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A special edition of AEW Dynamite dubbed Fright Night Dynamite will air tonight from the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio. As per usual, All Elite Wrestling treats these as mini pay-per-views of sort, usually with some pretty interesting matches that could be game changers. After all, we do have a title versus team match in the mix where if Private Party doesn’t win the AEW World Tag Team Championship, they’ll split up.
My question for you today is “What are your predictions for AEW Fright Night Dynamite?”
Remember to answer with your response in the comments below.
When it comes to the promo segments of “hearing from Adam Page” and “Orange Cassidy live”, there isn’t much to predict. Page will likely complain about Jay White, they’ll get into a trash talking fit, and brawl. Cassidy, I’m assuming, will talk about how he’s going to step up and challenge Jon Moxley.
As far Adam Cole versus Buddy Matthews, it would be pretty awful for this whole thing to be just that Matthews wants to prove Cole is fragile, only for exactly that to happen. I don’t think anyone wants Cole’s return match to be a job scenario and something depressing. Cole wins and proves him wrong.
Kris Statlander could very well beat Kamille in order to set herself up for a future TBS Championship match. That would be the simplest route to take. I’m not particularly fond of Kamille losing already, but at least it would be to one of the tallest women on the roster. If they want to cheap out, Kamille will lose by disqualification, but they don’t tend to do DQ finishes all that often. Maybe they wrestle to a draw? I’d rather them not, but it’s a possibility. I’ll still go with Statlander winning for my prediction.
Swerve Strickland beats Shelton Benjamin. The bigger fish is Bobby Lashley. Benjamin got his wins over Lio Rush and Sammy Guevara to build him up, but as much of a fan of him as I am, let’s not fool ourselves here and think that he’s on a fast track to a world title. Strickland is the bigger deal for sure, and unless Lashley isn’t going to be signing any time soon and it really does revolve around Benjamin beating Swerve to prove a point that he should join, or that Lio Rush screws over Swerve in order to make himself available to MVP, then I’m sticking with Strickland getting the W.
Lastly, Private Party against The Young Bucks. It’s not impossible for the titles to change hands, especially since they could just drop the titles back to The Young Bucks soon after. But whenever there’s a bonus stipulation attached to a match like in this scenario, even though it isn’t an absolute guarantee, I tend to lean more in that direction. They did JUST have a whole thing about how Zay and Quen haven’t improved as a team in five years. Wouldn’t it be more interesting for them to lose and pursue singles careers, rather than to just immediately wake up, win the tag titles, and feel like the journey is over? It’s not as though if they split up that they can never ever under any circumstances become a tag team again. If they split and can’t get over as singles stars (and, to be honest, I think it’s highly unlikely they do manage to do great on their own), then Tony Khan can just turn around and put them back together and fans will cheer. Therefore, I’m going with The Young Bucks retaining.
What do you think? Drop your thoughts below!