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AEW Dynamite streamed another stacked episode of their weekly show last night, and it was one that managed to continue their storylines in more unique ways. The Inner Circle continued to dominate the promotion with Chris Jericho's ego leading him to book a match against Scorpio Sky for next week's episode of the show in Chicago.
The show itself was headlined by Darby Allin and Jon Moxley, in what has easily become a fantasy match between two of the biggest stars in the company at present. It was a match that definitely followed through on the hype, but even though there were some high points on this week's episode, there were many other moments throughout the night that AEW would rather forget.
#3. An illegal move in front of the referee?
Britt Baker was in action again this week as her AEW push continues, but once again her name was connected to another wrestling botch. Baker came up against Hikaru Shida, who definitely put the dentist through her paces.
The match was by no means perfect since there were moments where it became sloppy and the pace slowed down completely, but it was a match that looked as though it turned the tide in favor of Shida when she picked up a confidence boosting victory.
That being said, there was a moment in the match that looked quite awkward, when Shida delivered a thumb to the eye of Baker right in front of the referee. Aubrey Edwards saw the eye poke and still counted the pin that followed and didn't even flinch when Shida did it, which means it either isn't illegal in AEW or it wasn't planned so the referee wasn't prepared to react.
#2. Darby Allin missed the crossbody
Darby Allin and Jon Moxley collided in the main event of last night's show as part of a match that many of the AEW Universe had been waiting for ever since Moxley first made his debut in AEW back at Double or Nothing in May.
Allin came to the ring with his body bag that was prepared for Mox, but sadly it wasn't the professional skateboarder who was getting his hand raised at the end of the match. Instead, it was Mox after he delivered an avalanche Paradigm Shift.
It was a match that was worthy of the main event of Dynamite, but even though many fans overlooked some of the awkward spots because it was a fantasy match, there were a few. The main one came when Allin went to crossbody Mox out of the ring but as he went over the top rope, his momentum wasn't enough to take the former WWE star over the top rope with him, which left Mox lying awkwardly on the top rope until he was able to fall back into the ring.
It was something that both men went on to cover well, but the way that Mox was positioned after the move shows that it was a botch.
#1. What was that referee?
Proud 'N' Powerful took on Private Party this week on AEW, but it wasn't all straight forward for the two teams involved. Santana and Ortiz proved why they are now going by their Proud and Powerful name when they dominated Private Party throughout the match, but there was one spot that many fans saw as the biggest botch of the night.
Isiah Cassidy had Ortis in a pin after the sunset flip, and the referee was about to count the three, but the spot should have seen Santana pull him out of the ring. Instead, Santana missed his cue so the referee had to improvise and act as though it happened when it didn't.
Jim Ross tried to cover for the botch by saying that he believed the referee didn't think that Ortis was legal so Cassidy couldn't pin him, but that wasn't the case since Ortiz himself tried for a pin a few seconds later and the referee was fine to make the count.
There have been a number of referee errors on AEW TV recently, which is a shame since the product is really starting to improve.
