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All Elite Wrestling adopted up an explosive first evening of its 2020 Fyter Fest extravaganza with a second, headlined by “Le Champion” Chris Jericho battling “Freshly Squeezed” Orange Cassidy in a grand-anticipated major occasion.
With the promise of a big announcement from Taz and No. 1 contender to the AEW World Championship Brian Cage, and two blockbuster model team suits, the evening changed into as soon as have to-look TV for followers of wrestling’s freshest contemporary promotion.
What went down, who emerged victoriously and what does it mean for AEW in the weeks and months to return?
Discover now with this recap of the special July 8 edition of Dynamite.
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After a superstar-studded evening one, Fyter Fest continues Wednesday with the following already launched bouts:
- Orange Cassidy vs. Chris Jericho
- SCU vs. Colt Cabana, Stu Grayson and Brodie Lee
- FTR and The Young Bucks vs. The Butcher, The Blade, Pentagon Jr. and Rey Fenix
- Nyla Rose in motion
- A valuable announcement from Taz and Brian Cage
If the old couple of weeks are any indication, Jericho vs. Cassidy has the makings of a wild, chaotic and immensely appealing encounter.
The broad Eight-Man Tag Group Match in which FTR and The Young Bucks might perchance own to jam apart their philosophical differences in the occasion that they hope to defeat Butcher, Blade and The Lucha Bros can also simply thoroughly be the articulate-stealer.
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A week after Non-public Obtain together knocked off Santana and Ortiz of The Inside Circle, and Kenny Omega and Hangman Net page successfully defended their AEW Tag Group Championships against Most appealing Pals, the 2 groups battled in a title clash to kick off evening two of Fyter Fest.
The challengers weathered the early storm to raise Silly String to Kenny Omega. Isiah Kassidy launched himself onto Net page at ringside to proceed the momentum nonetheless a colossal lariat by Net page turned Marq Quen internal out because the champions regained management.
Kassidy dropped Omega with a lower backbreaker and adopted with a colossal enzuigiri. The Cleaner answered, sending Kassidy into his appreciate companion. Net page tagged in and slammed Kassidy into Quen for a shut to-drop.
Quen recovered and delivered a shooting superstar press for 2 nonetheless the champions answered with The Closing Demand the earn and a success title protection.
End result
Omega and Net page defeated Non-public Obtain together
Grade
C+
Prognosis
This changed into as soon as a ways too disjointed early to be as proper as it had the aptitude to be.
With that acknowledged, the groups sooner or later hit their strides late, in particular when Quen hit the shooting superstar press.
Omega and Net page winning changed into as soon as the very top name as their acclaimed title reign continues, nonetheless they’re instant of every other quality feud because these last two title defenses own lacked the depth and storytelling. The waste end result? Subpar results in comparability to what followers own come to predict out of Hangman and Omega.
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Two weeks after him and companion Sonny Kiss stumbled on themselves on the receiving terminate of a beating on the hands of “Murderhawk Monster” Lance Archer, Joey Janela battled the seemingly unstoppable colossal man in singles opponents.
The Substandard Boy withstood an early assault and wiped Archer out at ringside with a crossbody from the high rope. He jam up a table and teased a steel chair assault nonetheless referee Paul Turner in the crop worth of him off. Archer seized the instant-timeframe opening and delivered a colossal pounce that despatched Janela into the ropes.
Archer punished and pummeled Janela heading into the spoil.
The frightful heel persevered his dominance throughout the spoil, sending Janela into a guardrail. The Substandard Boy, although, delivered a rolling elbow and a flurry of clotheslines. They’d very diminutive attain on Archer, who caught Janela in midair. He jam up for the Blackout nonetheless Janela countered for a shut to-drop.
A bicycle knee strike by Janela alarmed Archer. Substandard Boy adopted with a senton, and Sonny Kiss added a 450 splash whereas Turner changed into as soon as distracted by Jake “The Snake” Roberts, nonetheless the babyface might perchance perchance very top ranking a count of two.
Archer recovered and delivered a execrable Blackout thru the table Janela had jam up earlier in the match and adopted with the pinfall victory.
End result
Archer defeated Janela
Grade
B-
Prognosis
Janela changed into as soon as precisely the gutsy babyface to program on this match reverse Archer. He took a hellish beating nonetheless stored combating, pushing thru the wretchedness and punishment and virtually scoring the upset on better than one occasion.
As Archer stumbled on himself refocused by Roberts, who coached from ringside, he changed into as soon as able to conquer the tenacity and resiliency of his opponent, now to no longer mention the interference from Kiss, and bewitch up the earn.
The commentary team build Archer over salvage after the match, reminded followers that he changed into as soon as able to earn any title at any time, and the end result is the reheating of a superstar who gave the impact to be the subsequent colossal thing in AEW no longer all that prolonged ago.
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Taz and “The Machine” Brian Cage joined Tony Schiavone in the ring for a predominant announcement.
The Human Suplex Machine acknowledged Cage would be topped AEW World Champion subsequent week at Fight for the Fallen when he defeats Jon Moxley, nonetheless he is no longer genuinely going into that match uncrowned.
He produced the FTW Championship that he, himself, created two an extended time ago in ECW and handed it over to The Machine.
“That is some renegade s!” he exclaimed sooner than warning Moxley of what awaits him subsequent week.
Grade
C
Prognosis
Taz changed into as soon as immense right here on the mic nonetheless the very last thing AEW wanted appropriate now changed into as soon as every other championship.
Certain, it be no longer known by the company and is ultimate a fashion for Taz to play mind games with Moxley sooner than the colossal match subsequent week, nonetheless it for walk introduces a belt as a prop and that’s virtually never mandatory.
To no longer mention that Cage, a frail world champion in Lucha Underground and Impact Wrestling, is no longer continuously what you might perchance perchance name a “renegade” in the game of reliable wrestling.
The angle right here didn’t genuinely work as nicely as every other straight fireplace promo from Taz would own to construct over subsequent week’s match.
Wrestling belt marks potentially liked it, although.
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FTR has wasted diminutive time making an impact on AEW television since their debut, making enemies of The Butcher and The Blade whereas expressing their philosophical differences with The Young Bucks by capacity of model team wrestling.
Wednesday evening, Scoot Harwood and Cash Wheeler teamed with Matt and Slash Jackson to battle Butcher, Blade and The Lucha Bros. Dart restrictions had stored Pentagon Jr. and Rey Fenix from teaming throughout the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this spring.
The Bucks and FTR controlled the early portion of the match, overwhelming their opponents with their model team trip sooner than a colossal pump kick from The Blade earned the villains the upper-hand. Slash momentarily halted their relieve nonetheless the heels regained management heading into the spoil.
Matt tagged in nonetheless ate a colossal kick from Fenix. Harwood made the blind model and dropped Blade, then joined Jackson for a double superkick that leveled Butcher. Wheeler and Slash Jackson teamed up for the Goodnight Instruct, FTR’s finisher.
Harwood and Matt delivered a spike piledriver to Blade for a shut to-drop, broken up by an alert Pentagon.
A immense sequence saw the Bucks and FTR attain three tags, then elevate a double superplex to Blade, adopted by a splash from Wheeler and senton from Slash. The pinfall changed into as soon as broken up by Fenix. Every other extra special assign saw Fenix open himself off Pentagon’s relieve and elevate a destroyer to Slash, onto a pile of opponents on the floor.
An errant superkick from Matt dropped Harwood off the apron and Lucha Bros made the pin for the earn.
End result
Lucha Bros, Butcher and Blade defeated FTR and The Young Bucks
Grade
A
Prognosis
The motion right here changed into as soon as unmatched by the relaxation we’re inclined to idea the remainder of this articulate nonetheless it for walk changed into as soon as the storytelling that elevated it to an “A” grade.
The Bucks and FTR scary themselves by their seemingly flawless chemistry, very top to indicate their appreciate worst enemy following a second of miscommunication, changed into as soon as an shining bit of booking and furthers the rigidity between the 2 groups.
Their eventual showdown goes to be a immense match, most likely a Match of the Year candidate.
Pentagon and Fenix picking up the earn sets them up for a showdown with Net page and Omega, that might perchance very nicely be every bit as shining as AEW continues to indicate why model team wrestling can also simply be its strongest swimsuit right here in 365 days two of the promotion.
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Nyla Rose returned to motion this week, battling Kenzie Net page and KiLynn King in a Two-on-One Handicap Match.
The Native Beast wasted no time, lying destroy to the overmatched and outpowered tandem en path to a bold victory.
After the match, she stared down AEW Ladies folks’s Champion Hikaru Shida sooner than taking a mic.
“I firmly imagine my actions spoke louder than phrases,” she acknowledged, sooner than revealing that she has taken it upon herself to rent a supervisor. She refused to enlighten who it changed into as soon as nonetheless promised they’d bring her a championship.
End result
Rose defeated King and Net page
Grade
A
Prognosis
Rose looked admire an absolute beast, womanhandling her opponents on her capacity to victory.
The put up-match promo and revelation that she has got a supervisor, adds a brand contemporary wrinkle to her personality at a time when it needs it. While we don’t know who it can perchance also simply be, we attain know seconds own been extremely a success in getting a whole lot of monster characters admire Archer and Cage over.
Inquire of of extra of the same with Rose.
That the cameras own been as mad about Penelope Ford as they own been Rose and Shida suggest she might perchance own to never be counted out of the females’s title characterize at this level, either.
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The neverending contention between SCU and The Unlit Issue, and the latter’s recruitment of Colt Cabana, blended to fabricate up a high-profile Six-Man Tag Group Match pitting Christopher Daniels, Scorpio Sky and Frankie Kazarian against Stu Grayson, Mr. Brodie Lee and Cabana.
The babyface team controlled early, the use of rapid tags and double-team maneuvers to down Grayson whereas an unamused Lee watched on. Cabana, nursing a hematoma on his left aspect, took the fight to Sky because the heels assumed management heading into the spoil.
The heels persevered their beatdown of Sky, scoring a shut to-drop off a frog splash by Grayson because the commentary team build over the commonly omitted competitor.
The motion broke down, with SCU’s Daniels wiping out the opposition on the floor. Cabana in the crop worth of off a pinfall are attempting by Daniels, rising stress between chums. Lee grounded Daniels with a lariat and ordered Grayson model Cabana relieve into the match so he might perchance perchance bewitch up the autumn.
He did and the commentary team build over the attain the connection between Colt and The Unlit Issue has had on his earn-loss file.
End result
The Unlit Issue and Cabana defeated SCU
Grade
C+
Prognosis
This potentially will deserve to own been better nonetheless the closing moments own been messy.
What changed into as soon as no longer changed into as soon as the checklist of Cabana and The Unlit Issue working seamlessly en path to victory. Will it price Cabana his friendships? It appears so if the closing moments are any indication nonetheless along with his reliable life hitting its bolt, as a end result of his association with Lee and the cult-admire Unlit Issue, it would no longer seem to topic.
With that acknowledged, Cabana has no longer pledged allegiance to Lee, rising intrigue for followers going forward.
That is proof of effective storytelling.
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After weeks of surprisingly intense buildup, “Le Champion” Chris Jericho battled “Freshly Squeezed” Orange Cassidy in the major occasion of Fyter Fest.
There changed into as soon as nothing “sloth fashion” about Cassidy, although, because the slacker fired off an early onslaught that despatched Jericho into the guardrail. A tornado DDT are attempting changed into as soon as countered, although, and Jericho utilized the Liontamer. As Cassidy reached the ropes, Santana and Ortiz delivered a price-effective shot to the lower relieve, courtesy of the madball, that allowed their fellow Inside Circle competitor to salvage the upper hand.
Jericho countered the Superman Punch and Cassidy crashed to the enviornment floor heading into the last spoil of the evening.
Le Champion persevered to systematically bewitch apart Cassidy, working over his midsection and core in an are attempting to sap the life out of his opponent. He utilized an belly stretch and grabbed onto the rope nonetheless referee Aubrey Edwards kicked his hand away, allowing Cassidy to fight out with a hip toss.
Seemingly wakened by the barrage of appropriate hands dealt him by Jericho, Cassidy fired off a assortment of strikes and a hurricanrana. He added his shin kicks sooner than pleasing Le Champion with a superkick for a shut to-drop. Cassidy fought out of a superplex are attempting and delivered a colossal splash for the count of two.
Freshly Squeezed added a plancha that wiped out Jericho, Santana and Ortiz, then added a DDT for a shut to-drop.
Cassidy countered the Liontamer with a minute equipment for 2 sooner than Santana and Ortiz threw orange juice in his face. Most appealing Pals made the set up nonetheless Jericho capitalized on the distraction and used his baseball bat for a shut to-drop.
Jericho omitted a Lionsault and Cassidy answered with a Michinoku Driver for a two of his appreciate.
The Judas Attain caught Cassidy from out of nowhere as Jericho picked up an infinitely extra exhausting-fought victory than he might perchance perchance own imagined.
End result
Jericho defeated Cassidy
Grade
A
Prognosis
If there changed into as soon as any doubt or bother that Cassidy might perchance perchance rise to the occasion and elevate a performance befitting a proper major occasion personality, and outdoor of his uncommon personality, he silenced it tonight.
Cassidy sold his ass off for Jericho, constructing immense babyface warmth till it changed into as soon as time to fireplace up and fabricate his comeback. There own been several spots late in which it seemed he can also simply attain the unthinkable, defeating Jericho whilst Santana and Ortiz did all the pieces of their vitality to be obvious that didn’t occur.
And in the job, Jericho’s heel persona changed into as soon as build over exponentially.
Right here changed into as soon as an all-time immense who if fact be told laughed off the foundation of Cassidy, very top to be in a bodily war with him that he virtually misplaced. More than as soon as.
And he’ll brag and gloat over his earn, as he might perchance own to, nonetheless there will always be that reminder late his mind that Cassidy gave him every bit of the fight a Jon Moxley or Kenny Omega would own.
For a articulate before all the pieces slated to own a a whole lot of major occasion, this one lived as a lot as the second and delivered beyond expectations. Most importantly, it confirmed Cassidy’s superstar and all americans in AEW might perchance own to be chuffed to own that charismatic babyface on their roster for the foreseeable future.
