{"id":164483,"date":"2023-08-24T13:34:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T18:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=164483"},"modified":"2023-08-24T13:34:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T18:34:40","slug":"aew-dynamite-hits-misses-8-23-mjf-jericho-ospreay-build-everybody-hates-christian-tone-deaf-transition-to-betting-sponsor-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/08\/24\/aew-dynamite-hits-misses-8-23-mjf-jericho-ospreay-build-everybody-hates-christian-tone-deaf-transition-to-betting-sponsor-plug\/","title":{"rendered":"AEW DYNAMITE HITS &#038; MISSES (8\/23): MJF, Jericho-Ospreay build, Everybody Hates Christian, Tone Deaf Transition to betting sponsor plug"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-736712735\" 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><h3>HITS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>MJF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whether he is referring to his &#8220;tight trunks,&#8221; &#8220;the Jewish public speaking version of Davey Boy,&#8221; or showing love to the &#8220;crooked teeth Brits&#8221; while promising Tony Khan is going to buy them beer, this guy is GOLD. He&#8217;s untouchable on the mic and never disappoints in big matches. Then he went from cracking up the audience to a serious go-home promo that may very well be the best of his career. He acknowledged the trust issues that all viewers have been pondering, while cementing a full babyface turn if Cole turns on him Sunday. Should Cole turn heel and win the title, you have a fantastic story where MJF seeks his revenge and chases the title as a big time babyface. That&#8217;s my hope for the story, but we&#8217;ll see. Either way, Max is killing it.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Cole&#8217;s interview, he says MJF &#8220;reminded him who the real Adam Cole is&#8230;&#8221; We may indeed find that out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FENIX VS. MOXLEY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stellar match. I&#8217;ve always thought Rey Fenix is a guy who deserves a singles push. Great back and forth battle with Jon Moxley here that got the crowd fired up. It&#8217;s a shame he won&#8217;t make it to London as he certainly deserves to perform in front of a crowd of that size. Solid post-match angle as well that saw the return of Santana and Ortiz. Santana looks huge! I hope he retains his quickness with the new bulk. Mission accomplished setting up the Stadium Stampede which I&#8217;m sure will be fun. Eddie Kingston continues to be a joy to watch as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JERICHO&#8217;S PROMO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You have to hand it to Chris Jericho. I&#8217;ve listened to and read all the opinions of pundits saying they aren&#8217;t excited by this match and it won&#8217;t be good. Yes, the build last week was confusing at times, but Jericho knows how to perform and that was a great go-home promo using real life situations to get fans excited for the match. It worked for me. I want to see it more now than I did yesterday and clearly that was the goal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EVERYBODY HATES CHRISTIAN<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-915939385\" 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>Those were some harsh words from Christian, but he knows how to get the job done and add stakes to a match. Obviously this was another match that needed to be altered, but I think they made it ten times better with what they did in this segment. I&#8217;m not sure of the reason behind A.R. Fox being written out of All In, but I feel bad that his push seems to be ending pretty quickly. They tried to save it a bit with Darby forgiving him, but it&#8217;s likely he&#8217;s headed back down the card. Meanwhile, this coffin match gets a big jolt with the addition of Christian and his personal attacks on Nick Wayne. There are stakes now that really weren&#8217;t built in before and that makes me much more excited to see it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROMOS, PROMOS, PROMOS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It could be argued the build to All-In should have started earlier, but the promos we got on this show all did a great job setting the stage for Sunday. The Young Bucks proved they should be doing more of this. They were solid as were FTR and it built some nice drama.<\/p>\n<p>Did I need a Trios title match on Sunday? Perhaps not, but am I now excited for &#8220;Bad Ass&#8221; Billy Gunn and The Acclaimed vs. The House of Black? Yep. Sure am!<\/p>\n<p>This show did not need the non-stop wrestling we usually see on Wednesday nights. It needed a final build to Sunday and they accomplished that in spades.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>MISSES<\/h3>\n<p><strong>FIND A GOOD PRODUCER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a TV Sports producer for nearly 30 years, but you don&#8217;t need to have experience putting shows together to know not to follow a &#8220;serious&#8221; injury angle with a dumb betting app promo. It does not take a lot of effort to move that promo to the next segment. They did a great job setting up the drama with Rey Fenix, then put a pin into a balloon and it&#8217;s right back to it being just a &#8220;show&#8221; with sponsored elements. Please do better.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my only &#8220;Miss.&#8221; I thought this show was great. Some decent matches, but more importantly a fantastic job of previewing Sunday. It should be a memorable weekend.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2225545733\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Finally, rest in peace to the legendary Terry Funk. It was a pleasure watching you work!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED NEXT:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/08\/23\/tony-khan-talks-about-length-of-elites-new-contracts-talks-about-young-bucks-and-kenny-omega-as-evps\/\">Tony Khan talks length of Elite\u2019s new contracts, Young Bucks and Kenny Omega as EVPs vs. Jericho &amp; Punk behind the scenes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>OR CHECK THIS OUT AT PROWRESTLING.NET:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2023\/08\/24\/powells-aew-dynamite-hit-list-mjf-and-adam-cole-aussie-open-vs-matt-hardy-and-jeff-hardy-for-the-roh-tag-titles-jon-moxley-vs-rey-fenix-will-ospreay-and-chris-jericho-contract-signing\/\">Powell\u2019s AEW Dynamite Hit List: MJF and Adam Cole, Aussie Open vs. Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy for the ROH Tag Titles, Jon Moxley vs. Rey Fenix, Will Ospreay and Chris Jericho contract signing<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-248927687\"><div id=\"pwtor-1915585374\"><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>HITS MJF Whether he is referring to his &#8220;tight trunks,&#8221; &#8220;the Jewish public speaking version of Davey Boy,&#8221; or showing love to the &#8220;crooked teeth Brits&#8221; while promising Tony Khan is going to buy them <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/08\/24\/aew-dynamite-hits-misses-8-23-mjf-jericho-ospreay-build-everybody-hates-christian-tone-deaf-transition-to-betting-sponsor-plug\/\" title=\"AEW DYNAMITE HITS &#038; MISSES (8\/23): MJF, Jericho-Ospreay build, Everybody Hates Christian, Tone Deaf Transition to betting sponsor plug\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164484,"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":[52,28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opnionandanalysis","category-specialists_hitsandmisses","category-specialists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-24-at-1.32.29-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164483","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=164483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164485,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164483\/revisions\/164485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}