{"id":65309,"date":"2020-03-24T17:35:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=65309"},"modified":"2020-03-24T17:35:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:35:47","slug":"preview-aew-dynamite-3-25-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/03\/24\/preview-aew-dynamite-3-25-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: AEW Dynamite (3\/25\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s installment of <strong>AEW Dynamite<\/strong> is again from behind closed doors.\u00a0 In-line with global action against the COVID-19 pandemic, numbers in attendance have to be low.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this means that the billed Blood &amp; Guts match has had to be postponed.\u00a0 However, it was a commendable, sensible decision to postpone &#8211; but at least we have something to look forward to when this is all over.\u00a0 The new card being advertised is pretty great without the match.\u00a0 With last week bringing both the arrival of <strong>Broken Matt Hardy<\/strong> and the unveiling of <strong>Brodie Lee<\/strong> as the <strong>Exalted One<\/strong>, AEW Dynamite is really gaining some momentum.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ROAD TO DYNAMITE | 3\/25\/20\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SDK1-msRjEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Kenny Omega vs Sammy Guevara<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65398\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/03\/Kenny-Omega-vs-Sammy-Guevara-e1584988108249.jpg\" alt=\"AEW Dynamite\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kenny Omega<\/strong> is one of the best in the world and has been for some time.\u00a0 This week, he is defending his AAA Mega Championship against &#8220;The Spanish God&#8221;, <strong>Sammy Guevara<\/strong>.\u00a0 Though Sammy Guevara has impressed during his time in AAA, this title match may come as a surprise.\u00a0 Guevara has lost five of his last six matches.\u00a0 In a company where wins and losses matter, it is perhaps a strange choice.\u00a0 However, given the two men belong to opposing factions &#8211; <strong>The Elite<\/strong> and <strong>The Inner Circle<\/strong>, respectively &#8211; it makes sense.\u00a0 Kenny is likely to retain the title he won from<strong> Rey Fenix<\/strong> back in October, but expect a high-octane, entertaining match.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Best Friends vs Lucha Bros Parking Lot Brawl<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Last week, the<strong> Lucha Brothers<\/strong> (<strong>Pentagon Jr.<\/strong> and<strong> Fenix<\/strong>) scored a nice victory over <strong>Best Friends<\/strong> (<strong>Trent<\/strong> and <strong>Chuck Taylor<\/strong>).\u00a0 In doing so, they got to choose this week&#8217;s stipulation: parking lot brawl.\u00a0 With the added stipulation obviously ruling out ordinary, disqualification rules, expect <strong>Orange Cassidy<\/strong> and <strong>PAC<\/strong> to get involved in some capacity.\u00a0 Last week&#8217;s match was an excellent, 14 minutes of tag team wrestling.\u00a0 Hopefully this feud delivers again this week.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Cody vs Jimmy Havoc<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65311\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/03\/Cody-vs-Jimmy-Havoc-e1584895185699.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"><\/p>\n<p>Chief honcho, <strong>Cody<\/strong>, announced via text message this week (to those who signed up) that he would be squaring off against <strong>Jimmy Havoc<\/strong>.\u00a0 With the Blood &amp; Guts match indefinitely postponed, why not face the living embodiment of &#8220;blood and guts&#8221; in Havoc? Havoc has only recently returned to regular programming and therefore could pull off an upset.\u00a0 Could we expect a distraction from long-time rival, <strong>MJF<\/strong>? Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Promo Between Chris Jericho &amp; Matt Hardy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65493\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/03\/Matt-Hardy-vs-Chris-Jericho-e1585083246151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"><\/p>\n<p>On last week&#8217;s Dynamite, Matt Hardy debuted, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/03\/18\/matt-hardy-brings-vanguard-1-and-the-broken-brilliance-to-aew\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bringing his Broken Brilliance to AEW<\/a>.\u00a0 Chris Jericho and the Inner Circle looked stunned as Matt Hardy gazed down upon them.\u00a0 It made for a cool moment, with Matt Hardy and Jericho having decades worth of rivalries between them.\u00a0 Dynamite is merely a new venue for them to showcase their creative brilliance in the ring together.\u00a0 Where this feud goes is anyone&#8217;s guess, but one thing is for sure; it is going to be fun.\u00a0 Both men have a similar ability to reinvent themselves when needed, with terrific results.\u00a0 Expect something new on this week&#8217;s installment.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can catch AEW Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TNT and weekly on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s installment of AEW Dynamite is again from behind closed doors.\u00a0 In-line with global action against the COVID-19 pandemic, numbers in attendance have to be low.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this means that the billed Blood &amp; Guts match has had to be postponed.\u00a0 However, it was a commendable, sensible decision to postpone &#8211; but at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2482,"featured_media":65398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-featured","category-north-america"],"modified_by":"Niklas George","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}