Location- St. Louis, Missouri
Venue- Chaifetz Arena
Commentators- Excalibur, Nigel McGuinness, Tony Schiavone
Eight Man Tag Team Match- Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli, Daniel Garcia, Wheeler Yuta, & Pac) VS Roderick Strong, Kyle O’ Reilly, Orange Cassidy, & Tomohiro Ishii
Winners- Death Riders
Rating-5/10
Eddie Kingston & Hook VS The Frat House (Cole Karter & Griff Garrison)
Winners- Eddie Kingston & Hook
Rating- 5/10
Harley Cameron & Willow Nightingale VS Top Gods (Megan Bayne & Penelope Ford)
Winners- Harley Cameron & Willow Nightingale
Rating- 6/10
FTR VS JetSpeed
Winners- FTR
Rating- 7/10
Jamie Hayter VS Thekla
Winner- Jamie Hayter
Rating- 7/10
$500K Tag Team Match- Jurassic Express VS The Young Bucks
Winners- Jurassic Express
Rating- 7/10
Tornado Trios Match- Winner Becomes Number One Contender For AEW World Trios Championships- The Hurt Syndicate VS The Demand
Winners- The Hurt Syndicate
Rating- 7/10
AEW TNT Championship- Kyle Fletcher (Champion) VS Mark Briscoe
Winner- Kyle Fletcher
Rating- 7/10
AEW Women’s World Championship- Kris Statlander (Champion) VS Toni Storm
Winner- Kris Statlander
Rating- 7/10
Winner Takes All Open Challenge For The AEW TBS Championship & The Interim ROH Women’s World TV Championship- Mercedes Mone (TBS Champion) VS Mina Shirakawa (Interim ROH Women’s TV Champ)
Winner- Mercedes Mone
Rating- 6/10
AEW World Tag Team Championships- Brodido VS Kazuchika Okada & Konosuke Takeshita
Winners- Brodido
Rating- 8/10
AEW World Championship- Hangman Adam Page (Champion) VS Samoa Joe
Winner- Adam Page
Rating- 6/10
I Quit Match- Darby Allin VS Jon Moxley
Winner- Darby Allin
Rating- 8/10
Overall Thoughts-
Starting off with FTR VS JetSpeed, I wasn’t a big fan of the spot, where Dax was seemingly waiting for Mike Bailey to come off of the top rope, after Dax hit the Shatter Machine with Cash on Kevin Knight, but this was still a good match. Some great fast-paced, hard-hitting action throughout the match, complete with a few good close pinfall counts.
FTR VS JetSpeed overlapping from the Tailgate Brawl to open the show? Well, I guess you could say it’s an attempt at doing something different for a hot start, and the fans were into it. I guess it’s possible they were going for some WCW nostalgia. I do remember how WCW would set off pyro on the stage during a match that was already in progress, to kick off the transition to the top of the new hour during the show. Anyways, FTR will probably have their hands full with JetSpeed, or other tag teams until Cope decides it’s time to push the revenge button.
Mercedes winning another title? Mone’s seemingly endless quest to collect every championship she sets her sights on works for easy “how many belts does this woman need?” heel heat. She’s an egomaniac, and Mercedes thinks she’s untouchable.
I’m not entirely sure where all of this going, though. Mone is officially the longest reigning TBS Champion now, and Kris Statlander is next on her hit list. I’m hoping the endgame for Mercedes’ belt collector gimmick concludes with her slowly losing each title. Mercedes’ character needs to be humbled, and it’ll be a logical conclusion to her heel run somewhere down line, when she loses all of her precious titles.
Darby Allin and Jon Moxley’s match deserved the main event spot. As expected, it was a violent and bloody battle between two nutcases, uncomfortable to watch at times, and Sting showing up as the equalizer to even the odds against The Death Riders was a nice surprise. The fish tank spot was kind of silly, but I still enjoyed the match.
I can’t think of one match that truly blew me away, but overall, WrestleDream was a solid PPV. No truly bad matches on the entire card, with everything ranging from solid to decent, complete with a main event that lived up to the hype. Kyle Fletcher picked up a necessary win over Mark Briscoe after losing to Hangman at All Out. AEW’s strong tag team division was on full display here, and Samoa Joe turned heel! Really looking forward to how things unfold with The Opps as a heel group, and Joe is far more entertaining in the villain role.
Show Highlights
-Kenny Omega saves Jurassic Express from The Don Callis Family’s (Lance Archer, Mark Davis, & Josh Alexander) post-match beat down, Young Bucks refuse to help
-Tony Schiavone interviews Charlie Thesz at ringside
-Hangman Adam Page hits three consecutive Buckshot Lariats to defeat Samoa Joe
-Samoa Joe and The Opps turn heel with a post-match beat down on Adam Page
-Mercedes Mone challenges Kris Statlander to a winner takes all match at Full Gear
-Sting returns to help Darby Allin
-Darby Allin defeats Jon Moxley
Overall Rating- 7/10
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