Overall Evaluation and Achieved Goals
Still feels weird just moving on after the Brodie Lee show.
Areas of Excellence Within Performance
BTW – none of this Kenny Omega stuff works without those Cleaner Dancers. NONE OF IT.
The future is always in good wrestling, but it’s also in meme wrestling. The Snoop Dogg splash with Cody Rhodes cheering him on was both.
There is plenty of stuff on AEW every week now that if not excellent is at least pretty good and might hook somebody because they thought it was funny or interesting.
This week had The Acclaimed’s John Cena rap, a crazy 8-man tag, Jon Moxley’s promo, the SCU angle, well-spoken Wardlow beating Jake Hager clean, The Fam and Varsity Blondes getting exposure at the end, Taz losing his mind over Sting’s snow machine, and HOOK’s white shirt tucked into khaki pants look.
The Darby Allin/Brian Cage go-home promo was tremendous too.
Suggested Areas of Improvement
Hikaru Shida/Abadon for the AEW Women’s World Title was both too much and not enough, a match and division in need of an identity.
Loved Kenny/Fenix, though there is still more work to do by Kenny and AEW to re-define the Championship Match enough that something like this will consistently feel more like a big match than a fun one. Does that make sense?
My Favorite Things
2. MJF motivates Jake Hager
1. Brodie Lee Jr.’s promo
