Tonight, it’s the second week of Continental Classic action! The night’s most intriguing league matchup sees Death Riders stablemates Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli face off, while the night’s most intriguing non-league matchup sees Toni Storm and Shirakawa Mina take on Marina Shafir and Megan Bayne in a Holiday Hardcore Deathmatch, that’s also a semi-final match for the Women’s Tag Team Championships!
Tony Schiavone opens Dynamite by welcoming Samoa Joe to the ring, followed by Eddie Kingston. Joe kicks Schiavone out of the ring, then says he knows Eddie has questions, so he’ll answer them. First, he says he’s not in a suit because it’s just Indianapolis. Then he says Hook is a man who grew up with a championship father and a championship mentor, so he told him to team with Eddie to learn what it’s like to be on the other side. He says next week, Eddie will give it everything he has, and still just not quite cross the finish line, just like he always does, except this time it won’t be his fault. Eddie says Joe used to be the man who saved independent wrestling, but now he sold out. He says he taught Hook perseverance, and that he doesn’t respect this version of Samoa Joe. He says Joe became like the old-school guys who would use the younger generation, who he used to call out. He finishes by saying he’ll eat Joe alive if he doesn’t bring the ROH World Champion who used to beat up Homicide next week.
Backstage, the rest of the Opps say they want to spread some Christmas cheer, so they’re going to give Dark Order an Eliminator Match tonight.
Match One: Continental Classic: Gold League: PAC (1-0) vs. Okada Kazuchika (c) (0-1)
Lockup, trading hold attempts, Okada forces a rope break, slap, staredown, mutual forearm, trading forearms, PAC with a running elbow in the corner, goes up top, missile dropkick, goes for a lariat, Okada rolls to the floor to escape it, pulls PAC to the floor, tosses him into the barricade, does it again, rolls him into the ring, follows, elbow in the corner, another, a third, neckbreaker, cover for one, body slam, goes up top, PAC rolls across the ring, Okada with elbows, whip, blocked, PAC with a snapmare, stomps to the entire body, toss to the floor, foot choke across the barricade, toss into a different part of the barricade, breaks the count, rolls Okada into the ring, knees, knee drop, toss to the corner, snapmare, dropkick, crevat, Okada punches his way out, PAC with a boot, dropkick, goes up top, misses a missile dropkick, Okada with a running dropkick, forearms, whip, reversed, Okada with an elbow, running elbow in the corner, DDT for two, body slam, goes up top, elbow drop, Rainmaker, blocked, PAC with elbows in the corner, Okada goes for an Alabama Slam, blocked, PAC to the apron, kick to the face, springboard cutter, lariat, reversed with a dropkick, Rainmaker, reversed into a rollup for two, Okada with a big boot, PAC with a big boot from the corner, leapfrog, thrust kick, Helluva Kick, whip, reversed, PAC slides, tosses Okada into the turnbuckle, German, another for two, Okada hits a Tombstone, slowly limps his way up top, PAC springs up and hits a superplex, running lariat, Brutalizer, reversed into a rollup for three.
Winner: Okada Kazuchika (3 points, 1-1)
Backstage, Mark Briscoe talks about the respect he developed fighting Daniel Garcia over the years, and how all of it has now dissipated. He makes a challenge for Winter Is Coming.
Ricochet talks about how much of a sensation he is, but that Friday will be his ROH debut, and he’ll defend the National Championship a second time on Collision.