Tonight, it’s the beginning of Week 2 of the Continental Cup!
Dynamite kicks off with Will Ospreay welcoming everyone to the show. He talks about getting to come back to Arena Mexico last week, but then getting the news that his grandfather had passed. He says he’s carrying on for the same reason he fought a street fight last week: Because he needs to set an example of what AEW needs. He says Kenny wasn’t at the show last week, but he showed up this week, so he wants to talk to him.
Don Callis comes out instead and says that, although both of them weren’t on the first AEW show, he knows they were both watching. He says that Ospreay saw a place he couldn’t wait to wrestle, but Don Callis saw a place he couldn’t wait to exploit. He talks about sitting at the top with Kenny Omega, but then having to put him down. He mentions that that was around the same time he first brought Ospreay into AEW, but now Ospreay is going down the same path. RPG Vice attack, until Kenny Omega makes the save with a pipe. He feigns hitting Ospreay with the pipe, but then says Ospreay has a way with words when he speaks from the heart, but he doesn’t think. He says he tried to warn Ospreay about Don Callis, and he tried to warn him about Jon Moxley. He then says he can’t help Ospreay like this again. Ospreay says he didn’t ask for help and he won’t need it.
Match One: #2 Spot in Casino Gauntlet: MJF vs. Nick Wayne vs. “Speedball” Mike Bailey
MJF grabs Justin Roberts by the throat and demands he call him the one true champion.
MJF hits the floor, tells the commentators he’s going to let “those two twinks battle it out”, which they do. MJF tries to intervene midway through, Speedball boots him off the apron, kicks Wayne, misses a suicide dive, Wayne hits Speedball with a suicide dive, rolls him into the ring, Bailey with a boot, top rope moonsault, MJF hits the ring, fakes going for a suicide dive but flips off the audience, Speedball boots him, boots Wayne, goes up top, MJF pulls him down, mounted punches, Wayne joins in, MJF instructs Wayne to hold Bailey up, punches Speedball in the gut, holds Speedball back for Wayne to do the same, celebrates with Wayne, Wayne hits Bailey with a standing Sliced Bread, MJF covers for two, Wayne breaks it up, MJF tells him that getting to be in this match is good enough for Wayne, slaps him, Wayne punches MJF, Wayne and Bailey trade shots, Bailey with a boot, kicks, Wayne with a German, Bailey responds with strikes, MJF tries to catch Bailey with the Heat Seeker, blocked, Bailey with a springboard moonsault to both opponents on the floor, MJF asks Paul Wight on commentary for help, doesn’t get any, Wayne and Bailey tussle on the apron, MJF trips Wayne, chokes Bailey in the ropes, goes up top, Bailey beats him down, suplexes Wayne, top rope shooting star to Wayne for two, everyone trades strikes, Bailey with a spin kick to Wayne, MJF tosses Bailey out of the ring, Salt of the Earth to Wayne for the tapout.
Winner: MJF
MJF grabs a mic and says he always wins, which is why he’s winning at Wembley. He says no one can stop him, which prompts Andrade’s music. MJF then reveals it to be a ruse. He says both Ospreay and Omega are afraid of him, and praying they don’t have to face MJF down the line.
In a bar, Divine Dominion call Brawling Birds walking stereotypes and say that being unbeaten means nothing when they’ve never faced Divine Dominion.
Mick Foley interviews the Bang Bang Gang. Jay White talks about how there’s no interference, and how David Finlay and Jon Moxley are the two people he most wants revenge against.
Match Two: Continental Cup: First Round: Jay White vs. David Finlay
White presses Finlay to the apron, boots him to the floor, chops, tosses Finlay into the announce table, rolls him into the ring, Finlay goes for a chop in the corner, reversed, White with chops, Finlay with a tackle, running senton, mounted punches, trading shots, to ringside, White suplexes Finlay onto the apron, chop, both men back in the ring, White with a suplex for two, Finlay with a suplex for two, another suplex, stomp to the hand, European uppercut, trading chops, Finlay with a choke in the ropes, crossface punches, elbow in the corner, suplex for two, suplex to the corner, reversed, Finlay with a DDT for two, White goes for an uranage, blocked with elbows, Blade Runner, reversed into a rollup for two, itself reversed into a rollup for two, Finlay with a backbreaker for two, sets White up top backward, back superplex, blocked, White with punches, Finlay with a European uppercut, White with a lariat, German for one, Blade Runner, blocked with an elbow, Finlay with a DDT for two, Razor’s Edge, blocked, White with kicks, suplex, reversed into a Razor’s Edge, reversed into a Dominator for two, Blade Runner, reversed into a DDT for two, Finlay follows up with a trio of lariats, goes for another DDT, reversed into a Blade Runner for three.
Winner: Jay White
After a commercial, Tony Schiavone welcomes Brodido and Hangman Page to the ring. They all talk about how hyped they are to be champions again, but before Hangman can really get started, Swerve’s music hits. Swerve says the bond that brings the new champs together is a history of being victimized by Swerve. He chides Hangman for losing any future opportunity at the AEW World Championship. Hangman says Swerve has no room to talk, because for all the awful things he’s done, he hasn’t actually accomplished anything this year.
The Demand come out (including Lethal Twist). Ricochet asks what Swerve is even doing by himself when it’s a trios championship. He says Toa’s shoulder was up last week. He then tells Swerve to leave, because there are nine guys who hate him. Swerve exits the ring, stares down Ricochet, then puts his hands up and walks off. Before he leaves, he calls Ricochet a bitch. Hangman then challenges Ricochet to take his belts back. Ricochet says that’s a great idea, but they’ll do it on their time.
Backstage, Renee tries to interview Willow Nightingale, but Mercedes Mone attacks and whips Willow with the Owen belt.
Match Three: TNT Championship: Kevin Knight (c) vs. Chris Jericho
Knight comes out hot with gut punches in the corner, Jericho with a brainbuster for two, Knight with punches, Jericho with a backbreaker for two, slap, toss to the corner, sets Knight up top, punches, super hurricanrana, brawl on the floor, Knight takes control, Callis with a cheap shot, Knight rolls Jericho in the ring, top rope lariat for two, Jericho with chops, whip to the corner, reversed, Knight with a choke in the ropes, trading shots, Jericho to the ramp, Knight with a diving lariat, moxed strikes, Jericho with a DVD, trading rollups in the ring, Knight with a DDT, sets Jericho up top, super hurricanrana, reversed into a powerbomb for two, Jericho locks in the Walls, Don Callis stabs Jericho with a screwdriver, Knight with a Coast to Coast for two, Jericho with a Codebreaker for two, misses a Judas Effect and has to stop short to avoid hitting Aubrey, Knight with a low blow, Crash Landing for three.
Winner and STILL TNT Champion: Kevin Knight
The Death Riders talk about how the format of the Continental Cup makes it unpredictable, but that’s okay.
Match Four: Kris Statlander vs. Viva Van
Stat with an arm wrench, reversed, Stat with a single-leg, trading strikes, Stat with a discus lariat, Wednesday Night Fever for three.
Winner: Kris Statlander
Mick Foley comes out and announces that Stat will get a shot at the TBS Championship next week in a 4-way, also featuring Persephone and Shida. He asks for comments. Stat says she feels great, and ready to fight. She says Maya World deserves the championship, but Persephone and Shida deserve everything that’s coming to them. She talks about her own history with the TBS Championship. Persephone and Shida come out, but their imminent opponents come out to even the odds.
Match Five: TBS Champion Maya World and CMLL Mexican National Women’s Champion Thunder Rosa vs. CMLL World Women’s Champion Persephone and Shida Hikaru
Persephone and World start off, lockup, World gets the better of it, Persephone bails, Shida in, Rosa in, jockeying, Rosa with a knee in the ropes, trading rollups for two, bad guys with an attempted double team, Rosa fights her way out, brawl erupts, Rosa and Persephone end up legal, trading shots, Shida in, knocks Rosa around, Persephone in, attempted double team, Rosa fights her way out, Shida tosses her to the floor, over the barricade, Persephone in, double team, suplex, reversed into a DDT, World in, cleans house, Rosa in, continues to clean house, Shida in, knee, falcon arrow for two as World breaks the count, kicks Persephone, tags in, cleans house, rollup for three.
Winners: Maya World and Thunder Rosa
Backstage, Darby says he hasn’t been back to the World Championship because he’s been too busy getting revenge on Kevin Knight, but he has no regrets about his run. He reiterates his challenge. He says Knight will have officially lived up to his potential if he can beat Darby Falls Count Anywhere.
Elsewhere backstage, Renee congratulates Kyle Fletcher on his defense last week. He says it’s been three defenses in three different countries, and he’s looking forward to adding a fourth. Callis informs him that he’s defending against Takeshita at All In, but he was able to get a “concession”: Okada added to the match. Fletcher objects, but Okada says the only thing that matters is that the title stays in the family.
Main Event: Continental Cup: First Round: Jon Moxley (c) vs. Jungle Jack Perry
I’m using the nomenclature for a championship match, but please note, as far as I know, Jack Perry is not declared champion if he wins, but Jon Moxley does lose the championship if he loses. Although I’m not sure if his championship reign would be considered over immediately with the championship vacant until end of tournament, or if his reign would continue until the new champion is crowned.
Lockup, jockeying, rope break, lockup, Perry with strikes, suicide dive, blocked with a forearm, Mox tosses Perry into the barricade, rolls into the ring, back to the floor, trading chops, Mox tosses Perry over the announce table, Perry is busted open, Mox tosses Perry around, rolls him into the ring, tosses him around in the ring, Perry with a lariat to no effect, Mox with a boot, Perry tosses Mox to the floor, pair of suicide dives, suicide senton, top rope moonsault, lariat for two, Mox with a lariat, piledriver for two, lariat for two, mounted forearms, ref calls him off, checks on Perry, Perry tells him not to call the match off, slaps Mox, trading strikes, Perry with a lariat, superkick, rollup for two, Snare Trap, eventually reversed into a bulldog choke, Perry to his feet, but then collapses, gets back to his feet, collapses, Mox adds in a body scissors, Perry goes out.
Winner: Jon Moxley
Dynamite goes off the air with the victorious Moxley stumbling around the ring.