All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Dynamite 9/27 and Rampage 9/29

September 27, 2023 4:52 PM - Season 4, Episode 52

I decided a while ago to partition Dynamite's "seasons" to begin the first week of October (since that's the week Dynamite first premiered), and that means tonight is the season finale and this Sunday's WrestleDream is like the bonus content. This week, AEW (and their co-brand partner NJPW) will do their best to whet your appetite for the PPV.

The announced card for Dynamite:

Julia Hart vs. Willow Nightingale

Little Miss Spooky has an appointment with Kris Statlander on Sunday, so this match would be a good opportunity to convince the crowd she can win against an opponent with greater strength

Four-way match: Penta El Zero Miedo vs. Matt Jackson vs. Orange Cassidy vs. Austin Gunn

Each of these men will also be part of the four-way tag match for a future AEW World Tag Team Championship title shot

AEW International Championship Match: Rey Fenix (c) vs. Jeff Jarrett

Moxley got unexpectedly concussed defending the International title, and so now I await discovering whether Fenix was just holding it long enough to transfer it to another

WrestleDream contract signing: Hangman Adam Page and Swerve Strickland

Christian Cage and Darby Allin will have a sit-down interview with Jim Ross ahead of their 2-out-of-3 falls title match on Sunday

The last time Jim Ross sat down with someone, the Don Callis family broke it up by clobbering Hangman

Adam Cole and MJF will discuss defending their ROH World Tag Team titles against The Righteous on Sunday

AKA "How bad did Cole f*** up his leg hopping down off that ramp during Grand Slam?"

posted by The Pluto Gangsta (6 comments total)

Captain Insano says that MJF & Cole are all right, and that's all I need to hear.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:18 PM on September 27, 2023

Turns out there was also a three-way match booked: Nick Jackson vs. Brian Cage vs. Claudio Castagnoli

Nick wins, and that means he'll be facing Rey Fenix for the International Title next week, after Fenix successfully defended tonight against Jeff Jarret and his traveling carnival show (with a little assistance from Ref Aubrey, who has still had it up to here with Karen Jarrett's shit and has no problem showing it).

Excalibur says it's a rematch from the first year of Dynamite, and how weird would it be for Nick to hold solo gold right now?
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:59 PM on September 27, 2023

We haven't had the full MJF talking segment in a while... both he and Switchblade go on for about 7 minutes longer than they needed... could have had a second women's match tonight!
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:11 PM on September 27, 2023

This four-way match cracking up Taz and Excalibur so hard, they can't even confine it to the FiteTV feed. Back in my day, a Canadian Destroyer would finish a match, meanwhile Orange Cassidy and Penta use it like transitional moves!
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:30 PM on September 27, 2023

Hey! Julia and Willow are the main event tonight (notwithstanding the contract signing)!

I had forgotten that Willow had previously gotten Julia's black mist in her eye last week, as had Kiera Hogan... of course historians will recall that getting misted is what turned Julia evil in the first place.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:49 PM on September 27, 2023

"Penmanship has not improved" is how the chyron opens the segment, and then it ends with Swerve "signing" the contract in blood, courtesy of Hangman.

every hangman promo: i’m a dogshit bitch. i have mental health. i cry at pixar films. no one likes me. i smell. i’m a loser. and that’s why i have to win this match

posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 7:03 PM on September 27, 2023