Three matches have been set for next week’s edition of Dynamite in Hunstville, Alabama.
Jon Moxley will take on Ortiz in a singles match. Moxley had laid out Ortiz with the paradigm shift DDT to open tonight’s show, which ended in a brawl between Moxley and members of the Inner Circle.
An eight man tag match has also been signed. The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega and Hangman Page will team to face The Butcher, The Blade and The Lucha Bros. The Bucks defeated Butcher and Blade on tonight’s show, but Butcher and Blade attacked them after the match. Page and Omega came out for the save.
Britt Baker will also be in action, facing Yuka Sakazaki, who is making her Dynamite debut. Sakazaki previously participated in a six woman tag team match at Double or Nothing and faced Riho and Nyla Rose in a triple threat match at Fyter Fest last year.
Cody will also receive his ten lashes at the hands of MJF. He had agreed to the stipulation several weeks ago in order to get a match against MJF at Revolution.
AEW Dynamite airs live tonight from the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
A Jon Moxley promo has been advertised. Moxley defeated PAC on last week’s show to retain his number one contender status, and will challenge Chris Jericho for the AEW World title on February 29 at AEW Revolution.
Cody is set to take on Kip Sabian (with Penelope Ford) in a singles match. Cody is feuding with MJF, while a program between Sabian and Joey Janela has had a couple of starts and stops.
A tag match between The Young Bucks and The Butcher and The Blade will take place. Butcher and Blade have acted as hired guns for MJF, while an angle was shot on last week’s Dynamite that saw Hangman Page mocking the Bucks, as he and Kenny Omega claimed the AEW Tag Team titles before they did.
In trios action, Jericho, Santana and Ortiz will face Darby Allin and Private Party.
Our live coverage begins at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
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Moxley came out for a promo. He said Jericho is the kind of man who slams Dustin Rhodes’ arm in a car door, and the kind of man who tried to take his vision by slamming a metal spike in his eye.
Moxley said he’ll have to keep his one good eye in the back of his head, watching his back until he takes the AEW title from Jericho on February 29. He said Jericho might not make it to Revolution, and told Jericho to come out and take his beating like a man for once in his punk-ass life.
Jericho entered. The crowd sang along to his entrance music. Jericho called the fans typical Cleveland idiots. He told Moxley he saw Mox’s mom backstage and she looked fetching. He said he might call her later. He said he apologized to Moxley’s mom for what he did to him, but explained to her that it was Moxley’s fault.
Jericho called out the Inner Circle and challenged Moxley to a 5-on-1 fight. Moxley said it wasn’t 5-on-1, but 5-on-the entire arena, because Moxley was born and raised in Ohio. Jericho said Santana and Ortiz brought along five street thugs from The Bronx, so it was actually 10-on-1.
Moxley took his jacket off and laid out one of the thugs. Security and referees ran down to break things up. They did a pull-apart between Moxley and Inner Circle, before Moxley retreated through the crowd.
A fun little segment.
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Nyla Rose and Big Swole was announced for later, as well as the previously announced lineup for the evening.
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Jim Ross threw to a video package from MJF’s camp. MJF and Wardlow entered a slaughterhouse, where Bunny, Butcher and Blade were hanging out, tossing meat around.
MJF handed Bunny an envekope, presumably full of cash, with Young Bucks printed on it. The announcers put over that Butcher, Blade and Bunny are hired mercenaries of MJF, and he wants revenge on the Bucks for throwing him in the swimming pool last week.
The Bucks vs. Butcher and Blade is up next.
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MJF joined the commentary desk for this matchup and did a fine job.
YOUNG BUCKS DEFEATED THE BUTCHER & THE BLADE
The story of the match was the speed of the Bucks versus the power of Butcher and Blade. The Bucks hit some kicks early. They tried a stereo kip-up, but got hit with lariats. Nick got tripped on the apron by Bunny, and Butcher and Blade worked over Nick for the heat.
Butcher and Blade traded quick tags during an ad break, isolating Nick in their corner. After the commercials, Butcher hit a doctor bomb for a near fall, as Matt saved for Nick.
Matt got a tag and ran wild. He hit a standing sliced bread on Blade. He hit a dropkick through the ropes to Butcher. He used a top rope elbow on Blade for a two count.
Nick got a tag and hit a senton for a two count as Butcher saved. Bucks hit double superkicks on Butcher. The Bucks hit the Meltzer Driver on Blade for the pin. A fine, quick TV match, but nothing special.
Butcher and Blade attacked Matt and Nick after the match. Kenny Omega ran in to make the save and hit a V-Trigger on Blade. Hangman Page walked to the ring with a beer in hand. He asked Matt to hold his beer, hit a Buckshot Lariat on Butcher, then chugged the beer.
Omega and the Bucks celebrated in the ring, while Page walked to the back.
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NYLA ROSE DEFEATED BIG SWOLE
The bulk of this took place during a commercial break without the picture-in-picture gimmick. That’s probably best. I’ve seen Rose in good matches and Swole has a ton of potential, but this was slow and clunky.
Rose beat on Swole and posted her right arm before the break. After the break, Swole made a comeback with a guillotine choke, then hit a springboard cutter for a two count.
Swole tried a sunset flip, but Rose blocked. Swole hit a flatliner. Rose hit a spear and a sit-out powerbomb for the pin.
Sabian hit a shotgun dropkick at the opening bell, then a gutbuster. Cody came back with right hands. Cody hit a dropkick. Sabian rolled outside and started jawing with Anderson.
They brawled on the outside. Ford sold as though Cody knocked her out with a back elbow as he went for a right hand to Sabian. Cody picked up Ford, and Sabian hit a running kick from the apron. Ford popped up, and Sabian went to work on Cody.
During a commercial, Sabian sold as though his knee went out as Cody started to make a comeback. The ringside doctor examined him. Sabian was about to connect on a springboard DDT when the picture-in-picture cut away, so your guess is as good as mine as to what happened.
After the break, Cody hit a lariat, punches in the corner, and a powerslam. Cody took off his weight belt, but Ford grabbed it away from him. Cody hit Sabian with a Disaster Kick. Ford threw one of her shoes in the ring, causing a brief distraction. Cody made a cover, Sabian kicked out.
Anderson climbed into the ring to protest. He threw Ford’s shoe into the crowd. Anderosn bumped the referee, who ejected him.
Ford hit a flying headscissors off the steps to Cody. Sabian followed with a tope con giro. Sabian and Ford tried to kiss near the guardrail, but Joey Janela jumped out of a seat and stuck his face between them. Cody used the distraction to hit a tope suicida.
Cody teased a slingshot back into the ring, but Sabian cut him off and hit a neckbreaker for a near fall. Sabian tried a superplex, but Cody blocked. Sabian hit a springboard bulldog.
Sabian tried for Deathly Hallows. Cody blocked, hit a Cody Cutter, then hit Cross Rhodes three times. Cody covered for the 1-2-3.
There was an awful lot of gaga here for a twelve minute TV match, but that’s the best way to utilize Ford, so you have to expect Sabian matches to go like this.
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They replayed the Britt Baker and Tony Sciavone segment from last week. Tony then interviewed Baker on the stage. He addressed her as Britt. She corrected him, and said it was Dr. Baker.
Baker said she was the star of the show last week, and Tony held the microphone. She called Tony “Mr. Starbucks,”and said judging from the stench of his gums, he has gum disease. She told him to pick up a toothbrush.
Baker heeled on JR for interrupting her segment last week, collecting a huge paycheck, not getting names right, and for only talking about her being a dentist during her matches. Taking jabs at Ross for his commentary in 2020 is not a way to get heel heat in my eyes.
She took a shot at Riho for not being there.
She then told the people of Cleveland that they finally have a Baker that they can believe in. (The quarterback of the Cleveland Browns is Baker Mayfield, who had a disappointing season.)
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JR threw to Lexie, the newest of the 914 backstage interviewers employed by AEW. She interviewed the Bucks and Omega. Matt and Nick put over their big win.
Page stumbled in with a beer and showed off his new nameplate for his tag belt. He gave the Bucks their own nameplates, rubbing in that he and Omega are tag champs and the Bucks aren’t.
Omega said that the Bucks will be champs soon enough, but next week, he got them all a match together. It will be Page, Omega and the Bucks against Butcher, Blade and a team of their choosing.
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SCU entered wearing Kobe Bryant jerseys.
SCORPIO SKY & FRANKIE KAZARIAN DEFEATED JACK EVANS & ANGELICO
Kazarian and Sky grounded Angelico, working him over with suplexes and chinlocks. Sky hit s double stomp to the back of Evans. Kazarian hit a release German on Evans.
Evans and Angelico cut off Sky. Evans hit a kick for a two count. Angelico hit a PK for a two count. TH2 continued working over Sky through a commercial break.
Sky and Evans traded strikes. Sky hit a suplex, then made a lukewarm tag to Kazarian. Kazarian hit a dropkick on Angelico, a hip toss on Evans, and a cutter on Angelico. He covered, but Evans broke it up.
Evans hit a slingshot double stomp to Kazarian. Evans missed a space flying tiger drop. Kazarian and Sky hit SCU Later on Angelico, and Sky covered for the pin.
This fell apart towards the end and didn’t have a lot of heat.
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A Dark Order video interrupted SCU’s post-match. Uno said the Exalted One is mad at Christopher Daniels for turning them down and has ordered Dark Order to target his friends in SCU. Grayson said he doesn’t care who they go after first.
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A PAC video played. PAC said maybe he’ll go after Moxley if Moxley wins the title. Then he called out Omega. He said Omega is finally listening to him, and from now on they’re doing things on PAC’s timetable. He said he’s coming after Omega next week.
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Jon Moxley vs. Ortiz, Yuka Sakazaki vs. Britt Baker, Young Bucks and Omega and Page vs. Butcher, Blade and the Lucha Bros. were announced for next week, as was Cody receiving ten lashes from MJF.
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CHRIS JERICHO, SANTANA & ORTIZ DEFEATED DARBY ALLIN, MARQ QUEN & ISIAH KASSIDY
Allin and Jericho began. Allin hit a springboard armdrag, so Jericho begged off. Ortiz and Kassidy entered. Quen tagged in for a double team spot, then got cut off. Jericho, Ortiz and Santana worked over Quen.
Kassidy got a tag and used some amateur wrestling moves and a crucifix on Ortiz for a near fall. Jericho tagged in and hit a missile dropkick. Kassidy flew to the floor, where Santana hit a suplex.
During a commercial break, Inner Circle passed Kassidy around in vertical suplex position, before Jericho completed the move. Santana and Ortiz hit an assisted senton. Jericho hit a Lionsault. Ortiz hit a pencil splash for a near fall.
Kassidy finally managed a hot tag to Allin. Allin hit a dive to Jericho, then hit a destroyer on Santana.
The match broke down. Kassidy hit a crucifix bomb on Ortiz. Quen hit a pop-up kick to Jericho. Allin hit Jericho with his own quebrada for a near fall, then hit a Coffin Drop off the post to Jake Hager on the floor.
Kassidy got a tag and hit a senton atomico on Jericho for a two count. Jericho reversed an Irish whip, hit the Judas Effect out of nowhere on Kassidy, then pinned him.
A fun main event, but it could have used a couple of more minutes to build.
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The Inner Circle attacked Private Party and Allin after the match. They tossed Private Party out of the ring, then went after Allin with his own skateboard, including ramming him throat-first into the board.
Moxley ran down for the save with a baseball bat. Hager, Sammy Guevara, Santana and Ortiz all ate bat shots, but Jericho escaped. Moxley stood on the ropes, pointing the bat at the retreating Inner Circle as the show closed.
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This was another thumbs up show. The wrestling didn’t blow me away for the second week in a row, but the angles were mostly excellent.
AEW released their latest Road to show, focusing on their Dynamite event in Cleveland this Wednesday. You can watch the video below:
The first segment focused on Kip Sabian explaining why he and Penelope Ford have been attacking Joey Janela. He also talked about his upcoming match against Cody this Wednesday, saying that he knows Arn Anderson’s expertise, but he can’t wrestle the match for Cody.
The next segment focused on Private Party. They talked about growing up in Brooklyn, avoiding peer pressure and how they connected with one another as a team. They will be teaming up with Darby Allin to take on Chris Jericho, Santana and Ortiz.
The final segment focused on Brandi Rhodes speaking to a therapist about her recent change in attitude. She also talked about the other members of the Nightmare Collective, including Awesome Kong, Mel and Luther.
Also announced for Wednesday is Jon Moxley, who will be in attendance and will speak out after becoming the number one contender to the AEW title last week.
The Butcher & The Blade will also team up to take on The Young Bucks.
As part of three stipulations he agreed to in order to receive a match against MJF, Cody Rhodes will receive ten lashes from his rival on the Wednesday, February 5th edition of AEW Dynamite in Huntsville, Alabama.
While the match hasn’t been officially announced, it is expected to take place on the company’s next pay-per-view, Revolution, scheduled for Saturday, February 29th in Chicago, IL.
Rhodes will honor another one of the stipulations on the February 19th edition of Dynamite as he will face MJF’s bodyguard Wardlow in a steel cage match in Atlanta, Georgia.
The two have been feuding since November’s AEW Full Gear PPV when MJF threw in the towel during Rhodes’ match against AEW World Champion Chris Jericho. MJF later gave Rhodes a low blow to complete the turn on his former friend.
Rhodes initially offered some financial and asset-driven incentives to MJF in order to face him, but MJF laid out three stipulations instead. The other stipulation was that Rhodes can’t lay a hand on him until the match.
Three matches have been announced for next week’s AEW Dynamite.
Chris Jericho, Santana & Ortiz, who were victorious tonight against the Jurassic Express, will team up to take on Darby Allin & Private Party in another six-man tag team match.
The Young Bucks will also be in action, as they will take on The Butcher & The Blade. Cody, meanwhile, will face Kip Sabian in a singles match.
It was also announced that we will hear from the number one contender to the AEW World title. That would be Jon Moxley, as he defeated PAC to become the number one contender in the main event of tonight’s episode of Dynamite.
Chris Jericho, who was on commentary, got up and the two had a staredown to close out the show. The match was then made official for AEW Revolution next month.
Dynamite next week will be at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
The second Chris Jericho cruise isn’t done yet and there’s already big news about the third iteration.
After Tuesday’s taping of AEW Dynamite, Cody Rhodes told the crowd that the show will air live next year on February 3, 2021 as part of Triple Whammy, the third Jericho cruise that sails from February 1-5.
This year’s show had to be taped and as reported on Tuesday’s Wrestling Observer Live, there are two tapes of the program being flown on separate charter flights to Atlanta, GA, to ensure it makes air for TNT tonight.
Cody has accepted the stipulations MJF has given him, meaning that a cage match against Wardlow is on the horizon.
He accepted all the stipulations MJF demanded on tonight’s edition of Dynamite during an in-ring promo. One of the stipulations required Cody to face Wardlow in a steel cage match. Announcers later said that this match will take place ten days prior to Revolution on February 19. That edition of Dynamite will take place at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
The second stipulation requires Cody not being able to touch MJF prior to Revolution. The third and final stipulation will require Cody to take ten lashes to the back. It wasn’t made clear when this stipulation will take place.
Cody and MJF have been feuding ever since the events of Full Gear, when MJF turned on Cody following his AEW World title match against Chris Jericho. Cody has since challenged MJF to a match, but MJF wouldn’t accept until Cody accepted all of his stipulations.
Cody came out during AEW Dark tapings that took place tonight following AEW Dynamite and announced that Gunn had signed with the promotion.
Austin Gunn has been working dark matches for the company recently. He teamed with his father Billy (who works as a producer for the company) last week taking on Santana and Ortiz. He teamed with his dad once again this week in another dark match, facing the team of Shawn Spears and Preston Vance.
Gunn, 25, started wrestling in 2017 and has been working on the independent scene since then. Back in August, he competed in the 2019 Top Prospect Tournament for Ring of Honor, losing to Dak Draper in the finals back on September 28.
He also took part in the first All Out Battle Royal back in 2018, which was eventually won by Flip Gordon under a mask.
A match between MJF and Cody will take place at Revolution next month, but only if Cody agrees to three stipulations.
MJF announced the stipulations on tonight’s show. The first is a no touching rule that Cody must adhere to. MJF said that if Cody touches him in any way, the match is off.
The second stipulation would be MJF selecting an opponent of his choice, which would be Wardlow, in a steel cage. The third and final stipulation would be for Cody to take ten lashes from MJF on all fours on live television.
These stipulations come after Cody challenged MJF to a match several weeks ago. It was MJF who turned on Cody back in November at Full Gear. He has since taken Wardlow as his associate and at one point had the team of The Butcher and The Blade attack Cody.
Revolution is set to take place at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois on February 29.
Cody Rhodes is kicking off the new year by adding a legendary wrestler as his manager.
It was announced via Sports Illustrated today that Cody will introduce Arn Anderson as his “new on-screen personal advisor” on this Wednesday’s episode of Dynamite.
“2019 was the most successful year I’ve had in pro wrestling,” Cody said in a press release. “Beyond the superfluous financial, it’s been incredibly rewarding on a spiritual level to be able to engage so many fans with a like-minded place in their hearts for the sport.”
The press release also included Cody giving a storyline explanation for choosing Anderson as his manager: “That said, one of my greatest fears came true as I lost the opportunity to wrestle for the World Championship again. But, on the other side of that fear is freedom to chase every other accolade outside of that title. I still want to collect all the accolades I can and dominate the singles division. That’s why I’m bringing in Arn Anderson as my personal advisor and head coach. He has been in business with my family for over three decades. Having been a wrestler throughout so many different generations of talent, he understands what ingredients it takes to look beyond the horizon and produce the best content and results.”
Cody had sent out a tweet on Friday teasing that he would be making a change to his in-ring presentation: “Excited to make a big change and apply a new strategy to my personal in-ring presentation in 2020. Hopefully I can share the good news soon!”
Anderson appeared during Cody’s match against Shawn Spears (who is managed by Tully Blanchard) at All Out and gave Spears a spinebuster. Anderson was also one of the judges for Chris Jericho and Cody’s AEW World Championship match at Full Gear.
Daily’s Place amphitheater in Jacksonville, Florida is hosting Wednesday’s Dynamite. Cody will face Darby Allin on the episode, and MJF will give his stipulations for a future match against Cody.
Cody vs. Allin is a rematch from when they went to a time-limit draw at Fyter Fest in June. Allin getting the rematch was a stipulation of him teaming with Cody against The Butcher & The Blade two weeks ago.
A first-time ever match between two teams of siblings is set for the second AEW Dynamite of 2020.
AEW announced this afternoon that Cody & Dustin Rhodes will team up against The Lucha Bros (Pentagon Jr. & Fenix) on the January 8 episode of Dynamite. This is the first match announced for the show.
Cody and Dustin have teamed together twice in AEW thus far. They lost to The Young Bucks in the main event of Fight for the Fallen in July. On week three of AEW Dark, Cody, Dustin & The Young Bucks defeated Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) & Strong Hearts (CIMA & T-Hawk).
Pentagon & Fenix defeated Kenny Omega & Hangman Page on Dynamite last week. Page accidentally hit Omega with a Buckshot Lariat before the finish.
Dynamite is off this week due to Wednesday being Christmas. The show returns with a live episode at Daily’s Place Amphitheater in Jacksonville, Florida on New Year’s Day.
The January 8 episode of Dynamite is taking place at the Landers Center in Southaven, Mississippi. It’s being called the anniversary edition of the show, with it being held on the one-year anniversary of AEW’s Double or Nothing rally.
The two teamed up on this week’s Dynamite against The Butcher and The Blade with the stipulation that if Allin and Rhodes won, Allin would get a rematch. They got the victory when Rhodes hit the Cody Cutter on The Blade for the win. On the broadcast, they didn’t mention when Allin would get his opportunity.
They first wrestled at Fyter Fest this past June and went to a 20-minute draw. Allin came out as an ally of Cody’s two weeks ago after he and QT Marshall lost to The Butcher and The Blade, setting up Wednesday’s tag match.
The New Year’s Day Dynamite also will feature women’s champion Riho vs. Kris Statlander, Jon Moxley’s decision on whether to join Chris Jericho’s Inner Circle faction, and MJF laying out stipulations for an eventual match with Cody.
A tag match has been added for next week’s AEW Dynamite.
Cody & Darby Allin will team up to take on The Butcher & The Blade. This stems from an angle that took place on this week’s show where Darby Allin helped Cody to his feet after he and QT Marshall lost to The Butcher & The Blade. Cody has been feuding with the team for the last few weeks after they appeared under the ring and laid him out in their debut. They are managed by The Bunny, the former Allie.
A number of big matches have been signed for next week’s show, the last show of the year for AEW. Chris Jericho will face Jungle Boy in a non-title match that will have a ten minute time limit.
The AEW Tag Team titles will also be on the line, with SoCal Uncensored taking on The Young Bucks. A number one contender’s match for the AEW Women’s title is also set, with Britt Baker taking on Kris Statlander. Lucha Bros. vs. Kenny Omega & Hangman Page has also been announced.
Dynamite next week will take place at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas.
MJF accepted Cody’s challenge on tonight’s Dynamite, but there will be stipulations that will be named on January 1.
MJF started the segment by calling out an AEW ring crew member who laughed at Cody’s line last week about the crossroads being botched on two different networks, taking a shot at MJF’s attempt at the move. MJF ended up taking out the ring crew member with the crossroads.
He then focused his attention on Cody and the challenge that he made last week. MJF ran Cody down on a number of things, including pandering to the fans and making fun of his lisp.
He eventually went on to accept Cody’s challenge for a match, saying that he knows Cody wants to face him badly, but there would be stipulations. He took a shot at Garland, Texas saying he wouldn’t do it there, but would do it in Jacksonville.
AEW will return to Jacksonville, Florida on January 1 at Daily’s Place.
Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite set up two tag team matches for next week including a street fight between two of the company’s top teams.
In Garland, TX, the Young Bucks will face Proud and Powerful (Santana and Ortiz) in a street fight, first announced via AEW’s Twitter account. The two teams were part of a six-man tag to open Wednesday’s show as the Bucks and Dustin Rhodes defeated Santana, Ortiz, and Sammy Guevara.
This will be a rematch of their Full Gear clash which Santana and Ortiz won.
Also set for Garland is Cody and QT Marshall vs. The Butcher & The Blade, making their official AEW in-ring debut. During a promo segment, Cody addressed last week’s attack by Andy Williams and Pepper Parks and said if they wanted an opportunity against him, they could pick his partner. The long-time indie team didn’t appear on the show outside a brief vignette with The Bunny.
