2025-01-01 AEW Dynamite (Fight for the Fallen) - REVIEW

2025 Malapert Smark Podcast Review System:

🤯 - Mind Completely Blown!!! [+10]

🔥 - This Was Fire!! [+5]

❤️ - Loved It! [+3]

👍👍 - REALLY Liked It! [+2]

👍 - Liked It [+1]

1/2 👍- Kinda Liked It [+0.5]

👊 - Indifferent [0]

👎 - Didn’t Like it [-1]

👎👎 - Hated It [-2]

🤮 - Made Me Sick [-5]

🙋‍♂️- Chris Jericho Bad [-10]

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STORYLINES:

(1) Death Riders, Cope, FTR

-Footage is shown of Moxley cutting a promo after the events of World’s End where he addressed Adam Copeland’s attack on him and claims to be the king of AEW.

-Adam Copeland & FTR cut promos backstage.

-Adam Copeland & FTR defeat Death Riders in 6-Man Tag Team main event in a match that saw interference from Jay White contribute to Death Riders’ loss. 

🌪️REVIEWS🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 1/2 👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 1/2 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Cope” sounds awful. I’m sorry. Come up with something more creative. I think they could have built up this 6-man main event to something on a ppv instead of just a Dynamite main event. This was kinda cheap. 

(2) Orange Cassidy, Hangman Page, Chris Daniels

-Hangman Page defeats Orange Cassidy and beats him down post match. Christopher Daniels comes out to try to stop Page but gets beaten up himself, one week after Daniels offered Hangman his friendship. 

🌪️REVIEWS🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - ❤️

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👊

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: Dude. One week after the guy genuinely offers friendship. To be the goddamned guy’s only friend! And instead he beats his ass. 😆 Oh man I love this. Hangman is great. And Daniels actually getting sympathy for a guy that was just recently wrestling. This works for me. Big Daniels fan for a long time. Love seeing this… The Orange Cassidy aspect of this storyline today I am disregarding. I think Page winning is the right booking. 

⭐️Vlad: Ah I don't care about this. You have to be some kind of mark to say you love ❤️ this. 

(3) Jay White, Swerve Strickland, Roderick Strong

-Jay White cuts promo on upcoming 3-Way & next week’s Casino Gauntlet.

-Swerve also cuts promo on tonignt’s 3-Way.

-Undisputed Kingdom put themselves and Roddy over in backstage interview.

-Jay White wins 3-Way against Swerve and Roderick Strong to earn 1st entrant spot in next week’s Casino Gauntlet. This match also saw Swerve get taken out by an interfering Ricochet (See Storyline #8). 

🌪️REVIEWS🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👊

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: I understand that 1st place means at least you’ll be in the match, but it’s hard to see winning a match that makes you the first entrant in a gauntlet match as some kind of prize. 

(4) Acclaimed, Hurt Syndicate

-Hurt Syndicate defeat the Acclaimed in tag team match that saw Anthony Bowens finally walk out on Max Castor.

🌪️REVIEWS🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👊

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: 

(5) Julia Hart, Jaymie Hayter

-Julia Hart nails Jaymie Hayter with the red mist behind distracted referee’s back to pick up the win. Hayter struggled to see post match. 

🌪️REVIEWS🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 1/2 👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👊

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: 

⭐️Vlad: A clunky match. 

(6) Okada

-Okada cuts promo bragging about Continental Classic triumph and warns Kenny Omega to stay out of his business. 

🌪️REVIEWS🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👍👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 1/2 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: 

(7) Mercedes Moné

-Mercedes cuts an in ring promo putting over her tenure in AEW. She also talks her upcoming Title vs Title match against Mina Shirakawa at Wrestle Dynasty. Mina is the RevPro Women’s Champion. 

🌪️REVIEWS🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👊

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: 

(8) Swerve, Ricochet

-Ricochet attacks Swerve during Swerve’s match from the front row with a pair of golden scissors, effectively eliminating Swerve from the match. Post match, a demented Ricochet takes pleasure in continuing the attack on Swerve with the scissors, leaving Swerve a bloody mess until officials intervene. 

🌪️REVIEWS🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - ❤️

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👍👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: This is good shit. Ricochet😆. 

(9) Jeff Jarrett

-Backstage, Double J’s friends and wife are supportive of whatever tonight’s announcement will be. 

-Out in the ring, Jarrett teases retirement but instead announces he’s signed his last wrestling contract with AEW and has the goal of becoming AEW World Champion before he retires. 

🌪️REVIEWS🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - ❤️

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👎

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: Hell yes! 👏🥹

⭐️Vlad: wtf is Jarrett talking about here? World champion?! 👎

(10) Hook

-Hook cuts a promo from a stoop challenging Christian to a match. The match is announced for 2 weeks from now at Dynamite: Maximum Carnage.

🌪️REVIEWS🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👎

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: Honestly it’s kinda hard to make out what he’s saying. He needs to anunciate!

(11) Powerhouse Hobbs

- Hobbs destroys two jobbers in 2on1 Handicap Match. 

🌪️REVIEWS🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👎

Robert TheFrozenAsian - SKIPPED

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: 

⭐️Vlad: Pointless match. 

(12) Learning Tree, FTR, Cope

-Learning Tree, without Jericho, run down North Carolina, which draws ire from nearby FTR & Cope. The sides insult each other before Cope & FTR challenge the Learning Tree to a match. The match is set for this Saturday’s Collision. 

🌪️REVIEWS🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👊

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👎

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: 

(13) MJF

-MJF talks closing the Adam Cole chapter of his life and getting back to focusing on winning the World Title that he claims he never lost, addressing Jon Moxley. 

🌪️REVIEWS🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - ❤️

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: 

⭐️Vlad: Killer promo 👍. Can't give it more than a 👍 until I see what's next for MJF.

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