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It is Wednesday and AEW Dynamite is coming to us from the Calgary Stampede Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta CANADA. Our commentary team is Excalibur, Nigel McGuinness, and Tony Schiavone. 

We start with a video recap of MJF’s promo from Collision Saturday explaining his attacking Daniel Garcia.

We start with Will Ospreay addressing the crowd. He says last week he was disgusted but not surprised. He says that MJF is the most insecure person in the company and if he feels he is losing his spot, he attacks others. We are told Daniel Garcia is still recovering. He says the bidding war of 2024 didn’t go MJF’s way. He says that MJF calls him a talentless hack, but he is Calgary where smart fans live and he has more talent in his left…um…testicle that MJF has is in whole body.

Mostly, he says he reminds people what AEW is supposed to be, and MJF only cares about himself. He says he’s cleaning up after MJF, and he welcomes the best version of MJF because the level of the devil is ground floor and he’s on a skyscraper.  He calls MJF out.

MJF’s music hits, but we get no MJF. We then see MJF on the big screen where he has a goblet of wine. MJF says the people of Calgary don’t deserve him. He’s beat everyone’s favorites and he’s no different. MJF says eventually people will see his routine and toss him out. He puts himself over and then says he will not wrestle him tonight. He says next week, he will wrestle for the International Championship. 

Will accepts the challenge. So, supposedly, we are going to get a big money match for free after two weeks of build?   

We then get a video hyping the Owen Hart finals.

Bryan Danielson vs Hangman Adam Page

Jeff Jarrett is the special enforcer for the match. I wish this was the main event (and the women’s final being the main event of Collision).

We are then told Taz was banned by the EVPs after Jericho asked for it.

Nigel goes on and on about how Bryan will probably lose and has only a 30 % chance of winning tonight.  No explanation of where that number comes from,which could have been some great  Scott Steiner math. The match itself starts as a hard hitting affair as Page has a hard hitting heel personna, and Bryan has always been someone who wrestles a stiff match. 

When we come back from the commercial break, Bryan is busted open and is fighting from underneath. In the second segment, the story of the match is that Page is in control, but Bryan is hitting big moves and going for submissions that Page is able to get out of.  We then move to the third segment when Bryan is hitting big moves and his kicks. Page is able to hit big moves, and has hit Bryan with two pile drivers and they bring in that the doctor may stop the match. Page gets in Jarrett’s face when Bryan is benign checked on, and Page pie faces him.  Jarrett does NOT fight back. Bryan struggles back into the ring against doctor’s orders. 

As he returns to the ring, Page rips off his tape and keeps going for the kill shot. Bryan is able to get the psycho knee, but can’t pin Page. We then get Bryan hitting the ref with a psycho knee because Page dodges.  Page then goes after Bryan with a belt. Jarrett hits the ring to stop him.  Page shoves Jarrett and Jarrett shows he has a referee’s shirt and the match continues. 

Page hits a deadeye and then hits a Buckshot lariat. When he goes for a second, Bryan gets a rollup for two, but Page reverses it into a crossface. Bryan still has Page’s belt around his neck. Bryan is able to roll Page onto his back for the pin and the win.

Winner of the Owen Hart Tournament and getting a title shot at All In: Bryan Daneilson

Jarrett walks Martha Hart to the ring for the presentation. Thankfully, we don’t get a run in or anything else as we get the presentation.  The winner surprised me and the match was fantastic.

After we’re done, Swerve Strcikland and Prince Nana come to the stage and come down to the ring through the break.

The First match has taken an hour of TV time, and it has NOT felt padded. Instead, it has put over how important the Owen Hart tournament is. 

Swerve says that Will Ospreay told him that the best in the world who is whoever holds the title. He congratulated Bryan for winning the Owen Cup and it will be an honor to face him at All In. He remembers Bryan holds a win over him, and he holds a grudge.  He says the EVPs try to bribe him with some small size Reebok pumps. He will be joining Blood and Guts for Team AEW.

He then challenges Okada and he will show Okada how to make it rain.  Bitch.

He then says that at All In, it will be Bryan Danielson’s Final Countdown.

They then let us know the Owen Hart Tournament’s women’s match will be the main event, and they have a promo video for the match. Having Bryan win makes the idea that Willow Nightingale could pull off an upset feel more plausible. 

We got a new music video from The Acclaimed.

Samoa Joe vs Chris Jericho in a Stampede Street Fight

We are told Hook was not cleared to travel to Canada.

This is just a big ol’ brawl, and it spills out to the floor quickly. When they get back in the ring, Jericho brings in another black bag, this one full of horse shoes. This match is pretty much just a back and forth brawl, and Joe has such a look of glee when he gets to turn the tide against Jericho. Joe gets to do the walkaway as Jericho leaps off the apron into the steel steps. 

They fight into the crowd and then backstage as it’s time for plunder. As Joe locks on the coquina clutch, Big Bill goes after him with a chair. Bryan Keith joins in as they fight. They fight around a forklift, so…

Chris has Joe on the forklift and then runs him through a sheetrock wall. The doctor stops the match.

Winner: Chris Jericho

When we come back from commercial, Joe is taken away in an ambulance. 

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Kyle Fletcher vs. Tomohiro Ishii vs. Pac for a International Championship match. 

Don Callis joins commentary.

We get two major matches in this match. Claudio and Ishii and Pac and Fletcher. They intersect from time t time, but for the most part we get a hoss fight with Claudio and Ishii, and a high flying spot match with Fletcher and Pac. They go to the commercial picture in picture pretty quickly.

We come back to Ishii fighting everyone off with sheer power. They have a really good sequence where everyone is fighting in the ring, but it ends with Claudio getting Fletcher into the giant swing. Ishii gets to have a lot of big power moves and just looks like a monster through this match. Things start to move fast as everyone gets a chance for a pin after a big move. Pac wins with a Black Arrow and a brutalizer on Fletcher.

Winner:  Pac

Yet another great match on tonight’s show. They are pulling out all the stops here tonight. 

Pac grabs a mix and says he has suffered many humiliating failures and since it’s All In Season, and he will not be denied his Wembley moment. 

In the back Renee runs down Page and he ignores her and knocks on Okada’s door. He tries to go by him and the Bucks come out. Page says he’ll do it. So, it looks like he’s in Blood and Guts.

Mercedes Money comes to the ring for another championship celebration. She thanks the Young Bucks for the extra security. She then says she is the best there was, the best there is, and the best there ever will be to a chorus of boos. She then says if she faced Britt Baker, she’d leave her for dead.

As she raises a toast, we hear Baker’s music and she starts to come to the ring. She fights through security. Mone takes off through the crowd. 

We come back to see Darby Allin attacking Brandon Cutler and calling out Jack Perry for next week.

Mariah May w/Toni Storm and Luther vs Willow Nightingale for the Owen Hart Tournament Final.

This is pretty much the opposite of the first match tonight as it starts with arm bars, waistlocks and other wrestling moves. May moves to kicks and Willow moves to power moves. When they come out of the picture in picture (and yes, we have another overrun) they move to near falls. May starts taking control of the match, getting more of the offense and dealing strikes and big moves.

Willow goes for a pounce, but May nails her with a headbutt and both are down. Willow gets up and Stokely Hathaway grabs Willow and Kris Statlander gets a kick to the head as Toni distracts the ref. May gets a cover but only gets a two count. The match moves to big moves and two counts, back and forth. May takes a cannonball in the corner, but she reverses a power bomb into a rollup for the pin and the win.

Winner of the Owen Hart Tournament and getting a title shot at All In: Mariah May

May and Storm skip up the ramp, and when May grabs the title she uses it to attack Toni Storm and Luther. Toni is busted open and Luther is knocked off the stage into tables. May then attacks Toni with a shoe. May knocks down a referee who tries to stop her and we’re desperately out of time!

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