Garcia defeated Wheeler Yuta on Wednesday’s Rampage to win the championship for the first time. The finish of the match had Garcia lock in the dragon tamer. Yuta attempted to escape, but Garcia continued to wrench in the submission, eventually forcing Yuta to tap and winning the title in his hometown of Buffalo, New York.
After the match, the two shook hands as Bryan Danielson entered the ring. He put the title around Garcia’s waist. Chris Jericho appeared on the ramp, angry over what was going down as Garcia and Danielson shook hands.
In recent weeks, Garcia has been conflicted over what he wants to do, continue being a sports entertainer with the Jericho Appreciation Society, or embrace being a pro wrestler. On a recent episode of AEW Dynamite, Garcia told Jericho that he wanted to remain a part of the Jericho Appreciation Society. However, Garcia took a steel chair from Jericho after Jericho came to the ring to attack Danielson later in the show, allowing Danielson to lay out Jericho.
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Tuesday News Update
WWE
Braun Strowman made his return to the company last night, laying out several tag teams during a match. PWInsider reports that Strowman will be a babyface on the SmackDown brand moving forward.
Austin Aries and EC3 of Control Your Narrative wished Strowman, who had been working for the promotion during his time away from WWE, all the best on his return.
Matches taped for Main Event this week include Shelton Benjamin vs. Reggie and T-Bar vs. Cedric Alexander.
PWInsider reported that the third season of Young Rock will feature a character based on the late Brian Christopher, aka Grandmaster Sexay. The character is slated to appear semi-regularly.
The Akron Beacon Journal has a profile on Absolute Intense Wrestling.
Sports Illustrated reported that MLW has signed a partnership deal with Range Sports.
Matt Cardona has filed a trademark for the term “The Agent”.
BattleSlam have announced their next card for September 25th, where they will crown a World Champion.
Chris Jericho and Daniel Garcia will come face-to-face on Dynamite.
Jericho and Garcia were involved in a segment on last week’s show that teased dissension between the two. Garcia prevented Jericho from attacking Bryan Danielson and Jericho would later cut a promo questioning Garcia’s loyalty.
AEW announced the segment on Tuesday.
“As @bryandanielson offered @GarciaWrestling a handshake after a classic bout last week, @IAmJericho ambushed Bryan from behind; Jericho was shocked when Garcia impeded his assault! Now Jericho’s questioned Garcia’s loyalty & will confront him face-to-face TOMORROW on #AEWDynamite,” the promotion wrote on Twitter.
Wednesday’s edition of AEW Dynamite takes place from the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The announced lineup for the show is as follows:
CM Punk vs. Jon Moxley for the undisputed AEW World Championship
Billy Gunn vs. Colten Gunn
Dax Harwood vs. Jay Lethal
Britt Baker vs. KiLynn King
Death Triangle (PAC, Penta El 0M, and Rey Fenix) vs. Will Ospreay & Aussie Open
Half of the matches on this week’s show were filmed from Orlando’s Universal Studios on July 16 and the other half are from the most recent tapings on August 21 from the same venue.
Westin Blake will make his AEW debut on the show. He’ll face Daniel Garcia in singles competition.
Bear Country underwent a name change and are now known as The Iron Savages. They will face Sean Maluta & Manny Lo in tag team action.
Anthony Ogogo, Dante Martin, Matt Sydal, Blake Christian, Max Caster, and the Trustbusters are all scheduled for the show as well.
AEW Dark airs on Tuesday beginning at 7 p.m Eastern time on YouTube. The advertised lineup for the show is as follows:
From the July 16 tapings:
Anthony Ogogo vs. Meto
Dante Martin & Matt Sydal vs. Aaron Solo & Nick Comoroto
Blake Christian vs. Lucky Ali
Jora Johl vs. Vary Morales
Robyn & Charlette Renegade vs. Rocky Radley & Allie Recks
“Pretty” Peter Avalon & Ryan Nemeth vs. Adrian Alanis & Liam Grey
Max Caster vs. Justin Cotto
From the August 21 tapings:
Daniel Garcia vs. Westin Blake
Iron Savages (FKA Bear Country) vs. Sean Maluta & Manny Lo
The Dark Order’s John Silver, Alex Reynolds, & Ten vs. Tyshaun Perez, DK Vandu, & Joey Sweet
KiLynn King vs. Mafiosa
The Workhorsemen (JD Drake & Anthony Henry) vs. Rosario Grillo & Dean Alexander
The Trustbusters (Ari Daivari, Slim J, & Parker Boudreaux) vs. Ryan Howe, Omar Amir & Cash Flo
Josh Woods & Tony Nese w/ Mark Sterling vs. GKM & Oliver Sawyer
Tune into Speak Now Pro Wrestling hosted by Denise Salcedo as she reviews the August 17, 2022 edition of AEW Dynamite. This House of the Dragon episode featured a hot promo exchange between CM Punk and Jon Moxley, a 2 out of 3 falls match between Daniel Garcia and Bryan Danielson, a shocking match announcement, and the return of Kenny Omega!
Denise is live every Wednesday to chat AEW Dynamite!
Happy Friday, join on-camera personality Denise Salcedo on Speak Now Pro Wrestling as she recaps both WWE Smackdown and AEW Rampage. Things are looking a lot better now on the SmackDown side of things, Denise explains why! Check out this fun and interactive wrestling podcast!
Denise return on Tuesday next week to chat WWE NXT 2.0!
Bryan Danielson will face Daniel Garcia in a two-out-of-three falls match on next week’s AEW Dynamite.
Danielson and Garcia last faced off on the Fight for the Fallen edition of Dynamite on July 27, with Garcia scoring an upset win. That was Danielson’s first match since suffering what is believed to be a concussion during a match at Double or Nothing on May 29. Danielson will appear on this Friday’s Rampage ahead of the contest.
Also set for next week’s Dynamite, The Young Bucks will team with a mystery partner against Andrade El Idolo, Rush, and Dragon Lee in an AEW World Trios title tournament match.
The Bucks approached Hangman Page and asked him to be their partner on this week’s Dynamite, but Page declined, stating he will be in Dark Order’s corner for the tournament, but will not be competing.
New top contender to the AEW Women’s World Championship Toni Storm will also be in action on next week’s Dynamite, facing KiLynn King.
The August 17 Dynamite will be presented by Game of Thrones House of the Dragon in a tie-in with another Warner Bros. Discovery property.
Here is the announced lineup for next week:
Two-out-of-three falls: Bryan Danielson vs. Daniel Garcia
AEW World Trios tournament: The Young Bucks & a mystery partner vs. Andrade El Idolo, Rush & Dragon Lee
AEW Fight For The Fallen was a stacked show with lots of good matches, shocking moments, and some news!
Tune into Speak Now Pro Wrestling hosted by Denise Salcedo to hear her review of the show. Denise includes funny commentary and analysis of the show while also engaging with live viewers.
After a two-month absence, Bryan Danielson has been cleared to return to the ring.
During an AEW panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday night, Danielson announced that he’s been cleared to return to in-ring action as of this morning. Danielson revealed that he’ll be facing Daniel Garcia on Wednesday’s Fight for the Fallen edition of Dynamite.
Danielson hasn’t wrestled since suffering what’s believed to have been a concussion during the Anarchy in the Arena match at May’s Double or Nothing pay-per-view.
Danielson’s injury kept him from competing at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. It also prevented Danielson from being part of this year’s Blood & Guts match.
Danielson was supposed to face NJPW’s Zack Sabre Jr. at the Forbidden Door PPV. The debuting Claudio Castagnoli took Danielson’s place at the PPV and defeated Sabre.
Prior to Chris Jericho and Eddie Kingston’s barbed wire everywhere match this past Wednesday, Danielson sent out a tweet saying that he’s coming after both Jericho and Kingston when he’s able to wrestle again.
“One of these men takes credit for injuring me and the other one is the man I actually blame for it,” Danielson tweeted. “Excited to see them destroy each other… and when I get back I’ll kick both their heads in.”
Garcia is a member of the Jericho Appreciation Society. Garcia unsuccessfully challenged Danielson’s Blackpool Combat Club stablemate Wheeler Yuta for the ROH Pure Championship at Death Before Dishonor on Saturday.
The DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts is hosting Wednesday’s Dynamite. The updated card for the episode is listed below:
Interim AEW World Champion Jon Moxley defends against Rush
AEW Women’s World Champion Thunder Rosa defends against Miyu Yamashita
FTW Champion Ricky Starks defends against Danhausen
Bryan Danielson vs. Daniel Garcia
Handicap match: Swerve Strickland vs. Tony Nese & “Smart” Mark Sterling (Keith Lee is banned from ringside)
Daniel Garcia says Triple H welcomed him to the team after his WWE tryout last year.
Garcia was a guest on Talk is Jericho recently and spoke about participating in a camp at the WWE Performance Center in early 2021.
“I had a WWE tryout in January of last year, so 2021 and I had a match on NXT right after the tryout,” he said on the show.
“I did the camp and honestly, I crushed it. The promo was phenomenal, well I thought it was at the time, looking back it probably wasn’t. At the time, I liked it. I had a really good practice match. It was only me, one other indie guy, and then a bunch of football players.”
“I thought I did really well. They asked me to stay an extra day to have a squash match on NXT against Tyler Rust, his name was in Diamond Mine. The match went really well. I remember I went through the back and Shawn Michaels loved it, Road Dogg loved it, A-Train loved it, Triple H shook my hand and said ‘Welcome to the team.’ I think he thought I was signed but I wasn’t at the time. In my mind, I’m like, ‘I guess I’m going to NXT. Mom, I’m moving to Orlando!”
“I talked to Canyon Ceman right before I left. He said, ‘Let me know if any other place has interest because we’ll sign you sooner.’ In my mind. I’m like, that’s disrespectful to me. If you want to sign me, just sign me.”
“At the time, I had interest from Ring of Honor and I knew AEW wanted to bring me back in for extra work but I was, like, I’m gonna make this seem bigger than it actually is. So I said to him, ‘Well, with that being said,, I’ll talk to you very soon.’ I think he got kind of hot at me for that, I think that shook him up a little bit. They emailed me a couple weeks later, kind of saying like, ‘We’re gonna stay in contact blah, blah, blah’, and then that kind of made me mad. Then I went on a crazy Indie run and I signed with AEW.”
Garcia also commented on the Anarchy in the Arena match from Double or Nothing receiving a five-star rating from Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
“I got up and I started beating my chest,” Garcia said of his reaction to finding out the match’s star rating. “I got real excited because that’s an accomplishment that when you grow up in my era of wrestling fans, I grew up in the internet wrestling community and star ratings and Meltzer, that was all very important to my generation of people. So, once I found out I got a five-star rating, I’m like, ‘man, that’s a cool thing to check off my bucket list.'”
“It’s cool to know that if I never get another five-star match ever again, I got one. It’s cool to kind of get it out of the way a little bit.”
The battle between members of the Blackpool Combat Club and the Jericho Appreciation Society will continue this Wednesday.
Tony Khan on Twitter announced that Daniel Garcia will face Jon Moxley in a singles match.
“Following the epic Anarchy in the Arena, JAS will again fight BCC!” Khan wrote. “At Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite’s LA debut, one of wrestling’s top stars for the future battles one of wrestling’s biggest stars: @GarciaWrestling vs. @JonMoxley LIVE on @TBSNetwork @ 8pm ET/7pm CT Tomorrow Night!”
Moxley, Bryan Danielson, Eddie Kingston, Santana, and Ortiz met the Jericho Appreciation Society in an Anarchy in the Arena match at Double or Nothing this past Sunday. In a wild brawl that saw the two teams brawl all over the arena, the finish saw Danielson and Eddie Kingston going at it after Kingston inadvertently soaked Danielson with gasoline that was intended for Jericho. This allowed the JAS to make their comeback, with Jericho scoring the submission win over Danielson with the Walls of Jericho as Jake Hager strangled Danielson with a ring rope, with Danielson passing out.
Here is the lineup so far for Dynamite, which will take place at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles:
Jungle Boy, Luchasaurus, Matt Hardy, and Christian Cage vs. Bobby Fish, Kyle O’Reilly, and The Young Bucks
PWG has announced their lineup for their next show, Nineteen.
The company announced tonight that Nineteen will take place on July 3 at the Globe Theater in Los Angeles, California. Tickets will go on sale on PWG’s website on June 6 at 8 pm PDT.
Konosuke Takeshita will face Daniel Garcia in a match for the PWG World Championship. At PWG’s last show, Delivering the Goods, Garcia pinned Bandido to win the championship. Takeshita came out after the match and challenged Garcia, who accepted. Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis), meanwhile, will challenge current Tag Team Champions Kings of the Black Throne (Malakai Black and Brody King).
A women’s match was also announced in the undercard. Tokyo Joshi Pro star Yuka Sakazaki, who has also made appearances in AEW, will face Impact’s Masha Slamovich.
Here is the card for Nineteen:
Daniel Garcia vs. Konosuke Takeshita for the PWG Championship
JONAH vs. Kevin Blackwood
Aramis vs. Shane Haste
Yuka Sakazaki vs. Masha Slamovich
Jonathan Gresham vs. Davey Richards
Speedball Mike Bailey vs. Buddy Matthews
Kings of the Black Throne vs. Aussie Open for the PWG Tag Team titles
Here are results from tonight’s PWG Delivering the Goods event, which took place at the Globe Theater in Los Angeles:
Jack Cartwheel defeated Shane Haste
Aussie Open (Kyle Davis and Kyle Fletcher) defeated World Class Wrecking Crew (Royce Issacs and Jorel Nelson). After the match, Aussie Open challenged PWG World Tag Team Champions Malakai Black and Brody King to a future match. The WCWC replaced The Briscoes, who pulled out of the show due to a family emergency.
Jonathan Gresham defeated Kevin Blackwood
Konosuke Takeshita defeated Aramis. After the match, the ring filled up with money.
Taurus defeated Blake Christian
Biff Busick defeated Speedball Mike Bailey. Busick came to the ring wearing a Super Dragon mask and was billed as Super Dragon. After the match, Busick took a shot at Dragon and said that he wanted a shot at the PWG Championship.
Daniel Garcia defeated Bandido to win the PWG Championship. After the match, Garcia challenged Konosuke Takeshita to a match at the next PWG event. Takeshita said he would be the next champion.
AEW’s Blackpool Combat Club could have looked slightly different had it not been for Chris Jericho.
In this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer wrote that there was talk of Garcia joining the faction at one point after Bryan Danielson first mentioned the possibility of a superteam with Jon Moxley.
During that Dynamite promo, Danielson also mentioned Wheeler Yuta and Lee Moriarty. Yuta was inducted following his loss to Moxley on the April 8th Rampage while Moriarty is still aligned with Matt Sydal.
Meltzer said that “Chris Jericho personally picked Garcia to join the Jericho Appreciation Society,” negating his inclusion in the BCC.
Jericho’s new group was formed in the weeks following Revolution as part of the dissolvement of the Inner Circle with Santana, Ortiz, Jake Hager and Sammy Guevara. Hager came with him, along with Garcia and the former 2point0 with the faction focusing on being sports entertainers vs. pro wrestlers.
A segment featuring AEW’s newest faction has been added to this week’s Dynamite.
Wednesday’s episode of Dynamite will feature the “Jericho Appreciation Society commencement.” The group, which formed last week, consists of Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, 2point0 (Matt Lee & Jeff Parker), and Daniel Garcia.
Jericho and Hager turned against their former Inner Circle stablemates Santana and Ortiz last week and joined 2point0 and Garcia in beating down Eddie Kingston, Santana, and Ortiz.
The turn came after Jericho lost to Kingston at Revolution.
This Wednesday’s Dynamite is a special St. Patrick’s Day Slam edition of the show. It’s taking place in San Antonio, Texas and is being headlined by Thunder Rosa challenging for Britt Baker’s AEW Women’s World Championship in a steel cage match.
The updated lineup for the episode is listed below:
Steel cage match: AEW Women’s World Champion Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. defends against Thunder Rosa
TNT Champion Scorpio Sky defends against Wardlow
AEW World Champion Hangman Page & AEW Tag Team Champions Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus vs. Adam Cole, Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly
Jon Moxley & Bryan Danielson (w/ William Regal) vs. Chuck Taylor & Wheeler Yuta (w/ Orange Cassidy and Danhausen)
