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It’s Wednesday and AEW Dynamite is live from Albuquerque, NM at the Rio Rancho Events Center. Our commentary team is Excalibur, Ian Riccaboni, and Taz.
Tony Schiavone is in the ring and brings out Adam Page and Will Ospreay. After Tony sets the stage, he lets them talk. Ospreay says security isn’t needed and dismisses them. Ospreay then asks Page if he still drinks and he apologizes for hitting Page last week and hands him a beer. Page takes the beer but still looks askance at him. Ospreay asks that they be the main event on Sunday, He says the winner of their match wins the Owen Hart cup, they get a title shot, and they have the responsibility bringing back the title.
He talks about what he does to perform and how he wants to bring that title to the world and have it at Forbidden Door to thank people for their support through the years, in an arena 30 minutes from his house. He knows Page wants the title, but he wants it that little bit more.
Page says that is the difference between them. Page knows Ospreay wants the title and the title is the greatest honor in wrestling. Page says for Ospreay it is a professional accomplishment, but for Page it is personal. He doesn’t want the opportunity, he needs it. He hasn’t had any other titles since he lost the title. Page says his children are disappointed in him, his wife pities him, and he needs his family to know he is the man they deserve. Page needs to know that there is some kind of light after his two years of hell. He needs to know that Ospreay was wrong when he said it was too little, too late.
Ospreay asks what Page will do to win. Will Page put him out of the business like he did Christopher Daniels. He knows he has lost in the past, but he didn’t lose by cheating, and he lost, he won the fans’ respect.
They yell at each other about how one of them will have to beat Jon Moxley. Ospreay says that Page’s attention has been on Swerve, not on winning the title. Ospreay says people don’t look up to Page anymore. Ospreay says he is just a man who will do his best, and he lists the people he’s beaten and says his best is the best in (something censored) world. He wants to be able to look at Page and be proud of him, and no matter who wins, beating Mox will take people working together and he hopes they have each other’s backs.
They each drink their beers and go face to face. We are told that they will have the main event at Double or Nothing.
We then get a rebuttal from Jon Moxley, who takes the long walk into the building and says the spoils will go to those who embrace the anarchy.
Jon Moxley and the Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) w/Marina Shafir vs Samoa Joe, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Swerve Strickland w/Prince Nana
Joe and Mox attack each other as soon as the bell rings. They go to their corners and they are each held back by the other members of their team. This brings us Hobbs and Matt and Hobbs clothesline down Matt. Matt is able to get to his corner and tags in Nick. Hobbs tags in Swerve as Matt leaves the ring and after they run the ropes, Swerve gets a pop-up backbreaker. Swerve gets a suplex from off the top rope and this sets off the tag team siren and everyone is fighting around the ring.
Lots and lots of dives, but the Bucks cut off Joe when it’s his turn to dive. Swerve gets a flatliner on Nick before his dive. Now Joe gets to dive as we go to picture in picture.
When they return to full screen, Hobbs has been the babyface in peril and Mox’s team has been working over his knee by cutting the ring in half. Hobbs is able to do a big slam on Nick and tags in Swerve. Swerve works over the Bucks when he gets into the ring. When the fight gets to the floor, they are able to drop Swerve and work him over. Swerve is rolled into the ring and they work over Swerve by cutting the ring in half again.
Swerve gets his knees-up when Nick tries for a swanton, but Mox knocks Swerve’s teammates off the apron, so they all go back to work on Swerve. Matt dives onto Joe and Hobbs and the Bucks hit Risky Business on Swerve for two. They go back to work on Swerve with quick tags and we go back to picture in picture.
When we return to full screen, Mox hits a stalling pile driver for two, and Joe breaks it up. Mox goes for a crossface on Swerve and Swerve is able to twist out of the hold, so Mox turns it into a full nelson. Swerve fights out of it, and as Mox holds him, Swerve gets a headbutt and tags in Joe. Joe cleans house. Joe tags in Hobbs and gets a frog splash and Swerve covers for two, broken up by Nick and Mox.
The Bucks get a superkick on Swerve followed by a DDT. This leads to each person getting a big move on the last person, ending with Swerve getting a stomp on the Bucks from the apron to the floor. Matt is rolled into the ring, and Hobbs is tagged in. Hobbs’s straps come down and Mox gets a spinebuster, followed by Matt taking one and then Nick taking one onto his brother. Joe clotheslines Mox out of the ring, but the Bucks superkick him. The Bucks get a super plex on Swerve and miss an EVP trigger. Joe grabs a coquina clutch on one Buck as Swerve rolls up the other for the pin and the win.
Winners: Samoa Joe, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Swerve Strickland
The Death Riders swarm after the bell, but Kasuyori Shibata hits the ring to attack. Shibata beats down Yuta and Claudio, but Shafir stops him with a low blow. Thai brings out Willow Nightingale to take out Shafir, who runs off.
Kenny Omega has entered the fight and snap dragons all around. Matt takes a V Trigger and when he sets for the One Winged Angel, Swerve stops him and sets up a table. Claudio saves Matt from being put through the table and the Death Riders and the Young Bucks retreat.
Joe grabs a mic and says a sane man would wait until this weekend, but he is not a sane man and they are coming after them.
In the back, Alicia Atout is with the Hurt Syndicate and their lawyer. MVP says MJF should be the most excited, and he shows in a new shiny suit and he is. After MJF shakes the hand of MVP’s lawyer, he asks for hand sanitizer.
It’s time for a contract signing. This time, it isn’t for an upcoming match, it’s for MJF joining the Hurt Syndicate, and MVP and the Hurt Syndicate come to the ring where their lawyers are waiting. MVP grabs a mic and he announces what will be happening and calls out MJF.
MJF comes to the ring, heels the crowd, and MJF says mother told him the most important day will be the day he marries the love of his life. He then says that dumb bitch didn’t get to join the Hurt Syndicate. MVP yells at the crowd for booing, and heels them. MJF and MVP keep mocking the crowd.
Oddly, it’s the first time MVP has really been a heel in the ring since coming to AEW.
Signatures are completed after Bobby Lashley takes some time and has to talk with Shelton and MVP before signing.
Before MJF can say anything, Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara come out. MJF tells them to leave and Dustin cuts him off and runs down MJF. He says he has respect from MVP, and he needs to watch out for MJF as a snake in the grass. Dustin then cuts a promo about how he and Sammy are Day One Guys and they want more gold. He says he knows they like to hurt people and he dares them to hurt him.
Dustin says there is nothing they can do than bigger and better people haven’t done. He finishes up with a fiery babyface promo.
Renee Paquette is with Kazushika Okada, and he says that Speedball Mike Bailey doesn’t call him out. He calls Speedball out and says he will beat him at Double or Nothing.
Anthony Bowens w/Billy Gunn vs Ricochet
Bowens pops Ricochet in the face in the middle of Ricochet posing for the crowd. They run the ropes and Bowens ends it with a leaping headlock takedown. Ricochet and Gunn jack jaws on the floor and Bowens breaks it up by running Ricochet into the barricade. Gunn rolls Ricochet into the ring and Bowens goes back to work and they end up fighting on the apron. Ricochet grabs the ref and uses the distraction to run Bowens into the ringpost as we go to picture in picture.
When we return to full screen, Ricochet has been in control of the match through the break. Ricochet tries for a power bomb, but Bowens blocks the pickup. Bowens gets a mule kick and follows with a back body drop. He then hits a spin slam from a fireman’s carry for two. Ricochet blocks a side slam and they throw hands. It moves to kicks and Bowens drops Ricochet with a big kick for two.
Ricochet lands on his feet after a backdrop. Ricochet gets a big kick and Ricochet misses a Spirit Gun. Bowens hits The Arrival and follows with the Mollywop, and Ricochet rolls to the floor. The ref is making sure Gunn doesn't roll Ricochet back into the ring and when Bowens grabs Ricochet, Ricochet nails him with a pair of scissors. Ricochet returns to the ring, hits a Spirit Gunn for the pin and the win.
Winner: Ricochet
Ricochet stops on the stage to yell at the crowd and Mark Briscoe comes from the back with a stretcher and Mark rams it into him and then beats him down. Mark loads Ricochet onto the stretcher and goes to the top. Ricochet rolls off the stretcher and runs to the back.
In the back, Stokley and FTR give a promo where Stokley says that FTR is the best tag team alive and he hypes up the contract signing for their match as the last contact Nigel McGuinness will ever sign in his career.
Renee is in the ring with Mercedes Mone and Jamie Hayter. Renee asks Hayter about being the underdog. Hayter says she doesn’t mind being the underdog, she hates when people look past her. She will fight to the top again no matter what happens. She doesn’t walk around with arrogance and having people doing her dirty work. She’s a fighter. She says the title match means more to her than it does to Mone. She says this is about not being forgotten. She talks about why winning validates her struggle.
Mone then says she isn’t worried about facing Hayter, and says Hayter doesn’t have Mone figured out. Mone is the Beyoncé of women’s wrestling. She is looking right through Hayter and she always gets what she wants and at All In, she will become the AEW Women’s Champion. Money puts herself over, bragging about her accomplishments. It’s not just about winning, it’s about her legacy.
Hayter then asks everyone if there is something different about Mone and she is missing the NJPW Strong Women’s title. She says Mone’s destiny is to lose everything.
Mone attacks Hayter and they throw hands. After Hayter drops Mone, we get Toni Storm’s music. Storm comes to the commentary and we go to commercial break.
Storm has been playing to the crowd through the entire commercial break to big cheers.
Mina Shirakawa vs Julia Hart
They lock up collar and elbow and move to side headlocks. They run the ropes and Hart grabs an arm and goes to the corner. Hart goes to the top and walks the rope before coming down with a blow to the back and a missed lariat. Mina gets a big chop and does the same rope walk, but comes down with a knee drop to drop Hart. They fight in the corner and Mine comes off the ropes with a drop-kick to Hart’s knees.
Hart kicks free of a figure four and Mina goes to the floor and mocks Storm until Hart nails her in the back. Hart lays in chops on the floor as we go to picture in picture.
When we return to full screen, they are throwing hands in the middle of the ring. Mina gets a drop-kick and follows with a rolling elbow strike. Mina runs into a boot in the corner, but she gets a dragon screw on Hart out of the corner. Mina charges into the corner and Hart is able to grab a tarantula in the ropes. Mina hits Hart with a spinning back fist as Hart gets into the ring. Mina goes to the top and goes for a crucifix bomb “but doesn’t get all of it” and gets a two count.
Hart gets a back heel trip and drags Mini to the corner. Hart goes to the top misses a moonsault, jamming her knee. Mina gets a drop-kick to the back of Hart’s leg and tries for a figure four, but Hart gets an inside cradle for two. Mina gets a rolling elbow and a back fist. Mina tries for a glamorous driver but Hart rolls through for two. Mina gets a modified mousetrap rollup for the pin and the win.
Winner: Mina Shirakawa
After the match, Hart attacks Mina, but Mina is able to turn the tables and locks on the figure four. Skye Blue hits the ring and attacks Mina to help Hart. Storm then rolls into the ring and gives Blue a German suplex. Mina drops Hart with a spinning back fist. Mina and Storm have a tug of war over the belt and Mina gets a dragon screw and then locks on the figure four around the ringpost.
Renee is in the back and the Bucks tell her that Joe didn’t do anything to them and they are leaving to catch a flight. As they leave, they are attacked by Joe and company, and the Death Riders join in. They fight out to the arena and fight with garbage cans, and other plunder. Everyone brawls around the ring and in the ring. As the fight goes on, the Bucks hit the EVP trigger on Omega. Everyone keeps brawling. Gabe Kidd comes out of the crowd and turn the tide for the Death Riders.
Swerve and Omega are laid out on tables and the Bucks leaps front he top through the tables, and we are desperately out of time!
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