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00:00 Welcome to the WrestleTalk News, I'm Pete Quinnell.

00:08 Last week on AEW Dynamite it was Blood & Guts, a really well received show with big moments

00:13 like Kota Ibushi's debut in the company.

00:15 However, it's now come out that there were going to be some major differences in and

00:19 after the eponymous match that didn't make it to TV.

00:22 This comes from a report from Sports Illustrated, who make note that due to a busy day, it was

00:26 difficult to get everyone together who was involved in the Blood & Guts match and plan

00:30 everything out, which led to some pretty big knock-on effects.

00:33 The match reportedly ran long, as there was originally supposed to be 10 minutes of TV

00:37 time after the match's conclusion.

00:39 This extra time was supposed to feature the handshake between BCC and The Elite and Kenny

00:43 Omega's promo, both of which still happened, but only after the show had gone off the air.

00:48 There was also reportedly a big moment lined up for Hangman Page that was cut from the

00:52 match due to time issues, but aside from the stuff that was supposed to be on TV that wasn't,

00:56 all of the other key points were hit.

00:58 What this big moment was supposed to be for Hangman, who knows, but it does seem unfortunate

01:02 due to timing issues that it didn't happen.

01:04 And also whether this was a little "oh that's cool" moment, or potentially something much

01:09 bigger designed to kickstart a new chapter in a story or something, we don't know,

01:12 but regardless, still unfortunate for him.

01:15 On yesterday's WrestleTalk News episode, we spoke about a potential huge return being

01:19 lined up for Summerslam, as Grayson Waller was reportedly pencilled in to have a segment

01:22 on the show with a WWE legend.

01:25 I speculated on that episode that it could be The Rock, considering he and Waller have

01:29 already traded barbs on Twitter, which could also lend some intrigue into the Tribal Combat

01:33 match in the main event.

01:34 And now, Grayson Waller has invited The Rock to Summerslam in an interview with Ariel Helwani,

01:39 saying, "Rock is out of work right now.

01:41 He's unemployed, correct?

01:42 Actors are on strike.

01:43 Technically, he's unemployed and needs some work.

01:46 It's an open invitation for the Grayson Waller effect, if he wants to come on the

01:49 show.

01:50 His daughter's in a cult right now in NXT.

01:51 His family's in shambles in the main show.

01:53 He seems to be worried about Grayson Waller.

01:55 We have to do something about it."

01:56 Of course Waller, ever the troll, could just be adding more fuel to the non-existent fire,

02:01 and leaning into the rumours about this confrontation.

02:03 Or there could be some truth to it, if they've got Dwayne lined up to appear on the show,

02:07 which is just over a week away.

02:09 And as seems to be the theme of this week's news, there's injuries abound in WWE right

02:13 now.

02:14 With Kevin Owens and Liv Morgan both having reportedly genuine injuries, a fractured rib

02:18 and separated shoulder respectively, there's another injury that happened prior that we

02:22 still don't quite know the severity of yet, that being Bayley, who went down at a house

02:26 show clutching her knee.

02:28 She was seen leaving the show under her own power and without crutches, but now Bayley

02:31 posted to Instagram a photo of her and her cat.

02:34 Adorable.

02:35 But she is wearing a leg brace in the photo too.

02:38 This could just be precautionary of course, so we still don't know the severity of it,

02:42 but fingers crossed it's nothing too severe.

02:44 Now over to Oli for the Dynamite review.

02:47 I'm Oli Davis, and now it's time for my review of AEW Dynamite in about 5 misogynists.

03:07 I mean, minutes.

03:08 I meant to say minutes.

03:09 I mean, minutes.

03:10 I meant to say minutes.

03:11 I mean, minutes.

03:12 I meant to say minutes.

03:13 As Excalibur opened the show running down the card, it really felt like a soft reset

03:16 after last week's blood and guts craziness.

03:18 Emphasis on the soft though.

03:21 S-W-A-F-T SWAFT.

03:24 As I felt this show, while making an effort to revamp characters and start new storylines,

03:28 was very much a filler midcard episode.

03:31 When you really should be following up hot on last week's momentum, The Elite and Kota

03:35 Ibushi didn't feature once.

03:37 The opening match was Orange Cassidy defending his International Championship against AR

03:42 Fox, who got a Darby Allin-led video package beforehand, putting over Fox as one of Darby's

03:47 mentors.

03:48 Because that's Darby's role now, to do a video package to get over his mates he

03:51 wrestled with in Defy.

03:53 It was a great video package, the sort of thing AEW should be doing more of to get over

03:57 their roster of characters.

03:59 But it got me thinking.

04:00 Darby is so turning heel, where he beats down all the people he's helped because he thinks

04:04 they're taking advantage of him.

04:06 But I was wrong.

04:08 It was Fox who turned heel.

04:10 Cassidy vs Fox was predictably fantastic.

04:13 Cassidy continues to be one of the most versatile, yet gimmick restrained wrestlers working today,

04:18 somehow effortlessly blending his unique style with Fox's super flippy offence.

04:22 It was a technical move that won it, though, when Orange made the mousetrap pin for a record

04:27 27 defences.

04:29 In the post-match show of respect, Fox snapped Cassidy's glasses and decked him in the

04:33 face.

04:34 Darby came down to confront his friend, but never mind that, Mox is now beating up Cassidy

04:38 in the ring.

04:39 Luckily that isn't just an ROH revenge bit, or because the BCC was facing the best friends

04:44 in the main event, as Moxley vs Cassidy would be an amazing styles clash.

04:48 Hook was shown on the subway with his FDW belt disappearing in an atmospheric vignette,

04:53 which led to Jungle Boy cutting an in-ring promo on ECW because of Taz, which brought

04:58 out former ECW wrestler and current AEW producer Jerry Lynn, setting up another segment between

05:04 them next week.

05:05 If you're into the idea of a Young Heel vs ECW Legends storyline, I'm happy for

05:10 you.

05:11 I'm not particularly enthused, though, because I watched WWE, then TNA, do this every two

05:15 years for over a decade every time they ran out of ideas, and I just associate it with

05:20 that now.

05:21 Gravity finally remembered PAC, and then fought him in a match, with the spacewalking Luchador

05:26 making his Dynamite debut.

05:27 It's great to see PAC wrestling on regular TV again, but this wasn't the athletic

05:31 showcase I was expecting, nor did it have any BCC follow-up.

05:35 Which is confusing, as they'd literally already jumped Cassidy for less, and had directly

05:39 called out PAC for walking out on them a Blood and Guts earlier in a backstage promo.

05:44 Next came the latest instalment in the MJF and Adam Cole bromance storyline - an angle

05:49 so hot, it only comprised of playing two interviews from last Wednesday, and it was by far the

05:54 best thing on the show.

05:56 MJF cut an awesome, rock-style babyface fire promo on FDR ahead of their tag title match,

06:01 dropping the comedy for seriousness while still doing a pretty good impression of Dax,

06:05 and promising to punch him so hard, he'll have to spit out CM Punk's jockstrap.

06:10 Is the implication there that Dax is giving CM Punk oral sex?

06:18 Right.

06:19 I hadn't really thought about it until now.

06:23 Because, you know, usually it's your head out from the person your brown nosing's

06:29 bum.

06:30 But jockstrap's the front part.

06:33 So it's penis.

06:36 So Dax is sucking off Punk.

06:40 But like a multi-story car park, this feud has layers.

06:43 And underneath Max's speech was his tension with Cole.

06:46 He interrupted Adam to start the interview off, and only said his name at the end.

06:50 It led Cole to apologise for the misunderstanding.

06:53 Max is genuinely becoming one of his best friends.

06:55 And then, in the most surprising development so far, MJF said win, lose or draw with the

07:01 tag title match, he's going to give Cole another shot at his title.

07:06 Before you can absorb that, jilted lover Roderick Strong ran in and accused Max of planning

07:10 to turn heel again.

07:12 Cole shouted at Strong and sided with Max.

07:14 This was expertly performed and scripted, and it shows that right now in wrestling,

07:18 with several five star matches a month on free TV, what fans crave right now more than

07:22 anything, are character conflict driven soap opera storylines.

07:26 FTR got an excellent retort promo, also recorded last week, where Dax said if Max says anything

07:31 about his wife or family, he's going to tear his eyes out.

07:34 A wonderful bit of dramatic irony, as we already know MJF did mock Harwood's family.

07:39 Swerve Strickland took on Darby in the match of the night.

07:42 Both men having wrestled so many times before, they could pull off ridiculous sequences of

07:46 athletic thigh slapping counters, Swerve's leaping kick over the steps, and jumping knee

07:52 on Darby's bullet dive were phenomenal.

07:55 But Allen lost when he was attacked by a hooded man on the outside, which was revealed to

07:59 be the newest member of the Embassy, AR Fox.

08:02 The heels beat up Nick Wayne too, fully cementing the Defy-verse within AEW.

08:07 Don Callis continued his manipulative, carny piece of S-word tactics with Jericho, booking

08:11 him with Tekeshta against Sammy Guevara and Daniel Garcia next week - saying Chris himself

08:16 wanted to help them grow - and later placing a wonderfully homoerotic painting of him and

08:20 Jericho in the JAS locker room, prompting Daddy Magic, Cool Hand, Anna Jay and a very

08:25 pregnant Tay Mello to walk out on him.

08:28 And then came the segment everyone seems to be talking about.

08:32 Britt Baker vs Taya Valkyrie.

08:35 Taya just turned heel on Saturday, so I was looking forward to her facing Britt here.

08:39 Maybe there'll be some storyline.

08:42 A revamped character vs one of the more protected stars in the company.

08:47 That could be some potential direction.

08:49 Instead, what we got was an embarrassingly clunky match, perhaps because of Britt wrestling

08:53 through a back injury - something she reportedly had HeatwithThunder Rosa with for taking time

08:58 off for last year.

08:59 Baker seemed tapped out.

09:01 Which made it worse when she made Taya, who needed a win here, literally immediately tap

09:05 out once in the lockjaw.

09:07 The camera then cut to someone in the crowd, their sign dead centre of the frame, so probably

09:12 not a mistake, which read 'book the women's division better'.

09:17 So that was either a mistake, the start of some weird Vince Russo meta storyline crap,

09:21 or AEW's own production staff telling Tony Khan to stop treating the women's division

09:27 with lipstick service.

09:29 This follows the heavily criticised token women's match from last week's show, where

09:33 Baker just squashed a local enhancement talent.

09:35 We are 199 episodes into Dynamite.

09:39 Next week we'll see them host their 200th - an incredible, praiseworthy milestone, but

09:44 also one that comes with the weight of responsibility.

09:47 They're not a start-up promotion anymore, which means the fans rightfully expect more

09:51 from them.

09:52 Nearly 200 episodes in, and we're still having the same conversations about how poorly

09:57 AEW books its women's division.

10:00 The main event saw the Best Friends vs the Blackwell Combat Club vs the Lucha Bros in

10:04 a three way tag.

10:05 It was a nice throwback to the days where the Best Friends and Lucha Bros were treated

10:08 consistently as upper midcarders, but that's about two years ago now, meaning the main

10:12 event felt lacking of stakes or storyline context.

10:16 The action was good and chaotic, and the finish of Cassidy distracting Mox for Pentagon to

10:20 pick up the win over Trent was decent, but this felt too unfocused to be a good enough

10:25 cliffhanger for next week.

10:27 After putting on a top 5 of all time show for me last week, this week's Dynamite is

10:31 in the bottom 5 I've ever rated at 70%.

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