PAC, Penta, and Fenix last teamed as a trio at AEW’s Double or Nothing pay-per-view in May in a losing effort as they challenged The Bang Bang Gang for the AEW Unified Trios Championship.
PAC and Fenix both participated in this year’s Owen Hart Foundation tournament in AEW, with PAC making it to the semifinals before losing to Bryan Danielson, and Fenix being bounced in the first round in a loss to Jay White.
PAC has returned to a regular wrestling schedule this year, returning to AEW in March after missing nearly eight months due to injury from July 2023 to March 2024.
PAC also won a four-way bout to earn a future shot at the International Championship on last week’s Dynamite.
The Unified Trios title match for Double or Nothing is now official.
The Lucha Bros. (Rey Fenix and Penta El Zero Miedo) defeated The Gunns on Saturday’s AEW Collision. Per the stipulations of the match, Death Triangle vs. The Bang Bang Gang on Sunday’s pay-per-view will now be for the Trios titles.
On AEW Dynamite this past Wednesday, PAC brought out the Lucha Bros. to fight the Bang Bang Gang, who had targeted and attacked PAC. It was there that Death Triangle challenged Jay White & The Gunns for Double or Nothing.
The Lucha Bros. had not wrestled as a team since WrestleDream back in October. Fenix had been out of action for most of 2024 far with an injury.
Meanwhile, a new trios match was added to the AEW Double or Nothing Buy-In pre-show, as The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn will battle Brian Cage and The Gates of Agony. The Acclaimed & The Gates of Agony were part of a four-way tag team match that took place on Collision, with Buddy Matthews and Brody King scoring the win.
The announced AEW Double or Nothing lineup so far:
AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland defends against Christian Cage
TBS Champion Willow Nightingale defends against Mercedes Mone
Anarchy in the Arena: The Elite (Kazuchika Okada, Jack Perry & The Young Bucks) vs. Team AEW (Bryan Danielson, Darby Allin & FTR)
AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm defends against Serena Deeb
FTW Champion Chris Jericho defends against Katsuyori Shibata & Hook in a triple threat
TNT Champion Adam Copeland defends against Malakai Black in a barbed wire steel cage
AEW International Champion Roderick Strong defends against Will Ospreay
Unified Trios titles: The Bang Bang Gang (Jay White & The Gunns) vs. Death Triangle (PAC & The Lucha Bros)
IWGP World title eliminator: Jon Moxley vs. Konosuke Takeshita
Orange Cassidy vs. Trent Beretta
Buy-In pre-show: Thunder Rosa vs. Deonna Purrazzo
Buy-In pre-show: The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn vs. Brian Cage and The Gates of Agony
AEW has announced stipulations for the remaining matches in the best-of-seven series between The Elite and Death Triangle.
Next week’s match will be no disqualification. If the series continues, match 6 on the December 28 edition of Dynamite in Denver, Colorado will be a falls count anywhere match. And if a seventh match is required on January 11 in Los Angeles, that will be a Escalera de la Muerte (ladder) match.
Death Triangle currently lead The Elite 3-1 in their best-of-seven series. On Wednesday’s Dynamite, Death Triangle scored the win after Penta El 0 M used the ring bell hammer to once again score the win for his team. After the match, Kenny Omega cut a promo challenging Death Triangle to a no DQ match. The team accepted.
Death Triangle picked up the first two wins, defeating The Elite upon their return at Full Gear last month, then defeated them again on November 23. On the November 30 edition of Dynamite, The Elite picked up the first win for their team. The winners of the series will walk away with the AEW World Trios titles.
Tune into Speak Now Pro Wrestling hosted by Denise Salcedo as she reviews the November 30, 2022 edition of AEW Dynamite. This was a really good show with lots of good wrestling and storytelling.
A best-of-seven series for the World Trios Championship has been announced for AEW Dynamite.
It was revealed during Saturday’s Full Gear pay-per-view that the Death Triangle vs. The Elite match at Full Gear was the first in a best-of-seven series for the AEW World Trios Championship, with the next bout set for Wednesday’s Dynamite.
Death Triangle defeated The Elite at Full Gear to go up 1-0 in the series.
The announced schedule for the series:
Match 1: Full Gear, Death Triangle leads 1-0
Match 2: November 23, AEW Dynamite in Chicago, Illinois
Match 3: December 7, AEW Dynamite in Indianapolis, Indiana
Match 4: December 14, AEW Dynamite: Winter is Coming in Garland, Texas
Match 5: December 21, AEW Dynamite: Holiday Bash in San Antonio, Texas (if necessary)
Match 6: December 28, AEW Dynamite: New Year’s Smash in Denver, Colorado (if necessary)
Match 7: January 14, AEW Dynamite in Los Angeles (if necessary)
Here is the updated lineup for the November 23 Dynamite:
ROH World Championship: Chris Jericho (c) vs against Tomohiro Ishii
AEW World title eliminator tournament finals: Ethan Page vs. Ricky Starks
AEW All-Atlantic Championship: Orange Cassidy (c) vs. Jake Hager
Match two in Death Triangle and The Elite’s best-of-seven series for the AEW World Trios Championship
The Elite are back in AEW — but Death Triangle are still the Trios Champions.
In their first match in more than two months, Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks unsuccessfully challenged for the AEW Trios titles at Saturday’s Full Gear pay-per-view. PAC, Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix retained after Fenix gave in and cheated to get the win.
After initially refusing to use a hammer when PAC wanted him to, Fenix struck Omega with the hammer and pinned him to get the victory. Omega was going for the One Winged Angel, but PAC put the hammer in Fenix’s hand. When Omega lifted Fenix up, Fenix hit him with the hammer.
Death Triangle became AEW Trios Champions after The Elite were stripped of the titles this September. The Elite were crowned the inaugural champions at All Out, but they had to vacate the titles following their involvement in the post-All Out brawl.
AEW’s investigation into CM Punk and The Elite’s backstage fight concluded last month with The Elite being brought back but CM Punk expected to exit the company.
At Full Gear, The Young Bucks & Omega entered to the song “Carry on Wayward Son” by Kansas. The Young Bucks filed a trademark for “The Wayward Sons” on November 3, but they recently abandoned the trademark application.
The Elite are officially set to make their return at Full Gear this Saturday.
After Death Triangle successfully defended the AEW Trios titles against Top Flight and AR Fox, PAC cut a promo saying they knew what all the videos were about, referring to The Elite’s recent videos teasing a return. PAC said if they wanted to make a return, they could do it at Full Gear. After PAC cut his promo, a Full Gear graphic appeared on the video screen, with The Elite visibly appearing next to Death Triangle.
The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega were suspended from AEW after they, CM Punk, and Ace Steel were involved in a fight following Punk’s comments from a media scrum held after All Out in September. Following an investigation, The Elite have since been reinstated, and videos teasing their return have aired in recent weeks.
Here is the updated lineup for Full Gear:
AEW Full Gear, Saturday, November 19 on pay-per-view —
AEW World Championship: Jon Moxley (c) vs. MJF
ROH World Championship: Chris Jericho (c) vs. Bryan Danielson vs. Sammy Guevara vs. Claudio Castagnoli
Interim AEW Women’s World Championship: Toni Storm (c) vs. Jamie Hayter
AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Acclaimed (Max Caster & Anthony Bowens) (c) vs. Swerve In Our Glory (Swerve Strickland & Keith Lee)
AEW Trios Championship: Death Triangle (PAC, Penta El 0 M, and Rey Fenix) vs. The Elite (Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks)
This is a very busy episode of Speak Now Pro Wrestling hosted by Denise Salcedo.
There was a lot that occurred on AEW Dynamite which unfortunately included Hangman Adam Page being stretchered out, a great promo exchange between MJF and William Regal, and a lot more.
Plus on the NXT side of things, we had a very entertaining go-home show leading into WWE NXT Halloween Havoc. Tune into the show for a good time!
PAC, Penta El Zero Miedo, and Rey Fenix are the new AEW World Trios Champions.
Death Triangle defeated Orange Cassidy, Trent Beretta, and Chuck Taylor of Best Friends in a bout to crown new World Trios Champions on Wednesday’s Dynamite. PAC pinned Taylor after hitting a Black Arrow to capture the titles for his team.
The titles had been vacated at the top of Wednesday’s Dynamite episode after an announcement from AEW GM Tony Khan. Without mentioning CM Punk or any of The Elite by name, Khan stated that he had been forced to vacate both the World and Trios titles.
Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks were stripped of the Trios titles that they won in a tournament final at All Out on Sunday, and Punk was stripped of the World title following a backstage altercation between Punk, The Young Bucks, Omega, and others after Sunday’s show.
The previously announced Death Triangle vs. Best Friends bout was made a title match, while a tournament to crown a new World Champion was announced, with the finals set for Dynamite Grand Slam at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York on September 21.
AEW has announced nine matches for Dark: Elevation.
This week’s episode was filmed on Wednesday, August 17 from the Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, West Virginia.
Ahead of their first-round match in the Trios tournament Wednesday in Cleveland, Death Triangle will be in action on Monday’s show. They will face Rosario Grillo, Manscout, & Dean Alexander.
Maki Itoh will return to AEW for the first time since May on Dark: Elevation this week. She’ll team with Emi Sakura to face Hikaru Shida & Skye Blue.
Ruby Soho will also team with Ortiz to take on Aminata & Mikey Midas in mixed tag action.
Tony Nese, Josh Woods, Julia Hart, Anna Jay, Dante Martin, Serena Deeb, and the Dark Order are all scheduled for the show as well.
AEW Dark: Elevation airs beginning at 7 p.m Eastern time on YouTube. The announced card for the show is as follows:
Death Triangle (Penta Oscura, Rey Fenix, & PAC) vs. Rosario Grillo, Manscout, & Dean Alexander
Tony Nese & Josh Woods vs. Andrea Guericio & Logan James
Julia Hart vs. Hayley Shadows
Hikaru Shida & Skye Blue vs. Emi Sakura & Maki Itoh
Ruby Soho & Ortiz vs. Queen Aminata & Mikey Midas
Anna Jay vs. Nikki Victory
Dante Martin vs. Jackson Drake
Serena Deeb vs. Megan Meyers
The Dark Order’s Alex Reynolds, John Silver & Ten vs. D’Mone Solavino, Alexander Apollo & RC Dupree
Death Triangle will face Will Ospreay and Aussie Open on the august 24 AEW Dynamite.
In an AEW World Trios Championship tournament first round matchup, PAC, Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix of Death Triangle will take on Ospreay, and Aussie Open’s Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis on Wednesday, August 24. The bout was announced during Friday’s Rampage episode.
The Death Triangle vs. Ospreay and Aussie Open matchup had been announced previously, but the date is now official.
The first round tournament matches are as follows:
AEW Dynamite, Wednesday, August 17 —
Andrade El Idolo, Dragon Lee, and Rush vs. The Young Bucks and a mystery partner
AEW Rampage, Friday, August 19 —
Trustbusters (Ari Daivari, Slim J & Parker Boudreaux) vs. Best Friends (Orange Cassidy, Trent Beretta & Chuck Taylor)
AEW Dynamite, Wednesday, August 24 —
Death Triangle (PAC, Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix) vs. Will Ospreay & Aussie Open
Date TBA —
House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King & Buddy Matthews) vs. Dark Order
The tournament finals to crown the first AEW World Trios Champions will be held at the All Out pay-per-view on Sunday, September 4.
Four matches were taped for AEW Dark: Elevation on Wednesday from the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, California.
With the show emanating from Southern California, former SCU teammates Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels were reunited. Daniels accompanied Kazarian to the ring for his match against Serpentico.
Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling’s Miyu Yamashita made her AEW debut at the tapings as well. She teamed with Skye Blue in a losing effort to Nyla Rose and Serena Deeb.
Other matches filmed for the show include the Nightmare Factory defeating the Dark Order and Death Triangle defeated The Wingmen.
AEW Dark: Elevation airs Monday at 7 p.m Eastern on YouTube. Full spoilers for the show are listed below.
The Nightmare Factory (QT Marshall, Anthony Ogogo, Nick Comoroto & Aaron Solo) defeated Dark Order (Alan “5” Angels, John Silver & 10)
Frankie Kazarian w/ Christopher Daniels defeated Serpentico
Nyla Rose & Serena Deeb defeated Skye Blue & Miyu Yamashita
The Death Triangle (Penta Oscuro, Rey Fenix, & Pac) defeated The Wingmen (Peter Avalon, Ryan Nemeth, & Cezar Bononi)
AEW has announced five matches for a special weekend edition of Dark.
The episode was filmed at Friday’s Rampage taping from the Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Darby Allin vs. Brandon Cutler will headline the show. Other notable matches include the Death Triangle taking on the Factory and Riho, Yuka Sakazaki & Skye Blue vs. Nyla Rose, Diamante & Emi Sakura. The House of Black and Anna Jay will also be in action.
AEW Dark on Saturday, May 28 will air at 7 p.m Eastern time on YouTube. The full lineup for the show is as follows:
Darby Allin vs. Brandon Cutler
Anna Jay vs. Sandra Moone
House of Black (Malakai Black, Buddy Matthews, & Brody King) vs. Adriel Noctis, Gregory Sharpe & Matt Brannigan
Riho, Yuka Sakazaki & Skye Blue vs. Nyla Rose, Diamante & Emi Sakura
Death Triangle (Pac, Penta Oscuro, & Rey Fenix) vs. QT Marshall, Nick Comoroto & Aaron Solo
Rey Fenix made his return to AEW on tonight’s Dynamite, confronting the House of Black.
Tonight’s show had House of Black circling around a fallen Fuego del Sol. They were about to unmask him when Alex Abrahantes seemingly appeared in the ring in his cloak, confronting the trio. Malakai Black, Brody King, and Buddy Matthews then headed to the ring. This brought out Penta 0M, PAC, and Abrahantes (without the cloak) to the stage. It was then revealed that Fenix was the one under the cloak and attacked the trio with a shovel, then laid out Matthews.
Fenix had been out of action since the January 5 edition of Dynamite, when he and Penta lost the AEW World Tag Team titles to Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus). Towards the end of the match, Fenix suffered an arm injury after being chokeslammed off the apron through tables that were set up on the outside.
Fenix’s in-ring return will be at AAA’s Triplemania event this weekend, where he will team with Hijo del Vikingo to take on The Young Bucks.
The Big News: Death Triangle ran in after the main event to lay a beating on five babyfaces. It took three more, in the form of Best Friends and Orange Cassidy, to run them off.
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When looking up this episode on YouTube I couldn’t help but notice the large number of episodes (including this one) where the thumbnail is of the Jurassic Express.
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Jurassic Express (with Marko Stunt) defeated Kip Sabian & Peter Avalon (with Penelope Ford & Leva Bates)
Speaking of the Jurassic Express, they are here to kick off Dark this week. Avalon, who comes into this match at 0-10, took forever to start his promo. He got as far as saying we were in Denver before the Express’ music began. This doesn’t seem right, but the graphic indicates this is only the second time Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus are teaming together in a two-on-two tag match.
Jungle Boy ran wild on both heels and was going for some sort of slingshot maneuver, but Penelope tripped him up and Sabian took over. Sabian and Avalon worked well together. Avalon missed a beautiful moonsault, giving Jungle Boy room to crawl for a tag. However. Ford grabbed one of Leva’s books and threw it into the ring to distract the referee, so the heels kept control.
Unfortunately for Sabian and Avalon, their ladies could not get along. Bates and Ford began arguing with one another, which distracted the team long enough for Luchasaurus to get the tag. He had it almost had it won with a moonsault to Avalon, but Sabian bum-rushed into the pile, breaking up the cover. Luchasaurus gave Sabian the tail whip, allowing Jungle Boy to pin Avalon following an assisted cutter.
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Tony Schiavone and Dasha Gonzalez previewed the rest of the show. Dasha wanted to know why Tony was wearing a Nightmare Family shirt. Turns out 20% of the proceeds of that shirt up until March 14 will be donated to Planned Pethood.
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Jimmy Havoc defeated Severino Corrente
I believe “Severino Corrente” loosely translates to “lamb being led to slaughter.”
Corrente had his fingers yanked back. Most people would be like “I’m done”. Instead Corrente punched Havoc to no avail. Jimmy used a discus elbow to the face and went for some sort of fireman’s carry, but Corrente raked the eyes.
Corrente started to build momentum, but then he ran chest-first into Jimmy’s feet. He did duck an Acid Rainmaker and used a German suplex into the corner turnbuckles. He tried to fishhook Havoc, but instead Jimmy bit his fingers. A series of impact moves followed, including a leg hook DDT and finished off Corrente with an Acid Rainmaker for the pin.
Havoc beckoned to the back, daring Luther and Mel to come out. Unfortunately, you get what you ask for, as Luther flew down the ramp and attacked Havoc from behind, eventually laying out Havoc with a DDT on the ramp.
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Hikaru Shida defeated Abadon
Abadon is one of the most unique looking wrestlers on the roster. She has done her face paint to look like blood is seeping from her forehead into her eye and down her cheek. She is certainly a sight to behold. By comparison, Hikaru Shida does not look like she has blood coming out of her eye.
Some of the crowd chanted for Abadon to “eat her soul” despite being the heel and Shida being very well liked. Abadon tried to eat Shida’s hand, which threw off the number one ranked contender. Abadon looked really good here and I really hope she’s not one and done. Abadon had her tied in the ropes and licked Shida’s face. Shida was not happy about this, possibly for more than one reason.
Abadon didn’t sell for much, but she definitely felt it when Shida used a running knee in the corner and a missile dropkick. Shida nailed a knee to the back of the head, but Abadon almost won with the Edge-a-matic. Shida finally managed to hit a Shining Wizard for the win.
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Backstage, Dasha asked Jimmy Havoc for an update on his injuries. Havoc thanked Luther for doing it, so being the nice guy Luther is, he attacked Havoc again and had to be dragged away.
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The Librarians were telling us about the newest book of the month, which is Written In The Stars. They came upon Colt Cabana, who was listening to a podcast instead of reading a book. Avalon kept recommending authors, so Colt recommended podcasts. This led to a challenge for a match.
Leva went back and told Colt she loves his podcast.
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Private Party defeated Sonny Kiss & Brandon Cutler
A few weeks ago, Cutler almost beat Private Party by himself when his partner, Shawn Spears walked out. So how will things be when he has a loyal partner? Either way, Cutler is dueling it out with Peter Avalon for the worst record in AEW at 0-9.
Cutler did a great job countering Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen, much like he did the last time they met. This time Sonny got involved and it ended up in a standoff. Excalibur wondered if Quen and Sonny got their hair done at the same place, which led Taz to say he thinks they go to the same “Dye-ist”. While this conversation was going on, Kiss went down to a combo Rude Awakening/Double Foot Stomp, giving Private Party the advantage.
Private Party mimicked Kiss while getting the heat on him. Cutler got the hot tag and used a beautiful springboard double clothesline. Cutler looked good, laying a beating on both men. We did have a contrived spot where Kassidy was laying on the middle rope and had to stay hanging there while Cutler did moves to Quen first.
Get out the hammer and nails, because this team of Cutler and Kiss are BUILDING MOMENTUM! Kiss went for a boot on Quen, but Marq moved and Kiss ended up in the splits. Quen went for what turned into a Moonsault with double knees. Cutler got in and started doing moves without getting a tag. The referee kept telling him he’s not legal, but Cutler ignored him and hit the TPK on both members of Private Party. Kiss went to the middle rope, but Kassidy prevented him from leaping off. Quen tagged in as Private Party nailed Kiss with the Gin and Juice for the win.
Suddenly, from out of nowhere (or just off the camera), Death Triangle ran in to attack Private Party! PAC, Pentagon and Fenix ended up laying out not only them, but also Cutler and Kiss, who tried to make the save.
PAC took the mic and told all of AEW that if they continue to disrespect athletes of their caliber, they’ll get exactly what they asked for. Joey Janela tried to run in for the save, but was also laid out. Best Friends and Orange Cassidy then hit the ring to send the Death Triangle reeling as the show closed
