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  • Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (1/8/20)

    Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (1/8/20)

    Flying high after a much needed kid-free vacation to Cancun, I return to recap this week’s edition of AEW Dynamite. Similarly, AEW returned to soaring heights last week, drawing 900k viewers in a New Year’s Day episode that erased the sour taste left by the winter finale. That episode successfully teased the fate of The […]

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  • Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (12/18/19)

    Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (12/18/19)

    With Christmas falling on Wednesday of next week, this week’s episode of Dynamite effectively serves as the winter finale. A number of mini-programs and feuds have been teased over the last couple of weeks, leading to an all-hands-on-deck episode of Dynamite. Will AEW end 2019 on a roll, building off of last week’s success? Or […]

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  • Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (12/11/19)

    Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (12/11/19)

    When AEW Dynamite has been at its best in its short history, the show has mixed in-ring action with professional-looking video packages and angles that build towards future shows. If that’s the benchmark, this week’s show has to be considered a pretty damn rousing success. There were multiple points throughout the December 11th episode of […]

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  • Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (12/4/19)

    Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (12/4/19)

    After taking last week off for Thanksgiving, I am back and jacked to be reviewing this week’s episode of Dynamite. I certainly would have liked to have met up with you all here at our weekly Getting Over hangout, but I had a crowd of family members at my house from Wednesday night until Saturday […]

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  • Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (11/20/19)

    Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (11/20/19)

    Last week, AEW put on their best Dynamite to date. The question going into this week was how they’d follow this up. With the next pay-per-view not yet on the horizon, where does the company go from here? Based on the last two weeks, the answer is largely symbolic of AEW’s philosophy as a whole: […]

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  • Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (11/13/19)

    Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (11/13/19)

    This week’s Dynamite finds us on the heels of the Full Gear and dealing with the repercussions of several feuds evolving or ending. Before jumping into Dynamite, here’s my quick thoughts on how Full Gear played out: –-The Young Bucks vs. Santana & Ortiz: A hell of a match to start the show. Santana & […]

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  • Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (11/6/19)

    Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (11/6/19)

    In the world of professional wrestling, the “go-home” show (the last televised show before a pay-per-view) is used to help entice PPV buys, building feuds to a fever pitch before finally (hopefully) giving fans the payoff. So, with Full Gear coming on Saturday, November 9th, did this week’s Dynamite deliver on that promise? Well, that […]

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  • Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (10/30/19)

    Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (10/30/19)

    Back in the glory days of WCW, the Halloween Havoc PPV was seen by those in the company as their biggest show (even if Starrcade was often treated as the bigger deal externally as the last big show of each year). Given how fascinated the execs of AEW are with old school WCW, I found […]

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  • Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (10/23/19)

    Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (10/23/19)

    Going into this week’s AEW Dynamite show, there were a few big questions that needed answering, based on the build from the last few shows. First, as the highest profile match on the card, will the actual Moxley vs. PAC match justify giving away a pay-per-view main event quality bout for free on just the […]

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  • Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (10/16/19)

    Getting Over: AEW Dynamite Review (10/16/19)

    With its third show, AEW Dynamite seems to have settled into a groove. That’s not a criticism. In fact, it’s actually kind of miraculous that a show this young has been able to find its footing so fast by mixing promos, video packages, and matches in such a confident way. AEW continued to build, build, […]

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