All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: AEW Dynamite 4/20 & Rampage 4/22

April 20, 2022 5:19 PM - Season 3, Episode 29

AEW returns to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as Pittsburgh’s own Britt Baker seeks a spot in The Owen Hart Foundation Women’s Tournament. “The Cold-Hearted Handsome Devil” Hook finally makes his Dynamite debut.

The card announced for tonight:

Tony Khan Will Make a "Huge Announcement"
Wardlow vs. The Butcher
Hook’s Dynamite Debut
The Owen Hart Foundation Women’s Tournament – Qualifier: Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. vs. Danielle Kamela
The Owen Hart Foundation Men’s Tournament – Qualifier: Jungle Boy vs. Kyle O’ Reilly
Dustin Rhodes vs. CM Punk
Coffin Match: Andrade El Idolo vs. Darby Allin

posted by The Pluto Gangsta (6 comments total)

FORBIDDEN DOOR is the actually name of the PPV? That's freaking brilliant.

But if this doesn't end in Kenny Omega vs. Ibushi or Okada then AEW has wasted an opportunity.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:49 PM on April 20, 2022

Wardlow coming to the ring handcuffed and flanked by security is a great look, but I would have loved it if they had gone the full Goldberg-entrance and had him walk from his "closet" to the ring with the crowd chanting his name.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:50 PM on April 20, 2022

Nothing will ever get me to pop bigger than Sting taking off a Sting disguise. Ever. I don't care if they do it every week until he dies of old age at 113.
posted by Etrigan at 9:30 AM on April 21, 2022 [1 favorite]

Ha, yes, someone I know on Discord posted yesterday a set of "through-the-years" style GIFs of Sting lifting a mask to reveal himself. Bonus is that when he was sitting in the stands he had a sign that read "I'm just here for Darby Allin" which turned out to be the literal truth. It was a good match in a vacuum but my questions/concerns are:

1) Why must Andrade constantly lose?
2) Why does it end with the Hardys coming out? Were they threatening Andrade or (as it kind of appeared) Darby and Sting? I thought the big 4-on-4 match was the blow-off for this.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 10:12 AM on April 21, 2022

Also, I'm wondering where the Dannhausen vs. Hook thing goes. Either Hook throughly trounces Dannhausen in his AEW in-ring debut, or Hook loses his winning streak through some sort of shenanigans, I guess.

Someone I know joked that Dannhausen's storyline will be that (in his own mind) he's going to join every faction in AEW simultaneously.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 10:14 AM on April 21, 2022

Punk vs. Dustin was fucking beautiful. Punk dressed in Bret’s colors; Dustin in Bulldog’s. The callbacks to Dusty and Flair. Nothing fancy, just a love letter to wrestling’s past.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 1:48 PM on April 21, 2022 [1 favorite]