AE Double Back - The AEW Dynamite Recap Show

Rating: 95% - Must Watch This show is all that and a bag of chips.

Rating: 73% - Worth Watching So many tangents, but this podcast still clocks in at under an hour? That probably tells you something about this week’s Dynamite. Not much there; but even at its worst, it’s still the best wrestling on television.

Rating: 86% - Worth Watching Characters? We got ‘em! Finally! Now all we need is airtime for women and Black wrestlers!

Rating: 90% - Must Watch Wish Tony had swapped this episode with last week’s episode. It’s a much better starting point for new viewers. ANYHOO.

Rating: 79% - Worth Watching Full Gear! Because Half Gear doesn’t inspire confidence!

Big TK put out the call and you responded! Well, two of you did at any rate. When Tony Khan asked fans to bring in new people to try out Dynamite, we asked OUR fans and Dennis Kanenwisher did just that! We get his thoughts on this week’s Dynamite after not watching any wrestling for a couple of years. Did the show make sense? Did he like it? Will he watch the PPV? Listen to find out! Then we got a...

Rating: 94% - Must Watch Tony Khan called his shot. Did they knock it out of the park? Well, with a show that starts with Bryan Danielson and ends with A MIRROR UNIVERSE GOATEE, how could they not? Stay tuned for a bonus episode (hopefully before the PPV drops Saturday?) where we talk to a couple of guests about their thoughts on the show!

Rating: 88% - Worth Watching We won’t apologize for the length of this week’s show because we HAVE to talk about Rampage this past week. Holy hell, can you remember a better hour of televised wrestling? We can’t! Not only was it great - it made parts of Dynamite great! Plus talk about cinematic spiders - because if we ever stayed on topic, we’d probably die.

Rating: 95% - Must Watch Dynamite’s Halloween episode is glorious - just glorious. Stu’s Kratos! Silver’s Bambi! And clearly, as the funkiest member of the Elite, Adam Cole’s Winston!

Rating: 89% - Worth Watching Boy, these Friday/Saturday nights back to back are KILLING us! I honestly don’t *know* what it means that it’s Saturday night, JR! Does it mean Turner loves hockey more than you? Does it mean I’m gonna have to stay up all night to catch up on Rampage? Does it mean you’re live from New York with myooooosical guest Bel Biv Devoe? What? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?!

Rating: 85% - Worth Watching Is it weird to say an 85% rating feels low? There were so many AMAZING segments this week, it feels like we’re selling the show short. Come for Danielson/Fish, stay for cowboy shit and 40 year-old NYC metal scene references!

Rating: 83% - Worth Watching Look, if you bookend your show with an 8-man tag and an 8-man ladder match with all your best wrestlers, we’re gonna thumb it up. Sorry not sorry.

Rating: 87% - Worth Watching Okay, let’s just get this out of the way - most of the hosts are no fan of “Spanish Food” Sammy Guevara. And if you agree with us, this episode’s gonna be rough on you. We recommend pouring yourself a stiff one, settling in, and letting us guide you though it.

Rating: 92% - Must Watch Two Must Watches in a row - it’s almost like AEW knows what it’s doing or something! Bookended by two AMAZING matches and only barely flagging in between, this is a hell of an episode from Arthur Ashe!

Rating: 92% Must Watch Is this the first Must Watch of the new scoring system? A slew of short, fun promos made for a great rating this week, but it’s Cole/Kazarian and Martin and Sydal/FTR match that’s the true backbone of this episode. Also, they book our dream match for next Rampage, so there’s that. Thanks for listening!

Rating: 88% - Worth Watching So many mini-promos, so little time! AEW follows up its monster PPV with an exceedingly nimble show that bounces around like it forgot its ritalin. But that’s not a bad thing! Tons of face time for all sorts of people and enough solid in-ring work to make even the surliest cuss smile. Thanks for listening!

Rating: 89% - Worth Watching Well, the Monday Night Wars won’t TRULY be back until WWE gives us Fake Daniel Bryan and Fake CM Punk … but damnit, this is the next best thing. An absolute banger of a pay-per-view with not one, not two, but THREE major wrestler debuts to piggyback on the enormous get of Punk. Never gonna get tired of hearing those entrances…

Rating: 83% - Worth Watching It’s the 100th episode of Dynamite, we’re heading into a PPV, and coronavirus means the women get to be on the main card! A mixed blessing to be sure, but nevertheless, there’s fun to be had. Not a lot of in-ring action this week (comparatively), but it’s all top-notch. FTR/Santana and Ortiz! Orange Cassidy and Jack Evans! Powerhouse and Brian Cage! Penelope and Tay! A...

Rating: 76% - Worth Watching So much thickness in this episode along with enough long entrances to drive Theresa absolutely batty! From the giggly joys of a Dan Lambert promo to the epic sincerity of a CM Punk promo to an absolutely Vince McMahon-style fumbling of the ball when it comes to Malakai Black - this show has it all! Literally!

Rating: 85% - Worth Watching We’re covering the first Rampage AND the new Little Caesars Crazy Calzony and all on so little sleep that it’s a tiny miracle every time we manage to stay on topic. Enjoy!

Rating: 84% - Worth Watching A gimmicked apple?!

Rating: 89% - Worth Watching It’s been a hell of a week, y’all…

Rating: 83% - Worth Watching It’s Fight for the Fallen and we had an honest-to-goodness American-style deathmatch on TNT for the first time since … well, EVER! Couple that with two big deal NJPW faces, Thunder Rosa’s first Dynamite since signing with AEW, and KING HAKUUUUUUUU, it’s quite a sight to behold.

Rating: 79% - Worth Watching All they’d have to do was cut out three minutes of the show and it’d be a 90%+ Must Watch episode… *sigh* [thinks about what could have been] Of course, there’s still a hell of a lot to see on this second night of Fyter Fest - including one hell of a Texas Deathmatch between Mox and Lance Archer. Let’s thumb this bad boy!

Rating: 84% Worth Watching This podcast is cursed! Probably our fault for recording over an ancient mammoth burial ground. Technical troubles led to a VERY loose (but also pretty fun) episode. Opinions were VERY divided - and we have a rare double rainbow episode. But night one of Fyter Fest still had more great matches than you can shake a stick at - The IWGP US Championship is on the line! The F...