For the first time, two women headlined AEW Dynamite. For the first time, Dynamite featured an Unsanctioned Lights Out Match.
Wednesday’s show featured the latest chapter in the rivalry between Thunder Rosa and Dr. Britt Baker DMD as they battled in an unofficial match without rules.
Rebel attacked before the opening bell, catching Rosa with a cheap shot before Baker level her on the entrance ramp for an early near-fall. Rosa recovered, throwing a chair at Baker’s face before sending the good doctor over the guardrail and into the stands, where she pummeled the dentist.
Rosa sat Baker on a chair and tried for a flipping senton but the heel moved and the face-painted competitor crashed and burned.
Baker stomped Rosa’s head into diamond plating, busting the former NWA women’s champion open ahead of the commercial break.
Back from the timeout, Baker delivered a superplex from the top rope onto a pile of chairs. Rebel produced a ladder and Rosa sent her face-first into the ladder. A corner attack by Rosa sent the ladder into Baker’s face, busting her open.
Baker struggled to the ropes, where Rosa met her. She hoisted the doctor in a fireman’s carry and tried for a Death Valley Driver but slipped, only slightly delivering the move into a ladder. Baker, her vision adversely affected by her own blood, dropped Rosa with a DDT onto a chair. She earned a two-count.
Baker smiled through her crimson mask and put on a glove, signaling the Lock Jaw. Rebel produced a bag of thumbtacks and Baker emptied them in the center of the ring. Rosa blasted Rebel with a crutch, the dropkicked her through a table at ringside.
Rosa delivered a powerbomb to Baker, driving her into the thumbtacks. Baker still kicked out at two, even as her back became a pincushion.
Baker finally applied the Lock Jaw but Rosa rolled back into the thumbtacks, breaking the hold.
The action spilled to the ring apron, where Rosa delivered a Fire Thunder Driver through a table for the win.
Result
Rosa defeated Baker
Grade
A+
Analysis
Rosa vs. Baker has been one of the most intense rivalries in AEW. Theirs was one that deserved this spotlight, in a hardcore match of this sort, and the competitors absolutely performed up to the moment.
This was appropriately violent, even producing blood and thumbtacks, typically no-nos for women’s wrestling in major North American promotions.
Rosa may have won the match itself but Baker was the real winner of the night’s festivities, showing a level of toughness few would have expected from her. She sported the crimson mask, suffered the breathtaking agony of thumbtacks stabbing into her back, and took a big table bump in the finish. She was simply phenomenal and elevated her star exponentially in this match.
More importantly than the quality of performances or the high spots within was what this match potentially means for AEW’s women’s division.
For too long, the company has produced a division that had all of the talent necessary to succeed but failed to build stars and tell stories. Then came Baker vs. Rosa, a genuine secondary feud that proved AEW could focus on women outside of the title picture and efficiently build a storyline.
It culminated Wednesday in a genuine Match of the Year candidate and, hopefully, opens up opportunities for the extremely talented women’s division to find more opportunities in the near future.
Kudos to all involved in this one for their toughness, commitment to telling their story, and delivering the painstaking levels of violence and brutality the match type deserved.
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