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The Daily’s Place era of AEW was a time. With the COVID-19 pandemic preventing the company from touring, it ended up creating a home for itself under difficult circumstances in Jacksonville. While tonight’s episode of AEW Dynamite will look to the future and be part of an extended goodbye to an Icon, it will also undoubtedly bring back some memories from several years ago with its Homecoming theme.
Sting is in tag team action on his farewell tour
Even though chronologically it makes perfect sense for Sting to hang up the boots and paint, it’s still a little surreal knowing that every time he performs somewhere is the last time fans in that market will see him wrestle. That’s true again tonight in Jacksonville.
As always, he’ll have Darby Allin by his side. They’re undefeated as a tag team, but maintaining that status against The Don Callis Family’s Konosuke Takeshita and Powerhouse Hobbs feels like a tough task. And that’s as it should be.
Has Hangman Adam Page bitten off more than he can chew?
It hasn’t been a good couple of months for Hangman Adam Page, who is understandably irritable after coming out on the short end of his feud with Swerve Strickland. The problem with looking for a fight, whatever the cause, is that you may find a very difficult one, which is what Hangman got tonight in Claudio Castagnoli.
Life hasn’t been all dubs for the Swiss Superman either, so this should be an interesting barometer of where AEW feels each man might be headed next. And oh yeah — it should be a pretty sweet match on its own merits, too.
Most of the current players in the women’s division will be in one match
No “Timeless” Toni Storm in this one, but just about everyone else with a storyline going on in the women’s division is in an eight-person tag team match tonight. Kris Statlander and Willow Nightingale are having their friendship tested, but so far it’s proven stronger than Stoke.
On top of that, all eyes will be on Thunder Rosa. La Mera Mera only recently returned from a lengthy injury absence and hasn’t had all that much ring time just yet. Will she look like her old, championship-level self? Could she get in the mix with Julia Hart and the TBS Championship, perhaps? We’ll be watching anxiously to find out.
Also on the docket for tonight’s Homecoming episode from Daily’s Place:
- Ricky Starks takes on Sammy Guevara in their first ever singles meeting
- Lance Archer, Gates of Agony and Brian Cage team to face Orange Cassidy, Dustin Rhodes, Adam Copeland and Preston Vance
- AEW World Champion Samoa Joe will be in the house
If this is a Homecoming you’ll want to attend, be sure to tune in tonight at 8 p.m. ET on TBS. We’ll also be serving up live results and other points of interest from the show here at Wrestling Junkie.