AEW Dynamite 6-24-20

COVID has struck WWE with multiple cases, while AEW took Mox and QT off this show as a precautionary measure alongside all of QT's trainees. Okay. Kip Sabian reading a book upside-down is great. Luchasaurus faces Wardlow in a lumberjack match, with their history being showcased. BIG HOSS CHARGE to start! Series of round kicks to the chest of Wardlow while JR says all the lumberjacks had to have Dinty Moore beef stew and Tony says he loves that stuff. It's a solid value for the money! Teep sends Wardlow in the corner, but Wardlow gets 2 off a superplex.

Luchasaurus hits a sorta-C4 for 2. Wardlow tosses Jungle Boy around before Marko just runs around. Cutler gets thrown into the pile by grabbing Wardlow and then Marko gets tossed too. TAIL WHIP HITS AND SENDS WARDLOW DOWN TO THE PILE! STANDING SSP BY LUCHASAURUS ON THE PILE because why the hell not. Wardlow kicks him in the balls and the F10 hits and ends it. MJF and Luchasaurus beat up the Jurassic Express. Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus will face MJF and Wardlow at Fyter Fest.

Taz highlight video showcases Cage. SCU faces FTR and that should be a match of the night. We\ll see some of the Hager-Cody press conference, which somehow they have no footage of beforehand and Britt passes a message along to Tony about needing a clinical diagnosis for Luchasurus and his green tongue. Shida's out for a match but bee-lines to Penelope Ford. Ford slaps her and Shida goes to cane here before the ref stops that before Shida wins quickly and they brawl some more. This was so great because Shida looks strong - didn't job off a distraction, beat the shit out of her and then Ford slugs Starks accidentally.

God bless whoever this AEW girl is, but she's terrible at speaking on TV. LIZ HUNTER QUESTION leads to Double A cutting a promo. Another PWI question with Matt Brock and Cody says Ricky Starks had $3 to his name before he gave him a shot. I hope Kaye Fabian gets a few questions in. Hager shows up and his wife tosses water in Cody's face while Hager spills his on the steps. What an asshole - that's clearly a slip and fall hazard!

Brodie works over Sonny before Colt gets 2 off a splash. Discus elbow to Colt by Sonny leads to a victory roll by Colt for 2. Sonny dives on the Dark Order guys, who take the bullet for Colt. Brodie "catches" Joey off the tope and tosses him into the barricade and discus lariats him down. Colt wins thanks to Brodie to muddy the waters for Colt more. This is solid storytelling. LANCE ARCHER MASSACRES THE BABYFACES! CHAIR TOSS TO LANCE BY JOEY, but Lance boots him.

Spears is shown winning on Dark with a loaded punch - good, gets that over on Dynamite without using Dynamite airtime. Britt tells Tony that FTR can GTFO if they don't say hi to her. I wish FTR had a quick stopover in the NWA for a match with the RNRs before coming to AEW - just so that could happen historically. Oh well. Wheeler snap ranas CD before Dax snap suplexes Kaz onto CD. Slingshot suplex by Dax onto CD leads to 4 fingers going up and getting 2. Cash does a shitty job reversing a cradle and Dax fixes it for 2.

Cash eats a few double teams and a Kaz killswitch gets 2. Veg o matic hits Kaz for 2. Powerplex is setup but Kaz crotches Cash and CD cradles Dax for 2. Blue thunder/neckbreaker combo gets 2 as does an Angel's Wings due to a save. Goodnight express hits and ends it. This had elements of a great match dialed down to a good match. Dax calls out the tag scene before Butcher and the Blade hop in the truck and challenge FTR and the Bucks to an eight man tag with Butcher and the Blade and the Lucha Bros! Lucha Bros spike FTR and the Bucks save.

We get a tag title match hype vid for Fyter Fest and Excalibur talks about seeing when Trent and Chuck first met. Omega and Page talk about their GREATEST TAG MATCH IN HISTORY without thinking - ditto becoming champs out of nowhere. "WE'LL SEE YOU TWO WIERDOS AT FTYER FEST!" Cage and Mox is hyped up with Mox saying he'd like Cage if he hadn't put him through a windshield. Cage starts off with a giant hoisting flapjack and curls the jobber before fallaway slamming him and massacring him. Taz calls out Mox knowing he's not here due to COVID. Taz tells him to knock off the bullshit excuses and he'll take the title at Fyter Fest.

Brodie cuts a weird, creepy promo with Colt shirtless calling out SCU for Fyter Fest. Night 1 has MJF and Wardlow against the Jurassic Express. Private Party faces PNP, Shida faces Ford, Cody faces Hager, and Page/Omega face the Best Friends.  Loaded lineup - better than most WWE PPVs. Night 2 has Archer vs. Janela, Nyla faces someone, SCU faces the Dark Order of Colt, Stu, and Brodie, Jericho vs. Cassidy, 8-man tag, and Mox vs. Cage. Britt calls out Swole and says she was in the dumpster for 9 and a half to 10 hours but SWOLE'S THE BIGGEST PIECE OF TRASH! Swole hops up and throws trash on her! REBA TRIES TO BLOW SWOLE AWAY WITH A LEAFBLOWER. Okay, this is the best act ever.

Santana's out to face BROKEN Matt Hardy. They uh...brawl...do some stuff in the corner...look I love Matt, but singles ain't his forte in 2020. Santana does a weird flip out of the side effect to hit a uranage for 2. Matt does his Boogie Woogie special with the billion buckle shots to fill time with no bumps before a bulldog gets 2. Running landslide from Santana hits for 2. END! Twist ends it and the madball slugs him - so why bother giving Matt the win here? Private Party makes a save and Ex says it took them a while because the locker rooms are at TIAA Field.

Cassidy comes out and Jericho compared Orange to the chicken who crossed the road. Jericho applauds OC for getting over on his own. Jericho tells him that if he goes for that shin kick bullshit, he'll knock his teeth down his throat. He'll need to pull a man-sized miracle out of his pockets to beat him. OC hits the shin kicks and pockets up! OC and Jericho fight around the crowd. JIB TO THE FACE OF OC! He gets sliced and and they fight on a box and OC Superman punches Jericho off the box through a table!