2025-04-30 AEW Dynamite - REVIEW
2025 Malapert Smark Podcast Review System (Rev2):
🤯 - Mind Completely Blown!!! [+10]
🔥 - This Was Fire!! [+5]
❤️ - Loved It! [+3]
👍👍 - REALLY Liked It! [+2]
👍 - Liked It [+1]
½ - Kinda Liked It [+0.5]
👊 - Indifferent [0]
👎 - Didn’t Like it [-1]
👎👎 - Really Didn’t Like It [-2]
🤬- Hated It [-3]
🤮 - Made Me Sick [-5]
🙋♂️- Chris Jericho Bad [-10]
Or any combination of the like…
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STORYLINES:
(1) ALL STAR 8 Man Tag
Participants:
👉Subplots:
(A) Kenny Omega / Kazuchika Okada
TheMalapertSmark SubPlot Review: 👍👍
(B) Elite & Ricochet not on same page during 8 man tag bit still pick up the win…
Details:
Winners: Elite & Ricochet…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👍
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: this ate up the first 34 minutes of the show. over a quarter of the show for toni khan… i usually dislike these big multiman matches but this one had Kenny Omega & Kazuchika Okada on either side and my guy Ricochet… i actually liked an 8 man tag for once today… the spot w/ everyone dodging an elbow was pretty amusing…
(B) the spot w/ Matthew Jackson not knowing he’s hitting Ricochet, smh. man. sometimes wresting can be too silly.
(2) MJF finally loses it as Bobby Lashley votes him out AGAIN!… but now we know what impresses Lashley…
Participants:
Peripheral Participants:
[4 schmoes]
Details:
-Backstage Segment w/ Hurt Syndicate (MVP, Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin)… Hurt Syndicate beat up on 4 of their fans…
Shelton & MVP take up for MJF, and Lashley seems to finally be on board…
-Later, Hurt Syndicate (MVP, Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin) head to the ring…
MVP cuts promo…
Enter MJF…
Hurt Syndicate once again take a vote and once again Bobby Lashley votes no on MJF…
MJF gets pissed and insults Lashley…
Bobby Lashley grabs MJF and tells him they will be impressed if MJF hurts people…
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TheMalapertSmark - ❤️
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: Perfect. i got no qualms with how this has been going… Bobby Lashley grabbing MJF 🤣…
(3) Death Riders sneak attack on the Opps ends w/ Samoa Joe challenging Jon Moxley to steel cage match…
Participants:
Peripheral Participants:
3 jobbers
👉Subplots:
TheMalapertSmark SubPlot Review: +1/2
(B) Samoa Joe wants Moxley inside the steel cage!…
Details:
Winners: Opps…
-Afterbirth: Post Match, enter Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli, Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, Marina Shafir)… BRAWL… Death Riders put a devastating move on Katsuyori Shibata and run away…
Samoa Joe cuts promo challenging Jon Moxley to steel cage match for world title…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👍
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark:
(A) interesting… this would be better if they actually send Katsuyori Shibata away for a bit to sell the injury…
(B) well ok. like no one’s ever gotten allie’s inside a steel cage 🙄… this sounds like a recipe for disaster for Samoa Joe… kinda sucks that i literally roll my eyes at the idea of a steel cage match. unless it has a closed top and no doors and the key to raise it is locked away somehow, i’m not seeing a steel cage match as a way to get a fair match… but ok. an attraction for the chicago crowd in two weeks…
(4) Women’s Owen Hart Tournament… Jamie Hayter attacks Mercedes Moné from behind as final looms at Double or Nothing…
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage Sit Down Interview w/ Mercedes Moné…
Moné addresses upcoming showdown w/ Jamie Hayter and is very confident…
-Post Match, after Toni Storm’s victory…
Enter Mercedes Moné who starts to cut a promo but is cut off…
Enter Jamie Hayter who runs off Moné…
Toni Storm dances to Jamie Hayter’s techno music…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: ummmmmm. 😒 uuuuuhhh. 😤 good god! this is such sad horrible booking for jamie hayter. that’s all we got out of this today? a sit down interview and an attack from behind by the baby face that really didn’t get a pop. i’m not condifent in how it’s going for Jamie Hayter. i fear she will lose and i don’t see a bright future in aew the way things are going. maybe she’s another one wwe can steal away. she’d be great on NXT…
(5) Former ROH TV champ steps up to Nick Wayne… Christian accepts the challenge for his son…
(A) Christian Cage’s night extreme tough love ends w/ show of respect for his son…
(B) Jay Lethal cannot capitalize on opportunity…
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage Interview w/ Patriarchy (Christian Cage, Nick Wayne, Kip Sabian, Mama Wayne)… Christian seems upset that Nick Wayne is getting the questions…
Enter Jay Lethal… Lethal challenges Wayne to ROH TV title match… Nick Wayne says he isn’t warmed up but Christian accepts on his behalf. Mama Wayne runs off w/ Christian Cage…
-Pre Match, Nick Wayne comes out by himself, but the rest of the Patriarchy interrupt his entrance… the announcers call Christian Cage a glory hog…
-Match: Nick Wayne (w/ Christian Cage, Kip Sabian, Mama Wayne) vs Jay Lethal…
Christian Cage looks like he’s giving Nick Wayne advice during the match and Nick Wayne is receptive…
Nick Wayne gouges the eyes, leading to a series of moves and the fall…
Winner: Nick Wayne … who retains ROH TV title…
-Post Match, Christian Cage takes the belt and puts it around Nick Wayne’s waist… an actual showing of respect 🤨…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark:
(A) maybe Christian’s just showing his son some tough love, and he really loves him after all 😆. smh. idk man. some things in wrestling you just gotta end when they don’t work. no one’s gonna complain if they just pull the plug on the patriarchy…
(B) the only reason i gave the overall storyline any points was for the match these two put on, but i’m disappointed in the build for jay and for the angle w/ the Patriarchy…
(6) Tokyo Joshi Pro’s Miyu Yamashita gets world title eliminator opportunity…
Participants:
Details:
-Match: Toni Storm w/ Luther vs Miyu Yamashita…
Winner: Toni Storm…
-Post Match, Toni Storm is confronted by Owen Hart Tournament competitors (See Storyline #4)…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👍
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: i’m giving this a 👍 for Luther protecting Toni Storm’s bum… it must be protected! 😆… really tho. never seen such a spot… other than that, i’m glad there was a video package to at least introduce this girl. got a decent match out of her. what can i say. this forbidden door moment worked decently for me. if they should hire her full time, i can’t say. it’s harder w/ someone who doesn’t speak english but it’s possible if the storylines are there…
(7) Men’s Owen Hart Tournament… Hangman Page defeats Kyle Fletcher to advance to Owen Hart Tournament final…
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage Segment has Don Callis Family cutting promos… both Don Callis & Kyle Fletcher talk up tonight’s match…
-Match: Kyle Fletcher w/ Don Callis & Lance Archer vs Hangman Page…
Winner: Hangman Page… who advances to Owen Hart Tournament final…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👍👍
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: this is actually a solid main event matchup… i like booking hangman for the final… as much as i’d like it, i don’t see him winning, because ospreay should be in the ALL IN final… maybe i’m wrong and fletcher can interfere and cost ospreay 🤞…
(8) Don Callis gives his guys praise for last week’s win over Will Ospreay & Brodie King…
Participants:
Details:
-Backstage Segment has Don Callis cutting a promo w/ Konosuke Takeshita, Josh Alexander & Kyle Fletcher…
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TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: Not much here. they made mention of a match from the previous week, which they never do. so i’ll give em some credit for the follow up, i guess… geez what low standards i have when it comes to AEW 🤷♂️…
(9) FTR look to cement legacy and win back world tag titles…
Participants:
Details:
-Video Package has Stokely Hathaway cutting a promo on FTR’s behalf…
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TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: Trying to make stokley out like a mad wrestling savant… if this guys actually still burning CD’s for wrestling matches then that’s just a waste of time… i do wanna say that the whole time i’m watching this i’m thinking about how hard they’re trying to cover up for forgetting about this guy for months, and how that’s really hard to do, especially w/ the loyal aew audience who actually follow this stuff. it’s hard to forget that the last time we saw this guy he wanted to manage Taya Valkyrie & Deonna Purazzo and got them no where! so. he’s got a funny personality but it’s a tough job to build someone back up…
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