After leaving WWE at SummerSlam this year, the wrestling world speculated what was next
for Renee Paquette, the older version of Renee Young.
The answer was first, a cookbook.
Secondly, her new podcast called ‘Oral Sessions’.
I hear your mum is the first guest.
And, in the biggest project announcement yet, birthing a human child.
Baby time!
Who’s a big baby?
As her AEW Champion husband Jon Moxley slyly revealed on Dynamite last night, with the
throwaway line “I’ve got a pregnant wife at home”, Renee then confirmed the news
with a cute Instagram post of her and Mox celebrating the news.
Though we weren’t the first to know, as Renee revealed on Twitter she thought she
was texting baby updates to Moxley, but was accidentally sending them to Bayley.
How do you get those mixed up?
Who’s a Bayley?
With Roman Reigns having twins back in March and Seth Rollins expecting his debut child
next month with Becky Lynch, could that mean…
Shield Babies spin-off cartoon confirmed.
But will they go to WWE, or to the potentially mega alliance of AEW and IMPACT?
In recent months, IMPACT Wrestling has had an increasing presence on AEW programming.
First it was IMPACT Co-Executive Vice President Don Callis appearing on video packages talking
up Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega, and then actually cameoing on commentary for the latter’s
Full Gear match against Hangman Page.
And then on last night’s episode, we got current IMPACT creative team member Konnan
cameo in the Inner Circle’s Las Vegas trip with his former LAX members Santana and Ortiz.
And on top of that, current IMPACT tag team the Motor City Machine Guns were name-dropped
by new AEW team Top Flight as an influence on the show, which Alex Shelley responded
to with: “But I do want to put this out there.
@SuperChrisSabin and myself versus @youngbucks versus @TopFlight612.
3 generations of tag team wrestling.
@IMPACTWRESTLING or @AEW.
Don’t care.”
The Young Bucks’ mates Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson also hold significant sway backstage
in IMPACT, and Bullet Club is 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 life.
And Tony Khan did tease last week the balance of wrestling power will be shifting.
Do you think we’ll see an AEW and IMPACT partnership happening?
Let me know in the comments down below.
This year’s WWE Draft is still seemingly in flux.
Whether it’s Survivor Series being promoted around Brand Warfare when the majority of
talent have just switched brands, or Drew McIntyre randomly showing up on SmackDown,
the idea of a Draft is somehow becoming even more undermined than usual.
And now there’s been another change.
In the very final announced pick on Raw Talk following the second night of the draft, NXT’s
Arturo Ruas was drafted to Raw.
He hasn’t appeared on the show at all since though.
And last night, he turned back up on NXT to face Kushida, with NXT’s Twitter even going
so far as to tweet out “He’s BACK.
NEXT.” as if they hadn’t just drafted him to the main roster at all.
Whether he’s been officially moved back to NXT, or this is some sort of cross-brand
invitational wildcard rule brand warfare extravaganza, we’re yet to find out.
And now it’s time for a review of last night’s episode of AEW Dynamite in about 5 minutes!
The show opened with RETRIBUTION INVADING DYNAMITE, oh my go-oh no, wait, it’s new
AEW signees Top Flight.
A video package told us a bit more about them, where my main takeaway was how they grew up
watching the Young Bucks and the Motor City Machine Guns and I’m so god damn old.
They looked pretty good against tag team champions the Young Bucks with all the flips, and they
were immediately given something to do on Dark with Hybrid2 attacking them in the post-match
angle.
We got a great trailer for Director X’s upcoming AEW documentary film History of a
Revolution.
But before that’s fully released, we’re getting AEW’s version of the Hangover.
Split across two segments, the Inner Circle’s trip to Las Vegas was as funny as you’d
expect, based around Sammy hating MJF, and MJF and Jericho trying to one-up each other’s
alcohol consumption.
Which made them so drunk Konnan appeared from IMPACT Wrestling, Chris Jericho’s drunken
topless brother turned up, and we got the newest addition to the Inner Circle: Elvis!
On waking up the next morning, MJF had writing all over his face, Sammy had gotten married
three times.
And they even had a baby, with the cliffhanger ending of finding Hornswoggle in a diaper.
It’s set a hard act to follow for Kip Sabian’s bachelor party, which still hasn’t happened.
Miro promised it would take place soon while commentating on Kip’s loss to Orange Cassidy.
Miro clobbered Cassidy afterwards to continue this feud that still hasn’t really caught
fire.
After Game of Thrones has become synonymous with ‘disappointing ending’ since it finished
last year, the Mox vs Omega feud using the ‘Winter is Coming’ tagline feels a bit
dated.
But everything else was unsurprisingly awesome.
Moxley cut a fantastic promo, providing a rare glimpse into his personal history - saying
he’s the way he is because of his dad, a really touching sentiment given Renee’s
just-announced pregnancy.
But he was knocked unconscious backstage by a mystery attacker, which is presumably self-declared
No. 1 contender Lance Archer.
Kenny still signed the contract alone in the ring, but unfortunately he’d brought a Japanese
pen, as it no-selled him writing his own name.
From his very first move, a shotgun dropkick to the corner, I realised just how much I’d
missed watching PAC wrestle for the last 8 months.
The way he strikes is so different to everyone else, as though he snaps rather than moves.
PAC overcame loads of interference from Allie and the Butcher, and his own personal ring
rust, to make Blade tap in the Brutaliser.
But because AEW is all about those factions, Eddie Kingston, Butcher and Blade beat him
up afterwards - leading to Fenix, and then Pentagon to make the save, reuniting Death
Triangle!
It’s a shame we didn’t get a longer run for the five-man version of Kingston’s Family,
but this all may serve a larger, trios championship purpose.
Then came one of the most shocking developments in AEW for the whole of 2020.
They actually built their women’s division.
Firstly, the enormous Jade Cargill beat up Brandi backstage, stomping her arm in a chair,
while Nyla Rose and Vickie Guerrero stopped others from helping Rhodes.
Which is a storyline!
And then not only did we get the best women’s TV match in months, with Serena Deeb defending
her NWA Women’s title against Thunder Rosa.
They also set up another storyline feud there as Britt Baker attacked Rosa following their
Twitter spat, arguably costing her the match.
And remembering they had their own AEW Women’s championship afterwards, John Silver hyped
up Anna Jay’s title match against Shida for next week - meaning hopefully all this
development won’t just be forgotten in favour of a random Tay Conti vs Red Velvet match.
AEW does have the talent.
A lack of depth has never been the issue, just their excuse.
Nyla Rose, Shida, Rosa, Deeb and Baker are more than enough to create a competitive women’s
division.
Darby Allin debuted his latest black and white short film of his leg on fire in a church.
Because of the pain and religion, man.
After which he went onto tag with Cody Rhodes against Team Taz’s Brian Cage and Ricky
Starks.
Taz interfered during the JR-approved picture-in picture adbreak - seriously, he loves those
things - which let Cage and Starks work over Cody.
But Brian did not have any time for Darby’s eventual hot tag, or his own tag partner,
when he hit an insane double German suplex on both men following their brief triple spoooooon.
You gotta make time for snuggles in the main event.
Cage looked great here, and surprisingly, it was him who got the win with new champion
Darby taking the pin - hitting a 2nd rope Drill Claw for the win, surely setting up
Cage as the No. 1 contender for the TNT title.
But I could totally understand why they’d want to take a different route.
Because the show finished with an excellent heel turn reveal.
After two months of being involved in the TNT title picture, and weeks of not answering
Taz’s offer to join his team, Will Hobbs ran down for the babyface save of Cody and
Darby getting beaten up post-match.
He threw down the chair in a great bit of misdirection and posed with the FTW title
they’d left in the ring… to hit Cody over the head with it and join Team Taz!!!
It explains why Hobbs has been so late to save Cody and Darby in recent weeks, makes
Team Taz an even more formidable force, and sets up yet another three man unit for those
planned AEW six-man titles.
What did you think of AEW Dynamite?
Let me know in the comments down below.
And follow us on Twitter @wrestletalk_TV to give your rating - where a massive 46.5% thought
the show was Excellent, with Foxy Grandpa praising:
“finally gave the women something to -do-, and that final bit with team taz was so perfectly
what i loved in wrestling when i was a kid.
that late nineties full on faction warfare stuff, exquisite.
i am -INVESTED-.”
And I agree.
The Las Vegas skits were funny.
The in-ring wrestling was great.
The women’s division finally feels like it’s actually doing something.
And there were two great reveals in Pentagon and Hobbs.
This week’s Dynamite is an Excellent 4 out of 4.
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