AEW FYTER FEST 2019

AEW's second event is their first free one for the U.S. and while it isn't a tentpole show, it does have some great matches. Cody vs. Darby Allin and the main event of The Elite vs Lucha Bros and Laredo Kid should be nuts. Mox vs. Janela is going to be unlike anything else, and even the three-way tag is set up to be great - minus the goofy bye stip. Stage setup looks great too - love the beach theme, perfect for a modern-day Bash at the Beach show. A test pattern comes up and automatically draws more than Impact.

Excalibur, Logan-sama, and Goldenboy are on commentary. Okay, Private Party already comes off like a star act just coming down to the ring. Scorp and Kaz are out as SCU and the bikini babes clap for them. The Best Friends' tron is the greatest thing ever.

Isaih Cassidy is in black and orange while Marq Quen is in orange and black and eats a giant backbreaker from Scorp. Quen lands a giant springboard crossbody and then a kick fakeout before a Pele! SILLY STRING DOUBLE TEAM DDT! GODDAMN! Best Friends suplex Cassidy on the floor. AND THEN THEY HUG! Rocket Launcher ace crusher gets 2 for TBF.

Trent gets 2 off a fisherman suplex. Chuck gets a chinlock, but Cassidy escapes and lands a tornado kick. Cassidy tags out to Kaz and then Excalibur accidentally calls All Out All In. Quen lands a gorgeous SSP for 2.9! Quen gets thrown into Cassidy in the corner and then eats a dropkick and basement lariat for 2. Killswitch with a double stomp from SCU gets 2. QUEN EATS A SUPER GERMAN AND LANDS ON HIS FEET!

Quen lands a poetry in motion dropkick to Scorp on the apron! Chuck backdrops Quen onto Scorp on the floor. Strong Zero hits and the Best Friends are going to All Out! It's a bit surprising to not see SCU a lock, but they'll be on it somehow and can always get in the tag title hunt without an issue. Absolute star-making match for Private Party.

The Dark Order cuts a promo on them and says they'll be their first victims. Lights out. Dark Order has total go away heat. It's like a Z-grade knockoff of Sanity mixed with the dirt-worst Lucha Underground faction. Lights out and then the Dark Order just leaves. Matt and Nick have some fun with Fyre Fest stuff and then Omega blows through the money on the Bucks' gear and the models are gone. They mock Jebaley for giving us some of his doll collection.

Leva Bates comes out to shush people before opening the tent and finding Peter Avalon. He throws the tent in a pool and decapitates a mannequin. Leva buries gaming and says that BOOKS WITH WORDS help you.  Allie comes out to face Leva, who just doesn't work as a heel.

Allie stomps on the shushing finger before Brandi is shown watching TV and it's said that it's nice to see a TV watched from a sensible angle. Leva gets a rings of Saturn and shushes her. THEN SHE SHUSHES THE CROWD FOR A CHOP. A Reading Rainbow chant breaks out. Allie runs wild in the corner and gets a sliding D with crazy faces.

Leva hits a pedigree for 2. Avalon throws a book to Allie, who throws it to Leva and superkicks her to win. Kenny talks about having equipment for the bands, but gets told that all the bands pulled out. Michael NAKAZAWA comes out and then buries CEO for being inferior to EVO. He says that Jebailey's right leg was hurt last year, but he's corrected and told it was the left - so that's the one he attacks. Hey, a smart heel!

Stream goes to shit after the knee attack and when it comes back, they're burying Jebailey's gear. Jebailey gets a fight stick and hits him. Okay, I love them bringing up that a Smash player might kill them with a CRT display. Jebail-o-Mac! Stream goes to shit again and I see a la majistral and then it's apparently reversed as things buffer and Nakazawa wins. Well, I missed the match, but oh well. JR doing Fyter Fest! Tons of buffering on the cold open. Goldenboy is joining JR and Excalibur.

Daniels vs. CIMA starts things off. I missed CD's intro, but caught CIMA's. Excalibur talks about just how much history there is here - with each man being a part of Dragon Gate. Daniels is about as good as he ever was - he's just half a step slower now. CIMA dropkicks him on the floor. Daniels slams him down and Ross is amazed that Daniels has had 1,000 matches. Daniels gets an STO for 2 and then a crossface. Somehow, CIMA wins. Well, the BR Live issues are killing the vibe for the show for me so far. Highlight package shows CIMA winning with the OG meteora and JR points out that it could befall Kenny in 2 weeks - good, simple storytelling there.

YUKA's pyro is fantastic. Not a fan of the Chinese food restaurant tron font. Riho and Yuka get beaten up by Nyla. Nyla gets a double camel clutch, but Yuka lands a springboard dive onto both on the floor. Nyla hops up top and lands a springboard knee to a draped Riho on the top. Swanton from Nyla misses and Riho has a chance to escape. Riho wins somehow and Nyla jumps her afterwards. MJF vs. Jungle Boy is out. I miss MJF's intro, but get to see LUCHASAURUS AND JUNGLE BOY DO THEIR DEAL! Jimmy Havoc looks like a star.

Great 4-way with non-stop action. Page gets 2 off a pop-up powerbomb to Jungle Boy thankst o MJF putting the foot on the rope. MJF clips the knee and goes for a sharpshooter before Page turns it over. More buffering and apparently, Hangman has won. I had zero issues with BR Live for Double or Nothing, but it's been largely terrible tonight. Stream comes back and I hear Cody's theme with Darby in the corner sulking. Maybe his Hot Topic website promo code didn't work. Cody's in black and DX green because of course he is.

Darby takes a killer bump over the top off a lariat. Inverted rack attack hits for Cody. Darby gets a nasty Fujiawara armbar and slugs away at the fist. Cody puts him in the CODY bodybag and hits a disaster kick and they have 1 minute left and a jacknife cover gets 1. Cody whips him with the weight belt. Cross Rhodes is countered into a standing diamond dust, but the CR hits and he doesn't get the pin in time. Time limit draw and Shawn Spears hits him with a chair. Unprotected chairshot to the head in 2019. Fucking hell guys. JR does a "the show must go on" line. Ugh.

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Laredo Kid and the Lucha Bros come down before The Bucks and Omega. Bucks come out to a remix of the SF II theme as Ken and Ryu while a goober comes out and Omega is Akuma and kills the goober. Justin Roberts announces ROUND 1, FIGHT while the Bucks are in Ryu and Ken pants. Nick flips for his idle animation. Laredo hits a crazy moonsault while the Bros hit stereo flip dives. Laredo's up on Matt for an electric chair, but Matt eats a double superkick and then gets poison rana'd. Matt lands a chain of Northern Lights and Omega kills Laredo with a nasty German suplex.

Destroyer hits and then Penta eats a spear. Penta pops Laredo up for a Spanish Fly to Kenny for 2.9. Superkick party to the luchadores. TRIPLE HADOUKEN SPOT FROM THE ELITE! Triple Liger bomb gets 2. Swan dive Metlzer driver is set up, but not followed up. Kenny hits a Tiger Driver '98 for 2. One Winged Angel hits on Laredo and ends it. Finally, a match I could see in full and it was quite great. Not sure if it was better than the triple tag match though. That made stars - so I'd put that above this. JR announces Moxley vs. Janela being too violent for AEW.

Justin Roberts says that this was the final match of AEW's event, but when the lights go out, it's the end of the AEW event, but there will be no time limits or countouts, and no DQs for Janela vs. Moxley. They brawl in the crowd before going back in the ring and Mox lands a chair slam. Excalibur talks about Janela being out for months with the crazy truck stunt and not earning a dime before Joey takes a crazy bump for 2. BARB WIRE CHAIR TO THE CHEST gets 2. Super rana onto the chair and the back is sliced up. Russian legsweeep off the apron through a table!

Moxley hits a carrying spear corner to corner through a table! Janela flips him off and Mox calls him a dumb motherfucker and pulls out a barb wire board. Corner DVD by Janela through the board! Joey puts him on a side by side table set before climbing a ladder and landing an HBK elbow off the ladder to the floor. Janela gets a bigger barb wire board and makes a bridge out of it. Mox lands the DDT. AA OVER THE TOP ROPE THROUGH THE BOARD BRIDGE!

Mox brings a can with a bag full of tacks in the ring. Mox takes Joey's socks off and lands foot-first to block an X plex before eating an X PLEX! ATOMIC DROP ON THE TACKS! Paradigm Shift DDT into the tacks ends it!

Omega runs down and lands a V trigger and a piledriver on a table. Swan Dive double foot stomp off the top to the table. Maybe don't do that and risk snapping an ankle. Mic stand to the back of Mox. Omega beats him with drumsticks and is just a dickhead. Guitar to the back and it doesn't explode into a pile of cocaine. Omega beats him up with a trash can when refs try to take Mox to the back. Omega lands the Paradigm Shift on the trash can.