acted lik their dad trying to force them in the ring. Cody came out with something like 10 different people with many trainees.
There was fireworks going on in the background somewhere here that they mentioned. Cody weighs in at 218 and Ogogo weighs in at 219. QT says Ogogo has the victory in his hands because he is heavier and says he will win. Both of them posed and tried to get people to chant for their country. This segment went on way too long and felt like time filler.
They do a package on Stadium Stampede. They show clips from last year's match.
We cut to the back with Hobbs and Christian Cage going at it near a fenced in area. Hobbs gets speared into some boxes and the refs have to break it up.
Adam Page vs Joey Janela
Why? Janela ran at Page off the apron and was fallaway slammed on the apron. JR said Page was challening the Wild Samoans off that move in an odd line. Janela's green underwear is hanging out and Taz rightfully rips him for it.
Page got his mouth busted open and Janela tried to german him into the bottom buckle but they missed. Janela hit a nice diving elbow from the top. Page then got his head busted open and hit a buckshot lariat for the win. This wasn't any good and I can't believe Page ended up bleeding over this. This was little but filler.
Taz says Brian Cage wants to come say hi and Cage comes out. Page says he knows Team Taz is going to jump him and calls them out. Page mocks Cage, asking if he needs help to beat him up. Page dares Cage to leave Team Taz out of it at the ppv. Cage says he doesn't need their help and says nobody is better than Cage. Well, except for Darby and Mox who beat him clean.
Mox and Eddie are burying the Young Buck's shoes. Mox calls them "Rod and Todd Flanders"...then the promo just cuts out and we go to black before they finish the sentence. We come back from the black out and the promo continues.
Mox says he wants and needs the tag title belts. Eddie calls all the people in the back quitters for not being out there and going for it in an odd line. He tells the Bucks that the pressure is coming.
Tony Schiavone invites Orange Cassidy out but Pac comes out instead. Pac kicks him out. Pac's accent was really funny here. He calls out Kenny and Don Callis appears on the tron. Don calls him violent and aggressive and says he wants nothing to do with him. Kenny tries to jump and gets caught. The Good Brothers join in and get the edge on Pac then the Lucha Brothers come out to even the odds. Kenny goes for the OWA on Pac then Best Friends come out to interrupt it for some reason. Makes no sense since if Kenny takes out Pac, OC has an easier chance of winning. OC gives Kenny and envelope with the contract all ripped up that Kenny gave him. Then he hits an orange punch. Pac smartly then tries to beat up OC but he takes an orange punch too.
Tony interviews Jade Cargill in the back. Matt Hardy then comes out and makes his pitch, then Mark Sterling says Jade has accepted him as her manager. Mark threatens to sue him if he tries to interfere with his client. He says while Matt charges 30%, he only charges Jade if she wins. This Jade looking for a manager storyline has been awful and hasn't made much sense. I don't really see what Mark can do for Jade and the pair goes together like ice cream and motor oil, but at least the search for the manager she didn't want is over.
Kilynn King vs Jade Cargill with Mark Sterling
These two are bigger than most of the men on the roster. Even though Jade does nothing for me personally, she really is the total package as she is big, looks and acts like a star and has personality. Jade does a nice flip over the ropes and over King's back into a spinebuster.
King gets thrown out hard and Mark throws his card at her. Jade wins this with a glam slam. The crowd was dead and this was not very interesting.
Jake Roberts and Lance Archer do an interview. He says he doesn't want Dante Martin to win as he wants Miro. He says he will be the new TNT champ.
TNT Championship - Miro (c) vs Dante Martin
Dante has new white and black gear. Miro does some nice pounding on him in the corner and throws him high on an overhead throw. Dante hit his double jump springboard moonsault. He was thrown over the ropes onto the ramp and flipped over the rope, then he came back and did a springboard dropkick.
Miro then hit a pump kick and a camel clutch soon after to win. I was really surprised this was short and to the point.
Jake and Archer come out. Jake says Miro's fairy tale comes to an end at the ppv. He says something in gibberish and says it translates to "shut the hell up". Miro tells Archer to come fight him then Archer and Miro go at it as the refs come in to stop it. This wasn't done too well.
Tony is with Bryce in the ring and they are here to honor Shida being champ for over a year. They present her with a new title belt that is visibly a lot bigger than the older one and is an upgrade. They say it has been Shida's dream to defend the title in front of fans and Shida says she is happy she will get the chance to. She says the title is for the fans then Britt Baker comes out. Britt says the last year was Shida's year. She said she isn't going to be the face of the women's division, but the face of a new era. She said the last era was about 3:16, but this era is about DMD.
Sammy did his usual dumb stuff with the signs during a break.
The Dark Order - Evil Uno and Stu Grayson vs Ethan Page and Scorpio Sky
Stu does a springboard out of nowhere and ddt's sky on the apron. Uno sideslams Page and Stu springboard elbow drops him. Stu then slingshot senton's Page on the apron and is swept on his shoulder on the apron. Sky then slingshot cutter's him.
Stu does a flip bump off of a shoulder from Page. Page then iconoslams Stu. We come back from break with Stu hitting a uranage on Sky and doing his double backflip kick on both opponents. Uno hits a hurricanrana and an end of days. Page gets pushed by Uno's feet into a belly to belly on Sky, then the D-O does the cannonball and 450 combo for 2.
Sky got Page out of the Fatality, then they picke dup the win with a razor's edge. This wasn't anything too special and the outcome was obvious. Page says the same thing will happen this Sunday on the mic and then Darby and people in Sting masks come out. Sky beats up some of them and Sting is revealed to be one of the people in the masks. Sky then runs for it. Anyone remember when they did that one in TNA?
Eric Bischoff comes out. He said he was doing this 25 years ago with the NWO then brings out the Inner Circle, saying they might be as good as them. Jericho says he had a change of heart about Bischoff and thanks for him for being here. I don't really buy that one. They show clips of some of the IC's deeds which I probably wouldn't do since they are trying to push them as faces now. I guess we're supposed to cheer them for beating up all of the people we are supposed to like?
Santana says if they lose and are forced to break up, they wouldn't want to have to do it any other way. They all put over the Inner Circle and kind of do a restrospective. They all hug after Jericho says he loves them. MJF appears on the tron at the stadium as they pose.
It is revealed that MJF has Dean Malenko tied up to football pole there then the Inner Circle run after them. They get jumped from behind by The Pinnacle and thrown around the stadium. FTR piledrive S & O off a stand onto tables. This should put them out for a long time but they will be fine by Sunday I'm sure. The Pinnacle close by saying they are always on top.
Overall thoughts: Not a good one here. They were clearly filling time and stalling before the PPV and had a pretty weak line-up. The stuff they did do didn't really make you more excited for the PPV which isn't good on a go home show.
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