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AEW DYNAMITE was broadcast live on TBS from the Fishers Event Center in Fishers, IN!
Excalibur, “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard, and Tony Schiavone were the broadcast team for tonight’s event.
It’s Wednesday night and you know what that means!
Continental Classic Blue League Match!
The Hurt Syndicate’s Shelton Benjamin
vs.
The Don Callis Family’s “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher!
Don Callis joined the broadcast booth for this match.
Both men locked up, both looking to gain an early advantage with a collar and elbow tie up. Shelton backed Fletcher into the corner turnbuckles and then shoved Fletcher to the mat. Shelton hit Kyle with a shoulder block.
Fletcher began to pummel Benjamin with strikes. Shelton returned fire with a charging lariat. Benjamin dumped Fletcher on his head with a suplex. Fletcher hit Shelton with a lariat, both men spilling out to the arena floor.
Shelton bounced Kyle off the barricades and then whipped Kyle into the steel ring steps. Fletcher side stepped a charging Shelton. Shelton collided with the steel post. Fletcher flattened Shelton with a lariat for a near fall.
Fletcher blasted Benjamin with a kick and then a Michinoku driver! Shelton came around with a kick, stunning Fletcher. Benjamin power bombed Kyle. Kyle decimated Shelton with vicious thrust kicks and then an elbow drop from the top turnbuckle. Fletcher charged at Shelton, but Shelton countered with a thrust kick.
Benjamin rag dolled Fletcher with three consecutive German Suplexes. Shelton closed the distance with a knee strike. Kyle rolled up Shelton, grabbed the ropes, and stole the pin fall victory!
“The referee didn’t see it and Kyle Fletcher stole three points to take the lead in the Blue League,” said Excalibur.
Up next: HOOK came out to the ring!
HOOK: “Nick Wayne, I heard what you said this past weekend. So you want to fight me in a couple weeks in New York City. I’ve got a better idea. I’d rather fight your ‘father’ and leave him in a worse condition than you left my father in. But Nick, how about you fight me right here, right now!”
Christian Cage, along with Mother Wayne, walked out of the tunnel. Kip Sabian and Nick Wayne blindsided HOOK in the ring. HOOK fought them off. Mother Wayne distracted HOOK and Christian Cage cracked HOOK with the metal clipboard containing the contract. The Patriarchy swarmed HOOK and hammered HOOK with strikes.
HOOK’s arm was isolated on top of a steel chair. Nick Wayne smashed HOOK’s wrist with another steel chair, performing the con-chair-to!
“That hand has got to be broken,” said Daddy Magic.
Renee Paquette was backstage to interview NJPW Strong Champion and TBS Champion “The CEO” Mercedes Mone!
Mercedes: “Are you obsessed with Kamille? Everyone knows she quit, and I am not liable for her. And I’m sick of Anna Jay sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong. But I’ll be watching her match against Penelope Ford tonight!”
MVP was backstage yelling at Shelton Benjamin over his loss!
MVP: “I love you but I’m disappointed with your performance. That ain’t how we do it.”
An AEW crew member walked by and accidentally bumped Shelton. Shelton and Bobby Lashley battered the crew member, along with several security guards!
MVP: “That’s what we do!”
Dynamite Dozen Battle Royale!
Adam Cole vs. Kyle O’Reilly vs. ROH World TV Champion Brian Cage vs. “The MurderHawk Monster” Lance Archer vs. Mark Davis vs. ??? vs. ??? vs. ??? vs. ??? vs. ??? vs. ??? vs. ???
The last two men in the match will square off next week on Dynamite: Winter Is Coming.
Evil Uno and Adam Cole slugged it out. Uno raked Cole’s back. Mark Davis stunned Evil Uno with a kick and knocked him out of the ring. The Butcher back dropped Mark Davis. Brian Cage planted Dante Martin.
Lio Rush and Action Andretti eliminated Top Flight with stereo offense. Mark Davis spiked the Butcher with a pile driver. Archer and Cage ping ponged Mark Davis and then sent Davis to the outside with a double lariat!
Action rocked Rocky Romero with a flying forearm. Kyle pump kicked Action and eliminated Kyle O’Reilly from the match. Kyle dumped Lio Rush over the top rope. Cage and Archer choke slammed Rocky over the top rope!
Kyle dropped the Butcher with a flying kick, eliminating Butcher. Cole kicked Cage in the knee. Cole superkicked Cage out of the ring, while Kyle eliminated Archer.
Your winners: Kyle O’Reilly and Adam Cole! They’ll be facing off next week on Dynamite: Winter Is Coming for a shot at MJF at Worlds End!
A vignette aired for Julia Hart, who is setting her sights on Jamie Hayter!
The Acclaimed were backstage with Renee Paquette!
Daddy Ass: “We have been sitting here for the past hour trying to talk Max out of this. What we’ve become has not been done by one person, but by all three of us. And you are going about this tonight all wrong. Please talk some sense into him.”
Bowens: “You call yourself ‘the best wrestler alive’? Go prove it.”
Swerve Strickland (with Prince Nana) vs. The Acclaimed’s Max Caster!
Swerve heard enough of Max’s rap and forced Max to eat his words. Swerve whipped Max into the guardrail! Swerve planted Caster with a German Suplex. Swerve cracked Caster with the House Call kick, firing on all cylinders! Swerve served up another one! Swerve delivered a third House Call kick and pinned Max Caster!
“Maybe, just maybe, Max will look and this and think, ‘I shouldn’t have said what I said,’” said Tony Schiavone.
Swerve put an exclamation point on the statement with a Swerve Stomp to Max!
Swerve: “Don’t waste my time anymore. Lashley, this isn’t over yet!”
Live via satellite, MJF had words for Adam Cole.
MJF: “Remember ‘Better than you, baybay’? It was record-breaking and then you turned on me. Look at the butterfly effect. Because of your actions, your friend Roderick Strong’s arm is broken. And now you have to face Kyle O’Reilly.
“Jon Moxley is running around murdering people in AEW, and it’s all because of you, Adam. You’re the villain, Adam.”
Bang Bang Gang’s “Switchblade” Jay White
vs.
The Death Riders’ AEW World Trios Champion “The Bastard” PAC (with Wheeler Yuta)!
Jay White chopped Pac in the corner turnbuckles. Pac escaped a Blade Runner attempt. Jay White suplexed Pac over the top rope, with Pac crashing onto the apron.
Yuta swept the leg of Jay White and then clobbered White with a clothesline. The referee didn’t see Yuta’s interference. Pac sent Jay White hard into the barricade.
Jay White nailed Pac with a half and half suplex into the turnbuckles. Jay White jabbed at Pac, the intensity picking up. Jay spiked Pac with a DDT for a near fall!
Jay charged at Pac, but Pac raised his boot. Jay White dodged a shooting star press. White drilled Pag with a half and half suplex. Pac managed to lock in a standing Brutalizer! Jay White reached the bottom rope, forcing the ref to break the hold.
Wheeler Yuta charged at White with the Busaiku knee outside the ring as the ref was distracted Jay White grabbed Pac and planted him with the Blade Runner out of nowhere, scoring the pin fall victory!
After the match, Wheeler approached Jay, but Jay hit him with the Blade Runner. Marina Shafir jumped into the ring and stalked White. AEW World Champion Jon Moxley. The champion drilled White with a Paradigm Shift.
“Hangman” Adam Page walked out through the tunnels. Moxley and Hangman had a stare down. One of the production members wrapped a cable cord around Moxley. He removed his hoodie and revealed he was Orange Cassidy. Orange pulped Pac and Hangman and Moxley with Orange Punches! Jay White planted Moxley!
“What an incredible Dynamite moment,” said Tony Schiavone.
Page blasted Mox with the buckshot lariat!
The fans chanted “A-E-Dub! A-E-Dub!”
We heard from Jamie Hayter!
Hayter: “Julia, you like to play mind games. I’m more of a face to face gal. I don’t know how many times I have to say this to you and anybody else who is listening. This International Women’s Cup means the world to me. I’m looking to fight any time, any place. But you can’t fight what you can’t see. So I’m going to come for you!
ROH World Champion Chris Jericho had a microphone and said he’d reveal his opponent live tomorrow night on ROH!
“I’m Chris Jericho and this has been a New York minute!”
A vignette aired hyping the impending return of Bandido!
Anna Jay vs. Penelope Ford!
Penelope shoved Anna; Anna shoved back, knocking Penelope to the mat. Ford swept out Jay’s legs and nailed Anna Jay with a double knee drop.
Penelope Ford connected with a handspring elbow. Penelope was looking for a moonsault, but Anna Jay swept out her legs. Anna retaliated with a neck breaker. Penelope escaped the Queen Slayer and countered with a stunner for a near fall.
Anna dodged a moonsault. Anna Jay rocked Penelope with a dropkick. Penelope applied a bridging death lock, but Anna scooted over to the bottom rope. Anna planted Penelope face first and scored the pin!
“What’s next for Anna Jay?” wondered Daddy Magic.
Anna Jay: “Mercedes, I know you are watching tonight, so get out here right now!”
Mercedes walked onto the ramp!
Mercedes: “Let me get one thing straight. If Kris Statlander can’t beat me for my title, then what makes you think you can? And people call me arrogant. Mariah must have kicked you a little too hard in the head. But I actually like your confidence. So if you want a shot at the TBS Championship, I think you should come back in 10 years after you’ve done something in this business.”
Anna slapped Mercedes! Mercedes said she didn’t have time for this and retreated!
Renee Paquette was backstage with AEW Women’s World Champion Mariah May!
Mariah insulted Renee and Renee tried to walk away.
Mariah: “I think giving a title shot to my best friend is generous. I believe in you, Mina.”
Mina approached Mariah, handed her a champagne bottle and said, “Do it to my face. Make me work!”
Continental Classic Gold League Match!
House of Black’s Brody King
vs.
The Death Riders’ AEW World Trios Champion Claudio Castagnoli!
They locked up. They bashed each other with strikes and upper cuts. Brody rocked Claudio with chops to the chest.
Brody scoop slammed Claudio and then splashed him with a senton. Claudio kicked out at the one-count. Claudio took Brody off his feet with a basement dropkick. Claudio stomped Brody’s shoulder blades and then wrapped Brody’s right wrist against the steel ring post!
Brody drilled Claudio with a Death Valley Driver for a near fall. Claudio rocked Brody with a pop up European Uppercut. Claudio pounded Brody with hammer and anvil elbow strikes. Brody retaliated with a big time lariat!
“This has been a heavyweight slugfest,” said Excalibur.
Brody King splashed Claudio in the corner and followed up with a running cannonball for a near fall! Brody superplexed Claudio! Brody followed up with a stuffed piledriver, but Claudio escaped the pin attempt. Claudio came back with the Neutralizer and pinned Brody!
This Friday tune in to AEW RAMPAGE at 10/9c on TNT!
Don’t miss AEW COLLISION live on Saturday on TNT starting at 8/7c from the Greater Columbus Convention Center (GalaxyCon) in Columbus, OH!
Catch AEW DYNAMITE: Winter Is Coming on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, MO!
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