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5 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (August 9

Apr 20, 2024Apr 20, 2024

MJF & Adam Cole double down, Rob Van Dam is Mr Wednesday Night and All In takes shape.

How late is too late to announce a card for an event that could well be the biggest you ever run and one you're billing as the biggest event in wrestling history?

Rhetorical and unreasonable, perhaps, but the lack of obvious builds and buzz for both All In London at Wembley Stadium and All Out from Chicago the following week made for quite the strange disconnect with the obvious business successes both shows will come to reflect. Nearly 100,000 people will pay to attend company events over a seven day period and eventually a couple of zeroes can be added to that to denote the dollars its various television properties will command. This marks an incredible year for AEW, so why hasn't the television felt that way?

Going into another key Dynamite, a fairly moribund card didn't generate much buzz, but could the lack of in-ring and abundance of promos plug the gap for punters keen to know who they're going to be paying to see?

Let’s light the fuse…

We Need To Talk About Kevin (Nash).Michael can be found in articles or on podcasts extolling the virtues of New Generation WWF, new AEW storylines or the new WWE push they definitely definitely won’t ruin this time.

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