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AEW Double or Nothing 2021 Review:

AEW returned to pay-per-view with Double or Nothing in front of a  full-capacity crowd at Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida. Despite a  few rough spots through the more than four hours of action, the show  delivered plenty of excitement and memorable moments, including an  incredible triple threat match for the AEW championship and the return  of the Stadium Stampede.

The Stadium Stampede closed the show,  featuring Chris Jericho's Inner Circle and MJF's Pinnacle battling  throughout TIAA Bank Field before ending inside Daily's Place in front  of the live crowd. The match, which featured a fun cameo from  Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer, was all spectacle, as the  first edition had been in 2020, providing a fitting close to one of  AEW's strongest pay-per-view cards in their short history.

Look, it’s entirely possible, maybe even probable, that  someone attending an AEW event this weekend in Jacksonville’s Daily’s  Place will give COVID to someone else. I have no idea whether everyone  is vaccinated, but just statistically speaking, a lot of them have to be. And they’re outside.

So it’s with little guilt that I saw... G-D it was cool to hear a full crowd reacting to a pro wrestling show again.

The May 28 Dynamite gave us that, and Double or Nothing will do it again on Sunday night. More shows from AEW and WWE will  follow, and that makes for better pro wrestling, and it maybe, just  maybe, means we’re coming out of the dark tunnel we entered into  collectively in early 2020.

Hearing the roar for Darby Allin’s music at the start of  last night’s broadcast, and then the jeers for the Wingmen’s attack, and  the pop when Dark Order runs in to save Sting? Wonderful.

And special recognition to this dude, representing for  all of us tattoo-ed men who are fired up but just a little too old to  scream at the top of our lungs and slam into the guy next to us like we  probably would have at a Social Distortion concert in 1992.

Look, it’s entirely possible, maybe even probable, that  someone attending an AEW event this weekend in Jacksonville’s Daily’s  Place will give COVID to someone else. I have no idea whether everyone  is vaccinated, but just statistically speaking, a lot of them have to be. And they’re outside.

So it’s with little guilt that I saw... G-D it was cool to hear a full crowd reacting to a pro wrestling show again.

The May 28 Dynamite gave us that, and Double or Nothing will do it again on Sunday night. More shows from AEW and WWE will  follow, and that makes for better pro wrestling, and it maybe, just  maybe, means we’re coming out of the dark tunnel we entered into  collectively in early 2020.

Hearing the roar for Darby Allin’s music at the start of  last night’s broadcast, and then the jeers for the Wingmen’s attack, and  the pop when Dark Order runs in to save Sting? Wonderful.

And special recognition to this dude, representing for  all of us tattoo-ed men who are fired up but just a little too old to  scream at the top of our lungs and slam into the guy next to us like we  probably would have at a Social Distortion concert in 1992.

Chris Jericho’s career was supposed to be in danger after he was thrown off the top of a steel cage and onto a bunch of cardboard at Blood & Guts last week. Yet he returned to Dynamite last night (May 12) without missing a single episode.

In one specific way, this angle reminded me of CM Punk only missing one episode of Raw after he walked out of WWE at Money in the Bank 2011.  After Punk returned, he was doing media rounds and said that ideally he  would have been out longer to better serve the story, but WWE had a  pay-per-view to sell (SummerSlam 2011) and they needed him back for the main event.

That’s exactly what I thought of when Jericho appeared on Dynamite to douse The Pinnacle in a Bubbly Bath. AEW has a pay-per-view to sell (Double or Nothing on May 30), and setting up a Stadium Stampede match between The Inner Circle and The Pinnacle is one way to do it.

When you are arguably the biggest star in the company,  the company doesn’t usually keep you off television for long. In this  case, AEW didn’t keep Jericho off television at all. Is it worthy of a  few eye rolls and a healthy dose of criticism? Sure! But can it also  produce a fun segment that gets fans hyped for the next pay-per-view?  Sure!

Jericho’s return was one of highlights of the episode, along with Miro crushing Darby Allin for the TNT championship, SCU splitting up, and Jon Moxley changing his entrance music for his clash with Yuji Nagata.

Chris Jericho’s career was supposed to be in danger after he was thrown off the top of a steel cage and onto a bunch of cardboard at Blood & Guts last week. Yet he returned to Dynamite last night (May 12) without missing a single episode.

In one specific way, this angle reminded me of CM Punk only missing one episode of Raw after he walked out of WWE at Money in the Bank 2011.  After Punk returned, he was doing media rounds and said that ideally he  would have been out longer to better serve the story, but WWE had a  pay-per-view to sell (SummerSlam 2011) and they needed him back for the main event.

That’s exactly what I thought of when Jericho appeared on Dynamite to douse The Pinnacle in a Bubbly Bath. AEW has a pay-per-view to sell (Double or Nothing on May 30), and setting up a Stadium Stampede match between The Inner Circle and The Pinnacle is one way to do it.

When you are arguably the biggest star in the company,  the company doesn’t usually keep you off television for long. In this  case, AEW didn’t keep Jericho off television at all. Is it worthy of a  few eye rolls and a healthy dose of criticism? Sure! But can it also  produce a fun segment that gets fans hyped for the next pay-per-view?  Sure!

Jericho’s return was one of highlights of the episode, along with Miro crushing Darby Allin for the TNT championship, SCU splitting up, and Jon Moxley changing his entrance music for his clash with Yuji Nagata.

The Pinnacle’s win over Inner Circle in the main event of May 5’s Dynamite has some folks calling it the best War Games match ever. Others crying  foul about lack of flow, a finish the found anti-climactic, and  production issues. In other words, like a lot of things A-E-Dub, it was polarizing.

The Pinnacle’s win over Inner Circle in the main event of May 5’s Dynamite has some folks calling it the best War Games match ever. Others crying  foul about lack of flow, a finish the found anti-climactic, and  production issues. In other words, like a lot of things A-E-Dub, it was polarizing.

We had a huge episode of AEW Dynamite ahead of next week's Blood and Guts special.

The latest installment of Dynamite was headlined by a TNT Championship match between Darby Allin and 10 of The Dark Order.

We also saw a lot of buildup for next week's show with a number of matches announced.

The AEW debut of NJPW legend, Yuji Nagata, was also announced for the May 12 episode of AEW Dynamite.