Couldn’t think of what to call this week, but if last week was Maximum Carnage, this week therefore must have at least a tiny bit less carnage than the maximum. Still, it’s got Josh Alexander vs. Kenny Omega, which might be Maximum Graps!
Dynamite opens with Tony Schiavone introducing MJF. He starts to ask him about last week’s title defense, but MJF cuts him off, talks about how great his life of luxury is, and says it’s all because he’s the best wrestler alive. He says the proof is in the championship. As he’s talking himself up, Brody King interrupts. He says all he wants to do is hurt MJF for what he did to Bandido last week, but he won’t do it, because MJF’s “just a bitch”. He says, if he puts his hands on MJF, it’ll disrupt his chances of getting a match. He then challenges him to a world title match tonight. MJF backs up, then says no, because Brody King is all bark and no bite, and hasn’t done anything to earn a title shot. He tells King not to interrupt him again, and pokes him in the chest in the process. Once he realizes what he’s done, he exits quickly.
Backstage, Renee asks the new trios champs about their upcoming matches. They mull over potential team names, then hype up those matches too. Knight asks Hangman for advice against Swerve, Hangman gives a noncommittal answer.
Match One: Samoa Joe vs. “Speedball” Mike Bailey
Joe heads to the floor while Speedball shadowboxes, Joe gets back in the ring, lockup, Joe presses Speedball to the corner, ref forces a break, Joe with punches, headbutts, chop in the rope, trading strikes, Joe with a whip, blocked, Bailey with a big boot, another, third, blocked, Bailey with roundhouse kicks instead, dropkick, Joe lands on the floor, Bailey with a baseball slide, reversed into a chop, grabs a chair, Speedball with a dropkick, heads into the ring, baseball slide, Asai moonsault, Hook and Shibata confront Bailey, Joe with an elbow back in the ring, boots Bailey to the floor, the other two Opps stomp Bailey, roll them back into the ring, Joe with a stomp, snapmare, chop to the back, kick, elbow drop for two, Bailey with gut punches, Joe dumps them to the floor, Shibata attacks, rolls Bailey into the ring, Joe with a stomp, punches to the traps, nerve pinch, Bailey with an elbow, Joe with an elbow, cover for two, chinlock, Bailey elbows out, Joe with an eye gouge, chop in the corner, chops in the adjacent corner, whip, Bailey with a boot, ducks an avalanche, hits a swing kick, goes up top, missile dropkick, kicks, misses a running shooting star, Joe misses a senton, Bailey with a kick, goes up top, shooting star press for two, Joe to the apron, Speedball with a kick, trading strikes on the apron, Joe goes for a back suplex, Speedball lands on their feet, kick, misses the moonsault knee drop, Shibata hits a suplex on the apron and one on the floor while the ref isn’t looking, then a shin breaker, rolls them into the ring, Joe with stomps, trading chops, Joe with a lifting shin breaker, kneebar, Bailey gets to the rope, Joe with kicks, kneebar, Bailey gets to the rope, Joe with kicks, Bailey suckers him in for a crane kick, another kick, moonsault knee, roundhouse kick to the head for two, running kick in the corner, goes up top, Hook with a distraction, Bailey elbows him, ducks an avalanche, rollup for two, misses a roundhouse kick, Bailey locks in the Coquina Clutch, Bailey reverses into a rollup for two, roundhouse kick, goes up top, Shibata with a distraction, Joe crotches Bailey, Muscle Buster for three.
Winner: Samoa Joe
Match Two: Street Fight: Death Riders (Continental Champion Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta and Daniel Garcia) vs. Don Callis Family (Lance Archer, Hechicero and Rocky Romero)
Death Riders attack during the Family entrance to spark a brawl, brawl goes through the crowd, then into the ring, Death Riders hold the ring, Yuta with a suicide dive to Archer, Archer responds with a chokeslam through the timekeeper’s table, brawl resumes, Marina Shafir stares down Lance Archer before the brawl resumes, DCF end up beating down Mox in the ring, Garcia tries to help out but gets beat down, Mox manages to rebound until Archer hits him with a crossbody, Archer then grabs a chair, Shafir stares down Archer, slaps him, Archer goes for a powerbomb, Shafir locks in an armbar, slap, ankle lock, Mox with a cutter, misses a lariat, Archer slams him through the table in the corner, Yuta nits the ring, he and Garcia take out Archer, the other two DCF members lock them both in abdominal stretches, Mox takes them both out, pulls out a board covered in barbed wire and glass, Archer chokeslams him through it, drags Yuta up the stage, goes to chokeslam him off the ramp, PAC comes out of nowhere and beats Archer with a crutch, Claudio joins in, Shafir low blows Hechicero, Yuta hits a Busaiko Knee, Mox locks Rocky in a bulldog choke in the ring, Rocky escapes, Garcia hits Rocky with a piledriver, locks in the Sharpshooter, Mox with a stomp, the ref declares Rocky out.
Winners: Death Riders
Mox goes over to Callis on commentary, grabs a mic, and says Callis’ boy knows where to find him.
Backstage, Thekla asks why Stat hasn’t been more forthcoming with a title shot. She gives her one week. Julia Hart challenges Willow for the TBS Championship on Collision, saying they never had their rematch from when Willow beat Hart for her first TBS Championship.
Match Three: AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR vs. YDNP (non-title)
Stokely says the newcomers picked the wrong night to try to impress, and that he hopes Davis and Doyle are watching.
Cash and Oliver start, Cash tosses Oliver around, Oliver with a rollup for two, Cash with chops, whip to the corner, Oliver floats over, hip toss, chop, dropkick, Dax in, Oliver with a dropkick, stereo suicide dives, Price with a second suicide dive to both opponents, dual crossbodies to Cash for two, Oliver with an arm wrench, Price in, punch to the arm, Cash with a lariat, Dax in, double team punches, mixed strikes in the corner, Price and Oliver run a train, Oliver with a rollup for two, another rollup for two, Dax with mixed strikes, tosses Price, lariat for Price, trading strikes with Oliver, Dax gets the better of it in the corner, sets Oliver up top, chops, Power and Glory, blocked as Price hits a hurricanrana on Cash, Oliver with a crossbody to Dax, toss to the corner, chop, Price in, Cash tries to distract, Price beats him down on the apron, Dax shoves Oliver to the floor, after a bit of jockeying a Shatter Machine to Price gets the three.
Winners: FTR
The trio of Women’s Champions accept all the challenges that were made earlier.
Match Four: Kenny Omega vs. Josh Alexander
Alexander attacks during Kenny’s entrance, chokes him with a towel, tosses him into the steps, pulls up some of the ringside padding, Kenny takes him down, Asai moonsault, rolls Alexander into the ring, bell rings to start the match, Kenny with chops, whip, reversed, Kenny with a boot, Slingblade for two, kicks, dropkick, misses a boot to the apron, Alexander with a punch, slam onto the apron, Alexander with punches to the gut, punches, mixed strikes in the ring, ten-punch, bites Kenny’s head, choke in the ropes, trading strikes, Alexander with a slam for two as Kenny gets to the rope, V-Trigger, fireman’s carry, goes up top, Kenny with elbows, Alexander with a fireman’s carry senton from the top for two, both men to the floor, after a brief tussle Kenny hits a snap dragon on the concrete that Alexander exposed earlier, Kenny with a suicide senton, rolls Alexander into the ring, goes up top, dropkick to the back, fisherman ushigoroshi for two, V-Trigger, reversed into an enziguri, Alexander goes for a suplex, both men tumble over the top rope and to the mat, trading punches on the floor, Kenny slams Alexander’s head into the announce table repeatedly, Don Callis tries to interject, Kenny chases him into the crowd, goes back in the ring, Alexander locks in an ankle lock from the floor, tosses the leg into the ring apron, climbs into the ring, suplex, blocked, Kenny with a boot, Alexander with a dragon screw through the ropes, baseball slide, rolls Kenny into the ring, Kenny hits a V-Trigger, powerbomb, V-Trigger for two, One Winged Angel for three.
Winner: Kenny Omega
Omega grabs a mic and says Don Callis picked a good moment, but Kenny’s feeling better than he has in years, and no one in the Don Callis Family can beat him where he is now. He says Callis can keep trying, or come back after Kenny wins the belt back.
Match Five: Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford vs. Timeless Love Bombs
Match opens as a brawl, Storm covers Bayne for two which I guess makes them legal, Bayne with a fallaway slam, tosses Mina into Storm on the floor, then tosses Ford onto both of them, Ford and Bayne each toss an opponent into the barricade, then do it again, lariat to Mina in the ring, Ford in, handspring elbow, take turns hitting running strikes in the corner, Bayne with a slam, Ford uses her back as a springboard to hit a moonsault for two, Ford with kicks, punch to the back, Bayne in, shoulder tackles to the gut in the corner, suplex for two, Ford in, rollup for two, Bayne in, slam for two, Mina with a kick, dropkick, double tag, Storm cleans house, turning into a two-on-two brawl, Mina hits a slingblade on Ford from the top for two as Bayne breaks the count, sparking another brawl, Bayne and Ford get Mina alone and beat her down, brawl resumes, bad guys hit Mina with a Doomsday Device for three as Marina Shafir blocks Storm from making the save and locks in Mother’s Milk.
Winners: Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford
Main Event: Swerve Strickland vs. Kevin Knight
Swerve with a front facelock, arm drag, some jockeying, Knight with an arm drag, tosses Swerve to the floor, misses a suicide dive but hits a crossbody from the top, another in the ring, goes up top, Swerve with a chop, both men on the floor, Knight with a hurricanrana, dropkick from the apron, rolls goes to roll Swerve into the ring, blocked, misses a springboard clothesline, misses several kicks, Swerve with a backbreaker, dropkick, Knight lands on the floor, Swerve with a kick from the apron, stomp back in the ring, knee wash, stomp to the back, recliner, stomps, trading kicks, Knight with a dropkick, body slam, misses a standing frog splash, Swerve with a Flatliner, misses a House Call, Knight with a running splash for two, Swerve with a boot, toss to the corner, sets Knight up top, Knight with elbows, sunset flip, blocked with a punch, Knight hits the bomb on a second attempt, DDT for two, Swerve with punches on the apron, Knight with a boot to the gut, DDT, reversed into a DVD, Swerve drags Knight up on the barricade, piledriver, 450 in the ring, dragon sleeper, Knight to his feet, Swerve sets him up top, Knight with punches, drops down, forearm, springboard super hurricanrana, goes up top, Coast to Coast, goes up top again, UFO for two as Swerve gets a foot on the rope, Knight hits Swerve with a House Call, fireman’s carry, Swerve with elbows, Knight goes for something, Swerve leaps off and lands on his feet, trading kicks, Knight goes for a spear but gets caught with a House Call, Swerve with a Vertebreaker, Big Pressure for three.
Winner: Swerve Strickland
Dynamite goes off the air with Swerve staring down MJF, who is watching from a sky box.