Mike Orlando and The Cheese def. The Heavenly Butterflies in a Crockett Cup Play-In MatchThese teams are completely new to the NWA audience (myself included) and received no formal introduction. I know the NWA has working relationship with various independent promotions and that's cool, but there's no reason to care about these new faces unless they stick around. The match itself was decent, but my biggest takeaway was that these are two goof teams and aren't to be taken seriously. Making it a Crockett Cup play-in match at least gave it some significance.
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World Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest Confronted Drew McIntyreMcIntyre setting his sights back on the World Heavyweight Championship this soon is an interesting development. I thought this might happen a little closer to Clash at the Castle considering it's in McIntyre's home country of Scotland, but it looks like they're going to this match for King and Queen of the Ring. Plus, whatever happened to what was being teased with McIntyre and Sheamus? This was a solid segment with good mic work from both men.
Trent Beretta def. Dalton Castle by Referee StoppageBeretta is fresh off a loss to Orange Cassidy on Wednesday's Dynamite, so this served as a rebound win for him to get him back on track. I don't know that it did much to boost his credibility since Castle rarely ever appears on AEW TV, but it's better than nothing, I suppose. It was a quality contest and having him win by referee stoppage was a nice touch. Do we get the Beretta vs. Cassidy rematch at Double or Nothing?
Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli and Bryan Danielson) def. Top FlightWas this a random match? Yes. Do I care that it was random? No. They had a hell of a match and the crowd was hot for the action. I get the feeling Danielson wants to work with as many different people as possible before his full-time career is over, so I'm certainly not complaining. Danielson explained afterward that last year's Anarchy in the Arena almost ended his career but that he's choosing to participate this year because he loves AEW.
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