All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: July 10, 2024

July 10, 2024 4:36 PM - Season 5, Episode 41

Dynamite broadcasts live from Calgary, which is the perfect place for the final matches of both branches of the Owen Hart Tournament. Also, Samoa Joe gets in a street fight with The Learning Tree, a four-way match is on, and champs grab the mic as Swerve Strickland, Will Ospreay, and Mercedes Moné address the fans.

The announced card for Dynamite:

"Global Glory" 4-Way Match: Claudio Castagnoli vs. Kyle Fletcher vs. PAC vs. Tomohiro Ishii

Stampede Street Fight: “The Learning Tree” Chris Jericho vs. Samoa Joe

The CEO Mercedes Moné Double Championship Victory Toast

AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland returns

We’ll hear from AEW International Champion Will Ospreay

Owen Hart Foundation Women’s Tournament Final: Willow Nightingale vs. Mariah May

Owen Hart Foundation Men’s Tournament Final: Bryan Danielson vs. “Hangman” Adam Page (with Jeff Jarrett as special guest enforcer)

posted by The Pluto Gangsta (3 comments total)

I am somewhat surprised to see Danielson win the tournament, especially since it was not through any fuckery related to Jeff Jarrett filling in as a ring official. I assume this means that Danielson vs. Swerve at Wembley, though I suppose its possible for Hangman to somehow force a title match inbetween so that All In can be the rematch to this great fight.

Someone in my Discord watch group put forward the opinion that all of AEW's big PPV main events have been a "homegrown guy" vs a "made it big somewhere else" guy. I'm too lazy to verify, but with a lot of those guys on their way out, like with Bryan, maybe the overall story of 2024 is to give them swansongs and put over the homegrown?

Meanwhile Swerve's post-match promo very cleverly keeps him tweener while paying respect to Danielson, and declares him as the leader of Team AEW.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:01 PM on July 10

The street fight had a bad energy, with Joe spending the entire commercial break just basically... hanging out in the Walls of Jericho? Was it his intention to make Chris' submission look dweebish? There were some spots a bit too reminiscent of other recent Jericho no-DQ matches, the Big Bill appears -- literally jumping from a closet -- until in the end we redo one of favorite MST3K bits and then the doctor just calls a TKO? Except Jericho drove the forklift into an extremely poorly lit corner, so the cameras can't even capture it properly.

On the other hand, the four-way was much better paced, with Fletcher as the young lion taking 70% of the offense while Ishii gets to shrug off mighty blows. I thought one of them would take the win so it was a surprise to me when PAC made a late-game resurgence.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:54 PM on July 10

Whoa, I was not expecting the post-match for the Owen Women'sTournament to go that way. I was expecting Mariah to win, and then her and Toni would spend a good part of July and August performing their anxieties about facing each other. But instead nope, we went straight to a bloodier All About Eve, with Mariah flipping her switch back to "joshi madwoman", busting open Toni and licking the blood off her face. Chilling, and also makes me think it likely that she wins at Wembley.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 7:13 PM on July 10