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AEW Dynamite results 11/29/23: Moxley, Swerve grab 3 points, Devil makes a challenge

A TBS Championship match was also a highlight of AEW Dynamite from Minneapolis.

The Continental Classic remains front and center for AEW Dynamite tonight from the Target Center in Minneapolis.

Three Gold League matches are on the card, including one that should be the featured bout between Jay White and Swerve Strickland. Both men won their tournament opener, so a victory tonight could go a long way toward earning one of the spots in the semifinals. Since they’re so evenly matched, a draw seems possible too, which could let some of the other participants back in it.

Speaking of those other men, they’ll be in action too. Jon Moxley will try to run his record to 2-0 against Jay Lethal, looking to rebound from an 0-1 start. The final round robin bout tonight features Mark Briscoe and Rush which should be a banger even though both lost their opening matches.

AEW often announces an intriguing match just hours before the show, and that was the case today as well, with Tony Khan casually tweeting that Julia Hart will defend her TBS Championship against Emi Sakura. It’s not going to completely shut down criticism of the women’s division getting short shrift on AEW shows, but it’s a start.

All this plus we get Bryan Danielson on commentary and we’ll hear from Christian Cage. Light the fuse!

AEW Dynamite results from Minneapolis:

Bryan Danielson is rocking the eye patch as he joins Excalibur and Taz at the announce table.

Jon Moxley def. Jay Lethal by submission in a Continental Classic Gold League match, is first to 6 points

This seems like much more of a must win for Lethal after he dropped his opener. The announcers discuss the tournament format and how a loss in your opener doesn’t mean doom, but having zero points after two matches is pretty bad news.

Danielson criticizes Lethal for strutting on the apron after hitting a suicide dive, and if you guessed Mox makes him pay for it, you guessed right. But Danielson is concerned about the way Moxley’s knees bent back on the landing.

Lethal works over Moxley’s left knee before dropping a top rope elbow. Mox kicks out at two only to get blasted into the barricade as commercials slide in.

The announcers admire Lethal’s transitions, though they wonder if his weak covers may cost him. Sure enough, Mox looks like he’s going to rally even though he’s still selling his knee damage, but Lethal snuffs it out with a Figure Four.

Jay is thinking Lethal Injection after that hold, but Moxley turtles up to avoid it and surprises his foe with a Paradigm Shift. A King Kong lariat and stuff piledriver lead to a two count, after which Moxley immediately wraps Lethal in a choke. Jay fights it briefly but has to tap.

Eddie Kingston is shown musing about his opening match loss, wondering if he came in too cocky by putting his titles on the line. He’s behind the 8-ball with Danielson up next but says he’s not going back to his old mentality and will be ready for Bryan.

Tony Schiavone reveals that AEW Revolution will take place Sunday, March 3 at the Greensboro Coliseum. Sting and Ric Flair talk about their history with that location, and the Nature Boy puts over Sting’s 45-minute match with him there that helped put him on the map.

Rush def. Mark Briscoe by pinfall, gets on the board in a the Continental Classic

Nothing subtle about this, as you’d expect. Briscoe gets the upper hand first by sending Rush to the floor and hitting a dropkick through the ropes, but he finds himself facing chops and being sent into the barricade multiple times.

Briscoe drops an elbow off the apron in response and has the fans fired up. Rush dumps him on his head with a release German suplex but takes a huge lariat seconds later.

During commercials, it appears Rush is having some leg issues, so he tries his best to ground Briscoe. They decide to stand and trade chops again until Briscoe can hit an exploder suplex; Rush answers with a belly-to-belly into the corner.

Briscoe charges out of the corner with a spear, good for a near fall. A neckbreaker gets another in quick succession.

Maybe the biggest move yet comes when Rush manages to throw Briscoe back first onto the floor from the apron. Briscoe beats the ref’s count but appears to be in trouble on the top turnbuckle … until he sends Rush to the mat for the Froggy Bow. Rush kicks out at two.

Another suplex into the corner and an elbow strike has Briscoe in the corner to take the Bull’s Horns, and Mark isn’t able to recover before the ref counts to three.

RJ City gets an audience with “Timeless” Toni Storm, who scoffs at the idea that she’d be worried about her upcoming title defense.

MJF, Samoa Joe get a challenge from the Devil

Walking out with his cane again, MJF hypes up his Worlds End title defense against Samoa Joe. The champ doesn’t like Joe as a person but respects him as a person and for his belief in AEW.

MJF recalls seeing TNA on TV when he was younger, opening his eyes to a lot of new wrestlers, but especially Samoa Joe. He reminds everyone that Joe never got a world championship opportunity in WWE, but without a guy like Joe, there may not be an AEW. So he reluctantly says thank you, and the crowd joins in.

However … MJF says he’s not too shabby himself and has helped build AEW brick by brick since day one. Their match won’t be about Joe’s legacy, but Max’s, to see if he can outlast “the final boss” of this sport one last time.

MJF says he doesn’t care about his ailments or what else might happen, and that on Dec. 30, Joe will have to put him down to take his title.

The lights go out, then start strobing before the Devil’s henchmen appear in the ring. One has a baseball bat, but Joe is able to help fight them off before the whole feed goes black.

A printed message appears, word by word, challenging MJF and Joe to a tag team match against “the unknown.” An angry Max vows to unmask the Devil and accepts the match though Joe seems less than thrilled about it.

Wardlow squashes AR Fox by referee stoppage

Can Fox fare better than some of the lesser lights who Wardlow has run through over the past few weeks? He gets his licks in outside the ring before the match officially starts, but getting in more will be the issue.

Well, he does hit a 450 Splash, so that’s something. But his kicks to the head just sort of piss Wardlow off, and he effortlessly chokeslams Fox, delivers a lariat and starts with the powerbombs.

A Swanton Bomb leads to a third powerbomb, and referee Bryce Remsburg calls a stop to it.

Dante Martin is back, sealing a win for Top Flight and Action Andretti over The Hardys and Brother Zay

Not going to do play-by-play for this one, just going to enjoy Dante Martin back in action after his horrific injury (which AEW shows again for some reason).

Andretti gets some nice time to show his stuff against Matt Hardy before making a popular hot tag to Dante. It’s great to see him fly around the ring, looking like he’s fully healthy and confident.

Some cool spots on the outside take the Hardys out of the mix, and Dante is able to pin Zay after some triple team offense to get a nice comeback victory.

Top Flight and Andretti get a backstage visit from Penta El Zero Miedo, Komander and El Hijo del Vikingo, who look like they’re issuing a challenge for a trios match.

Julia Hart retains her TBS Championship, pinning Emi Sakura

Hart sneers at her more experienced challenger, definitely not intimidated in any way. Sakura doesn’t care, of course, hurling the champ into the steel steps and splashing her there.

Things get no better for the hometown champ during commercials, as Sakura holds Hart upside-down and shows her to all four sides of the arena before dropping her down for a backbreaker.

The House Rules stipulation that Sakura selected was no wins by submission, so Hart can’t use Hartless to finish the challenger. Sakura regains the upper hand as the crowd chants for Hart. She gets Hartless applied, and even though Sakura is tapping, the match continues, with Aubrey Edwards reminding Julia about the rules.

Hart launches into a moonsault (that Sakura has to roll back into a tad) and gets the pinfall to retain.

Mariah May thanks RJ City for connecting her with Storm before going to visit Tony Khan.

Adam Copeland gives Christian Cage a taste of his own medicine

Christian Cage has plenty of security with him as he takes the ring to a chorus of boos, and he may need them as he invites Adam Copeland to the ring. He seems a little flustered when Copeland doesn’t come out immediately.

The Rated R Superstar eventually obliges, sneering at Cage behind his wall of security. Christian asks the guards to step away and says they won’t make it to next week at Montreal … because “I’m sorry.” Wait, what?

Cage says he knows everyone thinks he’s only sorry because he’s on his own as a “bulls–t” chant starts up in the crowd. But he maintains he had a road trip of reflection and soul searching after seeing Copeland Conchairto his underlings, remembering the good times he and Adam had together.

After that, they went on to become the greatest tag team ever and world champions individually. Cage says they were brothers and his dad was essentially Copeland’s father, and still Adam’s biggest fan to this day.

“I love you man. We are family.”

Cage says they should have one last run together for Copeland’s late mom. But when Copeland’s back is turn, Cage tries to attack him from behind … but Adam is ready and kicks him in the crotch.

He tells Cage to get the belt shined up because it’s going home with him and says “go f–k yourself,” which the TBS censor misses wildly so is clearly audible.

Swerve Strickland joins Mox with 6 points after Continental Classic victory over Jay White

Danielson is back on commentary, watching White send Swerve halfway over the barricade and just kind of stick there. Switchblade mocks the “Who’s house?” catchphrase before continuing his assault in the ring.

Both men light each other up with chops but White is still in command when the final commercials slide in.

Back from break, the announcers say we’ll stay with this match even if it overruns the 10 p.m. ending time for Dynamite. It’s still White in command, with Taz saying he’s executed a great game plan.

Strickland finally manages to slam White shoulder first, setting off a series of counters that Swerve ends with a Flatliner rolled into a vertical suplex. Strickland covers but White kicks out at two.

Both men hit some moves that impress Danielson before they end up on the mat together. They rise forehead to forehead as the fans get the “this is awesome” chant going. Strickland gets the better of an exchange of forearm shots, but White hits him with a chop block to the left knee.

An uranage gets White a two count as Excalibur reminds us there are about nine minutes left in the 20-minute time limit. White wants an armbar, but Strickland rolls through and snaps White’s left arm with his boot in painful fashion.

The ref nearly takes a bump, but Strickland sees the low kick coming that White used last week and hits a backbreaker. The House Call is next, and the Swerve Stomp … but White kicks out before the three.

Switchblade hits a Blade Runner out of nowhere only to see Strickland roll to the floor. White has to force him back in the ring, where his schoolboy goes for naught and Swerve’s pinning attempt does too.

Five minutes are left now, but when White goes for a Blade Runner, Swerve counters with a rollup and gets the three count.

AEW Collision results 11/4/23: FTR still figuring out friend from foe

AEW Collision did a nice job of loading up the next episode of AEW Dynamite.

What do you do when you have a bunch of tag teams whose subplots all kind of overlap? Throw them into one big eight-man tag main event, which is what’s happening tonight on AEW Collision from Wichita.

FTR is still hot for another shot at Big Bill and Ricky Starks, the duo who beat them for the AEW World Tag Team Championship. Gates of Agony has been making trouble for FTR and other face teams too … an umbrella that now apparently includes La Faccion Ingobernable.

So yes, all four teams are going to be involved in the last match tonight. Will that settle anything? Probably not. But that’s just how you gotta roll sometimes in wrestling.

There’s some other interesting stuff on the card, beginning with the first match that’s wasting exactly zero time to get started.

AEW Collision results from Wichita:

  • AR Fox isn’t waiting for the Elton John song to start the show, attacking Swerve Strickland in what passes for a cold open to Collision
  • Swerve Strickland def. AR Fox by pinfall, after which …
  • … FTR comes out to brawl with Gates of Agony, and are soon joined by Big Bill and Ricky Starks, as well as La Faccion Ingobernable, and the faces end up clearing the ring as House of Black watches from somewhere in the seats
  • MJF responds to Daniel Garcia calling him out on Rampage, and he seems OK with it since Garcia is a young guy, but wants to know if he’s getting the professional wrestler or the sports entertainer
  • More from MJF, who sarcastically congratulates Jay White for pinning him and calls Switchblade a nobody; needless to say, Bullet Club Gold sees that pin somewhat differently, and White says his group has earned the night off but will be back on Wednesday
  • Kip Sabian is pissed off (his words) at Mark Briscoe, and challenges him to find two partners to face him and The Workhorsemen
  • Roderick Strong complains that no one is taking neck health seriously enough, but The Kingdom is going to prove it’s important tonight
  • The Kingdom def. Brixton Nash and Jameson McGregor by pinfall
  • Briscoe gets an offer from FTR to do double duty and team with him, but Mark says while he appreciates it, he has a couple other guys in mind and will holler at them after the show
  • Darby Allin def. Lance Archer by pinfall, but Jake Roberts says he has more guys to go after him: The Righteous, who distract Darby long enough for Lance to him him with the Blackout
  • Kris Statlander thanks Skye Blue for doing the right thing, and even though Skye says she only did it for Willow Nightingale, Willow tries to convince Kris that all of them are friends

  • Alex Abrahantes is interrupted by Strickland, but Abrahantes takes exception to Swerve’s home invasion of Hangman Adam Page and says Penta will beat some respect into him next week

  • The Acclaimed and Daddy Ass are ready to celebrate 69 days as trios champs, complete with balloons, streamers and the whole nine yards; Anthony Bowens has a special gift for Max Caster, which turns out to be a video message from MJF saying Caster has earned his respect and he’s starting to like The Acclaimed, but just when the segment looks like it’s going to end …

  • … Dalton Castle and The Boys take the 69 trophy that The Acclaimed had over at the announce table and smash it; that sets off a brawl between the two teams and ends up in a match
  • The Acclaimed and Daddy Ass def. Dalton Castle and The Boys to retain the AEW World Trios Championship
  • Andrade El Idolo says he’ll give his answer to C.J. Perry next week, face to face

  • Mark Briscoe, Dustin Rhodes and Keith Lee def. Kip Sabian and The Workhorsemen by pinfall
  • Briscoe challenges White for his title shot at Full Gear on this coming episode of Dynamite
  • Willow Nightingale def. Emi Sakura by pinfall
  • Samoa Joe says he hasn’t heard back from MJF on his offer to watch his back and says the champ will keep enduring the pain he has been; also Lee stops by to challenge him for his ROH World Television Championship on Dynamite
  • La Faccion Ingobernable (Rush and Preston Vance) and FTR def. Big Bill, Ricky Starks and Gates of Agony by pinfall when Rush pins Kaun, but LFI walks away from FTR without shaking hands afterward
  • House of Black has a message for FTR on the big screen, but they appear in the ring to deliver it hands on until Blackpool Combat Club’s Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta arrive with a steel chair to drive them off

AEW Collision results 10/28/23: MJF, Kenny Omega go to war in instant classic

MJF may have had the best match of his career in his AEW World Championship defense against Kenny Omega on AEW Collision.

Should one of the biggest possible AEW World Championship fights just be put together with three days’ notice? That’s a question worth pondering before we dive into tonight’s episode of AEW Collision from Uncasville, Conn.

No one would argue that MJF vs. Kenny Omega for the world title is a big deal, the kind of bout that could easily be a pay-per-view main event. So why was it only announced on Dynamite and taking place tonight?

Pondering that has led many to suspect that there will be some hijinks on Collision, something that will lead to a rematch or more people being added to another meeting between the two down the road. Something, surely.

Or maybe it’s just a way to ensure some ratings for Collision on a typically tough Saturday night for it. Either way, it’s added an extra layer of intrigue to this episode, so let’s not wait: Here’s what went down in Connecticut.

AEW Collision results from Uncasville:

(please scroll down for full details on any match or segment in bold)

  • Jay White def. AR Fox by pinfall, then manages to keep the AEW World Championship (which you may remember doesn’t actually belong to him, but hey) in his possession afterward despite MJF’s efforts to reclaim it
  • The Acclaimed and Daddy Ass are looking forward to National 69 Day, and Anthony Bowens and Billy Gunn put Max Caster in the corner for getting catfished by someone claiming to be MJF

  • The Gunns vs. The Boys by pinfall in a quick match
  • The MJF-Kenny Omega hype video shown originally on Dynamite is aired again
  • Danhausen wishes Happy Halloween to all humans and hints again he’ll be back soon

  • Ryan Nemeth is ready to try to attain CJ Perry’s services but is greeted by Miro and it sounds like he pays for it
  • Hikaru Shida def. Abadon by pinfall in a Halloween Fright Night match to retain the AEW Women’s World Championship
  • In her usual black and white, “Timeless” Toni Storm comes out to steal the spotlight from Shida after the title match, posing on the announce table

  • A video package features Keith Lee and Shane Taylor talking smack to each other
  • Samoa Joe def. Rhett Titus by submission to retain the ROH World Television Championship
  • Renee Paquette catches up with QTV and finds out that Q.T. Marshall plans to defend his AAA title against the best luchadores AEW has to offer

  • Claudio Castagnoli says Bryan Danielson has a broken orbital bone and promises to make Kazuchika Okada pay for it in Japan or the U.S. while also challenging Orange Cassidy to a title match for Dynamite

  • Ricky Starks def. Dax Harwood by pinfall, but when House of Black tries to gang up on FTR after the match, La Faccion Ingobernable arrives and turns face, helping the former tag team champs
  • Andrade El Idolo seems to be focused on his own business, not whatever is going on with LFI
  • Kris Statlander wants to settle things between Willow Nightingale and Skye Blue, but Skye says anything that needs to be cleared up between her and Willow is only their business
  • Claudio Castagnoli def. Hot Sauce by pinfall
  • Joe tells MJF he’ll watch his back if needed and to scream Joe’s name if he finds himself needing help
  • MJF def. Kenny Omega by pinfall to retain the AEW World Championship, though Joe, Wardlow, Powerhouse Hobbs and Bullet Club Gold are shown watching separately backstage
  • MJF offers another handshake to Omega, who accepts and then moves in for a hug as the crowd cheers in approval

AEW Collision results 09/09/23: Jade returns, Strong, Joe advance

This week’s AEW Collision also saw Ricky Starks escalate things even further with Bryan Danielson and the BCC thanks to some Big help.

If we had a dime for every time some wrestling show was called the start of a new era … well, we wouldn’t have all that much money, because dimes aren’t worth too much in 2023. But we would have a lot of dimes, which isn’t nothing. Yet that actually applies to AEW Collision this week in Cleveland.

An argument could be made that the new, post-CM Punk era of Collision actually started last week, since he was fired the day before. It’s just that Tony Khan was still in full explaining mode that night in Chicago, and though the Young Bucks appeared on that episode, it’s not likely that he had his full plans in place for a brand that was essentially built around Punk.

He’s really gone now, though, so Collision will look different going forward. For tonight, it means settling who’s moving on from the semifinals in the Grand Slam World Title Eliminator tournament. Plus Jon Moxley will defend his AEW International Championship against Action Andretti.

Let’s see how this particular show unfolds.

AEW Collision results from Cleveland:

  • Jon Moxley def. Action Andretti by submission to retain the AEW International Championship
  • A video package hypes up Roderick Strong by focusing on (once again) how Adam Cole has turned his back on him after years of friendship and support
  • Kris Statlander def. Robyn Renegade by pinfall to retain the AEW TBS Championship, but that’s not nearly the most exciting thing about this segment because …
  • … Jade Cargill returns! Cargill saves Statlander from a post-match attack by Robyn and her sister Charlotte, but she’s definitely doing it because she wants her title back and not because she’s BFFs with Statlander
  • Renee Paquette talks with Saraya and Ruby Soho, who are both upset about whatever is going on with Toni Storm, while Saraya does the usual “I’m going to walk in and walk out with my championship” thing about her next title defense
  • Tony Schiavone tries and mostly fails to get to the bottom of the ongoing issues between Eddie Kingston and Claudio Castagnoli, but the upshot of it is that there will be a match between the two of them for Kingston’s NJPW Strong Openweight Championship at Grand Slam
  • Bullet Club Gold (Juice Robinson and The Gunns) def. Aerostar, Gravity and Inframundo by pinfall
  • CJ Perry explains why she’s back to be a manager, and seemingly determined to do so even if Miro continues to turn his back on her
  • The Acclaimed want to defend the Trios Championship all over the world, but especially in New York
  • Rey Fenix def. Angelico by pinfall
  • FTR tell Schiavone that they’ve beaten nearly everyone and need new challengers, and are willing to go the open challenge route to find some
  • Roderick Strong def. Darby Allin by pinfall in a Grand Slam World Title Eliminator Tournament semifinal after attempts by AR Fox’s attempt to assist Nick Wayne in helping Allin goes awry
  • A Powerhouse Hobbs video has him talking about taking Miro to his limits (meat!) and that this chapter of the Book of Hobbs isn’t finished yet
  • Keith Lee advises people on Collision to run
  • Bryan Danielson comes to the ring to talk to Schiavone, suggesting that this will be the final year of his career but he wants to wrestle Zack Sabre Jr. at WrestleDream; Ricky Starks comes out with Big Bill and says he’s going to be the face of Collision, and just as it seems Danielson might offer Ricky a spot in the Blackpool Combat Club, Starks and Bill jump him, and not even the arrival of Moxley can turn the tide
  • Schiavone reveals that Big Bill will get a title shot against Mox next week on Dynamite … but Fenix shows up and says he’s next in line after that
  • Samoa Joe def. Penta El Zero Miedo by submission in a Grand Slam World Title Eliminator Tournament semifinal

AEW Dynamite results 09/06/23: Darby, Roderick advance, Swerve guns for Hangman

Two tourney quarterfinals were the big draws of AEW Dynamite from Indianapolis, but some intriguing new feuds began too.

Even though AEW is coming off two consecutive pay-per-view weekends, this is hardly the time to slow down. Not when Dynamite is coming to us tonight from the home of speed for decades, Indianapolis.

One of the big things to keep an eye on tonight is the start of the tournament that decides who will face MJF for the AEW World Championship (or as he calls it, the Triple B) at Dynamite Grand Slam. Two of the quarterfinal matches will take place tonight, while the others will be on Rampage ahead of the semifinals on Collision.

Plus, Jon Moxley will make the first defense of the AEW International Championship he won from Orange Cassidy at All Out. Speaking of Freshly Squeezed, he’s making his way out to start tonight’s show, so let’s see what’s in store from Indy.

AEW Dynamite results from Indianapolis:

  • The fans greet Cassidy with a “thank you Orange” chant, and he says that while they told him to stay home, he will be here every week, championship or no championship. On his way out, the new champ is on his way in to make his first title defense.
  • Jon Moxley def. AR Fox by pinfall to retain the AEW International Championship as Darby Allin and Nick Wayne watch closely backstage, and Allin goes to the ring afterward to check on Fox. Meanwhile, Christian Cage and Luchasaurus bump into Wayne, and Cage insults Wayne’s dad while also trying to recruit him, as weird as that sounds.
  • Kris Statlander def. Emi Sakura by pinfall to retain the AEW TBS Championship. She’s still sporting the “Zoolander” gear too.
  • Roderick Strong talks about his tough family life growing up and how pro wrestling got him out of it. He says he grew up alone and will win this tournament alone.
  • Le Sex Gods (Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara) def. Aussie Open by pinfall despite some miscommunication that angers Guevara and leads to the two of them needing to be separated after the match. Don Callis is on guest commentary and loves the whole scene.
  • A highlight package is shown of the Ricky Starks-Bryan Danielson Strap match at All Out.
  • Callis and Konosuke Takeshita tell Renee Paquette that they’re going to have a celebration in Cincy next week and reveal Takeshita’s next target.
  • MJF says he lived in Indiana for a bit during his time on the indie circuit, and while he initially was upset about having to wrestle on Sept. 20, he perked up when he realized it was Grand Slam in New York. He also says there’s one person who might need to be taught a lesson, but before he can say who it is, Samoa Joe comes out and joins him in the ring. MJF tries his hand at some creative insults at Joe’s expense, but he keeps calling the champ “kid,” and that gets MJF fired up. He calms down and tells Joe there’s a whole tournament to determine who gets to wrestle him, then launches into the William Regal story we’ve heard before. MJF also talks about the time he got to be a security guard who got to walk Joe to the ring, except Joe shoved him into a brick wall and laughed. The point of all this is that MJF was a kid at the time but he’s not any more — he’s a generational talent who headlined the most historic PPV of all time. He even turns the “Joe’s gonna kill you” line around, but Joe is unfazed and calls the champ a bitch instead, just goading him like mad. Max slaps Joe, but while Joe says he won’t take the bait, he waits ’til MJF is leaving the ring and kicks him in the crotch. MJF gives him a low blow in return but runs right into a one-armed slam. It looks like a Muscle Buster is next, but Adam Cole rushes into the ring to save his partner … though MJF sells the damage done to his neck. On his way out, Strong and The Kingdom yell at Cole.
  • Roderick Strong def. Trent Beretta by pinfall in a Grand Slam World Title Eliminator Tournament quarterfinal match.
  • Paquette catches up with Toni Storm, who seems to be unaware of what she did to ruin things for Ruby Soho. “Chin up, tits out and watch for the shoe!” Seriously.
  • Tony Schiavone brings Hangman Adam Page to the ring to speak about his battle royale win, but he wants to look forward instead. Before he can talk about his plans for the rest of 2023, however, Prince Nana leads Swerve Strickland out and dismisses Schiavone. Swerve says being in a coffin for two weeks gives you some clarity and perspective, and the first person he thought of when he got out was Hangman. Strickland points out that Page was a cornerstone of the company when it first started up, but he’s questioning whether Hangman lost his spot or his fire. Swerve says Page can either ride comfortably off into the sunset or he can man up and show everyone what “Cowboy S–t” is all about. If they fight, however, Strickland says he will walk Page like a dog. Hangman tries to walk off, but Swerve brings his family into it. Alas, it’s a trap, and Brian Cage attacks Page from behind and easily takes him out.
  • Darby Allin def. Nick Wayne by referee stoppage in a Grand Slam World Title Eliminator Tournament quarterfinal match. Cage and Luchasaurus came to the announce table during the match but didn’t interfere.

Updated AEW All In London card: 1 match added, changes made on Dynamite

Check out all the matches confirmed for AEW All In London, one of the biggest events in pro wrestling history.

Even in the home stretch to AEW All In London, Tony Khan suggested additions and changes would be made. That proved to be the case during AEW Dynamite this week, when one popular match was added to the show at Wembley Stadium and several alterations were made as well.

Billy Gunn made his return to assist The Acclaimed against the House of Black, and revealed that he has one more match in him. He’ll join his “sons” to take on the House for the AEW World Trios Championship in London.

A vicious assault by Blackpool Combat Club put Rey Fenix in an ambulance, taking him off the All In card. But the real surprise was who helped the BCC: a returning Santana and Ortiz, who will join them at All In to make the Stadium Stampede match a five-on-five affair.

Last but not least, Swerve Strickland unceremoniously fired AR Fox from the Mogul Embassy, meaning he needed a new partner for the Coffin match — and found one in Christian Cage.

Adam Cole and MJF will headline All In with their bromance-turned-competitive match, as MJF defends his AEW World Championship. Before that, however, they will join forces on the Zero Hour pre-show to challenge Aussie Open for the ROH World Tag Team Championship. It will be intriguing to see how this impacts their singles match later in the evening, especially if it creates tension that hints at a heel turn.

In two other tag team matches at All In, FTR will defend the AEW World Tag Team Championship against the Young Bucks, and Darby Allin and Sting will face off against Swerve Strickland and AR Fox in a Coffin match.

We’ll update this post if/when more matches are made official. For now, here’s what has been revealed for Wembley Stadium this month.

Latest update: Aug. 26, 2023, 2:00 p.m. ET.

AEW All In 2023 card:

  •  Aussie Open (c) vs. MJF and Adam Cole – ROH World Tag Team Championship match (Zero Hour pre-show)
  • Jack Perry (c) vs. Hook – FTW Championship match (Zero Hour pre-show)
  • MJF (c) vs. Adam Cole – AEW World Championship match
  • CM Punk (c) vs. Samoa Joe – “Real World Championship” match
  • Hikaru Shida (c) vs. Toni Storm vs. Saraya vs. TBD – AEW Women’s World Championship match
  • FTR (c) vs. The Young Bucks – AEW World Tag Team Championship match
  • House of Black (c) vs. The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn – AEW World Trios Championship
  • Darby Allin and Sting vs. Swerve Strickland and Christian Cage – Coffin match
  • The Golden Elite (Kota Ibushi, Kenny Omega and “Hangman” Adam Page) vs. Bullet Club Gold (Juice Robinson and Jay White) and Konosuke Takeshita
  • Chris Jericho vs. Will Ospreay
  • Eddie Kingston, Penta El Zero Miedo and Best Friends (Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta) vs. Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta), Mike Santana and Ortiz – Stadium Stampede match

AEW Dynamite Fyter Fest results 08/23/23: London calling

AEW Dynamite Fyter Fest will set some of the final pieces in place for All In. Join us to see what’s going down.

What do you do when it’s the final AEW Dynamite before the biggest show in company history, and with the Fyter Fest branding to boot? Load it up as best you can, which is exactly the case for tonight’s episode from Duluth, Georgia.

Naturally, setting up some final pieces to All In looks like it will be part of the fun. There’s the obvious stuff, like a contract signing between Chris Jericho and Will Ospreay, as well as a face-to-face interview between AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR (who will be the subject of, let’s call it increased interest due to recent events) and their challengers, the Young Bucks.

Some of the matches on tonight’s card are also previews of sorts for things we’ll see this weekend, including a battle between The Elite and Bullet Club Gold. Even the singles match between Jon Moxley and Rey Fenix has taken on potentially greater meaning since Fenix is rumored to be on his way out of his All In match due to visa issues.

Plus we’ll hear one last time from the two men who will meet in the main event of All In, MJF and Adam Cole. The success of their pairing has gone way beyond what anyone might have expected when it first started (including Cole himself, as he told us earlier this week), but now it’s the most exciting storytelling in all of AEW. Will there be one more twist in their tale before they team, then fight, in London?

Getting answers to questions like that is a big part of why we watch. Let’s dive in.

AEW Dynamite Fyter Fest results from Duluth:

The Elite (Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks) vs. Juice Robinson and The Gunns is a no contest that turns into a huge multi-person brawl

The heel trio doesn’t even wait until our heroes are in the ring to attack, and Juice also abuses the ref for preventing him from using a steel chair. The Gunns hit Nick Jackson with the 3:10 to Yuma, but there’s no ref to count … or to stop Jay White from intervening too.

Omega fights valiantly against White but gets run over by Konosuke Takeshita. Things are looking dire until FTR events the odds, and with Omega and Takeshita isolated in the ring, Konosuke barely escapes the ring before he’s hit with a One-Winged Angel.

MJF proves he’s still having some trouble adjusting to being a face as he promises a pint to all the fans at Wembley but suggests he’ll make Tony Khan pay for them. Renee Paquette asks about the pressure he feels, and he says it’s the most of his entire life while putting over those who paved the way for a show as big as All In to happen.

Paquette also questions the sincerity of his friendship with Adam Cole while showing video of some of their previous interactions. The champ says that he’s become a better person because of Cole, and that while brothers fight sometimes, they hug it out at the end.

MJF suggests that if you put your faith in him, he will reward it. After all, he’s not just a scumbag — he’s your scumbag.

Jon Moxley def. Rey Fenix by submission, plus Santana and Ortiz are back

Fenix gets off to a quick start that includes a tope to the floor, but this all feels like a bit of misdirection given what’s rumored to happen here. Rey takes a nasty bump to the floor and is slow to rise, which may be leading toward what we’re talking about.

Mox rips away at Fenix’s mask during some picture-in-picture action but he’s able to avoid being unmasked and the fight continues. Fenix takes a series of stomps to the face but manages to pull off a superkick that gets him a momentary respite.

Rey tries his rollthrough cutter and gets it on his second try. A frog splash follows and comes very close to winning it for the luchador.

As Moxley tries for the Death Rider, Fenix counters with an inside cradle for another near fall. The two men slug it out until Rey’s thrust kick provides him the time to go up top. But Mox meets him there, biting his face to get leverage for an Avalanche Death Rider.

Fenix kicks out but falls right into a sleeper. Rey tries to fight it but can hold out only so long.

After the bell, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta attack Fenix with crowbars, and when Eddie Kingston and Penta try to come to the rescue, they are stopped by a returning Santana and Ortiz.

Best Friends and Orange Cassidy chase away the heels with chairs, but the damage is done to Fenix, who ends up getting stretchered out.

Penta and Alex Abrahantes hop in the ambulance to ride along with Fenix, and Kingston has an issue with Paquette over “what your husband did.”

Sammy Guevara defends Chris Jericho to Daniel Garcia, Daddy Magic and Cool Hand Ang, who wonder if Jericho will be there for him when needed.

Will Ospreay is accompanied by Don Callis for the contract signing, and Jericho walks out with Guevara. Callis says everyone wants to know why he did what he did, but he makes it simple by saying it was due to Ospreay … as well as having a chance to end Jericho’s career.

He chose money and power over friendship and Ospreay over Jericho. Will grabs the mic to talk about how the match will change his life, and that he’ll be the only person who can say he beat Omega, Kazuchika Okada and Jericho in two months.

Jericho responds by saying Ospreay may not have done all of those things without him, claiming he called Will and told him to calm it down because his style was too reckless to ensure longevity. He says the match at Wembley means more to him than Ospreay or anyone since everyone is predicting his demise.

He touches a nerve as Ospreay smacks the mic out of his hand, and the two men need to be separated by everyone else in the ring. They did sign the contract in there too, so it’s on.

Now it’s Cole’s turn to talk to Paquette, with Cole praising MJF for having belief in him to return to top form. He also says winning the AEW World Championship would cement his status as the best wrestler in the world.

Alas, when he’s shown video of Roderick Strong and how their relationship has suffered while he’s been friends with MJF, Cole gets mad and cuts the interview short, yelling that there are no problems between him and Max.

Darby Allin and Nick Wayne def. AR Fox and Swerve Strickland by pinfall, but there’s more to the story

Fox is wearing the same tank top he wore when attacking Wayne in his home ring, stained with the youngster’s blood. That’s … pretty nasty.

Wayne is taking some hellacious bumps here early on, but he hits a double Wayne’s World to the floor, followed by a Coffin Drop from Allin.

After a commercial break, Allin is hurling himself through the air again. Fox puts him in a chair on the outside, where Strickland lands a Swerve Stomp to knock him to the floor. Wayne is bleeding from his nose too, but he manages to kick out of Fox’s corkscrew brainbuster.

Swerve’s running head kick also won’t keep Wayne down, and when Fox misses a 450 splash, Wayne is able to bridge back into a pin just as Allin recovers to prevent Strickland from making the save before the ref’s count hits three.

Taking the mic, Swerve only laughs, telling Fox how disappointing he has been. “Why are you such a loser, Fox?”

Strickland says this was all a test, and he can’t trust Fox in front of 80,000 people at Wembley. The Mogul Embassy fires Fox and Brian Cage comes in and thrashes AR. Happily, Sting arrives with a baseball bat and Allin forgives Fox.

When Allin asks Strickland “who do you got?” for Sunday, out come Luchasaurus and Christian Cage, with the latter immediately insulting Wayne’s dead father.

So … Cage or the dinosaur man at Wembley?

Paquette sits down with FTR and the Bucks, with FTR saying that the only reason they’ve aided the Jacksons recently is to make sure that in London, they can determine who is the better tag team once and for all.

Nick Jackson suggests that FTR needs to win the match for their legacy, which the champs sort of shrug off. Dax Harwood says both the titles and the legacy are important, after which Matt Jackson starts in on them as well.

The four women in the title match talk about their tag team match at All In … except, curiously, for Saraya.

Ruby Soho def. Skye Blue by pinfall

Prior to the match, Soho delivers a warning to Kris Statlander, saying she’s got her eyes on the TBS Championship. At All Out, maybe?

Blue puts up her typical good fight here, including hitting Skye Fall, but Soho is able to catch her with Destination Unknown for the victory.

Flanked by The Kingdom, Roderick Strong ominously suggests that by the end of the night in London, we’re going to find out who the real MJF is and who the real Adam Cole is.

Without their usual music, The Acclaimed hits the ring and calls out the House of Black. They need to be careful what they wish for, as here comes the House.

A three-on-two beatdown is on, but Billy Gunn comes out to help chase the bad guys away. He gives an impassioned speech before saying he’s up for one more match to get some payback on the guys who hurt his “kids.”

And while fun loving Daddy Ass can’t make the trip to London, Gunn says a “Bad Ass” will be.

Aussie Open def. The Hardys by pinfall to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championship, then get a visit from MJF and Adam Cole

It feels very unlikely that these titles would change hands four days away from All In … but you also can’t rule it out if for some reason the Aussies can’t travel.

They sure look like they have taken control of this one, and by isolating Jeff Hardy, they manage to retain their belts.

For some reason, Aussie Open gets on the mic to promise no double clothesline or kangaroo kick at Wembley Stadium. All that does is bring out Better Than You Bay-Bay, a.k.a. MJF and Cole. The four men have a staredown that turns into fisticuffs.

Though Mark Davis evades a double clothesline, Kyle Fletcher is still in the ring. He nearly gets Cole to kick MJF, and hey come nose to nose before Max holds the world title belt over his head. Cole offers a handshake that MJF refuses before grabbing his Dynamite Diamond Ring, but they end up hugging it out.

AEW Dynamite Fyter Fest preview 08/23/23: All aboard to All In

AEW Dynamite Fyter Fest will have some intriguing in-ring action, a contract signing and more just days away from All In London.

AEW hasn’t quite shifted all of its focus across the pond (does anyone still say that?) just yet, as there’s business to attend to right here in the U.S. tonight on Dynamite Fyter Fest in Duluth, Georgia.

It starts with a tag team match that could affect the Zero Hour pre-show at Wembley Stadium this weekend. Aussie Open accepted a challenge from Adam Cole and MJF for the ROH World Tag Team Championship … but that only applies if they’re still champs after facing The Hardys tonight.

The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega will be in different matches Sunday in London, but they’re coming together as The Elite on Dynamite to battle Juice Robinson and The Gunns. Three-quarters of a tag team match (and a Coffin match, at that) at Wembley will see AR Fox and Swerve Strickland step in against Darby Allin and Nick Wayne. And with Tony Khan saying there will be changes to the All In card this week, a match that has everyone watching it with that in mind will see Jon Moxley face off against Rey Fenix.

That’s not even close to all of it. Also promoted for tonight:

  • Jack Perry will “retire” the FTW Championship
  • Skye Blue will battle Ruby Soho
  • Chris Jericho and Will Ospreay have a contract signing for their match at All In
  • FTR and the Young Bucks have a face-to-face interview
  • And Renee Paquette will talk to Adam Cole and MJF before they both team together and fight each other at Wembley

Sounds like a lot, but if ever there was a time to just load up Dynamite to the hilt, it would be the week of the biggest show in AEW history. You’ll want to be watching on TBS beginning at 8 p.m. ET tonight, or simply join us back here at Wrestling Junkie for live AEW Dynamite Fyter Fest results and updates.

AEW Rampage results 08/04/23: Tearing up the parking lot

Best Friends took on Blackpool Combat Club in a Parking Lot Fight. See how it turned out in our AEW Rampage results.

(When I’m with you … apologies to *NCYNC.)

Settling things in the ring? Anyone can do that. Settling beefs in the parking lot? Now you’re talking Best Friends’ language.

The problem is, even though they know their way around a Parking Lot Fight, they’ve never had one against the Blackpool Combat Club, a group that lives and breathes violence.

That could prove to be a big difference in the Parking Lot Fight tonight in the main event of Rampage. Or they might rally to the moment, but there’s only one way to find out: We need to dive into this episode.

Let’s do it.

AEW Rampage results:

  • Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy and Keith Lee vs. The Butcher, The Blade and Kip Sabian
  • The Kingdom explains its history with Adam Cole and says his recent behavior is typical, forgetting who his real friends are
  • The Young Bucks say it’s important for them to get back to the tag team division, and to that end, talk to the Hardys about a battle for brother tag team supremacy this coming week on Dynamite
  • Anna Jay def. Skye Blue by submission
  • Kris Statlander does an interview while squatting Renee Paquette
  • Despite losing Pac to injury again, the Lucha Bros. have challenged the winners of tonight’s main event to a match on Dynamite
  • AR Fox and Swerve Strickland def. Local Talent by pinfall
  • QTV brainstorms ideas on who to feud with next
  • Big Bill and Brian Cage tell FTR to kiss their titles goodbye on Collision on Saturday night
  • Blackpool Combat Club def. Best Friends by pinfall in a Parking Lot Fight that features Wheeler Yuta and Orange Cassidy getting involved and the sad demise of Trent’s mom’s van

AEW Dynamite results 07/26/23: Orange Cassidy is up in the BCC’s business

AEW Dynamite from Albany also featured an appearance by MJF and Adam Cole and a response from FTR.

For a guy who would prefer to work as little as possible, Orange Cassidy sure does defend his AEW International Championship a lot. And that makes for a totally relevant segue, because he’s going to be doing it again tonight on AEW Dynamite.

He’s already taken on quite the diverse group of challengers, but he’s getting a completely different test in Albany from high-flying AR Fox. The story AEW is telling with him is a good one: When will he simply wear out, and will he feel pressure to take more shortcuts to stave off the inevitable?

We’ll also see the latest comedy stylings from Adam Cole and MJF, and there are some other fun matches on the card too, so let’s jump right into it.

AEW Dynamite results from Albany:

Darby Allin narrates a video that tells us more about AR Fox, who not only helped him when he was just getting started in wrestling, he actually let Darby live with him for free. Respect.

Orange Cassidy def. AR Fox by pinfall to retain the AEW International Championship

Even with his hands in his pockets, Cassidy is able to go move for move with Fox right off the bat, but he ducks out to the floor to slow the pace as soon as he’s able.

That only stops Fox momentarily, and the challenger has several good chances to win it. He also hits a cool somersault senton on the apron before returning to the ring, where Cassidy hits none of his big finishers but still is able to outwrestle Fox on the mat to get the pin.

After the bell, Cassidy offers a handshake, then his sunglasses to Fox. But AR destroys the sunglasses and then smashes Orange with  a right hand. Allin, who advocated for Fox to get this shot, runs down the ramp for an angry confrontation.

To add injury to insult for Cassidy, Jon Moxley hits the ring and lays out the champ with a Death Rider. Ouch.

Renee Paquette says Don Callis has requested time to speak with Chris Jericho, and he proposes a tag team match with Konosuke Takeshita as a test run for joining the Family. Oh, and it’ll be against Daniel Garcia and Sammy Guevara. Jericho ponders it for a second but then says he’ll do it.

Callis also commemorated some artwork that shows the two of them together in the ’90s, and … yeah.

Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta have a PSA: Don’t mess with the Blackpool Combat Club. That goes for Pac in particular, and Mox says the tag team they are facing tonight will pay for it too.

Tony Schiavone heads to the ring to talk to the new FTW Champion, Jack Perry, who scoffs at how Hook went home after one loss. But when he said he was going to win a championship, Perry clarifies that it wasn’t going to be one “created in a second-class company.”

Doubling and tripling down, Perry says he’d run circles around Taz and all of his dirtbag friends back in the day. Jerry Lynn comes out to take exception to all of this and defend the honor of ECW. When Lynn tells Perry he’ll get his ass kicked if he keeps running his mouth, Jack challenges him to a match next week.

Britt Baker tells Paquette she was surprised when Taya Valkyrie called her out on Collision, but she’s also excited about the opportunity to remind everybody that TBS = The Britt Show. Not sure that’s what it formally stands for, but we’ll roll with it.

Pac vs. Gravity

The announcers remind us that one of Pac’s nicknames used to be “The Man That Gravity Forgot,” and now he’s wrestling someone named Gravity, and you see where this is headed.

This is a pretty fun Dynamite debut for Gravity, but you know he’s not winning, and Pac is able to get him to submit. He hangs onto the hold after the bell, because he’s a bastard and all.

MJF and Adam Cole look a lot more serious tonight, with the World Champion cutting a very serious promo on FTR. Cole says to his partner that it’s become about friendship, which means the world to him. Adam tells Max that he’s becoming one of his best friends, but MJF says he’s going to give Cole a rematch since it means so much to him. Roderick Strong rushes in and starts a ruckus, so Cole tells MJF he’ll handle it, and he does it by telling Roddy he’s being too possessive and weird.

FTR is asked about the team they’ll have to face Saturday, and Cash Wheeler says he like and respects Cole but he hates MJF. Dax Harwood, who was the target of most of Max’s barbs, and says he will beat the s–t out of MJF for talking about his family. Sorry, Adam.

Swerve Strickland def. Darby Allin by pinfall

Allin has already had a bit of a night, what with the AR Fox business, so he might have some extra angst to channel here. A Code Red on the floor seems like it would hurt eve without that, but Strickland kicks out so the match can continue.

The steel steps come into play as well, and Swerve uses them as a launchpad for a jumping head kick that is truly impressive. He gains control after a commercial break and looks for a Swerve Stomp, which hits but isn’t enough to keep the resilient Allen down.

Up top they go, with Allin able to flip over Strickland to pull off a stunner, and Swerve slumps out to the apron. That ends up being bad news for Darby, who take a Death Valley Driver off the top onto the apron.

AR Fox comes down and slams Allin into the ringpost, leaving him easy pickings for the JBL Driver that gives Swerve the win.

Nick Wayne tries to come down and confront Fox, but he ends up getting laid out as well, and Fox takes off his hoodie to reveal a Mogul Embassy shirt.

Paquette is outside the locker room where Jericho has called a meeting of the Jericho Appreciation Society. Angelo Parker turns pretty serious while saying that the group means the world to all of them but he’s not sure it does to Chris. Anna Jay calls Jericho selfish and says they can’t give him 100%. Matt Menard tells him to “figure it out … fast.”

A replay is shown of Daddy Ass taking off his boots and leaving them in the ring on Collision.

Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. def. Taya Valkyrie by submission

Taya just smiles as she smashes home strikes on Britt, and there’s no doubt that it doesn’t look fun to be hit by her. So it looks like the good doctor is going to need to make a heroic comeback of some kind, but happily she’s pretty good at that.

Indeed, once she starts building momentum and getting her glove out, she appears to be headed that way. A Valkyrie spear derails her plans for a second, but Britt is able to counter the Road to Valhalla into the Lockjaw, and Taya taps out fairly quickly.

A series of promos for matches on this week’s episode of AEW Collision airs, with Jeff Hardy doing his best impression of The Rock. Yes, really.

Lucha Bros. def. Best Friends and Claudio Castagnoli and Jon Moxley by pinfall

This one turns wild right off the bat, with the teams brawling all the way up toward the stage, where Chuck Taylor somersaults onto multiple targets from the ramp.

The match does eventually settle enough to get in the ring, but the ref is still pretty liberal about how many people are in on the action at once, and we naturally end up with all six facing off.

With the BCC members sent to the floor, the Best Friends hit tandem piledrivers on the Lucha Bros. for a two count. Rey Fenix and Penta end up applying simultaneous submissions but can’t get them to stick. Penta hits the Made in Japan, forcing the BCC to break up the pin.

Mox and Claudio are back and wrecking shop now. But Cassidy comes down the ramp, hitting Wheeler Yuta with an Orange Punch and scrapping with Moxley. Trent nails Claudio but learns he’s not the legal man and can’t make the pin. Penta takes advantage with a Fear Factor on Trent, which is enough to get them a dub.

The violence doesn’t end after the bell, with everyone involved in the match, plus Yuta and Cassidy, all brawling. Orange hits Claudio with an Orange Punch as the show fades out.