#4. Biff Busick vs Slade, Beyond Wrestling 'Day 91' 4/2
What a bloodbath. Slade looks like he belongs in prison and is akin to a horror movie villain, just constantly absorbing whatever gets thrown at him and piling bodies up. Both these dudes hit hard as fuck, and I liked how Biff worked from beneath for all of this. He was coming back from a long lay-off, against the new hotness, and got absolutely mauled. He bleeds a bunch, gets murdered with chairs and door, and for most of the way Slade looks unstoppable, almost to a comic extent. But when Biff blasts him with a chair out of nowhere and Slade did the gig, this kicked into another gear. I don’t know where Slade cut, but he obviously nicked something he shouldn’t have because he was jet-washing the whole place with plasma. I could have totally bought him passing out from the amount of blood he was spilling. He still dominated Biff, but it showed vulnerability, and Biff believably worked his way back in by trading hands. Finish was disgustingly violent as Biff had to murder this guy with a bunch of straight trash can blows to the dome. A triumphant return for Biff and Slade is a scary, scary man.
#2. CM Punk/Jon Moxley vs FTR, AEW Dynamite 9/2
A few cool threads going on here with the setup, being a rare unscheduled match and a classic two great singles guys vs great tag team match. Punk and Mox felt like an all-star team and clicked really well together. We know FTR can be great at old school cut the ring in half wrestling, we know they can be great at big spot-filled home stretches, but often they have a tendency to focus too much on the latter. This was very well structured with the body of the match all being really meaningful, with Punk getting his leg worked, the exciting brawling off the Mox hot tag, then the longer more focused heat section on him after he got put through the table. All that heat building paid off with a really satisfying final run with some big counters and a couple great false finishes that had real peril to them. The Doomsday Device will always, always rock and all the stuff with the stereo finishers was awesome. The only flub was the Tully spot, but god bless him for trying and wanting to take the GTS. I had a blast.
#5. Hangman Adam Page vs Lance Archer, AEW Dynamite 9/2 [Texas Deathmatch]
Hats off to Page, he is beginning to look like the guy AEW wants him to be. A couple lengthy title epics and now a quality garbage match to his reign. This was a slightly above average plunder brawl, elevated by a few things. Hangman has already accumulated enough scar tissue that he can bleed on command and he wore another top tier crimson mask, looked like someone threw a bucket of red paint on him. Page has always been a good athlete and he throws himself into the big bumps, and that Blackout onto the steps was a Darby-level insanity bump. The stuff with the top rope being removed was a clever twist to lead to the finish, which was also imaginative but looked a little silly. Having your big bloody death-match end with a ref being used as a pummel horse is a choice move.
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