AEW Dynamite 5/5/21 - BLOOD AND GUTS

 

What a night this is going to be - we've got the return of War Games in a new form alongside QT vs. Cody, with a World Title match announcement set up for the PPV as well. Nakazawa is out and Callis says he's on the list of all-time greats - and since Kenny isn't here, he'll be able to do it just fine on his own! Mox and Kingston come out, and Omega jumps them with the belt. Kingston eats a 2 on 1 attack, but Mox saves from a double suplex with some nice punches. Black Hole Slam to Omega leads to a tope by Mox! Big corner knee by Mox and then a knee to the gut of MT gets 2. Omega hits the Finlay roll, but a moonsault misses and we get some tags. Mox stomps a mudhole in MT and piledrives him for 2.9 thanks to Omega. HIGH/LOW LARIAT ENDS IT!

Bucks are out in super-douche getups to jump them alongside the Good Brothers and THE PERSONAL CAMERAMAN Brandon Cutler.  OWA to Kingston! Shida vs. Britt is made for Double or Nothing - yay for Britt! Cody and QT start off with a brawl and then Cody goes for his belt - but QT HAS ONE AND WHIPS HIM! DEADLIFT GERMAN BY QT! QT goes for Arn but ARN SLUGS HIM! Cody chops away in PIP. Heel ass reveal for a big DDT from Cody. Moonsault block gets 2!

QT hits Cross Rhodes for 2.9! QT almost loses him on a deadlift buckle bomb but gets it. BACK AND FORTH ON A TOMBSTONE and Cody hits it for 2.9! QT eats Cross Rhodes for 2.9! QT flips him off and Cody gets a figure four and taps out! Cody gets the win with the intent to take him out - which he'd promised to NOT do for the exhibition. Good-ish match, but it never quite got out of first gear. BOLO SHOT FROM OGOGO takes out Cody! Ogogo vs. Cody is going to be fantastic one day. Scorpio Sky quotes Jim Carrey's Riddler to mock Sting and Page says that he left a dent in Darby's head and he has a plate in his arm due to him. Darby coffin drops onto Page off a ladder! DARBY GETS THROWN DOWN THE STEPS. Jesus this dude's nuts.

Britt's out to face Julia Hart, WHO IS NOT FROM CALGARY. Britt's D-M-D bit is amazing. Slingblade and a big forearm shot from Britt. Air raid crash hits, but she pulls her up at one for the Lockjaw! Technique by Taz on the Killswitch and frog splash - he FAILED DUE TO FOOTWORK TWICE and then won and then AGAINST HOBBS, he got tossed around! He puts over Cage as the man who beat the number one ranked guy in the company. TREMENDOUS stuff here. 

Four way tag match is up and Caster has an incredible rap with lines about Dark Side of the Ring, slapping Stossel and taking the belts from the Young Cucks. Good stuff with SCU and the Acclaimed before we get the run into the dinosaur spots. Daniels...hits a flatliner on Luchasaurus and THE BEST MELTZER HITS and wins it! SCU faces the Bucks for the titles next week! Pac and Orange Cassidy face off next week and the winner faces Omega at Double or Nothing! Omega puts over PAC pinning him and tapping him before - so he knocks OC completely and OC comes out! We get a lot of banter and they mock OC for his Raybans. DARK SIDE OF THE RING AD! MIRO warns the roster and says that next week, he will face Darby for the TNT Title! If Darby can't show up healthy or not, he'll take him out. 

"The war begins..." - love it! The Match Beyond is now "the All Out Assault" and "submit or surrender" remains. Dax is out as God intended in the Arn role against Sammy. DOUBLE A SPINEBUSTER BY DAX, but there are no pins! Chopsaplenty and Dax is already beaten red! Sammy's arm is sliced up and he talks shit to MJF before Dax gets an outside-in lariat! Cody cutter to Dax and SPEARS HAS A CHAIR! DAX IS SLICED UP. Damn! BIG CHAIRSHOT TO SAMMY! This match has already redeemed Spears' last shitty year and a half. Tremendous usage of him so far.

ORTIZ RUNS IN WITH A CHAIR AND SLUGS AWAY AT DAX! And it's a white padded chair and now it's covered in blood! SPANISH FLY. Jesus this rules! WHEELER DARTS IN AND SPRINGBOARD-ISHES OFF ONE RING ROPE TO SAVE DAX! Nasty mid-ring bump to Ortiz! Santana's in and runs wild...via PIP. Wardlow tosses fuckers around in PIP and then Hager runs wild on Spears and taps him with an ankle lock - but it doesn't count. Hager and Wardlow slug it out and MJF is in to MASSIVE "asshole" chants. We get an ad break after a group brawl.

After the break, FTR has exposed the boards. SPIKE PILEDRIVER ON THE BOARDS! SAMMY GOES VAN TERMINATOR ON SPEARS IN THE CORNER! MJF is sliced up and he looks  scared to death before getting a fork to the face! Wardlow chucks Sammy up and double-legs Hager BUT LAX GOES STREET and bats the knee and chairshots him. ONE MORE BREAK. Jesus. PIP features Jericho knocking Tully down with the cage door before a top of the cage showdown with MJF. This is almost setup fully on the ad break - but luckily, they wait until after the break to have Jericho join him.

WALLS ON THE TOP OF THE CAGE! MJF nutshots him and the Fujiwara is on!

MJF threatens to toss Jericho off the top of the cage unless they surrender. SAMMY SURRENDERS FOR JERICHO! MJF tosses him off the top of the cage into the...steel-covered padding! The story of this is great - but the live angle exposed the stunt. Using the replay angle would have been better - so this is a fine learning experience for the future. It should be a PPV-only match to prevent the pacing issues caused by ads, or if you do it on TV, do it with no ads and just be more careful with camera angle placement. They SLAYED IT for so much of the show live when it came to production and just flubbed that up.