[5.0] "As I said in my review of the match, MJF vs Cole wasn't my cup of tea, although it was a point of interest in the show. The main event was nice, with the post-match segment being the peak of this Dynamite. The other matches were skippable, there were no memorable promos, the build for Forbidden Door is super disappointing and nothing too important happened."
[8.0] "While I wouldn't go as far as to call it one of the greatest Dynamites ever, I would say it's one of the strongest episodes this year thanks to the opener and main event. The only weak point was the match between Wardlow and Jake Hager which wasn't a surprise to me but at least it wasn't particularly long. MJF's match quality continues to be great even if the title reign hasn't been as great as I thought it would be and The Elite/BCC feud continues to be hot. Overall i'd give it an 8/10"
[7.0] "Didnt think this show was as good as many have made it out to be seemingly. Opener was among Coles best AEW matches although I thought it fizzled out toward the end largely when Cole was on offense. The middle three matches were varying degrees of ok. Good main event. Better than a number of recent Dynamites and not a bad show but nothing overly exceptional."
[9.0] "Great show overall. I was not as into MJF/Cole as others but it wasn't bad. Main event was super cool and the post match was even better, popped massive for the return of Kingston."
[9.0] "One of the most fun Dynamites of the year, and I'd wager one of the better ones of all time. I can't go 10/10 perfect - but if every Dynamite had the same quality and vibe that this one did, I'm not sure I would have room for complaints ever again. MJF/Cole was a fantastic opener and is exactly the type of match Cole has needed to have for a very long time. A fun 8-man tag, a quick but fun Women's Title match, and an incredibly strong Main Event with a post match angle that had me buzzed for HOURS afterwards."
[8.0] "A fantastic opener between MJF and Adam Cole, some fun multiman party matches and a solid, albeit the usual Outsiders interference ridden, womens match. Wardlow/Hager was meh... but sadly that's the state of TNT Title and has been for a long time."
[8.0] "Great show overall, amazing first hour with Cole vs MJF and amazing ending with the very good main event and the post match. But the middle of the show was kinda mid (no pun intended), the 6 man tag was a lot of fun but it felt rushed, Wardlow vs Hager was an extended squash, and Toni vs Skye was too short. I very much liked the forbidden door matches annoucements, I looked forward to MJF vs Tanahashi since a long time"
[7.0] "Pretty solid episode, Forbidden door always reduced actual storytelling to introduce random wrestlers, main event was a spot fest as usual. Trios matches are always the same in AEW. There were surprise debuts as well which was pretty good."
[8.0] "Good ass Dynamite. Very good opener until the referee shenanigans but I get why it needed to be done. I also enjoyed Toni Storm vs. Sky Blue. Blue's improvement over the last year has been tremendous. AEW is so fucking back with Eddie returning. Can't wait to see where this goes! (Haters will say it isn't the summer of JungleHook but it's so on.)"
[8.0] "I'm not as high on the opener as everyone else at all, and it's probably MJFs worst match since becoming champion but overall it was still a good match. The Punk video package for Collison was really good. Jericho/Sting faceoff was cool, but the actual segment itself was meh. Why was Wardlow/Hager on the show? Skye vs Toni was fine and the 8 man tag was very chaotic as it should have been plus was a good match. The main event was great, and the segment after it was even better, which is the reason why this show was great."
[8.0] "A very good to great Dynamite, bookended by two fantastic matches. The show feels like its on an upward trajectory and with Forbidden Door looming/the return of a certain controversial figure, this return to form is very welcome."
[9.0] "The energy and vibes are back baby! That's how you Dynamite. From the opening match which was an all-timer TV bout, right until the last hidden blade dished out by Ospreay, everything made me more excited for Forbidden Door and the next several months of TV. Fantastic!"
[10.0] "This stands out as a great dynamite. I thought all the matches were fun. And the forbidden door announcements were off the hook. The ending was chaotic and reminiscent of old Raws and Nitros. Huge star power all around"
[9.0] "A show with great things, I do not think it is the best because some fights were left to owe or rather, I expected more, but overall it is a very good show. Recommended to continue seeing the stories facing Forbbiden Door and some more things."
[7.0] "A nice start with the first two matches and a bit of a drop-off after that, but there were so many announcements and match-teases by the end of it that it felt like so much was happening. There were definitely some lower points but all in all, this got me more interested in upcoming shows and left me feeling that the wheels are in motion in AEW. Hopefully they're out of the holding pattern they've been in recently. Time will tell, but this was a pretty good sign. Some of the Forbidden Door matches seem a little weird or wasteful right now (Perry vs Sanada is definitely weird), but they're all cherries on the cake of Okada vs Danielson and Omega vs Ospreay at this point."
[9.0] "What an absolute banger this show was. Not only did we have incredible wrestling on this show in the form of MJF vs Cole, which is one of the best TV matches of the year, and the main event, which led to an absolutely insane ending to the show, but we had some great announcements for upcoming shows, including a ton of matches for Collision which made me genuinely hyped for the show, an absolute banger of a card for Rampage, and two matches for Forbidden Door in MJF vs Tanahashi and, weirdly, Jungle Boy vs SANADA, which looks strange on paper, but should be pretty great and will hopefully lead to Jack turning heel. It's not a perfect show, as Wardlow vs Hager was kinda mid and I didn't really care for the Jericho/Sammy/Darby/Sting segment, but those were honestly minor flaws on what was yet another phenomenal episode of TV."
[10.0] "This was pretty incredible. AEW is firing on all cylinders ahead of the Collision debut and the Forbidden Door pay per view. Cole and MJF had a beautiful match to start off the show on the right foot, then the Eight Man Tag Team Match was pure chaos (sometimes too much, but mostly good). Loved Cage's Road Warrior tribute. I am also fine with pairing Darby and Sting with Jericho and Sammy, as the latter's dynamic is also a big part of the story already. Wardlow and Arn works for me, although Wardlow's new singlet attire does not. Hager was fine and bumped great for Wardlow, but this nevertheless was the lowlight of the show. Storm and Blue had a good match and I can see Skye Blue becoming a great babyface one day, with a bit more experience and more exciting offense. Storm is intimidatingly great as 2-time champion so far, she is on the top of her game and I like Ruby as sidekick more than in the ring. The main event was a good match, but the story was the 7-minute aftermath with a litany of surprises, returns and ambushes. Loved Danielson congratulating Ospreay, oh what a match that will be some day. The interviews and match announcements were great as well. Tanahashi/MJF? Yup. Sanada/Perry? A bit out of nowhere, but I like it. Miro and Andrade returning on Saturday? Yes, please. CM Punk talking already, and Switchblade already kicking up dust against the returning superstar? Oh yes. Very, very promising. Overall, I cannot not give the show best marks for the overall quality, presentation and storyline advancements."
[9.0] "What a great dynamite that was. Some awesome matches for FD were announced, 2 great matches, great crowd and a bit of glock anderson makes for a great time."
[8.0] "After two mediocre to ok episodes this felt fresh and renewed. While we had some mid matches, as it is always the case, we also had two of the most fun TV matches of the year in just one night, which is a testament of the quality in display here. It wasn't an all timer, but definetly a step on the right direction while building towards the next week, when the highly anticipated Forbidden Door II will take place."
[10.0] "We in DC had a great time. A show that was a blast top to bottom. From the opening classic to the red hot closing angle it was a show where you could barely sit down."
[8.0] "Great show. If this show was meant to help build up Collision's debut this Saturday then AEW delivered solidly. Now they just have to keep the momentum up for Rampage."
[10.0] "One of the greatest endings to a Dynamite ever! Pop after pop after pop for 5 full minutes. And all of it made sense and served to further a story. They are building to what could legitimately be one of the best PPVs of all time. Awesome opener, fun 8 man, Skye Blue looked great in defeat. Wardlow amd Hager was... short. Awesome show."
[10.0] "This is one of the best Dynamite of the year and perhaps history. All matches were good, even TNT was enjoyable. The segments were also all well crafted."
[9.0] "I feel like AEW is on a heater right now. Elite/BCC, Bullet Club Gold/Starks, MJF/Cole... It going to be a great summer. I also think they're doing a great job of building to Forbidden Door with videos/promos while also continuing their own AEW stories."
[10.0] "This was one of the best episodes of Dynamite in quite some time. It got me pumped up for Forbidden Door and the direction of the company in general."
[6.0] "Decided to watch AEW tonight. It was relatively unremarkable. The main thing I felt was that Khan seems really headstrong on a lot of his ideas. Like it feels like he was CONVINCED that the crowd saw Sammy as a white-hot babyface and didn't care to change plans. The matches were all real fun to watch, and good wrestling. However, the combination of weird finishes and meh promos was pretty strange to me. The only non-match thing that excited me was seeing that CM Punk vignette. Saturday could be make or break for this company."
[7.0] "Up and down episode, largely accomplished setting up future matches for Forbidden Door. Of course the ending was one of AEW's best for a Dynamite in company history, but also there was a shitty Wardlow match, and an unremarkable women's title match. Kickoff match did it's job to further the storyline between Cole and MJF."
[10.0] "This felt like the Summer Season Premiere of All Elite Wresting. This was an all-timer of an episode of #AEWDynamite. As my friend Pat said, "Awesome show! They needed it and they delivered. A little flabbergasted by Jungle Boy, but seems to be setting up a heel turn nicely so I'll take it. Great stuff! " This show had great variety: Pro Wrestling: Adam Cole vs MJF was excellent modern pro wrestling with some classic sports entertainment involved in the finish. Would it have been better if they had been calling out the time cues throughout the match? Probably, but they would have needed to be more consistent with that throughout all long matches the way they did back in the early days of AEW. I suspected that this match was going to go to a time-limit draw because I didn't think they were going to have MJF lose for the first time since DON 2022 and I didn't think they were going to have Adam Cole lose either. The 8-Man Tag had some great spots with the Orange Cassidy and Darby tandem dives, the Orange Punch into the Scorpion Death Drop, etc. Homegrown AEW Stars: Darby Allin, Orange Cassidy, Jungle Boy Jack Perry, Hook, Wardlow, Sammy Guevara, Wheeler Yuta, Daniel Garcia, The Gunns, Konosuke Takeshita The AEW Foundation Pieces: The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, Hangman Adam Page The Impact WWE Signings: Chris Jericho, Jon Moxley, Bryan Danielson, Adam Cole, Swerve Strickland (props to him for making himself and impact signing) The NJPW talent: Tanahashi, Sanada, Zack Sabre Jr., and then Will Ospreay making a physical impact in his return to AEW. Another big return: Eddie Kingston. Nostalgia with a twist: Jericho and Sting are holdovers from wrestling's hottest historical period, but neither of them have interacted before."
[9.0] "An all-timer episode here with the incredible opening match and insane finish. The CM Punk hype video did its job of making me interested. The Guevara/Darby/Jericho promo was good. It had the usual Dynamite lull when the second hour started, but stuck the landing with one of the best finishes in their history. My favourite episode in quite a while."
[9.0] "Very good show, not one bad match or segment. Nothing bad at all. This Collision and Forbidden Door build up is exceptional. Everything to like about the product at the moment. Khan doesnt need much help but to stay consistent. P.D. Yes, this is mocking a certain troll down there giving 0/10 while clearly not watching the show. Dont ruin Cagematch and troll elsewhere. Theres Twitter for that."
[7.0] "Two sides to this Dynamite - matches where seemingly everyone put in a B+ to A- shift; and a lot of building towards Collision and Forbidden Door. The opener was good but suffered familiar drawbacks. The multi-man tags were chaotic but clean. The ending was great, shining a light on so many. Great TV-match performances from MJF, Keith Lee, Swerve, Cage, The Hung Bucks, and Mox."
[10.0] "Great dynamite with a great opener, a great main event, solid match between Toni storm and skye blue. We have a surprises returns, big match announcements."
[9.0] "Easily one of the best Dynamites of the year, and an argument could be made for one of the best since the show started in 2019. Every match delivered, especially the opener and the main event, where everyone involved COOKED. Add in some more hype for Forbidden Door, and you've got yourself a stellar show top to bottom."
[9.0] "Fantastic show: opener was great, the 8-man tag match was very chaotic and fun, Hager vs. Wardlow wasn't very good as well as Storm vs. Blue and the main event was great with a wild post-match that saw the return of Eddie Kingston and the arrival of Will Ospreay. Guevara/Jericho promo was pretty good and Jericho going face to face with Sting was a great moment. Lots of announcements for Forbidden Door: Jack Perry vs. Sanada and Mjf vs. Tanahashi look very good on paper despite no build-up."
[9.0] "Not a perfect show, but it felt like the absolute best of AEW. Awesome opening match, great chaotic multi-man, decent hoss fight, solid women's title match (Skye Blue is really starting to get where she needs to be) and an awesome main event. Bunch of surprise returns, match announcements and big moments. AEW is at it's best with these exciting hot shows, and if this is a sign of things to come then we are in for an absolutely magical summer of wrestling."
[6.0] "I liked a lot here, but mostly the shorter things, while the longer stuff usually didn't do much for me. MJF vs Cole was very mediocre. MJF's overly performative heel schtick and abandoned arm-targeting were annoying, while Cole's babyface-selling was completely heartless. I at least liked MJF's early arm-targeting, and I appreciated Coles consistent arm-selling despite him showing zero emotion. Their trades were okay, though their run-on counters were overly cooperative. The ref bump, MJFs superman booking, and the convenience of, plus literal non-existent teasing/foreshadowing of, the time-limit running out was all REALLY bad. **1/2. Punk teasing a big tell-all for Collision was great. The Sammy, Darby, and Jericho segment was forgettable. Sammy and Darby still can't talk, Sammy still doesn't work as a babyface, and I don't care for another Sammy-vs-Jericho dissension tease. Sanada vs Jungle Boy at Forbidden Door is very disappointing. The 8-man tag was alright. Both teams hit a bunch of cool spots/sequences, with the babyfaces showing good energy and the heels showing good aggression. Nothing special but enjoyable enough for a mindless sprint. ***. The Gunns' backstage interview was pretty entertaining, since their arrogant and self-absorbed attitudes are presented very convincingly. Wardlow vs Hager was a forgettable powerhouse match. It didn't help that the crowd was dead due to Wardlow's poor booking and Hager's irrelevance. The effortless interference and ramp brawl sucked, but Wardlow showed sparks of excitement at the end. **1/4. Christian and Saurus' attack on Arn was forgettable, especially because it was quickly brushed aside to unintentionally emphasise how unimportant it was. Tanahashi challenging MJF for the AEW World Title was very cool, and MJF refusing it and demeaning NJPW afterwards was pretty funny. Sabre was very entertaining in the backstage segment with Cassidy and Garcia. Toni vs Skye was surprisingly okay. Toni's 'ditzy coward' heel work is aggravating, but her impactful attacks and arrogant character work remain quite entertaining. Skye was a bit sloppy but did well with her energetic comebacks. I don't even mind The Outcasts' interference now because they usually time it well and mix in entertaining character work, plus their dominance now feels significant. **3/4. Page & The Bucks vs Claudio, Moxley & Yuta was surprisingly good for a generic AEW main-event multi-man spotfest. The Bucks still do little for me, but BCC as a team of brawling brutes was fun, and Moxley, Claudio, and Page all had moments of delivering some nice big strikes. The big run-on trades at the end were mindless but chaotically enjoyable with the impressively quick pace, too. ***1/4. The post-match segment continued to chaos in mostly exciting fashion. Kingston's run-in was lame, but Takeshita, Omega, and Ospreay's run-ins were all progressively more and more exciting, with that strong finish bumping the show up a bit."
"A Fantastic 30 minute draw, a fun multi man tag, a decent cooldown/setup match, a young wrestler getting a chance to show why they belong and a 2 loved groups show why they are some of the best in the business. 4 run-ins, all with very clear setups for the future. AEW reminds me why it is the promotion that made me come back to wrestling."
[10.0] "one of the best opener of this year, that time limit draw was very good. Sting and Jericho will be so awesome, i cant wait for that . Forbidden door annoucements really hyped up the episodes.But the ending was one of the greatest in AEW history. Eddie is back, Kenny is back and Ospreay in the end .Cant for forbidden door and eddie and jon rivalry"
[7.0] "Really good opener as MJF continues to have a great track record with his match quality and Adam Cole showing that the problem was with Jericho and not him in their match at Double or Nothing. However, after this the show went a bit downhill with 3 very average matches in a row, with me personally still not seeing it with Toni Storm and Jake Hager and Wardlow having a heatless match. The main event could have been better as well so overall a slightly above average show thanks to the main event."
[9.0] "very good show, the main event gave a special flavor to everything. Hangman Page and the Young Bucks create strong emotions already at the entrance. The Bucks dressed as cowboys makes you smile after all the past fights. Blackpool is now a guarantee of good and well-structured matches, Castagnoli and Yuta do a good job as a tag team and Moxley is a great hitter. Many important moments also for Forbidden Door, this year they are preparing it much better. Nice spotlight for Skye Blue, short match, but she was able to show herself well, the Storm Zero kickout is a credit fort the future in my opinion. The series of run in after the main event , with Ospreay and Omega at last, closed the episode with a lot of extra adrenaline, a good choice. The opening match is a first time ever with a final minutes very incredible and great storytelling. Adam Cole is not 100% for me but this match is a first fight intense in his returns in action Various announcements also for Collision, the video of Cm Punk is nice, but also that of FTR and Bullet Club Gold which is finally starting to do something more concrete. Samoa Joe could tip the balance of that main event but in the meantime Dynamite is confirmed as the main and best show of All Elite Wrestling"
[10.0] "Haven't been a fan of AEW for the last few months but this was just a great show. The bits I didn't like (Wardlow/Hager and the Women's title match) were not harmful towards my overall experience of the show. Fantastic opener, good enough main event and a fun 8-man tag. Also: It's great to see that they're building to Forbidddn Door WAY better than last year. More singles matches and more intruiging ones too. ZSJ vs OC and SANADA vs Jack Perry could both be very good, even though I would have preferred other options more. The only match coming up on that card that I'm really not looking forward too is MJF vs Tana since we're past the point of Tanahashi going for big titles."
[10.0] "An amazing episode. Every match was fun to watch, and the synergy with the crowd was evident. Definitely Cole's best match since his injury. I loved the 8 man tag with the Embassey. Keith Lee, Swerve and Brian Cage looking good in that. Toni Storm is absolutely my favorite female performer in the company, and Skye looked good again. In the main event is was so good to see the Hungmen back together. The series of returns at the end felt like a PPV preview. Kingston, Osprey. Also, Rene Paquette had a lot of subtle moments where she shined. An episode filled with everything I love about pro wrestling."
[8.0] "This episode genuinely has something for everyone. An opener that was PPV quality, full of MJF's signature heel work, grounded offense, and excellent match psychology. A fun multiman with both generational and hot young talent all getting their shit in. A solid ladies' match, a hoss match, and a bonkers six man high flying bonanza that closes the show with the hottest angle in the company. Lots of great promo work and story progression throughout the episode, as well as pushing the Forbidden Door build up."
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