Tonight, it’s a three-hour block of solid AEW television, live from London (the one in Ontario, Canada, not the more famous one)! There will be multiple matches for multiple title shots at All Out, which is this Saturday! I’m just covering the first two hours!
Dynamite opens with a pyro display from the Canada Life Place. Oh, hey, that’s the company that does my benefits package!
Tony Schiavone welcomes Hangman and Fletcher to the ring for a contract signing.
Before either of the competitors can talk, Don Callis says he remembers when Hangman took the belt from him the first time, and now he’s finally found someone bigger, faster, and better than him or Kenny Omega. He says there’s nothing Hangman can do to stop Fletcher taking his championship. Hangman thanks Fletcher to agreeing to the no one at ringside stipulation, and says it’s not just because he’s sick of all the interference in title matches, it’s because he sees the potential in Fletcher, but he’ll never realize it if he doesn’t learn to do it on his own. He announces that there’s a clause in the contract that strips Fletcher of the TNT Championship if anyone interferes. Fletcher says he’ll sign the contract no matter what’s in it. He says he’s better than Hangman was in 2019, 2021, and right now. Then he signs the contract. Hangman says the one thing Fletcher doesn’t understand is what the morning after will feel like. He says he believes that Fletcher will bring everything he has, but it won’t be enough, and it’s what comes after that matters, so he needs Fletcher not to disappoint him. Then he signs the contract. Fletcher says there’s one more thing: He will keep his word, and there will be no physicality at the contract signing, and no interference at All Out, but he will win the championship on Saturday, and tonight he’s going to leave Hangman bloodied and beaten.
Match One: Jon Moxley vs. Roderick Strong
Strong hits Daniel Garcia with a baseball slide on the floor, brawls with Moxley on the floor, back in the ring, Mox with a whip to the corner, lariat, ten-punch, face wrench, chops, trading chops, Mox rolls to the floor, Roddy follows, staredown with Shafir, Kyle O’Reilly and Daniel Garcia also have a staredown, Mox jumps Strong, tosses him into the barricade, both men back in the ring, Mox with punches, foot choke, stomp to the gut, Boston Crab, toss to the floor, toss into the steel steps, stomps Strong’s hand on the steps, cover for two back in the ring, chinlock, Strong breaks with a Stunner, boot from the ropes, kick, chops, whip, reversed, Strong with a clothesline, dropkick, fireman’s carry, blocked, goes for it again and hits a gut breaker, running knee in the corner, slam for two, trading chops, Mox with a lariat, piledriver for two, trading forearms, Mox locks in a Bulldog Choke, Strong gets the ropes, high angle back suplex for two, sets Mox up top, superplex, blocked, Mox bites his hand, Strong with a kick, hits… I’m not sure what to call it, almost a high angle back superplex? Gets a two count, Mox goes for Paradigm Shift, blocked, both men tumble to the floor, Strong rolls Mox into the ring, Garcia grabs Strong’s leg, O’Reilly attacks Garcia, Mox with a rollup for two, Strong with a kick, Yuta runs out and trips him, Mox with a Paradigm Shift, Bulldog Choke for the tapout.
Winner: Jon Moxley
After a video package, they show MJF confronting Tony Khan, saying he screwed him by modifying the Casino Gauntlet cash-in rules, so he wants out of the match. Khan says MJF deserves worse after what he’s been doing lately, and MJF says Khan will be responsible when there’s a second dead Briscoe brother.
Match Two: Bobby Lashley vs. Toa Liona
Lockup, break, lockup, Toa gets Lashley to the corner, beats him down, beats him down in the adjacent corner, Lashley reverses position and starts beating Toa down, Toa with a boot, stomps, Lashley goes for a suplex on the apron, blocked, Toa with a headbutt, Samoan Drop, clotheslines across the barricade, Lashley tosses Toa into the barricade, then does it again, Toa tosses Lashley into the ring post, into the ring, avalanche, another, a third, ten-punch with Lashley face-first in the corner, Lashley with an Electric Chair, trading punches, trading lariats, Lashley with a belly to belly, spear in the corner, uranage, blocked with elbows, Lashley hits it, but it turns out to be more of an STO, spear, blocked when Toa rolls to the floor, so Lashley hits it on the floor instead, MVP goes after Ricochet and tosses him into the barricade, Kaun distracts Lashley, Shelton with a superkick to Kaun, Toa with a Pounce to Lashley for two, Lashley locks in the Hurt Lock, Toa reverses into a rollup for one, Lashley keeps the hold locked in, Toa goes out.
Winner: Bobby Lashley
Full brawl between the teams breaks out after the bell, MVP breaks his cane on Ricochet’s back.