Rating: 91% - Must Watch A brief moment of respite before the schedule goes all higgeldy-piggeldy. It’s the Dynamite before the Dynamite before Double or Nothing and many - though not all - the stops were pulled out. Despite being chock full of talking, this episode does not drag. Christian Cage puts in his best showing yet, Mox and Eddie versus The Acclaimed contains all the verbal fireworks you would expect, The Varsity Blonds acquit themselves well against the Young Bucks. Match of the Night,...
May 20, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Rating: 82% - Must Watch Twin rays of sunshine Theresa Gumprecht and Calder Holbrook are joined by Chan the Grouch this week - but this still manages to be yet another Must Watch episode. We discuss one of the possible reasons why early on. Join us!
May 13, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Rating: 95% - Must Watch How AEW can regularly put out PPV-quality shows on free(ish) television is beyond us, but here we are again. From top to bottom(ish), this is all killer no filler. Omega makes the most of every moment he’s on screen this week - and he’s on it a lot. The floor is positively LITTERED with great promos. Blood and Guts lives up to precedent set by the mighty War Games PPVs of the ‘80s. For reals(ish) - if this doesn’t float your boat, you’re probably just not a fan of profes...
May 06, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Rating: 83% - Must Watch If your main knock against AEW is not enough time spent in limos, on Harleys, or atop buses, boy is this the show for you! Vehicles abound this episode and the high point is a killer Penta / Orange Cassidy match that’s worth the price of admission alone. You might want to pull up shopaew.com while you’re listening to this one since we refer to it often. republicoflucha.com too. They don’t pay us, we’re just easily distracted....
Apr 29, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Rating: 95% - Must Watch(ish) Hey, it’s our one year anniversary since starting AEW Dynamite! Which is crazy because it felt like we had been doing Raw for years before that, but it was only about six months - THAT’S HOW EXHAUSTING IT WAS. This year has flown by! That being said, this may have been the dullest 95% show allowed by our current understanding of the physical laws of the universe. Everything is executed properly, but it all feels like setup for something else. Nothing wrong with that...
Apr 22, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Rating: 86% FOUR women’s segments? What is this, Shimmer? No, it’s AEW Dynamite and we’re finally seeing the kind of great women’s action we know the promotion is capable of! Plus, you’ve got Death Triangle and Young Bucks in the front, Allin and Hardy leaping off tall objects in the back - what more could you want? Oh, you say you want Don Callis superkicking a civilian, The Butcher and The Blade Moving Company, and southwestern egg rolls? Well … you got it! Hey, the one year anniversary of our...
Apr 15, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Rating: 70% - Worth Watching Even when AEW is at its lowest (correction: when *one* host is at his surliest), it’s still a pretty good show. Despite Chan making fart noises about EVERYTHING, everyone else had a good time. Death Triangle! Best Friends! Inner Circle! Pinnacle! Dark Order! Team Taz! Hardy Family Office! A former professional boxer of some renown with a facial tattoo and questionable morals! What more could you ask for?
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Rating: 86% A slow- sorry, a *methodical* start to the night, but by the time this show ends, it’s firing on all cylinders! Great stuff from all the brothers tonight - Lucha, Good, Jackson, Mario (probably)! Shocking returns! The Pixies! And most importantly, that damn Pepsi fridge gets what’s coming to it!
Apr 01, 2021•1 hr 19 min
Rating: 84% - Must Watch As we approach a year of watching AEW and reflect back on the good times and the … gooder times, we’re just thankful to have something to do during this friggin’ quarantine and we’re so happy you’ve joined us. Thanks for being here and don’t forget to Thumb Your Heart.
Mar 25, 2021•1 hr 15 min
At long last, the Simon Grimm interview! Simon Grimm - or occasionally Simon Gotch) is a twenty-year veteran of the biz. Formerly of the Vaudevillains in WWE, he is currently (as of the time we recorded this in early March) with MLW as well as Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport. Find him on Twitter https://twitter.com/deviousjourney on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gotchstylewwe/ and buy merch at prowrestlingtees.com/simonsays We talked to him for nearly two hours - if you’d like the complete inter...
Mar 20, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Rating: 92% - Must Watch Another episode reaching the high water mark of this podcast - no show has broken 92%, but three have equaled it. This time, it’s due in great part to that AMAZING main event. It’s the first women’s main in Dynamite history and boy do Thunder Rosa and Britt Baker deliver! Absolutely a candidate for Match of the Year. Do you need more? Well, Cody and Penta will give you more! Plus, Fenix and Angelico mix it up and knock it back with a lucha-style match. And, oh yeah, thre...
Mar 18, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Rating: 85% Must Watch If hearing grown men fangirl over Eddie Kingston is your thing, then boy have we got a podcast for you! It’s the first post-PPV episode of TV and all sorts of money moves are getting made! Most are amazing! Some are headscratchers. Some have made us (read: Chan) deeply, deeply ambivalent. But which are which? Cop a squat and find out!
Mar 11, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Rating: 88% - Must Watch Considering this PPV ran nearly four hours, a near-two hour podcast feels completely reasonable. However, if you’re looking for a slightly shorter recap, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! If, however, you wanna hear three goofballs completely dork out over an amazing pay-per-view, GET ON THIS ISH! Almost every single match is a unanimous thumbs up from us and this show delivers on almost every conceivable level - plus a few inconceivable ones! You wanna hear some idiots lose their m...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 51 min
Rating: 91% - Must Watch A hell of a go-home episode for the Revolution PPV this Sunday! Which is an even bigger accomplishment when you realize that there are at least TWO matches involving non-wrestlers that could have been an absolute disaster. We’ve got turkey tits! We’ve got loaded shoes! We’ve got Ricky Starks in slippers and Onita getting all misty over exploding rings! We’ve even got Johnny Hungee in the main event! What more could you want? Ice cream. With fudge sauce. And whipped cream...
Mar 04, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Rating: 85% - Must Watch Look - any show that starts with the Blue-Eyed Battler and Ends with The Supervisor of a Logging Camp can’t be anything less than Must See TV, right? As we approach the next AEW pay-per-view, Rev-OLD-lution (because of all the old people wrestling, you see? I GOT A DEGREE IN ENGLISH HOW DARE YOU MOCK MY WORDPLAY), there’s a lot to be wary of and a lot to be grateful for. Nyla Rose vs. Britt Baker is a killer match, possibly even better than the 20-minute Archer vs. Fenix...
Feb 25, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Well, if you've heard the last few episodes, you know we're going to unreservedly recommend you watch this show. Jon Moxley (former AEW champion, current IWGP United States champion) gives a hell of a performance in the main event that's still only the second or third best match on the show and it looks like he'll be facing off against the bookerman Josh Barnett in Bloodsport 6 tentatively titled "A Celebration of Violet by Hole" (we assume). Thoughts? Got some other non-WWE shows you'd like us ...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 15 min
MMA and pro wrestling legend Josh Barnett sits down with the hosts of AE Double Back to talk about his promotion, Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport and their upcoming PPV, Bloodsport 5 - featuring AEW stalwart Jon Moxley. Josh is one of the smartest - and funniest - minds in the fight game and he shares his decades of love and experience with three goofballs who know next to nothing. Find out how hard it is to find fighters with the skills required to make it in a Bloodsport ring, who he compares to the...
Feb 19, 2021•57 min
Rating: 85% - Must Watch You head will ASPLODE with the craziness this episode of Dynamite delivers! From the high-speed opening match to the bonkers intensity of the closer and the next-level madness of Omega picking a stipulation for his match with Mox - it’s out of control. Also, someone thought a gender reveal segment was a good idea. Eh, can’t win ‘em all. Eddie Kingston’s in top form. Kenny Omega is off the charts. Serena Deeb and Riho tear it up like they’re on a bus and if the match goes...
Feb 18, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Rating: 88% - Must Watch Taking a quick detour to talk about Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport 4! On the heels of Jon Moxley’s announcement that he’ll be at Bloodsport 5 (next week!), we prepared by watching the show to figure out just what it is … and were blown away! If you’re curious, it’s well worth your time!
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Rating: 90% Must Watch There’s AT LEAST one PPV-level match in this thing, maybe more. You want mad, crosspromotional brawls? We got ‘em! You want a hard-hitting women’s match? Got that too! You want Marvez wandering golf courses begging for rides? IT’S ALL THERE. Follow us on Twitter @AEDoubleback and on Instagram @AE_Doubleback! Leave us a 5-Star Frogspla- er, review on iTunes and thanks for listening!
Feb 11, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Rating: 77% - Worth Watching It's a 7-11 burrito, in the words of that great sage, Calder Holbrook. Hot start! Searing hot closer! Ice chunks in the center! Come get some of this wildly uneven, but still deliciously consumable two hours of wrestling!
Feb 04, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Rating: 77% - Worth Watching Experience the agony of a Shaq promo! Thrill to the ecstasy of Rey Fenix throwing his body at other human beings like nobody told him wrestling’s fake! Question the efficacy of slicing the horns off a dinosaur mask! Reconsider the layout of your merch table before Team Taz finds you!
Jan 28, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Rating: 85% - Must Watch Whether you’re looking to see an 8-year old cane a man 44 years his elder or to see a host of perennial Dark talent working on the main show or if you’re desperate to know if it’s physically possible to gouge a masked man’s eye out with the point of a cowboy boot - this week’s Dynamite has got you covered!
Jan 21, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Rating: 85% - Must Watch This is what the kids* refer to as a “banger”. Great wrestling top to bottom; great comedy front to back. There was that one weird triple splash move from Kenny and the Good Brothers - which happened during the picture in picture that they felt like they had to repeat for some reason? - but not even that could stop this train from barreling its way towards success! Just like the sign in Britt Baker’s office reads (I think - they never focus enough to see it clearly): Wor...
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 27 min
Rating: 84% - Must Watch The world is literally on fire … and so is AEW! Wow. That was definitely the worst sell job since Al Snow. If you do nothing else this week, month, or year, go watch the Omega/Fenix match. While you’re at it, you might as well watch the amazing segment that follows and, since you’re already sitting down, check out Shida/Abadon that comes right before it. And since you’ve already spent nearly an hour of your life, just finish watching the whole damn thing why don’t you? C...
Jan 07, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Rating: 100% - Must Watch Okay, look. Nobody wants a show like this to happen. We’d rather sit through ten years of absolute garbage than have a reason for a show like this (hell, this show started as a WWE Raw show, so we’ve *sat* through garbage and know whereof we speak). But this show was pretty much perfect, top to bottom. No notes. All you’ll find is a celebration of life, which is what wrestling should be. Take care of yourselves out there; we love you all....
Dec 31, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Rating: 76% - Worth Watching Here’s hoping your holidays are bashful because it’s AEW’s holiday bash and you need something to take your mind off your loneliness! Shida’s looking better than ever! Chan’s marking out over Butcher’s pants and Theresa’s brain is being a real jerkass, if you ask us. Listen as NBA Twitter shatters everyone’s rose-colored glasses and listen for two, count ‘em, TWO rainbow scores! Double rainbow!
Dec 25, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Rating: 79% - Worth Watching Put your mouth on the rope, you sexy hooligans! Tonight’s another banger! La Sicarria versus Swole and Deeb is lighting a fire under the women’s divisions ass while The Good, The Bad, and The Hungee are just lighting fires of AWESOMENESS everywhere they go! Between that and Team Taz, Eddie Kingston, and Thunder Rosa cutting promos that could level cities, you’ve got an ep fully worth watching, then hanging with us after the fact....
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 18 min
Rating: 77% - Worth Watching How’s this episode only getting a 77%, but so darn entertaining to watch anyway? From front (Bucks v TH2) to back (MJF v Orange), this one’ll hit you with the weight of a thousand souls! Is it the extra “shit”? Who can say? Bonus points if you can spot where we had to edit out a three-year old in the background (there are many).
Dec 13, 2020•1 hr 33 min
Rating: 98% - Must Watch Our highest rated episode ever! Who was the jerk who gave the lone middle thumb? You get three guesses! A diamond battle royal! An amazing match with Team Taz vs. Allin and Rhodes! And, of course, the surprise debut of [REDACTED]! Whaaaaaat? Who would've thunk it!
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 6 min
