Gulak vs Lio Rush, WALTER vs KUSHIDA & Young Bucks vs Private Party

AEW Dynamite #2 09/10/2019

AEW World Tag Team Title Tournament First Round Match: Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) vs. The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson)
This was a fun opener but lacked the drama or spectacular wrestling to be anything higher than fun, imo. Private Party had some cool looking moves, got the crowd behind them well and did there part. Bucks were fine working on top, working on the back of Kassidy well and gelling with Private Party well. Just not a MOTYC imo. ***

WWE NXT 09/10/2019

WWE NXT Cruiserweight Title Match: Drew Gulak (c) vs. Lio Rush 
A hell of a match. Lio Rush has had a rough year with all the backstage stuff but I'm glad that he was able to overcome all of it and had a total coming out party here, showing everyone how good he can be and reap the rewards. The aerial style vs Gulak's rugged ground and pound dynamic was awesome. Rush using his speed to outwit Gulak with Gulak trying to use counters to get the win. A very exciting match indeed. ***1/2

Non Title Match: Isaiah Scott vs. Roderick Strong
Roddy is on an all time high right now with all the momentum behind him, having won the North American Championship a few weeks ago, beating Velverteen Dream. Isaiah Scott aka Swerve has had a few matches where he impressed a few people. Could he upset the new champion? No. The match was okay, just a standard match with Strong working on the back. Interesting but unspectacular. **3/4

Non Title Match: Kushida vs. WALTER
This had been building for a few weeks, and I was pretty excited to see it come to fruition. I was a big advocate of Kushida going to the heavyweight division in New Japan, so glad it's happened albeit in a different company. Him going against WALTER is a new challenge. WALTER is a bully when against smaller guys - in his element. WALTER did just that, using his weight and size to control Kushida, even when Kushida is better on the mat, technique wise, WALTER just overwhelmed him with the size different. Kushida was great as the scrappy underdog. Some of his counters were amazingly creative like the DDT off the apron or the Hoverboard lock off the top rope. Kushida was awesome at eating everything WALTER threw at him, sold everything well and made things look ten times more devastating. WALTER was great, too. Really showing off his diverse abilities from mat work, brutal strikes and then suplexes. Even going to the top at one point. But he also did a good job of selling for Kushida when needed and making him look like a threat down the stretch. A great match. Excellent stuff. ****1/4

Beyond Uncharted Territory #2.01 03/10/2019

Orange Cassidy vs. Thomas Santell
This was pretty rad. Orange Cassidy went all out for his last Beyond appearance (I think). Him against Santell was an excellent choice. The nonsense was heavy, the serious wrestling was prevalent. This ruled. ***1/4

Chris Dickinson vs. Wheeler Yuta
Dickinson was awesome last season and here he is, kicking off his S2 with a bang. Yuta impressed me a ton in the last few months and this was the same. Dickinson did some good mat work, Yuta shine with his aerial wrestling. Good match. ***1/4

Kris Statlander vs. Nick Gage
Main Event time! This was a hell of a brawl with a quick start when Stratlander attacked Gage in the aisle, taking it to him. This was quite the show, too, with doors being used, chairs, tons of violence. Really fun main event. Nick FUCKING Gate and KRIS FUCKING STAT. ***1/2