{"id":129287,"date":"2021-10-29T10:31:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/recovery\/?p=129287"},"modified":"2021-12-05T20:52:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T02:52:52","slug":"heydorns-dynamite-receipt-10-27-halloween-main-event-funny-but-out-of-touch-with-serious-adam-page-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/29\/heydorns-dynamite-receipt-10-27-halloween-main-event-funny-but-out-of-touch-with-serious-adam-page-story\/","title":{"rendered":"HEYDORN&#8217;S DYNAMITE RECEIPT 10\/27: Halloween main event funny, but out of touch with serious Adam Page story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2031423354\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>This week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/27\/10-27-aew-dynamite-tv-results-sages-alt-perspective-report-on-cm-punk-vs-bobby-fish-jon-moxley-vs-10-serena-deeb-vs-hikaru-shida-more\/\">episode of AEW Dynamite<\/a> has wrapped. Let\u2019s take a stroll down memory lane and relive some of the madness.<\/p>\n<p>-C.M. Punk appears to be getting his groove back. Timing, crispness, and flow in the ring were noticeably stronger against Bobby Fish. This is significant as major matches with Kenny Omega, Cody, Adam Page, Jon Moxley, and others loom large.<\/p>\n<p>-Bobby Fish going into business for himself with the kick out at three and a quarter just doesn\u2019t pass the logic test for me. Surely he isn\u2019t that out of touch with reality, right? More than likely, he went to sleep for a bit thanks to Punk\u2019s finish. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>-The MJF squash match was accompanied by perfect announcing. In alerting the audience that it was a struggle to get him in the ring and that it was \u201cone of his quarterly appearances,\u201d MJF came across as an arrogant star heel that does what he wants and isn\u2019t dictated to by the company. Perception is reality and MJF looks like a bigger star every time out.<\/p>\n<p>-Sammy Guevara vs. Ethan Page was really good. Exciting all the way through with both guys seemingly looking to steal the show. When Guevara\u2019s babyface character catches up with his babyface in-ring work, look out.<\/p>\n<p>-Eddie Kingston is the master of saying only what needs to be said in his promos. Cody, take a few notes. Bryan Danielson paused just long enough to let the limited words linger with the audience and then put them over in his reaction to them. Wrestling. Does. Not. Have. To. Be. Difficult. This was simple, but incredibly effective in building their match for Friday night on Rampage.<\/p>\n<p>-Serena Deeb won\u2019t get the credit she deserves for being a core anchor of the AEW Women\u2019s Division. She doesn\u2019t have bad matches. Shida won, but Deeb continues to be a force. She won\u2019t be the woman AEW builds around, but in the end, her fingerprints will be on a lot of the stars of that division.<\/p>\n<p>-The Jon Moxley heel turn is afoot. Because he\u2019s so likable, AEW will need to make sure he continues this journey of destruction opposite sympathetic babyfaces, so as to emphasize his newly minted dark nature. Danielson vs. Moxley is a logical endpoint for Full Gear and Moxley vs. Adam Page for the championship works well also.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2098178099\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>-Cody, Cody, Cody. Shhhhhh. You\u2019re doing too much. There was a lot being flung around in his promo Wednesday night, but two things stuck out like sore thumbs. One, Cody is turning heel. He may not like it and he may actively be attempting to pivot the audience with wild soliloquies like what we heard from him this week, but going meta and telling a booing crowd \u201cI\u2019m never going to turn,\u201d only generates more boos. That booing audience isn\u2019t of the mindset to say, \u201coh, you\u2019re not? Well, I\u2019ll be damned. Oh well, back to cheering.\u201d Cody has to be self-aware enough to recognize that what he\u2019s doing only leads down one path. Which brings me to point number two. I\u2019m not sure he is self-aware enough and that\u2019s a problem. The art of wrestling is rooted in engaging back and forth with your audience to manipulate their emotions. Lacking self-awareness hurts a wrestler\u2019s ability to paint their pictures in the most effective way possible. So, it\u2019s simple. Either Cody is or isn\u2019t accepting what\u2019s going on and the results will either be very strong for him or continue to set him back as a central star inside the bank that he built.<\/p>\n<p>-Sorry to spoil all the fun. Look, there\u2019s nothing wrong with a Halloween themed main event during Halloween week &#8212; nothing at all. You don\u2019t do it with your world championship program though and you don\u2019t do it coming out of the single best mission defining babyface promo in company history either. Did I chuckle? Sure. Was it fun? Sure. AEW has more at stake than just chuckling fun. They are on the cusp of crowning their first homegrown, babyface champion and segments like this drag down the seriousness and importance of that endeavor.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/27\/10-27-aew-dynamite-tv-results-kellers-detailed-report-and-analysis-of-punks-debut-on-dynamite-against-fish-shida-vs-deeb-in-tbs-tournament-guevara-vs-ethan-for-tnt-title\/\">10\/27 AEW DYNAMITE TV RESULTS: Keller\u2019s detailed report and analysis of Punk\u2019s debut on Dynamite against Fish, Shida vs. Deeb in TBS Tournament, Guevara vs. Ethan for TNT Title<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3035561648\"><div id=\"pwtor-1311502096\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This week\u2019s episode of AEW Dynamite has wrapped. Let\u2019s take a stroll down memory lane and relive some of the madness. -C.M. Punk appears to be getting his groove back. Timing, crispness, and flow in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/29\/heydorns-dynamite-receipt-10-27-halloween-main-event-funny-but-out-of-touch-with-serious-adam-page-story\/\" title=\"HEYDORN&#8217;S DYNAMITE RECEIPT 10\/27: Halloween main event funny, but out of touch with serious Adam Page story\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,6454,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opnionandanalysis","category-heydorns-take","category-opinion_stafftakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-13-at-12.50.46-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129289,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129287\/revisions\/129289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}