AE Double Back - The AEW Dynamite Recap Show

Rating: 85% Too many options to pick from for episode titles this week because Jericho dropped bomb after gloriously snarky bomb like the DEMO GOD he is! The Orange/Jericho debate was wonderful, yes - but so was the MJF campaign segment! And Samy and Hardy! And *two* Dark Order matches and we haven’t even made it to the transcendent massacre that was Mox vs. Darby Allin! Wall-to-wall entertainment...

It's mayhem over there in Daily's Place! We've got styrofoam chests everywhere! There are skateboards with tacks! And ... is that ... CAT PEE, TONY! The Dark Order's running wild, brother! And so is MJF, whose pipe bomb promo is really more like one of those $49.99 packs of fireworks you get from that church stand on the corner? Not a lot of damage, but a delight to watch nonetheless. What more co...

Rating: 83% - Must Watch THUMBTACKS! That’s a hell of a way to start a show and it’s not even the grossest part (Jericho’s been wearing that OJ-soaked jacket all week?!). MJF, the Inner Circle, Diamante vs. Ivelisse are all big standouts this week. One segment even got the rare spectrum vote - where one person votes thumbs up, one in the middle, and one down. Which is it? And why does it involve c...

Rating: 79% - Worth Watching Fight For the Fallen is here, but I tell you what, I feel like I'm fallin' for the fightin'! [adjusts tie] [muffled cough from the otherwise silent audience] Aaaaanyway, there's tons of great stuff this episode - Sonny busts out so many splits, Cody must've thought he was in a Baskin-Robbins; FTR has car trouble; Ny- excuse me! - Nyl- EXCUSE ME! - Nyla rose gets the pe...

Rating: 60% - Watch Segments Wow - disappointments galore! A COVID-depleted roster makes for a very bumpy second night of Fyter Fest. Still though, some fun segments - Taz gives us a little nostalgia fun, the 8-man tag offers all the flippy flippies you could ask for, Darby Allin takes a dive, and of course, Orange Cassidy and Jericho is everything you hoped it would be. Pop a squat and let’s disc...

Rating: 71% - Worth Watching It’s night one of Fyter Fest and … well … it’s okay? I guess? Jericho’s on commentary with his Canada Day blazer alone is worth the price of admission AND three whole s-words; the rest is fine, but not particularly memorable. Even though it's the lowest we've yet rated an AEW Dynamite, it's still pretty good. Let’s get into it!

Rating: 82% - Must Watch It’s the go home show and we’ve got brawls! We’ve got grand theft auto! We’ve got hastily scrabbled together matches brought on by COVID and #SpeakingOut! And we’ve got an Orange going H.A.M. on a ham! Who could ask for anything more?

Rating: 83% - Must Watch You are not ready for Abadon, y’all - let’s just get that out of the way first. But hopefully you’re ready for some MJF versus Billy (not Gunn!), the surprise return of Big Swole, and Absolute Ricky Starks of NWA fame taking on Cody!

Rating: 85% - Must Watch Oh the zebras are out tonight, my children! Thrill as Matt Hardy becomes Damascus before your very eyes! Quiver as Colt Cabana makes a perilous decision! Guffaw and Chris Jericho’s perfect color commentary! This one has it all, kids!

Rating: 83% - Must Watch It’s all dragon punches and cabbage rolls and hands in your non-existent pockets and one shit and hour up here in Daily’s Place! You want blood? We got that! You want Britt Baker rehabbing in slo-mo to inspirational elevator music? We got that! You need an inexplicably detailed recap of the show more than halfway through? We, uh … we have that, I guess? For some reason?

Rating: 89% Fallout from AEW Double or Nothing! Turns out, it was double and not nothing! The Rev- er, the team formerly known as the Revival and currently known as FTR debut! A battle royale - as Theresa insists on calling it - to determine who faces Cody next wee for the TV titl- er, the TNT Championship! And a pep rally gets ruined by Scary Santa!

Rating: 87% Mox versus Ten! X? Hashmark hashmark hashmark hashmark slash hashmark hashmark hashmark hashmark slash? Arn and Jake mean girl each other! Will Shawn Spears murder Colin Jost and wear his skin? Possibly! (probably) And the Inner Circle try to get a jump on the Stadium Stampede, but the cavalry’s here!

Rating: 91% - Must Watch A mediocre main event can’t keep down this episode just chock fulla bangers! Pineapple Pete! Five women and a kendo stick! MJF overcoming massive obstacles to eke out a (squash) win! The death of a beloved (inanimate) icon and the birth of a new one. This show has got it all!

Rating: 79% - Worth Watching You can either power ahead with your shows pretending that nothing’s changed and look like idiots … or you can embrace change and get Lou goddamn Ferrigno to make you look like a million bucks. Guess which path All Elite went with?

Rating: 83% - Must Watch Welcome long-time AEW fans and newly converted WWE fans! This podcast was once a show about Raw - and now we’re experiencing AEW Dynamite for the first time! We are Robert Clarke-Chan, Calder Holbrook, and Theresa Gumprecht - three Los Angeles comedians trying to social distance while still enjoying fine sports entertainment. We give every match a thumbs up, thumbs down, o...

Rating: 82% - Must Watch We’re still in the afterglow of Wrestlemania, which means another must watch episode! Calder is out this week, so we’ve got the kick-ass Erika Curry filling in. Who will qualify for the Moneybags match? What’s the Moneybags match? Listen to find out!

Rating: 93% - Must Watch We're back! Corona tried to kick our ass - and managed to derail us for a couple weeks - but we made it! It’s the night after Wrestlemania - and we’ve got a flash recap of both nights to kick things off (spoiler: it’s Worth Watching)! Then it’s off to the races for the best Raw we’ve seen since this podcast started! Despite all the weirdness (and there’s PLENTY of weirdnes...

Rating: 79% - Worth Watching Well, this is a weird one all around! Theresa, Chan, and Calder are all recording from their respective homes to do their part to "flatten the curve", while Raw is doing the same by replaying the nearly two-hour Royal Rumble match in its entirety! Reruns aside, there's a lot of top notch stuff here including, obviously, Stone Cold looking like he's having more fun than...

Rating: 76% - Worth Watching A weird, but watchable episode of Raw this week as we build to a possibly canceled Wrestlemania? There’s a brief moment where it looks like maybe we could get a forty minute Aleister vs. Rollins match (since Seth used to be Tyler Black on the indies … is this Black on Black violence?), but alas, we are robbed. Edge is on fire, as is Becky, AJ, and much of the women’s d...

Rating: 65% - Skip Around Lesnar and McIntyre is a hell of a start to the show. It’s immediately followed by Street Profits vs. Murphy and Rollins. Kairi vs. Shayna is fantastic, as is Carrllo/Mysterio vs. Garza/Andrade. A case can be made for Aleister Black vs. The OC, but watch anything else at your own risk. The Riott Squad match is a mess, Ricochet getting buried is a heartbreaker, and Orton R...

Rating: 83% - Must Watch All killer, no filler! Even the bad stuff - the opening segment with Randy Orton, a match between Aleister Black and Erick Rowan, and a singles bout with Dawkins and Murphy - are just mediocre. And that’s great!

Rating: 55% - Skip Entirely Aside from the amazing run in from Shayna Baszler on an already fine Becky Lynch/Asuka match, this episode is a disaster. Angel Garza vs. Cedric Alexander is also good stuff, but two matches is definitely not worth three hours of your time.

This is the hour-long Raw recap for February 3, 2020. Our rating is a 51% - Skip This Episode.  HOWEVER, two segments stand out that are really worth watching. Humberto Carillo / Angel Garza / Rey Mysterio is fantastic, as is Asuka / Natalya / Becky Lynch. If you've got a moment, check them out. Angel Garza gets a really decent call-up from NXT and the Kabuki Warriors are never *not* entertai...

Rating: 44% - Skip Entirely NXT UK staples “Flash” Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews have a good showing against the Viking Warriors (it’s the only match that gets thumbs up from all three hosts) and the Kabuki Warriors vs. Becky and Charlotte are fine, but otherwise … yeesh. Watch three episodes of Law and Order. What’s your flavor? SVU? CI? Original? Guaranteed, that conversation would be more int...

This week's rating: 78% - Worth Watching! Find us @WWrEcap on Twitter!