Tonight is the last Dynamite before All In: Texas! That’s all I’m going to write here, because that’s all that needs to be said!
Dynamite opens with Mercedes Mone hitting the ring, and calling out Toni Storm. Toni comes over the big screen and they taunt each other. Mone tells Storm to get out there, and Storm obliges, with a bottle of champagne in hand. Mone proposes a toast, then says they’re toasting to her. She takes a drink and says the champagne must have been frozen at some point. Storm says she warned Mone that she’s not like the others, but she clearly didn’t listen. She calls Mone a catchphrase-using phony, and says that, while she (Storm) found herself in the AEW Women’s Championship, Mone uses all her belts to hide behind. Mone says she’ll always be better than Toni Storm, and she’s not afraid of anyone or anything. She says no one will stop the Mone Train, and the championship is her destiny and her legacy. Storm says legacies don’t exist, we’re all forgotten eventually, the only thing that matters is the moment they step in the ring and Mone realizes she fears an ordinary life, but Storm only fears an ordinary death. She says Mone deserves all the titles in the world, but not the AEW Women’s World Championship. She says Mone will go down as the woman who couldn’t win the big one. Mone proposes a toast, and also mistakenly says the PPV will be on Sunday. After they both drink, Storm says “Eat shit, bitch”, which prompts Mone to take a swing, beginning a brief tussle before Mone escapes.
Backstage, Moxley says he’s been beaten and outsmarted before, but he’s never lost a war of attrition, and that’s what he and Hangman are in.
The Bucks arrive backstage.
Match One: ROH World Champion Bandido and Brody King vs. Protoshita
King and Takeshita start off, lockup, break, trading forearms, Takeshita with a boot, mutual tackles, Takeshita with a forearm, eye rake, Fletcher in, double axe handle, another, elbow to the back of the head, King with a tackle, chop in the corner, another chop in the corner, Bandido in, double team whip, King with a body slam, Bandido with a running dropkick, King with a senton, Bandido and Fletcher trade forearms, Bandido with a dropkick, Takeshita in, trading kicks, Bandido with an arm drag, blocks a body slam, hits a dropkick, Takeshita with a lariat, tosses King to the floor, Fletcher with a suicide dive to King, Takeshita with a whip, Bandido with a suicide senton to Fletcher, Takeshita with a suicide dive to Bandido, King with a suicide dive to both Callis Family members, rolls Takeshita in, rolls Bandido in after him, tries to help Bandido with a splash, Takeshita gets knees up, double team offense to both men, Takeshita locks Bandido in a chinlock, Fletcher with stomps, tags in, chinlock, body slam, chinlock, Takeshita elbows his way out, Fletcher with knees, whip, Bandido dropkicks Takeshita, Fletcher with a boot, body slam, reversed into a DDT, King in, double axe handle, Fletcher with a boot, King with a Black Hole Slam, avalanche, cannonball for two, chop, Fletcher with a Michinoku Driver, double tag, Takeshita goes for a pop-up, reversed into a hurricanrana for two, Bandido with an elbow, Takeshita with a forearm, Bandido with a boot, Fletcher restrains him for Takeshita to hit a boot, double team beatdown, top-rope powerbomb reversed into a hurricanrana, King holds Fletcher back with a sleeper, Bandido hits Takeshita with a senton for two as Fletcher gets loose, knocks King to the floor, King trips him, toss into the barricade, reversed, King goes for a crossbody across the barricade, dodged, Fletcher with a boot, Bandido goes for the 21-plex to Takeshita, reversed with an elbow, Bandido hits Fletcher with a moonsault, then hits a kick on Takeshita, goes up top, corkscrew senton, blocked with an elbow, Raging Fire for three.
Winners: Protoshita
The Outrunners cut a promo saying they came really close against FTR, and they’ll never quit. They claim it’s not over.
Renee asks The Patriarchy and FTR about teaming up tomorrow on Collision. Christian talks up FTR, Stokely says FTR should be in the match at All In, but it’s not Christian’s fault. He says they’ll be watching.
Match Two: Ricochet vs. Blake Christian
In a picture-in-picture, Blake Christian says Lee Johnson is injured, so Christian is going for the head of the snake.
Blake misses a clothesline, hits punches, chops, whip, reversed, Ricochet misses a dropkick, Blake with punches, Ricochet bails, Blake follows, back in the ring, Ricochet with elbow drops, Blake with mixed strikes, whip to the corner, Ricochet floats over, Blake with a dropkick to the back, eye rake, chop to the top of the head, toss to the floor, suicide dive, Ricochet tosses him into the steps, Gates of Agony appear on the stage, Ricochet with a chop, slides back in the ring, stomps Blake when he tries to get back in the ring, Blake with punches, Ricochet with an elbow, crucifix submission, slams Blake’s head into the turnbuckle repeatedly, slam, chinlock, stomps, trading knees, Blake with a cover for two, trading chops, Blake hits a lariat, kick to the head in the corner, cutter, springboard 450 for two, goes to the apron, distracted by Kaun, slaps Ricochet, kicks Kaun, forearm to Ricochet, GoA pull him down and kick him, Ricochet with a suicide dive, rolls Blake into the ring, Spirit Gun, Vertigo for three.
Winner: Ricochet
Gates of Agony hit Blake Christian with Open the Gate after the bell.
Backstage, MJF tells Renee that Mark Briscoe isn’t going to get MJF alone just because he asked for it. Then the tag champs find out Jet Speed stole their title belts, which leaves MJF alone.
In a video package, Kenny Omega says that he was prepared to leave the rivalry with Okada in the past, and that they’re both very different people than when they last met.
Briscoe and MJF hit the ring for their “Talky talk”. MJF calls that term stupid, then tells Briscoe not to show up, while putting on a mocking Southern accent. He says there will be no talky talk. Briscoe says he needs a country ass-whoopin’, and promises to bring it, but not tonight, because it’s talky talk day. He says MJF mocking him doesn’t work, because he’s proud to be a redneck, and says that he has riches MJF can never understand, because he’s morally bankrupt and has no soul. He says he knows MJF is about to make a joke about his brother to try to rile him up. MJF says he would never, because Jay Briscoe is one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, and one of the greatest human beings to ever step in a ring. He says the only thing he pities is that Jay has to look down from heaven and watch what his brother has become. He says that, if Jay was here, he’d say Mark should have died instead. Briscoe comes out swinging, sparking a brawl. Just as Mark is about to hit the Jay Driller, the rest of Hurt Syndicate come out. Jet Speed attack and beat the champs with their own titles, while Briscoe chases MJF off. Jet Speed continue to beat down the rest of the Syndicate, taking Shelton Benjamin out with the steel steps, then double teaming Lashley. Then they toss Benjamin into a different set of steel steps, prompting The Patriarchy to come out and beat down Lashley and MVP. Christian introduces a chair to the mix, and hits a Conchairto to Lashley’s knee, before Wayne hits another, and then Christian hits a third. Jet Speed keep beating down Benjamin, roll him into the ring, Knight hits a UFO.
Match Three: Winner Gets the #2 Spot in the Casino Gauntlet: Megan Bayne vs. Tay Melo vs. Queen Aminata vs. Thekla
Bayne goes after Thekla, Melo goes after Aminata, staredown, the other two intervene, Mayne tosses Thekla to the floor, lariat to the other two, Melo dumps her to the floor, senton from the apron, Thekla hits them both with a crossbody from the top, Aminata hits all three of them with a senton from the top, tosses Thekla into the barricade, Bayne and Melo tee off on each other, Bayne gets the better of it, whip into the barricade, Thekla is digging her knee into Aminata’s face on the barricade, then charges, Aminata dodges, Melo with lariats to Bayne across the barricade, Bayne with a tackle as Aminata covers Thekla for two in the ring, locks in a leg full nelson as Bayne goes for a cannonball to Melo on the steps, Melo dodges, Thekla rolls up Aminata for two, Aminata with ass attacks, Thekla with a punch to the gut, snapmare, kick to the back, ass attacks, covers for two, Aminata with a whip, Melo goes for a double team on Thekla, misses, covers for two as Aminata breaks, staredown, Bayne comes in and cleans house, covers Aminata for two as Thekla breaks, tussle, Bayne ends up body slamming Thekla for two as Melo breaks the count, forearms, Melo and Aminata team up on Bayne, clothesline her over the top rope, Aminata rolls up Melo for two as Thekla breaks the count, everyone takes turns hitting kicks, Thekla goes for a top rope meteora on Bayne, reversed into a fireman’s carry, Bayne tosses Thekla into the other two on the floor, suicide dive to all three opponents, Melo kicks Bayne repeatedly back in the ring, Tay Kick, Penelope Ford pulls Bayne to the floor, Thekla with a forearm, crab walk, spear, covers, before even one, Aminata kicks her in the head, goes for a fisherman neckbreaker, blocked, Thekla with a rollup for two, Aminata with a running kick in the apron, Ford grabs Aminata, Anna Jay attacks Ford and they brawl, Bayne tackles Aminata, running sit-out powerbomb for three.
Winner: Megan Bayne
That was a hell of a match.
After a commercial, Renee asks Thekla about her prospects in the Casino Gauntlet. Before we can get an answer, Aminata attacks Thekla and they brawl. Briscoe runs in and says he knew MJF would say something that would light a fire under him, and now he’s going to kill MJF on Saturday.
Match Four: Samoa Joe vs. Wheeler Yuta
Yuta wrenches an arm, Joe reverses, throw down, slaps to the back of the head, punches, Yuta to the apron, kick, misses a top rope crossbody, rakes Joe’s eyes, dropkick, misses a suicide dive, Joe with chops on the floor, toss into the barricade, rolls him into the ring, punches, kick to the leg, boot in the corner, punch, headbutt, Yuta with a boot, punch, toss to the corner, punches, ten-punch, whip, blocked, hits a punch, whip, reversed, Joe with a back body drop, roundhouse kicks, elbow drop for two, neck wrench, chop, cover for two, trading forearms, Joe with a headbutt, goes for the Muscle Buster, blocked with strikes, Yuta with a suicide dive, top rope elbow for one, Joe sets him up top, Yuta with a DDT for two, kimura, Joe to his feet, Yuta with stomps, Joe with a Manhattan Drop, boot, senton, whip to the corner, clothesline for two, Yuta with punches, eye rake, whip, reversed, Yuta pulls himself up, German, blocked, bites Joe’s ear, rollup for one, Joe locks in the Coquina Clutch for a quick tap.
Winner: Samoa Joe
Gabe Kidd attacks Joe after the bell until the rest of the Opps make the save.
Main Event: Shibata Katsuyori, Powerhouse Hobbs, Will Ospreay and Hangman Page vs. The Young Bucks, AEW World Champion Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli
Hangman comes out swinging at all four opponents, Matthew ends up being legal against him, eventually the Bucks take him down, Nicholas in, double team whip, double team elbow, kip up, Ospreay in, crossbody to both Bucks, chops, springboard elbow, Shibata in, Hobbs in, good guys run a train on Nicholas, Shibata with a double underhook suplex, Hobbs with a slam, Ospreay in, sky twister off Hobbs’ back for two as Moxley breaks the count, sparking a brawl, the brawl continues, Moxley and Shafir set up a table on the floor, Nicholas in, springboard splash, rolls Ospreay into the ring, covers for two, toss to the corner, Claudio in, chop, another, blocked, Ospreay with punches, goes for a tag, blocked, Claudio with a knee, toss to the corner, clears the enemy corner, charges, Ospreay tosses him into the ring post, Mox in, blocks a tag with a front facelock, goes for a suplex, reversed, Page in, Matthew in, Page cleans house while Moxley watches from the floor, pop-up powerbomb for two as Nicholas breaks the count, Page dumps him to the floor, Claudio in, double-leg, giant swing, blocked, Hobbs in, trading forearms, Claudio with a knee, lariat, Hobbs with a knee, misses a lariat, hits a tackle, lariats in the corner, Shibata in, strikes, sleeper, PK, Claudio blocks, Nicholas with a superkick, Page goes to hit him with a Dead eye, Matthew intervenes, multiple superkicks, superkicks for everyone, Moxley and Claudio powerbomb Hobbs through the table, EVP Trigger to Shibata, Moxley in, Claudio with a Neutralizer, Moxley locks in the Bulldog Choke for a ref stoppage.
Winners: Death Riders and Young Bucks
The brawl resumes after the bell, Gabe Kidd helps out, Shafir hands Moxley a chain, they make sure their enemies are truly neutralized, before the Bucks pull out plastic bags. Swerve comes over the big screen and says he’s taking back control. He then reveals he’s driving an excavator, with which he crushes the Bucks’ limo. With the Bucks gone, and Samoa Joe entering the fray, the good guys take control of the fight. Page goes for a Buckshot Lariat to Moxley, but Claudio intervenes. Page knocks him down, Ospreay passes him the chain, Shafir pulls Mox to safety.
The Bucks make it to their limo and seethe over it. Prince Nana walks up, and then Swerve levels them both with a Swerve Stomp. Hangman Page holds the ring and stares down Moxley while Swerve and Ospreay celebrate on the stage. Hangman and Swerve catch each other’s eye as Dynamite goes off the air.
