All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: July 24: BLOOD AND GUTS

July 24, 2024 4:44 PM - Season 5, Episode 43

I hope you have your Muta Scales properly calibrated. Tonight's the night when Team Elite -- the EVPs of the company and their favorite stooges -- take on Team AEW -- an alliance of two rappers, one suicidal punk, one redneck chicken and the AEW World Champion -- in a double-sized cage with no rules and a bunch of weapons. Before that, Britt Baker makes her return against newly-heelish Hikaru Shida, Chris Jericho defends his FTW championship against Crazy Japanese Murder Grandpa, and MJF and Mariah May will both make appearances to soak in the crowd's adoration.

The announced card for tonight:

Blood & Guts Match: Team AEW (Swerve Strickland, Mark Briscoe, Darby Allin, Max Caster & Anthony Bowens) vs. The Elite (Matthew Jackson, Nicholas Jackson, Kazuchika Okada, Jack Perry & Hangman Page)

FTW Championship Match: Chris Jericho (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki

Britt Baker vs. Hikaru Shida

The debut of “The Glamour” Mariah May

We’ll hear from MJF

...and that's it, that's literally everything announced. Which means either the main event is going to be a 60-minute classic or something sneaky is set to happen. (please Ricochet debut, please Ricochet debut, please...)

posted by The Pluto Gangsta (6 comments total)

MJF kicks off campaign season in high style by giving his new title the "Homelander" redesign.

Three of the classics of old-school wrestling promos:

-Heel throws a title into the trash
-Debuts a hokey new version of that title
-POINT AT SIGN
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:19 PM on July 24

Suzuki and Jericho chopped each other for nearly a quarter-hour until Chris' saggy pectoral was cut open and bleeding freely. Nothing but strong-style, two dudes chopping on each other under their hand bones grind to powder. I liked that after Jericho hit the Judas Effect, even though Suzuki didn't kick out, he moved his legs as though he really wanted to but couldn't manage the coordination. The return of Katsuyori Shibata is a nice consolation.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:36 PM on July 24

Hangman not even joining in the match until Swerve's out there was awesome.
posted by eternalhedgehog at 6:46 PM on July 24 [1 favorite]

He was absolutely single-minded and the Elite were fools for thinking otherwise. This match served so many plot points, even down to small things like Mark Briscoe finally hitting the J-Driller on his opponents after mostly being unable to do it since his brother passed, not to mention Darby and Jack Perry, Hangman/Okada, Swerve's previous staple-gun adventure vs. Hangman, etc.

I'm generally a Dave Meltzer stan, but if this doesn't get 6-out-of-5 stars at least then I question his sanity.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 7:28 PM on July 24

That coffin drop from the top of the cage, though.
posted by hanov3r at 1:03 PM on July 25 [1 favorite]

What I love the most about the coffin drop is that, after spider-climbing his way up the scaffold and over top of Perry, he actually disengaged one hand to flip Perry the bird before falling on him.

Darby's ability to hold a grudge is second only to Hangman, really.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 3:30 PM on July 25 [1 favorite]