Tonight is the first Dynamite since Darby Allin’s monumental world title victory. What will he have to say, what will the former champion MJF have to say? And how will the card for Double or Nothing begin to take shape?
Dynamite opens with MJF hitting the ring. He demands respect from the crowd, and says that last week should be known as the Seattle Screwjob, because he never should have been wrestling that soon after Dynasty. He also complains that he got hit in the nuts, fast-counted, and his shoulders were up. He says Darby could never beat him at 100%, because he’s the most complete wrestler of all time. He reminds everyone of his conquest over Hangman and kicking out of the One-Winged Angel. He demands Darby return the world championship to him. Instead, we get Kevin Knight. Knight calls MJF a little bitch, and says a real champion is always willing to put their title on the line. He reminds MJF that MJF cheated him out of the AEW Championship a few weeks ago. MJF reiterates that he won that match, calls Knight’s TNT Championship cute, and says it fits a “good hand” like Knight. He says Knight has a ceiling below the AEW World Championship, and should know better than to get in the ring while someone like MJF is talking. They stare each other down, and Knight threatens to smack him. Knight says some of the best wrestlers in the world have held the TNT Championship, so of course MJF never has. He challenges him to a match. MJF asks what’s in it for him, but says he might do it if it’s for the TNT Championship, especially because it would hurt Knight’s pride if he lost it. Knight accepts, and proposes they do it right now. MJF calls for a ref.
Match One: TNT Championship: Kevin Knight (c) vs. MJF
MJF immediately rolls out of the ring and says this will happen next week.
Match Never Started
Backstage, Renee reveals a 6-man tag for next week between The Demand and Jericho and two partners. The Demand says Jericho has no partners because he’s burnt every bridge and now he’s just the guy who gets his ass beat by The Demand every week. Jericho says they can’t say that anymore, because he bought the trademark, then reveals a new shirt with that on it. He says he doesn’t have to find someone who likes him, just someone who hates Ricochet.
Actual Match One: Brody King vs. Lio Rush
After some getting used to each other, King offers a hand, Rush takes it, King won’t release so Rush bites it, King with a toss, avalanche, another, toss across the ring, Rush to the floor, King follows, Rush with a chop, King with more chops, sets a chair up, sits Rush down in it, misses a running crossbody, Rush jumps up on the announce table, crossbody, caught, King goes for a slam, Rush slides out, shoves him into the ring post, then into the barricade, wrenches King’s face, break, slides into the ring, the ref starts to count, King tries to get into the ring, Rush with a baseball slide, suicide dive, reversed into a chokeslam onto the apron, chops, toss into the barricade, blocked, Rush tosses King into the barricade, whip, reversed, both men back in the corner, Rush with kicks, King with a whip, Rush goes for a springboard cutter, blocked, King with a slam, lariat, Rush drops King’s arm across the top rope, drops his head across the top rope, fireman’s carry on the apron, blocked with an elbow, King goes for a Ganso Bomb, blocked, Rush with a flip kick, suicide dive, goes up top, crossbody, goes up again, King rolls back in the ring, Rush hits him with a frog splash to the back for one, King with a Black Hole Slam, avalanche, Ganso Bomb for three.
Winner: Brody King
King grabs a mic and challenges the winner of tonight’s main event.
Backstage, Renee asks Ciampa about the main event. He says he’s been told he’s not enough for his entire career, but tonight it’s not about heroes and villains, it’s about work ethic and proving who is the best.