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COMPLETE AEW DYNAMITE HOLIDAY BASH REPORT

Oh what a beautiful morning! Oh what a beautiful day!  I got a beautiful feeeeeeeeeling, AEW is on the aaaaaaiiirr....from Oklahoma.

Taz, Excalibur and Tony Schiavone are on the call of the action tonight.  

Continental Classic Gold League: Swerve Strickland vs. RUSH

Go behind by Swerve, Rush sits out, clean break. CHOPS by Rush. Head scissors by Rush. Swerve misses a dropkick and we have a staredown. Reverse kick by Swerve followed by CHOPS. Running forearm by Rush. Rush with a tope con hillo, Swerve had rolled to the floor. CHOPS by Rush followed by a kick to Swerve's jaw. Arm bar by Swerve as Rush poses. Swerve with punches to the hamstring of Rush. Leg sweep by Rush on the apron.  CHOP by Rush. German by Swerve. Dropkick by Rush as we go to commercial.

Rear chinlock by Swerve. Rush reverses and nails release Germans. Both men are down as a result of a double kick.  CHOPS by Rush. CHOPS by Swerve. Belly to belly into the buckles by Rush. Kick by Rush. Rush's leg gives out. Single leg crab by Swerve into a stretch plum. CHOPS by Rush into a rolling forearm. Piledriver for 2 by Rush.

Action spills to the apron. CHOPS by both men. Enziguiri by Swerve. Belly to belly by Rush. Rush scores a 2. Rush struggles to climb the ropes. He misses a senton. 450 for 1 by Swerve. Brainbuster by Swerve for 2.  House call by Swerve. Swerve stomp and he scores the pin.

WINNER: SWERVE STRICKLAND (3 points for the win, 12 points overall)

Rush finishes his tournament with 6.

Chris Jericho joins us and informs us of Kenny Omega's illness. The Golden Jets title match is obviously off for World's End. Heartfelt get well wishes from Le Champion.  I echo those sentiments. Get well soon, Kenny.

Continental Classic Gold League: Mark Briscoe vs. Jay Lethal

Lockup, neither has the advantage.  Lockup, go behind by Lethal into a takedown. Trip by Briscoe. Side headlock, they trade shoulder blocks. Slap by Lethal, CHOPS by Briscoe.  They exchange a lot of chops. Hip toss into a dropkick by Lethal. Redneck Kung Fu into a dropkick by Briscoe for 1. Punches to the ribs by Briscoe. Suplex by Lethal. Lethal with a kick sends Briscoe to the floor. Tope by Lethal. Briscoe catches him as he tries another and nails a suplex. Cactus Jack elbow by Briscoe as we go to commercial.

We're back and the two exchange forearms.  CHOP by Lethal into a Lethal combination. Lethal to the top and Briscoe CHOPS him. Superplex attempt, Lethal blocks it and Briscoe falls to the mat. Briscoe with a slap and a running dropkick. Briscoe sets up a chair and dives on Lethal. German by Lethal into a kick. Torture rack by Lethal and he goes to the top. Elbow drop for 2 by Lethal. Briscoe ducks a lethal injection. Fisherman by Briscoe for 2. Kick by Lethal. DVD by Briscoe. Lethal gets his feet up, blocking a froggy bow. Jay Driller by lethal and he scores a 2. 

This is a hell of a fun match.

Briscoe blocks another Injection and nails a Jay Driller and scores the pin.

WINNER MARK BRISCOE (3 points for the win, 3 overall)

Jay Lethal finishes his tournament with 0

Code of Honor adhered to.

We see video of MJF being inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

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We see a pretape from Wardlow. He wants MJF.

We then see highlights of the devil's henchmen attacking Hangman Page.

Samoa Joe comes out. Oklahoma cheers for him. He is wondering aloud who the Devil is.  The crowd boos the mention of Hangman. He says it is rather convenient that we never saw MJF beaten down.  MJF comes out. He accuses Joe of setting him up, since the Devils henchmen never touched Joe.  MJF shoves Joe. Here come the masked henchmen.  Joe and MJF easily fight them off.  Here come more.

Lights out. The Devil appears on screen and asks cryptic questions.  The Devil issues an ROH Tag Team Title challenge for next week.  Joe accepts on behalf of MJF

Renee Paquette is with Best Friends.  Rocky Romero wants the International Title. Cassidy accepts.

Toni Storm comes out and joins the booth

#1 Contenders Match: Saraya vs. Riho

Kick by Saraya into forearms. Kicks by Saraya for 2. Backbreaker for 2 by Saraya. Riho trips her and Saraya bails to the floor. Riho follows her and nails a trio of headscissors. Saraya swings Riho into the barricade as we go to commercial.

As we return, Saraya scores a 2.Flying head scissors by Riho into a 619. Riho barely connects with a cross body. Running knee strike by Riho. Kick by Saraya for 2 as Riho came off the top. Rollup by Riho for 2. Northern lights for 2 by Riho. Double running knee and Riho scores the pin.

WINNER RIHO

Riho vs. Toni Storm is now official for World's End

Luther carries Toni Storm to the ring. Storm has opera glasses to help her see Riho. Riho attacks and hits the 619. Mariah May nails Riho with the AEW title belt. Luther carries the champ off.

Tony Schiavone has a prepared statement from Christian Cage.  He will address Adam Copeland on Collision

Joe and MJF are arguing backstage. Joe storms off. MJF finds a black mask outside Mogul Embassy's locker room.  MJF confronts Nana and Swerve gets between them. Nice back and forth between the 2.  MJF wonders aloud if Swerve is behind these Devil attacks. Joe intervenes before the rest of Mogul Embassy can get involved.

Roderick Strong vs. Komander

Lockup, armdrag by Strong. Lockup, arm twist by Strong into a leg sweep. Komander evades a charge but Strong nails a hard kick. CHOP by Strong. Komander with a top rope arm drag into a headscissors, followed by a dropkick. Kick by Strong. Backbreaker by Strong. Forearm shivers by Strong. CHOP by Komander. Both fly to the floor after simultaneously going over the top rope. We go to commercial.

We are back and Strong misses a charge. Headscissors by Komander. Punch by Komander into an elbow. Trip by Komander into a cross body for 2. CHOP by Strong. Komander blocks a superplex and he sweeps Strong's legs out. Fenix splash for 2 by Komander. Komander takes out the Kingdom with a dive. Back in the ring, Strong scores the pin after a flipping lung blower.

WINNER RODERICK STRONG

The Kingdom puts up anti MJF propaganda.

Renee Paquette comes out. Strong warns Joe that Max is the Devil

We see Collision highlights of Thunder Rosa's return.

 

Jim Ross joins commentary for the main event.

Jay White vs Jon Moxley in an Continental Classic match

Mox has already secured a spot in the finals and if Jay White wins, next week’s semi-final is a three way with Swerve as well.

Mox goes for a sleeper right away, gets the hammer and anvil elbows and a pile driver to start off. Mox grabs a bulldog and White finally rolls out of the ring. After they brawl on the floor it becomes Mox’s match, where there's a lot of brawling in and out of the ring. Mox starts selling a knee as we go to picture in picture. 

White has taken over as we return to full screen, White has Mox in a Muta lock. White worked over Mox’s knee the entire break, so we’ve gone from a Mox style brawl to a slower paced breakdown by White. Mox fires up and starts beating down White with strikes and kicks.

Nice sign at ringside that says “Spoiler: Mox Is Going To Bleed”

The fight goes to the floor and as the ref is looking over Mox, White grabs a pair of chairs. The ref warns him.  White tosses a chair in the ring and as the ref is getting rid of the chair, White nails Mox in the knee with a chair. Mox takes until the 9 count to get in the ring and hits a paradigm shift immediately. White goes back to working the knee. Mox starts getting near falls by attacking head on. 

White starts hitting finishers and Mox keeps kicking out. At the 15 minute call, White hits the Blade Runner for the pin and the win.

Winner, getting three points and getting into the semi-final: Jay White

Excalibur goes down the card for Collision and matches for World’s End.

Swerve Strickland comes to the stage alone as we are desperately out of time. 

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