Tonight is the first Dynamite after an overall pretty damn good Double or Nothing PPV! MJF is once again World Champion, Kevin Knight is a bad guy now (although he turned on Darby AFTER The match so technically the two are unrelated), and Stadium Stampede traded brutality for levity but somehow still turned out just as good! Tonight, we see what’s next, both in AEW in general, and as the Owen Hart Cups continue.
Dynamite opens with footage from after DON, where Will Ospreay tells Renee how good he’s feeling. He then runs into Kenny Omega in the trainers’ room. Kenny tells Ospreay the Death Riders are dangerous, and says he would have helped train him if he asked. Ospreay says he couldn’t ask Kenny, because he’s not there every week. Kenny says he has his own way of dealing with things, and he needed to take some time. He says he’s not saying not to trust the Death Riders, just to be careful. Moxley walks in and says that’s good advice, because everyone has their skeletons.
The live broadcast opens with Kevin Knight hitting the ring. He says everyone keeps asking him “why?”. He says he told Darby not to let everyone down, but he did. He says he decided not to trust the process anymore, because he’s still the last person to beat MJF. He says he should have been in the main event, but instead he was benched, so he took it upon himself. He says Darby told him, when he first broke into the business, not to waste any time. So he didn’t.
Speedball comes out and says he understands Knight’s frustrations, but they also know him. They say Knight’s ambition is his best and worst quality, because it drives him, but it also causes him to make mistakes. They say he can still fix this if he apologizes. Knight goes to leave the ring, but then hits Speedball with a lariat. He puts his hands across his mouth like he regrets it, but then hits an uranage.
Backstage, Ricochet says he and his team got screwed in Stadium Stampede, and they’re trying to screw him over again by banning The Demand from ringside during his match with Jericho tonight, but it won’t matter, because Jericho will never pin Ricochet, especially with a weak Lionsault.
Match One: Chris Jericho vs. Ricochet
Ricochet with a dropkick, another in the corner, mixed strikes in the corner, toss to the floor, suicide dive, tosses Jericho into the barricade, then does it again, rolls him into the ring, springboard lariat, running shooting star for two, chop in the corner, boots, kick to the inner thigh, punch, chop, forearm, spear in the corner, springboard, Jericho knocks him out of midair to the floor, top rope crossbody, clears the announce table, Ricochet with an eye gouge, suplex onto the table, suplex on the table, reversed into Walls of Jericho, breaks when he gets tired of it, rolls into the ring, rolls to the apron, drags Ricochet up, Ricochet with gut shots, trio of kicks, trip, shoves Jericho knee-first into the steps, breaks the count, chop, stomp to the leg, Jericho with chops, snapmare, Jericho rolls into the ring, Ricochet with mounted punches, forearm to the kidney, stomp, Jericho with chops, Ricochet with a dropkick to the knee, knee choke, Jericho with a slam for two, Ricochet with an eye gouge, stands on him in the ropes for a choke, Jericho with chops, Ricochet with a knee, both men to the apron, Ricochet with stomps, Jericho with a DVD, trading chops, Jericho with a brainbuster for two, calls for the Judas Effect, Ricochet bails to the apron, pulls Jericho to the floor, dropkicks him when he tries to get in, suicide dive, climbs back in the ring, Jericho gets to his feet and looks to beat the count by 8, Ricochet with a suicide dive, brainbuster on the floor, climbs back in the ring, Jericho beats the count at 9, Ricochet with a springboard Phoenix Splash, Walls of Jericho, Ricochet slowly rolls his way out, boot, Jericho with a lariat, misses another, Ricochet with a rollup for two, Jericho charges, Ricochet ducks and Jericho stops short to avoid hitting Aubrey, Ricochet with a low blow, Ricosault for two, goes up top, misses a 630, Jericho with a Codebreaker for two, Judas Effect, calls for the Lionsault, hits it for three.
Winner: Chris Jericho