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AEW Dynamite - Your Thoughts (Patreon)

Published:
2026-10-22 03:00:08
Imported:
2026-10

Content

LUKE: The best ones will be read out on the WrestleTalk Podcast

Comments

Wahab Fares

Ohhhhhh what a croooooowdddddd! Ohhhh what a shooowwwwww! Ilja was awesome, and Davis and Doyle were so fucking cool. Glad Fletcher’s been positioned as Will’s next opponent. His reign desperately needs a classic heel feud rather than the whole “respect” angle we’d probably get with Cope. Surprised Blood & Guts is the good guys vs. the DCF instead of the Dogs vs. the Death Riders. Especially after that angle, which felt like the perfect setup for it. Quite depressing that PAC was probably planned to be involved in this turn. Excellent show.

Luther Black

Here’s one for Oli, because Ilja’s debut match happened entirely in the overrun, youtube tv opted not to record it for me. I got home from work super late and was thoroughly enjoying dynamite and was really excited to watch him. I thought the way they were building to it the whole time really made him feel like a big deal and I was so excited... but alas, sometimes you’re the hammer, sometimes you’re the nail, and sometimes you’re a nail in a wrestler’s gimmicked 2x4. Wouldn’t have been a problem inside of two hours. Still a very good show, hope the match was every bit as awesome as it should be and that everyone enjoyed it

Zach

A chaotic but good Dynamite episode (I'm sure Oli will complain about the 27 minute over run). Aminata is absolutely the right choice for Persephone and I can't tell you how shocked I was seeing the Bucks get squashed in the opener, but it makes sense storyline wise they'd be beat up after their Wrestledream match with Fletcher and Knight. There was only one bit that left me scratching my head: why did the Bang Bang Gang join up with the Dogs? Weren't they just feuding a few months ago? Don't get me wrong, I think they have a better edge as heels than as babyfaces but it left me wondering why would they join with the Dogs? But man, what a debut for Ilja: give credit to both guys as they beat the piss out of each other but Ilja has such an aura about him in the ring, I'm excited and slightly hopeful they'll do right by him in the months to come

Chris deaton

Kyle Fletcher should main event and win the world title at All In next year and is one of the best sellers in the business today. Also glad they gave Ilja and Bailey the main event spot. That match was awesome

Wheels

I think we’ve found a new story! They made the Bang Bang Gang look strong while making sure The Death Riders didn’t lose anything. Also I know that Mercedes is probably going to win but I wouldn’t mind seeing Marina get a short run maybe similar to Darby’s championship run. Mox and The Death Riders continue to be my favorite thing in all of wrestling.

Sam Sullivan

AEW managed to do about 10 heel/face turns in a single segment and have it mostly make complete sense. Slightly worried that the Bang Bang Gang/Dogs angle will descend into shallow Bullet Club Lore but very excited to see where this goes

Victor Oceguera

So awesome to see Stephen Borden back but man Luke said the United Empire don’t really feel like a faction and when will was getting beat up it did not help change that opinion 😭

John

Excellent show. Great debut match from Ilja. A little disappointed by the setup for the women's Blood and Guts match, but otherwise awesome. Some good story setup too. Thumbs up all around from me.

Will B

Loved Ilja's debut, Speedball was a great choice, really let Dragunov show up from the go.

Seth Colegrove

I am actually excited about Bullet Club Light, I'm sure I'll be disappointed, but I am actually hopeful about a David Finlay direction. I give it two weeks. Heels were dominant all over this show, starting with that awesome beatdown Davis and Doyle put on the Bucks. But the highlight was a great Dragunov/Speedball match, that was in fact awesome.

Mark Robertson

Who knew Dynamite would be more of a raw after mania show than an actual raw after Mania show! The opening squash of the bucks laid the foundations for a fascinating show. The first 40 mins opened up so many future matches and a frantic pace set the tone. Potentially moving cope away from the title picture and into a feud with Okada if I picked up on that right?. Loved the main event and was hooked throughout. I don’t know wether to be intrigued or perplexed by the bang bang gang and dogs union, no idea how they will get that into a coherent storyline after their recent history. Overall loved it but still some tweaks required to make it flawless and more attention on women’s division as I smell blood and guts coming for the ladies also. Jam that jam and congrats again to Luke for the second bambino

TheTC

I think with The Dogs and Bang Bang Gang, it could be to elevate The Death Riders to true babyfaces, by turning a very over babyface team in he Bang Bang Gang. Also, as a Bullet Club War Dogs fan, I am glad they are finall getting their killer edge back, and by doing up wirh former Bullet Club running mates seems like a good way to go. Here's hoping it works out 🙏🏽

Levi Havens

I feel like Ilja is one of those guys that doesn't know wrestling not supposed to actually hit each other and I love it

Don

Decent episode of dynamite. Feels like wrestledream became wrestle nightmare tonight for the faces. Definitely wasn't expecting the bang bang gang to turn heel with the other bullet clubs. Happy that Marina is FINALLY getting a title shot after being the star of the Death Riders. Also, great first match for Ilja. Speedball might have won the All Valley Karate Tournament tonight, but Ilja got the pinfall. Hopefully he doesn't get put into a feud with Ciampa anytime in the near future. Still have a bad taste over the whole Jackass feud

Morgan Hill

Some really fun chaotic energy to this episode and a hell of a main event, they could've gotten away with a bit of a squash and people would've been perfectly happy but I'm glad they went with a more even affair.

Lily Petal

ILYA! ILYA! ILYA! See HHH, see how simple it is. Point Ilya at a ring, give him a great opponent, and give them some time and BAM! Banger! How did you f*ck that up???

Lawson Douvier

I just want to see Ilja vs Samoa Joe. And Kyle Fletcher. Maybe even at the same time.

Brendy

I felt like the first part of this Dynamite had a real chaotic sizzle to it, with a sense of urgency to it, while the second part felt more restrained, but both halves were good. I will say though, Will Ospreay having a stable seems pointless if they aren't in blood and guts with him

TheTC

A philosophy I have tried to hold since 2019 is to trust the process with AEW. Even as times became consistently uncertain. But I think one of AEW's biggest strength is recognizing the pattern, bringing it back on track and going beyond the quality in the ring. This show created so many threads on all fronts that can feed things for months to come. I feel like it makes the excitement from a phenomenal show that much better. Has anyone else felt like this with AEW over the years?

Jake McCoombes

BULLET CLUB IS FOR LIFE. Heel BBG, Heel swichblade, babyface deathriders, Marina is a viable contender for mecedes, bucks squashed making sense and beautiful main event graps. Can't wait for B&G

Shae

Bucks getting squashed was the perfect choice. However, the tag/ tnt/ international and world champs are all working the blood and guts match?? While the BangBang Gang still have the best stable/faction entrance today & now with the dogs they all few like credible threats. This wouldve made more sense for the blood and guts match. Watching Claudio take a 5min beating and got up each time. While everyone else got hit once and was down for 10 lol Dammit I love watching Ilja wrestle! Strong 3.5/5 show just felt kind of like a random show still great in ring action.

Jared McCullough

Outside of the tribute shows, this was probably the best Dynamite since the build to All In. The highlights for me were the Dragunov vs. Speedball match and the "I Can't Believe It's Not Bullet Club" clusterfuck. C2 season is gonna be awesome!

RUSTAGE

Love the show! Stories are starting to dribble in and hope it keeps my intrigue moving forwards! On top of the great matches! I LOVE the young bucks squash angle, the neo-bullet club heel turn, Nick Wayne, and of course the outstanding showing from dragunov. To add Marina vs Mercedes is both a no brainer but also a wonderful surprise!

Oisin

This episode of dynamite was every bit as crazy as it was fun. Not only did it succeed in following up what was a good wrestle dream show, it also mapped out full gear in a number of interesting ways, some of which I will admit I did not see coming. It was nice to see that the trigger isn't being pulled on Ospreay vs Cope right away, and in the main event, as predicted, we got an exhibition that Ilja Dragunov is going fit right in AEW stylistically

RosieVera

Great show. Really loved the dynamic in that Swerve and Hangman segment. Hangman is trying to be mature and just move on before his new friends get dragged into this toxicity. It’s Swerve that won’t let go of the past now. He’s definitely going to do something heinous to get that Deathmatch Also for your consideration: Comedy segment where Swerve leads the New Level into thinking that a Texas Death Match is no different than any standard no DQ match, agree to the stipulation and then look up clips of Swerve vs Hangman’s one and slowly realize what they have signed up for

Vectron44

What's going on?! The world champion interacted interestingly with the enemy stable without just wiping them all out- oh, my mistake this isn't Raw, don't worry. :P In all seriousness, I think we are gearing towards a Heel New Level defending the Tag Team Championships against Swerve and Hangman at All in.

Brandon

I know I complain about overruns a lot but I should state here, this applies for everything except Ilja matches. he can wrestle as long as he wants in the main event of a show and the overrun will be justified because its Ilja

Andrew M.

I honestly don't know if anyone has had a better debut in ring than Ilja.

Ripper3112

Oh no im fully in love with the Don Callis Family kinda hope to see them win at Blood and Guts. Ilja vs Speedball was a whole meal in offering, but turned into a full banquet cause we ate good watching that. I love both of their styles immensely, and as much as I love speedball the complete dwarfing of his crowd chants did get a chuckle out of me.

Hunter Harrison

This felt like the show that everyone has been waiting on for awhile. Great pacing with some surprise finishes, progressed a lot of different stories with fresh and exciting matchups moving forward. Ilja looked like a standout and could easily be positioned as a main eventer in aew. Loved the bullet club reunion but can’t help but wonder if PAC would have been the catalyst of this turn had the worst not happened. Overall a terrific show!

Marlo Ramirez

Had a random thought, do you guys think the Clockwork Carnage was originally planned for Full Gear? With the loss of Pac they may have decided to move it up. Because the graphics used for the match were themed after gears. And after last night's dynamite heavy focus on blood & guts might make it hard to build stories for Full Gear.

Lucien Grey

A friend of mine recently got into wrestling (going to the OVW 1400 episode) and so I showed them Dynamite. They latched onto a few wrestlers as their favorites, Fletcher and Mike Bailey to name a few. One of their favorite groups was the Bang Bang Gang, which they were happy to have seen live. This episode was devastating for them as it was their first live major heel turn. They had quite the crash out on our Discord call while it was happening.

Blu3H3art

Definitely felt like we are getting to the firework factory with this one. Setting up blood and guts and turning the bang bang gang heel? That would be awesome… if it were done at the same time, I don’t know but making the blood and guts match the “buncha lads” baby face team vs the Don callis family when you had death riders vs bang bang gang doesn’t really make sense to me. But the thing that intrigues me most is how are they gonna do a trios Texas death? Is it like blood and guts where if one person quits the entire team quits? I guess they’ll explain it to us and “it’ll be quite simple really”

Pogo is here

I'm shocked it has taken this long to do this story of bang bang gang vs death riders jon injured jay white in kayfabe and took him out for over a year. This might be cos i love Jay white but he should win whatever title mox has. Side note the idea of ilja vs rush popped into my head and i think that might be the first wrestling match i am scared of happening. Might be to intense and too stiff.

Harry Burke

Being a predominantly WWE Main Roster sufferer for the past however many years, I have been unfamiliar with Ilja Dragunov's runs in the Indies and on NXT. That said, my YouTube recommended recently has been full of video essays, recaps and highlights packages of his older work, especially his run in Progress. It has really changed my view on him from "yeah he's alright" to "he's f'ing sick". Really enjoyed his match on this show and can't wait to see more of him and fingers crossed he gets better creative than he got in WWE. PS - if I had a podcast that gave media recommendations, I'd be saying go and check out Progress Wrestlings 2-and-a-half hour video covering the Ilja Vs Noir feud. As I say, I was unfamiliar with it until recently, but man I wish I was watching that at the time. It looks awesome.

KFizzle4

Watching that main event, I came to the conclusion that I need to do more squats to get legs that look as good as Ilja's.

Real One's GEORGIE TUFFS

I watched man utd get a shock beating by como last night, the look on the fans face was the same as everyone watching the bucks getting beaten. What a shock but In the most brilliant pro wrestling/real life way.

Jimic

Ilja Dragunov, is quite simply, wunderbar!

Ben Debrick

Wtf was the first 30 minutes of dynamite. First a squash match of the tag champs, then a great tag match setting up blood and guts (werid way to set it up with okcada coming out and just posing in front of edge) then another squash match which lasted 10 secounds. feels like im watching wwe 2001. love the pod guys

Cristian Ponce

Was this the empire strikes back of aew that was promised to me 1000 all outs ago

Dean Brereton

While I did enjoy this, I feel AEW and WWE have a persistent problem in capitalising on a big baby face win (Ospreay / Page / Cody). Feels like both companies can do the chase very well however, when it comes to making someones title run have the same meaning they either don't have them against the right challenges or lose interest. Know its early days with Will, so hopefully I am wrong.

Caine Graham

Just for Luke can we start calling Davis and Doyle “D&D”, good pop for Darby handing Sting jr the bat. Holy shit does he look like his dad

Dante Peoples

AMAZING SHOW! AEW booking was cooking tonight with kitchen grease! Doyle/Zilla that is all. Drama, plot, betrayal, future booking for months to come! Definitely looking to see Bang Bang Gang rival Death Riders. I want Switch Blade to dethrone Mox! Honestly, I rather see Fletcher and Osprey...now that is fantasy booking and better than Osprey vs Andrade.

Reece Hatfield

Good wrestling and angles?! Oh my! In all seriousness this was a stellar episode of Dynamite, finally got some storylines and progression that we've all been clamouring for. Ilja looks like an animal, but my favourite bit of the show was once again,hangman and swerve. If they actually put Kofi in a Texas death match I'll be blown away!

Brandon

Great main event. Ilja and Bailey was a lot of fun to watch. The Dogs teaming with the Bang Bang Gang is a little weird, but it kind of makes sense as Jay White felt disrespected after a Continental qualifier a few months back. I thought the foreshadowing was good though, after the Cassidy and White win there was a little hint with the camera angle that Jay was going to turn on Orange. Also Kyle and Will for the title is going to be good with their history together. Other than those, the build to Blood and Guts seemed a bit quick imo. Maria going after Mone's title made me go "bout time she went after a title"

Kevin Fleuriot

I don't know if you're still in touch with Will, but can you send him a message to PLEASE GET SOME REST ? What do you mean he's doing Blood and Guts right after doing New Japan ?

Brent

This Dynamite really took some chances tonight. You got the Young Bucks basically getting jobbed to Davis and Doyle. Then the Bang Bang Gang turned heel and join the Dogs who kicked out Gabe Kidd. Also Marina going to challenge Mone for the women's title which something that people didn't want to see for a long time but now, the people desired it. Finally having Ilja and Speedball as the main event and closed the show. It's an excellent Dynamite overall.

Morgan Leggett

What a show! There's so much to talk about from the second match alone! I love that Cope approaching the end of his career seemingly willing to put everyone over, he's eaten so many pin this week. Ospreay always sells like death but the way he sells for Kyle is always that bit extra. I love the detail of Matt Jackson not making the save after the opening angle and Steven Borden in Blood and Guts scratches an itch in my brain I didn't know I had. Not what I expected but looking forward to it. Also, Okada vs Cope in the Tokyo Dome?

DerBilz99

I am happy we are back to telling storirs

Pogo is here

nah Gear in full gear is like ring gear like what you have on

Danielle rios

Here to see the guys reaction to Nick Wayne’s walk down to the ring. Discuss.

Misha Sumra

Ilja can make a Fist Drop look like a legitimate finisher, and that's SCARY Give him the National Championship and push Andrade into the World Title picture

Oliver Hayhoe

I genuinely think the Death Riders are my favourite thing in wrestling now. Couldn’t even imagine saying that 18 months ago but every time they’re on screen, even in a bang average tag match like tonight, I’m hooked emotionally. Great Dynamite overall, Mox/Strong was as good as you’d expect those two names to deliver and the Dragunov debut was a thing of beauty.

Dev King

I have only one thing to say, the Claudio counter to the 3:10 to yuma was an absolute thing of beauty

Rob James

Taz was not wearing sunglasses. I don't know why but it really threw me. Other than that, fantastic show, and thinking of all the heavy hitting talent on the show I can't wait for this year's C2. Interesting move joining the dogs and bbg together but the beat down was so well done I was sold on it. Also Queen Aminata needs a title or big program ASAP she is so awesome

brolly

rubbish show for gymnastics, will ospreay fall down get back up fall down get back up fall down get back up fall down get back up bruv I can see flavours and taste colours bruv I can't feel me arms bruv

Danielle rios

Nick Wayne’s ultra stylized walk to the ring was giving Ric Flair meets cabaret revival. It was only missing Fosse hands.

Dash Maverick

I was there live, and I don’t know if it came out on TV but here’s something unique that only happens at a Miami show: During the Speedball/Dragunov match the audience started chanting “Pata Sucia” (pronounced Pah-tah Soo-si-ah) at Mike Bailey. This is a Western-Spanish slang term which is sometimes derogatory and sometimes endearing, as a lot of our phrases and nicknames are. It roughly translates to “dirty feet”. When endearing it just makes reference to SB not wearing shoes. Derogatorily, it’s a reference to someone of “low class” who walks around the streets barefoot. Love WT, love you guys. On my drives to work, it’s like listening to my friends talk about wrestling and movies, and brings me loads of joy to start and end my day. And congrats to Luke and his partner on the upcoming addition to their faction.

Johnny Stemple

I don't want this Nick Wayne and Jericho fued to continue but I have to say I'm getting a real kick out Nick Wayne. I'm just worried that now that he has the crowd reacting to him they will focus what Jericho is doing next and throw Wayne back down to ROH when I feel like he could be a very entertaining midcard chicken shit heel

Brent

I love how Hangman didn't accept Texas Death Match because he knows that he doesn't want Brodido to suffer like that. So I think there will be a Texas Deathmatch at Full Gear but it will be either for the Trios belts or Swerve vs Hangman one on one. It all depends on the New Level's reaction to Swerve nearly killing Mylon Reed on the upcoming Collision. If the New Level don't mind, then the New Level are full heels but if they do mind, they probably do their own thing.

Marlo Ramirez

I know that is the origin of the name, but logo has had gears in the logo and match graphic since the beginning. It could be a coincidence, but don't its to far fetched to think it was the original plan.

Marlo Ramirez

I just looked back at the clockwork match to see there wasn't any gears in the graphics for the match. I think I must have mistaken with the Clockwork match they did at the Eve show, which does have gears on the graphics. So I guess disregard my post, my bad.