AEW Dynamite 6/18/2021

AEW Dynamite 6/18/2021

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2021/06/aew-dynamite-6132021.html

I think this is the last of the friday shows and I'm happy for it. It just messes up my schedule and there's other things on.

We see Hager and Wardlow heading to the cage then we see the MMA cage.

MMA Cage Match - Jake Hager vs Wardlow

This got off to a slow and boring start. It picked up in the 2nd round as they started doing more wrestling moves. Wardlow did a bad powerbomb on Hager into the cage and he did a running hurricanrana. Hager had him in a head and arm choked and slammed him before making him pass out.

I tried to write something like this a long time ago and the problem is that you can do anything you want in wrestling really so there's no reason for MMA rules where you can do less. If wrestlers weren't punching each other all the itme, maybe it could be pulled off, but that's not the case here. It just implies wrestling isn't real and we don't want that. I wasn't a fan of Wardlow being chocked out but unless you go to decision, someone was either getting chocked out or knocked out. This company clearly has no intention to protect Wardlow and this is probably his 4th, 5th or 6th loss in AEW.

Spears attacks Hager after and Jericho comes to fight him. MJF the ncame in and put Jericho in an armbar on the injured arm. Dean Malenko then came in to stop MJF and MJF forearmed him. Sammy Guervarra then came in and MJF and Wardlow left.

The bizarre combo of Penta, Kazarian and Eddie Kingston did a promo before their match tonight against Matt Jackson and The Good Brothers. Kaz was quoting bible verses which was odd and Penta was wearing Joker facepaint. Eddie said he hopes God takes their souls because their @sses are his. 

Team Taz did a promo without Brian Cage. Taz tells Starks the feud with him and Cage has to stop. Hobbs cuts off Starks and says Starks and Cage left him out to dry. Taz challenges Adam Page to face Hobbs.

Darby Allin vs Scorpio Sky and Ethan Page

I didn't like this at all. It went on too long and the heels took a ton of offense when it should have been an easy win. This just hurt the heels here and made no sense as a match.

The Wingmen did an inset promo. Avalon says OC is frustrating him as OC didn't reply to their text. Nemeth and Bononi said they will make OC pretty. OK....

Orange Cassidy vs Cesar Bononi

Both guys came out with their friends. OC was thrown out and Nemeth sprayed tanning spray on OC. Avalon then brushed OC's hair outside and they put him in Nemeth's jacket. OC's friends let all of this go on without doing anything.  OC tries to dive on the heels but they caught him and threw him back in. OC's crew then threw him back out there onto them with a swanton. OC ended up winning this with an orange punch and this wasn't any good and made everyone look dumb.

Alex Marvez tried to interview Jungle boy, who looked silly with a backpack on. Omega, Nakazawa and Callis arrived on a golf cart. Omega said he packed a basket with knuckle sandwiches for JB and said he was never punched in the face before. JB said he'd rather fight in the ring next week instead of out here. Omega offered JB a free shot. While JB was looking at him, Nakazawa hit him with a laptop from behind. They fought and Nakazawa had to help. Kenny and Don ran off in the cart and threw Nakazawa into JB to end it. This sucked and Kenny's goofiness doesn't work at all.

Hardy Family Office was interviewed. Hardy says he's going to drop Christian if he keeps coming for him. Christian then tried to charge at him but got locked in a storage cage. Hardy gave him a check and told him to retire. Christian told him to open the cage door and Hardy said no. Hardy said he will end Christian's career if he keeps coming for him.

Cody Rhodes and Brock Anderson with Arn Anderson vs Aaron Solow and QT Marshall with Nick Comoroto

As he has done before with Lee Johnson, Cody gets the big fireworks entrance and Brock only gets to come out after. What an egomaniac. Brock has no real body at all.

Brock hit some nice corner flurry spears here but almost botched a gutwrench. Cody hit a drop down into a canadian destroyer and ran up toe buckles into a crossbody on QT. Brock thankfully picked up the win here and did not lose on his debut like so many AEW wrestlers do.

Archer and Jake did a promo from a broken down hut. He said Archer has no patience and doesn't want to wait. Jake said he doesn't know what to do and the promo cut off.

Jim Ross did a promo with Andrade. He said he can't go anywhere without being spotted which I doubt. They had to put up subtitles here. He said he wants the TNT title then the World title. He said he chose to go with Vicki as she was around Eddie Guerrero for a long time and both their families and his family have a long history in wrestling.

The Dark Order was interviewed with Page. He said he was worried about beer, not Team Taz. He talked about some of the things the D-O has been up to and then Uno was down when it got mentioned that he lost last week. Then they said he is a still a champ to them and they celebrated him.

Julia Hart vs Penelope Ford

Ford won this one with an indian deathlock. She refused to breka after until the Varsity Blonds stopped her. This wasn't too bad for the women. Neither really blew anything.

Miro came out after. He asked Ford where Kip is. He said it is not fair she is outnumbered 3 to 1. He then nailed Griff. Pillman did a springboard forearm and they wrestled around as the refs broke it up. I LOL'd at Aubrey trying to restrain anyone.

I skipped an interview with Tony Schiavone and Britt Baker.

They ran down next week's card.

They did a video promo on FTR and Santana and Ortiz. They argued over who had the harder life and both said they would remember the other once they beat them.

We got another Mark Sterling and Jade Cargill promo. They said they have a partnership with the Toronto Four Seasons. Jade said they only want elite partners in hotels, not just any hotels. They then talked about how Jade will continue her win streak on all AEW programs and plugged Rampage.

Penta El Zero Miedo, Eddie Kingston and Frankie Kazarian  vs Matt Jackson and The Good Brothers

Kaz jumps Karl at the bell. Matt did his new and stupid Shawn Michaels bumping when he got his head banged off the buckle. They all brawled outside and Matt dove off the ramp onto Eddie. Doc and Karl held up Matt and used his feet to battering ram Eddie.

Eddie overhead belly to belly suplexed Matt and Kaz got the hot tag in. Kaz hit his springboard legdrop on Karl for 2. Penta then got in and cleaned house on the heels then flip dived onto Karl and Doc. Penta did a springboard off the bottom rope into a ddt on Matt. Penta hit Matt with a package piledriver, then Kaz did an angel's wings for 2.

Karl reversed a move into a neckbreaker on Penta. The faces tried to make a comeback the heels stopped it then Penta botched a backstabber. Penta went up top and Nick sprayed stuff in Penta's eyes. Karl then came off the top with a cutter onto a standing Penta and won it. Lame and unnecessary finish here with Anderson's finisher looking like crap. It was your usual trios match and I didn't think it was exceptional or anything.

Overall thoughts: The first hour sucked but the second hour was better.