AE Double Back - The AEW Dynamite Recap Show

Rating: 88% - Must Watch Taking a quick detour to talk about Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport 4! On the heels of Jon Moxley’s announcement that he’ll be at Bloodsport 5 (next week!), we prepared by watching the show to figure out just what it is … and were blown away! If you’re curious, it’s well worth your time!

Rating: 90% Must Watch There’s AT LEAST one PPV-level match in this thing, maybe more. You want mad, crosspromotional brawls? We got ‘em! You want a hard-hitting women’s match? Got that too! You want Marvez wandering golf courses begging for rides? IT’S ALL THERE. Follow us on Twitter @AEDoubleback and on Instagram @AE_Doubleback! Leave us a 5-Star Frogspla- er, review on iTunes and thanks for lis...

Rating: 77% - Worth Watching It's a 7-11 burrito, in the words of that great sage, Calder Holbrook. Hot start! Searing hot closer! Ice chunks in the center! Come get some of this wildly uneven, but still deliciously consumable two hours of wrestling!

Rating: 77% - Worth Watching Experience the agony of a Shaq promo! Thrill to the ecstasy of Rey Fenix throwing his body at other human beings like nobody told him wrestling’s fake! Question the efficacy of slicing the horns off a dinosaur mask! Reconsider the layout of your merch table before Team Taz finds you!

Rating: 85% - Must Watch Whether you’re looking to see an 8-year old cane a man 44 years his elder or to see a host of perennial Dark talent working on the main show or if you’re desperate to know if it’s physically possible to gouge a masked man’s eye out with the point of a cowboy boot - this week’s Dynamite has got you covered!

Rating: 85% - Must Watch This is what the kids* refer to as a “banger”. Great wrestling top to bottom; great comedy front to back. There was that one weird triple splash move from Kenny and the Good Brothers - which happened during the picture in picture that they felt like they had to repeat for some reason? - but not even that could stop this train from barreling its way towards success! Just li...

Rating: 84% - Must Watch The world is literally on fire … and so is AEW! Wow. That was definitely the worst sell job since Al Snow. If you do nothing else this week, month, or year, go watch the Omega/Fenix match. While you’re at it, you might as well watch the amazing segment that follows and, since you’re already sitting down, check out Shida/Abadon that comes right before it. And since you’ve a...

Rating: 100% - Must Watch Okay, look. Nobody wants a show like this to happen. We’d rather sit through ten years of absolute garbage than have a reason for a show like this (hell, this show started as a WWE Raw show, so we’ve *sat* through garbage and know whereof we speak). But this show was pretty much perfect, top to bottom. No notes. All you’ll find is a celebration of life, which is what wres...

Rating: 76% - Worth Watching Here’s hoping your holidays are bashful because it’s AEW’s holiday bash and you need something to take your mind off your loneliness! Shida’s looking better than ever! Chan’s marking out over Butcher’s pants and Theresa’s brain is being a real jerkass, if you ask us. Listen as NBA Twitter shatters everyone’s rose-colored glasses and listen for two, count ‘em, TWO rainb...

Rating: 79% - Worth Watching Put your mouth on the rope, you sexy hooligans! Tonight’s another banger! La Sicarria versus Swole and Deeb is lighting a fire under the women’s divisions ass while The Good, The Bad, and The Hungee are just lighting fires of AWESOMENESS everywhere they go! Between that and Team Taz, Eddie Kingston, and Thunder Rosa cutting promos that could level cities, you’ve got an...

Rating: 77% - Worth Watching How’s this episode only getting a 77%, but so darn entertaining to watch anyway? From front (Bucks v TH2) to back (MJF v Orange), this one’ll hit you with the weight of a thousand souls! Is it the extra “shit”? Who can say? Bonus points if you can spot where we had to edit out a three-year old in the background (there are many).

Rating: 98% - Must Watch Our highest rated episode ever! Who was the jerk who gave the lone middle thumb? You get three guesses! A diamond battle royal! An amazing match with Team Taz vs. Allin and Rhodes! And, of course, the surprise debut of [REDACTED]! Whaaaaaat? Who would've thunk it!

Rating: 77% - Worth Watching A lot of highs and lows this week - including one of what we’re now calling the AE Double Rainbow! That’s when there’s a thumb up, a thumb down, and a thumb in the middle. Y’know, like all the colors of the rainbow? And like that double rainbow viral vi- y’know what? You get it. Explaining it is already making it sound dumber. And explaining the explanation is making i...

Rating: 80% - Must Watch Oh, man - this one’s a doozy. Sorry and you’re welcome.

Rating: 64% Watch Segments What?! Is this the WORST episode of Dynamite that we’ve ever watched? It’s not a terrible episode, but it is eminently missable. High points include (according to Calder) Wardlow/Page, (according to Chan), Deeb/Hirsch, and (according to Theresa) Penta/Omega. Watch at your peril! Your spoooooooky peril!

Rating: 82% Must Watch When we say the show is a “must watch”, we mean it. But this week we REALLY REALLY mean it. If you’ve managed to avoid spoilers, continue to do so and watch at least the Jericho/MJF dinner. You may love it, you may hate it, but we guarantee, you will not have predicted it. Stick around after the episode because, due to Spectrum being THE WORST INTERNET ON THE PLANET, Theresa...

Rating: 75% Worth Watching What’s going on, AEW? Huh? Our money not good enough for you? Theresa unleashes about her experience - or non-experience - with AEW’s Heels thing. Also, all manner of sartorial atrocities are discussed including That Jacket (the best!) and That Helmet (the worst!) and the Inception of picture-in-picture commercials.

Rating: 81% Must Watch Look, Jericho could have got Obama and Trump to kiss on video and it STILL wouldn’t have been as mindblowing as the SNL closer. That’s just a fact.

Rating: 83% Must Watch Look, there are a lot of important and entertaining things that happened on this show, but if you take away nothing else, let it be this: if you pronounce it like that, nobody will think of your legacy as strong like cement. They’ll think of semen all over your legacy AND NOBODY WANTS THAT.

Rating: 92% Must Watch When Tony Khan ends up on the legends circuit hawking signed headshots for $25, hopefully he has the presence of mind to let people pay extra to throw money disdainfully at him like the Young Bucks after a superkick. That’s GOLD RIGHT THERE.

Rating: 86% Must Watch See? Look! There’s Matt Hardy! He’s totally fine! He didn’t have a concussion! That dizziness, vomiting, and passing out are totally normal things that people without concussions do!

Rating: 90% Must Watch Most of you probably won’t understand, but please just try it. Use “manvantage” in your daily life. It’s a wonderful word and it deserves greater recognition.

Rating: 90% Must Watch This episode has lawnmowers, sexy garbage, and the line “Big Andy plays guitar” - which is almost certainly a Jim Croce lyric. What more could you want?

Rating: 91% Must Watch Genghis Khan, Castro, Napoleon … and now, Brodie Lee. History’s greatest heels!

Rating: 78% Worth Watching Tag Team Appreciation Night, shockingly, ends with some tag teams not being adequately appreciated! The nerve! Also, if you’re not singing “Oh I’ve haaaad the time of my life!” after this, you’re dead inside.