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3/18 AEW DYNAMITE REPORT

By Cory Strode on 2026-03-18 22:25:00

AEW Dynamite is live from the Save Mart Center in Fresno, CA. Our commentary team is Excalibur, Bryan Danielson, and Tony Schiavone.

We get a video recap of the Revolution PPV from Sunday.

Will Ospreay vs The Already In The Ring Blake Christian

Blake goes to the floor to stall for time and when they do lock up, they start with arm bars and side headlocks. They run the ropes and after an initial interaction, Ospreay gets a tejaris and goes to the floor with Blake where they back and forth. They return to the ring and Blake gets a rollup and a leaping splash, but Ospreay gets the knees up and then hits a high boot. Knocking Blake to the floor. Ospreay dives onto Blake on the floor.

Blake is rolled back into the ring and Blake dives on Ospreay. They fight on the barricade and Ospreay springboards off the barricade with an elbow strike. Ospreay rolls Blake into the ring and hits another springboard elbow off the top rope for two. Blake gets a neck breaker and follows with a DDT. Blake gets a few stomps on Ospreay’s head and then gets a rear chinlock in the ropes. 

Blake gets a twisting chinlock in the ring, but Ospreay escapes and gets a series of big kicks and a backflip kick off the ropes. Ospreay gets a complete release back suplex and tries for a twisting backflip, but Blake moves and gets a stomp on Ospreay. Ospreay goes to the floor and dives onto Ospreay. Ospreay is rolled into the ring and Black gets a two count. Blake gets a backflip into a cutter for two.

Blake gets a knee lift strike into a sliced bread for two. Blake tries for a hidden blade, but Ospreay gets a back elbow strike and a hidden blade for the pin and the win.

Winner: Will Ospreay

Ospreay grabs a mic and says he missed everyone. He then asks if Jon Moxley knows the difference between them. Ospready says he doesn’t need a weapon to snap someone’s neck.

This brings out Jon Moxley and Wheeler Yuta. Ospreay doesn’t wait for them to get to the ring and attacks them both in the crowd. He then rolls Mox into the ring and sets for a Tiger Driver. Pac gets in the ring and breaks it up. Pac puts the brutalizer on Osprey and they are pulled apart from Security and referees.  

The Bang Bang Gang come out for their match and Ospreay charges the departing Pac and fights him in the back. 

Ace Austin and Juice Robinson w/Austin Gunn vs Jon Moxley and Wheeler Yuta

They are all brawling as the bell rings. As things calm down, Juice gives Yuta 5 in the corner. Ace tags in and gives another 5 in the corner. Ace and Juice give Yuta a double hip toss and Juice gets a senton for two. Yuta tags in Mox who gets a running lariat on Juice before the ground and pounds him. Mox goes for Juice’s eyes before the ref breaks it up. Juice and Mox throw chops. They block each other’s suplexes until Juice is able to get the suplex and then tag in Ace.

Ace runs the ropes, trips Mox and lays in kicks. Yuta gets into the ring and Ace hits a DEEP Death Valley Driver. Ace gets a dive onto Mox on the floor. Yuta whips Ace into the steel steps as we go to picture in picture.

When we return to full screen, Mox has a Texas cloverleaf on Ace. Mox changes it into a rear chinlock and then into a crossface. Ace is able to roll to the ropes for the break. Ace gets a spin kick. He and Mox crawl to their corners. Yuta tags in and gets a double axe handle into Ace. They fight through the ropes and Ace gets a sunset flip. Yuta rolls through and Ace kicks him off and tags in Juice and Juice cleans house.

Daniel Garcia gets on the apron, but Austin Gunn takes him down. Mox tries to interfere and Juice nails him with a right hand. Juice then gets a power bomb on Yuta for two. Ace is tagged in and Ace goes for a senton from the top, but Yuta gets the knees up. Mox tags in and Ace fights out of the corner and then hits an insigiri. 

This sets off the tag team siren and everyone is fighting in the ring. As Juice and Yuta fight to the floor, Mox gets a death rider on Ace for the pin and the win.

Winners: Jon Moxley and Wheeler Yuta

We get a hype video for the coffin match between Gabe Kidd and Darby Allin

Recorded after Revolution, Kenny Omega cuts a promo about Swerve Strickland and asks him to put the number one contendership on the line. 

We go to the parking lot where Gabe Kidd said he would meet Darby Allin. Darby drives up and leaps onto Gabe and they begin to brawl. Bardy pulls some sort of liquid out of his bag, pours it on a rag and sticks it over Gabe’s face. He then puts Gabe in the trunk of his car and Darby ROLLS THE CAR. 

Darby gets out of the car with a body bag. He releases the trunk and Gabe drops to the ground, unconscious. Darby puts him on an equipment case and starts rolling Gabe to the arena. 

In the arena, there is a coffin at ringside and Darby pushes the road case with Gabe on it to ringside and the bell rings.

Darby Allin vs Gabe Kidd - Coffin Match

Darby pulls out a skateboard and a straightjacket from the road case and then grabs a chair. He sets Gabe in the chair and beats Gabe down. He then puts the straitjacket on Gabe, who is still knocked out. Darby goes to beat Gabe with the skateboard and Gabe kicks him and drops him into the steel steps. Darby is busted open and Gabe bites the wound. Gabe opens the coffin and then they fight over who is to go in until Gabe slams the lid on Darby’s fingers as we go to picture in picture.

When they return to full screen, Darby and Gabe are fighting on the top turnbuckle. Darby hits an avalanche Code Red. Darby finally fastens the latches of the straitjacket, so Gabe can’t use his arms. Darby then hits a scorpion death drop. Darcy goes to the top and Gabe kicks the ref into the ropes to knock down Darby. Gabe hits a power slam and then then charges into Darby, knocking him next to the coffin.

Gabe tries to slam the coffin lid on Darby and Darby bites Gabe to get him to stop. They return to the ring and Darby grabs his skateboard. Darby lays into Gabe with the skateboard. Darby gets a coffin drop from the top and then goes to the top for a second. Darby drags Kidd to the apron and then sweeps Gabe’s legs when he gets up. Darby then dives from the ring into Gabe, knocking into the coffin where the lid closes.

Winner: Darby Allin

After the match, Darby says he’s gonna hold the throttle until he sees God or the AEW World title and he tells MJF that he’s coming.

Next is a hype video for Jungle Jack Perry as his Jurassic Express bus shows up at the arena. The Young Bucks show up and they say they had a rough night at Revolution and they are going to fight their way back to the top. 

When we come back from commercial, Price Nana is in the ring and tells everyone to stand up for Swerve Strickland. After weeks of them pushing to make Swerve a heel, the crowd is NOT chanting for him as he comes to the ring.

Nana sets up a chair for Swerve to sit while he speaks. Swerve says he went to war with Brody King, but the only people who win a war are the ones with power. He says he enjoyed beating Brody but he’s not satisfied because the power is with someone else. He goes through his rise to the the top in AEW and he blames the Bucks for his last for the world title last year. Swerve asks what being the number one contender means if he doesn’t have the power to protect it.

Swerve says Kenny Omega only has one thing to offer in a match. His power. Swerve doesn’t want Kenny removed from power, he wants Kenny’s power. So if Kenny wants a rematch, he has to offer up his EVP status. 

Renee Paquette is with Speedball Mike Bailey and he says he had to wrestle all over the world for 20 years for people to see him as a star. He puts over Kenny Omega and says he will be a world champion, just like Kenny Omega.

Mark Davis vs Speedball Mike Bailey

Bailey comes to the ring in a Mistico mask. Bailey avoids a charge from Davis, but when Davis is able to get his hands on Bailey, he tosses him around. Bailey gets a series of kicks in the corner. Davis finally gets a shoulder tackle, then a slam and a senton for two with a weak cover. Davis chops Bailey to the mat. Bailey gets a boot up in the corner and then a drop-kick out of the corner. 

Bailey gets a series of kicks and a shooting star press for one only. Davis goes to the apron and Bailey tries to kick him off, and Bailey finally trips Davis and then gets a moonsault onto Davis on the floor as we go to picture in picture.

When we return to full screen, Davis is shown giving a brain buster to Bailey on the apron. They then go to the top and Bailey escapes and lays in kicks on Davis. Bailey hits a lower bomb pulling Davis off the top for two Bailey then hits a shooting star press for two. Davis stops Bailey with a clothesline. Davis gets a series of slaps, but Bailey gets a spin kick to drop Davis. Both men are down. 

Bailey gets a series of chops and Davis just drops Bailey with a single blow. Davis gets a series of knee strikes and then a chop. Davis then hits a BT bomb for two. Davis gets a diving elbow strike in the corner. Bailey escapes out the back of a pickup, gets a spinning heel kick and a back slide for two. Davis hits an insigiri and then a lariat followed by a pile driver for two only. Bailey reversed a pickup into a hurricanrana for two and then a knee drop. Bailey gets a spin kick in the corner and follows with an ultimo weapon for the pin and the win.

Winner: Speedball Mike Bailey

We then get a promo from MJF after Revolution and no matter how much pain he is in, he won. He says his goal was to the be the pest of all time and now Adam Page is out of his way and Page will be stuck in the midcard. He then puts himself over. 

We get a promo from Kazuchika Okada who says the Bucks are stupid to think he was family to them. He is only loyal to one family, unlike Konosuke Takeshita. Trent Beretta and Rocky Romero say they will win the trios match tonight for Don Callis. 

We then get the video of Toni Storm after an attack. Marina Shafir says she may or may not be behind the attack.

Marina Shafir vs Mina Shirakawa - No Holds Barred

Mina comes to the ring with a barbed wire bat. She starts swinging it at Marina, who then grabs the bat and tosses it away before suplexing Mina. Mina gets a running knee strike and then gets a series of kicks to Marina’s back. Mina pulls out a bucket with champagne bottles from under the ring. Marina kicks Mina who drops the bottle and then lays in stomps. Marina gets a series of judo tosses as we go to picture in picture.

When we return to full screen, Mina gets a series of kicks and knocks the champagne out of Marina’s hard. Mina grabs a chair and Marina kicks it out of her hands. Mina gets a spinning takedown onto the chair. Mina goes to the top and hits a drop-kick. Mina then waffles Marina’s back with the chair. Mina then goes to the top and gets a sling blade onto the chair for two.

Mina waffles Marina with the chair again and goes for a figure four, but Marina kicks her off. Mina gets a springboard over the top rope tornado. Marina grabs mother’s milk, but Mina escapes. Mina rolls to the apron and the Marina pulls out a table from under the ring. Mina and Marina fight on her apron, and Marina gets a belly to back suplex into the table. 

Mina is rolled into the ring and covers for two while hitting a muscle pose. Marina lays in slaps and when the ref pulls her off, Mina grabs a bottle. Mina nails Marina with the bottle, then hits a back fist, followed by Storm Zero for the pin and the win.

Winner: Mina Shirakawa

Renee is in the back with Andrade El Idolo and he says he wants a title shot against MJF. A suitcase of money shows up and Don Callis in on the phone telling Andrade to take the money from MJF to take out Darby Allin. 

The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) and Jungle Jack Perry vs Kazuchika Okada, Rocky Romero, and Trent Beretta

Okada and Perry start the match. Okada flips off the Busk and then flips off Perry. Perry gets a tejaris and then flips him off.  Trent and Rocky attack Perry and knock the Bucks off the apron. The Bucks pull Trent and Rock to the floor and get in the ring where they work over Okada. Then it’s time for a bunch of Young Buckery and dives, dives, and more dives.

We are then back to Perry getting a running clothesline on Okada in the corner. Trent and Rocky attack Perry from behind and then their team triple teams Perry as we go to picture in picture.

When we return to full screen, Perry has been the babyface in peril through the break. Perry hits a comebacker lariat on Okada and both men are down. They crawl to their corners and Nick tags in at the same time as Rocky, and Trent gets in the ring as well. Nick runs wild and Matt joins him. Matt tags in Nick and then get stereo elbow drops on Trent and Rocky. They call for a Super kick Party. Trent accidentally kicks Rocky as the Bucks keep up the offense. The Bucks get double sharpshooters as Perry locks Okada in a snare trap. Okada, Rocky and Trent all get to the ropes.

Matt and Rocky are in the ring. From here, everyone gets a big move on the last person in the ring and Rocky covers Matt and Perry breaks it up. Okada’s team mock the Bucks’ pose and then all go for pile drivers, but the Bucks team bite their way free., Rocky takes super kicks, a BTE trigger and Perry gets a running knee strike for the pin and the win.

Winners: The Young Bucks and Jack Perry

The Bucks grab a mic and say it’s bittersweet since they blew it on Sunday and didn’t win the tag team titles. They go over how they had their family at the show and their kids in Young Bucks gear, and they admit FTR was the better team on Sunday. Matt says his dad told him to keep his head up and remember who they are. He says if it means they have to scratch and claw to get back to the top and no one will stop them from getting the tag team titles a 4th time.

We get Adam Copeland’s music and he saunters down to the ring. He is followed by Christian Cage and his music. Maybe Matt shouldn’t have talked about his dad. Cope says he respects the Bucks and the match on Sunday was one of the best matches he’s ever seen. That being said, he can relate because FTR attacked his wife. He says over the last six months as she recovered, he knew he needed to get back to AEW and rectify the situation.

And that’s not beating them up, it’s taking the AEW Tag Team Championship. He says that at Dynasty, they will be facing FTR for the tag team championships. 

Cage says the situation is personal for him as well because winning the titles means he makes a ton of extra money. They also get to prove they are the best tag team of their generation, but also the best tag team of the Bucks’ generation.

FTR and Stokely come to the stage and Stokley starts to talk and everyone in the ring tells him to shut up. FTR charges the ring to be quickly taken out. The Bucks, Cope and Cage all are holding the dropped belts, and the Bucks let go first and we are desperately out of time!

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