Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite featured the fallout from All In this past Sunday, but several notable names were absent from the show,
Before the show, AEW President Tony Khan noted that he had to change some plans for the show. This was due to “minor illnesses to big talent traveling this week” and Hurricane Idalia causing flight issues.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez noted the show was redone at the last minute.
Meltzer: “So they were going to do stuff to build that up tonight. But because of the Hurricane, Kenny Omega didn’t make it. A lot of the Florida people….Tonight’s show was redone at the last minute because Saraya and Swerve [Strickland] were pulled from the show for illness reasons. I know many Florida guys, including Omega, because the hurricane couldn’t get out of Florida to come to Chicago. I know [Chris] Jericho was there. I know that there was concern about Jericho not being there, but he was there. So that was one of the reasons why the show seemed thrown together because it was thrown together.”
Alvarez: “All right. The Dynamite show opened up with [Jon] Moxley and Kommander, and this whole show, by the way, up and down the show, it was like they had two matches. They had one match announced this afternoon. And then, as we talked about earlier, there were issues with people being sick and with travel. And pretty much everybody just got to the building and had to scramble to get going with whatever they were doing. And these two had a good match.”
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