AEW Dynamite 4/27/2022
Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2022/04/aew-rampage-4222022.html
CM Punk was on commentary.
Owen Hart Tournament Qualifier - Dax Harwood vs Cash Wheeler
It really doesn't make sense why they would fight each other and this is not good booking. They are both wearing Hart Foundation logos on their tights.
Cash rolls and flips out of a wristlock then they repeat the sequence some before standing off. Cash gets hip tossed and they push each other off then do more chain wrestling. Cash gets thumbed in the eye then starts pushing Dax. Cash is put on the top rope and gets chopped then superplexed.
Dax misses a top rope headbutt then takes a baseball slide to the floor. We go to PiP break. Dax gets thrown into the buckles chest first then takes german suplexes. Dax then gives him one back. They both go for crossbodies and collide in-air. They trade euro uppercuts and Dax tries some roll-ups. Dax goes for a slingshot powerbomb but is hurricanrana'd.
Dax then hits a slingshot ligerbomb for 2. Cash piledrivers Dax for 2. Cash goes for a top rope backdrop but Dax kind of rolls on him when he tries it. Cash rolls up Dax but Dax reverses it and wins.
It went a little long and the storyline for this wasn't good at all, but it a decent match.
Punk got on the mic and asked if he could still do this. He said everything he has done has been just him warming up. Punk said he would continue to fight until the wheels fell off and they made his challenge to Adam Page for the title official.
Dan Lambert and Scorpio Sky did an interview. He said he success wasn't an accident and said he was screwed out his TNT Title. He said Philly is here to see him beat up Sammy and said there can only be one face of TNT and it's him.
The Blackpool Combat Club vs The Factory
The BCC jumps the Factory to start and QT is sent int othe rails. Mox kicks some leg kicks on Nick then runs into a shoulder. Solow gets release suplexed then takes Mox crossfaces. Yuta kips up out of a Solow wristlock and armdrags him. Yuta then takes a big back body drop from Nick. We go to PiP break and return. QT tries to throw Yuta out but he catches himself on the ropes and germans him. Bryan hits a kick and chop combo on Solow in the corner.
Bryan then ducks a lariat and topes his opponents outside. Bryan hits a top rope dropkick on him. QT gets in and Mox release half and half suplexes him on his head. Mox lariats QT over the top and goes with him. Solow comes off the top on Bryan but takes a dropkick right to the face.
Yuta and Nick go at it then Nick throws him. Yuta catches him with a guillotine then turns over on him into a sleeper as he stands. The BCC hit two submissions then Nick gets pinned by Yuta after an elbow flurry.
I don't like Nick doing the job here. This was okay. Not great or anything but a perfectly serviceable midcard match.
Toni Storm, Britt Baker and Jamie Hayter are with Tony in the back. Toni brings in Ruby Soho. Ruby said they intimidate and try to jerk around new people who come in then Ruby challenges them to a fight. Britt said they are going to leave and go to her favorite place - catering.
Jurassic Express and Christian are interviewed. JB said he knows he could have won the match last week. Christian says he sounds like a sore loser, but isn't a loser. Christian throws out a challenge to nay top 5 team then Starks and Hobbs walk in. They challenge them to a match anytime.
Lance Archer vs Wardlow
MJF is found in the stands with Spears. Spears is eating popcorn. MJF says women in Philly use their personalities as birth control. That was a good one. He says Lance will decimate Wardlow and says to bring out the pig. MJF says no music for Wardlow.
Lance flips on everyone outside as Wardlow gets removed from the handcuffs. Wardlow headscissors him then does an up and over into a roll and then a spear. Wardlow spinebusters him and they double lariat each other and both fall down. They trade forearms and punches then Lance walks the top rope and moonsaults on him. Lance hits a big chokeslam for 2.
Lance then hits his blackout but Wardlow kicks out and rolls him up for 2. They headbutt each other up top then Wardlow does a top rope swanton for 2. Wardlow then powerbombs him 4 times and wins it.
There was some decent stuff here. Not a classic or anything though. I didn't like the Lance kickout on the swanton or the Wardlow kickout on the blackout. The crowd was not into it though and it did hurt it.
The Jericho Appreciation Society came out for a meeting with Eddie Kingston and Ex-LAX. Parker said sports entertainers are best for business and called the fans the "AEW Galaxy". He promised there would be no fighting. Eddie and co then came out. They threw their chairs and Ortiz had Parker's shoes around his shoulder.
Jericho demanded and apology. Ortiz said he had it, looked in his pockets and flipped him the bird. Santana then did the same. Garcia troed tp dare Eddie's crew to hit them. Eddie flipped the table over and said he will get them and wants to fight. Jericho said they would take them out 1 by 1 and said he was putting a hit on them. Eddie asked him if he knew what a hit was. Jericho told him no company wanted Eddie and this is his last chance. Jericho dared him to hit him. Eddie said he wouldn't hit him and would smell the fear off him. Jericho made faces as Eddie got in his face.
Sammy said he would beat up Sky for the 3rd time in his match - the ladder match. He said Sky is the least interesting guy.
Philly Street Fight - Hikaru Shida vs Serena Deeb
There's a giant water mark on the ring from the last segment. Shida runs at her with a forearm and thye ground and pound each other. Shida missile dropkciked Deeb off the 2nd rope. Shida banged Deeb's head off the buckles then knee'd her as she was laying on the top rope. Shida went for a knee off the apron but Deeb blocked it with a chair.
Deen did a sloppy throw to Shida's knee on a chair. We went to PiP break. We returned with Deeb sitting on a chair. Shida reverses a sunset flip and catapulted Deeb back into the chair back. Deeb got powder under the ring and throew it in Shida's eyes. Deeb then grabbed a kendo stick and fired away. Shida started wildly swinging the stick and cleaned her eyes out with water.
Shida jumps off the steps with a dropkick then hit more kendo stick shots. Shida tried a spinning knee but Deeb got the chair up and blocked it. Shida hit a top rope falcon arrow on her for 2. Shida then choked her with the stick and Deeb hit a detox no arms pedigree for 2.
Deeb banged Shida's knee off a chair then put her in a texas cloverleaf and won it.
Shida's selling of the knee was non-existent here despite the match being based around it. This wasn't anything special and the crowd wasn't too into it.
Thunder Rosa was seen watching the match from the back.
MJF and Shawn Spears were interviewed. MJF yelled at the interviewer then called someone. He asked that person about making 6 figured for one match. He said Wardlow would go against someone who was bigger and stronger than him and said "you can't teach that", hinting at W. Morrisey from Impact.
Swerve Strickland and Darby Allin are interviewed. They fill face each other in the Owen Hart Tournament. Swerve says Darby has grown up and said he will turn Rampage into his house. Darby said AEW is his house and says he will show him why this tournament is his tournament.
Adam Cole, Red Dragon and The Young Bucks vs The Varsity Blondes, Dante Martin, Brock Anderson and Lee Johnson
Julia Hart is still wearing the eye patch and still pouting. The faces get attacked to start. Dante dropkicks a buck over Kyle who is on all fours. Griff holds up Kyle for a BPJ dropkick. Lee comes off the top with a crossbody on the Bucks then Borck double lariats the Bucks. Brock takes an exploder then Dante top rope dropkicks Fish. Dante and Lee hit dives on opponents as we go to PiP break.
We return and Lee gets a double superkick from the Bucks. Brian gets a high/low from Red Dragon then Nick moonsaults off the apron onto opponents. Nick then corkscrew flips over Matt to the outside on opponents. We get a 4 person BTE trigger then Cole hits the boom kjnee on Lee to win it.
There wasn't much to this and there wasn't going to be unless they got a lot of time. The heels then all wore Elite shirts and posed.
We cut to the back and Eddie and friends were getting jumped. Eddie got a fireball to the face from Jericho.
Trent Beretta and Samoa Joe talk about their match on Rampage this week. Trent said he was in ROH for a long time and had nothing to show for it. Joe got like one line in.
TNT Title - Ladder Match - Sammy Guevara vs Scorpio Sky
Sky and Sammy hockey fight on the floor then Sammy is thrown into the rails. Sky flurries him with gut shots and rops him throat first on a rail. Sky gets a ladder and backs it up into Sammy. Sky takes a hard german on the metal ramp and Sammy does snow angels on the ramp.
Sky gets pulled down off a ladder then Sammy does a phoenix splash 630 off of it and misses, nearly killing himself. The refs come in the ring to check on Sammy. Sky mocks Sammy and tries to climb the ladder but gets pushed off it. Sammy gets a ladder from the outside. He then rolls back outside and Sammy springboard then jumps off a ladder into a Sky cutter, which is a similar spot from the Cody/Sammy ladder match.
Sky pulls out a barbed wire ladder, which really is stupid since you can't climb it then Sammy standing spanish flies him on it. Sammy pulls Dan Lambert in the ring then Tay kicks Dan in the nuts. Paige Van Zant then comes out and fights her then Sky and Sammy go at it.
Sammy and Tay then kiss in the ring after they take down Paige and Sky. Sky flatliners Sammy. Sky and Sammy climb the ladder and both have girls on their backs. Paige and Tay fight while on their backs on the ladder then high kick each other at the same time. Sammy gives Sky the finger and he bites it. Sammy goes for the belt and the ladder is lifted up and he falls back first onto the barbed wire ladder. Sammy gets right back up though then springboards onto the ladder. He gets knocked off and Sky wins.
Ethan Page, who didn't help out for some reason then came out and Frankie Kazarian came out and shook hands with Sky. Sky agreed to defend against Frankie if he won.
This was a total mess just like the last Sammy/Sky match was. Sammy nearly killed himself and there was a bunch of stalling until that got sorted out. The girls got involved in this and Ethan Page didn't for unknown reasons. There wasn't a ton of selling and Sammy totally no sold the barbed wire ladder spot at the end. The barbed wire ladder was also stupid.
Overall thoughts: There were a couple of decent matches here but the streetfight and the ladder match sucked. It wasn't a storyline heavy show as the shows haven't been lately and that has helped these shows out since that is not an AEW strong suit. I thought this had about equal amounts of good and bad stuff.
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