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Tonightâs episode of AEW DYNAMITE was broadcast live from Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, WV!
Excalibur, Tony Schiavone and âThe Human Suplex Machineâ Taz were the broadcast team for tonightâs event.
Itâs Wednesday night and you know what that means!
AEW World Title Eliminator Match!
AEW World Champion Samoa Joe vs. âThe Naturalâ Dustin Rhodes!
As Samoa Joe was making his entrance, Swerve Strickland ambushed the champ on the ramp! They brawled onto the arena floor. Swerve speared Samoa Joe through a table that Samoa Joe had propped against a guardrail. Security pushed Swerve back to the locker room. Samoa Joe eventually staggered to his feet and seemed to pursue Swerve.
Renee Paquette was backstage outside Orange Cassidyâs locker room.
Renee said that Orange would have a match on Rampage this Friday, and she was assured by Orange that heâd be addressing the heartless actions of Trent Beretta.
TNT Championship Match!
âThe Rated R Superstarâ Adam Copeland (c.)
vs.
Penta El Zero Miedo (with Alex Abrahantes)!
Penta speared Copeland and then stuck him with a diving double foot stomp for a near fall.
âShock and awe right out of the box, trying to win the TNT Title,â said Taz.
Penta El Zero Miedo hit Copeland with a clothesline, knocking Copeland to the arena floor. Copeland got back in the ring and Penta greeted him with a chop to Copelandâs chest. Copeland rallied back with flying head scissors. Copeland and Penta El Zero Miedo both had the same idea, fighting fire with fire, clubbing each other with lariats and then high boots.
Penta El Zero Miedo had Copeland rocked after a sling blade. Penta flipped over the top rope with a dive onto Copeland. Back in the ring, Copeland found an opening, planting Penta face first on the mat.
Copeland applied a modified sharpshooter onto Penta El Zero Miedo, but Penta made the crawl to the bottom rope, forcing the ref to break the hold. Penta stunned Copeland with a stalling dropkick. Copeland secured the cross face on Penta, wrenching back, but once again Penta reached the ropes.
Copeland was looking for a Death Valley Driver on the apron, but Penta escaped. Penta charged at Copeland but Copeland power slammed Penta onto the apron! Copeland tried to spear Penta but inadvertently speared Alex Abrahantes. Penta got to his feet and clocked Copeland with a thrust kick.
Penta El Zero Miedo drilled Copeland with an avalanche Code Red! Penta jumped off the middle rope, but Copeland countered with a spear and pinned Penta El Zero Miedo!
After the match, the arena lights went out. The lights came back on, and TBS Champion Julia Hart was standing in front of Copeland. The House of Blackâs Brody King blindsided Copeland and began to kick and stomp him. Brody smashed Copeland with a running boot. Brody applied a rear naked choke on Copeland.
Willow Nightingale sprinted to the ring and began to ground and pound Julia. Brody pulled Julia out of harmâs way. Copeland got back to his feet and decked Brody, forcing him out of the ring! Brody and Julia retreated, while Brody barked at Copeland.
Renee Paquette was backstage with ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe and âMad Kingâ Eddie Kingston!
TNT Champion Adam Copeland, Willow Nightingale, and Stokely Hathaway interrupted Reneeâs interview.
Copeland said he wanted to make sure Briscoe and Kingston were good for their trios match against the House of Black at Dynasty. Briscoe and Kingston assured Copeland they were ready.
Stokely: âWhat about next week on Dynamite, you put that TNT Championship on the line against Willow Nightingale!â
Willow: âNo, no, thatâs not what we were saying Stokely. Brody, I saw you beating up on Adam. Julia, you tried to get me with the mist, but not this time. So Dynamite next week, what do you say we team up Adam?â
Copeland: âIâve got an idea. Before Dynasty, before the three of us, the Rated Chicken Hawks, I just made that up, before we take out the House of Black, Willow, what do you say, me and you against Julia and Brody, next week on Dynamite?â
Willow: âYeah!â
The Young BucksâNicholas & Matthew Jacksonâwere in their dressing room to present backstage footage from ALL IN: London 2023!
Matthew told Nicholas to set it up with a little context.
Nicholas said AEW has a massive pay-per-view coming up on April 21st, AEW Dynasty. Taking place at Dynasty will be the finals of the tag team tournament, featuring FTR against the Young Bucks. Nicholas said the last time they wrestled FTR was at All In, and he still has some wounds that havenât healed.
Matthew said right before the match there was an incident backstage involving two individuals, âthe first being the scapegoat in this entire situation, Jack Perry.â Nicholas interrupted Matthew and said the other individual âtried to make this entire show about himself. As a matter of fact, this individual happens to be good friends with FTR. Which got me thinking maybe FTR were the masterminds behind this entire thing.â Matthew said the incident threw them off their game and FTRâs win should come with an asterisk in the history books.
Nicholas said at Dynasty they werenât shaking hands with FTR and called them pricks. âBe ready,â said Nicholas.
FTRâCash Wheeler and Dax Harwoodâcame out to the ring!
Cash: âWhy are we showing this? What are you two hoping to accomplish other than having a built-in excuse as to why you lost at Wembley. I am sick and tired of hearing about this and talking about this. Everybody back there, us, we are ready to move on and put this in the past. But instead, weâre showing videos from eight months ago because the Bucks canât let go that they lost to FTR. At Dynasty, we have to beat you. Itâs not for legacy or history, itâs because Iâm sick of you!â
Dax: âSo thatâs our bosses. Every interview they have they let us all know that without them, hundreds of people would be out of a job and without them AEW probably wouldnât exist. The scary thing is I donât necessarily disagree with them. Without the Young Bucks I might still be shaving Cashâs back.
âBut because of the Young Bucks, we have something that makes them sick. We have eclipsed them as the absolute best tag team on this planet. And at one time the Bucks cared about AEW, but somewhere along the way, whether it was greed or jealously, you guys lost that. And now three other letters have taken over. The only thing you care about is whatâs best for the EVPs. So, if it takes my last breath, on our backs, we will continue to build this place. We are building it for the future of all professional wrestlers. We are building this for every person who spends their hard earned money on one ticket to get lost in our drama and our action. We are doing this for you.
âAnd if the Young Bucks donât want to be part of that AEW, grab your ball, go home, we got this. This ainât about Wembley. This is about AEW, a company I love, an industry I love. But more importantly this is about the AEW World Tag Team Championships. Two teams walk in, one team walks out as the first ever three time AEW World Tag Team Champions. Young Bucks, you may have built this foundation, but we will put the roof on top of this house, just to blow it right off. Top guys out!â
Renee Paquette interview âThe Aerial Assassinâ Will Ospreay!
Ospreay: âIâve been thinking about this all week. Thereâs this rumor going around that Iâm afraid of the grind. Iâll be honest with you, I have no idea where this conversation has come from. I travel every single week from the US to the UK and back and Iâm delivering some of the best professional wrestling matches this world has ever seen. And normally I wouldnât take the bait, but since the guy who said it is only in the position heâs in because he was grinding on the bossâs daughter, you are in no position to tell me what the grind is all about because you have no idea what I fight for. So let this be a painful little jab back that you do not throw stones at an assassin with a machine gun.
âNow Bryan, you said Iâm stronger and faster than you, which I am. And you said the only way you have a chance at beating me is if you can ground me, but healthier and younger and better men than you have tried and failed. But Bryan Danielson, you are a living legend in this game, and I cannot say I am the best wrestler in the world until I pin you at Dynasty. This is AEW where the best wrestle! Itâs my time, Mr. Danielson, to show every single person what Iâm about and why Iâm the ace of AEW! Bryan Danielson, you find out Sunday, April 21st, why my name is Will Ospreay, and I am on another level!â
Trios Match!
âLionheartâ Chris Jericho, FTW Champion HOOK, & Katsuyori Shibata
vs.
Shane Taylor Promotionsâ âThe Guvânorâ Anthony Ogogo, Lee Moriarty, & Shane Taylor!
Jericho hit Moriarty with a shoulder block and then a lionsault for a near fall. Jericho battered Lee with short clotheslines in the corner. Jericho sent Moriarty for a ride with a hurracanrana off the top turnbuckle.
Shibata tagged in and mauled Moriarty with a forearm and then a round kick to the spine. Shane Taylor entered the match and Hook asked to be tagged in, so Shibata obliged. Taylor clubbed Hook with a lariat. Hook fired back with a German Suplex to Taylor!
Shibata tagged in and cracked Lee with a high boot in the corner. Shibata chopped down Lee and then decimated Lee with a running dropkick in the corner. Shibata went for a running kick to Lee, but Lee dodged it. Shibata inadvertently caught Jericho with the kick.
Shibata tried to tag out to Hook, but Jericho pulled Hook off the apron to prevent the tag. Jericho asked Hook what Shibataâs problem was. Hook and Jericho argued outside the ring, trying to sort things out. Shibata locked Lee in a sleeper. Shane Taylor ran in and clubbed Shibata with his right hand, and Lee grabbed the pin on Shibata!
âThe argument between Chris Jericho and Hook left the door open for Shane Taylor to land that big right hand and put him out, setting him up for Lee Moriarty,â said Excalibur.
Tempers were flaring and Hook told Jericho to leave!
AEW Continental Champion Kazuchika Okada vs. Christiano Argento!
Okada leveled Argento with a big elbow strike. Okada wasnât even breaking a sweat. Okada smashed Argento with a dropkick and then the rainmaker to score the pin!
Okada: âHey Pac, I accept your challenge! Iâll see you at Dynasty.â
âThe Bastardâ Pacâs music began to play. Pac walked onto the stage and paced back and forth, staring at Okada! Pac walked to the ring to confront Okada, but the Bucks ran out and hit Pac from behind. The Elite triple teamed Pac. The Bucks nailed Pac with superkicks. FTR sprinted into the ring and cleaned house on the Bucks! FTR wanted to hit the Shatter Machine on Matthew, but Okada jumped back into the ring with a steel chair and whacked FTR with chair shots!
The Bucks blasted FTR with superkicks and then the EVP Trigger! Okada cracked Pac in the side of the head with a steel chair!
Backstage we heard from the ROH Six-Man Champions the Bang Bang Gang!
They ran down a list of their recent accomplishments, including âSwitchbladeâ Jay White putting a beating on Billy Gunn. Jay White said he wanted another match on Rampage, but he wanted the Gunns to find him someone besides Billy.
Up Next: AEW Womenâs World Champion âTimelessâ Toni Storm hosted a Charleston Championship Champagne Toast for Thunder Rosa!
Renee Paquette was on the ramp and introduced Thunder Rosa first. Renee then welcomed Toni Storm âToni Storm, the floor is yours, toast away,â said Renee.
Storm threw a glass of champagne into Thunder Rosaâs eyes! Storm cracked Thunder Rosa in the head with a silver tray. Storm smeared Thunder Rosaâs face paint. Deonna Purrazzo ran out to the aid of Thunder Rosa, but Thunder Rosa pushed Deonna away! Deonna stormed off!
Mariah May vs. Anna Jay!
Anna ducked a shot from Mariah and fired back with a chop to Mariah. The two exchanged overhand chops in the center of the ring. Anna nailed Mariah with a neck breaker. Mariah headbutted Anna Jay.
Mariah May scored with a dropkick. Anna dodged a hip attack and rallied back with forearms. Anna charged at Mariah and clobbered her with a kick in the corner. Mariah retaliated with a running hip attack. Mariah rolled up Anna and pinned her!
After the match, Anna applied the Queen Slayer, not taking the loss lightly. Mina Shirakawa from Stardom sprinted to the ring, having the back of her former partner in Japan, Mariah May. Anna Jay retreated to the back. Mina brought in two glasses of champagne, gave some to Mariah, and then kissed Mariah.
Alex Marvez was backstage with âThe CEOâ Mercedes MonĂŠ!
Mercedes: âDouble or Nothing! Five years ago, history was made when AEW had their first pay-per-view there. And Iâm a history maker. And I decided to make history yet again when I head to Vegas to be the TBS Champion because MonĂŠ changes everything.â
Marvez asked if Mercedes would rather face Julia Hart or Willow Nightingale, but before Mercedes could respond, the lights went out! Someone attacked Mercedes in the dark!
Main Event Time! AEW World Title Eliminator Match!
AEW World Champion Samoa Joe vs. âThe Naturalâ Dustin Rhodes!
Samoa Joe and Dustin Rhodes traded strikes. Samoa Joe whipped Dustin into the guardrail. Joe jabbed Dustin, but Dustin fired back with a lariat. Dustin Rhodes was taking the fight to the champion. Samoa Joe headbutted Dustin.
Samoa Joe rammed Dustin into the steel ring post! Dustin Rhodes was busted wide open! Samoa Joe bludgeoned Dustin with more strikes in the ring. Dustin turned things around with a powerslam!
Dustin Rhodes walloped Samoa Joe with a Code Red for a near fall. Dustin went for a running bulldog, but Samoa Joe countered with a lariat. Dustin Rhodes grabbed the World title and brought it into the ring. Dustin wanted to use it on Samoa Joe, but ref Paul Turner warned Dustin not to use it. Dustin put the championship belt down. Dustin nailed Samoa Joe with the Cross Rhodes for a two-count!
Dustin Rhodes charged at Samoa Joe, but Joe wiped out Dustin with an STO! Samoa Joe grabbed a steel chain out of the corner and wrapped it around his fist. It was the chain that previously belonged to Swerve Strickland. Ref Paul Turner removed the chain from the ring. As the ref was handing the chain to an AEW ring crew member, his back was turned, and Samoa Joe seized the opportunity to bash the championship belt into Dustinâs head! Samoa Joe covered a knocked out Dustin and pinned him!
Samoa Joe applied a sleeper to Dustin after the match, trying to send a message to Swerve Strickland. Swerve appeared out of nowhere and cracked Joe with the House Call kick! Swerve Strickland grabbed the steel chain and drilled Joe with a chain-wrapped fist!
The locker room emptied and kept both wrestlers apart! Prince Nana handed Swerve Strickland the AEW World Championship, and Swerve held it up, while Joe looked on, seething!
This Friday tune in to AEW RAMPAGE at 10pm ET!
Donât miss AEW Collision & Battle of the Belts X live on Saturday on TNT at 8/7c from the Truist Arena in Highland Heights, KY!
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from Indiana Farmers Coliseum in Indianapolis, IN!
AEW presented REVOLUTION live from the sold out Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, NC!
Itâs showtime and you know what that means!
The Zero Hour portion of the show kicked off!Â
Your announce team for Zero Hour was Excalibur and Nigel McGuinness.
12-Man Tag Match!
The Bang Bang Scissor GangâAEW World Trios Champions The Acclaimed & Daddy Ass, and ROH World Six-Man Champions Bullet Club Gold
vs.
Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, Willie Mack, and Private PartyâIsiah Kassidy & Marq Quen!
Caster flubbed his rap at the end and seemed a bit rattled. Caster hit the Scissor Me Timbers on Marq Quen. Lethal interfered and Quen dropkicked Colten. Jeff Jarrett tagged in and did the Fargo strut after Karen choked Colten when the ref had his back turned. Willie Mack walloped Colten with a massive lariat. Satnam Singh sent Bowens for a ride, hurling him halfway across the ring. Lethal followed up with a delayed vertical suplex on Bowens, showing off his strength. Jarrett, as cunning as they come, tagged in and stomped on Bowens. Anthony Bowens bounced back with a neck breaker on Jeff Jarrett.Â
Daddy Ass made the tag and cleaned house until Satnam Singh tripped him from outside the ring. Private Party, Willie Mack, and Jay Lethal blasted Billy Gunn with a flurry of offense. Mack went for the frog splash, but Billy rolled out of the way. The Bang Bang Scissor Gang turned the tables on the opposition. Jay White chop blocked Satnam and Billy followed up with the fame-asser. Jay White drilled Mack with the Blade Runner and scored the pin!
âThings working out once again for the Bang Bang Scissor Gang,â said Excalibur.
Jay White: âYo! Listen! See Max, itâs not that hard. Guns up! Now Iâm always telling the gang about how much I love Greensboro. So, what better place to have an event like AEW Revolution! We are the greatest faction in the greatest professional wrestling company, All Elite Wrestling. The Bang Bang Scissor Gang is led by one of the greatest of all time. And I can remind all of you at any time what made me the âCatalystâ of professional wrestling. In 10 days, in Boston on Wednesday, March 13th, maybe Iâll handle some big business of my own!â
Lexy Nair was backstage with Doc Sampson, the Best Friends, and AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy!
Orange: âTonight I want you guys to stay in the back. Iâm sick and tired of my friends getting hurt because of me. Iâll handle this by myself.â
A vignette aired for the impending return of âThe Bastardâ PAC!Â
âYou cannot get rid of me, Tony Khan!â said PAC.
Skye Blue took some wild swings at Willow and Kris, but Kris whipped Blue into the turnbuckles. Skye tagged out to Julia, but Statlander body slammed Julia. Willow entered the match and connected with a running crossbody for a near fall on Julia. Kris blistered Julia with stiff chops and followed up with a back suplex.
Julia dodged a high boot from Willow. Skye Blue punted Willow in the back. Skye and Julia double teamed Willow in their corner, isolating her with quick tags. Kris tagged in and fired shots to Julia and Skye. She took both of them down with a jumping double elbow. Julia Hart had a blind tag and clubbed Kris from behind with a running lariat. Willow ran toward the corner and nailed Skye with a senton. Willow drilled Julia with a Death Valley Driver for a near fall.Â
Skye Blue tagged in and walloped Willow with a thrust kick. Willow dropkicked Skye off the middle rope. Kris tagged in and slugged it out with Julia in the center of the ring. Julia connected with a moonsault press to Kris. Julia covered Statlander but Willow ran in to break up the cover. Statlander clobbered Julia and Skye with a double lariat. Willow rocked Skye with the pounce! Willow planted Skye with the Doctor Bomb and pinned Skye Blue!
The main portion of the card kicked off with Tony Schiavone, Excalibur and Nigel McGuinness at the broadcast booth.Â
TNT Championship Match!
âThe Patriarchâ Christian Cage (c.) (with Nick Wayne, Mother Wayne, & Killswitch)
vs. Daniel Garcia!
Christian Cage crunched Garcia with a perfectly executed neck breaker. Garcia rallied back with swift strikes, backing Christian into the corner. Christian Cage shoved Garcia to the arena floor and the leaped over the ring post, down onto Garcia!
Nick Wayne charged at Garcia, but Garcia backdropped him, with Wayne crashing onto the timekeeperâs table. Garcia willed himself back onto the ring apron and landed a series of shots on Christian Cage. Garcia connected with a running forearm. Garcia pulled Christianâs turtleneck over Christianâs head and blasted him with strikes.Â
Daniel Garcia whipped Christian Cage into the steel ring steps. Christian Cage retreated to the relative safety of the ring. Christian went for a diving headbutt, but Garcia dodged it and countered with an ankle lock! Christian escaped but Daniel Garcia planted him with a suplex. Garcia was looking for a piledriver, but Chrisitan Cage countered with a catapult to the corner. Christian had the ref distracted while Killswitch choke slammed Garcia. Christian Cage nailed Garcia with frog splash for a near fall. Killswitch was going to interfere again, but âDaddy Magicâ Matt Menard ran down to even up the odds for Garcia! Menard and Killswitch brawled at ringside! Christian attempted the spear, but his leg gave out. Garcia grabbed him and spiked him with a piledriver for a two-count!
âSo close!â said Excalibur.
Garcia almost scored the victory with a jackknife pin, but Christian grabbed the ropes. Mother Wayne jumped onto the apron to distract the ref, while a lurking Nick Wayne rocked Garcia, whiplashing Garciaâs neck on the ropes! Christian Cage smashed Garcia with the Killswitch and pinned Garcia!
âHighway robbery by Christian Cage and the Patriarchy,â said Excalibur.Â
Continental Crown Championship Match!
Eddie Kingston (c.) vs. âThe American Dragonâ Bryan Danielson!
Kingston headbutted Danielson and hit a backdrop driver early on. Kingston followed up with a tope suicida. Kingston chopped Danielson on the apron but after luring Kingston in, Kingston inadvertently struck the ring post with his hand! Danielson suplexed Kingston off the apron and onto the arena floor!
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Danielson began to punish Kingstonâs right arm with kicks. Danielsonâs gameplan was clear: take away Kingstonâs ability to chop and strike. Danielson jumped off the top turnbuckle, but Kingston caught him and countered with an exploder suplex.
Danielson retaliated with a dragon suplex, Kingston landing high on his neck. Danielson employed chops and kicks on Kingston in the corner. Kingston knocked Danielson back with a headbutt. Danielson climbed back up the turnbuckles and stunned Kingston with a butterfly suplex off the turnbuckles.
Kingston played possum and wrecked Danielson with a spinning backfist. Kingston followed up with a Northern Lights Bomb for a near fall on Danielson! Somehow Danielson found the energy to smash Kingston with a running knee strike. Danielson covered Kingston but Kingston found the energy deep down to survive and kicked out at the two-count! Danielson captured the wrists of Kingston and stomped Kingston. Danielson locked Kingston in the triangle sleeper. Eddie managed to reach the ropes with his boot, forcing the ref to break the hold.
Kingston taunted Danielson, inviting him to strike him. Danielson kicked at Kingston. Danielson sent Kingston flying with a suplex, but Kingston got right back up! This time it was Kingston who dished out the pain, suplexing Danielson. The fans got to their feet and applauded both competitors!Â
Kingston and Danielson traded rapid fire strikes. Danielson was dazed. Kingston drove his knee into the head of Danielson. Kingston power bombed Danielson and pinned him!
âAnd now Bryan Danielson must shake Kingstonâs hand!â said Nigel.
Danielson lived up to his word, showed respect to Kingston, and the two shook hands!
All-Star 8-Man Scramble Match!
FTW Champion HOOK vs. âThe Machineâ Brian Cage vs. Dante Martin vs. âThe Ochoâ Chris Jericho vs. âThe MurderHawk Monsterâ Lance Archer vs. CMLLâs Magnus vs. Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Wardlow!
The winner earns an AEW World Championship Match.
Taz joined the commentary team for this match.
Adam Cole was rolled out on a wheelchair by ROH Tag Champs Mike Bennett and Matt Taven to accompany Wardlow to the ring.
âItâs every man for himself,â said Taz.
Wardlow and Hobbs joined forces to beat down Jericho. Cage press slammed Hook over the top rope and to the floor. Wardlow looked at the Tron and began to flex. Archer clocked Cage with a big boot. Wardlow and Archer exchanged strikes. Archer walked the top rope and backflipped onto Wardlow. Archer tried a second time, but this time Hobbs spiked him with a spinebuster.
Magnus and Dante paired off, while Hook and Jericho tangled with one another. Jericho jumped over the ring post and crashed onto Hobbs on the arena floor. Dante flew through the ropes with a tope to Wardlow. Hook climbed to the top and took flight, landing with a double sledge to Cage on the floor.Â
Dante connected with a crossbody to Jericho for a near fall. Magnus clocked Dante with a cutter for a two-count. Archer hip tossed Magnus off the ropes. Archer planted Magnus with a chokeslam for a near fall. Jericho and Magnus double suplexed Archer and they both followed up with stereo lionsaults on Archer!
Hobbs bulldozed Archer with a running powerslam. Brian Cage hurled Hobbs with a backdrop suplex. Wardlow rocked Cage, Archer, and Magnus with German Suplexes. Hook jumped on Wardlowâs back, looking to lock on Red Rum. Jericho came in and put Wardlow in the Lion Tamer while Hook still had Red Rum locked in. Cage broke up the submissions but Hook German Suplexed Cage for his efforts!
Hobbs massacred Jericho with the Worldâs Most Dangerous Slam on the arena floor! Hobbs charged at Jericho but Jericho blinded Hobbs with a canister of liquid fog from the fog machine. Wardlow took Cage down with a lariat. Wardlow power bombed Cage. Meanwhile Dante planted Magnus on the mat. Hook went back for the Red Rum on Wardlow, but Wardlow escaped and headbutted Hook. Wardlow clobbered Dante with a power bomb and pinned Dante Martin!
âAction from bell to bell!â said Excalibur.
âWhat a battle,â added Taz.
AEW International Championship Match!
âFreshly Squeezedâ Orange Cassidy (c.) vs. Undisputed Kingdomâs Roderick Strong!
Strong targeted Orangeâs back, nailing Orange with repeated back breakers. Roddy chopped away at Orange in the corner. Orange retaliated with elbow strikes. Roderick picked up Orange Cassidy and gut wrench power bombed Orange onto the top turnbuckle and ropes! Roddy grabbed Orange by the arms and began to wrench back against the ring post, making it difficult for Orange to breathe.Â
âRoderick really has Orange in a bad way,â said Schiavone.
Roderick countered Orangeâs swinging DDT with a rib breaker! Roddy put Orange in the Strong Hold! Orange willed himself to the bottom rope and grabbed it. Strong put Orange back in the Strong Hold! Cassidy escaped and this time connected with a DDT to Strong. Orange Cassidy followed up with a diving DDT for a near fall!
Orange rocked Roderick with the Panama Sunrise for a near fall! Roderick dodged the Orange Punch and countered with a back breaker. Orange fired back with the Orange Punch! Orange blasted Roddy with the Beach Break, but Roddy escaped the pin by touching the bottom rope with his boot. Orange got to his feet, but Roderick was there, pulping Orange with the End of Heartache and pinning Orange!
And new AEW International ChampionâŚRoderick Strong!
Kyle OâReilly made his return! Kyle came into the ring and he and Roderick embraced one another. Mike Bennett took off the Undisputed Kingdom t-shirt he was wearing and handed it to Kyle. Kyle handed the shirt back, whispered something into Roderickâs ear, and left the ring!
âKyle looks pretty emotional as heâs walking away,â said Schiavone.
The fans chanted âWelcome back! Welcome back!â
The Blackpool Combat ClubâClaudio Castagnoli & Jon Moxley
vs.
FTRâCash Wheeler & Dax Harwood!
Mox and Claudio came to the ring wearing spiked shoulder pads, eager to snack on danger and dine on death!
Claudio and Dax traded cradles and pinning combinations at the start of the match, both going for the win early on. They exchanged open palm strikes. Claudio decked Dax with a European Uppercut.Â
Mox grabbed a tag, as did Cash. Cash Wheeler ran into Mox with a shoulder tackle. Moxley fired in chops, but Cash came back with a big back body drop to Moxley. Dax took down Claudio with a drop toe hold and Cash hit an elbow drop on Claudio, FTR putting their famous tandem offense on display.
Moxley and Cash brawled in the front row! Moxley returned Cash to the ring and Claudio came in with a gut wrench to Cash. Claudio hammered Cash with a clothesline. Dax was busted wide open as he collided with the steel ring post, courtesy of Claudio. Claudio hoisted up Dax for an Air Raid Crash and Moxley jumped off the top rope, spiking Dax.
Dax and Moxley swung at each other with wild forearms and then right hands! Dax power bombed Moxley. Dax held up Moxley for a piledriver while Cash stuffed him from the top rope! Cash connected with a tope to Claudio! Dax was looking for the power plex on Moxley, but Claudio knocked Cash down. Moxley put Dax on his shoulders and Claudio rocked Dax with a European Uppercut Doomsday Device!
The fans chanted âA-E-W! A-E-W! A-E-W!â
FTR went for the Shatter Machine, but Claudio blocked it! Moxley clocked Cash with a cutter while Claudio put Dax in the Giant Swing! Moxley dropkicked Dax as Claudio was swinging Dax!Â
The fans chanted âFight forever! Fight forever!â
FTR finally nailed Mox with the Shatter Machine. Dax had Moxley covered but Claudio pulled Dax off Moxley and out of the ring! Cash flew out of the ring with a tope, but Claudio countered with a European Uppercut! Claudio nailed Cash with a Neutralizer on the arena floor. Dax was right there, though, and hit Claudio with a piledriver!Â
Back in the ring, Moxley drilled Dax with a Death Rider for a near fall! Moxley applied a rear choke. Cash jumped in to try to break up the submission, but Claudio grabbed him and put Cash in a rear naked choke! Moxley sat back with his submission and put Dax to sleep! The BCC won the match via ref stoppage!
âClassic match! I loved it!â said Taz.
AEW Womenâs World Championship Match!
âTimelessâ Toni Storm (c.) vs. âThe Virtuosaâ Deonna Purrazzo!
Toni Storm trolled Deonna, sending Mariah May dressed up in Toniâs throwback ring attire.Â
Deonna and Toni chain wrestled at the start of the match. Deonna baited in Toni and tried for an arm bar, but Toni got to the ropes. Deonna hit Toni with a shoulder tackle. Toni rolled to the outside, trying to collect her thoughts. Deonna caught Toni off guard with a sliding dropkick.Â
Toni mule kicked Deonna as the ref had her back turned. Toni headbutted Deonna, her confidence growing as she gained more control over her challenger. Deonna slapped Toni across the cheek. Toni fired back. Deonna hammered the jaw of her former friend with elbow strikes. Deonna pump kicked Toni in the face.
Toni tripped Deonna in the corner. Toni smashed Deonna with the running hip attack and followed up with a DDT for a near fall! Toni tripped Deonna and was looking for the Break A Leg submission. Deonna rolled out of it. Deonna pump kicked Toni and Toni fell into Lutherâs arms. Deonna jumped off the ropes and wiped out both of them on the outside! Deonna applied the Fujiwara arm bar. Toni was tapping to the Venus De Milo, but Luther distracted the ref. Mariah May jumped on the ring apron and distracted Deonna. When Deonna turned around, Toni drilled Deonna with a piledriver and pinned her.Â
The Don Callis Familyâs âThe Alphaâ Konosuke TakeshitaÂ
vs.Â
The Don Callis Familyâs Will Ospreay!
Don Callis joined the commentary team for this match.
âThis is the match of the decade!â said Don Callis.
âThe match hasnât even happened yet,â replied Tony.
âI can say that because these are the two best rope to rope wrestlers in the world,â said Callis.
âI hate to agree with Don,â said Excalibur.
Will took Takeshita down with a hurracanrana. Takeshita fired back with the Takeshita Line! Takeshita hit a delayed vertical suplex off the ropes. Ospreay rallied back with a corkscrew kick and then jumped over the top rope, landing on Takeshita on the floor mats.
Ospreay hit Takeshita with Kawada kicks to the face. Takeshita retaliated with a dive over the top rope and onto Will with all of his body weight! Takeshita tried for a senton off the top, but Will countered by raising his knees into Takeshitaâs back. Takeshita wasted no time, though, wiping out Will with a German Suplex. Takeshita charged at Will, but Will countered with a Spanish Fly!
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Will took down Takeshita with a spinning kick to the face. Will Ospreay had Takeshita in trouble with a rolling elbow strike. Takeshita rocked Ospreay with a shot of his own! Will planted Takeshita with a Tiger Driver for a near fall!
Takeshita countered an Os Cutter with a Blue Thunder Bomb! Ospreay dodged a flurry of strikes and landed the Os Cutter on Takeshita. Will attempted the Hidden Blade but Takeshita had it scouted and countered it with his own strike for a near fall.
Takeshita blocked a hurracanrana from the top and countered with a brutal brain buster off the top rope! Ospreay found his footing somehow and took down Takeshita with a Poison Rana. Takeshita trucked Will with a running lariat. Ospreay countered a jumping knee with a Styles Clash!
âWho in the hell is going to win this thing? My God!â said Schiavone.Â
Ospreay nailed Takeshita with a Tiger Driver 91, smashed Takeshita with the Hidden Blade, and pinned Takeshita!
âWe all won tonight, guys. The family is stronger than ever,â said Callis.
âThat was unbelievable. We will never forget this one,â added Schiavone.
ROH TV Champion Kyle Fletcher came down to the ring and hugged his best friend Will Ospreay.Â
âIâve just been informed that coming up this Wednesday on Dynamite itâll be Kyle Fletcher against Will Ospreay, one on one!â said Excalibur.Â
AEW World Championship Match!
Samoa Joe (c.) vs. âHangmanâ Adam Page vs. Swerve Strickland!
Jim Ross joined the broadcast booth for this match.Â
Samoa Joe took the fight to Page and Strickland. Hangman hit a fallaway slam on Swerve, but Swerve popped right up and hit Hangman with a high boot. Samoa Joe power bombed Hangman and transitioned to the STF. Samoa Joe was looking for a muscle buster on Swerve, as Joe had Swerve in the ropes. Samoa Joe headbutted Swerve and knocked him to the arena floor.Â
Hangman and Swerve teamed up and double power bombed Samoa Joe off the top turnbuckle. Hangman Page and Swerve tore each other apart with strikes in the middle of the ring. Swerve developed a mouse under his eye. Swerve laughed at Hangman. Page was looking for Dead Eye, but Swerve countered with a sunset flip until Samoa Joe broke up the pin attempt.Â
Hangman hoisted up Swerve with a tombstone piledriver. Once again Samoa Joe jumped in to break up the pin attempt. Hangman booted Samoa Joe, catching him flush on the chin. Swerve snatched up Hangman in a vertical suplex and went for the cover, and Samoa Joe was there to break up the pin attempt once again.Â
Samoa Joe planted Hangman with the Muscle Buster. Swerve connected with the Swerve Stomp on Samoa Joe and followed up with the House Call. Instead of going for the cover on Samoa Joe, Swerve rocked Page with the House Call to the back of the head for a two-count!
Swerve squashed Samoa Joe with a 450 splash! Samoa Joe was clutching his ribs. Swerve nailed Joe with the Swerve Stomp! Samoa Joe kicked out, and then Page pulled the ref out of the ring! Hangman grabbed the World title and smashed Swerve in the head with it!
âRef Paul Turner is face first on the floor here,â said Schiavone.
Hangman connected with the Buckshot Lariat on Samoa Joe! Hangman hit Joe with a second Buckshot Lariat and went for the pin. Another ref ran down to make the count, but Samoa Joe kicked out at the two-count. Samoa Joe grabbed Hangman in a submission, but Swerve jumped off the top rope with a sky twister press, throwing his body onto the pile to break it up!
âAdam Page was likely on the verge of tapping out,â said Excalibur.
Prince Nana handed Swerve Nanaâs crown. Swerve threw it back, saying he didnât need it. Samoa Joe grabbed Swerve in a rear naked choke, but Swerve countered, rolling up Joe. Hangman Page jumped into the ring and began to hammer the referee in the back of the head, and then threw the ref out of the ring!
Samoa Joe was looking for the Muscle Buster on Swerve but Page smashed Joe with the Buckshot Lariat. Swerve served up one of his own Buckshot Lariats to Page! Swerve drilled Page with the JML Driver! Samoa Joe jumped in and put the half and half on Hangman, trapping Page. Hangman Page tapped out!
âSamoa Joe wins it, and what a fight it was!â said Jim Ross.Â
âWas Hangman Page tapping out because he was trapped in the grips of Samoa Joe or was he tapping to deny Swerve?â asked Excalibur.Â
âYou can tell Swerve is heartbroken, but he will have another shot down the road,â added Tony Schiavone.
On Sunday, April 21st, AEW presents DYNASTY, live on pay-per-view at 8pm ET/5PM PT! Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10AM CT at AEWTix.com!
Stingâs Final Match!
AEW World Tag Team Championship Tornado Tag Match!
Darby Allin & âThe Iconâ Sting (c.)
vs.
The Young BucksâMatthew & Nicholas Jackson!
âThe Nature Boyâ Ric Flair came to the ring! Next came the special guest timekeeper, Ricky âThe Dragonâ Steamboat!
Stingâs sons were by his side, each representing a different era of Stingâs career.Â
The match started off with a bang! Sting hit the Stinger splash on the Bucks while Darby connected with Coffin Splashes. Stingâs sons got in the ring and delivered Stinger splashes on the Bucks, getting retribution for when the Bucks attacked them on Dynamite! Sting applied a double Scorpion Death Lock on the Bucks, but they managed to escape.
The fans chanted âThank you Sting! Thank you Sting!â
Sting whipped Matthew and Nicholas into the barricade. Sting smacked the Bucks with a steel chair. Stingâs sons set up tables around the ring, and Darby brought out a ladder. Matthew went for a piledriver on the floor but Sting countered with a back drop. Darby jumped off the ring post with a Coffin Drop to the Bucks on the floor!
Sting pulled a pane of glass out from beneath the ring. Sting pulled out another pane of glass. Stingâs sons and Darby placed the panes of glass across chairs at ringside. The Bucks tried to retreat through the crowd, but Darby and Sting chased after them. Nicholas walloped Darby with a Falcon Arrow off the stage and through tables. Matthew Jackson gouged at Stingâs eyes. Matthew suplexed Sting off the stage and through tables on the side of the stage!
Nicholas propped up a ladder on the turnbuckles. Matthew Jackson power bombed Darby against the ladder! Darby drilled Nicholas with a stunner and then nailed Matthew with a Code Red! Darby rammed Nicholasâ head into the steel ring steps. Darby climbed up and jumped off the top of the ladder that was set up in the ring, but Matthew pulled Nicholas out of the way just in time. This proved to be extremely costly for Darby, as his body crashed through the pane of glass below!
âLook at all those lacerations on the back of Darby,â said Excalibur.
âYeah, he could bleed out,â replied Jim Ross.
The Bucks double teamed Sting in the ring as Doc Sampson checked on Darby on the outside. Sting fought off the Bucks and set Matthew on a table. Sting climbed the ladder, but Matthew met him up there and power bombed him down through a table! Sting popped right up!
âItâs Sting!â said Tony Schiavone.
âUnbelievable!â added Excalibur.
The Bucks grabbed Sting and whipped him into a pane of glass that was propped against the turnbuckles, sending shards of glass everywhere! Matthew Jackson kicked Sting with a low blow. Matthew planted Sting with the Scorpion Death Drop for a near fall.Â
âThere are car crashes, and then there is this,â said Excalibur.
Nicholas Jackson went to grab one of the Tag Championships so he could use it as a weapon. Ricky Steamboat saw what was about to happen and yanked it away from Nicholas. Matthew Jackson clocked Steamboat with a steel chair! Ric Flair rolled into the ring to check on Sting. Matthew grabbed one of the tag belts and was about to blast Sting with it, but the âNature Boyâ acted as a human shield and begged Matthew not to do it. The Young Bucks blasted Ric Flair with superkicks!
Ricky âThe Dragonâ Steamboat jumped onto the ring apron, but the Bucks rocked him with stereo superkicks too!Â
âFlair is out, Steamboat is out!â said Jim Ross.
âThe Bucks are trying to wipe out every one of the icons,â replied Tony Schiavone.Â
Matthew Jackson smashed the tag belt in Stingâs face. Matthew covered Sting but Sting kicked out! The Bucks dished out a pair of superkicks to Sting but Sting did not leave his feet! Sting beat his chest and bulldozed the Bucks with clotheslines. Sting drilled Matthew with a Scorpion Death Drop! Sting went for the cover, but Nicholas broke up the pin. Sting tried for another Scorpion Death Drop but Matthew countered, pulled Sting down with a snap mare. The Bucks eviscerated Sting with the EVP Trigger! Matthew covered Sting but Sting kicked out at the two-count!
The Bucks nailed Sting with another EVP Trigger. Matthew covered Sting but Sting kicked out at the one-count and laughed! The Bucks set up Sting for the TK Driver, but Darby appeared out of nowhere and shoved Nicholas off the top rope! Nicholas crashed through ringside table! Sting planted Matthew with the Scorpion Death Drop but Matthew managed to kick out somehow! Sting held onto Matthew while Darby nailed Matthew with the Coffin Drop! Sting applied the Scorpion Death Lock and Matthew tapped out!
âMy God what a scene! What an unbelievable scene!â said Jim Ross.
And still undefeated AEW World Tag Team ChampionsâŚDarby Allin and Sting! (16-0)
âThis is what life is all about,â said Jim Ross.
âThis is what AEW is all about. You know whatâs great about Sting? He is a better man than he is a pro wrestler,â replied Tony Schiavone.
The fans chanted âThank you Sting! Thank you Sting! Thank you Sting!â
Sting: âThank you Greensboro. To be honest with you, Iâve been thanking you all since March of 1988. The Nature Boy and Sting 45 minute draw for the World title. Thank you, Ric. I just want this to be a night that wrestling fans will not forget. A night of wrestling that will be etched in your mind for years to come. And it is me saying this is a night that I will never forget!
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Tonightâs AEW COLLISION was broadcast from the Propst Arena at Von Braun Center in Huntsville, AL!
Itâs Saturday night and you know what that means! Saturday nightâs alright for fighting!
Nigel McGuinness, Kevin Kelly and Tony Schiavone were the broadcast team for tonightâs event.
Tonightâs opening contest: The House of Blackâs Buddy Matthews againstâŚ
Mark Briscoe attacked Matthews before Matthewsâ scheduled opponent was introduced!
Mark pulled Buddy out of the ring and Buddyâs opponent left the ring. Briscoe and Matthews brawled at ringside. Mark set up a chair in the ring, used it as a launching pad, and dived onto Matthews on the arena floor, crashing through a table!
Mark Briscoe grabbed a steel spike. Briscoe aimed the spike at Matthews while Matthews begged him off. Brody King and Malakai Black sprinted to the ring to save Matthews from Briscoeâs attack. Mark Briscoe was taking on the entire House of Black. He cracked Brody in the back with a steel chair! Mark whipped the chair at Malakaiâs head! Briscoe was about to use the spike on Malakaiâs head when Buddy walloped Mark with a running kick to the head!
Mark Briscoe jumped off the top of the ramp and connected with a flying cross body press to Matthews. Briscoe grabbed the remote control to the pyro that was set up on the ramp, and as Buddy staggered backwards, Briscoe triggered the pyro!
Security grappled with Briscoe, preventing him from hitting the switch again. The House of Black retreated to the back, in total disbelief at Briscoe, who seemed out of his mind!
âHe was trying to burn the face off Buddy Matthews!â said Nigel.
All-Star 8-Man Scramble Qualifier Match!
âBounty Hunterâ Bryan Keith vs. Top Flightâs Dante Martin vs. Penta El Zero Miedo!
Keith and Martin clobbered Penta with double thrust kicks. Dante rocked Bryan Keith with a rising knee strike. Penta fired back with a sling blade on Dante. Penta followed up with a backstabber on Dante.Â
Bryan Keith cut off Penta and hit him with an exploder suplex. Penta and Bryan exchanged forearms, but Dante jumped off the top turnbuckle with a cross body press to both of them. Dante dished out tope suicidas to Bryan Keith and Penta El Zero Miedo!
Penta El Zero Miedo used Bryan Keithâs back as a launching pad and then drilled Dante with a Canadian Destroyer for a near fall! Bryan Keith crunched Penta with a headbutt to the jaw. Keith cracked Dante with his knee and then a powerbomb for a two-count.Â
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Penta El Zero Miedo and Bryan Keith traded chops on the ring apron. Penta smashed Keith with a Fear Factor right on the apron! Dante sprung out of nowhere with a Destroyer to Penta! Dante quickly climbed the turnbuckles, seizing the opportunity, hit the frog splash on Bryan Keith and pinned him!
Dante Martin advances to the All-Star 8-Man Scramble taking place tomorrow at REVOLUTION, live on pay-per-view!
Mariah May vs. Angelica Risk!
May rocked Risk with overhead chops. Mariah May set up Angelica in the ropes and dropkicked her from behind. May followed up with a shotgun dropkick. Mariah May smashed Risk with a knee strike. Mariah finished off Risk with the May Day and scored the pin!
After the match, AEW Womenâs World Champion âTimelessâ Toni Storm came to the ring!Â
Storm: âDeonna Purrazzo, I must speak with you right now! Please come to this ring, this instance!â
âThe Virtuosaâ Deonna Purrazzo made her way to the ring!
Storm: âDeonna, please, hasnât thing gone far enough? Look at what weâve become. Is this really what we trained for, Deonna Our friendship was destroyed. All just to win a match. Is it worth it? From the bottom of my heart, I love you, I do. I love your abilities, your determination, and I love that there is only room for one and as long as I shall live and breathe, it will never be you!â
Purrazzo: âToni, I love you too. I love that you have your head so far up your own ass youâre going to lose the one thing that started this to begin with. I love that you have forgotten the most important detail about me. I am the best friend and the worst enemy!â
Storm: âVery well. Goodbye old friend.â
Toni Storm applied lip stick and then kissed the cheek of Deonna, and Deonna smacked Storm with a right punch! Deonna grounded and pounded Storm until Mariah May stepped into the ring and yanked Deonna by the hair, pulling her off the champ! Toni left the ring, with Luther helping her to the back. Deonna struck Mariah with a pump kick and then spiked Mariah with a piledriver! Toni Storm was held back by Luther!
Trios Match!
The Bang Bang Scissor Gangâs Anthony Bowens, Max Caster, & Austin Gunn
vs.
The Dark OrderâAlex Reynolds, Evil Uno, & John Silver!
Austin jabbed at Reynolds. Caster tagged in and Caster and Austin hit a double arm drag on Alex Reynolds. Caster body slammed Evil Uno. Bowens dropped the Scissor Me Timber on Evil Uno!
Evil Uno drilled Austin Gunn with a DDT. The Dark Order worked over Austin in their corner. Austin nailed Uno with a neck breaker. Bowens got the hot tag and cleaned house on the Dark Order.Â
John Silver hurled Austin overhead with a German Suplex. Reynolds inadvertently clocked Silver with a rolling elbow. âPlatinumâ Max Caster smashed Reynolds with the Mic Drop and pinned him!
Lexy Nair was backstage to interview Willow Nightingale, Kris Statlander, and Stokely Hathaway!
Willow said they needed to get on the same page, because tomorrowâs match pitting Willow and Kris against Julia Hart and Skye Blue is not about friendship, it is REVOLUTION. âSo, Julie and Skye, Stat and I are going to kick your ass!â
In the ring, Tony Schiavone interviewed Wardlow ahead of the All-Star 8-Man Scramble at REVOLUTION tomorrow!
Wardlow: âLooks like I finally got someoneâs attention around here. Two years ago, I won the Face of the Revolution Ladder Match. One year ago, I choked out your king. This year finally I get my shot at the World championship after I beat all the other âall starsâ in the match. But whoâs it going to be? Wardlow against âHangmanâ Adam Page? Doesnât matter, Iâll slap his moustache off.Â
âMaybe itâll be Wardlow versus Swerve. Iâm going to kick the front door of Swerveâs house down. So, swerve back into your own lane and dance your ass to the back of the line. Or is it going to be Wardlow versus Samoa Joe? I am so sick of hearing you people chant âJoe! Joe! Joe!â You know what? I hope it is you Joe, because everybody knows youâre in my spot! And this time I am going to finish the job. Not only am I going to take my spot, my title, I am going to beat you so bad that youâll be forced to put on a headset and sit at that announce table where you belong.Â
âTomorrow night I remind everyone that I am still the face of the revolution. I am the uncrowned king. Because this is no longer wrestling. This is war!â
Chris Jerichoâs music began to play! Jericho stepped onto the ramp!
Jericho: âWhat exactly is it that youâre talking about? You mention Swerve, Hangman, and Samoa Joe, but youâre not fighting them tomorrow at Revolution. Youâre in the All-Star Scramble, and I donât know if you know me, Iâm Chris Jericho. Iâm not an âAll-Starâ. Iâm one of the greatest to ever do this.Â
âAnd if you think youâre just going to pass over me and six of the greatest performers in AEW and worldwide, Iâm going to give you some information. I am Chris Jericho. They call me âThe Ochoâ because I am 8-time World champion, and more importantly, I am the first AEW World champion. So, the way that I see it, thatâs Jericho 8, Wardlow 0, because you ainât won sât!
âSo, before you disrespect me and say youâre going straight to the front of the line, I want to remind you that itâs been four years since I lost that title to Jon Moxley in one of the greatest matches in AEW. So tomorrow at Revolution, this isnât just another match for me, itâs a chance for me to get back to being AEW World champion, because I know Iâm good enough. Are you? Because youâre complaining so much about being overlooked and pushed aside. Did you ever think the reason people stopped chanting your name is because you just werenât as good as you think you are, Mike.â
Wardlow: âYou know what Chris? Youâre absolutely right. Because I was this close to the top of the mountain. I could damn near reach it, and after Double or Nothing I show up to work just to take a step backwards. And then the next week, a step down from the mountain. And then a step backwards, and then a step down, and then a step backwards, and then a step down. And yeah Chris, it pissed me off, to the point that I let it eat me away. To the point where I let it ruin my personal life. I lost me.Â
âBut after sitting at home for three months with no explanation and no phone call, I slowly started to remember who I am. And I did what I have done so many times in my life. I picked myself up off the floor, put myself back together, and come back here to remind everyone who I am. I am the biggest, baddest SOB to step foot in a wrestling ring. I donât care how many titles youâve won, and as I said a week ago, I am done eating your scraps. Iâm right here. Come down here because Iâd like to show you who the hell I am!â
Jericho: âIf you want me to come down there, Iâll take the rocket and shove it up your ass in front of all these people!â
Jericho began to approach the ring when Powerhouse Hobbs ambushed Jericho from behind!
Hobbs pummeled Jericho on the ramp. Hobbs looked at Wardlow and taunted him! âOne more day! Remember me!â said Hobbs.
Lexy Nair was backstage with Serena Deeb!
Deeb: âNot only am I undefeated, but Iâm also unstoppable, putting on clinic after clinic here in AEW. Nobody has really challenged me in the ring here. To be honest I donât think the competition that I have faced in the ring would know the difference between a wrist lock and a wristwatch. So, if youâre listening and watching and consider yourself one of the best, step into Deebâs dojo. Step into my home turf and test yourself against the most elite wrestler because Iâll be here each week to show why I am the final boss!â
Private PartyâIsiah Kassidy & Marq QuenÂ
vs.Â
âThe Fallen Angelâ Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal!
Daniels taunted Quen and then took him down with an arm drag. Daniels clobbered Quen with a clothesline from behind. Sydal tagged in and cleaned house on Private Party with devastating kicks. He followed up with a double hurracanrana. Sydal smashed Quen with an Air Raid Crash for a near fall.
Daniels delivered the Angels Wings on Quen, but Jeff Jarrettâs crew came down to the ring to distract the ref! Jay Lethal blasted Daniels with the Lethal Combination! Lethal grabbed Marq Quen and placed him on top of Daniels. The ref turned around and counted the pin, and Private Party were victorious.
Jeff Jarrett, Karen Jarrett, Sonjay Dutt, Satnam Singh, and Jay Lethal celebrated with Private Party after the match.
âIs this a new allegiance?â wondered Nigel.
Thunder Rosa vs. Cassandra Golden!
Thunder Rosa cracked Cassandra with a chop to the chest. Rosa dodged a splash and countered with a shotgun dropkick. Thunder Rosa followed up with a running dropkick. Thunder Rosa pounded Golden with a double stomp off the top rope. Thunder Rosa applied an arm bar and forced Golden to tap out!
Main Event Time!
AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy, FTW Champion HOOK, Daniel Garcia, & Trent Beretta
vs.
TNT Champion Christian Cage, âThe Machineâ Brian Cage, Killswitch, & Roderick Strong!
Matt Menard joined the commentary team for this match.
Roderick Strong and Daniel Garcia locked up. They chain wrestled and Roddy grabbed a wrist lock. Garcia chopped away at Roddy. Cage came in without a tag and ate a shot from Hook. Both teams got in the ring, all eight men having a stand off!
Brian Cage deadlift superplexed Garcia. Roderick tagged in and nailed Garcia with a back breaker. Christian Cage grabbed a tag and he and Roderick worked over Garcia in the corner. Cage tagged in and stomped Daniel Garcia.
Garcia countered a suplex from Cage with a DDT. Garcia made the tag to Trent. Trent came in and cleaned house on the opposing team! Trent went for a tope suicida, but Killswitch caught him with a chokeslam on the apron!
Orange Cassidy entered the fray and crunched Cage with the Stun Dog Millionaire! Orange followed up with a tope suicida to Roderick Strong. Orange drilled Cage with a spinning DDT for a near fall! Killswitch came in from behind and tried to double chokeslam Orange and Garcia, but they blocked it. Orange pulped Killswitch with the Orange Punch! Garcia rocked Killswitch with a running knee strike.
Roderick ran in with a big boot to Cassidyâs face. Garcia grabbed Strong and planted him with a suplex. Christian Cage sprung through the ropes with a spear to Daniel Garcia! When Christian Cage turned around, Hook was waiting for him and sent Christian soaring with a suplex.Â
âDid you see how high Christian got?â asked Daddy Magic.
Brian Cage had Hook in his clutches, though, and walloped the FTW champ with a full nelson slam. Brian Cage blocked an Orange Punch from Cassidy. Cage face planted Orange and went for the cover, but Garcia and Hook broke it up!
As both teams battled in a chaotic scene, Orange tried for a tope suicida to Roderick Strong but Strong blocked it, countering with the End of Heartache on the arena floor! Trent had a sleeper on Killswitch and got Killswitch down to one knee. Killswitch escaped and tossed Trent hard to the mat. Roderick had Orange in the Stronghold outside the ring. Killswitch battered Trent with a headbutt to the chest! Trent retaliated with a thrust kick. Nick Wayne interfered, clubbing Trent from behind, but the ref didnât see it. Killswitch clocked Trent from behind with a clothesline and pinned him!
Killswitch was planning to chokeslam Garcia onto a steel chair, but Matt Menard jumped into the ring. Killswitch cut him off with a headbutt. Killswitch choke slammed Menard onto the steel chair!
Catch all the fallout from AEW REVOLUTION 2024 on AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Gas South Arena in Duluth, GA!
Donât miss AEW REVOLUTION live on pay-per-view on Sunday at 8PM ET/5PM PT from the legendary Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, NC! The action kicks off with ZERO HOUR at 6:30PM ET/3:30PM PT live on YouTube!Â
Tonightâs episode of AEW DYNAMITE was broadcast live from the Propst Arena at Von Braun Center in Huntsville, AL!
Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, and âThe Human Suplex Machineâ Taz were the broadcast team for tonightâs event.
Itâs Wednesday night and you know what that means!
Opening the show: âHangmanâ Adam Page had an important announcement ahead of this Sundayâs REVOLUTION pay-per-view!
âHangmanâ Adam Page came to the ring using a crutch.
Adam Page: âLooks doesnât look like a promising start to a speech, does it? When All Elite Wrestling started it was a new endeavor for my friends, but for me it was something different. It was a goal. It was an opportunity to rise to peopleâs expectations, to make the most of the world that was laid in front of me. And Iâd like to think I did that, and Iâd like to think of winning the World championship in 2021 as the biggest accomplishment of my career. Thatâs why it hurts so much to have that opportunity in front of me again and have this crutch.
âWhen AEW decided at REVOLUTION the World championship would be decided in a three-way match, I said it was B.S. and I meant it. And I suggested the World championship should be decided in a singles match, but it looks like I had the wrong two competitors.Â
âSo, Iâm not going to apologize to Swerve or to Samoa Joe, but I will tell you, because I need to tell you the truth because Iâm always honest with you that this Sunday at REVOLUTION I will not be able to compete.â
Swerve Stricklandâs music began to play! Swerve walked onto the ramp with Prince Nana and then made his way to the ring.
Swerve: âThese last six months, man, weâve been to war. I tried to kill you, you tried to kill me. I didnât expect this to happen. I targeted you because of everything youâve accomplished in AEW. And to say I didnât have the utmost respect for you because of that would be a flat out lie. But you suffered this unfortunate fate. And the thing about fate, you canât escape it and you canât stop destiny. And my destiny awaits for me this Sunday as I go on to become the AEW World champion.â
AEW World champion Samoa Joe walked onto the ramp with a microphone!
Samoa Joe: âDestiny? You boys are out here talking about destiny. What do we have here? Two of the most bitter enemies every trying to hug it out. A lot of lies being told out here so allow me to correct them and tell this audience a few truths. Week after week I watched you boys stare daggers into each other thinking that the destiny of this World championship was tearing the other manâs throat out. Thatâs only because you were avoiding making eye contact with me and realizing who the real man around here is.
âSecondly, though I donât quite understand the little dynamic here and whether youâre in or not, âHangman,â or should I call you âHop-along,â I keep hearing about how youâre both young, hungry championship contenders but thatâs ridiculous. You both are battle tested warriors in that ring. And thereâs nothing new about you. No, youâre hungry accomplished wrestlers. But the only reason youâre hungry is because Iâm starving your ass. Let me explain to you who I am and what you really need to be worried about. Iâm Samoa Joe. Iâm the AEW World champion. And whether itâs one of you or both of you come REVOLUTION, Iâm going to whoop both your asses.â
Swerve: âNow you wait a second, Joe, because Iâm going to explain to you who the hell I am! I am someone who has gone from being unemployed to headlining pay-per-views! I went from someone that went from being a cruiserweight to going after the World championship! Iâll do whatever it takes to become World champion! Iâm not only a career maker, but Iâm also a career changer! After I take the championship away from you, youâre not going to know what to do with yourself! You might want to go back to commentary wearing a poncho again. I am on the verge of making history! And this Sunday at REVOLUTION I will become the AEW World champion!â
âHangmanâ Adam Page crack Swerve across the back with his crutch!
âLook at him! Hangmanâs not injured at all!â said Excalibur.
Hangman bashed the crutch into Swerveâs head and Samoa Joe relished every moment from the ramp.Â
âHangman was lying this entire time!â said Excalibur.
âHe wonât be champion! Iâll be champion, damn it!â screamed Hangman Page.
âHangman is saying heâs going to be champion so apparently itâs still a three way match this Sunday at REVOLUTION live on pay-per-view,â said Excalibur.
Hangman stormed to the back, no problem putting weight on his ankle, while a referee and Prince Nana helped Swerve get to his feet.
Footage aired from earlier in the day of EVPs The Young BucksâMatthew and Nicholas Jacksonâarriving to the arena. Renee Paquette was there to interview them and ask about their meeting with âNature Boyâ Ric Flair!
Nicholas Jackson: âThe meeting went great and thatâs all Iâll say about that.â
Matthew Jackson: âRenee, have you seen Sting at all today? Because as this is his final Dynamite appearance, weâre just dying to see him and thank him for all his contributions to this company. And more importantly, we just want to conduct his exit interview.â
The Bucks laughed as they held white baseball bats.
Nicholas Jackson: âSting, where you at? Cameraman, youâre going to want to follow us to see what we do to Sting.â
The Blackpool Combat Clubâs Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli, & Jon Moxley!
Claudio was perplexed as Kingston knocked him off his feet. Dax and Danielson tagged in for their respective teams. Dax hit Danielson with a shoulder block. Cash and Mox grabbed tags. Mox and Cash traded strikes in the corner. Both teams began to brawl, and the match quickly broke down!
Mox punched Cash in the face as Danielson held Cash back. Moxley applied a leg lock on Cash. Cash was able to escape and wiped out Mox with a hurracanrana. Dax tagged in and rocked Moxley with left jabs. Dax nailed Claudio with a neck breaker. Dax cradled Moxley for a near fall. Mox connected with a crossbody press on Moxley for a two-count.
Dax drilled Moxley with a Tiger Driver, but Danielson ran in to break up the pin attempt. Moxley rammed Dax into the steel ring post. Danielson grabbed Daxâs arm and wrenched on it. Then Danielson took down Kingston and hit a sliding dropkick on him on the arena floor.
Moxley and Claudio tied up Dax so Danielson could hit Dax with a diving headbutt. Kingston managed to tag in, and he and Danielson traded chops. Kingston sent Danielson flying with an exploder suplex. Kingston served up an exploder for Claudio. Kingston and Moxley blasted each other with strikes. Danielson booted Kingston. Claudio put Kingston in the Giant Swing and then Danielson dropkicked Eddie! Moxley spiked Kingston with a piledriver! Danielson covered Kingston for the pin, but Dax jumped in the ring to break it up.
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
FTR cleaned house on Moxley and Claudio! Kingston cracked Danielson with a spinning backfist. FTR hit a diving bulldog on Danielson and Kingston covered Danielson for the pin, but Claudio and Mox broke it up!
All six men paired off and began to clobber each other with strikes. FTR connected with the Shatter Machine on Claudio! Mox DDTâed Cash! Dax stunned Mox with a brain buster! Danielson charged at Dax with the running knee! Kingston went for the spinning backfist, but Danielson ducked it! Danielson sent Kingston overhead and to the mat with a shoulder capture suplex! Danielson drilled Kingston with the running knee! Danielson grabbed Kingstonâs wrists and began to stomp on Kingstonâs head. Danielson trapped Eddie in a triangle sleeper. The ref stopped the match and Danielson wouldnât release the hold! The BCC won via ref stoppage!
Tony Schiavone was in the ring to welcome Will Ospreay to AEW!
Ospreay: âGuys, I donât want to take up too much of your time. I just want to thank you for the reception. My obligations are done with New Japan. Iâm here to say Iâm here for full time work, Iâm All Elite! But some of you are forgetting this isnât my first rodeo here. On my first pay-per-view match, I beat Orange Cassidy in the center of this ring. Then I went over to Canada and beat Kenny Omega in front of 13,000 of his own people! And if that werenât good enough, I pinned the first ever AEW World champion Chris Jericho at Wembley Stadium!
âIâve been rolling with the Callis Family, everythingâs been going smoothly, and Iâm ready to pick up where I left off.â
Don Callis came to the ring with Powerhouse Hobbs and Takeshita!
Callis and Hobbs hugged Ospreay. Takeshita glared at Ospreay.Â
Callis: âThereâs nothing I like more than a Don Callis Family reunion. When I think about the talent, I think about Fletcher, Hobbs, Takeshita, and Ospreay, and itâs an embarrassment of riches. I love when you talk about all of those things we accomplished together. We top that by having the match of the decade, with the two best rope to rope wrestlers in the world, Takeshita and Ospreay!Â
âAnd people ask me how I can pit two family members against each other. Itâs like when Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen would go hard against each other in practice, then theyâd come together and win championships. At the end of the day, it doesnât matter which one of you wins at REVOLUTION, the real winner after this match will be the Don Callis Family. Now shake hands, guys, this is going to be history making.â
Ospreay extended his hand and smiled, and Takeshita pulled Ospreay in. Then Takeshita tried to walk away but Ospreay pulled him. They smirked at each other, ahead of their match this Sunday.
Renee Paquette was backstage to interview the disrespected Eddie Kingston!
The Young Bucks interrupted, asking if Kingston or Renee had seen Sting anywhere.Â
Matthew apologized and didnât realize they were live. Nicholas pointed the baseball bat at Kingston and said he had a bone to pick with Kingston. Nicholas said that Kingston was talking crap on Collision, and the next time itâd be a fine.Â
AEW International Championship Open Challenge!
âFreshly Squeezedâ Orange Cassidy (c.)Â
vs. Nick Wayne (with TNT Champion Christian Cage, Mother Wayne, and KillSwitch)!
Nick Wayne was looking for Wayneâs World early on, but Orange dodged it. Wayne followed up with a diving uppercut. Nick Wayne moonsaulted off the middle turnbuckle and landed on Cassidy on the arena floor.
Orange tried to put some distance between him and Nick Wayne, but Nick vaulted over the top rope again and crashed onto Orange. Nick Wayne and Orange Cassidy jockeyed for position on the top turnbuckle. Christian swept out Orangeâs legs. The ref ejected the Patriarchy from ringside for interfering.Â
Orange Cassidy blasted Nick with a shotgun dropkick. Orange bounced Nickâs head off the turnbuckle pads. Orange planted Nick Wayne with a DDT for a near fall. Nick Wayne fired back with a fishermanâs suplex. Nick Wayne taunted Orange. Orange answered with a thrust kick. Orange pulped Wayne with a running PK! Orange rocked Wayne with a Beach Break for a near fall.Â
The Undisputed KingdomâMike Bennett and Matt Tavenâshowed up at ringside to mock Orange. Nick Wayne hit Orange with a dragon suplex as Orange was distracted by Taven and Bennett. Rocky Romero and Trent ran to ringside to even up the odds for Orange, brawling with Bennett and Taven. As the ref was dealing with the ringside brawl, Nick Wayne ripped off a turnbuckle pad. Daniel Garcia walked to ringside and began to argue with Nick Wayne. Garcia is set to wrestle Christian Cage this Sunday at REVOLUTION. Nick Wayne turned around and ate an Orange Punch from Cassidy, and Cassidy scored the pin!
Roderick Strong jumped in the ring, ambushing Orange Cassidy with a jumping knee strike!
Renee Paquette was backstage with the Bang Bang Scissor Gang!
They agreed they were gelling as a team, and on Collision this Saturday itâll be Austin Gunn teaming with the Acclaimed.Â
Kris Statlander (with Stokely Hathaway and Willow Nightingale)Â
vs. Skye Blue (with TBS Champion Julia Hart)!
After an aggressive start by Skye, Kris flung Skye halfway across the ring. Skye escaped and body slam and yanked Kris down to the mat by her hair. Kris came back with a senton for a near fall.Â
Skye Blue cracked Kris with a knee to the face. Kris press slammed Blue over the barricade and onto fans at ringside! Back in the ring, they traded forearms. Kris hammered Skye with a lariat. Kris powerslammed Skye out of the corner for a two-count.Â
Skye came back with a neck breaker for a near fall. Statlander drilled Skye with a German Suplex on the apron! Julia Hart checked on Skye. Julia gave Kris a nasty look before Willow stepped up and got in Juliaâs face. Statlander charged at Skye, but Skye countered with a drop toehold, bashing Statlander headfirst into the steel ring steps! Blue crushed Kris with a Canadian Destroyer! Skye rolled up Kris in a cradle but somehow Kris Statlander kicked out!
Statlander pulled Skye off the turnbuckles and down onto the mat with an iconoclasm! Statlander planted Skye for a near fall. Stokely offered Kris a steel chain to use, but Willow discouraged her from using it. As the ref was telling Stokely to put the chain away, Julia Hart jumped in the ring and hit Kris in the head with the TBS championship belt! Skye followed up with the Code Blue and pinned Kris Statlander!
EVPs Matthew and Nicholas Jackson continued their search for Sting backstage!Â
They found Stingâs dressing room and went in! There were black baseball bats hanging from the ceiling, but no Stinger! Nicholas said Sting was playing mind games, and Matthew agreed, saying it was sick.
âLionheartâ Chris Jericho vs. CMLLâs Atlantis Jr. (accompanied by Atlantis)!
They slugged it out early on. Atlantis Jr. connected with a high crossbody press from the top rope. Atlantis Jr. sent Jericho flying with a monkey flip. Jericho retaliated with the Walls of Jericho, but Atlantis reached the ropes, forcing the ref to break the hold. Jericho tried to rip off Atlantis Jr.âs mask but Atlantis Jr.âs fought back. As the ref was helping to tie the mask back on Atlantis Jr., Atlantis Sr. choked Jericho with a towel on the other side of the ring!
Atlantis Jr. hit Jericho with a tope suicida, sending Jericho crashing hard into the barricade. Atlantis Jr. catapulted Jericho into the steel ring post. Atlantis Jr. tried to powerbomb Jericho onto the steps, but Jericho reversed it with a hurracanrana!
Back in the ring, Atlantis Jr. sent Jericho down to the mat hard with an arm drag off the turnbuckles. Atlantis Jr. followed up with a wheelbarrow German Suplex for a near fall! Jericho and Atlantis Jr. fought on the top turnbuckle, and Jericho slammed Atlantis Jr.âs head onto the mat with a bulldog for a near fall!
Atlantis Jr. powerslammed Jericho for a two-count. Atlantis Jr. jumped over the top rope and wiped out Jericho on the arena floor!Â
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Jericho battered Atlantis Jr. with shots on top of the head and then sent Atlantis Jr. soaring with a hurracanrana off the top rope! Atlantis Jr. avoided the Judas Effect from Jericho! Atlantis Jr. locked in his backbreaker finisher on Jericho, but Jericho countered with the Walls! Jericho sat back and Atlantis threw the towel in for his son, knowing his son had too much pride to tap out!
EVPs The Young Bucks, Matthew and Nicholas Jackson, came to the ring with their white baseball bats!
Nicholas and Matthew were pointing their bats at Sting fans. Nicholas put his into the face of one Sting fan at ringside, but the fan removed his Sting mask and revealed himself to beâŚDarby Allin! Darby jumped over the barricade and took the fight to the Young Bucks, opting not to wait until Sunday at REVOLUTION!
Matthew grabbed Darbyâs leg and anchored him while Nicholas cracked Darby with a knee strike! The Bucks had Darby outnumbered and began to double team him with a vicious assault, using their baseball bats! The Bucks held Darby in the ring, setting him up for the EVP Trigger and then sandwiching him with their knees!
âIf the Bucks land the EVP Trigger this Sunday at REVOLUTION, we will have new AEW World Tag Team champions,â said Excalibur.
The Bucks continued their onslaught on Darby with their baseball bats! The Bucks called to the back and out cameâŚ
âThe Nature Boyâ Ric Flair!Â
Flair came down to the ring as the Bucks beat down Darby. Matthew handed a baseball bat to Ric Flair. âThe Nature Boyâ poked Nicholas in the eyes! Flair chopped Matthew but Nicholas connected with a low blow to Flair from behind! The Bucks stomped Ric Flair!
Stingâs music began to play, and the Bucks didnât wait, deciding to walk up the ramp with baseball bats in hand!
âSting is walking into a trap here,â said Tony Schiavone.
Sting descended from the rafters, repelling from the top! Sting turned the tables on Matthew and Nicholas Jackson, hitting them with his baseball bat! Darby nailed the Bucks with a Coffin Drop!
âListen to this crowd! It has come unglued for Sting!â said Excalibur.
Sting drilled Nicholas with a Scorpion Death Drop!Â
âThey were looking all day for Sting and the Bucks needed to look upâŚin the rafters,â said Tony Schiavone.
âWell Sting found them and exploded on the scene right here on Dynamite,â replied Taz.
This Friday tune in to AEW RAMPAGE at 10pm ET on TNT featuring:
-All-Star 8-Man Scramble Qualifying Match: CMLLâs Magnus vs. Matt Sydal!
-Riho vs. Trish Adora!
-CMLLâs Rugido vs. Claudio Castagnoli!
Donât miss AEW Collision on Saturday on TNT at 8/7c!
Catch all the fallout from AEW REVOLUTION 2024 on AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Gas South Arena in Duluth, GA!
Donât miss AEW REVOLUTION live on pay-per-view on Sunday at 8PM ET/5PM PT from the legendary Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, NC!
Tonightâs episode of AEW RAMPAGE was broadcast from the H-E-B Center in Cedar Park, TX!
Your broadcast team was Excalibur, âDaddy Magicâ Matt Menard and Tony Schiavone.
Itâs Friday night and you know what that means!
ThisâŚisâŚRampage!
No Disqualification Match!
Jeff Hardy (with Matt Hardy) vs. Sammy Guevara!
Jeff taunted Sammy, slapping him in the face. Sammy fired back with a slap of his own, refusing to back down.
âWeâve seen Jeffâs behavior change the past few weeks,â said Excalibur.
Jeff Hardy pulled a ladder out from beneath the ring, but Sammy dropkicked it into Jeffâs face! Jeff whipped Sammy into the guardrail. Jeff flew off the apron and wiped out Sammy on the floor!
Sammy connected with a knee strike on the apron. Sammy nailed Jeff with a thrust kick. Sammy followed up with a foot stomp on the apron! Jeff lunged at Sammy with a dropkick. Jeff moved the steel ring steps. Jeff charged, launched off the ring steps, and crushed Sammy against the barricade.Â
Jeff threw a steel chair at Sammyâs head. Jeff began to climb the ladder in the middle of the ring. Sammy met Jeff on the opposite side of the ladder. The two exchanged blows, perched on the ladder. Jeff stunned Sammy with a Twist of Fate off the ladder for a near fall!
Matt Hardy set up another table at ringside, along with a massive ladder. Jeff propped up Sammy on the table. Jeff began to climb the ladder, but Sammy got up and clubbed Jeff, preventing Jeff from ascending any higher. Sammy put Jeffâs head between a steel chair and then blasted Jeff with a cutter off the ropes! Sammy placed Jeff on the table at ringside. Sammy climbed the ladder all the way to the top! Sammy crashed down onto Jeff with a senton from the top of the massive ladder!
Sammy hit a shooting star press on Jeff Hardy. Jeff countered by raising his knees into Sammyâs ribcage, but Sammyâs knee smacked into Jeffâs face on the landing! Sammy reversed a Twist of Fate and scored the pin fall victory after the GTH!
Powerhouse Hobbs jumped in the ring after the match, ambushing Sammy from behind with a spinebuster! Don Callis was clapping on from ringside. Powerhouse Hobbs squashed Sammy with the Worldâs Most Dangerous Slam!
Renee Paquette was backstage with âThe Machineâ Brian Cage and Prince Nana, talking with him ahead of his huge match next Wednesday on Dynamite when he teams with Swerve Strickland and AEW World Champion Samoa Joe to take on FTW Champ HOOK, Rob Van Dam, and âHangmanâ Adam Page!
Cage: âI got something to say. It doesnât matter who are partners are. Hook, Iâm going to be real with you. You donât belong here. You come in here as some fad flavor of the month. And the fact that I go out there and they cheer you, it pisses me off. This is what I love. This is what I want to do. Everyone cheering for you when they should be cheering for me. Iâm what a real wrestler looks like. Iâm sick of taking a back seat to you. Next Wednesday youâre getting your ass beat!â
Blackpool Combat Clubâs Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli were backstage!
Moxley: âYou know what they say: you canât fix stupid, but you can choke it. FTRâthey are the standard bearer, they are the benchmark of great tag team wrestling. You donât think we know tag team wrestling? You donât think we are every bit the artists when it comes to tag team wrestling that you are?
Claudio: âWe donât walk around calling ourselves Top Guys. We donât have to. We get results. We donât play this. We are this.â
Renee Paquette interviewed Ruby Soho backstage!
Renee asked what she was expecting tonight now that Angelo Parker requested some time with her. Before Ruby could answer, Saraya and Harley Cameron walked onto the set.
Saraya: âI forgive you by the way.Â
Harley: âYou know what? I forgive you too.â
Ruby: âYou forgive me? Hereâs the thing. Iâm not sorry. Iâve known this whole time, every bad thing that has happened to me lately, youâve been behind. Iâm hoping maybe it was because you were doing what you thought was best for me. But Iâm a grown woman. I know whatâs best for me. And whatâs best for me is space. Especially from you.â
Ruby walked off.
Saraya: âItâs time to really end that.â
Dustin Rhodes & The Von ErichsâRoss & Marshall
vs. Hitt, Shimbashi, & Romero Crews!
Dustin locked up with Hitt. Dustin nailed Hitt with a stiff strike. Ross tagged in and landed a dropkick on Hitt. Dustin came in and destroyed Crews with the Cross Rhodes. Ross and Marshall locked on the claws on Shimbashi and Hitt and Dustin finished Crews with the Final Reckoning for the pin!
Renee Paquette was backstage with AEW Womenâs World Champion âTimelessâ Toni Storm, Luther the Butler, and Mariah May!
Toni put Mariah in an arm bar! Toni: âIs this what you want Deonna No body likes a drama queen Deonna, so piss off!â
Anna Jay vs. Queen Aminata!
Aminata took down Anna with a side headlock. Anna Jay walloped Queen with a backstabber for a near fall. They traded chops but Queen Aminata wiped out Anna with a snap suplex. She followed up with a running PK to Anna Jay!
Anna Jay dodged a hip attack. Aminata avoided a kick and then annihilated Anna Jay with a boot slide for a two-count! Aminata countered the Queen Slayer with a jaw breaker! Queen Aminata headbutted Anna Jay in the abdomen as Anna Jay charged in. Queen Aminata scored the pin on Anna Jay!
Renee Paquette was backstage with Stokely Hathaway, Kris Statlander, and Willow Nightingale!
Renee asked Willow if she was happy with her victory over Skye Blue. Willow freaked out and questioned Stokelyâs involvement in the match.
Kris: âThis might have been my fault. We should have had a team meeting. Iâll make sure this wonât happen again. Weâll try this one more time.â
Willow: âOkay, Stokely, youâre going to shake on it?
Kris forced Stokely to shake Willowâs hand. âSo, weâre all good here, right?â Kris asked.
Willow and Stokely nodded yes.Â
Next Renee Paquette interviewed Ruby Soho and âCool Handâ Angelo Parker!
Angelo: âI know this is kind of a weird place, but I wanted to start off by saying Happy Valentineâs Day. Ruby, you have me feeling things that I donât even know how to wrap my head around. I slipped you a note because I thought I lost you after what happened a few weeks ago with Harley, and you smashed the cake in my face. It was the only way I could get to you. Then I saw what you did last week on Rampage with Saraya, so Iâm just going to go for broke andâŚâ
Ruby: âDo you want to have a drink with me? I canât tonight because I have a red eye. But how about next week?â
Angelo: âYeah, yeah.â
Ruby: âPick me up next Wednesday night, Cool Hand.â
The Bang Bang Scissor GangâAEW World Trios Champs Daddy Ass & The AcclaimedâAnthony Bowens & Max Caster and ROH World Six-Man Champions Bullet Club GoldâJay White & Austin & Colten Gunn
vs.
Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, Satnam Singh, and Dark OrderâAlex Reynolds & John Silver!
Lethal and White locked up first. Lethal used a side headlock takeover. Jeff Jarrett hit Jay White in the back with a knee when White ran into the ropes. Evil Uno tagged in, and Jay White served up stiff chops to Unoâs chest.Â
Colten grabbed a tag and splashed Evil Uno in the corner. Colten followed up with a dropkick. Caster held Evil Uno while Bowens nailed Evil Uno with the Scissor Me Timbers! Satnam Singh tagged in and hurled Austin Gunn across the ring!
Daddy Ass tagged in and cleaned house on the opposition! Billy bashed Reynolds with the Fame-Asser! Silver hit a flurry of offense on Bowens. Satnam tried for a double choke slam on the Acclaimed, but Colten launched off Austin and drilled Satnam with a flying forearm. Colten blasted Lethal with the Colt .45! Jeff Jarrett jumped in and stunned Colten with the Stroke!
Jay White entered the fray and walloped Jeff Jarrett with the Blade Runner! Alex Reynolds shoved Daddy Ass into Jay White and then rolled up Daddy Ass for a near fall. Daddy and Austin rocked Reynolds with the 3:10 to Yuma and then Daddy Ass scored the pin!
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the BOK Center in Tulsa, OK!
Tonightâs episode of AEW RAMPAGE was broadcast from the UNO Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, LA!
Your broadcast team was Excalibur and Tony Schiavone.
Itâs Friday night and you know what that means!
ThisâŚisâŚRampage!
Top FlightâDante & Darius Martin (with Action Andretti)
vs.
Private PartyâIsiah Kassidy & Marq Quen!
âBoth teams have an abundance of confidence and think theyâre the best. You know what? Why not think it,â said Tony Schiavone.
Top Flight used tandem offense on Marq Quen. They isolated Quen in their corner. Darius swept out Quenâs leg and Dante hit Quen with a DDT, demonstrating beautiful combo offense. Quen pulled a dropkick out of midair and then tagged in Isiah.
Isiah rocked Darius with a stunner. Quen came in and drove Darius face first with a stomp. Quen rolled up Darius, holding the ropes, but Andretti caught him red handed and alerted the referee. Darius rocked Zay with a Pele kick and then tagged out to Dante.
Dante connected with a big cross body press on Zay for a near fall. Zay fought his way out of Top Flightâs technical prowess and planted Dante with the Silly String! Quen connected with a shooting star press on Dante, but Darius jumped in to break up the pin attempt. Dante stunned Quen with a thrust kick and then spiked him down on the mat, scoring the pin!
âI would love to see a rubber match between these two teams,â said Excalibur.
Top Flight extended their hands as a sign of good sportsmanship, but Private Party didnât want any part of it.
Renee Paquette was backstage with Sammy Guevara!
Sammy: âLosing always sucks, but this loss against the tag champs in that Street Fight with Jericho feels different. We were this close to finally becoming the AEW World Tag Team champions, titles weâve been chasing since 2019. Maybe this loss stings a little bit more because itâs not just about me anymore. I have a little girl at home that depends on me to go to work to provide a better future for her.Â
âSo those championships donât just represent the best, they represent a better life. And Will Hobbs and the Don Callis Family took that away from me! My wife! My family! So now this is personal. Iâm medically cleared now, but Iâm not going to wait for a match. Will Hobbs, I hope youâre watching. You donât know where, you donât know when, but Iâm coming for you.â
Sonjay Dutt was backstage with Jeff and Karen Jarrett, and Satnam Singh!
Sonjay: âJay is late as always. Jeff, you think he wants us to really work out?â
Jeff: âSonjay, Iâm a two-time hall of famer. I damn sure ainât getting in the ring today.â
Jay Lethal walked into the room.
Lethal: âAll right, I made it. Iâve got some great drills I want to go over in the ring. Hey, why are you still in your suit, Sonjay?â
Sonjay: âIâm not working out, but Karen has her workout clothes on.â
Karen: âIâm not working out, but I narrowed down the team names and I put up a photoshoot for next week.â
Lethal: âFine. Satnam, are we working out or not?â
Satnam: âJay, Iâm undefeated. You need to work out. You lost all your matches.â
Lethal: âFine, no practice today.â
Jeff: âJay, thatâs the problem! Iâm sick of it. Youâre the problem of the team, and your problem is youâre too damn nice. What brought us together is that we were both ruthless SOBs. Thatâs what we gotta get back to. Iâm running the meeting next week. Iâll tell you boys where and when.â
AEW World Tag Team Championship Eliminator Match!
âAbsoluteâ Ricky Starks & Big Bill (c.)
vs.
The Dark OrderâAlex Reynolds & John Silver!
Darby Allin joined the broadcast booth for this match.Â
Silver and Reynolds got the jump on Starks and Bill. Evil Uno grabbed Big Billâs leg from outside the ring. Silver power bombed Starks onto Reynoldsâ knees for a near fall. Big Bill tagged in and bulldozed the Dark Order with a double clothesline.
Big Bill pummeled Reynolds with stiff shots. Evil Uno distracted Big Bill. Reynolds pushed Bill to the outside and followed up with a tope suicida, but Big Bill intercepted him. Silver rammed into Bill with a cannonball senton.Â
Back in the ring, Big Bill spiked Reynolds with the Bossman slam. Starks grabbed a tag and clubbed Reynolds with forearms and then body slammed him. Ricky splashed Reynolds in the corner with a flying elbow. Starks was looking for a spear, but Evil Uno tripped him up. Starks got out of the ring and speared Evil Uno on the arena floor!Â
Silver peppered Starks with kicks. Starks rallied back with the roshambo and pinned Silver! Darby stared at Starks from the broadcast booth. Big Bill screamed at Darby, taunting him ahead of their match this Wednesday on Dynamite.Â
Renee Paquette was backstage with Powerhouse Hobbs and Don Callis!
Don Callis: âI feel sick to my stomach because Iâm tired of hearing about Sammyâs family. Congratulations. Youâre medically cleared, but youâre obviously not mentally cleared. Because if you were, youâd know that youâre not hunting Will Hobbs, Will Hobbs is hunting you.â
Powerhouse Hobbs: âYou see, Sammy, I know exactly what I took away from you and Chris Jericho. But what you donât realize is I always have a family. I have three mouths at home that depend on their daddy. You think this is the first time in my life that someone tried to hunt me? Check my track record, dawg, youâd just better hope I donât see you first.â
Willow flattened out Queen Aminata with a big shoulder tackle. Aminata cradled Willow but Willow kicked out at one. Willow scoop slammed Aminata. Willow dropkicked Aminata from the turnbuckles.Â
Queen Aminata swept out the legs of Willow as Willow was looking for a senton from the apron. Aminata headbutted Willow and followed up with a German Suplex. Aminata went for a hip attack, but Willow dodged it. Willow cannonballed Aminata and drilled her with a Death Valley Driver for a near fall. Willow hit the doctor bomb and pinned Queen Aminata!
Renee Paquette was backstage with The Best FriendsâAEW International Champion Orange Cassidy, Trent Beretta, Rocky Romero, & Chuck Taylor!
Orange: âI knew if I asked for this time that Roddy and his friends would come in and interrupt us. So, theyâre probably going to do that in 3âŚ2âŚ1.â
Trent: âWhat if they donât show up?â
Orange: âI didnât think of that.â
Roderick Strong: âOrange!â
Roderick Strong interrupted the interview, and he had Adam Cole and the Undisputed Kingdom in tow.Â
Orange: âRoddy, I was looking for you because everyone knows you and I are going to fight each other March 3rd at Revolution for my International Championship. But you and your friends keep doing things that are making my friends really angry. So why donât all of you guys get with all of us and then we fight each other?â
Adam Cole: âThatâs a great idea. Iâd recommend a four on four but olâ Chuckie T is too injured to compete! So instead, Iâm going to recommend a three on three. Iâm talking about my best bud Roderick Strong, and Mike Bennett and Matt Taven against you Rocky Romero, you Trent, and you Orange.â
Roddy: âI love that idea. And how about we do it on Rampage next week?â
Renee Paquette was backstage with Willow Nightingale, Kris Statlander, and Stokely Hathaway!
They were interrupted by Saraya, Harley Cameron, and Ruby Soho.
Stokely: âHey, last time I checked this was Rampage, not Dawsonâs Creek.â
Saraya: âI donât know what that means.â
Willow: âThis was my time.â
Stokely: âListen, if anyone is going to make fun of Willow, itâs going to be me.â
Willow: âReally, you mean that? Listen, Ruby, youâre insulting us, youâre taking up our time. If thatâs what you want to do, we can settle this in the ring. Next week! So, weâll see you there!â
Main Event Time! CMLLâs Hechicero, Mascara Dorada, Mistico, & Volador Jr.
vs.
âCool Handâ Angelo Parker, âDaddy Magicâ Matt Menard, âFallen Angelâ Christopher Daniels, & Matt Sydal!
Sydal and Dorada began for their respective teams. Sydal took him down with a hurracanrana. Volador tagged in, but Matt Menard whipped him into the ropes. Volador connected with a thrust kick.Â
Mistico and Daniels entered the ring. Mistico nailed Daniels with a big handspring elbow. Mistico kicked Daniels in the corner. Hechicero dropkicked Daniels. Volador planted Daniels with a lung blower. Dorada hit a running shooting star press on Daniels.Â
Daniels planted Dorada with a heel trip and tagged out to Parker. Menard, Parker, and Sydal triple teamed Dorada with a flurry of offense. Sydal punished Dorada with a bow and arrow submission hold.Â
Hechicero grabbed a tag and dropped Daniels with a running lariat. Hechicero locked on a sleeper on Daniels in the ropes. Hechicero blasted Daniels with a springboard forearm. Daniels retaliated with a flatliner. Things broke down as both teams entered and began to brawl! Volador took out Parker with a tope! Mistico jumped from the top and crashed onto Daddy Magic! Dorado wiped out Sydal with a tornillo into an arm drag. Dorado dived over the top and wiped out the pile!Â
Back in the ring, Daniels was looking for the Angelâs Wings on Hechicero, but Hechicero countered with a back drop. Hechicero followed up with a rising knee strike in the corner. Herchicero cradled Daniels and pinned him!
Donât miss AEW Collision on Saturday on TNT at 8/7c from the Bert Ogden Arena in Edinburg, TX featuring:
-Queen Aminata vs. Serena Deeb!
-Continental Crown Champion Eddie Kingston vs. âBounty Hunterâ Bryan Keith!
-Trios Match: TNT Champ Christian Cage & The Patriarchy vs. FTR & Daniel Garcia!
– âAmerican Dragonâ Bryan Danielson vs. Hechicero!
-And so much more!
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Footprint Center in Phoenix, AZ featuring:
-Trios Match: The Stars of CMLL vs. Blackpool Combat Club!
-AEW Womenâs World Championship Eliminator Match: Toni Storm (c.) vs. Red Velvet!
-Chris Jericho vs. Konosuke Takeshita!
-AEW World Tag Championship Tornado Match: Ricky Starks & Big Bill (c.) vs. Sting & Darby Allin!
-Swerve Strickland vs. Hangman Adam Page: Winner Gets a Shot at the AEW World Championship at Revolution!
Tonightâs episode of AEW RAMPAGE was broadcast from the Enmarket Arena in Savannah, GA!
Your broadcast team was Excalibur, âDaddy Magicâ Matt Menard, and Tony Schiavone.
Itâs Friday night and you know what that means!
ThisâŚisâŚRampage!
Jon Moxley vs. Shane Taylor Promotionsâ Lee Moriarty (with Shane Taylor)!
Moriarty took Mox down with a snap mare. Lee flexed and posed and let Mox get to his feet. Lee showed off his technical prowess, taking Mox down again with a side headlock. Moxley escaped and trucked Lee with a running back elbow. Moxley had a face off with Shane Taylor on the floor.
Moxley chopped Moriarty. Lee ducked a lariat attempt and rolled up Mox in a Border City Stretch. Moxley lunged toward the ropes, forcing the ref to break the hold. Moriarty and Moxley traded stiff forearms in the center of the ring. Moxley knocked Moriartyâs block off. Moxley charged at Lee in the corner with a lariat and then pummeled him with shots.
Moriarty blasted Mox with a shotgun dropkick off the second turnbuckle. Moxley was looking for a piledriver on the apron, but Lee countered with a hammerlock, using Moxâs own body weight against him, planting Mox hard on the apron. Moriarty connected with a belly-to-belly suplex and then applied a cross arm breaker. Moriarty rocked Mox with a high stack German Suplex for a near fall.
Lee charged at Mox, but Mox wiped him out with a King Kong lariat! Moxley was looking for the bulldog choke, but Moriarty escaped and transitioned into the border city stretch. Moxley reversed and crashed down with hammer and anvil elbow strikes.Â
Moriarty fired back with a flurry of offense. Moriarty kicked at Moxâs arm. Lee went for a springboard forearm, but Mox countered with a big right elbow. Mox stomped Moriarty and then spiked him with a piledriver. Moxley locked in a choke and Moxley won via ref stoppage!
âA victory for Jon Moxley but a hell of a match for Lee Moriarty,â said Excalibur.
âNo question. I donât think Moxley expected to go this long with Lee. Iâm impressed,â replied Matt Menard.
After the match, Shane Taylor mauled Mox with a cheap shot!
âWhat a sucker punch that was!â said Tony Schiavone.
Moriarty took advantage of Shane Taylorâs heavy right hand and stomped on Moxleyâs injured arm.Â
Renee Paquette was backstage with Anna Jay and Angelo Parker!
Parker wanted to know if Anna had anything to do with Harley Cameron kissing him two weeks ago. Anna Jay slapped Cool Hand Ang!
Anna Jay: âI cannot believe you just asked me that! After everything weâve been through. I am so sick of this. Tonight, I was defending you against your girlfriends. But tonight, I am doing this for me. I am tired of having everyoneâs back, and no one having mine. Tonight, I am done!â
âThe Fallen Angelâ Christopher Daniels vs. âThe Alphaâ Konosuke Takeshita (with The Don Callis Family)!
Daniels got the jump on Takeshita at the bell. Takeshita walloped Daniels with a massive shot. Takeshita landed the Takeshita Line on CD. Takeshita followed up with a dive on Daniels. Takeshita attempted a superplex but CD headbutted Takeshita, knocking him to the mat. Daniels swung down, driving Takeshita face first into the mat.
Daniels hurled Takeshita with a German Suplex. Takeshita countered the Angels Wings and drove Daniels down on the back of the head. Takeshita finished off Daniels with a running knee strike and pinned Daniels!
âA statement made by Takeshita with that victory,â said Excalibur.
Don Callis: âI have something important to say. The Don Callis Family takes everything. Jericho you took 33 years from me. I canât get those years back. We took your tag team partner from the Golden Jets. Then we took Sammy. But you keep coming back. Now itâs time to end this. So, Jericho, in two weeks on Dynamite, we challenge you to face the real Alpha of professional wrestling, Takeshita, and this time, thereâs going to be nothing left!â
Kyle Fletcher: âPardon the interruption, Don. Hasnât Takeshita already had his shot at Chris Jericho? Hasnât Will Hobbs already had his shot at Chris Jericho? If anybody deserves the next shot at Chris Jericho itâs me!â
Callis: âYouâre right. Jericho, youâve got Takeshita in two weeks. How about next week in New Orleans, you got Kyle Fletcher if youâve got the guts. And whatever is left at the end of the next two weeks is going to be mine and Jericho, thereâll be nothing left but the tears!â
Renee Paquette was backstage with Top Flight and Action Andretti, and Private Party!
Private Party said they won last time. Action Andretti said next time heâd be in Top Flightâs corner, watching their back!
Anna Jay vs. Ruby Soho (with Saraya and Harley Cameron)!
Ruby ambushed Anna Jay, trying to ruin her homecoming. Ruby whipped Anna into the barricade outside the ring. Anna connected with a high boot to Rubyâs face. Anna followed up with the pendulum kick.
Saraya swept out Anna Jayâs leg on the apron. Anna got to her feet and planted Ruby with a DDT for a near fall. Anna was looking for the Queen Slayer, but Harley grabbed Anna Jayâs boot. Saraya held back Anna Jay, but the referee saw it and ejected Saraya and Harley from ringside.Â
Anna attempted a backslide, but Ruby escaped and rocked Anna with Destination Unknown. Anna stunned Ruby with a blockbuster and then forced Ruby to tap out with the Queen Slayer!
Renee Paquette was backstage with Continental Champion Eddie Kingston!
Kingston: âBryan Danielson, you donât respect me? Thatâs fine. I donât respect you at all. I want to be on Collision. Iâm going to go against somebody I respect. And if he beats me, he gets a title shot. And said person is Willie Mack. Me and you Willie, we paid our dues, so I want to give you an opportunity. Bryan, good luck with Nagata tomorrow.â
Main Event Time! Freshly Squeezed Four Way Match!
Kip Sabian vs. El Hijo del Vikingo vs. Komander vs. The Butcher!
The winner earns an International Championship Match on tomorrowâs Collision.
Butcher turned his back and Sabian rolled him up for a near fall. Vikingo swept out Sabianâs legs, and Komander hit a tope on Kip while Vikingo smashed Butcher with a tope!
Butcher blocked a springboard dropkick from Komander and applied a Texas Cloverleaf. Vikingo rocked Butcher with a thrust kick. Kip dropkicked Vikingo. Kip cannonballed Komander in the corner. Butcher went over the top with a splash on Komander.
Butcher tossed Komander at Kip and Kip nailed Komander with a lung blower. Kip booted Butcher in the midsection. Butcher stunned Sabian with a back breaker. Vikingo staggered Butcher with a corkscrew kick!
Sabian swept out Vikingoâs legs. Komander walloped Sabian with a Spanish Fly for a two-count. Komander climbed to the top rope, but Vikingo tripped him up. Vikingo climbed to the top, but Butcher put Vikingo on his shoulders, while Vikingo had Komander locked in a superplex position. Kip got on his hands and knees behind Butcher, tripped him up, and knocked all three men to the mat!
Komander jumped off Alex Abrahantesâ back like a launching pad and crushed Kip with a Canadian Destroyer on the arena floor! Vikingo took out both men on the floor with a moonsault. Vikingo tried for a moonsault, but Komander booted him. Butcher power bombed Komander and covered him, but Vikingo broke up the pin attempt.Â
Kip snuck in and drilled Komander with a German Suplex. Komander reversed a vertical suplex attempt, grabbed Kipâs legs and pinned him!
âNow we know itâll be Orange Cassidy defending the International Championship tomorrow against Komander on Collision,â said Excalibur.
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the UNO Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, LA!
Donât miss AEW Collision on Saturday on TNT at 8/7c from the Brookshire Grocery Arena in Bossier City, LA:
-AEW International Championship Match! Orange Cassidy (c.) vs. Komander!
-Serena Deebâs First Match Since 2022!
-Mariah May vs. Lady Frost!
-Continental Champion Eddie Kingston vs. Willie Mack!
– âAmerican Dragonâ Bryan Danielson vs. Yuji Nagata!
-Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Shane Taylor & Lee Moriarty!
-The Escape The Cage Elimination Match! FTR & Daniel Garcia vs. House of Black!
Tonightâs episode of AEW RAMPAGE: New Yearâs Smash was broadcast from the Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, FL!
Your broadcast team was Excalibur and Tony Schiavone!
Itâs Friday night and you know what that means!
Rampage kicked off with Chris Jericho coming down to the ring!
Jericho: âWe had a huge night on Dynamite last Wednesday when Sammy Guevara quit the Don Callis Family, and of course they had to gang up and attack him. So, I came down to help out Sammy, and then Sting and Darby came out to help us. Which leads to the huge eight-man tag at Worlds End tomorrow, and Iâll be tagging with Sting for the first time ever.
âSting told me he would have my back. And he was a man of his word. And Iâve got a lot of respect for Sting too. Now before we can go to Worlds End, I need to figure out a few things with Sammy Guevara. So, Sammy, come on out and letâs discuss a few things in this ring now.â
Sammy Guevaraâs music hit, and he joined Jericho in the ring.
Excalibur wondered if time healed all wounds.
Jericho: âThey love you here tonight in Orlando. And Iâve always been a fan of yours. A few months ago, we had a great match on Dynamite, and instead of celebrating that match together, you turned on me and joined the Don Callis Family. I want to ask you man to man, why?â
Sammy: âChris, itâs hard being in your shadow man. Name any accolade, youâve done it all. And maybe somewhere along the line I started blaming you for why I wasnât where I needed to be. I felt like you were holding back but really, I was just holding myself back. Itâs time I stop blaming others and I become the man that I know I am.
âI was at home reflecting, and I know Iâm that man. I should have been the good friend that you were to me. So really, all I can offer you is, Iâm sorry.â
Jericho: âWell Sammy, I accept your apology and I want to say the same to you. Iâm sorry, too, and I want to tell you why. Maybe sometimes Iâm a little controlling, but Iâve always been one of your biggest fans. I brought you here to AEW. I had you in the Inner Circle, the JAS, and here right now. Iâve always believed in you, and I always will, okay? So let me ask you this: we have the eight-man tag at Worlds End, but after that, I still have a tag team opportunity for the AEW World Tag Team Championship. And I need a partner. So, I want to ask you, will you reunite with Chris Jericho and reunite Le Sex Gods?â
Sammy looked at Jericho and hugged him!
Jericho: âLe Sex Gods are back, baby!â
Renee Paquette was backstage with Daniel Garcia and Matt Menard!
Matt Menard: âHow about the biggest win of Garciaâs career last Saturday night, taken away by the House of Black!â
Garcia: âHouse of Black, Iâm absolutely sick of people like you thinking you can walk in here and walk all over people like us. Weâre not having it anymore. Weâre gonna fight back. It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow, but weâre gonna get you back. I promise you that. Pay up.â
Ruby dodged a kick from Marina and then grabbed Marina by the hair, pulling her down to the mat. Marina fired back with vicious kicks. Harley grabbed at Marinaâs leg and Ruby tripped Marina, taking advantage of the distraction.
Marina smashed Ruby with a running lariat. She followed up with a backbreaker to Ruby. Marina dropkicked Ruby. Saraya jumped onto the ring apron, but Nyla yanked her down. Harley flung herself onto Nylaâs back, but Nyla powered her to the arena floor. Saraya jumped over the guardrail and ran away. Nyla chased after her through the fans. Ruby blasted Marina with the No Future kick for a near fall.
Marina grabbed Ruby but once again, Harley tried to get involved and popped up onto the ring apron. Marina swung at Harley, but Harley avoided it. Ruby rolled up Marina from behind, hung onto Marinaâs tights, and pinned her!
Backstage, the Don Callis Family, along with AEW World Tag Team Champions Big Bill and Absolute Ricky Starks had some choice words for Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara, Sting, and Darby Allin ahead of their match at Worlds End tomorrow!
Callis: âYour world ends tomorrow!â
Powerhouse Hobbs: âLook at this team. Tomorrow night the four of you find out why Iâm big, black, and jacked.â
Kyle Fletcher: âHell yeah, tomorrow night on pay-per-view, youâll find out why the Don Callis Family is the top of the food chain. Along with our new friends Big Bill and Ricky Starks.â
Big Bill: âTomorrow night, in my backyard, in front of my friends and family, us four are going to whoop all four of your asses.â
Ricky Starks: âCongratulations Chris Jericho. You found four other idiots. This is my retirement gift to you, Sting. You will not make it to Revolution after tomorrow night.â
Renee Paquette was backstage with Kris Statlander and Willow Nightingale!
Renee said Willow asked for this time to address some of the rumors going around at the hands of Stokely Hathaway.
Willow: âHonestly, I just want to make sure you and I are cool, Kris. Heâs trying to say Iâm taking all the credit for the Street Fight. You yourself are an amazing wrestler. I was kinda thinking, Iâm from Long Island, youâre from Long Island, and weâve got Worlds End coming up in Long Island. Iâd really love to share the ring again.â
Stokely Hathaway interrupted!
Stokely: âShare the ring together? I think thatâs a great idea. But I have a question for you. What took you so long to save your so-called bestie on Dynamite? How about you two share the ring against each other one on one at Worlds End?â
Statlander: âIâd really like that, actually. I really respect you as a wrestler and as a friend, and so, Worlds End?â
Willow agreed to the match for tomorrow!
ROH Pure Championship Match!
Blackpool Combat Clubâs Wheeler Yuta (c.) vs. Matt Sydal!
Your judges were Jimmy Jacobs, âFallen Angelâ Christopher Daniels, and Sarah Stock.
They began the match with some incredible chain wrestling. Sydal escaped a crucifix pin attempt, and then nearly caught Yuta himself. Yuta chopped Sydal but Sydal answered with a chop of his own.Â
Sydal nailed Yuta with a roundhouse kick. Yuta retaliated with a suplex, hit a snap mare, and then dropped a knee on Sydal. Yuta dropkicked Sydal and covered him for a near fall. Sydal connected with the air raid crash for a two-count on Yuta!
Yuta slipped behind Sydal and rocked him with a bridging German suplex for a near fall. Yuta tied up Sydal in a submission, but Sydal managed to reach the ropes with his boot, utilizing his first rope break.Â
Yuta smashed Sydal with hammer and anvil elbow strikes. Yuta transitioned to putting Sydal into the seatbelt and pinned Matt Sydal!
Danhausen walked onto the ramp after the match!
Danhausen: âYuta, it is Danhausen, the ROH legend myself, and I have decided to appoint myself the fourth judge. I noticed youâre wrestling my good friend and sometimes tag team partner Hook at Worlds End. Iâve been keeping a close eyeball on you. You cheated and therefore I have to disqualify you. You lost!â
Wheeler Yuta decked Danhausen! Yuta spiked Danhausen with a DDT. Yuta hammered Danhausen with elbows until FTW Champion Hook headed straight to the ring to even up the odds. Yuta bailed right away!
Main Event Time! Trios Match!
AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy, Rocky Romero, & Trent Beretta
vs.
Action Andretti & Top FlightâDante & Darius Martin!
Cassidy rolled up Andretti with a crucifix for a near fall. Orange put his hands in his pockets and dropkicked Action. Trent tagged in and hit an elbow on Action Andretti. Darius grabbed a tag and put Trent in a side headlock. Trent and Darius traded chops to the chest.
Dante tagged in and splashed Trent with a stalling senton over the top. Top Flight and Action Andretti connected with a triple tope suicida on their opponents! Back in the ring, Rocky and Andretti slugged it out. Action took Rocky off his feet, jumping off the top rope with a cross body press.Â
Dante and Trent tagged in for their respective teams. Dante connected with a big crossbody press for a near fall. Top Flight used their tandem offense and Darius nailed Trent with a flatliner but Orange broke up the pin attempt. Orange crushed Darius with a Stun dog Millionaire. Action hit a 450 springboard on Trent but Rocky and Orange broke up the pin attempt.Â
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Trent drove Darius down with a suplex. Andretti wiped out Trent with a moonsault to the floor. Rocky climbed to the top, but Action kicked Rocky in the head, stunning him. Trent came up from behind and hurled Action with a release German suplex off the top turnbuckle!
Orange went for the Orange Punch, but Dante countered! Rocky tagged in but Dante planted him and scored the pin!
âThis was the win that Top Flight and Action Andretti were looking for,â said Excalibur.
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ!
Donât miss AEW Worlds End live on pay-per-view on Saturday beginning with Zero Hour at 6:30PM ET/3:30PM PT from the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Long Island, NY!
And rememberâŚthe home of professional wrestling is All Elite Wrestling!
Tonightâs episode of AEW DYNAMITE: Winter Is Coming was broadcast live from the College Park Center in Arlington, TX!
Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, and âThe Human Suplex Machineâ Taz were the broadcast team for tonightâs event.
Itâs Wednesday night and you know what that means!
Continental Classic: Gold League Standingsâ
Blackpool Combat Clubâs Jon Moxley (9)
Swerve Strickland (9)
Bullet Club Goldâs âSwitchbladeâ Jay White (6)
LFIâs Rush (3)
Mark Briscoe (0)
Jay Lethal (0)
Continental Classic: Blue League Standingsâ
House of Blackâs Brody King (6)
Andrade El Idolo (6)
Blackpool Combat Clubâs âThe American Dragonâ Bryan Danielson (6)
Blackpool Combat Clubâs Claudio Castagnoli (3)
ROH World Champion/NJPW STRONG Openweight Champion Eddie Kingston (3)
Daniel Garcia (0)
Samoa Joe walked to the ring to kick off the show!
Samoa Joe: âI have come here tonight looking for answers. Not a long time ago I made a promise to MJF that I would keep him whole until Worldâs End when I would dismantle him myself. Last week I was made into a liar when I came out here to the machinations of a devil. I looked up at that screen and saw MJF laying in the back, potentially jeopardizing my AEW World Championship opportunity.
âNow one canât stand on the tracks of destiny and not get run over. So let me explain to you whatâs going to happen tonight. You see when I walked in the back last week with MJF laying on the ground, I saw a beer bottle, a certain beer brand, that a certain cowboy likes, busted over MJFâs head.
âAnd then as I got closer, I noticed a certain scent of Stetson and disappointment. And I said to myself, Iâve smelled this before. And then as I walked around the building, searching high and low for this cowboy, it seemed like a certain Hangman was missing.â
âHangmanâ Adam Pageâs music hit, and Page came down to the ring!
âWhat if someone is trying to frame âHangmanâ Adam Page? What if MJF is trying to frame Adam Page?â asked Excalibur.
âHangmanâ Adam Page: âJoe if thereâs something you want to accuse me of, why donât you just say it like the man I thought you were. If you think itâs me, if you think I have anything to do with it, if you think I give a damn about the Devil, youâd be so wrong, because I donât care.â
Samoa Joe: âHangman you may not care, but you see you made the mistake of thinking I came out here like a detective. Iâve already made up my mind. Iâm an executioner.â
Hangman Page: âWell Joe, if thereâs something you want to do about it, why donât you do it?â
Roderick Strong walked onto the ramp with the Kingdom, and he was screaming âSamoa! Samoa Joe, you are so lucky that they didnât hurt you last week. But I hate to say this, you gotta listen to Hangman. I mean he is my young boy and all. I never forgot about that.
âAnd listen, have you seen the things that have been happening, Joe? Jay White asked for a World title match, he gets attacked. The Acclaimed lose a tag match for Max and they get attacked. The goons attack Max on November 29th, but they donât lay a single shot on him, and you come to his aid.
âAnd then last week, we never saw them physically touch him. We just saw him lying there. Câmon, Joe, think! Itâs obviously Max. Max is the devil. Câmon, Joe, I wouldnât like to you. Iâm not talking to you Adam, Iâm talking to my best friend by proxy, Samoa Joe!â
Adam Page swung at Roderick Strong and knocked him to the mat!
Roderick Strong (with The KingdomâMatt Taven & Mike Bennett)Â
vs.
âHangmanâ Adam Page!
Samoa Joe left the ring and pointed at Adam Page as he was exiting. As Page had his back turned, Roderick Strong blindsided Page! Strong stomped on Page in the corner. Hangman retaliated with stiff chops to Roderick Strong.
Page sent Strong flying with an overhead slam. Page hit a standing shooting star press for a near fall. Roderick connected with a back breaker. Page blasted Roddy with a high cowboy boot to the face.
Roddy used a single leg takedown and then drove his knee into Pageâs chest. Roddy charged at Page, but Page flipped him over the top rope and followed up with a tope, crashing down on Roddy on the arena floor. Page climbed to the top turnbuckle, but Matt Taven grabbed a hold of Pageâs boot. Mike Bennett distracted ref Aubrey Edwards while Roddy kicked Page in the head.Â
âThe opening was there, Roderick took advantage of it, the referee couldnât see it,â said Taz.
Roderick Strong nailed Hangman Page with a backbreaker on the turnbuckles! Roddy grabbed a top wrist lock. Page escaped and exchanged forearms with Roderick. Both men went for rolling elbows and they collided with one another, each being knocked down.
Adam Page got a second wind and began to stomp a Texas mudhole in Roddy. Hangman planted Roddy with a Death Valley Driver for a two-count! Adam Page chomped on Roddyâs forehead. Page went for a moonsault press, Roddy dodged it, but Page landed on his feet! Roddy charged at Page, but Page took him down with a pop-up powerbomb for a near fall!
Page was looking for the Dead Eye, but Roddy broke free and pancaked Page for a two-count. Roderick followed up with a suplex and then a Tiger Driver for a near fall. Roderick locked on the Strong Hold, but Page reached the ropes, forcing the ref to break the hold.
Page was searching for the Buck Shot Lariat, but Taven grabbed Pageâs boot. Bennett distracted the ref on the other side. Page wiped out Taven with a moonsault. Page went back up top and tore down the Kingdom with another moonsault, this time from the ring post!
Hangman went for the Buck Shot, but Roddy had it scouted and went to apply the Strong Hold. Page countered with a roll-up, but Roddy kicked out. Page hit the Dead Eye on Strong and pinned him!
âBoth these guys left it all in the ring,â said Taz.
âA great return to form for âHangmanâ Adam Page,â replied Excalibur.
Continental Classic Blue League Match!
Andrade El Idolo vs. House of Blackâs Brody King!
Brody back up Andrade into the ropes. Andrade applied a headlock and took Brody down to the mat. Brody escaped and squashed Andrade with a senton. Big Brody pummeled Andrade in the corner with chops and then landed a solid elbow strike.Â
Andrade connected with a big cross body press, but Brody kicked out at the one-count. Brody rolled out of the ring, but Andrade followed up with a moonsault on the middle turnbuckle to Brody on the arena floor.
Andrade dropkicked Brody in the knee and Brodyâs momentum sent him crashing into the turnbuckles. Andrade nailed Brody with two dragon screw leg whips. Andrade took Brody down with a flying elbow strike. Andrade El Idolo body slammed Brody. Andrade followed up with a split legged moonsault for a near fall!
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Brody rocked Andrade with a lariat for a two-count! Brody connected with a cannonball splash in the corner on Andrade El Idolo. Brody and Andrade exchanged chops. Brody stunned Andrade with a forearm, but Andrade answered with a spinning back elbow!
Andrade El Idolo climbed to the top turnbuckle, but Brody got to his feet. Brody knocked Andrade down with an elbow strike. Both men jockeyed for position on the top turnbuckle. Andrade pulled Brodyâs head down, spiking it on the exposed turnbuckle! Andrade followed up with a hammerlock DDT and pinned Brody King!
âAndrade has picked up three crucial points in the Blue League,â said Excalibur.
Renee Paquette was backstage with the legendary Von ErichsâKevin Von Erich, and his sons, Marshall and Ross Von Erichâwho made their return to Dallas!
Kevin Von Erich: âRenee, I love AEW. The style, and Iâve got so many friends here, too.â
Danhausen walked onto the scene, interrupting, along with International Champion Orange Cassidy and Trent!
Orange: âHey, I got a match on Rampage this week, and I need two partners. How about you two guys tag up with me on Rampage?â
Danhausen: âHey, youâre betraying us.â
Orange: âWhat? No, weâre in Texas. So, what do you guys say?â
Marshall and Ross Von Erich agreed, saying theyâd gladly have Orangeâs back!
Out next: The Golden JetsâKenny Omega & Chris Jericho!
Jericho: âDallas, welcome to the return of the Golden Jets! I think that was the first ever Golden Jets chant,â Jericho said with a smile.Â
Jericho: âThe reason why itâs been a while since weâve been here is because of Big Bill and Ricky Starks. They attacked me after Full Gear, pretty much dislocated my elbow, put me out for three weeks. Last week after Kennyâs great match with Ethan Page, Big Bill kicked Kenny in the face and put him down to the ground. I spent three weeks thinking of what I was going to say to Big Bill and Ricky Starks. Itâs pretty simple: Hey boys, get your sorry asses out here!â
AEW World Tag Team Champions âAbsoluteâ Ricky Starks and Big Bill walked onto the ramp!
Starks: âWow, did you miss me? Point proven, Chris. I find this whole situation to be funny. I have no problem with you Kenny. I want to thank you for this great place we have called AEW. And you, Chris, thereâs nothing to really thank, because you just suck the life out of every single thing. And it makes me question, you, though, Kenny, because do you really think you can trust a guy like Jericho? I mean, look at the Inner Circle. Look at JAS. Look at what heâs done to those people in the past.â
Big Bill: Kenny, look at the things that Chris has actually done to you. If Chris attacked you randomly on the drop of a dime, me, Ricky, nobody here, would actually be surprised. Just saying.â
Kenny Omega: âSo youâre basing this off of my trust between myself and Chris Jericho? Do I trust Chris Jericho? Chris, you know I donât trust you. Look, Big Bill, youâre talking about track records. Letâs take a look at something from your past, the Firm, for example. Everyone remember the Firm? I canât say that I do.
âI would say that that Firm angle you had with MJF is more like the flaccid, looking less firm and a little more up your alley, something say, I donât know, soft. But hey, when it comes to beatdowns, Iâm pretty much the king of receiving them. So hey, you guys think you can talk a big game, thatâs fine. Weâve earned ourselves a tag team title shot down the road, and guess what? On December 30th at Worldâs End, weâre thinking maybe the Golden Jets can maybe take those two titles off of your waist and place them firmly around ours. What do you say to that?â
Ricky Starks: âThatâs all well and good and we understand you two are the number one contenders and Iâm going to speak for both of us and say, hey, guess what, youâre on! But before we even get to Worldâs End, let me just remind you Chris, I hope you remember January. Because back in January, I actually beat you on Dynamite.â
Big Bill: âCorrection. You actually beat him twice. You beat him on a pay-per-view also.â
Starks: âSo as far as Iâm concerned, Iâve already done half of the work. I know you in and out and I know what youâre all about. We are the best tag team that there is because we are the AEW Tag Team Champions, without a name!â
Chris Jericho: âItâs funny, Starks, you keep bragging that you donât have a name. I think you need a name. How about this? The Absolute Sâts? I got it! How about we take his first name and then his last name, ladies and gentlemen, AEW World Tag Team Champions Big Billy Starks!â
Starks: âWell that one fell flat.â
Jericho: âKinda did.â
Starks: âI can excuse the name, but I cannot excuse the outfit where you went to a local Hot Topic and said, âHey, give me the best stuff that youâve got!ââ
Jericho: âListen, you said Iâm a clown vampire, believe me, if I was going to suck my fangs into somebody, Iâd do it with somebody with a lot more clout than you. Because from where Iâm standing, all I see is a better dressed, less charismatic version of Enzo Amore.â
Omega: âHey, letâs give Enzo credit. At least he would hype up Big Bill and not take all the spotlight.â
Starks: âWell I think you guys have taken the spotlight a little too far in my opinion, but regardless, I want you to know something. You talk about the way I dress. You talk about Big Bill. Chris Jericho, no one cares anymore. I am sick and tired of you. And Kenny, youâre starting to piss me off, brother. You want the war? Bring it! Worldâs End, me and Big Bill will take you two on, because we are the best damn tag team there is. Bar none! Nobody better! And if you think youâve got something better than me and Big Bill, prove it, you two Winnipeg scumbags!â
Omega: âWell, now that youâve brought out the big guns, I might need to sit and stew on that for a minute. So, much like those tag team belts on December 30th, I must bid you good-bye, bang!â
Jericho: âWeâll see you on December 30th Starks and Big Bill!â
The Outcastsâ Ruby Soho vs. Riho!
AEW Womenâs World Champion âTimelessâ Toni Storm joined the broadcast booth for this match. She was accompanied by Mariah May.Â
Ruby stomped Riho in the corner. Ruby body slammed Riho, but Riho followed up with a dropkick. Riho suplexed Ruby and then squashed her with a double foot stomp. Riho climbed to the top turnbuckle, but Ruby knocked her off balance. Riho managed to secure herself and then crashed down on Ruby Soho like a bolt of lightning, double stomping her!
Riho connected with a big cross body press for a near fall. Ruby rocked Riho with a kick to the side of the head. Riho planted Ruby with a crucifix bomb for a near fall! Ruby fired back with the No Future Kick, but Riho kicked out at the two-count! Riho stunned Ruby with a dragon suplex and then pinned Ruby after a running knee strike!
Continental Classic Gold League Match!
LFIâs Rush vs. Jay Lethal!
Rush splashed Lethal in the corner. Lethal fired back with a basement dropkick and the did his strut. Rush hit a German suplex and followed up with a knee strike. Rush whipped Jay Lethal into the steel guardrail outside the ring.Â
Lethal chopped Rush off the turnbuckles. Lethal shocked Rush with the Lethal Combination. Lethal tried to apply the figure four but Rush rolled him up for a near fall. Lethal countered Rushâs discus lariat with a kick to the head. Lethal charged at Rush but Rush nailed Lethal with a belly to belly suplex in the turnbuckles. Rush countered the Lethal Injection with a sleeper and Lethal tapped out!
âRush has not forgotten how Jon Moxley put him to sleep one week ago,â said Excalibur.
Continental Classic Gold League Match!
Bullet Club Goldâs âSwitchbladeâ Jay White vs. Mark Briscoe!
Briscoe wasted no time, going right after Jay White! Briscoe hit a Death Valley Driver!
The fans chanted âDem Boys! Dem Boys! Dem Boys!â
Briscoe climbed to the top and smashed White with the Froggy Bow. White rolled out of the ring. Mark chopped at Jay White back in the ring. Briscoe chomped on Jay Whiteâs head. Jay White hurled Mark out of the ring, and Markâs shoulder collided on the ring apron.Â
Mark blocked the Blade Runner with redneck Kung Fu. Jay White hit a basement dropkick and then a DDT on Mark Briscoe. Mark Briscoe wiped out White with a massive lariat! Mark employed the redneck Kung Fu once again. Mark nailed Jay with the Cactus elbow drop off the ring apron!
Jay White escaped Markâs attempt at Splash Mountain. White connected with elbow strikes. Mark signaled for the Jay Driller but White countered with a dragon screw leg whip out of nowhere. Briscoe was clutching his knee. White walloped Mark with a sleeper suplex. White served up a second sleeper suplex on Mark! Mark countered the Blade Runner with a side suplex. Mark went for a Froggy Bow, but Jay White countered by raising his knees into Markâs ribcage. White pinned Mark Briscoe after planting him with the Blade Runner!
Main Event Time! Continental Classic Gold League Match!
Blackpool Combat Clubâs Jon Moxley vs. Swerve Strickland!
The fans were on their feet as the match began, chanting âA-E-W! A-E-W!â
Mox applied a hammerlock. Swerve escaped and taunted Moxley. Both men were playing mind games early on. Moxley and Swerve traded strikes in the center of the ring. Swerve kicked out Moxleyâs legs and then spiked Mox with a DDT off the turnbuckles!
Swerve rammed Mox into the steel ring post. Mox retaliated with a lariat out of the corner. Mox planted Swerve with a stalling piledriver for a near fall. Moxley trapped Swerve in the apron skirt and then crotched him on the apron skirt cord. Moxley launched Swerve into the steel ring steps!
Back in the ring, Mox clocked Swerve with a clothesline at the halfway mark. Swerve smashed Mox with a back breaker. Swerve accelerated off the ropes with a back elbow. Moxley nailed Swerve with a cutter, but Swerve kicked out of the cover. Mox spiked Swerve with a Gotch style piledriver for a two-count!
Swerve and Mox exchanged headbutts. Swerve rocked Mox with a flatliner. Swerve connected with a high boot right on target for a near fall.Â
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Swerve used hammer and anvil elbow strikes on Moxley. Swerve followed up with the House Call kick. Swerve was looking for the Swerve Stomp, but Mox knocked Swerve off the top turnbuckle. Swerve fell to the arena floor! Moxley mauled Swerve with a curb stomp as Swerve rolled back into the ring!
Moxley applied a cross arm breaker on Swerveâs injured right arm. Swerve managed to reach the ropes with his boot to force the ref to break the hold. Moxley grabbed a steel chair from outside the ring, but Swerve jumped over the top rope and crashed onto Moxley. Swerve landed on Moxley with a Swerve Stomp outside the ring!
Swerve climbed to the top rope and hit the Swerve Stomp on Mox, but Mox kicked out at two! Moxley countered a JML Driver with a roll thru cradle and he pinned Swerve!
âJon Moxley, I think he may have even grabbed the belt for that added leverage,â said Excalibur.
âHe sure did! He grabbed it with both hands,â replied Tony Schiavone.Â
âJon Moxley stealing a victory and stealing three crucial points. Jon Moxley now sits at the top of the table with 12 points, the highest overall total,â said Excalibur.
Outside the arena, four masked assailants with the Devilâs mask logo on the back of their hoodies, attacked âHangmanâ Adam Page!Â
âHeâs outnumbered four to one,â said Excalibur.
âSomeoneâs in that car,â added Taz.
The person in the Devil mask exited the car and nodded at the assailants. The masked men power bombed Adam Page through the glass windshield of the car!
âThe devil and his goons just destroying âHangmanâ Adam Page,â said Excalibur, as Page was writhing in pain.
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, OK!
This Friday tune in to AEW RAMPAGE at 10pm ET on TNT!
Witness history by watching ROH: Final Battle 2023, this Friday, December 15th, exclusively for subscribers on Ring of Honor HonorClub at WatchROH.com!
Donât miss AEW Collision on Saturday on TNT at 8/7c from the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, TX!
And rememberâŚthe home of professional wrestling is All Elite Wrestling!
Last week on DYNAMITE the AEW faithful bore witness to the next round of Gold League bouts in the Continental Classic, including Jon Moxley and Swerve Strickland raising their point total to six as âEl Toro Blancoâ Rush scored his first three, leaving Jay White with three, while Jay Lethal, as well as Mark Briscoe, have zero to their name. In addition, AEW World Champion MJF was challenged by the devil-masked individual to unite with Samoa Joe for a tag team bout, and Toni Storm was informed she’d be putting AEW Women’s World Championship on the line in Montreal!
This Wednesday night, as AEW brings DYNAMITE to the Bell Centre in Montrealfor the very first time, we will see the next three bouts in the Gold League, as well as two huge championship matches! Swerve battles Mark Briscoe, Jon Moxley takes on Rush, and Jay Lethal goes head-to-head with Jay White as some jockey for the top spot while others attempt to stave off mathematical elimination! âTimelessâ Toni Storm will put her championship on the line for the first time in this third reign as she faces one of her most persistent foes in Skye Blue, and, in the face of 40-plus years of friendship, TNT Champion Christian Cage will face âThe Rated R Superstarâ Adam Copeland!
DYNAMITE kicks off at 8pm ET/7pm CT live on TBS, as well as at AEWPlus.com for international fans, so be sure to visit the official AEW YouTube channel, as well as AEW’s assorted social media platforms, to get catch up on highlights from recent episodes of DYNAMITE, RAMPAGE, and COLLISION, as well as this week’s CONTROL CENTER!
AEW TNT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH…
âThe Patriachâ Christian Cage(c) vs. âRated R Superstarâ Adam Copeland
It has been more than thirteen years since the last time Christian Cage and Adam Copeland stood across the ring from one another waiting for the first bell to ring that signifies the start of their one-on-one clash. The site of that fight was the Air Canada Center in Toronto, and it came to a conclusion with an Adam Copeland victory, just as it had sixteen other times over their twenty-six singles bouts on record. Though the two men would find their way back to a partnership for a handful of matches in 2011, the neck injuries that should’ve ended Adam’s career, and actually kept him out of the ring for nine years, ended their tag team bond.
Despite Copeland grinding through a grueling recovery, struggling and fighting to get back into the ring in January 2020, the two life-long friends only stood in the ring during a match one more time prior to WRESTLEDREAM in Seattle, and somewhat ironically that was a one night only affair as Christian Cage was forced to step away from in-ring activity in 2014 due to his own medical concerns, and not resuming his in-ring career until that first match for AEW on March 31, 2021.
So in addition to the friendship that begun some 40 years ago, in addition to all the wars they’d fought together as friends, as partners, and even as foes, Adam and Christian were also bonded by the pain of nearly losing their dream as a result of their bodies betraying them. But so too were they bonded by overcoming all odds and fighting their way back to making that dream a reality when there was no rationale reason for either man to still be competing, much less doing so at the highest of levels they are still doing at this point in their careers.
And yet here they are, despite all that connective tissue, standing as far apart as they have ever been with an seemingly insurmountable gap between their desires for AEW. Copeland came here with the dream of standing side-by-side with his best friend and finishing out their careers showing the world why they’ve long been considered one of the best tag teams of their generation, why they were such a game-changing force in tag team wrestling, and just being able to enjoy everything they’d worked so hard to accomplish.
Christian, on the other hand, came to AEW to get as much distance as possible between he and Adam and to establish himself as far away from any notion of the team they used to be once upon a time. He came to be his own individual, and Copeland coming to AEW only served, in Cage’s mind, to cast that shadow over his accomplishments since REVOLUTION 2021, not that great deal of Christian’s accomplishments deserves accolades. He betrayed Jack Perry and Luchasaurus, then turned Luchasaurus on Perry and made the former World Tag Champion into his lapdog, and even though he helped lead Luchasaurus to the TNT Championship, he didn’t even the man to hold his own championship while simultaneously claiming himself as the true TNT Champion. Then, when the opportunity came, Cage robbed Luchasaurus of the TNT Championship to officially make it his own.
He turned Nick Wayne against Darby Allin, as well as his own mother, humiliated Luchasaurus, robbed him of his name, rechristened the man Killswitch as an homage to himself, and threatened to break the neck of his supposed best friend after Adam Copeland came to AEW with a hopeful reunion in his mind. Christian disrespected Copeland’s family, a family that Adam considered him a part of, and has sacrificed both Killswitch and âThe Prodigyâ Nick Wayne in order to save his own skin. The fact that Christian Cage is proud of those accomplishments goes to show just what kind of man he’s devolved into since his arrival in AEW, it just took Sting shaking some sense into him for Adam Copeland to realize just who his supposed best friend truly was at heart.
So now this Wednesday night in Montreal, they will fight, and Christian’s prized TNT Championship will be on the line! Interestingly enough, though Copeland leads Cage in victories in their one-on-one collisions, it is Cage who has a razor thin edge when titles at stake. Nineteen times on record they’ve fought one-on-one over a championship, ten of those have been won by Christian Cage, but the last four by Copeland, although it has been a dozen years since the last of those championship contests.
While these men may be more familiar with each other than anyone else in AEW could hope to be, neither is dealing with the same man with whom they captured seven tag team titles together. Each has been changed by their experiences, experiences that should’ve brought them closer together than ever, but instead have seen them driven further apart than ever before. If there was ever any hope for this friendship to find a place of healing, it will likely be dashed Wednesday night on DYNAMITE. Some bridges can’t be rebuilt after the fire, some sins are not forgivable…
AEW WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH…
âTimelessâ Toni Storm(c) vs. Skye Blue
While âTimelessâ Toni Storm may still be basking in the glow of becoming a 3-Time AEW Women’s World Champion, apparently recovering from Hollywood parties and hobnobbing with stars, the rest of the division has had their eye on being the first challenger to her throne, and it looks like Storm will have to deal with a familiar foe for her first defense!
Skye Blue has been a consistent thorn in the side of Toni Storm since the beginning of 2023, and there’s not a woman in AEW the defending champion has faced more in one-on-one matches. Five times they have gone head-to-head inside the squared circle, two of those in championship matches, and all five have gone in favor of Toni Storm. Even the Four Way Title match at HOUSE RULES: HUNTSVILLE over the summer, a bout that also involved Anna Jay and Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D, came to an end with Storm pinning Sky. In fact, in the nine total fights these woman have been involved in, Toni holds a 7-2 lead on her challenger, with both of Skye’s victories coming in tag team bouts, though neither conclusion saw Skye pin Toni to get the victory.
The last fight between the two woman went down two months ago on DYNAMITE, and once again it was Skye who fell in defeat, but her transformation over the last several months may be the key to Skye finally claiming, not just a victory over Toni Storm, but also her first AEW Women’s World Championship! Will fans see another Storm/Blue sequel laid out by âThe Timeless Oneâ, or will Skye Blue rewrite the script for a whole new take on their franchise? Tune in Wednesday night to see who claims the crown as best lead in the AEW Women’s Division! And just announced as a special guest:
One is a man riding high with two consecutive victories and six points to his Continental Classic tally while the other is a man who has twice tasted defeated, meaning zero points on his record for this tournament. The former is Swerve Strickland, the latter Mark Briscoe, and this Wednesday night in Montreal, they will meet in their first-ever singles match and for just the second time in their careers!
That one previous clash between these two men took place a lifetime ago, and a continent away, when Shane Strickland teamed up with the late Ryan Smile at RevPro’s SUMMER SIZZLER 2017 event in a losing effort against Jay & Mark Briscoe. So much has changed for both these men in the six years since, especially for Mark as he forges forward into the world of singles wrestling after the tragic loss of brother Jay back on January 17th of this year.
Singles wrestling isn’t a foreign concept for Mark, after all he has been in the game for 23 years, years that including some hellacious singles matches against his own brother for one, but doing singles work exclusively, now that is uncharted territory for âThe Sussex County Chickenâ and perhaps why he is taking the losses as good as he can. Mark knows competing in this tournament isn’t the easiest path, that he’s faced with five of the best in the world in this Gold League, but that doesn’t mean he’ll back down or fold up shop. It’s motivation to get better, to keep pushing, and to continue fighting on for the Briscoe name.
Between Mox and Rush, Mark has already thrown down with two of the heaviest hitters in the Gold League, and now he’s got the red-hot Swerve on his plate who proved unquestionably with that Texas Death Match that he’s got the same grit as Mark’s previous two opponents. Getting those first three points out of this one is going to be a grind for Chicken, but that’s what he does and Swerve best not underestimate as he pursues nine points. After all, Mark is a cornered animal now, a loss here mathematically eliminates him from the competition, and you know what they say about cornered animals…
Jon Moxley (6) vs. Rush (3)
This one is going to hurt, and going to hurt both men involved even more than they are already hurting. We all heard it straight from Moxley himself in the interview embedded above, he is aching and sore and sick and tired, but sick and tired of being sick and tired but fighting is what he does, what he knows, and it’s Moxley’s way through the pain wracking his body.
Similarly, the AEW faithful witnessed Rush gut out a victory over Mark Briscoe last week despite clearly going through some intense leg pain throughout the contest. For a minute it seemed as if the doctor might stop the match, but âEl Toro Blancoâ fought to his feet, threw down with Mark, and found the way to his first three points in the Continental Classic.
Now these two hard-hitting forces will collide in a rematch of their AEW Interim World Title Match that took place at FIGHT FOR THE FALLEN 2022 on July 27th, as well as the Texas Tornado Tag from the 2/15/23 DYNAMITE that saw The BCC of Mox and Claudio defeat Rush and Preston Vance. Everyone knows the kind of fight these to men bring to the table, and how each seems to feed off getting hit by their foes, but as this tournament gets deeper, as their bodies break down further, and WORLDS END gets closer, will their strategies change? A win for Rush will tie him up with Mox at three points, one for the former 3-Time AEW World Champion could potentially put him at the top of the heap with nine depending on how Swerve’s fight plays out. Every win is crucial, but this week marks the halfway point, and no one can afford to take an âLâ…
Jay Lethal (0) vs. Jay White (3)
This is one part Continental Collision contest and one part rubber match as, over the course of their careers, Jay Lethal and Jay White each hold a singles victory over the other. For Lethal, his victory over the future âSwitchbladeâ came at ROH’s GLOBAL WARS 2017, NIGHT 2 event during Jay’s stateside excursion from the New Japan Dojo. There were other bouts involving the two, eight-mans and Three Way’s and Four Corner Survivals, even a trios bout in Korakuen Hall, but that October 13th fight in Pittsburgh was their lone singles until âKing Switchâ came calling five years later.
From December 2021 through April 2022, Jay White held what he called âThe U.S. of Jay Open Challenge Seriesâ during NJPW STRONG broadcasts, a five match series where he first battled Swerve, as well as Christopher Daniels, Chris Sabin, and âSpeedballâ Mike Bailey. In the second match of the series Jay Lethal answered the call, and on 2/19/22, fell before âSwitchbladeâ.
That bring us to this Wednesday night, the halfway point of the Continental Classic with two matches in the rear view mirror and two waiting down the road, but only one of these two men is on the scoreboard. With a shady victory over Rush, but a loss to Swerve, âSwitchbladeâ Jay White sits with three points while Lethal, following losses to Moxley and Swerve, has a zero beside his name.
So not only are these men fighting for the next three points, they are also fighting for dominance in their series of matches, and in the case of Jay Lethal, desperation to get on the board at all. Should Lethal lose again here, and if Moxley and/or Swerve win, well âThe Franchise of ROHâ will mathematically be eliminated from winning the bracket.
WHAT IS MJF THINKING…
AEW World & ROH World Tag Champion MJF and Samoa Joe
Given his physical condition, the face that he’s got to fight Samoa Joe at WORLDS END in twenty-four days, and that he’s still carrying the ROH World Tag Team Titles on behalf of himself and Adam Cole, is it wise for MJF to enter into a fight this Wednesday night on DYNAMITE, especially when he has no idea who whose foes actually are?
And what good is Samoa Joe’s promise to keep MJF intact for their fight on December 30th if the AEW World Champion isn’t taking care of himself? Perhaps that’s why Maxwell feels emboldened to take up this tag team fight against an unknown entity, perhaps he’s just lost the ability to use his common sense, whatever the case, this is certainly not the same MJF who spent most of his AEW career avoiding the fight as much as possible. After all, this is the guy who skated by with just six matches in 2019, two of those being Battle Royales, and may see more ring time this year than in the last two combined! Now MJF is running towards the fight, his physical health be damned, and it may fall on Samoa Joe to protect the man from himself if the former AEW World TV Champion hopes to actually see their scheduled World Title Fight in a few weeks.
If not underneath the guise of The Devil, will we all see who’s under the black masks this Wednesday night on DYNAMITE? Or will that be a mystery that continues to haunt Maxwell Jacob Friedman as struggles to keep the AEW World Champion in his grasp?
DYNAMITE comes to Montreal’s Bell Centrefor the very first time, and with it comes two massive championship fights, as well as the next three fights in the Gold League! We will see Swerve Strickland take on Mark Briscoe, Jon Moxley throw down with Rush, and Jay Lethal fight Jay White, plus âTimelessâ Toni Storm defends her AEW Women’s World Championship against Skye Blue! And in one of the most anticipated fights in All Elite Wrestling, TNT Champion Christian Cage will fig âThe Rated R Superstarâ Adam Copeland with his coveted title on the line!
The night begins at 8pm ET/7pm CT live on TBS, as well as at AEWPlus.com for international fans, so drop in on the official AEW YouTube channel for all the highlights from recent episodes of DYNAMITE, RAMPAGE, and COLLISION, as well as this week’s CONTROL CENTER!
Tonightâs episode of AEW DYNAMITE was broadcast live from the Target Center in Minneapolis, MN!
Excalibur and âThe Human Suplex Machineâ Taz were the broadcast team for tonightâs event. They were joined by âAmerican Dragonâ Bryan Danielson as a guest commentator.
Itâs Wednesday night and you know what that means!
Continental Classic Gold League Match!
Blackpool Combat Clubâs Jon Moxley vs. Jay Lethal!
Lethal and Moxley exchanged side headlock takeovers. Lethal slugged Moxley with a right fist. Lethal applied a figure four but Moxley rolled under the ropes and both men tumbled to the arena floor.
Jay Lethal rocketed outside with a tope suicida to Moxley. Jon Moxley fired back with a tope suicida of his own. Moxley was wrestling with a sense of urgency, while Lethal was showboating early on. Lethal retaliated with a knee breaker and a dragon screw leg whip, sensing Moxley tweaked his knee on the tope suicida landing.
Moxley scouted the Lethal Injection, but Lethal countered Moxleyâs attempt at a jawbreaker with a knee breaker. Jay Lethal dropped an elbow off the top for a near fall.
âThis is the Jay Lethal I want to see,â said Danielson.
Moxley nailed Lethal with a cutter. Moxley tried for a piledriver but Lethal pushed Mox into the turnbuckles. Lethal wrenched Moxleyâs knee with a dragon screw off the ropes!
âThis is a different Jay Lethal than we saw last week,â added Danielson.
Lethal and Moxley traded forearms. Moxley nearly decapitated Lethal with a King Kong lariat! Lethal blocked the Death Rider with the Lethal Combination. Lethal went to apply the figure four but Mox countered with a small package for a near fall.
Lethal locked on the figure four again. Moxley grabbed the ropes to force the ref to break the hold. Lethal swiped at Moxleyâs knee with a kick. Moxley baited Lethal in and spiked him with a Paradigm Shift! Moxley hit the King Kong lariat and then a stuffed piledriver, but Lethal kicked out. Moxley transitioned into a rear naked choke and Jay Lethal tapped out! Moxley is the first man with six points in the tournament.
Tony Schiavone was backstage and announced Stingâs final match will be Sunday, March 3rd at the Greensboro Coliseum!
âNature Boyâ Ric Flair and Sting walked onto the set!
Sting: âMarch 1988, my very first World title match against Ric Flair, and I never would have guessed all these years later, Iâd be standing here with Ric. The memories, that night, 45 minutes, draw, commercial free on TV. The big deal to me was I was in the ring with the Nature Boy Ric Flair. Thank you, Ric. He put me on the map. What a fitting place for me to end my career all these years later.â
Ric Flair: âTony, just like before, the words cannot be spoken to the volume and the emphasis of whatâs about to take place in Greensboro. Make no mistake. Sting made himself. Iâm 74 years old, Iâm lucky. Iâm working for Tony Khan. Iâm standing next to Sting. Iâm honored to be there at your side. This will be one for the ages. Sting and the Nature Boy, and AEW, are coming to Greensboro. Wooooo!â
Sting: âItâs showtime!â
Continental Classic Gold League Match!
Mark Briscoe vs. LFIâs Rush!
Both men charged at one another and began to fight. Rush landed a big strike. Mark followed up with a running dropkick. Mark unleashed rapid fire chops. Rush returned the favor to his opponent.
Rush kicked Mark in the spine. Mark jumped through the ropes with a dropkick, as Rush was playing to the crowd. Rush whipped Rush into the steel barricade. Mark back dropped Rush onto the top of the barricade. Mark dropped the Cactus elbow off the edge of the ring.
Back in the ring, Rush sent Mark flying with a release German Suplex. Mark threw his whole body into a vicious lariat. Briscoe baited Rush in and caught him with an exploder suplex. Rush rallied back with a belly to belly suplex.
Mark speared Rush for a two-count! Mark followed up with a neck breaker. Rush slipped free from the Jay Driller. Mark dropped Rush with a kick to the back of the head. Rush suplexed Mark off the apron and onto the arena floor!
Mark Briscoe smashed Rush with the Froggy Bow for a near fall. Rush fought out of the Jay Driller, backdropping Mark. Rush baited in Mark and suplexed Mark into the turnbuckles. Rush followed up with the Bullâs Horns, right on target, and pinned Mark!
âRush is on the board!â said Excalibur.
AEW Womenâs World Champion âTimelessâ Toni Storm was backstage!
Storm: âIâm feeling very fatigued after the championship celebration. Iâll be fine for my match next week!â
AEW World Champion and one half of the ROH World Tag Team Champions MJF came to the ring next!
MJF: âDecember 30th, Worldâs End, itâll be Samoa Joe against yours truly for the AEW World Championship. When it comes to Samoa Joe as a person, I donât like him. But professionally, I respect him. I respect what heâs done for this industry, and because he didnât come here to line his pockets, but because he believes in AEW.
âNow back in the early 2000s, I remember getting a poster in my mailbox for TNA Wrestling. I tuned in and I couldnât be happier. I saw the âSamoan Submission Machine.â He looked unconventional, and he didnât seem to care, and neither did we. Now unfortunately, later on in his career, his talents werenât fully recognized, and he was not afforded the opportunity to be a world champion in WWE. But what Joe did, for this sport, was bigger than that.
âSamoa Joe proved you donât have to be a massive, male model body builder to be a top guy in this sport. Samoa Joe broke the mold. He proved alternatives matter. And because of the roads he paved, it has allowed a man like me to stand in the ring in front of you today. Without a guy like Joe, there might not be an AEW. As much as it pains me to admit, thank you.
âIâm not too shabby myself, now am I? I managed to pave a road of my own. Iâve helped build a new alternative and Iâve helped build this place brick by brick. And I did that by defeating some of the biggest names in this industry. Guys like Cody Rhodes, CM Punk, Bryan Danielson, Chris Jericho, Jon Moxley, Kenny Omega, but of all the names I have had to face in this squared circle, the one name I look back on and say, not only was I lucky to be victorious, but I was also lucky to survive, thatâd be you, Joe. Samoa Joe you are a wrestling legend. But December 30th is not about your wrestling legacy. December 30th is about my mine!
âDecember 30th is about can Max outlast the final boss of this sport one more time. So now, Iâm going to make a promise. Iâm going to make a promise to everyone watching at home and everyone in this arena. Joe, on December 30th, I donât care if you beat me within an inch of my life, because I promise I am going to show the world it is not about the size of the dog in the fight, it is about the size of the fight in the dog! At Worldâs End, you are going to have to put me down!â
The arena went dark! Lights in the ring began to flicker. Men dressed all in black, their faces in black masks, with the devil logo on their backs, grabbed MJF and held him down. One of the men had a baseball bat and was about to use it on MJF!
Samoa Joeâs music hit! Samoa Joe sprinted to the ring and the men retreated!
A message on the screen read:
âIn the shadows, our game begins. Next week, MJF & Samoa JoeâŚwill you face the unknown in a tag match? Are you a hero, Max?â
MJF grabbed a microphone: âIâm so sick of your Scooby Doo BS! Let me explain something to you! I am not dealing with your crap when Iâve got Samoa Joe breathing down my back at Worldâs End. I am going to take out all of your men one by one. I am going to unmask you, you coward. And next week, you want a tag match? Youâre one!â
Samoa Joe tried to calm down MJF and was upset when MJF accepted the challenge for next week.
Up next: Wardlow vs. AR Fox!
Fox jumped over the top rope and landed on Wardlow, but Wardlow seemed to shrug him off. Wardlow caught Fox and slammed him on the ring apron. Wardlow suplexed AR Fox back into the ring. Fox was sent flying from pillar to post!
Wardlow stalked his prey outside the ring. Wardlow threw AR Fox back into the ring. Wardlow tried to press slam Fox, but Fox escaped. Fox hit a 450 splash, but Wardlow kicked out right away! Fox booted Wardlow in the face. Wardlow absorbed it and then walloped Fox with a lariat.
Wardlow powerbombed AR Fox! Wardlow powerbombed Fox a second time! Wardlow climbed to the top and hit a huge senton on Fox! Wardlow powerbombed Fox again, and the ref stopped the match! Wardlow won via ref stoppage!
Trios Match!
Top FlightâDante & Darius Martin, and Action Andretti
vs.
The HardysâMatt & Jeff, and Brother Zay!
Jeff and Matt used tandem offense on Action. Darius and Brother Zay tagged in. Zay crashed into Dante with a shoulder tackle. Darius dropkicked Zay. Dante tagged in and Dante splashed Zay with a stalling senton!
Matt Hardy drilled Action with a Side Effect for a near fall. Action countered a Twist of Fate and clipped Matt with a combo of moves, including a kick to the back of Mattâs head. Dante tagged in and springboarded onto Zay for a near fall. Top Flight had a flurry of offense on the Hardys.
The Hardys hoisted up Dante on their shoulders and Zay dropkicked Dante for a two-count. Dante pinned Zay after a German Suplex! Dante is back and better than ever!
After a commercial break, Renee Paquette interviewed Dante Martin, Darius Martin, and Action Andretti!
Penta El Zero Miedo, Komander, and El Hijo del Vikingo interrupted! It appeared Penta challenged Top Flight and Action Andretti to a trios match!
TBS Championship House Rules Match!
House of Blackâs Julia Hart (c.) vs. Emi Sakura!
Emi Sakura picked the stipulation: the match cannot be won by submission.
Julia bashed Emiâs head into the turnbuckles, battering her in the corner. Julia charged into the corner with a lariat to Emi Sakura. Emi chopped at Julia.
Julia rocked Emi with a spinning kick to the head. Outside the ring, Emi reversed an Irish whip and sent Julia crashing hard into the ring steps. Emi followed up with a splash, sandwiching Julia against the ring steps!
Emi stunned Julia with a stalling back breaker! Emi applied the surfboard to Julia and then dropped her hard. Julia dodged a moonsault. Julia locked in the Heartless, but there is no victory via submission tonight. Julia clubbed Emi in the back of the head with a lariat. Julia moonsaulted Emi and pinned her!
RJ City interviewed Mariah May backstage!
Mariah May: âI know Iâm the new girl, but I just came here from Stardom in Japan. Iâm dying to show AEW what I can do.â
Mariah knocked on Tony Khanâs door and walked into his office.
TNT Champion âThe Patriarchâ Christian Cage responded to Adam Copelandâs challenge for next weekâs Dynamite!
Christian Cage was flanked by AEW security in the ring.
Christian Cage: âWhat Iâd like to do right now is go ahead and invite the Rated R Superstar Adam Copeland to this ring right now. Adam, I know youâre back there. I just want to speak to you about a few things about what you said last week. If you donât mind making your presence felt, itâd be very much appreciated.
âAdam, I would like to speak to you in the ring, if you wouldnât mind. If the truck can hit his music, something. Maybe I should come back there and speak to him then.â
Adam Copelandâs music hit, and Copeland stormed to the ring!
Christian: âManagement wanted me to have this security. It wasnât my idea. We donât need security here tonight. So, Iâm going to ask you gentlemen to vacate the ring.
âLast week you challenged me to a match to the TNT Championship December 6th on Dynamite. Iâm here to tell you that weâre not going to make it to Montreal next week. Weâre not going to make it because Iâm sorry. Now look, I know what youâre thinking, that Iâm only sorry because Iâm on an island by myself. Last week you took out the Kill Switch. You took out the âProdigyâ Nick Wayne.
âI was so mad when you hit Kill Switch with two con-chair-tos, I ran out of my house and drove with the windows down. I just needed to think. It turned into a road trip of soul searching, digging down deep, trying to figure out how I became this guy who does and says such unsavory things. And then on that drive, it started to remind me of those times we borrowed my momâs car.
âWe didnât care where we went. We were broke. We were having the times of our lives on the road, and we were going to make it. And did we ever make it! We went on to become multiple times tag team champions. The greatest tag team that ever lived. We both became multi time World champions. Take the wrestling part of our relationship away and it runs even deeper.
âEveryone knows you grew up with a single mom, Adam. Everyone knows you didnât have a father figure. Yes, Iâm the patriarch of AEW, but I am your brother. You might not have had a father, but in turn, my father became your father. To this day, heâs still your biggest fan. Iâm just going to say, we werenât just two random guys that were thrown together. I love you, man. We are family.
âAnd listen to me, when your mom passed away a few years ago, that was the hardest time of your life. But sometime before she passed, she said, âWhat I wouldnât give to see you guys in that ring tagging one last time.â And on my drive, I thought, letâs do it for her, letâs go on this journey again. For your mom! Letâs do it for her, man.â
Adam Copeland turned around to contemplate what he just heard from Christian Cage. Christian charged at Copeland, trying to strike with a cheap shot. But Copeland saw it coming and kicked Christian with a low blow!
Adam Copeland: âNice try, dumb ass. Sit up when Iâm talking to you. Shine this belt up real nice, because next week, sheâs coming home with me! Oh, by the way, I almost forgot, go fâk yourself!â
Main Event Time!
Continental Classic Gold League Match!
Swerve Strickland vs. Bullet Club Goldâs âSwitchbladeâ Jay White!
Jay White went right after Swerve. White whipped Swerve into the steel barricade. Back in the ring, Jay White went after Swerveâs taped out shoulder. Swerve chopped Jay White. Swerve suplexed Jay right onto the top of the barricade.
Swerve jumped off the apron and stomped on Jay Whiteâs spine. As Swerve was entering the ring, Jay White grabbed him and planted him with a DDT. Swerve got dropped on his head after a suplex from Jay White.
Swerve intercepted a chop and countered with a suplex to Switchblade. Swerve blasted Jay with a flatliner and followed up with a vertical suplex for a near fall. Jay White retaliated with a German Suplex. Swerve rallied back with a discus lariat!
âThese two men! How incredible are these two men?!â said Danielson.
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Jay White chop blocked Swerveâs knee. Jay White nailed Swerve with a uranage. Jay White applied an arm bar. Swerve escaped and blasted Jay with a kill shot to Whiteâs arm. Jay White almost inadvertently collided with the ref. As the ref had his back turned, Jay White went for a low blow, but Swerve had it scouted! Swerve rocked White with a back breaker. Swerve hit the House Call on Jay White. Swerve connected with the Swerve Stomp, but Jay White kicked out at the two-count!
âYou have to be impressed with Jay Whiteâs resiliency here,â said Danielson.
Jay White shocked Swerve with the Blade Runner. Swerve was knocked out of the ring, perhaps a saving grace. Back in the ring, Jay chopped at Swerve, and Swerve fired back with his own shots. Jay White planted Swerve with a sleeper suplex! Swerve countered the Blade Runner, rolling up Jay White and pinned him!
âImpressive roll counter right there,â said Taz.
âCerebral wrestling from Swerve,â replied Excalibur.
âThat got him another three points to put him at six,â added Danielson.
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Bell Centre in Montreal, QC!
This Friday tune in to AEW RAMPAGE at 10pm ET on TNT!
Donât miss AEW Collision on Saturday on TNT at 8/7c from the Erie Insurance Arena in Erie, PA!
And rememberâŚthe home of professional wrestling is All Elite Wrestling!
Tonightâs AEW COLLISION was broadcast live from the KIA Forum in Los Angeles, CA!
Kevin Kelly, Nigel McGuinness and Tony Schiavone were the broadcast team for tonightâs event.
Itâs Friday night and you know what that means! Friday nightâs alright for fighting!
To kick off the show Tony Schiavone was in the ring with TNT Champion Christian Cage, Luchasaurus, and Nick Wayne!
Christian Cage: âItâs lucky for you that tomorrow night at Full Gear, not only do you get to see Stingâs last match you Los Angeles, youâll get to see Stingâs last match ever. Iâm sick of people calling him an âicon.â Tomorrow night Sting, itâs all gonna be over.
âAnd whatâs interesting to me is whatâs going to happen to Darby Allin when he loses that mentor of his. Hey Darby, if you ever find yourself in need of some fatherly guidance, you know who to turn to. And Ric Flair, I know youâll be ringside tomorrow, but if you stick your nose in our business tomorrow, itâll be your literal come to Jesus moment.
âAdam Copeland, if you havenât already, after Full Gear tomorrow youâre going to regret signing that contract with AEW. You came here to try to steal my spotlight. Hereâs the thing, Adam, I am not the same person I was back when. I am Christian Cage, the patriarch of AEW. While you were the golden boy, I was in the trenches, clawing and scratching for every inch. And Beth, keep the girls up late and keep them close to the TV, because Adam Iâm going to guarantee you that I will break your neck.
âAs the TNT Champion, the powers-that-be want me on the program every second I can. So, Iâll be in action tonight in the four-way. After the four-way tonight, Iâm going to keep running things here in AEW. I donât work within the system. I am the system.â
Lexy Nair was backstage with the AEW World Tag Team Champions Big Bill and âAbsoluteâ Ricky Starks!
Big Bill: âRicky or myself do not have to be pinned or submitted tomorrow to lose the tag team titles. So, Ricky went and spoke with Tony Khan.â
Ricky Starks: âTony is a fair man and he allowed me to pick a stipulation in our favor. I am selecting a ladder match. Thatâs right, a very short climb for Big Bill here. Tomorrow at Full Gear, when we walk out of L.A., weâre walking out as champions, weâre walking out in style, and most importantly, weâre walking out at the greatest tag team champions youâve ever seen.â
âThe Redeemerâ Miro vs. Daniel Garcia!
Miro snatched Garcia and threw him overhead with a suplex. Miro stomped on Daniel Garcia in the corner. Miro followed up with another suplex. Miro smashed Garcia with a short arm lariat. He suplexed Garcia yet again!
Miro turned his back for a moment and Garcia charged at him. Garcia jabbed at Miro with right hands. Miro stopped a cross body and planted Garcia hard on the mat. Garcia backed up Miro with strikes after a chop block. Garcia dropkicked Miro. âThe Redeemerâ clobbered Garcia with a big boot to the face!
Garcia hit a belly to back suplex on Miro. Garcia was about to dance, but Matt Menard ran to the ring, jumped on the apron and told him not to dance. Miro charged at Garcia, but Garcia moved. Miro collided into Matt Menard. Garcia applied a cross face to Miro, but Miro escaped. Miro then muscled his way out of a sharpshooter. Miro locked on the Game Over submission hold and Garcia was out. The ref stopped the match and awarded the victor to Miro!
CJ Perry and Andrade El Idolo were backstage with Lexy Nair!
Andrade: âIâm so happy.â
CJ Perry: âAndrade is the best wrestler in my opinion. And thatâs why I have entered him into the Continental Classic.â
Andrade: âYou spoke with Tony?â
CJ Perry: âYes, and if you win, youâre going to get an extra bonus.â
CJ whispered into Andradeâs ear. âAre you sure?â he asked. CJ nodded. Andrade said, âI trust you,â and they shook hands.
Kings of the Black ThroneâMalakai Black & Brody King
vs.
The BoysâBrent & Brandon!
Malakai Black applied a wrist lock to Brent. Black blasted Brent with a spinning back elbow. Brody King tagged in, and Brent tagged out to his brother Brandon.
Brent grabbed Brodyâs leg and Brandon charged at Brody. Brody backdropped Brandon out of the ring. The Kings finished off Brent with Danteâs Inferno and pinned him.
Trent Beretta vs. Penta El Zero Miedo vs. âThe Machineâ Brian Cage vs. Komander!
The winner receives a TNT Championship match tonight during Rampage.
Penta El Zero Miedo got in Brian Cageâs face, but âThe Machineâ knocked him right down. Komander and Penta nailed Cage with thrust kicks, knocking Cage out of the ring. Komander followed up with a tornillo. Trent hit Penta with a back elbow.
Trent and Penta traded chops in the middle of the ring. Trent cracked Penta with a knee strike and then sent him flying with a half and half suplex. Komander walked the top rope, but Cage shook the ropes and knocked Komander down. Cage suplexed Komander out of the ring and down onto Trent and Penta on the arena floor!
Brian Cage whipped Trent into the steel guardrail. Cage sent Penta in the guardrail. Cage planted Komander on the ring apron. Penta and Komander teamed up to hit Cage with an assisted cannonball. Trent nailed Komander with a high angle German suplex. Trent rocked Penta with German suplexes. Trent took down Cage with a poison rana, but Cage got up and clobbered Trent with a lariat.
Penta punted Cage in the head. Penta drilled Trent with a thrust kick. Penta walloped Cage with a sling blade. Penta got a near fall on Trent after hitting him with the Made in Japan! Penta jumped off Komanderâs back and flew out of the ring with a tope con hiro on Cage. Trent crushed Komander with the Strong Zero and pinned him!
Lexy Nair was backstage with Don Callis and Powerhouse Hobbs!
Don Callis: âPaul Wight is out on the shelf. Done! Powerhouse Hobbs slammed a 450 pound giant, a living legend, through the windshield of a car, and broke him.â
Hobbs: âAnyone can get it! I took out a giant. A multiple time world champion. Iâm big, Iâm black, Iâm jacked. Paul, I know youâre resting away. But stay away because anyone can get it.â
Wardlow vs. Evan Daniels!
Wardlow rushed his opponent and power bombed him! Wardlow followed up with a swanton off the top. Wardlow hit the powerbomb symphony. The ref stopped the match as Daniels was unable to continue.
âWardlow has only one thing on his mind: MJF,â said Tony Schiavone.
FTRâs Dax Harwood (with Cash Wheeler)
vs.
LFIâs Rush (with Dralistico, Preston Vance, & Jose the Assistant)!
AEW World Tag Team Champion âAbsoluteâ Ricky Starks joined the broadcast booth for this match. His tag partner Big Bill stood behind him.
Rush rocked Dax with a shoulder tackle. Dax dodged Rush and nailed him with a flying forearm. They brawled outside the ring, with Rush running Dax into the steel guardrail. Back in the ring they traded chops to the chest.
âTheyâre just wearing the leather out of each other!â said Nigel.
Dax drilled Rush with two German Suplexes. Rush shoved Dax as Dax was on the top turnbuckle. Dax lost his balance. Rush superplexed Dax Harwood for a near fall.
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Both men blasted the other with open palm strikes until they knocked one another down! Rush rocked Dax with a belly to back suplex for a two-count. Dax spiked Rush with a piledriver for a near fall!
Rush got out of the ring and shoved Ricky Starks! Rush was about to go for the Bullâs Horns, but Starks jumped into the ring and speared Rush! The match was declared a no-contest.
Cash Wheeler ran down to the ring and began to brawl with Big Bill. The Kings of the Black Throne came down the ramp. Brody King and Big Bill tried to pull a ladder out from beneath the ring, but Cash flew out onto them. Security ran down to break up the melee!
Lexy Nair was backstage with Action Andretti!
The Kingdom and Roderick Strong interrupted Andretti as he was trying to give a medical update on Darius Martin.
Mike Bennett: âHeâs got a bruised ego and a weak neck.â
Roderick Strong: âFellas, I found my next victim.â
Matt Taven: âWho is it?â
Roderick Strong: âAction!â
Blackpool Combat Clubâs Wheeler Yuta vs. The House of Blackâs Buddy Matthews!
Wheeler dropkicked Buddy and sent him out of the ring. Buddy hip tossed Yuta into the steel guardrail. Buddy blasted Wheeler with a pump kick to the face.
Both men fought on the ring apron. Buddy hurled Wheeler off the apron, sending Wheeler colliding with the announcersâ table. Back in the ring, Buddy unleashed an array of kicks. Yuta connected with a wild swing.
Wheeler tried for a German Suplex, but Buddy broke loose. Buddy walloped Wheeler with a back kick. Yuta grabbed a near fall after a German Suplex. Wheeler rocketed out of the ring with a tope suicida. Buddy picked up Yuta and dropped him across the turnbuckles. Wheeler jumped off with a double ax handle to the back of Buddyâs neck and back. Buddy connected with a running powerbomb and then curb stomped Yuta, grabbing the pin!
Buddy Matthews grabbed a steel chair after the match, hoping to continue the punishment. Claudio Castagnoli sprinted to the ring to protect Wheeler.
Claudio: âIf you want the attention of the Blackpool Combat Club, you donât have to cut some spooky promo. All you have to do is ask. Youâve been pissing me off for a few weeks now and honestly, I like to make my challenges here in the light. What do you say if itâs you and me right here tomorrow at Full Gear?â
Shida hit Ruby with a throwaway slam. Kris tagged in and swept out Rubyâs legs. Saraya grabbed a tag, but Kris shoulder tackled her for a two-count.
Julia Hart was watching Kris with a keen eye backstage on a monitor.
Statlander double suplexed Saraya and Soho. Shida tagged in and knocked down Saraya and Soho with a cross body from the top rope.
Skye Blue was watching backstage on a monitor.
Angelo Parker was sitting in the front row, cheering on Ruby Soho.
Kris connected with a spinning discus lariat on Soho. Kris followed up with a running knee to Ruby Soho. Statlander hit a Blue Thunder Bomb on Ruby for a near fall. Saraya tagged in and she and Ruby tried a double suplex on Shida, but Shida blocked it. Saraya and Shida traded forearms.
Shida wiped out Saraya with a running knee strike. Shida jumped off the top rope, but Saraya countered with a thrust kick. Angelo Parker jumped over the barricade to check on Ruby Soho. Saraya didnât like what she saw, as she was left alone to fend for herself. Kris Statlander speared Angelo Parker on the arena floor. Meanwhile, in the ring, Shida wiped out Saraya with the Katana and pinned her!
Earlier in the day, Tony Schiavone had a sitdown interview with AEW World & ROH Tag champ MJF!
MJF: âI made a promise and I intend to keep it. As much as I know Austin and Colten Gunn are ugly, theyâre very talented. Iâm going to do whatever it takes to win during Zero Hour. Because I told my best friend Adam Cole that these ROH Tag titles will be waiting here when he comes back from injury. And letâs be honest, Iâm responsible for him being injured.
âWhen Jay White stole my belt, I realized Jay White is insecure. He stole that belt not to prove anything to the world, but heâs trying to prove something to himself. The championship doesnât make the man. The man makes the championship. Thatâs why tomorrow youâre going to lose because nobody is on the level of the devil.
âWhen you ask me about the likelihood about beating the Gunns and Jay White all in one night, Iâd say slim to none. But unfortunately for Jay White and all my detractors, I just so happen to like those odds.â
The Rampage portion of the evening kicked off!
âThe Ochoâ Chris Jericho joined the broadcast table for Rampage.
TNT Championship Match!
Christian Cage (c.) (with Luchasaurus & Nick Wayne)
vs.
Trent Beretta!
Trent flew over the top rope with a huge crossbody to Christian on the arena floor. Nick Wayne grabbed Trent from behind and Christian charged at Trent, nailing him with a cheap shot. Trent speared Christian through the ropes.
Trent went for a spinning DDT, but Christian dodged it. Trent blocked a DDT from Christian. Trent hit a hurracanrana on Christian for a near fall. Christian moved out of the way of Trentâs crossbody press. Trent countered a spear with a knee strike and then spiked Christian with a tornado DDT for a near fall.
âTrent has the momentum here. Christian is on the run,â said Jericho.
Trent clobbered Christian with the Strong Zero for a two-count! Luchasaurus distracted Trent. Christian Cage seized the moment and blindsided Trent. Christian Cage crushed Trent with the Kill Switch and pinned Trent!
After a commercial break, Chris Jericho had a message for the Young Bucks!
Jericho: âMatt and Nick seem to have an issue because I stole their buddy Kenny. I didnât steal anyone. The Golden Jets are going to beat the Bucks tomorrow and become the number one contenders. See you tomorrow kids!â
âTimelessâ Toni Storm (with Luther the Butler) vs. Emi Sakura!
Toni tried to hand Emi a script, but Emi ripped it up. Emi chopped at Toni Storm. Toni knocked Emi out of the ring with her hip attack. Toni stood up on the apron and Emi fired back with a cross body press.
Toni rocked Emi with a running bulldog. Toni was looking for a hip attack, but Emi countered with a Tiger Driver for a near fall. Emi followed up with a backbreaker across the knee for a two-count. Toni dodged a moonsault from Emi.
Toni rammed Emi with a hip attack. Toni planted Emi with a piledriver and pinned Emi!
âTomorrow is Toniâs Hollywood homecoming as she faces AEW Womenâs World Champion Hikaru Shida,â said Tony Schiavone.
Renee Paquette was backstage with Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, Karen Jarrett, Sonjay Dutt, and Satnam Singh. Standing across them was ROH World Champion Eddie Kingston!
Jay Lethal: âIâve asked for this time because I wanted to make things crystal clear for Eddie Kingston. You have one day left as the ROH World Champion because we have spoken to Stokely, and he has made it official. Tomorrow night at Zero Hour itâs going to be Eddie Kingston versus Jay Lethal for the ROH World Championship. Ever since you lost in that Memphis Street Fight against Jeff Jarrett granting me a shot at your championship, youâve done nothing but duck and hide from us the whole time.â
Eddie Kingston: âLook at me. You know me. Why are you speaking like them? You know what I can do. And I know what you can do, but not with them. You have become a coward just like them.â
Kingston turned around and Ortiz showed up and nodded at him.
Rampage Main Event Time!
Roderick Strong (with The KingdomâMatt Taven & Mike Bennett)
vs.
Action Andretti!
Strong charged at Action as Action entered the ring. Action hit back with a dropkick to Roderick Strong. Action Andretti chopped Roderick in the chest. Roderick cracked Action with a backbreaker.
Action rocked Roderick with a spinning neck breaker. Action countered a sunset flip with a suplex. Action blasted Roddy with a back elbow. The Kingdom checked on Roddy outside the ring. Action wiped out the Kingdom with a running kick. Action hit a Spanish Fly on Strong.
The fans chanted âNeck Strong!â
Roddy got to his feet! Roddy finished off Action with the End of Heartache and pinned Action Andretti!
Renee Paquette had a sitdown interview with âSwitchbladeâ Jay White!
Jay White: âWho is the devil? In my mind, all you have to focus on is that the AEW World Championship is with someone that lives up to the E in All Elite Wrestling. Remember MJF isnât going to even make it to the main event with me because the Gunns will take care of him first during Zero Hour.
âMJF is trying to brainwash everyone and make them think MJF belongs in the same breath as J-A-Y. When things go my way, youâre going to get more of the Bang Bang Gang.â
MJF stormed onto the scene and attacked Jay White! âSwitchbladeâ begged Max to stop. Juice Robinson blindsided MJF and then threw MJF into Jay Whiteâs locker room! MJF smashed the TV monitor over Juice Robinsonâs head!
MJF chased Jay White to the ring. MJF grounded and pounded Jay White! The Gunns sprinted to the ring to try to help Jay White, but MJF took them down too! MJF picked up his belt and kissed it! MJF was about to bash Jay White with the belt, but the Gunn Club hit MJF from behind! Bullet Club Gold triple teamed MJF and ripped the belt out of his hands! The Gunns held back MJF as Jay White was about to ram the belt into MJFâs head when Samoa Joe ran to the ring!
Bullet Club Gold retreated!
âIt looks like MJF has found a tag team partner,â said Nigel.
âBut has he?â wondered Tony Schiavone.
Samoa Joe stared at MJF and extended his hand. MJF accepted!
âJoe will team with MJF tomorrow!â said Tony Schiavone.
âThe AEW World Champion has made a deal with the devil,â replied Nigel.
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, IL!
This Saturday witness history live on pay-per-view and order AEW FULL GEAR 2023 from the KIA Forum in Los Angeles, CA!
Watch AEW Full Gear Zero Hour at 7:00 PM ET/4:00 PM PT on YouTube, hosted by Renee Paquette, RJ City, and Stokely Hathaway!
And rememberâŚthe home of professional wrestling is All Elite Wrestling!
Tonightâs episode of AEW DYNAMITE was broadcast live from the Toyota Arena in Ontario, CA!
Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, and âThe Human Suplex Machineâ Taz were the broadcast team for tonightâs event.
Itâs Wednesday night and you know what that means!
AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy & FTW Champion HOOK
vs.
Blackpool Combat Clubâs Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta!
Cassidy and Hook ran into the crowd to get the jump on Mox and Yuta! The fight broke out onto the arena floor with all four men brawling! Moxley stomped on Orange. Yuta and Hook got in the ring and the match was officially underway!
Yuta body slammed Hook. The FTW Champ threw Yuta with the El Camino. Moxley tagged in and ate an elbow strike from Hook. Moxley held onto Hook and Yuta dropkicked Hook after a tag. Hook t-boned Moxley and tagged out to Orange Cassidy. Orange planted Mox with a diving DDT! Orange was holding his ribs.
Cassidy was looking for a DDT, but Mox held onto him, and Yuta rushed in with a lariat to Orange. The BCC were working beautifully as a team. Moxley taunted Orange with kicks and slaps. Orange fired back with a dropkick.
Hook tagged in, as did Yuta. They traded strikes in the center of the ring. Hook backed Yuta into the corner with a headbutt and followed up with a Northern Lights Suplex. Yuta tossed Hook with a German Suplex. Yuta followed up with a rolling elbow strike. Moxley ran in and nailed Hook with a blindside shot.
Hook leveled Yua with a lariat. Moxley ran in and stunned Hook with a cutter. Orange blasted Moxley with the Orange Punch and Moxley simply absorbed it, eating it for lunch. Hook tried to apply the Red Rum, but Yuta hit Hook from behind. Moxley impaled Hook with the Death Rider and Yuta pinned Hook with the seatbelt rollup!
âWe just saw the FTW Champion get pinned by Wheeler Yuta!â said Excalibur.
âYou ainât pinning Hook and walking away. This is just getting started. I promise you,â added Taz.
Mox: âOrange Cassidy, you are nothing, you ainât never been nothing, this weekend at Full Gear, Iâm gonna grind you into dust and walk out International Champion and thereâs not a damn thing you can do to stop me!â
Ahead of their Texas Death Match this Saturday at FULL GEAR, Swerve Strickland and âHangmanâ Adam Page had a face-to-face with Tony Schiavone in the ring!
If the two men attack each other tonight, both will be banned for the rest of 2023.
Swerve Strickland and Prince Nana came to the ring first. âHangmanâ Adam Page came out next, and he marched straight to the ring, his eyes locked with Swerve.
Hangman Page: âWhy did Swerve go into my house? Because you are a coward. You are a fraud. You are a worthless waste of human life. You told me two months ago that you wanted to be World Champion, but I can look at you and you donât have it in you. You canât cut it. You are not the man that you think you are. Look at me! Youâre the one who wanted to make this personal!
âYou surround yourself with âyes menâ. And if you werenât so dumb, youâd realize Nana is just here to use you. Swerve, Prince Nana makes his living off of your back. Look at me! You are not a man at all. You are a child. I worked with kids for a long time, and I taught them a lot of lessons, and this Saturday I teach you the last lesson of your pathetic life. You should never have come into my house. We donât need lawyers or cops because at Full Gear I am your judge, jury and executioner.
âAnd Swerve, one thing I forgot to mention. Tonightâs stipulation was that you and I couldnât lay hands on one another. But Nana, they didnât say anything about us!â
Hangman Page jumped on Prince Nana and grounded and pounded him! Security separated Page from Nana and Page nailed the security team, blasting one with the Buckshot Lariat!
Lexy Nair was backstage with Roderick Strong and the Kingdom!
Roddy said he knew who the devil was and needed to call his best friend, Adam Cole. They called Adam Cole over Skype. âItâs definitely Max!â
Adam Cole: âMax is not the devil! With all the accusations, maybe youâre the devil, Roddy.â
Adam Cole hung up.
âWhy will he not listen to me?â asked Roderick Strong.
TBS Title Eliminator Match!
Red Velvet vs. Skye Blue
The winner moves on to the TBS Title Match at Full Gear on Saturday.
Red Velvet grabbed a wrist lock on Blue but Blue escaped and countered with a hammer lock. TBS Champion Kris Statlander was watching the match from backstage.
Red Velvet swept out Skyeâs legs and hit her with a standing moonsault. Red Velvet boxed Blue in the corner. Skye Blue rocked Red Velvet with a DDT on the apron. Blue whipped Red Velvet into the steel guardrail.
Skye Blue cracked Red Velvet with a thrust kick. They exchanged rollups and then knocked each other down with simultaneous thrust kicks. Red Velvet nailed with double knees to the back. Skye Blue hit the Skye Fall on Red Velvet for a near fall! Red Velvet countered a rising knee from Skye Blue with a powerbomb for a two-count!
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Skye Blue countered the Just Desserts with a thrust kick. Red Velvet returned first. Skye Blue intercepted a corkscrew and pinned Red Velvet after the Code Blue!
Julia Hart was seen watching from backstage.
âThe Redeemerâ Miro had words for CJ Perry!
âMy eyes have been open for awhile now. Truth is, CJ doesnât just bring out the worst in herself. She brings out the worst in me too. Let the Redeemer give you a piece of advice Daniel Garcia. I donât pray to God anymore, but you should start. This is the word of the Redeemer!â
Mariah May was backstage with RJ City, waiting to meet Toni Storm!
Mariah knocked on the door and the butler let her in. Toni Storm was on a couch, resting. Toni Storm didnât give much time for Mariah, and then told Luther to have him contact Tony Khan to book her a tune-up match for Friday.
Samoa Joe vs. Jon Cruz!
Samoa Joe jabbed at Cruz. Samoa Joe splashed him in the corner. Samoa Joe leveled Cruz with the lariat and then won via tap out!
Samoa Joe: âMy name is Samoa Joe. And I come from Southern California. So MJF, since youâre in my hood, once again I extend my offer of friendship. And trust me, the time is limited Max, because youâre going to find out whether you have my friendship or not, because I am Samoa Joe and I am inevitable!â
The Young BucksâMatt & Nick Jackson
vs.
Penta El Zero Miedo & Komander (with Alex Abrahantes)!
Komander and Nick Jackson traded a flurry of fiery offense. All four men entered the ring and the Bucks superkicked their opponents, while Penta and Komander had the same idea with thrust kicks. The Bucks shook the hands of their opponents and then superkicked them!
âThe Bucks firing on all cylinders here tonight,â said Excalibur.
Komander connected with a crossbody on Matt Jackson. The Bucks were there waiting though and hit Komander with their tandem offense. Komander took down Nick Jackson with a step up hurracanrana. Komander did the tightrope walk into a hurracanrana on Nick, and then sent Nick flying onto Matt Jackson on the arena floor!
Penta flipped over the top rope and crashed onto Nick with a tope con hiro! Penta blasted the Bucks with thrust kicks. Komander nailed the Bucks with a double DDT off the shoulders of Penta. Penta rocked Matt with a Made in Japan for a near fall!
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Matt Jackson tossed Komander and Penta with a double Northern Lights Suplex! The Bucks were looking for a Meltzer Driver, but Komander sent Matt crashing into Nick. Penta destroyed Nick with a Fear Factor on the apron! Komander surprised Matt with a hurracanrana for a near fall!
âThat was super close!â said Taz.
âIâve seen things here in this match that Iâve never seen before,â replied Tony Schiavone.
Matt Jackson and Penta El Zero Miedo traded shots in the center of the ring. Penta stunned Matt with a thrust kick, but then Matt fired off a superkick. Nick Jackson tagged in and scored with a superkick. Komander springboarded but Nick Jackson cracked him with a low blow and followed up with the Judas Effect! The Bucks bashed Komander with the BTE Trigger and scored the pin!
âIâve seen the Bucks stretch the rules before but never blatantly kick a man between the legs when the refâs back was turned,â said Tony Schiavone.
âWill this be a taste of what the Golden Jets get on Saturday at Full Gear?â wondered Excalibur.
Lexy Nair was backstage with the Young Bucks after a commercial break.
Kenny Omega approached them and questioned why they cheated during their match tonight.
Nick Jackson: âOur heat is not with you. Itâs with Jericho.â
Chris Jericho: âDonât waste your time with these jackasses. Weâve got a match to win tonight.â
Matt Jackson shoved Chris Jericho and security had to separate them.
The GunnsâAustin and Colten Gunn (with Juice Robinson)
vs.
Peter Avalon and Jacoby Watts!
The Gunns made a statement win with the 3:10 to Yuma, quickly winning the match!
Colten: âMax, that match was two on two, so imagine at the pay-per-view when itâs two on one. Those titles are about to be gone!â
âWho will MJF find? Will he turn to Samoa Joe to tag with him this Saturday to defend the ROH World Tag Team Championship? Or will it go to Bullet Club Gold?â asked Excalibur.
A highlight package aired of Wardlow!
âMax, as God as my witness, Iâm going to make the devil my bâch!â
Like A Dragon Gaiden Street Fight!
Chris Jericho, Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi, & Paul Wight
vs.
âThe Machineâ Brian Cage, & The Don Callis FamilyâKonosuke Takeshita, Kyle Fletcher, & Powerhouse Hobbs!
Don Callis joined the commentary team for this match.
The teams began to brawl on the ramp! Jericho hit Fletcher with his baseball bat. Hobbs went right after Paul Wight. Paul Wight choke slammed Fletcher off the stage and through a table!
Takeshita hit Ibushi with an elbow strike, but Ibushi absorbed it. Omega jumped in the ring and face planted Takeshita. Paul Wight smacked Hobbs into a car outside the arena. Jericho rattled Cage with a crate over the head!
Takeshita whipped Omega headfirst into a sign! Ibushi rode a bike down the ramp, but Cage struck him with a lariat! Hobbs body slammed Paul Wight onto the hood of a car! Takeshita swung the bike around the ring and hit Jericho, Omega, and Ibushi. Takeshita nailed Ibushi with a brain buster on the bike!
Omega pulled a table out from beneath the ring and set it up. Takeshita and Jericho brawled out to the VIP Club area of the arena. Cage and Fletcher isolated Omega in the ring. Cage and Fletcher suplexed Omega onto a pallet in the ring! Omega connected with a jumping knee strike and followed up with a snap dragon suplex on Cage. Omega had a bottle in his hand and smashed it on Fletcherâs head!
Takeshita jumped off a refrigerator, but Jericho sprayed a fire extinguisher at him and then nailed him with the Judas Effect. Hobbs charged in the ring and nailed Omega and Ibushi with double clotheslines. Hobbs drove Omega down with the Worldâs Most Dangerous Slam! Brian Cage superplexed Omega out of the ring and through the tables on the arena floor! Hobbs planted Ibushi with a spinebuster!
Hobbs splashed Jericho in the corner. Fletcher rocked Omega with a snap dragon suplex. Fletcher grabbed Ibushi and spiked him with a piledriver off the apron and through a sign that was propped up on steel chairs!
Omega connected with a rising knee strike to Hobbs and Jericho followed up with the Judas Effect! Jericho and Omega taped Hobbs to the ropes! Omega smacked Hobbs with a glass bottle! Cage drove Jericho down into the mat and then tried for a Drill Claw on Omega. Omega escaped and spiked Cage with a reverse hurracanrana! Omega fired off the V Trigger on Cage and then on Hobbs. Omega pinned Cage after spiking him with the One Winged Angel!
AEW World Champion & ROH World Tag Team Champion MJF had some strong words after last weekâs brutal attack on the Acclaimed and Daddy Ass!
MJF: âItâs become very apparent to me that no matter how hard I try to outrun my past, itâs going to catch up with me. And every time I try to open myself up, those people get hurt. So, what Iâd like to say to the Acclaimed is the same thing I said to Adam ColeâIâm sorry that you got hurt and I hope you feel better.
âEver since I could remember all I wanted to be was a World Champion and I have spent every moment of my life trying to make that happen. I am proud to say that I have made it to that mountain top. The air up here is thin. And as I look down this mountain, I see men climbing with the only intention to shove me off the top.
âAnd Iâm afraid I could lose everything I worked for in the blink of an eye. And Iâm afraid Iâm going to let you guys down. The old me in this situation would have tucked and ran. But Iâm done letting the past dictate my future. Yeah, Iâm afraid, but that doesnât mean Iâm going to give up my spot at the top of the mountain. Youâd better send a whole damn army up that mountain to knock me down!
âJay White, November 18th at Full Gear, you have a chance to take my spot. But I donât think you can. I donât think anyone can because my name is MJF, and I am better than you and you know it! And a message to the man who stole my devil mask who hired those goons. I am going to find out who you are and when I do there will be hell to pay!â
âSwitchbladeâ Jay White walked onto the ramp!
Jay White: âMax, youâre going to make me sick so just stop. Drop the act because you are embarrassing yourself. Youâre trying so hard to be the hero and thatâs not who you are. You are the villain. Always have been, always will be. And youâre not fooling anyone. Youâve told us time and time again, you are the devil. Youâre not the hero, Max. Youâre not these peoplesâ hero.
âMax you should know better. You should know how quickly they will drop you because you mean nothing. You havenât changed. I know that you know that I am speaking truth right now. And I know that you know your days as the AEW World Champion are numbered. You know at Full Gear you will bleed with the Switchblade. And if youâre not down with that I have two words for you: get him.â
Bullet Club Gold jumped into the ring. Max was able to fend off the Gunns for a bit but then Juice Robinson blasted MJF with his infamous left hand punch. The Gunns spiked MJF with the 3:10 to Yuma. Switchblade rocked MJF with the Blade Runner and mockingly pinned him for the three count!
Samoa Joe was watching on a monitor backstage.
âThat offer still stands, MJF. You might want to take Joe up on it,â said Taz.
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, IL!
Special Programming note: this Friday tune in to AEW COLLISION at 8/7c and then RAMPAGE at 10/9c on TNT!
This Saturday witness history live on pay-per-view and order AEW FULL GEAR 2023 from the KIA Forum in Los Angeles, CA!
And rememberâŚthe home of professional wrestling is All Elite Wrestling!
Tonightâs AEW COLLISION was broadcast live from the Oakland Arena in Oakland, CA!
Nigel McGuinness and Tony Schiavone were the broadcast team for tonightâs event.
Itâs Saturday night and you know what that means! Saturday nightâs alright for fighting!
Andrade El Idolo vs. Daniel Garcia (with Matt Menard & Angelo Parker)!
Before the match began, CJ Perry walked down the ramp and stood next to Andrade. They nodded and smiled at one another.
âIt looks like Andrade and CJ Perry have made an agreement,â said Tony Schiavone.
Miro was watching on a monitor backstage.
Garcia and Andrade locked up with a stiff collar and elbow tie up. Andrade grabbed a full arm twist, but Garcia escaped. Andrade applied a side headlock.
Garcia was about to perform his dance, but Andrade rocked him with a shoulder tackle. Garcia fired off forearm shots to Andrade El Idolo. Garcia dropkicked Andrade. Garcia missed a knee drop. Andrade jumped off the top turnbuckle with a big crossbody to Garcia.
Daniel Garcia caught Andrade with a dragon screw leg whip through the ropes. Garcia charged at Andrade El Idolo with a running knee strike. Garcia danced in front of CJ Perry.
Daniel Garcia nailed Andrade with a German Suplex. Garcia attempted a superplex but Andrade El Idolo headbutted Garcia, knocking him to the mat. Garcia grabbed an ankle lock on Andrade. Garcia wrenched on the leg. Andrade tried to fight the pain instead of going to the ropes. Garcia chop blocked Andrade, but Andrade retaliated with two dragon screw leg whips. Andrade hit Garcia with a running forearm shot!
Andrade got a full head of steam and rammed Garcia with a double knee strike in the turnbuckles! Garcia managed to pick up Andrade with a vertical suplex. Andrade returned the favor with vertical suplexes of his own. Garcia answered with a brainbuster for a near fall!
Andrade scoop slammed Daniel Garcia. Andrade climbed to the top turnbuckle and connected with a moonsault for a two-count.
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Garcia absorbed a flurry of forearms from Garcia. Andrade connected with a pump kick and applied the figure four. Andrade transitioned into the figure eight and forced Daniel Garcia to tap out!
CJ Perry hugged Andrade after the match. Miro was watching backstage, grinning at the sight of CJ Perry and Andrade celebrating Andradeâs victory.
Nick Wayne (with TNT Champion Christian Cage & Luchasaurus)
vs.
Dalton Castle (with The Boys)!
Dalton Castle grappled Nick Wayne to the mat. Dalton Castle suplexed Nick Wayne and rammed his knee into Wayneâs back. Castle rocked Wayne with another gut wrench suplex.
Nick Wayne stunned Castle with a flying forearm shot. Nick Wayne followed up with a snap mare. Nick Wayne countered a German Suplex attempt with a forward roll. Dalton Castle threw Nick Wayne with a suplex. Nick Wayne tried for Wayneâs World, but Castle blocked it with a German Suplex.
Luchasaurus chokeslammed the Boys on the arena floor! Dalton charged at Nick, but Nick moved, sending Dalton right into the ring post. Nick Wayne planted Dalton with Wayneâs World and won the match via pin fall!
âHangmanâ Adam Page was backstage with words for Swerve Strickland!
Page: âAt Full Gear, I take you down into a fiery abyss for eternity. And youâll face me in a Texas Death Match!
âTake some time and look around your house. Look at pictures of your family and imagine every single moment that you could have had with them. I want you to know that you will never be there, not while you can walk, not while you can talk, Swerve. Because at Full Gear I take you to the bottom. I take you to the abyss. And every November, Iâll walk with my son, and Iâll piss on your grave. Swerve Strickland, what could have been.â
LFIâs RUSH & Dralistico (with Jose the Assistant & Preston Vance)
vs.
The WorkhorsemenâAnthony Henry & JD Drake!
Dralistico and Henry chain wrestled at the start of the match. Henry back kicked Dralistico in the stomach. JD Drake tagged in and splashed Dralistico. Dralistico chopped Drake but Drake absorbed it.
Rush tagged in and traded chops with JD Drake. Rush rocked Drake with a shotgun dropkick and then stomped Drake. Henry ran in but Rush shoved Henry over the top rope, sending Henry tumbling to the arena floor.
Rush and Dralistico connected with a double dropkick on JD Drake. The Workhorsemen double teamed Dralistico. Rush tagged in and cleaned house on the Workhorsemen. Rush clobbered Henry with a spinning forearm.
JD Drake and Anthony Henry staggered Dralistico with tandem offense. Drake connected with a cannonball on Dralistico. Drake went for a moonsault, but Dralistico dodged it. Rush charged at Drake with the Bullâs Horns and pinned JD Drake!
âA great win for the LFI,â said Tony Schiavone.
The House of Black were backstage!
Malakai Black: âPerhaps we have not been direct enough. How about we obtain the one thing that you desire the most in this company and make you chase us?â
Brody King: âBig Bill, Ricky Starks, the Kings of the Black Throne are coming for the AEW World Tag Team Championships.â
Julia Hart: âHow about if I beat Willow tonight on Collision, you, Kris Statlander, have to give me a rematch for the TBS Title at Full Gear?â
Darius Martin (with Action Andretti) vs. Roderick Strong (with The Kingdom)!
The Kingdom rolled Roderick to the ring in a wheelchair.
Strong bullied Darius into the corner. Strong wrenched on Martinâs arm and wrist. Darius retaliated with a beautiful dropkick.
Darius connected with a big cross body off the top rope for a near fall on Roderick Strong. Roddy lured Darius in and then blasted him with a back breaker. Roddy chopped Darius in the corner. Roderick followed up with another back breaker.
Roderick hit Darius with a perfect dropkick. Darius stunned Roderick with a jawbreaker. Darius battered Roderick in the corner with chops. Roderick waffled Darius with the Sick Kick and finished him off with the End of Heartache, scoring the pin on Darius!
âThe King of Neck Health Awareness, Roderick Strong, victorious tonight,â said Nigel.
The Kingdom assaulted Darius after the match with the wiener punch and then a spiked piledriver. Action Andretti sprinted to the ring, but the Kingdom ran away.
The House of Blackâs Julia Hart (with Brody King) vs. Willow Nightingale!
Willow pointed at her eye, remembering what Julia Hart did to her. Willow hurled Julia across the ring. Willow body slammed Julia Hart.
Skye Blue was watching on a monitor backstage.
Willow planted Julia with a side slam. Outside the ring, Julia and Willow traded strikes. Willow connected with a vertical suplex on Julia on the arena floor.
Back in the ring, Julia stomped on Willowâs left arm and hand. Willow powered out with a clothesline to Julia Hart. Willow splashed Julia with a hip attack in the corner. Willow booted Julia in the chest. Willow planted Julia with a spinebuster for a near fall.
Julia charged at Willow with a hip check in the corner. Julia applied the Heartless Lock, but Willow stood up. Julia hammered away at Willowâs back. Willow pounced Julia! Outside the ring, Willow shoved Julia into the steel ring steps. Willow charged at Julia, but Julia moved, sending Willow crashing into the steps. Willow slammed Julia with a half and half full nelson for a near fall. Julia cracked Willow with a lariat to the back of the head. Julia scored the pin after a moonsault press!
âThe bride of darkness wants revenge!â said Nigel.
Powerhouse Hobbs (with Don Callis and Kyle Fletcher) vs. Alexander!
Paul Wight joined the commentary team for the next match.
Hobbs clubbed his opponent and then planted him with a spinebuster. Hobbs quickly pinned his opponent and then stared at Paul Wight.
Don Callis: âI have one thing to say. The Don Callis Family is the greatest family in the history of professional wrestling. In just a few short days the family will be involved in the street fight on Dynamite. Not too long enough Will Hobbs broke Chris Jericho. So, what did Jericho do? Jericho found the last friend he had after I deserted him and he picked up the phone and he called the last friend he could call, would just happens to be the biggest man in professional wrestling, Mr. Paul Wight.
âAnd when Chris called, Iâm sure Paul said, âAnything you need my friend.â Paul, Iâm thinking you got shortchanged in the brain department because only an idiot would face the Don Callis Family after what weâve done to Omega, Jericho and Ibushi. But Paul, itâs not too late. Paul, we both know Jericho is going to try to use you like he tried to use me.
âPaul, Iâm a big fan of your work. Itâs not too late to pull the pin and leave Jericho hanging in the street fight. I see a scared giant. Itâs okay to be scared of me because I run things up in here. I think I might just have to do a little something here. I buried two giants in my career and Iâm happy to do it to a third. Will, bury this fool!â
Hobbs taunted Paul Wight and Paul Wight did not back down!
Main Event Time!
Trios Match!
Sting, Darby Allin, & âThe Rated R Superstarâ Adam Copeland
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Big Dutch knocked Copeland down to the mat. Copeland connected with a flying lariat and tagged out to Darby Allin.
Darby put Vincent in a side headlock. Vincent kicked Darby in the face and headbutted Darbyâs jaw. Lance Archer tagged in, and Sting demanded Darby tag him in.
Sting ducked a lariat from Archer. Sting chopped at Archer. Sting knocked Archer over the top rope with a clothesline.
Sting punted Dutch off the top turnbuckle pad. Archer caught Sting midflight and planted him. Archer and the Righteous worked over Sting in their corner. Vincent chomped down on Stingâs forehead. The Righteous collided with Sting in the corner with running elbows, one after another. Lance Archer stomped on Sting.
Sting rocked Vincent with a shoulder tackle. Darby tagged in and blasted Vincent with a shotgun dropkick. Darby tried for a Code Red on Vincent but Dutch nailed Darby with a lariat.
Lance Archer launched Darby with a suplex. The Righteous tried tandem offense but Darby shoved Vincent into Dutch! Archer pulled Sting off the apron and rammed him into the guardrail. Copeland tagged in and flew off the top turnbuckle with a double clothesline for the Righteous. Copeland speared Lance Archer. Copeland jumped through the rope with a tope suicida onto the Righteous and Archer!
Darby Coffin Dropped Archer outside the ring. Copeland went for the spear, but Dutch countered with a Bossman slam! Sting grabbed Dutch in a Scorpion Death Drop and Copeland dropped an elbow on Dutch! Sting splashed Vincent in the corner and Copeland speared Vincent for the pinfall victory!
âBig win, to say the least,â said Tony Schiavone.
TNT Champion Christian Cage, Luchasaurus, and Nick Wayne walked onto the ramp!
Christian Cage raised his title overhead and smirked at Sting, Copeland, and Darby!
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Moda Center in Portland, OR!
And rememberâŚthe home of professional wrestling is All Elite Wrestling!
Tonightâs episode of AEW RAMPAGE was broadcast live from the Oakland Arena in Oakland, CA!
Yourbroadcast team was Nigel McGuinness and Tony Schiavone!
Itâs Friday night and you know what that means!
AEW World Tag Team Champion âAbsoluteâ Ricky Starks (with Big Bill)
vs.
LFIâs Preston Vance (with Jose the Assistant)!
Big Bill joined the broadcast booth for this match.
Vance pushed Starks into the corner turnbuckles. Preston Vance stomped on Starks. Preston Vance followed up with a big pump kick to Ricky Starks. Preston whipped Starks into the steel guardrail. Starks reversed things, ramming Preston into the steel ring post!
Starks suplexed Preston onto the entrance ramp! Back in the ring, Vance regained momentum by planting Starks with a massive spinebuster! Starks fired back with discus lariat. Preston tried for this full nelson, but Ricky countered with a cradle for a near fall.
Big Bill jumped up onto the apron and distracted Preston Vance. Starks seized the opportunity to spear Preston Vance and pin him! The AEW World Tag Champs double teamed Preston until Rush and Dralistico ran to the ring to even up the odds for their LFI partner Preston Vance. Big Bill and Ricky Starks quicky retreated out of the ring!
Renee Paquette was backstage with Chris Jericho!
Jericho: âTakeshita has been on a roll lately. Heâs one of the best pro wrestlers in the world today. But youâre facing one of the best pro wrestlers in the history of the business. Takeshita, this Sunday, in Tokyo, I am going to get my revenge on you. Iâm going to teach you a lesson at DDT in Tokyo. Youâre facing Chris Jericho. Iâve done it all. And Takeshita, as good as you are, I am better. And Iâm going to show you what itâs like to be in the ring with an angry and pissed off Chris Jericho. This Sunday in Tokyo, Japan, Takeshita, I am going to get my revenge on you!â
Lexy Nair was backstage with Don Callis and Prince Nana!
Nana: âLexi, Iâm doing my due diligence. When you dig deep into your pockets, Don, what happens?â
Callis: âSammy is on the shelf. Jericho is going to get taken care of by Takeshita. And I have made a deal with Prince Nana to rent the services of âthe Machineâ Brian Cage to team up with my family this Wednesday in the Man Who Erased His Name Street Fight!
Lexy Nair was backstage with Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, Karen Jarrett, Satnam Singh, and Sonjay Dutt.
Jay Lethal: âIâm going to prove to the world that I outclass ROH World Champion Eddie Kingston in every way.â
Ortiz walked onto the scene!
Ortiz: âYou had a lot to say about me last week. How about you say it to my face?â
Karen Jarrett: âIf I were you, Iâd watch what you say.â
Jay Lethal: âYou might get jumped.â
Ortiz: âSee, Jay, you need all these people to fight for you.â
Ortiz swung at Jay Lethal. Satnam Singh grabbed Ortiz and planted him hard on a cargo case!
Red Velvet vs. Ruby Soho (with Saraya)!
Tony Schiavone reminded us that Ruby said she wanted to do this alone, so Saraya went to the back.
Ruby got right in the face of Red Velvet. Ruby stomped on Red Velvetâs foot and then rammed her with a shoulder block. Red Velvet retaliated with a big leg lariat, staggering Ruby into the corner. Red Velvet worked over Ruby with body shots.
Red Velvet rammed Ruby with double knees and followed up with a standing moonsault for a near fall. Ruby hoisted Red Velvet on the top rope and then rocked her with a running kick. Ruby nailed Red Velvet with two consecutive back drop drivers!
âRuby is relentless!â said Tony Schiavone.
An AEW production assistant delivered flowers to Ruby Soho during the middle of the match.
âApparently sheâs got a secret admirer,â said Tony Schiavone.
Red Velvet ducked punches from Ruby. Red Velvet cracked Ruby with a kick and pinned her!
âClearly the distraction from the bouquet of flowers played into this match,â said Nigel.
âWow! What a win for Red Velvet!â replied Tony Schiavone.
The KingdomâMatt Taven & Mike Bennett (with Roderick Strong)
vs.
Two Local Wrestlers!
The Kingdom made short order of the competition, finishing them off with the Neck Check and grabbing a decisive victory. After the match, Roderick Strong ripped off his neck brace, jumped in the ring, hit a back breaker on one of the Kingdomâs downed opponents, and then ran back to his wheelchair!
Lexy Nair was backstage with Daniel Garcia, Matt Menard and Angelo Parker!
Garcia: âI am really sick of being sad. I went through the AEW roster page. I found Andrade El Idolo. This Saturday on Collision, letâs get it on!â
Ruby Soho and Saraya walked by. Saraya was clearly upset with the bouquet of flowers that Ruby was sent. Saraya looked at Matt Menard and said, âWeâve got big problems.â Menard agreed!
After a commercial break, Lexy Nair was backstage with The Kingdom and Roderick Strong!
Action Andretti and Darius Martin interrupted. Action said last time the four of them wrestled, he and Darius beat the Kingdom. Roderick Strong said he found his first victim. âDarius!â he shouted, and pointed at Darius Martin.
Main Event Time!
AAA Cruiserweight Champion Komander (with Alex Abrahantes)
& AAA Mega Champion El Hijo del Vikingo
vs.
FTRâCash Wheeler & Dax Harwood!
Komander swiped at Daxâs thigh with a stiff kick. Dax fired back with a snap mare and a shoulder block. Komander dropkicked Dax Harwood. El Hijo del Vikingo and Cash Wheeler tagged in for their respective teams.
Vikingo, unabated, flipped off the top rope into a hurracanrana on Cash. Vikingo rocketed out of the ring with a tope suicida straight at Cash. Vikingoâs momentum sent him crashing headfirst into the commentary teamâs table!
FTR used tandem offense in the ring to double team Vikingo. Komander and Vikingo utilized their own tandem offense with a fiery flurry. Vikingo dropkicked Dax from the top rope. Komander took down Dax with a hurracanrana for a near fall!
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome! This is awesome!â
Dax Harwood superplexed Vikingo, but Vikingo countered midflight and landed on top of Dax. Vikingo and Komander hit stereo 630 splashes on FTR for a near fall! Dax countered a shooting star press from Vikingo with a piledriver for a near fall!
Dax used a slingshot powerbomb on Vikingo, but Komander was there to break up the pin attempt. Komander walked the ropes, but Dax dodged it and FTR smashed Komander with the Big Rig, scoring the pin on Komander!
All four competitors embraced after the match.
âPro wrestling at its best,â said Nigel.
After the match, the House of Black were seen watching the match backstage.
Catch AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Toyota Arena in Ontario, CA!
Donât miss AEW Collision tomorrow on TNT at 8/7c from the Oakland Arena in Oakland, CA!
And rememberâŚthe home of professional wrestling is All Elite Wrestling!
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Tonightâs episode of AEW DYNAMITE was broadcast live from Heritage Bank Center in Cincinnati, OH!
Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, and âThe Human Suplex Machineâ Taz were the broadcast team for tonightâs event.
Itâs Wednesday night and you know what that means!
AEW International Championship Match!
Jon Moxley (c.) vs. Big Bill (with âAbsoluteâ Ricky Starks)!
Moxley used some round kicks to try to topple Big Bill. Bill blasted the champ with a massive right hand. Big Bill followed up with overhand chops. Big Bill was taking the fight right to Moxley and manhandling him.
Moxley fired off two clotheslines, but Bill booted Mox in the head, knocking him out of the ring. Ricky Starks kicked Moxley outside the ring. Moxley reversed an Irish whip and sent Big Bill into the steel ring steps.
Big Bill sent Jon Moxley over the timekeeperâs table. Moxley was busted wide open! Back in the ring, Moxley regained momentum and dug his fingers into Big Billâs flesh! Moxley superplexed Big Bill.
Big Bill hit the Bossman Slam on Jon Moxley for a near fall. Moxley and Big Bill traded shots in the center of the ring. Moxley countered a boot with a King Kong lariat for a two-count. Moxley punished Big Bill with the hammer and anvil elbow strikes. Moxley planted Big Bill with a cutter, but Big Bill rolled out of the ring. Moxley climbed to the top rope, but Ricky shoved Mox as the ref was checking on Big Bill.
Bryan Danielson sprinted to the ring and peppered Ricky Starks with right hands, evening up the odds! Starks whipped Danielson into the ring steps. Big Bill chokeslammed Big Bill for a near fall on Moxley.
âMox is losing a lot of blood right now. It looks like a crime scene,â said Taz.
Big Bill tried to hoist up Moxley with a chokeslam, but Moxley countered with a submission hold and forced Big Bill to tap out!
After the match Ricky Starks and Big Bill tried to continue their attack. ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli ran down to help his BCC teammates. Starks was furious with these developments. Starks and Big Bill retreated.
It was announced that Moxley will put his title on the line next week on Dynamite against Rey Fenix!
Renee Paquette was backstage with Roderick Strong and the Kingdom!
Adam Cole interrupted the interview and said Strong wrestling Samoa Joe was a horrible idea.
Strong: âYouâre only worried about Max. And you should be because after I beat Joe, Iâm going to beat MJF next week. Because I am a wrestling legend!â
Tony Schiavone was in the ring soDon Callis and Konosuke Takeshita could reveal their next target!
Callis: âWe just beat Kenny Omega twice in one week. Show some respect! Weâve been celebrating. Iâve learned a lot from Takeshita about Japanese culture. When youâre the top wrestler in a promotion, they call you the Ace. Heâs better than Okada. Better than Inoki. When you beat Kenny Omega once, they call you the Ace. When you beat Omega twice in seven days, they call you the Alpha!
âHenceforth you will all refer to Takeshita as the Alpha. I never had the empathy thing. Because when youâre the Alpha, you donât feel anything, you take. Kenny, beating you twice isnât enough for us. We broke your body. Now weâre going to break your heart.
âI promise to reveal through our creation who the next target of the Alpha will be, and Kenny, this one is going to kill you. The next target is none other than the former IWGP Heavyweight Champion, Kota Ibushi!
âAnd Kenny, I want you to know right now, weâre not just going to beat Ibushi, weâre going to butcher him. Weâre going to burn him. And Iâm going to love the fact that while weâre spilling his blood in the ring, youâre going to be at home helpless, watching like the pathetic cuck that you are.â
Alex Marvez was backstage with the BCC!
Danielson: âWe love it when things escalate. So, hereâs a challenge. This Saturday at Collision, Ricky Starks, Big Bill, you two against me and Claudio Castagnoli!â
Rey Fenix entered the fray and began to shout at Moxley, but Alex Abrahantes and the refs held him back. Meanwhile, Eddie Kingston laughed in Claudioâs face and said, âOne more week!â
Renee Paquette was backstage with FTW Champion HOOK!
Orange Cassidy interrupted!
Orange: âI was walking around and saw Hook all mad about something. What do you have to be mad about?â
Hook: âYou were a great champion.â
Orange: âThanks, you are too!â
They fist-bumped and Orange said he was still so tired.
Womenâs World Title Eliminator Four Way Match!
Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. vs. Hikaru Shida vs. Nyla Rose vs. Toni Storm!
The winner will face AEW Womenâs Champion Saraya next week at Grand Slam.
Nyle Rose plowed into Baker and Shida with double clotheslines. Toni Storm shoved Shida into Britt Baker, with Baker tumbling out of the ring. Shida followed up with a crossbody onto the women on the arena floor!
Shida nailed Baker with a brain buster. Baker was looking for a thrust kick on Shida, but Shida turned around and Baker stopped herself. Nyla Rose chokeslammed Britt Baker. Shida cracked Nyla with the Katana Kick. As Shida was going for the cover, Britt Baker blasted Shida with a thrust kick. Toni Storm saw the opening, rolled up Britt Baker, and pinned her, stealing the victory!
Renee Paquette was backstage with AEW Womenâs Champion Saraya and Ruby Soho!
Saraya: âCongrats, Toni, you did it and you did it without us. But Toni lost everything to me. She lost her top spot, and she lost her mind. Sheâs crazy. But sheâs also going to lose the match against me at Grand Slam and then sheâll be left with nothing!â
Up Next: Le Sex Godsâ âThe Ochoâ Chris Jericho and âThe Spanish Godâ Sammy Guevara had their face to face!
Jericho and Guevara will be wrestling each other next week on Dynamite: Grand Slam.
Jericho: âNext week, right here on Dynamite at Grand Slam in New York City, itâs Le Sex Gods going one on one, Jericho versus Guevara, for the first time ever. Lots of history between us. Weâve been together since the first episode of Dynamite.â
Jericho introduced a highlight package showing all the pivotal moments from Le Sex Godsâ history over the past four years.
âThat was beautiful,â said Taz.
Sammy: âChris, I have a confession. I still donât know the lyrics to âJudas.ââ
Jericho: âI saw a kid on one of the NWA pay-per-view prelim matches and I was blown away and told Tony Khan, we need to sign this kid Sammy. I knew he had what it took to be a big star and I wanted him to be with me so I could help him out as much as I possibly could.
âOver the years Iâve watched Sammy grow from a boy to a man. Iâve seen him win titles, get married, and now your wife is ready to give birth to a baby girl. Iâm really proud of all youâve accomplished over the past four years.â
Sammy: âI know the typical wrestling thing is to talk trash, but I donât want to do that. I want to come out here before one of the biggest matches of my career and say thank you. Thank you for changing my life and for changing the lives of so many people in the back. Without Chris Jericho there is no AEW.
âBut truthfully Chris, I didnât come to this company to just be your sidekick. I want to become world champion. I want them to look at me the way they look at Mox or the way they look at you. I donât want to be in your shadow, so thatâs why I need to beat you next week.â
Jericho: âYou were never brought in to be Chris Jerichoâs side kick. You were brought in to be a main event player and you are getting closer and closer every week. And thatâs why I told you that you have to do it on your own. Next week you have that opportunity. You have to beat me to get to the next level. But if youâre going to beat Chris Jericho, youâre going to have to be the best Sammy Guevara ever if youâre going to have a chance to beat me. But I donât think youâre ready to beat me yet.â
Sammy: âAnd there it is. Itâs whatever Jericho wants. So next week Iâm going to beat you as this man, not the 2018 me at the NWA pay-per-view, but this Sammy is going to beat you, weâre going to shake hands, and weâre going to win some tag team titles.â
Jericho: âLet me make something perfectly clear, Sammy. Next week Iâm going to give you the match of your life. And Iâm not going to go easy on you. Iâm going to beat the living hell out of you. And I expect the exact same thing from you.â
Sammy: âI wouldnât want it any other way.â
Excalibur: âI think we might have a battle for the ages next week.â
Taz: âSammy is a pro, and he knows whatâs at stake.â
Clips were shown from after Dynamite last week with Renee Paquette interviewing MJF!
MJF was told he wasnât cleared to wrestle until Grand Slam.
MJF: âThere are two talents I want to make it to the finals because I hate their guts: Roddy Strong, if you make it through this tournament, I will rip your head off. Youâre a manipulative person. Samoa Joe, you think Iâm afraid of you? Nah. You might not realize this, but this New York Pitbull has got a lot of bite. If you wrestle me, Iâm going to choke you out!
âHangmanâ Adam Page vs. âThe Machineâ Brian Cage (with Prince Nana)!
Cage clocked Page with an elbow strike. Page retaliated with two big boots to Brian Cage. Hangman hit a lariat off the turnbuckles to the Machine. Hangman went over the top rope, but Brian Cage intercepted him. Page reversed a powerbomb with a hurracanrana, sending Brian Cage into the steel ring post!
Brian Cage nearly decapitated Page with a lariat. Page sent Cage into the ropes after a hurracanrana. Page hit the area code shot on Cage.
Swerve Stricklandâs music hit, and Swerve walked out onto the ramp!
Cage took advantage of the distraction and hurled Cage from the ring apron on the outside to the inside of the ring with a German Suplex! Brian Cage powerslammed Page and followed up with a moonsault, but Hangman dodged it.
Hangman rocked Brian Cage with a lariat, the momentum carrying both men over the top rope and onto the floor. Hangman jumped off the top rope and Cage caught him again. Adam Page countered with a crucifix bomb.
Hangman climbed to the top turnbuckle and hit Cage with a moonsault on the arena floor! Hangman followed up with a big crossbody press for a near fall on the Machine. Brian Cage dazed Page with a German Suplex.
The fans chanted âThis is awesome! This is awesome!â
Hangman swept out Cageâs legs. Hangman attempted the Buckshot Lariat, but Cage countered, but Page fired back with a Deadeye in the center of the ring, scoring the pin!
âHell of a match by these two men,â said Taz.
âIf Swerve was mad before, he has to be pissed off now,â added Excalibur.
âWell, he poked the bear,â added Taz.
Hangman Page: âWhat passion, what drive, just oozing out of your body as you brood on top of the ramp as you watched me kick Cageâs ass. Last week you said you wanted my spot, but you sent Cage out. Last week I thought you had some balls but tonight Iâm pretty sure youâre just keeping them stowed away in Prince Nanaâs Burger King crown.â
Swerve: âWhat up, turd? Them sound like fighting words to me, Hangman. You think thisâll be solved tonight? We do this when I say, where I say. And it just so happens I chose the great state that birthed Swerve Strickland. October 1st, in the City of Seatle, WrestleDream. Me and you, Hangman. But Iâm going to make sure you donât get comfortable by the time you get there, isnât that right Brian Cage?â
Brian Cage ambushed âHangmanâ Adam Page from behind! The Young Bucks jumped into the ring and superkicked the Machine! The Bucks served up superkicks for Prince Nana as well!
Renee Paquette was backstage with Daniel Garcia!
Garcia: âI thought you came here to talk about me but youâre asking about Sammy or Jericho. Why donât we talk about the career of Garciaâ
Don Callis interrupted!
Callis: âThe Don Callis family is going to create a Utopian Meritocracyââ
Garcia got in Callisâ face and did his dance, and then walked off!
Don Callis chased after Daniel Garcia, grinning ear to ear.
Darby Allin & Nick Wayne
vs.
Matt Menard & Angelo Parker (with Jake Hager and Anna Jay)!
As the match started, Christian Cage and TNT Champion Luchasaurus walked onto the ramp and then joined the broadcast booth.
Christian Cage said Nick Wayne needed a better mentor than Darby Allin.
Nick Wayne clipped Matt Menard with an enziguri. Jake Hager grabbed Darby from outside the ring. Matt Menard powerbombed Nick Wayne.
Darby tagged in and nailed Menard and Parker with the Coffin Splash! He followed up with a dropkick in the corner on both men. Darby connected with a Code Red on Parker for a near fall.
âDarby has issues with the back from that Coffin Match, you can tell,â said Taz.
Nick grabbed a blind tag and walloped Parker with Wayneâs World. Matt Menard pulled Parker out of the pinning predicament. Darby flew off the apron with a senton on Menard. Darby hit the Coffin Drop on Parker and pinned him!
Christian Cage stood up, saying he was getting tired of these guys.
Christian Cage: âVery impressive victory. Nick Wayne, after I went home last week, I was scrolling through your momâs Instagram account. Your mom doesnât post enough bikini pics. But donât worry. I sent her a special request on the side.
âThereâs still a lot of talk about Darby and Stingâs win in London, and as the Franchise here, itâs embarrassing. Now I just want to remind everyone I did not take the loss for that match, and I didnât have my regular partner with me. So, I propose next week, Darby Allin and Sting against me and Luchasaurus. If youâve got the balls, Iâll see you in New York City!â
Main Event Time!
Grand Slam World Title Eliminator Tournament Finals!
ROH World Television Champion Samoa Joe vs. Roderick Strong (with The Kingdom)!
Samoa Joe applied a wrist lock and then headbutted Roddyâs hands, trying to neutralize Roddyâs infamous chops. Roderick Strong was wiped out with a shoulder tackle from Samoa Joe. Joe followed up with jabs in the corner, breaking down Strong in the corner.
Roddy rallied back with a quick kick to Samoa Joeâs face. Strong connected with a dropkick. Strong cranked on Joeâs neck. Samoa Joe nailed Roddy with the Manhattan Drop and followed up with a senton.
Samoa Joe powerslammed Roderick Strong for a near fall. Roddy escaped a powerbomb and staggered Joe with a shoulder tackle. Roddy blasted Joe with a knee strike underneath the jaw. Samoa Joe planted Strong with a uranage! Samoa Joe was looking for the Muscle Buster, but Mike Bennett jumped on the apron to distract Samoa Joe. Roderick Strong stunned Samoa Joe with the Sick Kick for a near fall.
âWhat a battle here,â said Taz.
Samoa Joe battered Roderick Strong out of the air and then applied the submission, forcing Roderick Strong to tap out!
Samoa Joe will be facing AEW World Champion MJF next week on Dynamite: Grand Slam!
Samoa Joe: âOh Max! It seems my little prophecy has come true and next week, I go to your backyard and Iâm coming for you. Because Iâm going to beat you down and take everything you have kid. Everything.â
Adam Cole came down to the ring. Roderick fell to the mat, clutching his neck. The Kingdom told Adam Cole that this was his fault.
Excalibur questioned whether or not Roderick Strong was really injured or if this was a ruse.
The medical staff placed Roderick Strong on a backboard and stretchered him to the back. The Kingdom told Adam Cole not to follow them or Roderick to the back. Samoa Joe struck from behind, blindsiding Adam Cole and choking him out!
âIâm going to take everything from you, Max!â said Samoa Joe.
Catch AEW DYNAMITE: Grand Slam on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, NY!
This Friday tune in to AEW RAMPAGE at 10pm ET on TNT!
Donât miss AEW Collision on Saturday on TNT at 8/7c from the Bryce Jordan Center in State College, PA!
And rememberâŚthe home of professional wrestling is All Elite Wrestling!
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