AE Double Back - The AEW Dynamite Recap Show

Rating: 84% - Worth Watching A slow start for this one, but they pull it back from the brink! You wanna see Don Callis call the audience insects? You wanna see an MMA guy get what’s coming to him? You wanna see what the mean streets of Rancho Cucamonga produced? You wanna see the surprise debut of a huge name that we all thought was still under a 90-day non-compete clause? This is the show for you...

Rating: 89% - Worth Watching The new rating system in place and appears to be working as intended! For those who don’t know, we tally up everyones thumbs each episode and render them as a percentage of possible thumbs for the show. The old system was calibrated to WWE Raw, which was a more … inconsistent product. But because Dynamite is consistently good, we had to make it harder! So here’s how it...

Rating: 81% - Must Watch Is this a weird show? You be the judge! We’ve got our first double rainbow in a while (when all three hosts give a different thumb rating TWICE in an episode), so that’s weird. The Shiny Bun Boys (a moniker given by Theresa to her original WWE ship of Appollo Crews and Ricochet because of their glistening attire) might be back, and that’s weird. And we posit the existence...

Rating: 85% - Must Watch Alternate titles for this week’s episode: Jericho’s Owie Arm The Tire Fires - Hook and Sammy Guevara Ughbarfsnooze There Is a Brutality to Cheerleading Don’t forget this week’s Dynamite airs SATURDAY and is back to its regular Wednesday night slot four days later!

Rating: 84% - Must Watch This Friday night schedule is madness! Everything is out of whack, but we’re still here to give you what you need! Or at least what you want. Possibly what you’re only indifferent to, but can’t be bothered to find a better substitute. Hopefully, you’re not being forced to listen to this podcast at gunpoint, but we still appreciate the downloads regardless. There are some r...

Rating: 82% - Must Watch It’s Friday and our internal clocks are aaaaall messed up! The post PPV Dynamite brings the heat (mostly) including a big name castoff from WWE, a big win for a very middling feud, and 1,500 Big Macs. What more could you ask for?

We did what most people do once they've been vaccinated near the end of a pandemic: drive an hour out of town to watch the PPV at a plush Cinemark and do a podcast on the way back! This episode was recorded on the drive from Long Beach to Hollywood (then a stop-off at Fatburger, and another loop through WeHo and back up Sunset and Hollywood Blvd. because there was JUST TOO MUCH WRASSLIN to cover!)...

Rating: 83% - Must Watch It’s the go home show for Double or Nothing and we are crammed to the gills! World class competitors The Wingmen go up against some guy … Arby’s? Darpa? Whatevs. The Inner Circle preview Stadium Stampede to close the show and a whole heap of promos, run-ins, and the occasional Simpsons reference to keep it all fresh. Don’t forget, we’ll have a special On the Road podcast M...

Rating: 91% - Must Watch A brief moment of respite before the schedule goes all higgeldy-piggeldy. It’s the Dynamite before the Dynamite before Double or Nothing and many - though not all - the stops were pulled out. Despite being chock full of talking, this episode does not drag. Christian Cage puts in his best showing yet, Mox and Eddie versus The Acclaimed contains all the verbal fireworks you...

Rating: 82% - Must Watch Twin rays of sunshine Theresa Gumprecht and Calder Holbrook are joined by Chan the Grouch this week - but this still manages to be yet another Must Watch episode. We discuss one of the possible reasons why early on. Join us!

Rating: 95% - Must Watch How AEW can regularly put out PPV-quality shows on free(ish) television is beyond us, but here we are again. From top to bottom(ish), this is all killer no filler. Omega makes the most of every moment he’s on screen this week - and he’s on it a lot. The floor is positively LITTERED with great promos. Blood and Guts lives up to precedent set by the mighty War Games PPVs of...

Rating: 83% - Must Watch If your main knock against AEW is not enough time spent in limos, on Harleys, or atop buses, boy is this the show for you! Vehicles abound this episode and the high point is a killer Penta / Orange Cassidy match that’s worth the price of admission alone. You might want to pull up shopaew.com while you’re listening to this one since we refer to it often. republicoflucha.com...

Rating: 95% - Must Watch(ish) Hey, it’s our one year anniversary since starting AEW Dynamite! Which is crazy because it felt like we had been doing Raw for years before that, but it was only about six months - THAT’S HOW EXHAUSTING IT WAS. This year has flown by! That being said, this may have been the dullest 95% show allowed by our current understanding of the physical laws of the universe. Ever...

Rating: 86% FOUR women’s segments? What is this, Shimmer? No, it’s AEW Dynamite and we’re finally seeing the kind of great women’s action we know the promotion is capable of! Plus, you’ve got Death Triangle and Young Bucks in the front, Allin and Hardy leaping off tall objects in the back - what more could you want? Oh, you say you want Don Callis superkicking a civilian, The Butcher and The Blade...

Rating: 70% - Worth Watching Even when AEW is at its lowest (correction: when *one* host is at his surliest), it’s still a pretty good show. Despite Chan making fart noises about EVERYTHING, everyone else had a good time. Death Triangle! Best Friends! Inner Circle! Pinnacle! Dark Order! Team Taz! Hardy Family Office! A former professional boxer of some renown with a facial tattoo and questionable...

Rating: 86% A slow- sorry, a *methodical* start to the night, but by the time this show ends, it’s firing on all cylinders! Great stuff from all the brothers tonight - Lucha, Good, Jackson, Mario (probably)! Shocking returns! The Pixies! And most importantly, that damn Pepsi fridge gets what’s coming to it!

Rating: 84% - Must Watch As we approach a year of watching AEW and reflect back on the good times and the … gooder times, we’re just thankful to have something to do during this friggin’ quarantine and we’re so happy you’ve joined us. Thanks for being here and don’t forget to Thumb Your Heart.

At long last, the Simon Grimm interview! Simon Grimm - or occasionally Simon Gotch) is a twenty-year veteran of the biz. Formerly of the Vaudevillains in WWE, he is currently (as of the time we recorded this in early March) with MLW as well as Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport. Find him on Twitter https://twitter.com/deviousjourney on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gotchstylewwe/ and buy merch at&nbs...

Rating: 92% - Must Watch Another episode reaching the high water mark of this podcast - no show has broken 92%, but three have equaled it. This time, it’s due in great part to that AMAZING main event. It’s the first women’s main in Dynamite history and boy do Thunder Rosa and Britt Baker deliver! Absolutely a candidate for Match of the Year. Do you need more? Well, Cody and Penta will give you mor...

Rating: 85% Must Watch If hearing grown men fangirl over Eddie Kingston is your thing, then boy have we got a podcast for you! It’s the first post-PPV episode of TV and all sorts of money moves are getting made! Most are amazing! Some are headscratchers. Some have made us (read: Chan) deeply, deeply ambivalent. But which are which? Cop a squat and find out!

Rating: 88% - Must Watch Considering this PPV ran nearly four hours, a near-two hour podcast feels completely reasonable. However, if you’re looking for a slightly shorter recap, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! If, however, you wanna hear three goofballs completely dork out over an amazing pay-per-view, GET ON THIS ISH! Almost every single match is a unanimous thumbs up from us and this show delivers on alm...

Rating: 91% - Must Watch A hell of a go-home episode for the Revolution PPV this Sunday! Which is an even bigger accomplishment when you realize that there are at least TWO matches involving non-wrestlers that could have been an absolute disaster. We’ve got turkey tits! We’ve got loaded shoes! We’ve got Ricky Starks in slippers and Onita getting all misty over exploding rings! We’ve even got Johnn...

Rating: 85% - Must Watch Look - any show that starts with the Blue-Eyed Battler and Ends with The Supervisor of a Logging Camp can’t be anything less than Must See TV, right? As we approach the next AEW pay-per-view, Rev-OLD-lution (because of all the old people wrestling, you see? I GOT A DEGREE IN ENGLISH HOW DARE YOU MOCK MY WORDPLAY), there’s a lot to be wary of and a lot to be grateful for. N...

MMA and pro wrestling legend Josh Barnett sits down with the hosts of AE Double Back to talk about his promotion, Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport and their upcoming PPV, Bloodsport 5 - featuring AEW stalwart Jon Moxley. Josh is one of the smartest - and funniest - minds in the fight game and he shares his decades of love and experience with three goofballs who know next to nothing. Find out how har...

Rating: 85% - Must Watch You head will ASPLODE with the craziness this episode of Dynamite delivers! From the high-speed opening match to the bonkers intensity of the closer and the next-level madness of Omega picking a stipulation for his match with Mox - it’s out of control. Also, someone thought a gender reveal segment was a good idea. Eh, can’t win ‘em all. Eddie Kingston’s in top form. Kenny...