Tonight is the first Dynamite since All In 2025! AEW’s best PPV? I’m not sure, there are a couple other strong contenders in there, but it’s definitely up there. There’s a new World Champion, the undefeated streak of Mercedes Mone has come to an end, and Adam Copeland is back and looks to be courting reconciliation with Christian Cage! How will those situations fall out tonight? And will we get more clarification on how and when the Casino Gauntlet winners will get their title shot? All this as AEW and NJPW move toward Forbidden Door next month in London!
Dynamite opens with Tony Schiavone welcoming Hangman, and his World Championship belt, to the ring. The crowd chants “You deserve it”, and Hangman says that may be missing the point, and it should really be Hangman telling them that they deserve it. The crowd chants “We deserve it” in response. He says that the fans are the ones who demanded a fully realized version of professional wrestling, and they started a revolution. He says he walked into a war of a hundred battles on Saturday to free the championship, and he needs to thank all of the people who fought the battle with him, because some of them didn’t come out the same. After listing a number of people, he thanks Will Ospreay in detail, and finally, though he acknowledges that he doesn’t know why he did it, Swerve Strickland. He says that he’s shed a lot of tears, but anyone who thinks that makes him less of a man doesn’t have what he has in his family, and in the love of the fans. But most of all, “You can look at me and know that I am the champion of the fuckin’ world!”
After a video package recap of All In, they show earlier today, when the Bucks arrived in a rideshare.
Match One: Kyle Fletcher vs. Mascara Dorada
Fletcher charges at the bell and stomps Dorada down, chop, both men dodge each other a bunch, Dorada with a springboard armbar, knee, goes up top, rope walk missile dropkick, Fletcher presses him to the apron, running dropkick to the floor, misses a suicide dive, Dorada hits a corkscrew suicide dive, both men back in the ring, Dorada misses a top rope dive, Fletcher with a spinning slam, scoopslam, kicks, knee, side slam for two, Dorada with punches, Fletcher with a body slam, chinlock, stomp, Dorada with a slap, Fletcher with slaps, body slam, goes for another, reversed into a rollup for two, Dorada to the apron, kick, tijeras, superkick to the floor, shooting star from the second rope, both men back in the ring, Dorada with kicks, Code Red for two, knee, Fletcher with a boot in the corner, superplex, blocked as Dorada slides out, kick, super hurricanrana, springboard 450 for two, suplex, blocked, Dorada with a chop, another, third, suplex, reversed, blocked, Dorada with a superkick, fireman’s carry, blocked, ends up hitting a tijeras, moonsault, reversed into a lawn dart into the middle turnbuckle, Helluva Kick, brainbuster for three.
Winner: Kyle Fletcher
After the bell, Fletcher vows to take everything from Dustin Rhodes.
Renee asks the Bucks about no longer being EVPs, they say they need to find their locker room. Then they run into Marina Shafir, who blows them off. Their locker room turns out to be in the basement near the boiler room. Ricochet and GoA walk by and have a laugh. Don Callis walks in and says it’s not fair the way they’re being treated. He suggests they can probably do some great business now that Kenny is out of the picture. Matt says they’ll never join the Family, but they can probably help each other out to some degree.
They show a clip from after All In, where MVP says he knew the Hurt Syndicate would dominate. He again begs for competition. MJF says he’s glad Hangman won, because it’s way more of an accomplishment to beat Hangman. He says he won’t be cashing in the contract, he’s going to beat Hangman clean, because he’s the embodiment of Hangman’s depression.
Match Two: Josh Alexander, Hechicero and the Young Bucks vs. JetSpeed, ROH World Champion Bandido and Brody King
The Bucks wait for pyro during their entrance, but instead have their music cut off and get an MSPaint ‘tron with footage of their failures.
Josh Alexander and Brody King start off, trade shots, Bandido and Hechicero in, both try for a kick, Hechicero finally gets one, Bandido responds with three, arm drag, Hechicero presses him to the apron, Bandido with a kick, springboard hurricanrana, arm wrench, Bailey in, kick, Knight in, double team hip toss, boot, Bucks try to run in, get dropkicked, brawl breaks out, JetSpeed get the better of it, Alexander ends up legal, chinlock, Knight elbows his way out, Alexander with an elbow of his own, stomps in the corner, backbreaker, European uppercut, Hechicero in, Mad Scientist Bomb for two, knee drop, whip, reversed, Hechicero with a trip, Knight with punches, body slam, bad guys clear the opposing corner to block a tag, Alexander with a Wasteland, Nick in, go for an EVP Trigger, are distracted by the realization that they can’t call it that anymore, Knight hits them both with a dropkick in the interim, Speedball in, cleans house, King in, continues cleaning house, Bandido in, cleans house with Brody King’s help, JetSpeed join in, Bandido hits Hechicero with a top rope moonsault slam for two as the Bucks break it up, brawl breaks out, Hechicero locks in a sleeper for the knockout.
Winners: Hechicero, Josh Alexander and the Young Bucks
After a commercial, Adam Copeland hits the ring. He thanks everyone, then clarifies that he did not come down to save Christian, he’s an asshole. He says he doesn’t blame the rest of the Patriarchy for what they did, and reminds Christian that he called it. He says his actions were all about getting at FTR. He says they were the first people he called when he got cleared five years ago, but says that taking him out for four months is a much bigger deal when he doesn’t know how long he has left. He says he came back to end FTR. FTR’s music hits, and Stokely comes out flanked by security. Hey, two of those security guards are Violent By Design! Okay, they’re definitely getting laid out.
Stokely says FTR predicted everything Copeland has done so far tonight, and says that AEW has received three complaints about Spike. He says that, as a consequence, Adam Copeland will be fired if he attacks FTR again. He says that FTR aren’t afraid of him, they just need to focus on the tag titles. Copeland calls him an Oompa Loompa, then points out that the prohibition on attacking FTR doesn’t apply to Stokely. He lays out Kevin Ku and the other security guard in the ring. The other two security guards run away, and Copeland spears Stokely.
Backstage, Mark Briscoe says MJF bitched out during the Casino Gauntlet, and now it’s time to bring back the old Briscoe Brothers spirit.
Match Three: $100,000 Four-Way: Thekla vs. Queen Aminata vs. Kris Statlander vs. Willow Nightingale
Thekla starts by running a train on everyone until Stat hits her with a delayed vertical, kip up, Thekla with kicks, Aminata pulls her to the floor, toss into a Stat baseball slide, Aminata follows up with a running boot to Stat, Willow goes for a senton on Aminata, misses but hits Stat for two, Aminata clears Stat from the ring, tees off with Willow, Willow with a hip attack in the corner, forearm, snapmare, Aminata with a snapmare, captive ass attack, Thekla interrupts with a kick, boot i nthe ropes, knocks Stat off the ropes before she can do anything, Willow knocks her down, fireman’s carry to Aminata on the apron, blocked, Aminata with a headbutt, goes up top, Thekla pushes her off, top rope crossbody to Willow and Stat, rolls Willow into the ring, cover for one, crossface, transitions to a double armbar, Willow escapes by biting, punches, Stat clubs Willow in the back, whip with the help of Thekla, double team elbow, Aminata tries to run in, gets the same treatment, Stat boots Thekla, whip to the corner, running uppercut, running boot, sets Thekla up top, Thekla with a boot, tarantula, Aminata breaks it with a punch to the gut, brawls with Stat on the floor, Willow pursues Thekla, rolls her into the ring, snapmare while Stat and Aminata trade suplex attempts on the floor, Stat finally hits it, Willow tees off on Thekla, Stat slides into the ring but Thekla beats them both down, Stat sets her up top backward, punch to the back, Thekla with an elbow, Aminata chops Thekla into a tree of woe, Thekla rights herself, chop, spider superplex, Willow hits her with a chop, fireman’s carry to Aminata, Stat goes for a tombstone on Thekla, who blocks and shoves Stat into the other two, spears Stat, forearm to Willow, Aminata headbutts Thekla, neckbreaker to Stat, Willow boots Aminata, tackles Thekla, Stat cleans house until Aminata headbutts her, everyone is down, then everyone is up and trading shots, Willow hits Thekla with Babe With the Powerbomb for two as Stat breaks the count, Stat and Willow brawl up the ramp, back in the ring Aminata hits Thekla with a double foot stomp for two, Skye Blue hits the ring and confronts Aminata, Julia Hart comes from behind and hits black mist, Thekla with a Stomp for three.
Winner: Thekla
After a commercial, Toni Storm appears from the balcony, thanks Mone for going all in, and says Mone only had to make one mistake for Storm to get the win. She says she’s always up for a Round 2, but then reveals that Luther was injured in the match. She says she has to be careful, because her championship is now the big one in the industry. Athena comes over the big screen and says that’s not the big one, she is. She says Mina is also injured after Athena hit her with the O-Face, so there’s no one left. She then seemingly signs an unspecified date on the contract. Storm welcomes the challenge.
Kip Sabian says Christian let him keep taking all the bullets for him, when the real goal should have been working alongside his brother, under the guidance of a mother. Shayna Wayne says these are her boys, and Wayne says Christian had become a liability, and says that, while he may not have won any world championships yet, the number he’s going to win is limitless. He says Christian created the monster, and now everyone has to deal with him as the new face of TNT and AEW.
Match Four: Unified Champion Okada Kazuchika vs. Jobber
Okada with boots, punch to the back, punch in the corner, chop, elbows, boot, stomps, jobber goes for a boot, Okada hits a punch, whip, dropkick, Rainmaker for three.
Winner: Okada Kazuchika
Okay, I’m not just being a shit, I legitimately have no idea who Okada’s opponent was. They didn’t mention his name once on commentary. Maybe there was a graphic while I was looking down or something, but I have no idea.
After the match, Okada says Swerve screwed his friends and calls him a bitch. Swerve comes out, stares down Okada, and asks him what he’s going to do about it, before calling him a bitch.
Main Event: Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta) vs. AEW World Champion Hangman Page, Mark Briscoe and Powerhouse Hobbs
Claudio and Hobbs open with a brawl, Hobbs gets the better of it with a volley of lariats in the corner, tosses Claudio across the ring, Page in, mounted punches, Yuta in, Hangman with a lariat, toss to the corner, chop, toss to the adjacent corner, Briscoe in, mixed strikes, Hobbs in, tackle, tackle to an intervening Claudio, Mox in, slowly climbs in the ring but then bails, Hobbs continues beating down Yuta, my mistake, Mox never actually tagged in, Hobbs with a delayed vertical, Briscoe in, mixed strikes, suplex, cover for one, neckbreaker, Page in, chops, whip to the corner, lariat, snapmare, running lariat for two, toss into Hobbs’ boot, Hobbs in, body slam, Yuta with a chop, Hobbs with a body slam, chops, Snake Eyes, blocked, Yuta with an elbow, goes up top, leaps, Hobbs catches him, Mox grabs Hobbs from behind, Hobbs turns around to stare him down, Yuta with a chop, Hobbs starts to chase him, Shafir gets in the way, Claudio with a chop block, Shafir with a kick, stomps, Mox tags in, sleeper, toss into the steel steps, rolls him into the ring, Claudio in, forearms, Hobbs with forearms, Claudio with a Giant Swing, Mox in, boot to the head, Yuta in, elbows to the traps, Hobbs with a slam, Briscoe in, cleans house, Mox with a boot, Briscoe with an enziguri, goes up top, Shafir crotches him and gouges his eyes, Mox knocks him down, Paradigm Shift on the floor, punches from the floor to the apron, Claudio in, stomp to the hand, recliner, Briscoe elbows out, Claudio with a knee, gutwrench suplex, boots Hangman, leg choke to Briscoe, Yuta in, leg choke, Shafir with an eye gouge, Yuta with a Figure Four, Claudio in, trading shots, Briscoe goes for a sunset flip, reversed into a double stomp, Mox in, covers for two, STF, rope break, Mox punches Hangman, piledriver to Briscoe for two as Hobbs breaks the count, sparking a beatdown from the other two Death Riders, they toss him into the steps, Briscoe hits a missile dropkick, Yuta in, Hangman in, cleans house, pop-up powerbomb for two as Claudio breaks the count, Page clears him, Yuta with a kick from the top for two, Claudio in, Doomsday Device, blocked, good guys go all out, Mox bites Hangman, but Hobbs hits Mox with a spinebuster, sparking another brawl, Hangman goes for Buckshot Lariat to Claudio, reversed into a Neutralizer, reversed into a rollup for three.
Winners: Hangman Page, Powerhouse Hobbs and Mark Briscoe
Death Riders attack after the bell, Darby Allin appears from the balcony and stares down Mox, allowing Hangman to hit a Buckshot Lariat to celebrate and close the show.
