It's Wednesday Night!!! And that means AEW is live from the always dry-hot Phoenix, AZ for tonight's episode of Dynamite. Excalibur, Taz and Tony Schiavone are on the call.
AEW All Atlantic Championship: Orange Cassidy (champion) vs Wheeler Yuta
Code of Honor not adhered to Yuta goes for a slap. Armdrag into a bridge/Crucifix. Series of rollups and counters. Yuta rolls out. Front sweep by Yuta he's working on Cassidy's leg. Cassidy escapes but gets rolled up for 2. Armdrag into a seat belt for 2. Yuta rolls out to collect himself. Claudio Castagnoli comes out ans slaps Yuta. Yuta gets back in and takes down Cassidy and bites him. Shoulder tackle on the floor by Yuta. Cassidy gets sent into the barricade and then over the timekeepers table.
Claudio returns to the back. Yuta sends Cassidy into the post. Chops by Yuta. Cassidy puts his hands in his pockets and Yuta continues to chop away. Dropkick by Cassidy, he sends Youta into the buckles 10X. Enziguiri by Yuta into an elbow strike. Hammerlock by Yuta. Cassidy makes the ropes as we go to commercial.
We are back and it's Cassidy with a back elbow. Yuta with a punch and goes to the top. He nails a suplex and then a brainbuster for 2. Yuta with stomps. Upkicks by Cassidy. Cassidy with a hug but Yuta with a headbutt and hip toss. Yuta with hammerfists. German suplex by Yuta. Cassidy with one of his own. Victory roll by Cassidy for 2. Crucifix by Yuta for 2. They spit in each other's faces and exchange elblow strikes, both men go down. Yuta escapes a Beach Break but gets backdropped on the apron. DDT on the floor by Cassidy. Piledriver in the ring by Yuta for 2. Elbows by Yuta. Cassidy reverses it and rains elbows of his own. Seay belt by Yuta for 2. Orange Punch for 2 by Cassidy. Beach Break for 2 by Cassidy. Another Orange Punch and that's all she wrote.
WINNER AND STILL AEW ALL ATLANTIC CHAMPION ORANGE CASSIDY
Claudio comes out and orders Yuta out of the ring. Yuta obliges.
Renee Paquette is with Adam Page and Evil Uno. Page and Uno argue. Uno tells Page not to get involved.
Ricky Starks comes out. He soaks in the cheers, He accepts that the JEricho match won't happen. He has an open contract for a match at Revolution. He welcomes anyone to come out and sign it. Here comes Le Champion. Jericho accuses Starks of trying to bait him. He says Starks is not at his level. He wishes him luck with the open challenge.
Peter Avalon comes out to answer the challenge. Jericho with a Judas effect and enters the ring. He says he knows this is all a ploy to get him to sign. They go back and forth and, lo and behold,Starks tricks him into signing the contract with the stipulation that no one be allowed at ringside. We are official for Revolution.
I am watching closely as there is an "Anthony Hates Light Beer" sign somewhere in the building.
Lee Moriarty & Big Bill w/Stokely Hathaway vs. The Acclaimed
Moriarty and Caster kick us off. Caster with a high arm drag. Bill with a boot and Moriarty with a pump kick. Bowens with a blind tag into a backbreaker as we go to commercial.
As we return, Big Bill slams Caster and the Gunns come out to observe. Bowens with the tag and nails a side kick and a leg bulldog. Torture Rack slam by Bowens. Big Bill gets in the way. Boot to the face by Bill. The Gunns attack their dad on the floor. Caster sends Bill into the post. Moriarty with a DDT on Bowens but Bowens with a back slide and an Arrival. Caster tags in and hits the mic drop for the pin.
WINNERS: THE ACCLAIMED
Tony Schiavone welcomes Christian Cage. Jungle Boy immediately spears him and they brawl on the ramp. Perry leaves Cage laying. Nope. Perry comes back and sets up a con chair to. Low blow by Cage. Cage with a chair shot. Cage slams Perry's head into the chair. Perry is bleeding.
We see video about Wardlow and Samoa Joe.
Saraya w/Toni Storm vs. Skye Blue
Blue with forearms and flips Saraya with her legs. Forearm by Blue. Strom distracts Blue and Saraya knocks her off the top rope. Storm with a suplex on the floor while Saraya distracts the ref. Armbar by Saraya. Blue with an octopus but Saraya with a side suplex. Uppercut and kick by Blue. Saraya with forearms but Blue with a cross body and a kneestrike into a dropkick. Toni storm distracts the ref. Kick by Saraya into a sharpshooter/surfboard and Blue taps.
WINNER SARAYA
Dr Bitt Baker and Jamie Hayter stop the L painting for the night. Ruby Soho comes out. She challenges Hayter for the world title.
Bryan Danielson comes out.He's happy to be in Phoenix and references MJF hospitalizing William Regal. Here comes MJF, who is contractually obligated to be in Phoenix. MJF brings up a woman who broke up with him (probably not the woman he left for dead in a car accident). He says the AEW Title is the only thing that stops him from suicide. He references Danielson's head trauma. MJF says everytime he steps in the ring he is saying that wrestling is more important than family, and that sickens MJF. MJF addresses the Danielson children. Danielson cuts him off. It doesn't effect him and MJF tells the children that DaDa will never play with them again. They start brawling. Here comes security. They do their best but this is real personal.
Tony Schiavone is with Jamie Hayter and Dr. Baker WITHOUT Rebel. She challenges Ruby and Saraya to a triple threat.
Revolution Tag Team Battle Royal for a spot in the AEW Tag Title Match at Revolution.
There are no intros. I see Best Friends, Butcher & Blade, Lethal & Jarrett, Preston Vance & Rush, Ausssie Open, Silver & Reynolds, Top Flight, Tony Nese and Josh Woods (I think), Parker and Menard and the Lucha Bros. Mark Briscoe comes out and attacks Josh Woods and Mark Sterling. I could try and describe all of this but I honestly can't. I was wrong, it wasn't Woods, it was Ari Daivari. Daivari and Nese are eliminated as we go to commercial
I'm watching picture in picture and I don't see any eliminations. As we return, 18 men/9 teams are still here. aussie Open are out. Blade is out but Butcher is still in. La Faccion Ingobernoble are out.
Trust me, there's a lot of stuff going on. Danhausen curses Menard and PArker from ringside and they get eliminated. We go to commercial.
We're back and down to the nitty gritty. Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal are the only full team still in this. Dante MArtin and Butcher, along with Fenix are eliminated. Baretta is the last guy to challenge Lethal and Jarrett. Satnum Singh saves his guys. Trent skins the cat twice. Orange Cassidy saves Trent. Lethal is eliminated. Jarrett eliminates Trent with a Singh assist.
WINNERS JEFF JARRETT & JAY LETHAL
Lethal and Jarrett will go to Revolution at the Four Way Tag Title match.
We see a challenge by the House of Black to the Elite.
Announcement Time with Tony Kahn. Adam Cole enters the area. There's a new show coming out called All Access. It's a behind the scenes look at AEW. The night of the series premiere, Adam will make his in ring return.
We hear from Jarrett and Lethal. The Gunns come out and offer to work together before Revolution.
Jon Moxley vs.Evil Uno
Can I write WINNER: JON MOXLEY now? Uno enters the ring during commercial. Uno with kicks and chops. Uno with a back rake. Page is watching in the back. Moxley with a kick but a big clothesline by Uno. Uno sets Moxley up on the ropes. Moxley rips at the mask. Boot by Uno. Cannon ball to the floor by Uno, he rains right hands down on Moxley. Moxley sends Uno to the steps. Some one is bleeding. Crossfaces by Moxley. Pile driver by Uno, followed by another for 2. It is Uno bleeding. Moxley locks in the sleeper and rains elbows. Bulldog choke into a sleeper and that's it.
WINNER JON MOXLEY
Moxley won't let go. Silver and Reynolds try to help but the Black Pool Combat Club fend them off. Adam Page comes out to help. He's got barb wire. Moxley bleeds.
We go to credits.
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