All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Dynamite 5/3 and Rampage 5/5

May 3, 2023 4:47 PM - Season 4, Episode 31

It's a great night for anyone who loves multiple-person matches, because tonight Dynamite has a tag match, an 8-man match, and a... 18-man match?

The announced card for tonight:

We will hear from The Elite about their plans to deal with the Blackpool Combat Club

Last week the BCC mutilated poor Konosuke Takeshita with a screwdriver, what kind of team are they if the Elite can't get their act together and protect their friends?

Saraya vs. Willow Nightingale

This will be only the sixth match for Saraya since she made her return in November.

Juice Robinson vs. Ricky Starks

...with Switchblade Jay White lurking somewhere, no doubt

Tres De Mayo Trios Battle Royal with six teams:
The Dark Order
The Acclaimed + Billy Gunn
QT Marshall, Aaron Solo and Powerhouse Hobbs
Kip Sabian, The Butcher and The Blade
Josh Woods, Tony Nese and Ari Daivari
El Hijo del Vikingo and The Lucha Bros.

Besides looking like an absolute hootenanny, this match is expected to setup the next opponents for The House of Black to face at Double Or Nothing. I am personally, selfishly rooting for either Kip, Butch and Blade... because it gives an excuse to have either Bunny or Penelope Ford face Julia Hart, who is sneakily becoming my favorite woman on the roster.

Roderick Strong, Adam Cole, Bandido and Orange Cassidy vs. The Jericho Appreciation Society’s Daniel Garcia, Jake Hager, Matt Menard and Angelo Parker

Half of the Undiputed Era, plus the current AEW International Champion, plus a AAA/ROH star vs. a bunch of monkeys who lost their organ grinder

MJF and Sammy Guevara vs. Jungle Boy and Darby Allin

I dearly hope to see no shenanigans for the finish of this match, just a clean win for... MJF and Sammy. Yeah, you heard me. Jungle Boy and Darby can reckon with each other for a while, and MJF gets to sweat out if Sammy will actually honor the deal to lay down at Double Or Nothing or turn face.

posted by The Pluto Gangsta (4 comments total)

Programming note: Rampage is on at 630 Eastern this week.

Also, bad news for fans of Dark and Dark Elevation.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:31 PM on May 3, 2023

Welcome back Hikaru Shida! Likely we have a women's trio match for Double Or Nothing, and if the faces lose Hayter has to put her belt up? Although I'm not thrilled with how Willow vanished as soon as the match was over.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:12 PM on May 3, 2023

Jeff Jarrett and his crew showing up at Mark Briscoe's house... in overalls... to help out around the farm is the funniest AEW segment of 2023. A little baby that is clearly Briscoe's son? Satnam Singh playfully throwing the terrified baby nine feet in the air? Jarrett driving a lawnmower? Sanjay Dutt putting his pencil behind the baby's ear? It could have been 10 times longer and I'd still love it.

Honestly, it reminded me a little of Big Bart and his chickens.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:29 PM on May 3, 2023 [1 favorite]

"There's only so long one man can take care of two men!"

Cripes Tony, as if this episode wasn't yaoi enough.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:55 PM on May 3, 2023 [1 favorite]