AEW Dynamite 3/31/21 feat. The Twilight of the Wednesday Night Wars
 

Card for tonight's show:

Couldn't they have had Cody versus QT on Elevation or Dark instead? ugh

Nice, Christian opening the show with his first AEW match

Interesting they're starting the night off with this match.

No clue how AEW keeps screwing up the audio on taped shows.

No obnoxious loud crowd audio so far this time but at the cost of commentary sounding muffled in return. Almost like listening to a radio version of a wrestling show.

This is probably Kaz's best match in AEW so far, Christian already making a difference

Christian's tights kind of baggy

Wonder if Christian is wearing an adult diaper under his tights...looks 'really padded'

Either that or something like long johns to explain the "padding" look.

I hadn't noticed and now I cannot unsee it.

Hogan should have did it...maybe his back wouldn't be so fucked if he still insisted on his leg drop.

Good match.

PPV quality opener tonight, nice.

Christian vs. Frankie was pretty good.

Was a lot more slower or methodical in pacing than AEW's typical opening matches which made it stand out a bit more.

AEW must have something really good in store if that Arcade Anarchy match is the main event of tonight's show.

miro should come out dressed as donkey kong

qt sucks

:eek: "shit" getting said twice so far.

TNT being extra generous with the swear words quota they gave to AEW this week. Chuckie T's chances of finally being able to swear on tv the highest its ever been.

wtf was Jade wearing? It looked like an 80's shoulder blazer with sparkly pac man levels.

Watching, like 15 mins behind due to being @ work late again !

stone cold

Christian match was pretty good but hopefully they do something to make Christian interesting...

:lol: at QT decking Arn.

They did tease a feud with Omega a couple weeks ago but yeah right now he feels like he's still in WWE.

i guess they can put him with someone

ANOTHER FUCKING FACTION?!?!?

QT being the boss of a stable in AEW is something that shouldn't happen but at the same time a Nightmare Family Civil War is way more interesting than what they were doing before as a group.

QT is a damn evil jezebel

So many cusses and swears tonight...

TNT censor guy must have taken the night off or got stuck in the bathroom.

Their entire next PPV is gonna be 3 on 3, 4 on 4, and 5 on 5 matches.

we really gonna get qt marshall vs cody at double or nothing

chuck taylor definitely not going to get to swear tonight

Fail. TNT just advertised the MK movie with the old date. It got postponed a week today so they can milk more box office/hbo max for 1 more week.

Cody Rhodes really fun to watch, all his matches have an interesting angle and seem "well thought out"... Never just "phones it in" it seems

Nick Comoroto is cool....

It's not just that...more people. I hope some of these peeps will be left to sign with Impact, NWA, etc.

AEW getting too much roster like WCW and present day WWE....IN A PANDEMIC. ugh I love it

:lol: at Jade randomly beating up Red Velvet.

Not a good night for the Nightmare Family so far.

Khan did mention that once the pandemic is over, some roster trimmings are going to happen.

Only got bloated because he wanted to give as many wrestlers a paycheck during the pandemic and use Dark as a testing ground for new signings. Same for why Dark shows got bloated in runtime.

Red Velvet better than Brandi Rhodes

They should keep Brandon Cutler but fire The Young Bucks

trending at number 1 on twitter

I liked it a lot better before the pandemic when there were just like 3 or 4 good matches on AEW Dark :'-(

Now like 18 squash matches on Dark, and another 18 squash matches on "Dark: Elevation"... feels like it really waters down "the product" imo!

k I'm all caught up and live now

ahhh, didn't know that. I mean....a lot of genuine talent have shown up. a lot more interesting than The Librarians. NWA could def use more talent when they can start putting shows on again.

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JD Drake is really good though... hope he gets some TV time

Had a freaking sweet match with Matt Riddle in EVOLVE, and lots of other good matches in EVOLVE

QT Marshall trending on Twitter

what a damn jezebel

Bononi so slow...

Ziggler's brother is good in his role as an obnoxious punching bag

Bononi has a great look

Moxley vs. Bononi was decent.

Yeah, it was a lot more focused prior to the pandemic but it losing that packed crowd atmosphere for shows has hurt it a lot.

I'd assume once they are able to runs shows normally again, Dark and Dark Elevation are going to get scaled back a lot. Elevation probably will be more like what Dark was originally while Dark keeps their current format but in a much more reasonable show length.

:lol: MJF

AEW's janitor is going to be fuming over the big mess the Inner Circle and Pinnacle are making backstage.

:lol: at MJF getting a swirlie

BROUGHT TO YOU BY TOTO TOILETS AND PEPSI COLA

Brawl in the Hall

Michael Cole if MJF got a swirlie on RAW

"What A Moment" (insert fake laughter)

Matt Jackson's loud breathing into the mic distracting me

The show has had its moments....need some Brit Baker right about now, tho.

MJF is Noid and Jericho is Smelly Meatball


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Omega & Good Brothers new theme sounds okay.

Elevation should be moved to Saturday nights and can be the pre show for PPVs nights. If not on TNT or TBS, TruTV.

Gallows and Anderson putting me 2 sleep as always

Rey Fenix way better than Good Bros

I wasn't watching during the Festus gimmick but Gallows should go back to it, seems good,,,

https://i.imgur.com/tqN6AZa.jpg

That's probably going to be the date for AEW's second TV show since it would make sense from a Turner network historical perspective and every other day in the week is already taken up by an AEW show or notable competitor show.

Hard to be put to sleep when anytime Gallow's head is blood red and expect him to have a stroke or something...

Penta and Fenix so good

Sweet "tope" by Laredo Kid on Omega

Ouch at Omega's head getting planted by that Michinoku Driver by Kid.

Lucha Bros & Kid vs. Good Brothers & Omega was very good albeit more so because of its latter half.

I'd put it on TruTV. Rebrand that channel. I legit think the only reason it exists on most programming lineups is for the first few weeks of March Madness.

Matt...you didn't get slapped that hard.

I liked Festus

I think Rey Fenix (or PAC) is probably the best wrestler in AEW

I'd put it on TBS just to keep the running gag of Cena's game show ads showing up on AEW TV.

That probably makes Vince a tad upset that Cena is anyway associated with his main competition. He's probably also pissed that Triple H failed miserably at destroying AEW.

TNT & TBS broadcast a lot of live sports on the weekends, I think. Otherwise, they're broadcasting AAA movies they've licensed (Marvel, etc.). That's why I thought TruTV may be the best home as to not ruffle the feathers.

yeah they need to do a spring cleaning of some of the early aew people that did not work out. i wish they could have sent some of them to impact, the writers they have might have done something with them. the problem was some of those aew wrestlers had bad adatudes to impact thought they were better.

cena's show on tbs looks way better than cody's go big show

Women's tag match was pretty good although bit surprised Tay ate the loss.

Pretty good night for the division considering they got a match and 3 segments plus Red Velvet being involved in the Nightmare Family Civil War. That's more than what they usually were getting, especially prior to the Women's title tournament.

Card for next week's show looks nice.

Really like the match and show graphics AEW does for Dynamite compared to the usual bland and sterile ones WWE does for all of their tv shows.

really need to stop showing the people waiting to be jumped on...

WWE does this same spot more often than people think but due to their 800 camera cuts per second they don't show everyone standing around waiting to catch someone...AEW needs to improve on this *but also not have 800 camera cuts

Next week's card looks sweet...

Darby Allin vs. JD Drake should be great... glad JD Drake will get a chance to have a cool match...

And Bear Country... cool.....

I'm biting my tongue saying this but I think Dynamite should test out doing a 2.5hr Dynamite show.

lol HBO Max crossover lame but funny since it involved Stunt.

wish miro and kip and penelope were dressed as mario, luigi and the princess

I need to get into contact with Penelope to find out how she makes her hair look so fuckable.

The Pixies 'Where Is My Mind" is the PERFECT entrance music for Orange Cassidy.

Was originally thinking this Arcade Anarchy match was going to take place in an actual arcade but the carnival-like setting at ringside is pretty cool.

I should have probably put sheets over my arcade machines so they don't have to see this mayhem!

I am thankful no pinball machines have been harmed during this match

Just got home and this is fucking awesome.

Ouch at Chuckie getting powerbombed onto legos.

:lol: at Orange getting kicked in his little oranges.

:D AEW's resident alien is back.

LEGOS!!

Hell yeah, Statlander rules

PENELOPE YOU HOT HEEL YOU!!!

THE ALIEN RETURNS!!!

Should TK do a complete reboot on wins/losses when they can tour again with fans?

OC got his GF Back!!!

His indie theme "Jane" is really perfect for him imo, unfortunate that they couldn't get it!

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