Immediately coming out of the Forbidden Door pay-per-view from London, AEW kicks off its residency at the 2300 Arena for tonight’s episode of Dynamite. The next three episodes of Dynamite (and Collision) will all be held at this venue. This isn’t just any generic arena, of course. It’s the former ECW Arena, home to the some of the craziest shit that happened in 1990’s pro wrestling here in America, thanks to a rabid fan base in Philadelphia and New York that loved to drink Paul Heyman’s Kool-Aid. AEW President Tony Khan was a huge fan of ECW as well at that time, so there’s no doubt he will try his best to channel that spirit and take AEW to the extreme over the next few weeks.

On paper, it admittedly looks like Khan is just taking a few wrestlers from Forbidden Door’s group matches and pitting them against each other in smaller scale matches on Dynamite. Does that mean he doesn’t yet have a well-crafted plan for AEW’s creative direction following Forbidden Door? I don’t know the answer to that question, but I do know that Darby is a madman who is always jumping off very high things. So if you are looking for something extreme to happen in AEW at the former ECW Arena, booking Darby Allin in a Falls Count Anywhere match is a solid choice. Adam Copeland and Christian Cage’s tag team reunion match at Forbidden Door was a big success. Next month’s All Out pay-per-view takes place in their hometown of Toronto, so they’ll need some better opponents to fight that aren’t just former lackeys of The Patriarchy.