It's about that time – time for one of my favorite types of Dynamite episodes, the post-PPV Dynamite! Especially after huge shows like All In, these shows always feel different from the regular week-to-week shows. More story beats mixed in alongside great wrestling matches to start laying the groundwork for the next few weeks of TV.

AEW does a great job on this shows of doing super quick bits in and around matches rather than having a long night of talking segments that drag and drag and drag. I'm expecting some quick returns, some interruptions, and some matches of ridiculous quality building off of the energy of All In.

A New Era for New Level

Austin Creed & Kofi debuted at All In with their partner Swerve Strickland to win the Trios Titles. The Trios Titles have been hot-potatoed around quite a bit, which I think is perfectly fine for those belts. Anything that keeps them a bit more in focus and consistently on TV is fine with me.

Tonight, they defended their new Trios Titles against The Rascalz who have been great in AEW. I never could get into late-era Impact/TNA so I never really saw these guys together before. I saw a bunch of Myron Reed back in MLW when I was writing for Daily DDT and really loved him there.

All that to say, I love that The Rascalz got a chance to shine and do all of the crazy and cool shit they're known for against three of the biggest names in AEW. When Myron Reed hit that out-of-the-ring cutter/hurricanrana combination? The noise I made when it happened, I don't think I've ever made that noise before.

I watched the Ariel Helwani interview with New Level and it's clear how much Kofi & Austin love wrestling and just want to wrestle. Especially as tag team wrestlers. So, seeing them come out of the gate with a hot trios match like this was just great to see.

Similarly to The Rascalz, it's been about a decade and change since I watched WWE. That's a long time of Kofi & Austin existing in my wrestling periphery without actually watching them at all. If this match was any indication of what they've got in the tank, then I'm extremely stoked for the rest of their time in AEW.

What I'm left wondering is where we go from here character-wise. Swerve was very steadily riding on the heel side of things before New Level debuted, and there was no way anybody was going to boo Kofi & Austin on their debut. But, do we just babyface Swerve completely? Or do we eventually get New Level as heels once the honeymoon phase is over?

Everything is happening all of the time

I love these types of Dynamites – after a huge PPV where you know they're going to be setting up a bunch of a new stories and feuds.

Tonight, we got the hastily planted seed of a TLC match between Cope & Christian, The Young Bucks, and FTR at All Out. I'm stoked! I was ready to be checked out of yet another Bucks/FTR feud when their promo was happening; not that the match wouldn't be great, but we've seen them feud and wrestle so much (and fairly recently) that it's hard to really care about the story we get along the way.

I thought we were going to get the TLC match (or whatever they call it) at All In, so getting it at All Out works for me. But then, please, let's move onto other tag teams.

Darby Allin successfully defended the TNT Title against Mark Davis in a fantastic sprint of a match. Post-match we got a beatdown from RPG Vice before Steven Borden, Jr. made the save with insane height on a leapfrog and dropkick.

But then! A returning Josh Alexander! The Don Callis Family laid waste to Baby Sting and Darby before standing tall. I love how they've started to work Borden into AEW. It's a nice, natural way to do it and the passing of the torch moment from Sting on the ladder at All In was a sweet little moment. I'm very much looking forward to his first match on AEW TV.

I don't love The Brawling Birds eating a singles loss to Divine Dominion right after winning the Tag Titles. I'm never a huge fan of rematch feuds right after losing a belt and, as much as I love Megan Bayne and Lena Kross, I was looking forward to seeing who would be up next for a shot at the belts.

As expected, Mercedes Moné's celebration was cut short by Thekla, setting up a collision somewhere down the road for those two. This is going to be a lot of fun both on the way to their match with what will probably be some unhinged promos and will be capped off with an awesome match.

One thing I want to keep my eye on is Mercedes' statement along the lines of "the women's division is going to have something it's never had before." I hope, hope, hope this means a women's Continental Classic is coming this year. I don't need it to be for a women's Continental Title, just run it G1 style for a shot at the World Title. In fact, do that for the men's C2 as well.

Wrapping Up

I loved the ending of the main event – Andrade laying out Clark Connors and serving him up to Ospreay. I'm glad they're not going too heavy on the uneasy partners thing with Ospreay and Andrade and that they can, instead, be guys who generally get along and can work together but still know they're going to fight each other at some point.

The move of Ospreay announcing that he's going to create his own AEW United Empire is a nice twist, too. Part of me was hoping that he'd recruit AR Fox after his match with Mox but that was just too much of a sweet little dream for me. I'll be curious who he adds to the group; hopefully they take this chance to elevate some folks who don't get booked as consistently.

Callum Newman runs real fast but he has the most "I work in IT" look on a wrestler I've seen in a long time.

I could not care less about Ospreay defending against Jon Moxley. I'm so bored of and over Mox at this point both because his character makes zero sense and waffles between "I'm a crazy sick murder guy!" and "I'm the ultimate purveyor of good clean wrestling and I love you, the fans". None of his motivations make sense and everything Nigel McGuinness has said on commentary about him is true.

I'll leave you with a letter I worked on during the show:

Dear Nick Wayne,

End Chris Jericho.

Thank you.