**CONTAINS SPOILERS**
Tonight’s episode of AEW DYNAMITE was broadcast live from the historic Cow Palace in San Francisco, CA!
Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, and “The Human Suplex Machine” Taz were the broadcast team for tonight’s event.
It’s Wednesday night and you know what that means!
AEW All-Atlantic Championship Match!
“Freshly Squeezed” Orange Cassidy (c.) vs. The Firm’s Big Bill (with Stokely Hathaway)!
Cassidy walked out of the ring and invited Big Bill onto the floor, playing mind games with Big Bill. Cassidy was looking for a sunset flip in the ring but Big Bill grabbed him and hurled Orange into the corner. Big Bill planted Orange with a high side slam and followed up with a running splash in the corner.
“Wanna play games, huh?” Big Bill asked Orange mockingly.
Big Bill booted Orange out of the ring! Stokely Hathaway cleared off the timekeeper’s table. He and Big Bill moved the table toward the ramp. Big Bill wanted to chokeslam Orange through the table but Cassidy fought back. Cassidy jumped off the ring steps, trying for the Orange Punch, but Big Bill blocked him and countered with a chokeslam through the table!
Danhausen came down to the ring to keep Stokely’s antics at bay.
Big Bill rag dolled Orange Cassidy with a full nelson. Cassidy dropped to the mat to escape. Danhausen was going to curse Stokely outside the ring but Big Bill held Danhausen back while Stokely clubbed him with his arm cast. Orange jumped outside with a tope and dazed Big Bill with a dropkick, sending Bill Big bard into the metal ring steps.
Back in the ring, Orange connected with the Stun Dog Millionaire and the spiked Big Bill with a DDT! Orange connected with two Orange Punches! Orange jumped off the top and blasted Big Bill with a third Orange Punch, pinning Big Bill!
The AEW Trios Champs—Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks—came out onto the ramp! Their entrance was interrupted as the lights went dark. The House of Black blindsided the Elite from behind. When the lights came back on, the House of Black were holding up the Trios championships!
Face of the Revolution Ladder Match!
Konosuke Takeshita vs. Ortiz vs. AR Fox vs. Eddie Kingston vs. Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Sammy Guevara vs. Action Andretti vs. Komander!
Samoa Joe was on commentary for this match.
Ortiz and Kingston brawled outside the ring. Komander wiped out AR Fox with a tope suicida. Kingston and Ortiz continued to brawl up the ramp. Action Andretti dropkicked a ladder into Sammy’s face!
Powerhouse Hobbs hurled AR Fox into a ladder that was propped against the turnbuckles. Takeshita and Hobbs traded forearms.
“Did you hear the collision in the center of the ring?” asked Excalibur.
Takeshita threw Hobbs with a German suplex. Don Callis was seen watching Takeshita on the monitor backstage.
AR Fox launched himself with an implosion senton to the outside! Komander ran across the top rope and flipped onto the pile outside the ring! It was a spectacular display of high-flying agility!
Hobbs tried to suplex Komander out of the ring but AR Fox whacked Hobbs with a steel chair! Hobbs and Takeshita collided outside the ring with lariats! Action Andretti spike Sammy with a Falcon Arrow off the top of the ladder!
Komander climbed to the top of the ladder, reaching for the brass ring, but Takeshita met him up there and blasted him with a Blue Thunder Bomb off the ladder!
Takeshita climbed up the ladder but Action Andretti spring boarded to the top. Daniel Garcia jumped into the ring and shoved the ladder down!
Sammy climbed to the top of a ladder and hit a senton onto Action Andretti below! Garcia picked up Sammy and carried him up a ladder in the center of the ring. Takeshita shoved them off the ladder! Takeshita climbed up the ladder but Powerhouse Hobbs ran in and plowed into the ladder, knocking Takeshita down. Hobbs climbed up and grabbed the brass ring and won the match!
Hobbs marched up the ramp and was about to confront Samoa Joe until Wardlow walked onto the ramp. Security rushed out but Wardlow wiped them out while Samoa Joe made his escape!
Renee Paquette was backstage with a late-breaking medical update. She said Chuck Taylor and Trent were not cleared to compete in the Casino Tag Team Battle Royal, but Danhausen said he and Orange Cassidy would take their place!
Chris Jericho vs. “Pretty” Peter Avalon!
Avalon went right after Jericho! “The Ocho” went outside to collect himself but Peter Avalon rocketed out to Jericho with a tope suicida! Avalon shocked Jericho with a swinging DDT for a near fall! Jericho grabbed Avalon and rocked Avalon with the Code Breaker, grabbing the pinfall victory!
Jericho grabbed his baseball bat and leveled Avalon with it! Jericho hammered Avalon with the bat until “Absolute” Ricky Starks ran out, chasing Jericho out of the ring.
The Jericho Appreciation Society jumped into the ring. Jake Hager and Daniel Garcia mauled Starks in the ring while Jericho nodded on approvingly.
Jericho smashed Starks with the Judas Effect!
Renee Paquette was in the ring to interview Christian Cage!
Christian Cage: “For the better part of the last six months, I beat Jungle Boy at will. And he’s saying in 2023 he’s going to win a singles championship? Over my dead body!
“Now Jack I’ve been watching some of your matches the past month or so. Do you want to roll somebody up for a quick win or do you want to beat someone for their championship? I showed you how a real man conducts his business when I smashed you with a chair and left you in a pool of your own blood and piss.
“You just want to win the championship so you can go home and show it to mommy. You treat my business like a video game. Nobody can do the things that I do inside this ring. I am one of one. Unlike your generation, I treat this business like an ATM and I am not done milking it dry.
“So I have a challenge for you this Sunday. No rules, no regulations. Just a fight. And at the end of the day you are just your father’s son, a no-talent hack. This business is not for you kid. You don’t have any grit. You don’t have what it takes. You don’t have an ounce of what I have inside!”
The arena lights went dark.
On the screen a video played of “Jungle Boy” Jack Perry. He dug a grave for Christian Cage!
FTW Championship Match!
HOOK (c.) vs. The Firm’s Matt Hardy (with Stokely Hathaway and the Firm)!
Hook grappled Hardy to the mat. Hardy fired back with right hands, rattling Hook. Hook grabbed a knee bar but Hardy grabbed the bottom ropes. Outside the ring, “All Ego” Ethan Page shoved Hook into the steel ring post!
Hook T-boned Matt Hardy! Hardy countered a charging Hook with the snake eyes in the corner. Hardy dropped Hook with the Side Effect for a near fall!
Hathaway removed his arm cast, handed it to Ethan Page, and Page rocked Hook with it with a huge shot to the head! Hardy attempted the Twist of Fate but Hook transitioned into a submission and made Hardy tap out!
Toni Storm (with Saraya) vs. Riho!
Riho dropkicked Storm. Riho charged at Storm in the corner with a jumping knee. Storm landed a knee to Riho after Saraya distracted Riho.
Storm smashed into Riho with the hip attack, sending Riho crashing onto the arena floor. Storm rammed Riho into the steel ring post!
AEW Women’s Champ Jamie Hayter and Dr. Britt Baker walked down to the ring to keep an eye on Saraya who kept interfering in the match.
Riho connected with a diving cross body off the top and onto Toni on the arena floor! Riho followed up with diving foot stomps and then a Northern Lights suplex for a near fall on Toni!
Storm blasted Riho with the John Woo dropkick and then the hip attack in the corner for a two-count on Riho! Toni Storm locked on the cloverleaf but Britt Baker jumped onto the apron. As Storm was distracted, Riho rolled her up and pinned her!
Baker and Storm brawled outside the ring while Saraya, Hayter and Ruby Soho had a pull-apart inside the ring!
Revolution Casino Tag Team Battle Royale!
Teams included:
-The Butcher & The Blade;
-Angelo Parker & Matt Menard;
-Preston Vance & Rush;
-The Lucha Bros—Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix;
-Top Flight—Dante & Darius Martin;
-Blackpool Combat Club’s Claudio Castagnoli (ROH World Champion) & Wheeler Yuta (ROH Pure Champion);
-Danhausen & Orange Cassidy;
-Aussie Open—Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis;
-The Kingdom—Matt Taven & Mike Bennett;
-Dark Order’s John Silver & Alex Reynolds!
The winning team will face AEW World Tag Team Champions The Gunns and The Acclaimed and the duo of Jeff Jarrett & Jay Lethal at REVOLUTION!
The Blackpool Combat Club attacked the Dark Order as the Dark Order were making their entrance!
The third team out were Preston Vance and Rush! Claudio and Rush slugged it out with overhand chops! The Lucha Bros were the next team to enter the match!
Penta El Zero Miedo dished out sling blades. Aussie Open came out to the ring! The Blackpool Combat Club eliminated the Dark Order!
Top Flight were the next team to enter! And then came the Kingdom. They double teamed Dante Martin and then went after Darius Martin.
Aussie Open wiped out the Kingdom. Josh Woods, Ari, and Tony Nese came to the ring and whipped the Lucha Bros into the barricades!
Rush eliminated Penta El Zero Miedo. Darius dropkicked Rush out of the ring!
Aussie Open and Top Flight paired off and duked it out. Danhausen and Orange Cassidy came out to the ring next.
Angelo Parker decked Danhausen but Orange Cassidy eliminated Parker! The Butcher and the Blade stalked their way to the ring. Dark Order ran back down and distracted the Blackpool Combat Club. Danhausen and Orange eliminated Claudio and Wheeler!
Butcher and the Blade hit the Drag The Lake on Danhausen. Butcher and the Blade double teamed Orange Cassidy. Danhausen snuck up from behind and shoved Butcher and the Blade over the top rope!
Danhausen and Orange Cassidy won the match!
Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal jumped Danhausen and Cassidy from behind! The Acclaimed ran to the ring and took out Jeff Jarett and Jay Lethal!
We heard from “American Dragon” Bryan Danielson ahead of his 60-Minute Ironman Match at REVOLUTION!
Danielson: “A little over seven years ago I was forced to retire and two years later I came back and said if you fight for your dreams, your dreams will fight for you.”
AEW World Heavyweight Champion MJF interrupted!
Danielson: “You have taken every short cut and cheat that there is. If there’s one thing you deserve, it’s your fiancé leaving you. You want to fight? I’m ready to fight anytime! Because unlike you, you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth but I’ve fought for everything!
“My dream is to become AEW World Champion and I’m willing to fight for it! So Max this Sunday at REVOLUTION you’d better be willing to fight for everything you have for sixty minutes and if you don’t, you’re going to get your head kicked in!”
Catch the fallout from AEW REVOLUTION 2023 on AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, CA!
This Friday tune in live to AEW RAMPAGE at 10ET on TNT!
Don’t you dare miss AEW REVOLUTION 2023 this Sunday, March 5th at 8 p.m. ET live on pay-per-view from the Chase Center in San Francisco, CA!
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