Tonight is the final Dynamite before the… not quite a PPV that is Grand Slam Dynamite! Swerve and Kenny Omega meet in the ring with mics in hand, while Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander and Thekla meet with each other in hand, and the gold on the line!
Dynamite opens with Tony Schiavone, who welcomes Kenny Omega and Swerve Strickland. Schiavone mentions the slow-brewing tension between the two of them, then asks Swerve about it. Swerve talks about how Kenny was on top of the world five years ago, and everyone wanted to join AEW to face him. He then expresses disappointment at the fact that, by the time he himself made it to AEW and reached the top, Kenny wasn’t around nearly as much anymore. He then insinuates that Kenny might be using his EVP status to get back to the top. Kenny responds by saying that he never called himself the god of professional wrestling, the fans bestowed that on him, but he takes it seriously. He says he wants to cut this off now and have a match. Kenny then says Swerve isn’t the most dangerous man in AEW, right now that’s Brody King. Swerve threatens to hospitalize Kenny permanently, and Kenny responds by slapping him. Swerve says whatever happens next is on Kenny, then starts a brawl. The brawl makes its way into and through the crowd, up on the stage, Kenny hits a v-trigger against the video board, One Winged Angel, blocked when Swerve stabs Kenny in the head with an unidentified object, spears him off the stage through a table.
Backstage, Renee asks Kyle Fletcher about his TNT Championship match tonight. He and Don Callis both talk about making it to Australia with a championship. Fletcher asks Don Callis if he can do it alone, Callis agrees, although they both agree that he’ll still be on commentary.
Match One: Death Riders (Continental Champion Jon Moxley, CMLL World Heavyweight Champion Claudio Castagnoli and PAC) vs. Don Callis Family (Konosuke Takeshita, Mark Davis and Josh Alexander
PAC and Davis start off, lockup, Davis shoves PAC down, lockup, Davis shoves PAC down again, Mox in, lockup, Mox finesses Davis into the corner, mixed strikes, Davis with a chop, Claudio in, lockup, break, trading strikes, Davis with a tackle, suplex, blocked, Claudio hits a delayed vertical, Takeshita in, brief skirmish before Takeshita goes after Moxley, sparking a brawl.
The two legal men end up in the ring again, PAC in, trading shots, Alexander in, jockeying, PAC kicks Takeshita on the floor, goes for a springboard to Alexander, Takeshita pulls him off, chop, Alexander with a splash, brawl erupts on the floor, Davis and PAC end up legal in the ring, Davis with a body slam, standing splash for two, Takeshita in, pair of knee drops, chinlock, PAC gets out, Alexander in, PAC with a suplex, Claudio in, cleans house, giant swing to Alexander until Davis interjects, but ends up eating a powerslam for two, Davis with a rollup for two, Claudio misses an avalanche but hits a European uppercut, Davis responds with a lariat, Mox and Takeshita in, trading strikes, Takeshita goes for Raging Fire, reversed into Death Rider, reversed into a forearm, Mox responds with a lariat, goes for Death Rider, Davis interjects, sparking a brawl, Takeshita ends up hitting a boot for two, this sparks another brawl, once it settles Mox locks in a bulldog choke, Davis in, triple team beatdown, Davis with a lariat for two as PAC breaks the cover, Alexander in, triple team beatdown, another brawl, once it settles Mox locks in a sleeper on Alexander, Death Rider for three.
Winners: Death Riders
Match Two: TNT Championship: Tommaso Ciampa (c) vs. Kyle Fletcher
Staredown, both men to the floor, both men back in the ring, Fletcher with a boot, Ciampa with a boot, chop to the back, forearm, chop, Fletcher with a forearm, Ciampa with a boot, Fletcher responds in kind, Ciampa with a dropkick, Fletcher hits a slam on the apron, trio of slams in the ring for two, chinlock, Ciampa with a kick, big boot, tosses Fletcher onto the floor, into the ringside chair, boots him over it and into the crowd, then into the barricade, breaks the count, charges, Fletcher catches him and hits him with a half and half, tosses him into the ring, slam for two, mounted punches, piledriver, blocked, hits kicks instead, piledriver, blocked again, Ciampa goes for a Psycho Driller, blocked, Fletcher with a sunset flip for two, both men to the floor, Ciampa misses a knee on the steps, but rebounds to hit a Psycho Driller on it, rolls Fletcher in the ring, running knee for two, Fairy Tale Ending, blocked, Fletcher goes for a slam, reversed into an inverted DDT for two, sets Fletcher up top, chops, Psycho Driller, blocked, Fletcher goes for a sunset bomb, blocked with a bite, Fletcher with a kick, back superplex for two, Last Ride for two, trading strikes in the ring, Ciampa almost hits the ref by accident, Fletcher with a roundhouse kick to the head, brainbuster for two, sets Ciampa up top, Ciampa knocks him down, running knee for two, goes for another, Fletcher with a superkick, Ciampa hits the running knee for two, trading strikes, Fletcher with a lawn dart to the corner, kick, charges, Ciampa with a running knee, brainbuster of his own for two, Fletcher with a Michinoku Driver, lariat, brainbuster for three.
Winner: Kyle Fletcher
Renee hits the ring to ask the new champ what’s next. He says he’s returning home as a champion, and he’ll get the hero’s welcome he deserved last year. He says he’s defending it in an open challenge.
Mark Briscoe comes in, says Fletcher has come a long way, brings up that they’re tied 3-3, and challenges him for Australia. Fletcher says he’s tired of Briscoe, but that he did say he’d face anyone. He says this needs to be bigger and better than the rest, and it needs to be the final chapter. He proposes a ladder match.
Match Three: Daniel Garcia and Clark Connors vs. Orange Cassidy and Roderick Strong
Strong and Connors start off, trade strikes, Connors with a tackle, Strong with a dropkick, chop in the corner, fireman’s carry, blocked with elbows, stomps, mounted punches, Garcia in, stomps, chops, Strong with a backbreaker, toss to the corner, ten-punch, Cassidy in, Strong with a chop, Cassidy with a ten-punch, but actually only punches Garcia once, Garcia locks in a sleeper, Cassidy with elbows, Stundog Millionaire, Garcia locks in a sleeper, back suplex, ten-punch, Cassidy with a dropkick, Connors tosses him to the corner, tackle, I think Connors is actually legal, another tackle, Garcia with punches, Connors with a European uppercut, Garcia in, punches to the back, suplex, reversed into a Stundog Millionaire, reversed into a full nelson, Cassidy powers out by putting his hands into his pockets, cleans house, goes for a tag, Strong drops off the apron, Connors with a tackle, Garcia in, stomps in the corner, Connors in, stomps, Garcia in, double team stomps, whip t othe corner, Cassidy floats to the apron, boots Connors, Garcia with a sleeper, Connors with a spear, they toss Cassidy into the barricade, Connors misses a spear, Garcia with a boot, rolls Cassidy into the ring, Darby Allin grabs Connors from the barricade and pulls him into the crowd, Cassidy tackles Garcia, Orange Punch, reversed into a front facelock, reversed into a rollup for three.
Winners: Orange Cassidy and Roderick Strong
After the bell, Toni Storm appears in the sky box and says Shafir will have earned shaving her head if she can beat her in front of her home, but the reverse will also be true. Wheeler Yuta cuts her off, then reveals that they have Mina. Daniel Garcia attacks Cassidy while Yuta cuts a lock of Mina’s hair.
Backstage, Don Callis hypes up Andrade. Elsewhere, Hangman says he hoped it would be Kenny, because he needs to know if he can beat the man he beat for his first championship, but if it has to be Andrade, he’ll beat him too.
Elsewhere, JetSpeed announce they’re joining their Trios Championships partner Hangman Page in looking for more gold.
Match Four: #1 Contenders’ Match: The Young Bucks vs. The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier and Myron Reed) vs. Private Party
Zay and Dez start off, some jockeying, turns into a brawl between Private Party and The Rascalz, Matt in on Dez, Nick in, staredown with Private Party, handshake, go for stereo superkicks, blocked, brawl, briefly including the Rascalz, then becomes a brawl between Bucks and Rascalz, I have no idea who’s legal, becomes a 3-way brawl again, Dez dives on everyone,