AEW‘s latest edition of Dynamite went down on (3/1/23) from the Cow Palace in Daly City, California! With just four days until the Revolution pay-per-view, Powerhouse Hobbs won the Face of the Revolution ladder match and the team of AEW All-Atlantic Champion Orange Cassidy and Danhausen won the Casino Battle Royale match!
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Orange Cassidy (C) vs. Big Bill (with Stokely Hathaway) — AEW All-Atlantic Championship
A game of cat and mouse ensues with Cassidy leading the way. The action finally gets underway back inside of then ring and Bill plants Cassidy with a slam then a corner splash. Bill launches Cassidy into the corner then to the outside and lights Cassidy up with a forearm across the back. Stokely and Bill set up a table along the end of the entrance ramp and Bill looks for a choke-slam but Cassidy fights back, only to eat a forearm from the challenger. Cassidy springboards off the steel steps and goes for a diving forearm but Bill catches him and sends him crashing through the table and we head to a commercial break.
Back from the break and Bill is working over Cassidy back inside of the ring. Danhausen has made his way down to the ring and Bill goes for a big boot but Cassidy ducks under the attempt and rolls to the outside. Danhausen tries to curse Stokely but Bill steps in front and tries to choke-slam Danhausen but Stokley stops him and crushes Danhausen with his cast. Cassidy comes out of nowhere and nails Stokely with a dive through the ropes and goes for another, this time to Bill, but Bill catches him in mid-air. Cassidy breaks free and sends Bill into the steel steps before making his way back into the ring. Cassidy looks for the Orange Punch, Bill catches him, Cassidy plants Bill with a DDT, then an Orange Punch, and another Orange Punch! Bill is still standing, Cassidy goes up top, and nails Bill with a diving Orange Punch for the 1-2-3!
Winner – Orange Cassidy (C)
We then see an exclusive look at Jon Moxley speaking after last week’s episode of Dynamite. A bloodied, mangled, Moxley warns ‘Hangman’ Adam Page that while he’s a good person and a good professional wrestler, he’s not the same type of ‘animal’ that he (Moxley) is. Moxley says there’s only room for one animal in AEW and it’s him.
The Elite’s music hits and the AEW World Trios Champions are on the stage but the lights go out and the House of Black are here! The lights go back out, we hear a bunch of commotion, and when the lights come back up, Malakai Black, Brody King, and Buddy Matthews are hoisting the trios titles as Julia Hart flank the trio.
Our commentary team of Excalibur, Taz, and Tony Schiavone run down this weekend’s AEW Revolution pay-per-view and the TNT and Ring Of Honor World TV Champion makes his way down to the commentary desk and he’ll be on the call alongside Excalibur, Taz, and Schiavone for the Face of the Revolution Ladder Match, which goes down, after the break.
Eddie Kingston vs. Konsuke Takeshita vs. Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Komander vs. Sammy Guevara vs. AR Fox vs. Ortiz vs. Action Andretti — Face of the Revolution Ladder Match
As expected, all hell breaks loose right of the bat. Everyone is paired off and Hobbs crushes Komander with a ladder and Hobbs’ hometown crowd is going wild for their hometown hero. Hobbs is taking everyone out and wallops Andretti into a ladder with a power-slam. Guevara rolls in the ring but quickly walks back after seeing Hobbs stare him down. Takeshita rushes the ring and he and Hobbs unload hard strikes on one another. Everyone’s brawling once again and Andretti takes out Guevara on the outside with a dive over the top rope. Fox goes up top and lays out Guevara, Takeshita, and Andretti with a corkscrew dive off the top turnbuckle. Komander walks the entire length of the top rope and springboards himself off it and takes out Guevara, Takeshita, Fox, and Andretti on the outside to a chorus of ‘holy sh*t!’ chants as we head to a commercial break.
Back from the break and Hobbs crushes Fox with a slam into a ladder acting as a table, which was set up between the apron and another ladder. Takeshita lays out Hobbs with a lariat on the outside and back in the ring, Guevara sets up and begins to climb a ladder. Andretti walks along a nearby ladder and ends up on top with Guevara and he sends Guevara crashing down with a suplex onto a ladder and Guevara took an odd spill, lets hope he’s OK. Komander climbs the ladder and wallops Fox with a dive onto the outside and everyone is down at ringside. Komander is up first and walks the ladder that’s set up like a table, Takeshita follows him and plants Komander with a diving Blue Thunder Bomb onto the mat and the crowd is white hot for this one!
Takeshita climbs the ladder, Andretti springboards himself into the ring and onto the ladder, where he and Takeshita exchange strikes atop the ladder. Daniel Garcia rushes down and flips the ladder over and takes out both Andretti and Takeshita. Garcia helps Guevara set up quite the contraption on the outside with steel chairs and a ladder and they set up Andretti on their newly built ladder/table. Guevara climbs a nearby ladder and nails Andretti with a swanton bomb! Garcia drags Guevara into the ring and helps him climb the ladder but Takeshita comes in and dispatches both members of the Jericho Appreciation Society. Takeshita begins the climb but Hobbs tosses him out of the ring and climbs the ladder and retrieves the ring! Powerhouse Hobbs is the Face of the Revolution!
Winner – Powerhouse Hobbs
After the match, Hobbs grabs his ring and gets in Joe’s face at the commentary desk. Wardlow comes down, as does security and Wardlow dispatches every member of security as Joe sneaks away and we head to a commercial break.
Back from the break and it’s time for our next contest!
Chris Jericho vs. Petere Avalon
Avalon tosses Jericho to the outside and lights him up with a bevy of strikes around the ringside area. Avalon sends Jericho back into the ring and wallops him with a big boot and goes for the cover but Jericho kicks out. Avalon looks for a corner splash but Jericho evades. Avalon scoops and slams Jericho and goes for another cover but Jericho lifts the shoulders. Avalon continues the attack, goes up top, and nails Jericho with a diving cross-body before going for yet another cover but Jericho once again kicks out. Jericho crushes Avalon with a Codebreak out of nowhere and gets the 1-2-3!
Winner – Chris Jericho
After the match, Jericho grabs his baseball bat and wallops Avalon with it. Jericho continues there attack but Ricky Starks’ music hits and Starks rushes the ring as Jericho scurries away. Jericho grabs a microphone and tells Starks that Sunday night at Revolution he’s going to beat the ‘crap’ out of Starks and Jake Hager and Daniel Garcia of the Jericho Appreciation Society rush the ring and attack Starks. Hager plants Starks with a slam, Garcia sends Starks crashing to the mat with a Rock Bottom, and Jericho wallops Starks with the Judas Effect. Jericho Appreciation Society stand tall over Starks and we see a pre-taped response from ‘Hangman’ Adam Page on Jon Moxley ahead of the pair’s Texas Death Match this weekend at AEW Revolution.
We then see Christian Cage making his way down to the ring. Renee Paquette asks Christian about his attack on ‘Jungle’ Jack Perry. Christian challenges Perry to a match at Revolution and says Perry is ‘just like his dad’ and is a ‘no talent hack’. The lights go out and we see a video of Perry unburying something with flashes of Cage’s attack on him from last week’s show. We then see a tombstone with Christian Cage’s name on it and Cage walks out of the ring.
AEW Women’s World Champion Jamie Hayter, alongside Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D. are backstage with Tony Schiavone. Hayter says she can’t wait to beat ‘two b*tches’ in the form of Saraya Roby Soho at Revolution this weekend.
HOOK vs. Matt Hardy (with Isiah Kassidy, Ethan Page, and Stokley Hathway) — FTW Championship
Hardy drops HOOK with a shoulder tackle to start. Hardy mocks HOOK but HOOK ankle picks Hardy and looks for an ankle lock but Hardy drags himself to the ropes to force the break. Hardy rolls to the outside, HOOK chases after the challenger and Ethan Page fires HOOK into the ring post as the referee was distracted. Hardy sends HOOK back into the ring and plants the champion with a neck-breaker. HOOK plants Hardy with an over-head slam and unloads a bevy of strikes to a cornered Hardy. HOOK goes for a corner splash but Hardy evades and reigns down right hands on the champion. HOOK wipes out Hardy with a lariat but Hardy plants HOOK with a Side Effect and goes for the cover but HOOK lifts the shoulders after a two-count. Hardy goes for another Side Effect but HOOK rolls out of danger and he and Hardy take each other out with simultaneous shoulder tackles.
Page grabs Stokely’s Hathaway’s cast and wallops HOOK with it, Hardy goes for the cover, but HOOK kicks out at two-and-a-half! Hardy looks for Twist of Fate but HOOK ducks under and locks in Red Rum and Hardy immediately taps out!
Winner – HOOK
Stokley Hathaway is a nervous wreck at ringside as now he’ll have to face HOOK in a no disqualification match with the rest of The Firm banned from ringside in the near future.
We then see a vignette from the House of Black hyping up their match against The Elite at AEW Revolution this weekend.
Toni Storm makes her way down to the ring being flanked by Saraya and she’ll face the first-ever AEW Women’s World Champion, Riho, after the break!
Toni Storm (with Saraya) vs. Riho
Storm clocks Riho with a shoulder tackle and goes for the cover but Riho bridges and kicks Storm into the corner. Storm tosses Riho to the corner and nails her with a kick but Riho sends Storm to the opposite corner and wallops her with a running knee, then a suplex, and goes for the cover but Storm kicks out. Riho cracks Storm with a drop-kick, then a double stomp and goes for another cover but Storm lifts the shoulders after a count of two. Storm dumps Riho to the outside and Saraya nails her with a running knee as Storm distracts the referee back inside of the ring. Storm fires Riho into the ring post and AEW Women’s World Champion Jamie Hayter, alongside Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D. make their way down to the ring to keep a closer eye on this one as we head to a commercial break.
Back from the break and Riho crushes Storm on the outside with a dive through the ropes. Riho sends Storm back into the ring, goes up top, and lands a diving double stomp, then plants Storm with a Fisherman’s Suplex into a cover but Storm kicks out. Riho goes back up top, Storm follows her up, Riho looks for a Canadian Destroyer but Storm tosses Riho to the mat, sets her up in the corner, and crushes her with the hip attack and goes for the cover but Riho lifts the shoulders at two-and-a-half! Baker gets on the apron to distract Storm and Riho rolls Storm up for the 1-2-3!
Winner – Riho
After the match, Toni Storm attacks Britt Baker, Jamie Hayter and Saraya brawl inside the ring, and Ruby Soho’s music hits and Soho rushes the ring. Hayter, Saraya, and Soho brawl inside of the ring as security and AEW officials come down to restore order.
We then see a message from Keith Lee and Dustin Rhodes directed at Swerve Strickland. Lee and Dusty tell Swerve that Swerve will find out this Friday night on Rampage that they don’t play games.
Angelo Parker & Matt Menard vs. Matt Taven & Mike Bennett vs. Aussie Open vs. Best Friends vs. Orange Cassidy & Danhausen vs. Dark Order vs. The Butcher & The Blade vs. Top Flight vs. Lucha Bros vs. Blackpool Combat Club — Casino Tag Team Battle Royale
The feed cuts off for the beginning of the matchup. Back from the issues and Butcher and Blade toss out Claudio Castagnoli and are now double teaming Danhausen. Orange Cassidy comes in but the Butcher and Blade use the numbers advantage over him. Butcher and Blade toss out Cassidy but the All-Atlantic Champion holds onto the bottom rope and Danhausen comes from behind and eliminates both Butcher and Blade for the win!
Winners – Orange Cassidy & Danhausen
Orange Cassidy and Danhausen now join the AEW World Tag Team Champions, the Gunn Club as well as The Acclaimed, and Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett in a four-way match for the tag titles this weekend at AEW Revolution. Gunn Club rush the ring, Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett come from behind and attack Cassidy and Danhausen and the Gunn Club joins in. The Acclaimed, alongside Billy Gunn fly down to the ring and even the odds.
We then see a video package highlighting this weekend’s AEW Revolution main event where MJF will defend the AEW World Championship against Bryan Danielson and it’s announced that we’ll hear from both MJF and Bryan Danielson after the break.
Back from the break and Bryan Danielson makes his way down to the ring to join Renee Paquette. Renee asks Bryan about a social media post that MJF made about Bryan many years ago. Bryan says he was forced to retire seven years ago and he said that if you fight for your dreams, you dreams will fight for you. MJF’s music hits and out comes the AEW World Champion. MJF tells production to cut his music and Bryan tells MJF to ‘shutup’. Bryan says he heard enough from MJF and says that MJF needs to stop thinking he deserves everything. Bryan says MJF has done nothing to earn anything he believes that he deserves and says that MJF has done nothing to fight for anything but the one thing MJF does deserve, was his fiancé leaving him like she did. Bryan says MJF is the opposite type of person he’d want his kids to marry and unlike MJF, who was ‘born with a silver spoon in his mouth’, he (Bryan) fought for everything. Bryan says before he came to AEW, he had a job that would’ve made sure he could do anything he ever wanted but he left to come to AEW because he wanted to fight and become AEW World Champion. Bryan says MJF better be ready to fight for everything in his life on Sunday night at AEW Revolution for the entire 60 minutes of their Iron Man match because if he doesn’t, he’s going to get his ‘f***ing head kicked in!’. MJF storms out, Bryan celebrates with the fans in attendance as the show goes off-the-air!