[1.0] "Again, the death riders stuff REALLY drags this show down because the other stuff here I thought was perfectly fine. By no means special but it was fine. The 2 matches that involved the death riders was absolutely pathetic. Claudio looked like a bitch and you could watch Jay vs Yuta blind and you'd know exactly what had happened. I'm rating every dynamite in 2025 and I might say that January 2025 might be the worst year for Dynamite in the company's history."

[6.0] "Man, what is going on with this show here. Dynamite is in a cycle of the show being 70% very solid to good but that other 30% is some of the most perplexing, aggravating, aged booking you can see in 2025. It's not 1999 why are we having segments with Jeff Jarret getting pushes and why does Jon Moxley need to help Claudio beat the man in his late 50's? Why would he be scared of him? The wrestling on this show was fine and some of the promos were okay but the bad while smaller in amount still outweighs the good to great."

[6.0] "Another week and another huge dip for AEW! Not only did the match quality felt underwhelming but also the progression of storylines too. Death Riders have to step their game up and act as promised or it'll be in no time that the whole act will face a complete pivot. JJ's fun quest came to an uninspiring end in reality, while the Mega Powers/Callis Family story had a decent step-up after scoring huge in the past weeks. Amidst a fun title match in the main event, there was nothing notable to take home from this episode, and it seems like the Georgia episode next week could do something huge for Grand Slam."

[6.0] "A perfectly serviceable episode of Dynamite this week. A very good opener between Ospreay & Cage and then fine wreslting, if not a little underwhelming, for the rest of the show. Nothing bad but nothing to go out your way to see. (6/10)"

[4.0] "A uneventful Dynamite that is bordering on poor. 4 of the 5 matches were basically exhibition matches with little to no storyline involvement or advancement and one of these 4 was the main event. At least 2 of these 4 exhibition matches went far too long and were competitive when they really should not have been. This is your flagship show AEW - do better..."

"Below average Dynamite for me. A bunch of decent matches but nothing great here, was a little annoyed that they couldn't have Claudio beat JJ clean? That was quite a daft decision in my opinion. Cage Vs Ospreay was probs MOTN but it wasn't a very high bar. I know AEW can do better. Collision actually looks like a better card this week for a second week in a row."

[8.0] "1) I appreciate the fact that AEW trusts Brian Cage, one of the most undervalued and underutilized wrestler on their roster, to have a match with one of their biggest superstars two weeks in a row now, but what about another undervalued and underutilized wrestler, his partner, Lance Archer? Especially, considering Cage already proved last week he can't hang with performers of that caliber, so why not give The Murderhawk Monster a chance to get the job done. 2) I pretty much enjoyed the match between Claudio and Jeff Jarret. Double J is much better in the ring than I expected. I was afraid he would win this one, but thank God he didn't. Since he didn't win the match, I don't understand why such a low rating for this match - it was still better than 80% of WWE TV matches. 3) Another wreslter I'm happy to see on my screen two weeks in a row is AR Fox - that cutter of his was smooth af, I was surprised the producers of the show didn't replay it. 4) I even stayed to watch the main event, though I rarely watch women matches. I'd never seen Yuka before, but, damn, she's cute - she's the cutest japanese woman I've ever seen. Overall, a good episode of Dynamite. I'm shocked to see such a low rating for this show."

[4.0] "One of the weaker Dynamites. We had a fun opener in Will Ospreay vs. Brian Cage then was shown was a complete shit show in Claudio Castagnoli and Jeff Jarrett. My issue is did Claudio need a bunch of people to defeat Jeff Jarrett? Jeff Jarrett is in his final year of his professional wrestling career you really think he's hard to beat in hindsight? Ricochet and AR Fox had a very fun match between the show. Jay White gets a win over Wheeler Yuta and it wasn't a great match and I really hope Jay White can have something new in the near future so he can escape the Death Riders Vortex. The main event was very fun with Mercedes Mone facing Yuka. But this show wasn't great very poor but I'm looking forward to next week show which is highlighted with Swerve Strickland vs. Ricochet."

[1.0] "Just an awful show from top the bottom. I've praised them for delivering a great Collision show last Saturday and I expected them to have a strong follow up here but my god they blew it really bad. There is very little to praise here ... Opening match was really lame and that says a lot because it's Ospreay. Post match beatdown took forever and didn't help anybody, what was the point of this? Why do these Don Callis beatdown angles take forever to conclude? They're just as bad as the deathriders ones. Speaking of them, Claudio vs Jarrett was atrocious, such an unserious way to book that match where the 80 year old guy needs multiple interferences to get beaten by what is supposed to be the top faction in the company. Fox vs Ricochet was also stupid considering he has a match with Swerve next week yet he struggles to put away a perennial jobber, making him look like a geek in the process. White vs Yuta happened as part of the ever incredible deathriders angle, post match is of course the same shit we've seen 100 times by now. Main event was total boredom, baffling really. An ice cold, heatless and a boring nothingburger which perfectly sums up Mone's awful run. Deafening silence at the end was the cherry on top. Only thing I'll praise are the brief Hangman-MJF interaction backstage and Mariah's promo. And even that didn't have Toni which was dumb. Just have her come out and do a brawl between the two, why is one of your top stars is stuck on Collision? You can't spare a couple of minutes for a brawling segment for your top women's program when a dogshit random midcard men feud gets 10 minute post match beatdowns? Also what was up with endless recap of the previous segments on the same show, have they lost the plot? Who asked for this shit? Man oh man, the overall vibes are really bad in AEW and it all boils down to the booking. People who don't belong in certain spots are being put in those spots. They keep doubling, tripling or quadrupling down on terrible angles. Awful storylines happening across the board and the time management, structure and pacing of episodes are some of the worst I've ever seen from the company. I say all of this as someone who want to be invested in AEW again but I feel like, even the couple of things that I like can be ruined at a moments notice by Tony Khan. Really sad to see the state of the product at the moment but they keep making the same mistakes which tells me either they're stupid or they just don't give a sh*t."

[6.0] "[5.5] AEW's gotta be the most frustratingly bipolar wrestling product out right now, because they'll put out a banger Collision like last week's homecoming episode and then immediately follow it up by stinking out the joint with this. Ospreay vs Cage was decent but it is a Brian Cage match so your mileage may vary, the Death Riders and Claudio especially were made to look even worse than they already have been made to look by being unable to beat a 57 year old man clean, Ricochet and AR Fox should've been decent but just wasn't, White vs Yuta, same story, should've been decent but just wasn't, and Mercedes and Yuka did good despite being absolutely shafted for time by a recap of basically the entire show and hype packages. It's bad when the most unambiguously good thing on the show is a 1-minute Hangman segment. This felt like a filler/holding pattern episode."

[1.0] "In the space of a year, we had a heavily publicized retirement tour for Sting; then we had a long and intensely emotional tour for Danielson. Two long journeys. Now we've had a brief, but again, retirement fight for Christopher Daniels. Is Jeff Jarrett going after the company's main title really the decision to make here? Is wrapping up a possibly unpopular decision like this, with a title reign that is clearly being rejected by the audience for being repetitive and frustrating, with no apparent direction, really the decision to make? Because that's how you undermine the audience's good faith and establish a fatigue that's hard to get rid of in a world that offers so many entertainment options."

[3.0] "Just skip this one, every match was predictable as hell and on top of that they made Claudio look like a weak clown, so if you're a fan of the guy... you're gonna have a bad time. Mercedes just keeps getting pushed for no reason at all and Yuka is just there to job the other girls, I don't get it"

[2.0] "I'm a very big AEW fan and I was very disappointed in this show after a very fun and promising two weeks of shows. The Death Riders and Jeff Jarrett angles are slowly eroding my love of this company. I truly believe this to be one of the worst episodes of the show in recent history and has me questioning if I will be watching every week moving forward. The angles are over the top and the wrestling on the shows has taken a nose dive. You used to tune into Dynamite every week and be treated to an absolute banger of a match with all the other matches also being top quality content. I just dont feel it anymore even with them saying on the show theyre trying to restore the feeling I dont think they even remember what the feeling is."

[2.0] "The old AEW problem of following great shows with nothing. Filler matches, filler segments, filler interactions moving towards a filler show in a country that, for whatever reason, doesn't seem to get any love. Fair few names on this show who just shouldn't be around at all. Jarrett is stale, Yuta is boring, Brian Cage weighed down his match, Yuka and Mercedes didn't tangle as well as possible, and most of all, company's main storyline is filled top to bottom with grade A gargantuan fucking geeks."

[5.0] "I was looking forward to the main event and it was fine, but obviously had no real reason for the crowd to be invested. The opener was also okay. Ricochet vs Fox wasn't so bad, either, but I wonder why Fox is going 50/50 with both Swerve and Ricochet despite barely being on TV and not being part of that feud. Not being on TV for ages and coming back cold makes you look like a loser in pro wrestling. That goes for Fox, that goes for Yuka, and it'll go for Mark Davis if he's the other Callis member. I didn't think the Jarrett match was as bad as most did but it wasn't good. Perennial youngboy Wheeler Yuta needs to do something else. Still a general lack of excitement in this promotion. People can point at Cody and Punk leaving as the death of interesting angles in AEW but it wasn't all that long ago we had Swerve vs Hangman, which got a little silly at times but was still a relative highpoint. AEW's string of mediocrity continues. Out of nine weekly shows this year, I'd call two satisfactory - the last being five episodes ago. I still maintain that the emperor was strolling around bollock-naked last Saturday."

[6.0] "Quite an odd overreaction for this show from some people. Was this a great show? Absolutely not. I could pick fault with a number of things. The seemingly endless beat down of Omega/Ospreay, the ten minute Jarrett and Claudio match, the disjointed nature of the main event. All were problems. The things that aren't problems, the Death Rider programme which would be considered 'cinema' on the other show. The two MJF segments which added value, the hangman segments. All of these things were good in an average show. Sometimes that happens and we all need to remain objective about that. This wasn't even the worst wrestling show that I've seen in the last week. Lighten up everyone, it's supposed to be fun!"

[5.0] "The January 19th, 2025 edition of AEW Dynamite was quite simply tiresome and a bore to watch. This is coming from someone who watches WCW programming in 1999. I haven't watched a weekly show in a while that made me feel as exhausted as this one. Will Ospreay and Brian Cage, Ricochet vs. AR Fox was good and then everything went off the rails. Jeff Jarrett...really? He needs to be put down by Mox, Yuta and Shafir so he could lose? It made the Deathriders look pathetic. Nobody cares about Chris Jericho. Jay White vs. Wheeler Yuta was heatless. The Deathriders / Rated FTR storyline continues with no excitement. The main event was decent but forgettable. Just avoid this episode of Dynamite in general, so much filler and so much nothing. The only things I care about right now is Hangman's story and Swerve and Ricochet's story as well as The Callis Family. Everything else is just...boring to me. I can't connect to these other storylines, I can enjoy bad shows at times but this was just...unenjoyable at times. I hope next week was better. [**1/2]"

[6.0] "I like both guys, so I enjoyed the opener between "The Real Best in the World" Will Ospreay and "The Machine" Brian Cage. Had no use for the second match between Jeff Jarrett and Claudio. Wasn't totally invested in the Ricochet and AR Fox match either. Match of the night was Jay White and Wheeler Yuta. No use for the main event between Mone and Yuka. One of the most interesting moments of the show was Hangman bumping into MJF backstage. So not one of the better episodes of Dynamite, but I'm excited for Collision on Saturday."

[6.0] "One step forward and two steps back for AEW this week, coming off of a fantastic Collision at the Weekend, unfortunately Dynamite disappoints with a largely forgettable and underwhelming episode of Dynamite. The build to Revolution has been confusing and bumpy this year, largely being complicated by the inclusion of Grand Slam in February that was originally believed to be a PPV, but has seemingly been downgraded to a televised special episode of Collision. There were a few decent matches and the main event was fun, but they really need to develop some heated personal rivalries and put to bed the whole Death Riders nonsense. I have yet to find anybody who is into that storyline, likes what Mox is doing as champion or wants to see Cope/RatedFTR and the Death Riders feuding, at least not whilst occupying the main event scene. As someone else mentioned, the stars are the likes of Ospreay, Kenny, Hangman and Swerve etc."

[3.0] "This was a really forgettable show. Both in terms of in-ring action, as the matches ranged from okay to bad, and the angles were also very forgetable and repetitive from previous weeks. It didn't feel like any feud progressed or had some sort of interesting wrinkle added to it. The main event was also quite confusing, as it just sort of happened with no pretense or teased followup. So many matches had a beatdown angle after it, which just kills the impact when its so repetitive and heatless. Both Jeff Jarrett vs Claudio and Jay White vs Wheeler Yuta were very boring matches, and would work as natural tune-out or fast forward points. I was surprised to see they were only 10 and 13 minutes long respectfully. The death riders continue to hang over the show, it becomes even more difficult to stomach if they can't even deliver excitement in the ring. I would suggest you only watch the early part of the show. Seeing Ospreay and Omega continue to square off is entertaining, as was the little backstage faceoff between MJF and Hangman."

"Oooof, I really enjoyed Dynamite at the end of 2024, but since a couple of weeks, it feels like it's filler after filler after filler. At least I'm saving some time, since I don't bother to watch all of it anymore"

[6.0] "Ordinarily, I would be giving a show that gave us consistent but not earth-shattering 6/10 matches a 7/10 for being a consistent, easy watch - the run of Collisions in March last year come to mind - but this was really dragged down by frankly weird booking choices in a disappointing-but-not-bad Jarrett match. I enjoyed an hour and forty minutes of the show, so I can't knock it down too much, but at the same time, I can't lie and say it's really worth a 7/10."

"A forgettable show given the lack of important new angles or storyline twists, but not bad by any stretch. 6/10. The opening match and segment overall were good, the Hangman tease was super interesting, Mariah's promo was great, main event was very good and we got a Gunns vignette. I love Double J, but I don't need to see a 10min match with him. Ricochet/Fox was fun but we all knew where that was going. Jay White gave Yuta way too much. The MFJ post match, Death Riders post match, Ricochet post match were not enough to offset 3 heatless matches. You have to find that balance of heat vs in-ring competition."

[3.0] "I heavily criticized last week's Dynamite too, but those criticisms were mostly based on older, ex-WWE wrestlers stealing TV time from their younger colleagues. This show on the other hand.... The existential dread (and I'm not joking while using these words) I felt while watching Cope vs PAC, was existent throughout this show. Heatless matches and angles on top of baffling booking decisions. Like Claudio Castagnoli aka strongest guy on the roster struggling to beat Jeff Jarrett or your #1 contender for the world title going 50/50 with a literal geek. It's good to see women main event, even though the match itself wasn't all that great. I felt like the Meteora spot early in the match might have concussed Yuka, but I'm not entirely sure."

[3.0] "Just a result of numerous middling episodes of tv. I enjoyed the opening stuff, the main event, and the ricochet stuff, but the other stuff was just not good. We got like 20 seconds of Hangman who is the best character in the company but got a full Jeff Jarrett match. The death riders are killing my love for this show, won't be watching any more live AEW or full shows as long as they're terrorising the product."

[4.0] "Ok, show, ok audience (who weren't given any reason to care about it), I don't know. It's mostly because some people are truly a blessing to this damn company. Meanwhile, my criticism will be much harsher compared to the rating I give at this point. I'm so fed up with many things in wrestling in general, but since we're on AEW's page, let me go ahead and quickly address this: Equal length of matches IS BULLSHIT. I appreciate that it gives decent TV time to everyone, but it just doesn't make sense. TBS Title match? Sure. Brian Cage or even AR Fox, who had a history with Ricochet? Serviceable enough. But Jarrett and Claudio/Yuta and White going on for the same length as the others? Pathetic. Claudio is Moxley's right-hand man, they couldn't state that enough, but Moxley cares enough about Jarrett to interfere in the match HIMSELF? What sort of bullshit is that? PAC is shelved in the back, nowhere near Death Triangle, let alone being any better. Shafir hasn't wrestled once(? ), Yuta's momentum has been completely killed off. What a badass group--holy shit. Yuta has become such a lackey that he hasn't used his music for months and didn't even get a new one. Speaking of music, Takeshita's music played off like 3 times during the beatdown? It looked hilarious. It didn't need to be that long, but Cage vs. Ospreay was easily the most impressive match, and Don Callis can really sell the story. Ricochet/Fox? A fine match, and the post-match was creative with Ricochet taking AR Fox hostage with scissors to save himself from the stomp. Again, a talent at White's caliber should be able to beat Yuta in 5-6 minutes easily, simply because that's how Yuta is presented nowadays. More Death Riders beatdowns and Rated FTR making the save--boring as hell. The Main Event was alright but didn't connect because Yuka (I don't know how many times I've had to say this) doesn't really have a place in AEW. Hell, Riho (a former champion) doesn't have a place in AEW. They're being used for throwaway matches. Aside from that, a good promo from Mariah May, although I still think it was an early call to reveal Timeless Toni Storm. She doesn't get enough credit, I feel (compared to Toni at least), but she's written like a star all over her, and it's becoming more obvious day by day. Hangman doing Hangman stuff, MJF doing MJF. If AEW wants to maintain any credibility, they need to scrap the long-term plan with Death Riders (essentially a Mox story, the rest doesn't matter). People still have no clue about it because everyone expected Shane or someone to be the mastermind behind that, and it was supposed to create turmoil within the company. That didn't happen, and now people stopped caring. So, remind people that Christian still has the contract instead of cooling him down further, change the title ASAP. People have had enough--they've been expressing it week in and week out, and look where we are."

[3.0] "I refuse to believe this is the company that put on the Continental Classic or even last week's Collision. The obsession with being 2010s sports entertainment and the Death Riders being the bloodline is baffling. It's a storyline with a bad premise executed in a repetitive bad manner with people completely miscast. DAX HARWOOD SAID HE HE AS NO PROBLEM WITH HOW DEATH RIDERS DO BUSINESSS HE JUST CARES ABOUT RICKY GODAMN MORTON! Collision was great because it had no Jericho or JJ or Cope or Death Riders. This show was mostly that and outside of it we had one very good match + post match in Cage/Ospreay and its follow up, a Ricochet/AR Fox match that went too long but was still decent and a main event that was not setup to succeed at all but still did well. Felt like a show booked by someone who hates wrestling and not the super forum poster who gave us things like 2021 and last week's Collision. I AM TIRED OF THE WHIPLASH! ..............Moving this down to 3 just because the only babyfaces who ever get to stood tall on this show were RATEDFTR. Every other segment had the heels standing tall by the end."

[5.0] "I am a diehard AEW fan. Spent more money on tickets than I care to admit, have always stood up for the company. But it's getting harder and harder. The best of AEW is still better than any other wrestling company in the world. Will Ospreay, Swerve, Kenny Omega, Hangman. These are the stars of the promotion and it feels like, everything they touch is must see television (I loved Ospreay/Cage and the beatdown - easily the best thing on the show). However, none of those names mentioned are currently in the main event scene. Instead we have The Death Riders, Adam Copeland and Jeff Jarrett. This Death Riders storyline is consistently the worst thing on the show. Rated FTR has go-away heat with me, I cannot stand the fact we're doing another "stand up for AEW" storyline (so soon after Team AEW vs The Elite) and that this is likely heading towards another repetitive Blood and Guts, Anarchy in the Arena "season". I hope AEW rests the stipulation faction warfare matches this year, so they can return fresh in 2026. Because these two factions and their storyline is NOT IT. I don't care about any of it and it makes me not want to watch the product - a product that features some of my favorite wrestlers in the entire world. Maybe the Jeff Jarrett storyline would be enjoyable if he was the only "legend' in a prominent position. But we also have Adam Copeland going after the title and Christian with his "Money in the Bank" rip off contract. It's too much. Granted, this is the first week I've enjoyed the interactions between MJF and Jarrett, but the Claudio match gave Jarrett waaay too much (and it took Mox's finisher and Claudio's finisher, twice, to put him away? ). Plus, the Death Rider interference was terrible. It feels very "Bloodline" - it's becoming way too predictable for a faction that are supposed to be ass kickers, not cheaters. Why aren't they winning matches clean? ! The match would've been much more enjoyable without all the shenanigans. The company feels like it's putting all its egg in the "ex-WWE" basket, and not investing in their future. Why is this company not built around Takeshita? Or Fletcher? Or Ospreay? Or Swerve? Or Hangman? AEW, I am begging you to remember what made this company great. What made AEW an alternative. Because right now, I feel like I'm watching Smackdown in 2005 and not the company that re-ignited my love for wrestling."

[6.0] "Didn't expect a great show when I saw the card, and it's alright to have some "standard" weeklys sometimes, but AEW can still do better than that. Jeff Jarrett vs Claudio with all the Death Riders bs is what I disliked the most. Thank god "double J" didn't win, I hope the match with MJF is gonna be a quick one, because the real interest is a Adam Page vs MJF feud, and speaking of Hangman, we never knew why he was looking for Swerve during the backstage promo with Renee. The other things I didn't like was the too much recaps especially just before the main event, leave that shit to the other company, that's annoying, we don't have the memory span of a goldfish ffs. Also Ospreay vs Brian Cage was too short and the aftermatch beatdown too long and lacked some impact, still feels like the big feud and can't wait for the tag match in Australia. I liked the rest of the show, Jay White vs Wheeler Yuta was some good ol' wrassling, I was afraid this would be some House of Torture tier bullshit but no, Yuta gave a good fight and I don't mind the Switchblade vs Moxley (probably) for Grand Slam. Ricochet vs AR Fox is my MOTN and loved the after match with Swerve! Mercedes Moné vs Yuka Sakazaki wasn't perfect but still a good main event, still don't like Moné's finisher tho. Collision was taped and the card doesn't scream banger too, the weakest AEW week for 2025 yet."

[6.0] "AEW's great parts right now really are great, the Omega/Ospreay vs Callis family stuff rules, Swerve/Ricochet, womens stuff is awesome but good lord everything around the death riders just feels so flat and empty but it shouldn't! You've got such awesome talent in this but the death riders just do not come off as they should, a looooong match between White/Yuta that went on what felt like forever hurt this show alot and lowers my rating from a 7 to a 6, I still enjoyed this show but the death riders angle is just not working."