Dynamite – July 27, 2022: The Wide Variety Of Wrestling
Dynamite
Date: July 27, 2022
Location: DCU Center, Worcester, Massachusetts
Commentators: Jim Ross, Taz, Excalibur
It’s another special event this week with Fight For The Fallen. There is another stacked card this week as well, as Jon Moxley is defending the Interim World Title against Rush, plus the return of Bryan Danielson. We are on the way towards All Out and it might be time to start setting things up for the pay per view. Let’s get to it.
Here are last week’s results if you need a recap.
Opening sequence.
Interim AEW World Title: Jon Moxley vs. Rush
Moxley is defending and gets jumped on the floor to start. They get inside with Rush stomping away in the corner and we’re off to the neck crank. It’s back to the floor with Moxley busted open and William Regal not being pleased on commentary. Jose the Assistant offers a distraction but Rush misses a chair shot. Moxley is right back with a suicide dive into the barricade and some hard chops to take over for the first time.
They get back inside with Moxley standing on Rush’s head in the corner but Rush plants him for a quick two. Back to the floor they go (you may be noticing a pattern emerging here) where Rush chokes him with a camera cord as we take a break. We come back with the two of them chopping it out and trading German suplexes. Moxley’s King Kong lariat drops Rush but he snaps off another German suplex to drop Moxley hard.
Back up and Moxley unloads with stomps to the head but Rush gets in a suplex into the corner. Rush takes him up top and is shoved down, only to have Andrade El Idolo come in to shove him down. The Lucha Bros chase Andrade out, leaving Rush to have the Bull’s Horns cut off with another lariat. A straitjacket piledriver gives Rush two but Moxley is back up with the Death Rider. The bulldog choke finishes for Moxley at 13:52.
Rating: B. Good, hard hitting fight here and the kind of match you would expect from them. This is where Moxley thrives and Rush is enough of a bull to make his end of the match work well. Moxley wasn’t about to lose to someone who has barely been around, but at least they had a good brawl to get there.
Post match here is the Jericho Appreciation Society to say APPRECIATE US before Chris Jericho talks about everything the team is going to do tonight. New member Anna Jay changes her name to Anna JAS and promises to choke out everyone. Jericho rants about how he beat Eddie Kingston last week despite all of the injuries he suffered.
Now he wants a shot at Moxley to avenge his loss from two and a half years ago. They’ll fight at Quake By The Lake, which has Moxley saying he hates Jericho. After saying what Jericho can do with that INTERIM nonsense, Moxley says he wants to face the Jericho he saw for years. Not the Wizard or the Painmaker, but the Lionheart. It isn’t like there is any better option to bridge the gap to All Out so Jericho makes the most sense.
The Trios Titles are officially here and the inaugural champions will be crowned at All Out.
Dante Martin accuses Sammy Guevara of going soft but he has someone in his corner tonight: Skye Blue. Uh, sure.
Video on Ricky Starks being a perfect choice for a champion.
FTW Title: Ricky Starks vs. Danhausen
Danhausen is challenging and mocks Starks’ pose instead of cursing him. Starks mocks the curse and gets kicked in the face. A northern lights suplex gives Danhausen one and he avoids a spear into the corner. The second spear connects though and Danhausen retains at 1:25.
Post match Starks is holding his neck but issues another open challenge for a second title defense.
FTW Title: Ricky Starks vs. Hook
Starks is defending and gets pounded into the corner to start. A t-bone suplex drops Starks but he’s back with a belly to back of his own. Hook flips out of a hiptoss and lands on his feet, only to get speared down. Roshambo is countered into Redrum and Starks taps at 1:33. That was pretty awesome, and Hook beating his trainer to win his dad’s title is about as cool as you can get.
Respect is shown post match.
Post break Starks is in the ring with Powerhouse Hobbs to say he turned that title from a noose into a tie. He is the only one who could do that and he exceeded all expectations, working hard every week. People keep telling him to work hard and he’ll get his chance, but his chance was last month and his chance is right now. It isn’t a string of bad luck but bad timing….and then Hobbs lays him out. Taz isn’t sure what is going on as Hobbs hits the spinebuster.
The Acclaimed raps about the Gunn Club and tell us to watch their music video to see what kind of match they’ll have on Rampage. Friday is trash day.
Sammy Guevara vs. Dante Martin
Tay Conti is here with Sammy while Skye Blue is here with Martin. Guevara hits a shoulder to start but Martin is right back up with a headlock. A backflip over Martin picks up the pace and Guevara hits a dropkick before spinning into a pose. Martin gets in his own spin but is sent outside, only to switch places with Guevara. The big flip dive is dropped so Martin can moonsault into the middle to stare at Guevara.
Hold on as Guevara and Conti walk out, only to be jumped by Martin (well at least Guevara is). Martin hits a HUGE dive off the stage to drop Guevara again and we take a break. Back with Martin’s springboard dive being kneed out of the air but not being able to hit the GTH. Instead Martin grabs a Spanish Fly for two but the Nose Dive misses. Guevara’s springboard cutter connects (with Martin’s leg looking to collapse) and the GTH gives Guevara the pin at 8:46.
Rating: B-. Much like Moxley vs. Rush, you knew what you were getting from these two and they did their high flying stuff until Sammy go the win. Martin continues to look good in just about everything he does, but at some point he has to win a match that matters. Guevara bounces back from the Blood & Guts loss and continues to be annoying, so he should be just fine going forward.
Post match Guevara goes after Martin again but Blue gets in the way. Cue Anna Jay to beat her down, only to have Ruby Soho, Eddie Kingston and Ortiz run in for the save. Martin is taken out and seems hurt.
Daniel Garcia is ready to beat Bryan Danielson and show that he is the best in the world.
Jay Lethal, Sonjay Dutt and Satnam Singh aren’t happy with Samoa Joe but they’re even less happy with the Best Friends. Cue the Best Friends to issue the challenge for Rampage and Dutt accepts, despite being retired.
Here is Jungle Boy for a chat in the ring, with Luchasaurus coming out with him as a bit of a surprise. Jungle Boy gets right to it by calling Christian Cage a coward. Cage is the most relevant he has ever been and then he turned on Jungle Boy over a battle royal? Shouldn’t a legend like Cage have enough money to not worry about that?
Oh yeah, Christian got divorced so his ex-wife took everything. Cage needed a bodyguard in Luchasaurus but he picked Jungle Boy’s best friend. We hear about Jungle Boy burying his father but we cut to Cage in the back, saying that Jungle Boy can pull up a grave next to his father. Cage knows all of Jungle Boy’s secrets and now he’s going to use them. Sounds ominous.
The Young Bucks want the Trios Titles but need a partner. Brandon Cutler offers his services but they run into Hangman Page. The Bucks seem to be interested in a reunion but the Dark Order comes up to with Page a happy birthday.
Tony Nese/Mark Sterling vs. Swerve Strickland
Keith Lee is barred from ringside. Nese takes Strickland into the corner to start but Swerve spins up into the anklescissors. A backbreaker lets Swerve go outside where Sterling offers a distraction. Some cheap shots from Nese put Swerve in trouble as we take a break. Back with Nese being knocked into the corner, which counts as a tag to Sterling.
Strickland keeps beating up Nese as Sterling won’t get inside, including a knockout kick to Nese. Since Nese is hanging from the bottom rope over the floor, Swerve adds the slingshot Swerve Stomp to knock him silly. Back in and the jumping kick to the head finishes Sterling at 6:42.
Rating: C-. Well ok then. Strickland was never in any kind of danger here but he didn’t need to be. Nese isn’t much of a threat to anyone but at least they protected him with the loss going on Sterling. Nothing to see here, but it should wrap up the feud between them, as it needs to do.
Post match We see Keith Lee down in the back with Josh Woods (who has been scouted by Nese and Sterling) standing over him. Nese uses the distraction to knock Strickland silly.
The House of Black wants to hurt Darby Allin while offering Miro the throne. Brody King challenges Allin to a coffin match.
Excalibur talks about Pac’s successful All-Atlantic Title defense.
Miyu Yamashita beat Thunder Rosa in a title elimination match, earning a Women’s Title match tonight.
Women’s Title: Miyu Yamashita vs. Thunder Rosa
Rosa is defending and they fight over wrist control to start. An exchange of rollups gets two each and that’s good for a standoff. Yamashita takes the leg out on the apron but Rosa knocks her down and chops hard against the barricade. A clothesline drops Rosa though and we take a break.
Back with the two of them slugging it out until Rosa hits a running kick to the chest against the ropes. Yamashita kicks her HARD in the head for two, with Rosa looking a bit rocked. A fireman’s carry is countered into a small package which is countered into a small package for two on Rosa (how she lost the first match for the callback). There’s a kick to Yamashita’s head though and a Fire Thunder Driver retains the title at 10:01.
Rating: B-. Good stuff here again, even though it was kind of an unknown going against Rosa. They set this up a few weeks ago in Japan, which is better than you get around here a lot of the time, so this could have been worse. Rosa needed a win like this, but she is still far from the top of the division and it shows badly.
Here’s what’s coming on various shows.
Daniel Garcia vs. Bryan Danielson
Chris Jericho is on commentary and this is Danielson’s first match since May. Danielson starts fast with the kicks to the chest and Garcia is rocked early. A kick to the face doesn’t do much to Danielson, who backdrops Garcia to the floor, setting up the suicide dive. Back in and Danielson takes him down for the hard elbows to the head, much to the fans’ approval. Garcia is back up with a neckbreaker and sends Danielson outside.
The floor mat is peeled back but Danielson hits a running forearm to stagger Garcia again. The kicks to the chest set up a running dropkick. There’s a missile dropkick back inside and some forearms rock Danielson again. Danielson is back up and tries the backflip out of the corner but collapses when running the ropes. That’s fine with Garcia, who sends him into the steps and hits a DDT onto the exposed concrete.
We take a break and come back with Garcia stomping on a bloody Danielson before putting him on top. Danielson reverses into a belly to back superplex, which bangs up the head even more. It takes a bit but Danielson gets up and tries Cattle Mutilation, which doesn’t quite go on. Instead, Garcia hits the hammer and anvil elbows, which just bring Danielson back to his feet.
Danielson gives us a proper hammer and elbow demonstration and a reverse fisherman’s suplex. The running knee is countered into a brainbuster for two and it’s time to slug it out. Danielson sends him outside for the running knee from the apron but hang on as someone reaches from under the apron to grab Danielson’s boot. That’s enough for the piledriver to plant Danielson and the Sharpshooter goes on. Garcia cranks back and Danielson passes out at 17:04.
Rating: B. The ending was a surprise and points for putting Garcia over, which is what has been missing for a bit. This felt more like something bigger for Danielson though, as it might be the start of something leading to his retirement. Having Danielson’s head be all messed up s a scary situation, but also something he has dealt with before. Good job on getting Garcia a rub though, which has been lacking for him so far.
The hand was that of Jake Hager, who runs in to celebrate with Garcia and Jericho to end the show.
Overall Rating: A-. This was a show where they fired off one good match after another and that made for a heck of a weekly show. Dynamite can be awesome when they let the wrestlers do their thing at a high level and that’s what we got here. It helps that they had different kind of matches, with the Moxley vs. Rush brawl, Guevara vs. Martin flying all over the place and Garcia and Danielson being more about the striking. Very good show here and it didn’t feel like they had as much stuff crammed in here, which is nice for a change.
Results
Jon Moxley b. Rush – Bulldog choke
Ricky Starks b. Danhausen – Spear
Hook b. Ricky Starks – Redrum
Sammy Guevara b. Dante Martin – GTH
Swerve Strickland b. Tony Nese/Mark Sterling – Running kick to Sterling
Thunder Rosa b. Miyu Yamashita – Fire Thunder Driver
Daniel Garcia b. Bryan Danielson via referee stoppage
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It was a good show, but they absolutely crammed a lot of stuff in there.
Also, I like how they handled the Starks face turn, but he’s got to stop doing his hand face motion thing every second.
I mean, Skye is Dante’s girlfriend, so it makes sense to have her combat Tay
Unless I’ve missed it, I don’t recall them ever being referenced together on AEW TV. They certainly didn’t mention it tonight.
I didn’t mean it in any type of way. I was just saying they’re together. They need to learn that not everyone follows their wrestlers Instagrams, so a bit of explanation would be nice. I honestly found out on accident
That’s what I was getting at. A line of “Skye Blue, who is Dante Martin’s girlfriend” would have cleared up everything. Otherwise, it’s just a random pairing.
Uh yeah this was not an a show but the main thing I want to bring up is what in the actual heck is up with Garcia? Does he have pics of Tony Khan pleasuring a donkey, is he sucking Tony’s dick, is he sucking jerichos dick? Like what the actual heck. He gets to go over Bryan almost completely clean, Bryan a guy who has beaten like almost every major star in wwe in the last 10 years! He beat the shit out of Bryan the wholenfirst part of the match, ddts him on concrete busting him open, eats a running knee and then immediately rolls out of the LaBelle lock and then puts Bryan in a sharpshooter to which Bryan passes out from. Like what the actual heck. I can’t even think of anyone in wwe who got to bury Bryan this badly and this is right after Bryan had already got choked out by Jericho and swagger. So he gets injured, comes back and loses by ko again! If you were going to have garica go over Bryan why not build to it on a ppv instead of doing it on Bryan’s return match on a random dynamite?!!! And Garcia has not showing anything impressive relating to in ring skill or mic skills or charisma. He barely has a character at all but gets to look stronger than like aj styles or randy orton? Wtf? My guess is Jericho is in Tony’s ear and keeps on pushing for Bryan to get buried so jsa can get heat and Bryan’s not a huge politics/ego guy so he’s just like whatever but this is TERRIBLE booking.
Totally agree Seb!!, Jericho is not doing any of his groups justice by letting him(Jericho) be the me part of his group. Hall and Nash made Hogan who he was because they had big units to be cool because the Outsiders were in the Kliq before Nwo
Wrestling is just in a weird state right now. It’s getting more notoriety for the outside storylines rather than what is written for it. Wrestling needs to be booked, not written. You think anybody wrote for Piper or Jake. NO.
This is why Austin walked out in 02 when Lesnar was booked to win against Austin in a King of the Ring qualifying math on a random raw in June. Note, not at wrestlemania or summerslam or king of the ring itself, but just to pop a rating for a raw.
at this rate give Garcia the win over Moxley. Let him be champion. I’m not saying that Bryan should be invincible, but Bryan has earned the right to say no. He is the best technician of this generation, and like the harts and steamboats before him like Austin has earned the right to say no, this is bad booking. But Tony is too caffeinated up to give a care or really care
dynamite is officially the Jericho show. Congrats Chris. not even Bret or Shawn could have raw named after them
Mike
It’s funny that you mention the Austin walk out in 02 I was arguing with aew marks on 411mania because usually I get no replies on this site and brought that same thing up as an example. The entire reason Austin walked out was because he didn’t want to job to Lesnar with no build on free tv which is completely understandable but Lesnar is much more understandable to job to than Daniel Garcia!
On your point about jas being all About Jericho the big problem is that the jas are all jobbers except for Sammy who’s barely in the group and Jericho himself. The inner circle was a way better faction and there was like no reason to break it up in the first place other to make Santana and ortiz faces which they haven’t really done anything with them anyway.
I would not necessarily say that Hager is a jobber. The point is with Jericho is that nobody in his groups gets mad and wants to fight him
Take the Nation of Domination in 97. Wwe had an established star in Ron Simmons that came into the Wwe as a medieval warrior straight off the set of Spartacus but Simmons made the gimmick work
Simmons went to management, said I want a story that represents me. Let me bring along some people with me that I could push with me
dwayne came along and wanted Ron’s spot, but he just did not take the spot right away. No it was built up over time. The rest is history between nation and do. They had tv segments each week that WE remembered watching(unfortunately some of them, like Cana, we can’t see now.
even though inner circle was bad to the bone cool. Sammy did his flips and MJF did his flipping off to them. Jericho would let them win, but he trashed the business to me when he said haha look at us doing this fun stuff on Twitter after stadium stampede 2. I’m 42 yes kayfabe is dead but at least don’t tell us all of what you do means absolutely nothing.
Jericho left wcw to go to wwf because he wanted his segments to count. He should really spill the tea with regal and learn how being in the background for your group means just as much as being in front. Being in back means you push those in front of you forward
cena was the man even in 02 but he had to lean to develop a character and not just be a lackey in a group
thats one of the main(not everything) reasons why wcw failed. Yeah nice shirt, but the now became the main focus over wcw and it pretty much watered the rest of the show down. If I was Tony I would have booked Hook winning title last and leave the audience happy rather than the collective groans or smiles of Jericho
You’re right I should’ve have singled out swagger as not a jobber mb.
How in the world is “here’s someone interfering to set up the finish” anything close to “almost completely clean”?
Seb did put the word almost in there. I think what he means is that Garcia before JAS has not really done anything of merit to get this kind of rub. It’s more a reflection of a win for the group rather than him.
Yeah it wasn’t almost either. That was nothing close to a clean win.
What do you consider close to a clean win? That was almost as clean as it gets, swagger barely interfered and only did so once by grabbing Bryan’s leg at the end of the match. It’s not like there was a ton of interference and I’m like 100% sure I can find examples of you using the same phrase in matches that had way more interference.
A win that was without the interference that was there. That, by definition, isn’t a clean win.
You’re splitting hairs and putting words in my mouth. I said mostly clean which means minimal interference, not completely clean. Jericho beating the rock in 2002 rumble is another example of a match that’s considered Jericho winning mostly clean even though there was a small amount of interference.
No, I’m not. You’re wrong.
Lol ok, how would you use the term mostly clean? Again that means very little inteference which is what distinguishes it from completely clean.
From your review of kotr 99 Billy Gunn vs Kane:
“Rating: D. Russo is just annoying. Seriously, Gunn over Kane? And it’s not like the chair changed everything. Gunn was in complete control before that. Basically they jobbed out Kane to a guy whose theme song talked about beating and kicking them. Think about that for a minute. The match was boring beyond belief too.”
So here you’re saying that a chair shot to the face barely effected the match and that billy Gunn won mostly clean… But swagger grabbing Bryan’s leg is worse than a chair shot to the dome?
Yeah I was wrong. I’ve long since said my earlier stuff is garbage because I had little idea what I was talking about.
This is not about who’s right or wrong. Your reviews and revisions of the reviews is your right. You can change your mind just as everyone else can.
remember Jericho beat Rock and Austin in one single night, but before that did Jericho display charisma and let the audience know who he is. Yes.
the way I see things is they have to give Garcia a title of some kind in order to continue this rocky build for him, otherwise Bryan got goldberged again for no apparent reason. The dude has concussion issues yet is taking DDT’s and piledrivers. Man that 10 million dollar contract must be worth the pain
Ok. So García is pwg champ. He needs Aew gold though
It’s funny because they gave him a chance to win gold on roh on Saturday but instead he lost to yuta.
Which to me does not make sense. You can’t have a guy lose a match, then expect the audience to really care and say oh well he lost, let’s have him beat one of the established STARS we paid a lot of money for. Maybe they mention Garcia’s run of PWG. I always try to mute the commentary in wrestling in general as everything is so scripted and the commentary tells you how to think instead of asking you to think for yourself.
This whole match set up that Aew just wonderfully revisioned the whole train wreck scenario of undertaker Triple H from super showdown. Everyone involved was over but the whole setup was all four were involved in a turf war of who was better. We all know the train wreck that followed in Saudi Arabia.
Ok so it wasn’t WrestleMania 6 clean warrior over hogan, but Garcia just took it to Bryan and Bryan just kept rybacking and saying gimme me more
I know Bryan wants to give back to the young guys. I guess my entire point is this was grounded in Jericho screaming on commentary, (unfortunately I did not mute) saying go Danny go go go and it was him gloating with Hager saying haha look what we did
If Bryan is going to be giving and push young talent have it mean something.
Heck even wcw let bill Goldberg have a year under his belt before deciding hey there’s nobody left, he’s one of our biggest reactions and yes hogan had interference as Hennig tried to interfere only to be diamond cutted by Malone
The title did not mean much as Goldberg was undercard to tag match at bash BUT it was one of the last ratings pops for nitro. Did Wcw hotshot potentially a future starcade event. Most likely but still people tuned in to watch and it mattered.
I’m an Aew fan I’m a wrestling fan. Please Aew you are not harts vs USA or dx vs nation please no Jericho no Jericho you gotta go To have go away heat. Yes you do
Uh no. He’s wrong. There’s no way around it. The finish wasn’t clean. Anyone can say otherwise all they want. By definition, it wasn’t a clean finish. This is as cut and dry as you can get.
I never said it was clean, I said it was mostly clean with very little interference.
My entire point is that the interference was almost nothing. Yes swagger distracted Bryan at the end of the match by grabbing his leg, I literally can’t think of a better example of next to no interference. Bryan wasn’t attacked, he wasn’t smacked in the head with a chair, etc he was slightly distracted for about two seconds allowing Garcia to hit a pile driver. You also haven’t addressed the actual point of Garcia getting to look way too strong considering he’s a jobber that no one cares about. Again he got to beat the shit out of Bryan the entire first part of the match, ddtd him onto concrete, no sold the knee and immediately rolled out of the LaBelle lock right after eating the knee. Like the running knee into the LaBelle lock even lesnar didn’t no sell that shit! By kayfabe standards Daniel garcia, this scrub, was able to survive a move and immediately no sell a move that has put guys like trip, Orton, Batista, cena etc down for the count. Swagger does slight interference and garcia hits a pile driver and then beats Bryan with a sharpshooter which Bryan passes out from. Again this is least possible interference you could have while still having interference and the bulk of the match was Garcia just beating the shit out of Bryan and surviving his finishers.
Swagger slightly interfered by grabbing Bryan’s leg at the very end of the match, thats barely interference and only momentarily distracted Bryan leading to a pile driver. Garcia still beat the shit out of Bryan almost the entire match and no sold his running knee. If Scott Keith can say that billy Gunn beating Kane was almost completely clean even though hardcore Holly hit Kane with a freaking chair shot you can definitely say it in this case. How would you use the term almost completely clean? I should say very slight interference which is what happened here.
You don’t even know what a “burial” is. Take this clownish and juvenile behaviour elsewhere.
So Bryan getting beaten up the entire match, getting ddtd onto concrete, Garcia instantly no selling Bryan’s running knee and rolling out of the LaBelle lock and then putting Bryan into a sharpshooter having Bryan pass out into a ko isn’t a burial? And again this is RIGHT AFTER Bryan had already lost his last match by being choked out and losing by ko!