Three matches were announced tonight for Double or Nothing.
The AEW Women’s championship will be on the line, as champion Nyla Rose will face number one contender Hikaru Shida. It will be a no DQ, no countout match after Rose attacked Shida with a kendo stick backstage. Shida had defeated Kris Statlander, Britt Baker, and Penelope Ford in a fatal four way match tonight to become the number one contender.
A match between Britt Baker and Kris Statlander was also made tonight, stemming from what happened during the fatal four way women’s match. Baker had Statlander on the floor with her lockjaw submission. The announcers mentioned that Baker was more intent on taking out Statlander than actually winning the match.
The Buy-In pre show match will be a tag team match, with Private Party squaring off against Best Friends. The winners of that match will become the number one contenders to the AEW Tag Team championships, which are currently held by Hangman Adam Page and Kenny Omega.
Another match has been added to Revolution this Sunday.
AEW confirmed tonight that Kris Statlander will challenge Nyla Rose for the AEW Women’s championship. This comes following the events of last week’s Dynamite, when Statlander confronted Rose, who defeated Riho two weeks ago to win the championship. As the two had a staredown, Big Swole appeared and the three eventually had to be seperated.
Statlander had previously challenged for the AEW Women’s championship back on the January 8 edition of Dynamite. She was defeated by then-champion Riho after interference from Brandi Rhodes and the rest of the Nightmare Collective.
On the Road to Kansas City video that premiered on AEW’s social media today, a match between Darby Allin and Sammy Guevara was announced for Revolution. The show will be headlined by Jon Moxley facing Chris Jericho for the AEW World championship.
Revolution will take place this Saturday, February 29 at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois.
She became champion during tonight’s episode of Dynamite. After a back and forth match, Riho was able to land several big moves on Rose, including two dragon suplexes and a northern lights suplex. However, Rose was able to hold on and eventually pinned Riho with a sitout powerbomb to win the championship for the first time.
After the match, Rose was shown walking to the back and accepting a hug from Tony Khan. She then exchanged words with Kenny Omega, who has been associated with Riho in storyline, before walking away.
Riho had been champion for 134 days, winning the title during the premiere episode of Dynamite on October 2. Coincidently, she defeated Nyla Rose to become the first AEW Women’s champion. Notable championship matches included Riho defeating Britt Baker on an episode of Dynamite as well as her mentor Emi Sakura at Full Gear.
Dynamite next week will take place at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Big News: Brandon Cutler did not get involved as his partner Sonny Kiss got destroyed, decimated, and defeated by The Dark Order in the main event.
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Tony Schiavone opened the episode on the Chris Jericho Rock ‘n’ Wrestling Rager at Sea and introduced the matches. Dasha Gonzales wasn’t on the show, but it was said she’d be back next week.
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Nyla Rose defeated Shanna in a tables match
This match was taped in Miami at the Bash at the Beach episode of Dynamite.
For the first time in AEW history, Jim Ross described a match as Bowling Shoe Ugly. The match wasn’t necessarily bad, but it did have some rough points, especially as it regarded Shanna trying to set up a table.
Shanna did a dive off the apron early on and attempted to push a table into the ring, but Rose shoved it into Shanna’s stomach, which sent her crashing into the guardrail. JR mentioned that he felt similar pain at the Cow Palace once, referencing the New Japan show where Jay White caused the announce desk to push into Ross, knocking him over. That’s also when Josh Barnett stood up and attempted to start a confrontation with White before being calmed down.
Shanna snapped off a hurricanrana, which popped the crowd and eventually the table was set up at ringside. While Rose was on the apron, Shanna leaped off the top rope, but got caught and chokeslammed through the table, giving the win to The Native Beast.
After the match, Rose pulled out a second table, but Sadie Gibbs ran in for the alleged save. Gibbs attempted a Space Flying Tiger Drop, but Rose moved. Gibbs tried to land on her feet, but she slipped and fell on her butt. Rose ran after her, beat her down, and then powerbombed Gibbs through the second table.
We were magically whisked away to the Caribbean as we were on the Jericho Cruise for this match. Sabian worked over Marshall’s arm for the majority of the match after Ford interfered, which allowed Sabian to gain the advantage.
Sabian decided to leave the ring and jaw-jack with some fans at ringside. Marshall made a brief comeback and hit some really nice slams, but this was not his night.
Marshall went for a senton, but Sabian maneuvered out of the way and slapped on an armbreaker and Marshall got the ropes. To play off Marshall’s entrance where he threw an apple into the crowd, Sabian grabbed an apple, but got a punch to the face for his troubles. Marshall went for a sunset flip, but Sabian sat down, fell forward, and grabbed the ropes for the win.
Sabian will go one-on-one with Cody on Dynamite tomorrow night.
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The Dark Order (Evil Uno & Stu Grayson) defeated Sonny Kiss & Brandon Cutler
Cutler and Peter Avalon are now in a race to see who can have the longest losing streak in AEW history. Avalon is currently in the lead, but Cutler is gaining on his tail. We flew back to Miami for this bout.
This show lasted 32 minutes and the bell to start the main event rang 28 minutes in, so needless to say this wasn’t an Iron Man match. Alex Reynolds and John Silver walked to the ring without their masks on and put them on before the match.
Kiss was attacked at the bell and spent the entirety of the brief bout in a failing attempt to fight back. Kiss did a slingshot split leg drop, which may have done more damage to him than Grayson. Uno speared Kiss on the ring apron and then Kiss was pinned after The Dark Order hit Fatality.
It was brought up at Cutler never tagged in. Kiss never got close enough to the corner to attempt the tag.
So that does it for this week. Thank you for reading and I presume we return to normal next week.
AEW Dark tonight will feature a number of matches taped two weeks ago prior to the Chris Jericho Cruise. You can watch the video below:
Nyla Rose will face Shanna tonight in a tables match. Rose’s gimmick has been putting people through tables, and did the same to Shanna several weeks ago. Shanna hopes to gain a measure of revenge tonight.
The Dark Order will also be in action, as they will take on the team of Sonny Kiss and Brandon Cutler. The last several weeks of Being the Elite have teased Cutler possibly joining the Dark Order, with the Young Bucks frequently mentioning that Cutler hasn’t been around.
Kip Sabian will also be in action, as he will take on QT Marshall.
Matches announced for this week’s Dynamite in Cleveland, Ohio include Kip Sabian taking on Cody, a six man tag match featuring Darby Allin & Private Party against Chris Jericho, Santana & Ortiz and The Young Bucks taking on The Butcher & The Blade
Riho has made history, defeating Nyla Rose tonight to become the first ever AEW Women’s Champion.
She defeated Rose following a double foot stomp on tonight’s premiere episode of Dynamite on TNT. After the match, Michael Nakazawa attempted to get an interview with Riho. However, Nyla Rose jumped Nakazawa and laid him out with a powerbomb.
Rose then set her sights on Riho, who attempted to make an escape. Rose was about to lay her out on the apron when Kenny Omega made the save for Riho. Rose was eventually escorted to the back as Omega helped Riho to her feet.
Riho, 22, has been wrestling in Japan since the age of 9, wrestling for both Ice Ribbon and Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling. She made her debut for AEW at Double or Nothing in a six woman tag team match.
Rose defeated twenty other women to win the All Out Women’s Casino Battle Royal, advancing to tonight’s Women’s title match. After Riho defeated Hiraku Shida on the very same program, Rose confronted Riho, setting up tonight’s match.
A triple threat match has been added to the card for Fyter Fest.
Nyla Rose vs. Riho vs. Yuka Sakazaki was announced for the show on this week’s episode of AEW’s Road to Fyter Fest series. Fyter Fest is taking place at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida on Saturday, June 29 and will air for free on Bleacher Report Live.
Rose, Riho, and Sakazaki all wrestled at Double or Nothing last month. Rose took on Britt Baker, Kylie Rae, and Awesome Kong in a four-way match, with Baker getting the win by pinning Rae. Riho, Hikaru Shida & Ryo Mizunami defeated Sakazaki, Aja Kong & Emi Sakura in a six-woman tag match.
Fyter Fest is in partnership with CEO Fighting Game Championships. Here’s the updated card for the show:
Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks vs. Pentagon Jr., Fenix, and a partner
Jon Moxley vs. Joey Janela
Cody Rhodes vs. Darby Allin
Hangman Page vs. MJF vs. Jimmy Havoc vs. Jungle Boy
Nyla Rose vs. Riho vs. Yuka Sakazaki
Christopher Daniels vs. CIMA
CEO organizer Alex Jebailey vs. AEW’s Michael Nakazawa in a hardcore match (pre-show)
All Elite Wrestling has announced the first women’s match in company history.
AEW released episode three of their Road to Double or Nothing video series tonight. It confirmed another match for Double or Nothing, with Britt Baker, Nyla Rose, and Kylie Rae set to face off in a triple threat match at the show.
Baker appeared at January’s AEW rally, while Rose and Rae took part in an angle where they went face-to-face at last week’s ticket announcement party.
Aja Kong and Yuka Sakazaki were also announced for Double or Nothing at the ticket party.
This week’s Road to Double or Nothing episode built up Baker vs. Rose vs. Rae with a storyline where Baker called Brandi Rhodes and was concerned about being left out of the picture after the ticket party angle.
Double or Nothing is taking place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 25.
Episode three of the Road to Double or Nothing is available to watch below. It continues to tease Cody Rhodes’ match for the event, with him showing Brandi a match graphic where his opponent is blurred out.
A number of new talent were introduced tonight at AEW’s Double or Nothing ticket party press conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Sonny Kiss started the night by coming out and announcing that he would be part of Double or Nothing. He has previously wrestled for Lucha Underground under the name XO Lishus and has wrestled in the past for Warriors of Wrestling and Tier 1 Wrestling. Sammy Guevara later arrived, billed as the AAA Cruiserweight champion saying he was a part of the AEW roster as well.
Best Friends, Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta, also made an appearance and announced that they would be joining the promotion after being introduced by the Young Bucks. The two had just finished their last commitments to New Japan Pro Wrestling over the weekend.
Brandi Rhodes followed and announced that Aja Kong and Yuka Sakazaki both would be appearing at Double or Nothing. Sakazaki is a regular for Tokyo Joshi Pro, which is under the DDT umbrella. Kylie Rae followed those announcements, with Brandi Rhodes noting she was no longer a free agent. Nyla Rose soon followed and the two had a staredown which eventually led to a seperation. Rae was trained by ACH and has wrestled for Booker T’s Reality of Wrestling promotion, as well as competing for RISE and SHIMMER in the past.
Nyla Rose has wrestled for Warriors of Wrestling, and has worked for a number of promotions in Japan including Sendai Girls, Marvelous and Zero One.
Double or Nothing will take place on May 25th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
