Before I get to the actual AEW Dynamite 4/6 review, let’s talk JOE.
Samoa Joe is All Elite! Sure, he defeated Max Caster in an Owen Hart tournament match. The story is the crowd. Did you hear the crowd?
From theme music to every single move, one huge eruption over another. Every chop, every headbutt, even the huge dive to the floor, the crowd lost it. A few old school ROH chants resurfaced as well. Speaking of Ring of Honor, after the match, Jay Lethal and Sonjay Dutt shared their disdain with Joe, yet promise some sort of gift next week.
Now, the show truly opened with an incredible match with Adam Cole narrowly defeating Christian Cage. Cole is always a star, but I have got to hand the MVP to Christian, taking some serious bumps throughout the match and unleashing an arsenal not seen since his match against Kenny Omega. This match was so much fun and deservedly earning the “this is awesome chants.” This felt like a PPV match on free TV.
Our second segment featured Samoa Joe destroying Max Caster following a dead-to-rights rap. Caster is crazy on the mic.
Backstage: Blackpool Combat Club have their singles matches on Rampage. Danielson vs. Trent Baretta, and Mox takes on the new Ring of Honor Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta.
Spears cracks Capt. Dean with an insane pumphandle neckbreaker. But just as Spears is ready to finish the match with the C4, we see a cameraman in the back and security guards are down and out. Wardlow storms his way through the arena and to the ring to a MASSIVE ovation from the crowd. MJF and Spears are in shock, enough for Captain Shawn Dean to roll up the Chairman for the win. Wardlow is escorted out, smiling all the way.
Backstage: Best Friends not being so friendly to the new ROH Pure Champion, Wheeler Yuta.
During picture-in-picture, Sammy Guevara and Tay Conti ridicule American Top Team with their signs.
Back from commercial we’re shown an insane brawl with Eddie Kingston, Santana, and Ortiz destroying the Jericho Appreciation Society. The triumphant trio come to the ring and warn the group they will get nothing but pain and plague – On site. They threaten to find each member, no matter where, could be in their very own homes, and unleash agony. I love this trio. Eddie, Santana, and Ortiz are the perfect trios team. Wrestlers and brawlers all in one. We’d get a wrestling contest one night and a brutal street-fight, the next.
Tag Team Tables Match:
Lots of tables broken. Specifically unique rules, an elimination occurs with an offensive move through a table. Meaning, crash-and-burns do NOT count. So if you plow yourself through a table, there is no advantage. Jeff Hardy is taken out early, wondering if he might have gotten hurt and an audible was called. I could be wrong. Matt eliminates Butcher with a legdrop through a table. This is no-DQ so eliminated partners can still brawl at ringside. An insane double-suplex off the crowd barrier nearly saw Matt go through a table, but Jeff managed to pull it away. Of course, a tables match involving the Hardys…
… Involves a LADDER.
Two tables, Blade prone, and Jeff going upstairs. I guess it still counts, and this insane demolision derby is at an end.
Or is it? Andrade with the AFO come out – but are immediately intercepted by Sting wielding a baseball bat!!
Well, this feud is not anywhere near an end, and that’s okay with me. Love it.
Backstage: Christian is upset by losing. Jurassic Express cuts their own promo, and they offer to put up the AEW Tag Team Championships against ReDragon next week on Dynamite! This is nuts folks. We’re getting some top-tier title matches on free television. I’d pay PPV prices for the matches we’re seeing this week and next week. When a feud is on a roll, AEW knows to keep it going and they do not disappoint.
Hikaru Shida defeated Julia Hart
Julia showing a vicious side early on, to which Brian Pillman Jr. and Griff Garrison show their dismay. Welp, they earn being thrown out by Julia!! This turned out better than expected, Julia getting a decent amount of offense in throughout the match. Shida ultimately prevails and Julia Hart looked good even in defeat.
AEW Dynamite 4/6 Main Event FTR vs. Young Bucks for the ROH and AAA Tag Team Titles:
Ring of Honor ring announcer Bobby Cruise with the championship bout introductions gave me chills.
What. A. Match. The Bucks over-the-top taunts during the match would lead to disaster. Maybe they have learned a lesson? I don’t have to talk about the wrestling, you can imagine it and then amp it up by 20x. FTR wearing both the AAA and ROH Tag Team Championships to the ring is incredible. Seeing ROH Championships in AEW is just surreal. Think back years ago when the greatest tag team feud in NXT was Revival vs. American Alpha. Fast forward to 2022, and FTR have surpassed to unbelievable levels. Throw in the Young Bucks and you’ve got a match of “WrestleMania” proportions.
This may just have hit my pick for Match of the Year. Neither team could maintain control for long, which worked so damn well. Bucks dirty tricks were often thwarted until a distraction caused referee Rock Knox to miss a low blow. Bucks then hit Cash Wheeler with the BTE Trigger for the pinfall… But Cash’s foot was on the ropes! Knox restarts the match and the crowd is ON FIRE. Dax and Cash muster it all up, scoring with a piledriver and countering the indy taker into dual powerbomb/tombstone combos. FTR senses the win, they deliver a FTR trigger of their own, give Matt Jackson the ol’ double-smoochie, and score with a huge Big Rig to win and retain all tag team championships in a match just just 20-minutes long.
This is tag team wrestling at its finest.
I’m exhausted from jumping off the couch so many times.
