**CONTAINS SPOILERS**
Tonight’s episode of AEW DYNAMITE: Championship Fight Night was broadcast live from Sames Auto Arena in Laredo, TX!
The show began with a graphic on the screen paying tribute to Mr. Jerry Jarrett.
Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, and “The Human Suplex Machine” Taz were the broadcast team for tonight’s event.
It’s Wednesday night and you know what that means!
All-Atlantic Champion Orange Cassidy (with Danhausen), The Acclaimed—Anthony Bowens & Max Caster, & Daddy Ass
vs.
Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, Satnam Singh, & Sonjay Dutt!
Jay Lethal and Anthony Bowens began for their respective teams. Bowens used a snap mare into a roll up on Lethal for a near fall. Caster tagged in and he and Bowens used tandem offense on Lethal.
Double J tagged in but Caster took him down with arm drags and then a dropkick. Satnam Singh tagged in and Orange Cassidy wanted a piece of him. Sonjay came in instead and then Daddy Ass tagged in. Sonjay quickly tagged out to Jarrett. The newly crowned AEW Tag Team Champs The Gunns walked onto the ramp.
“They strategically came in while their father was in the ring, didn’t they?” asked Tony Schiavone.
Daddy Ass was distracted by his sons on the ramp and Jarrett took advantage of the opportunity with a forearm to Daddy Ass. Jarrett stomped a Memphis mudhole into Daddy Ass. Satnam Singh tagged in and shoulder blocked Daddy Ass. Singh chucked Orange Cassidy like a bag of trash.
Caster planted Jay Lethal while Sonjay ran directly into the Orange Punch from Cassidy. Caster had Sonjay set up for the Scissor-Me-Timbers but Jarrett knocked down Daddy Ass. Orange Cassidy blasted Jeff Jarrett off the ring apron. Bowens dropped the leg with the Scissor-Me-Timbers on Sonjay Dutt and pinned him!
Bowens and Caster locked eyes with The Gunns!
Texas Tornado Tag Match!
The Blackpool Combat Club—ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli & Jon Moxley
vs.
La Faccion Ingobernable—Preston Vance & Rush (with Jose the Assistant)!
Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli were ambushed by La Faccion Ingobernable as the Blackpool Combat Club were making their entrance!
They brawled back to the ring. Moxley kicked Vance until Rush entered the ring and blindsided Mox! La Faccion Ingobernable took the boots to Moxley!
Vance nailed Mox with a spinebuster and Rush followed up with a dropkick. Claudio, the difference maker, jumped in with a springboard European uppercut to Vance. Claudio smashed Vance into a steel chair with a running bulldog.
Mox and Claudio whipped Vance into two chairs that were set up in the turnbuckles. Rush came back into the ring and tried to fight off the BCC. Rush was quickly knocked to the arena floor where Mox rammed him with a tope suicida!
Vance speared Mox off the apron onto Rush and Claudio who were on the arena floor. Vance and Rush buried Claudio under a table and some chairs outside the ring. Claudio was trapped after being drilled by the steel chairs, so Mox was left to fend for himself.
Vance cracked Moxley with a steel chain!
“This is Texas Tornado, this is all legal,” said Taz.
“This is personal for Vance,” added Tony Schiavone.
Claudio emerged from underneath the timekeeper’s table! Claudio wrapped the chain around his fist and blasted Vance with a big right hand! Vance was busted open! Claudio spun Vance around the ring with the Giant Swing! Rush was there with a dropkick to break up the pin attempt by Claudio.
Moxley rocked Rush with a cutter! Claudio took Rush off his feet with a European uppercut. Jose the Assistant cracked Claudio with a steel chair. Wheeler Yuta ran down and battered Jose up the ramp with forearms.
Claudio speared Rush but Vance broke up the pin at the last possible moment. Rush chopped at Claudio while Claudio returned fire with European uppercuts. Vance used the chain on Vance and made him submit with an armbar.
“Hangman” Adam Page was watching Mox on a monitor backstage.
Kip Sabian, the Butcher, and the Blade attacked “Hangman” Adam Page until the Dark Order chased them off!
Wardlow had a sit-down interview with Jim Ross!
Wardlow: “From the time I can remember until the time I was eight years old, my dad instilled a lot. He reentered my life later and I found out he had stage 4 cancer. I promised him I’d be a better man and that I’d make it.
“The next morning I got a phone call that he had passed. I grew my beard and hair out after I saw what cancer took from him. Samoa Joe knew that and took that. My connection with my father, you took that from me. Look me in my eyes Joe. You will not survive me.”
ROH World Tag Team Champion Mark Briscoe vs. “The Technical Beast” Josh Woods!
Josh Woods grappled Mark Briscoe to the mat. Mark shoulder blocked Woods to the mat. Ari Daivari and Tony Nese hammered at Briscoe until the Lucha Bros.—Rey Fenix and Penta El Zero Miedo—ran down to even up the odds!
Woods nailed Mark with a corkscrew suplex off the apron to the arena floor! Mark rallied back with his redneck kung fu!
Briscoe planted Woods with a powerbomb off the ropes! Mark called for the Jay Driller but Woods countered by ducking underneath and rolling through with the Pure Chaos for a near fall!
Woods cracked Mark with a knee strike! Mark hit a Death Valley Driver and then followed up with the Froggy Bow, scoring the pin on Josh Woods!
Renee Paquette had a sit-down interview with Adam Cole!
Cole: “This roster is stacked, and I know when I come back I need to be prepared. All I’ll say, it’s going to be good for All Elite Wrestling and it’s going to be good for Adam Cole.”
AEW World Champion MJF was contractually obligated to appear tonight ahead of his 60-Minute Iron Man Match against “American Dragon” Bryan Danielson at Revolution 2023!
The champ walked down to the ring.
MJF: “Bryan Danielson, these people love you man, and you have no idea how much that pisses me off man. At one point in time these people loved me. Not too long ago they used to be devil worshippers. But they are fickle. So I turned my back on them before they had the opportunity to turn their back on me just like everybody else. But at least I’m honest, I’m the devil, man. But you’re not so honest about who you are, Bryan.
“In real life, you’re just like all of them, a worthless sack of trash. I hate you because you have these people that you’re better than me! Me? When that couldn’t be further from the truth.
“You people think Bryan Danielson is the best in the world? Why is that? Because he entertains you the best? Is it because he puts on five-star bangers?
“Little secret, guys. We get in this business for one reason only and that is to become world champion. And last I checked, the only way to be best in the world is to be the man who holds the AEW World Championship. And last I checked that is something Bryan Danielson was never able to accomplish.
“After that clock strikes zero in our match, I will be victorious. Because you are not the best wrestler in the world, Bryan. I am! At Revolution I’m going to prove it because you don’t have the balls to do what it takes because I’m MJF and you’re better than you and you know it!
“If you don’t want to take my word for it, maybe you’ll listen to a man who has known Bryan Danielson his entire career. Let me introduce you to the “Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels.”
Christopher Daniels came to the ring!
MJF: “Do me a favor a tell these people the truth about Bryan Danielson inside the squared circle.”
Christopher Daniels: “The truth? OK, full disclosure, MJF paid me an obscene amount of money to denigrate Bryan Danielson tonight. This isn’t the man I am today. If you want the truth, Bryan Danielson is set to knock your dick in the dirt!”
Daniels through the padded envelope full of money at MJF.
Daniels: “I watched Danielson win the King of the Indies in 2001 and that tournament inspired Ring of Honor as a promotion. If there wasn’t a Ring of Honor there might not be an AEW, and then there definitely wouldn’t be an MJF. He knows what it takes to be the world champion. That’s why these people love him and that’s why you hate him.
“Bryan is exactly what you wish you could be. He is the best wrestler in the world today. Not you. You’re just a fraud!”
MJF slapped the microphone out of Christopher Daniels’ hand! Daniels tried to walk away but MJF pulled him back. Daniels slapped MJF and then MJF kicked Daniels and put him in the Salt of the Earth arm bar. Bryan Danielson ran down to help Christopher Daniels while MJF retreated up the ramp!
“Jungle Boy” Jack Perry vs. ROH World Six Man Champion “The Machine” Brian Cage!
Cage clobbered Perry with a high boot. Jungle Boy rallied back with a dropkick. Jack Perry jumped off the second rope with a twisting cross body but Cage caught him.
Brian Cage powerbombed Jack into the turnbuckles! Cage was looking to suplex Jack out of the ring but Jack countered with a diving splash for a near fall!
Jack Perry planted Cage with a Death Valley Driver! Jack nailed Cage with the crucifix bomb and then cracked him in the back of the head with a running strike for the pin!
After the match Christian Cage walked onto the ramp! Jungle Boy charged at Christian Cage but Cage sprayed Jungle Boy in the eyes with something, blinding Jack Perry.
Christian Cage smashed Jack Perry on the ramp with the Kill Switch!
Renee Paquette was backstage and the Acclaimed announced they were invoking their rematch clause at Revolution and it’d now be a four-way against the Gunns at Revolution! It’ll be the Gunns vs. the Acclaimed vs. the winner of a Casino Battle Royal on March 1st vs. the winner of a Revolution battle royal on February 22!
The Elite were backstage. They were approached by Top Flight and AR Fox who challenged them to a rematch on Rampage this Friday. The Elite accepted!
“Hangman” Adam Page vs. Kip Sabian (with Penelope Ford)!
Sabian rocked Page with a cannonball in the corner. Kip spring boarded off the ropes but Adam Page caught him and hurled him with a fallaway slam.
Kip Sabian punted Page from the apron and followed up with a springboard moonsault to Page on the arena floor. Hangman Page whipped Kip into the guardrail.
Page planted Kip with a pop up powerbomb for a near fall. Page followed up with the Dead Eye in the center of the ring and pinned Kip Sabian!
“He powered through the attack from earlier and a very physical match to score the win,” said Tony Schiavone.
The Blackpool Combat Club walked to the ring after the match!
Moxley: “Cowboy, I know you think we got unfinished business, but we don’t. A couple of weeks ago your ass got pinned. After all our battles together I have some respect for you but I have zero fear. I’ve got your number. There is no chance that you will ever beat me again. So let it go.”
Page: “I’m not happy with our last match and I don’t think you are either. I don’t think this is how it ends between you and me. I think it ends when two men go out into that old dark alley and there’s only one of us left standing. I think this ends at Revolution.”
Moxley: “I was kinda hoping you’d say that. I was kinda hoping you’d wanna go down that old dark alley with me and that you wouldn’t have any friends to talk you out of your decision. The emo cowboy ain’t got no friends.”
The Dark Order walked onto the ramp and down to the ring.
Evil Uno: “We’ve had this man’s back through and through. The only reason I haven’t done this is because Adam Page requested we didn’t. Dark Order ain’t afraid of you. Evil Uno is not afraid of Jon Moxley.”
Evil Uno pie-faced Jon Moxley!
Mox: “Cowboy, Revolution, Texas Death Match!”
Tony Schiavone was backstage with the Jericho Appreciation Society!
Jericho: “Ricky Starks, you keep demanding a match with the Ocho. You are not at my level.”
Garcia: “Ricky, this Friday you have a match with me. Last Wednesday I beat you. This Friday I’m going to expose to everybody that you are an absolute fraud!”
Main Event Time!
Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D. (with AEW Women’s World Champion Jamie Hayter) vs. Ruby Soho vs. Toni Storm (with Saraya)!
Saraya attacked a fan in the front row who was holding a Britt Baker sign!
Ruby came down to stop the attack from continuing.
Baker leveled Toni with a thrust kick. Ruby took Toni off her feet with a shoulder tackle. Ruby planted Toni with a suplex.
Baker rocked Ruby with a stiff forearm. Baker used a neck breaker DDT combo on Toni for a near fall. Toni Storm fired back with a dropkick and then a thrust kick.
Britt and Toni traded elbow strikes. Britt smashed Storm with the ripcord lariat and then a neck breaker for a near fall! Toni locked on a Texas Cloverleaf on Ruby. In the meantime Baker put the Lockjaw on Ruby but Saraya ran in to kick Ruby.
Saraya put spray paint on Toni and then Toni ran into Baker with the hip attack but Ruby managed to score the pin!
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Footprint Center in Phoenix, AZ!
This Friday tune in to AEW RAMPAGE: Slam Dunk at a special start time of 7ET/4PT on TNT!
And remember…the home of professional wrestling is All Elite Wrestling!
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