Welcome one and all to Pwinsider.com's ongoing coverage of AEW Full Gear. It's Saturday Night and you know what that means! Excalibur welcomes us and throws it to Tony Schiavone, who introduces Dante Martin to the crowd. Tony congratulates Dante on his big win last night and wants to know about the offer to join Team Taz. Without being able to answer, The Acclaimed come out to interrupt. Excellent rap by Platinum Max. They want Martin to join the Acclaimed. They talk copious amounts of trash and Martin executes a tope con hillo onto them.
We get a preview of Darby Allin vs. MJF
Nyla Rose & Jamie Hayter vs. Thunder Rosa and Hikaru Shida
Rosa and Rose kick us off by trading kicks. Headlock by Rose, shoulderblock by Rose. Rollup by Rosa for 1, another rollup and Rose escapes immediately. Shida tags in and hits a dropkick and pounds kicks in the corner. Rosa tags in and tries asuplex. Shida tries to help but Rose double suplexes them both. Here comes Hayter. She stomps Shida in the corner. Hayter chokes Rosa and hits a big uppercut. Rosa counters with big chops but Hayter sends her back in the corner. Rosa escapes and tags in Shida. Big kicks by Shida but Hayter sends her to the outside
Rose kicks Shida on the outside and then tags in. Neck wrench by Rose on Shida and tags in Hayter. Hayter with kicks and Shida fires back but a big right hands sends Shida down for a 2 couint. Shida staggers to the wrong corner and gets choked out by Rose. Rose tags in and hits a big suplex. Hayter tags in and eats a suplex. Hayter blocks the tag with a backbreaker. Shida blocks alariat and nails a kick. Both women are down.
Rose and Rosa both tag in . Double knees in the corner by Rosa into a leaping dropkick for 2, broken up by Hayter. Rosa and Shida with double knee strikes on the opposition and they hit cross bodys on the outside. Rose gets the edge on Shda and sets her up for a superplex. Rose with a cover but Rosa dropkicks her off. Shida ranas Rose into the buckle and rolls her up for the pin.
WINNERS: Hikaru Shida and Thunder Rosa
We are live on PPV. Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone and Excalibur have the call of the action.
MJF vs. Darby Allin w/Sting
We were promised a straight wrestling match. Lockup. Headlock takedowns by Friedman, Allin shoves him off. They reverse standing switches and wristlocks. They wrestle to a stalemate until a deep armdrag by Allin. They trade rollups. Hurancanrana rollup for 2 by Allin and they trade armdrags. The crowd comes alive. Lockup, right hand by MJF and throws him to the outside and big lariat on the floor by Maxwell. Maxwell poses and Allin with a lope suicida. Darby fires away at the forearms and sends his boot straight into MJF's throat. Allin misses the coffin drop on the apron. Elbows by MJF in the ring and he scores a 2 count.
Test of strength, MJF rolls it into a backbreaker for 2. Into the buckles goes Allin. Arm twist by MJF, Darby sends him straight into the corner but MJF with a backbreaker and a salto suplex. Another backbreaker by MJF. MJF with forearms to the back. MJF sets up a superplex but Allin counters into a stunner off the top. Both men are down. Headbutt by Darby and he goes for the coffin drop but Maxwell rolls out of the way and hits a side headlock takedown into a backbreaker. Punches by MJF, he bites the hands of Allin. Thumb to the eye by MJF. Allin goes for a Destroyer but MJF counters into a powerbomb for 2. Sharpshooter by MJF. Allin punches the knee and a chop block.
Back elbow by MJF he double stomps the shoulder. Another chop block by Allin, he applies the figure 4. MJF makes the ropes. They trade forearms but a tombstone on the apron by MJF. Allin just beats the count into the ring. Small package by MJF into a backslide. They trade several small packages and 2 counts. Destroyer for 2 by Allin. Allin hits the coffin drop on the outside after MJF rolled out. Allin rolls him nback in and tries another coffin drop. MJF gets the knees up. WOW this is awesome!!! Shawn Spears and Wardlow come out but Sting fights them off.
Superkick by MJF, both are down. MJF grabs a skaeboard and rolls it to Allin. Allin gives it to the ref. While bringing it back to the apron, MJF pulls out the Dyamite Diamond ring and connects with a punch. Side headlock takeover and MJF scores the pin.
WINNER: MJF
AEW World Tag Team Title: The Lucha Bros (champions) vs FTR
Not even going to try and keep up. Bullet point time:
All four slug it out at the onset. Cash gets backdropped to the floor. Penta and Dax legally kick us off and excahnge forearms and chops. Rollup by Dax for 1.
Things gets chippy and all 4 face off. Cash tags in, as does Penta, Cash with a takedown and all four battle. Dax pulls Cash out before a double superkick. FTR catches a tope attempt and fallaway slam the Lucha Bros into each other. Cash misses a dropkick. Fenix hits a slingblade and throws FTR into each other.
Penta cannonballs himself into both members of FTR and the Lucha Bros hit stereo dropkicks into their challengers. Stereo submissions by the Lucha Bros, shaken off by FTR. Hot shot by FTR for 2. I envy Cory Strode at this moment as he's there live.
Cash Wheeler ties Fenix's mask on the bottom rope. Double catapult into the middle rope by FTR. Uppercut by Cash, tag in to Dax, who hits a running legdrop. Rear chinlock by Dax. Superkick by Penta. This is insanity trying to keep up.
Sunset flip by Fenix into a rolling reverse by Penta for 2. Cash nails Fenix with the AAA belt for 2. Assisted backdrop for 2 by Wheeler. Penta blind tags in but Tully blocks him. 3 Amigos by Dax, reversed on the 3rd and Penta hits the 3rd.
Frog splash by Fenix and he only gets 2. Spike piledriver for 2 by FTR. Rollup and superkick by Fenix to Dax. Penta tags in, they hit a package piledriver AND a cross body for 2. I apologize but this is impossible to keep up with. FTR dons masks and one of them rolls up Penta for 2. Lucha Bros score the pin after the spike.
WINNER AND STILL AEW WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS: The Lucha Bros
AEW Title Eliminator Finals: Miro vs. Bryan Danielson
Code of Honor not adhered to. Lockup, shove by Miro, he flexes to the crowd. Leg kick by Danielson, Miro with a biel toss. Danielson backs off. Test of strength, chops by Danielson into a side headlock. Uppercuts by Danielson into big chops in the corner. Miro shoves him off and Bryan rests on the outside. Lockup, Miro with body shots and Danielson tries a tornado DDT. Miro shoves him off and connects with a shoulder tackle. Big right hand by Miro. Miro misses 2 clotheslines and Bryan with a running lariat. They go to the floor and Miro with a fallaway suplex. Into the barricade gies Danielson, as well as the stairs. Suplex by Miro for 2 into a rear chinlock, he takes it to the corner and shoves both feet into Danielsons face. Hammerlock throw by Miro.
Danielson with chops in the corner into a running dropkick. He tries another and eats a Samoan Drop. Miro sends Danielson into the post to the outside. Danielson sends Miro into the post and connects with a running knee. Shothun dropkivk by Danielson. Yes kicks by Danielson, he gets a 2 count. Danielson with a kneebar, Miro is in trouble but he maneuvers into a belly to back suplex. German Suplex by Miro. Danielson escapes a follow up German and hits a kick for 1. Danielson with stomps, Miro is down. Miro counters the Bushida knee into a powerbomb for 2. Danielson gets caught in the Accolade but makes the ropes.
I want a bonus for this show.
Danielson counters another Accolade and applies the LeBell Lock. Miro with ground and pound but Danielson into a triangle but Miro gouges the eyes. Danielson with uppercuts and Miro doesn't register. He wants a fight and brushes off kicks. Miro eats 3 kicks and lands 1, sending Danielson down.
They go to the top rope and exchange forearms. DDT by Danielson and he puts Miro to sleep with a guillotine.
WINNER: Bryan Danielson
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