Ian’s Revolution Go-Home Dynamite Recap (In Progress)

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It’s the last Dynamite before Revolution! Hangman and MJF will have a press conference, the TBS Championship will be on the line, and David Finlay will make his Dynamite in-ring debut!

Match One: Death Riders (AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley and CMLL World Heavyweight Champion Claudio Castagnoli) vs. Don Callis Family (NJPW TV Champion Konosuke Takeshita and Hechicero)

Hechicero and Claudio start off, Hechicero with a single-leg trip, trading leg grips, trading shoves, Hechicero with a tackle, rollup for two, another, Claudio with a side headlock takeover, Hechicero with a rollup for one, whip, reversed, both men miss sentons, Hechicero with a rollup for one, Claudio goes for an arm drag, reversed into a fireman’s carry, blocked, jockeying, Hechicero locks in a heel hook, Claudio escapes in the ropes, Hechicero shoves Mox, double tag, trading tackles, Claudio in, double team stomps, Takeshita with a whip, jockeying, Takeshita with a dropkick, Hechicero in, trades shots with both opponents, tosses Claudio, Mox in, Hechicero with a dragon screw, Mox with punches in the corner, Claudio in, tussle, ending in Hechicero monkey flipping Claudio to the floor, Claudio back in the ring, front facelock, Mox in, Hechicero fights them both off, dragon screw to Mox in the ropes, top rope lariat to Claudio, Takeshita in, cleans house, Mox eventually blocks a knee, trading shots, double tag, Hechicero with a flapjack, arm breaker, wrenches Claudio’s neck with his legs, Claudio tosses him to the floor, suicide dive, running European uppercut, rolls Hechicero into the ring, goes up top, crossbody, Hechicero with a flapjack, rolls Claudio around the ring, cover for two as Mox breaks the count, Takeshita runs in, brawl breaks out, Hechicero with a rollup for two, Claudio with a Giant Swing for two, trading strikes, Hechicero with a trip, leg drop for two, backslide pin for two, Hechicero charges and almost hits the ref, Claudio with an eye poke, European uppercut, rollup for three.

Winners: Claudio Castagnoli and Jon Moxley

Lance Archer and Mark Davis hit the ring and attack the winners, Marina Shafir runs in and Lance Archer punches her, Davis hands Takeshita a chair while Archer holds Mox back, Takeshita tosses down the chair and says not like this.

Renee is backstage with both Willow and Persephone. They both say they’re looking forward to their match, talk about their mutual love of beating Mercedes Mone, before trash talking about who hit her harder, and who hits harder in general. They resolve to have a great match and fist bump.

Elsewhere, Don Callis is giving Kyle Fletcher a pep talk. MJF walks in and tells Fletcher to hit him extra hard for kicking him in the face last week. Fletcher says he doesn’t take orders from anyone. MJF tells Don Callis that he should teach Fletcher how to talk to the champion. Fletcher asks Don Callis if he has business dealings with MJF, Don Callis denies it.

Match Two: TNT Championship: Kyle Fletcher (c) vs. “Speedball” Mike Bailey

Jockeying, Bailey with a kick to the hand, hurricanrana, misses a kick, misses a moonsault but lands on their feet, cross arm breaker, Fletcher gets to the rope, both men to the floor, Fletcher with a boot, toss into the barricade, reversed, Bailey locks in a cross arm breaker on the floor, Fletcher pulls himself up using the apron, kicks, Bailey with kicks in the ring, Fletcher with a body slam, stomps in the corner, shin breaker, back suplex for two, jockeying, Bailey with a hurricanrana, kicks, standing shooting star for two, Fletcher with a double underhook German, mutual strikes, Bailey with a roundhouse kick to the face, tussle to the apron, Bailey with a poison rana, back in the ring, Fletcher gets halfway there, Bailey with kicks, top rope knees, cover for two, trading shots up top, Fletcher with a super hurricanrana for two, chops, Bailey with a backslide for two, suicide dive, Fletcher rolls them back into the ring, Bailey responds with a suicide moonsault, rolls Fletcher back into the ring, goes up top, misses a shooting star, Fletcher goes for a body slam, misses, Bailey dumps him to the floor, springboard moonsault, rollup for two back in the ring, Fletcher with Snake Eyes, mounted punches, running boot, slam, reversed into a backpack sleeper, Fletcher eventually reverses into a rollup for two, Bailey with a kick, another, cross arm breaker, Fletcher to his feet, reverses with a powerbomb, Bailey rolls to the floor, Fletcher follows, powerbomb, reversed into a back body drop, reversed into a sunset flip, reversed into moonsault knees, Bailey rolls Fletcher into the ring, goes for a moonsault on the apron, reversed into a boot, Bailey tosses Fletcher’s arm into the ring post, goes up top, tussle up top, Bailey goes for a kimura, blocked, tosses Fletcher’s arm into the ring post again instead, super poisonrana, Ultimate Weapon for two, moonsault knees, superkick, goes for another Ultimate Weapon, reversed into a Michinoku Driver for two, lariat, Bailey with a rollup for two, superkick, Ultimate Weapon in the corner, goes up top, misses the shooting star knees, Bailey with a rollup for two, Fletcher misses a knee in the corner, Bailey with a rollup for two, spin kick to the head, sets Fletcher up top, Okada with a distraction, Fletcher with an eye gouge, Mark Davis tosses Fletcher his belt, Fletcher with a brainbuster for three.

Winner and STILL TNT Champion: Kyle Fletcher

Match Three: Brody King vs. Some Dude

King with a lariat, Ganso Bomb for three.

Winner: Brody King

Swerve emerges from the crowd and starts choking Brody with his chain, rolls him into the ring, starts strangling him again, King snaps the chain, Swerve tries to escape, King tosses him, cannonball, grabs the chain, locks in a sleeper on the apron that doesn’t actually involve the chain at all, Prince Nana attacks, King shoves him aside but it gives Swerve just enough room to hit an arm breaker across the top rope and escape.

Renee asks Mike Bailey about what just happened. Bailey says they could talk about how Fletcher needed to cheat, but they’d rather look forward and take the trios championships from the DCF.

Match Four: Orange Cassidy and Darby Allin vs. Gabe Kidd and David Finlay

Finlay and Cassidy start off, match quickly devolves to a brawl on the floor, briefly heads back into the ring but then back to the floor, Cassidy and Finlay end up in the ring, trade suplex attempts, Cassidy with a rollup for two, Finlay with a discus elbow, arm breaker, Kidd in, chop, Finlay in, stomps, Kidd in, cover for two, Finlay in, Cassidy with facetious chops to both men, Kidd grabs him by the neck, Cassidy comes alive and knocks them both around, DDT to Finlay, tag blocked, Kidd tries to cheap shot Allin but he jumps out of the way, Cassidy fights his way out of the enemy corner, Allin in, cleans house, Kidd in, clothesline for two, brawl erupts again, Clark Connors cheap shots Cassidy with a tire iron from the crowd, Allin rolls Kidd into the ring, goes up top, Coffin Drop, reversed into a sleeper, reversed into a rollup for two, Finlay hits him with an Irish Curse, Kidd with a forearm, Finlay with a Dominator, Kidd with a piledriver for three.

Winners: Gabe Kidd and David Finlay

The Dogs continue beating down their fallen foes after the bell, and share a Too Sweet. They go back to the beatdown, Roderick Strong walks out, tells The Dogs to pass him Cassidy, but then fakes out and starts attacking The Dogs. Darby joins in and they clear The Dogs from the ring. Strong helps Cassidy up, and they high five.