All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: June 19, 2024

June 19, 2024 4:37 PM - Season 5, Episode 38

MJF has his first match since losing the World Championship, opening tonight's Dynamite with a commercial-free donnybrook with El Toro Blanco, Rush. Some contracts for Forbidden Door will be signed, and the opening matches of the Owen Hart Tournament begin!

The announced card for tonight:

AEW World Tag Team Title Eliminator Match: The Young Bucks (c) vs. The Acclaimed

AEW Continental Title Eliminator Match: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. ???

Owen Hart Foundation Men’s Quarterfinal: Claudio Castagnoli vs. PAC

Owen Hart Foundation Women’s Quarterfinal: Kris Statlander vs. Nyla Rose

All Star 8-Man Tag: Orange Cassidy, Kyle O’Reilly, Mark Briscoe, and Dante Martin vs. Kyle Fletcher, Roderick Strong, Zack Sabre Jr., and Konsuke Takeshita

Swerve Strickland and Will Ospreay face-to-face

Forbidden Door Contract Signing: Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa (with Mariah May moderating)

MJF vs. Rush (with no commercial interruptions)

posted by The Pluto Gangsta (6 comments total)

The MJF opener got intense and bloody real fast -- either MJF had a blood capsule for theatrical purposes or he actually got a busted lip from Rush's elbow. (What do you expect for wearing an elbow pad that reads "Chinga tu madre"?). His reward is a match at Forbidden Door with.... Hechicero? I guess luchadors really have it out for Max now.

Also, Kyle O'Reilly is becoming a GIF factory the way he reacts to Mark Briscoe.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:26 PM on June 19

Swerve takes an interesting angle to his promo: Will Ospreay can't be champion because he can't make the kind of sacrifices Swerve thinks are necessary -- giving up friends, carrying the show... abandoning his family? An interesting way to retcon his earlier heel actions as an "I did what I had to do to become champion."
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:47 PM on June 19

I do not enjoy how much the commentary team talks about the time Dante Martin twisted his foot in a ladder match (WARNING: gnarly foot injury) and then moments later Takeshita gives him an almighty powerbomb. The 8-man match did a great job of getting over most of our Forbidden Door participants, although it would have been nice to acknowledge that Briscoe and Fletcher both have ROH titles to defend.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:04 PM on June 19

Had to share this bon mot from my Discord watch group: "The Bucks are fools to attack Anthony Bowens tonight, it's Pride Month and Juneteenth, he's stronger than ever!"
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:08 PM on June 19

Our one women's match of the night was a bit of foregone conclusion. Good to see Nyla Rose on Dynamite again, but the story is definitely in seeing Kris Stat and Willow Nightingale circle in on each other in the Owen Hart tournament. (Surprise me by proving me wrong, Tony Khan! Give Mariah the shot instead!)

But because Willow is all class she wishes Stokely a happy Juneteenth first.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:51 PM on June 19

Swerve clearly got to Ospreay with his remarks, coming out to save Daniel Garcia and MJF from Brian Cage for no apparent reason and having a first-time-ever staredown with Max -- one day these two will have a match that will kick so much ass. Then he agrees backstage to put his title on the line against Cage this Saturday? He's off his game and could lose everything by the time Forbidden Door is done, which leaves him in a tough position with the Callis Family.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:58 PM on June 19