By the way, my early Dynamite predictions:
-Cody over Guevara: Sammy is made to look like a million bucks in the loss, but Cody gets a strong win
-MJF over Cutler: MJF gets good mic time as part of this and a decisive win, but they build some groundwork for Cutler as a sympathetic underdog
-Pac vs Page: I think whatever the result, this is going to build to a larger blow-off at Full Gear. So, something like a time limit draw, double count out, or Page snaps and gets himself DQ'd.
-Riho over Rose: They'll play off the previous booking of Rose being physically dominant but her cockiness and inexperience opens her up to get surprised by Riho again.
-Jericho/??? over the Elite: Kenny takes the pin building on the angle they're doing with him/Moxley. Perhaps Kenny gets involved with Moxley during his segment earlier in the show which furthers the narrative that Omega is only focused on Mox (also this is a reason why I wouldn't do a similar angle regarding Cody/Jericho).
As for the mystery partners, I am still going to go with Santana and Ortiz, but the surprise element is going to fall flat since we've all been assuming it was then even before they were officially revealed to be part of AEW. That they've kept the identifies as a mystery makes me wonder if it's actually going to be somebody else, but then I can't think of who would otherwise merit surprise billing in the first main event of their TV program. Can anybody think of anyone else that are both available and would actually feel like a big deal?
