AEW Dynamite Results: August 13, 2025 — Hangman & MJF Championship Match Set, Cope and Christian Cage Reunite, More
- All Elite Wrestling
- Aug 13
- 11 min read
Less than two weeks from AEW Forbidden Door in London, England, AEW Dynamite was live from the Andrew J Brady Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio!
AEW World Champion Hangman Adam Page and MJF came face to face with the potential of a future championship match hanging in the balance. Coming off his victory against “Speedball” Mike Bailey, Jon Moxley looked to make it two-for-two against JetSpeed when he faced “The Jet” Kevin Knight. Plus, how would Big Stoke survive a singles match against Cope without the help of FTR? A star-studded six-woman tag team match had a couple golden observers, Samoa Joe returned to action, and AEW Forbidden Door added some huge matches!
Here’s everything that went down on a loaded episode of AEW Dynamite for August 13, 2025, including your full results and match recaps.
AEW Dynamite Recap Tonight for Cincinnati
MJF and Hangman Page Come Face to Face
With no one in attendance happy to see him, MJF made his way to the ring, but the mood quickly changed when the AEW World Champion Hangman Adam Page graced the Cincinnati faithful with his presence.
On commentary, Excalibur noted that there would be a six-figure fine and suspension without pay if there was any physicality between the two.
MJF referred to Hangman as “The Main Character” and said he was “The Main Antagonist,” according to “these schmucks” in the crowd.
Then, MJF told Hangman, or should we say Seabiscuit, that he’ll end his title reign at the first PPV defense by making him angry because that’s when Page fails.
An enraged Hangman immediately got in MJF’s face and called out his choices of material. And he reminded MJF that Seabiscuit wins in the end…dumbass!
Hangman told MJF that if he wanted a shot at the AEW Championship, then he should execute his Casino Gauntlet Contract for a guaranteed shot at the title.
After taking a step back to gather his thoughts, MJF began to attack the character of Page, noting that the fans believe Hangman did nothing wrong. MJF said he might be The Devil, but at least he’s real.
Hangman said he’ll own up to the mistakes of his past, not run from them like MJF. He once again reminded MJF about the contract and continued to poke and prod before calling the former AEW World Champion a coward. That was too much for MJF, who exclaimed, “Listen to me you son of a bitch, at Forbidden Door, I execute my contract!”
“Then, Max, I will see you at Forbidden Door, dumbass.”
Jon Moxley def. Kevin Knight, Will Ospreay Returns!
We went outside the arena to see Cincinnati’s own Jon Moxley, Marina Shafir, and Wheeler Yuta preparing to make their way inside the building, but not before Moxley sent a message…
“Darby Allin, whatever you think is happening at Forbidden Door, isn’t happening.”
“The Jet” Kevin Knight made his way to the ring with JetSpeed partner “Speedball” Mike Bailey in an effort to combat the constant numbers game of the Death Riders.
Knight jump-started the match by charging Moxley with a flying kick to the head, which clearly stunned Mox. However, Knight was a bit overzealous, as he tried to trade strikes with Moxley on multiple occasions, which only seemed to fire up Mox more.
Excalibur noted, “The dirtier this match gets, the more it’s in Moxley’s wheelhouse.”
Not even a second later, Knight was able to reverse a whip into the steel steps and sent Moxley sprawling. The Jet took to the skies by hopping up the apron and crashed down to the floor on an already wounded Moxley.
As the two made their way to the opposite side of the ringside area, Knight went back to the air, flying over the top rope and onto Moxley on the elevated ramp. While Knight basked in the adulation of the crowd, he decided to go for broke by launching himself off the ramp to the floor, but Moxley sidestepped and Knight went crashing into the ringside barrier.
With momentum clearly in Mox’s favor, he grinded down Knight and slowed down the pace significantly, even going as far as to bite one half of JetSpeed! Skyline Chili this was not!
The resilient Knight wouldn’t be kept down and found a few spurts of energy to fight his way back into contention. With Mox and Knight perched on the top rope, Moxley resorted to joint manipulation and a deep back scratch, yet Knight persevered and hit a superplex!
Moxley kicked out, and as Knight took a little too much time to get into more offense, he walked right into a cutter and it seemed as if the end was near. Knight escaped a piledriver attempt and while Mox tried to bail to the outside, he was met by yet another flight by The Jet with a big crossbody over the turnbuckles.
Sensing Mox could be in trouble, both Shafir and Yuta paid a bit more attention to Knight, as he scaled the top rope for the UFO Splash. The minor distraction gave Mox a chance to get his knees up as Knight came crashing down the painful way. Mox sunk in a deep choke for the win.
After the match, Speedball tried to come to his partner’s aide, but was quickly subdued by The Death Riders. Before any more damage could be done, Darby Allin made his way down the ramp with his skateboard and a bodybag showing no fear despite being outnumbered with Tony Schiavone correctly pointing out, “If you climbed Mount Everest, what the hell are you afraid of?”
Knight and Bailey recovered enough to even the odds. Yuta got cracked with a skateboard to the face and once again found himself inside a bodybag. Allin seemed primed for a Coffin Drop, but was yanked down and beaten by Claudio Castagnoli, who quickly freed Yuta. Castagnoli quickly snatched Allin and chucked him over his head and onto the body bag. After putting Darby inside and zipping it shut, Claudio once again dropped Allin.
Allin was then pulled out of the bodybag and had a chair put over his head. With Darby almost certainly doomed, the crowd erupted as Will Ospreay appeared out of nowhere to make the save!
Ospreay got a microphone and yelled out to the retreating Mox, “You and your boys tried to snap my neck, so now I’m gonna snap yours, you little prick.”
Ospreay said if Moxley wasn’t going to answer Allin’s challenge, he had a better idea, “You get your friends. I’ll get my friends. Meet me in London. LIGHTS OUT. STEEL CAGE, BRUV!”
The Story of Cope and FTR
Before our next match, we got a reminder of everything that’s gone down between “The Rated R Superstar” Cope and his former friends, FTR. All of this has led to tonight’s unique one-on-one match between Cope and Stokely Hathaway, which is still to come!.
Alex Windsor, Queen Aminata, and Willow Nightingale def. Mercedes Moné, Thekla, Skye Blue
With all six competitors in the ring, the match was about to begin, but the music of AEW Women’s Champion “Timeless” Toni Storm played and she appeared in the upper level of the crowd. Before she could soak in too much of the love from Cincinnati, ROH Women’s Champion and Storm’s opponent at AEW Forbidden Door Athena also appeared in the crowd just a couple sections over from Storm.
Things finally started with one of the challengers for Mercedes Moné’s TBS Championship at Forbidden Door, Alex Windsor, and Skye Blue. Windsor continued to look dominant, as we’ve seen so often in the last month. Then, we got a fun showdown between Moné and Queen Aminata with The C.E.O. tasting some Chocolate Kisses!
Windsor would tag back in, but quickly found herself in the wrong corner and was soon dominated by Moné, Thekla, and Blue.
Finally, Willow made the tag and regained control for her side before everything broke down. Eventually, Moné, Blue, and Thekla were stacked up in the corner and finished off by a big Willow cannonball!
We got back to Windsor and Moné, and for a minute it looked like Windsor might get the TBS Champion to tap out, but Moné got some help from her corner to escape.
Windsor was able to get back in control and trapped Blue in a Sharpshooter for the victory.
As the winning side celebrated in the ring, Storm and Athena began brawling in the balcony and throughout the arena!
Meanwhile, in the ring, The Triangle of Madness and Moné went back on the attack. With Windsor down, Moné began berating her, as Storm and Athena fought to the ring.
Storm was able to get the upper hand on Athena and Windsor turned things around on Moné.
Storm told Moné and Athena, “I hope you’re wearing something underneath your kilts because we’re gonna bareback you all over Glasgow!”
As Storm and Windsor danced, the match was made official for next week’s Dynamite. AEW Women’s Champion “Timeless” Toni Storm and Alex Windsor against TBS Champion “The C.E.O.” Mercedes Moné and ROH Women’s Champion Athena.
Will Ospreay Explains His Lights Out Steel Cage Challenge
Backstage, Renee Paquette caught up with Will Ospreay, who explained that after meeting with Tony Khan, he didn’t think the Lights Out Steel Cage match was “Forbidden Doory” enough. So Ospreay made a call and was pleased to announce he got “The Ace” Hiroshi Tanahashi, the President of New Japan Pro Wrestling to join his team.
Renee addressed the elephant in the room by asking Ospreay what kind of shape he was in after recently announcing he’s been dealing with a serious neck injury.
“I’m fine. Would you mind telling your husband I’d love to have a chat with him next week.”
Adam Copeland def. Stokely (by DQ)
In what’s becoming a wonderful tradition, Cope was serenaded by the Cincinnati crowd.
The FTR music played, yet no one came out until Stokely was carried out by security. He tried to escape but security made sure he was deposited in the ring.
The bell rang and Stoke immediately went for a spear … and just bounced off Cope.
After shaking off what might have been a stinger, Big Stoke went for another spear … and bounced off Cope again.
That garnered the least deserved “Holy shit!” chant of all time.
Stoke tried to beg off and offered a handshake, but Cope punched him right in the face.
Cope grabbed a mic as the crowd chanted, “Fight forever!”
He polled the crowd for their opinions on Stoke. It was pretty lopsided, as Stoke’s issues with height, hair, and attractiveness were addressed.
Mercifully, Cope threw Stoke back in the ring and hit a spear, but wasn’t done. This brought out FTR, although they still remained banned from the ringside area due to the restrained order against Cope.
Cope would hit another spear on Stoke and that was enough for FTR to hit the ring, making the restraining order null and void. Cope was able to fight off Dax and Cash long enough to go for a third spear on Stoke, but he threw powder in Cope’s face causing a disqualification.
With the match thrown out, FTR got right on Cope and it looked like they may put him on the shelf once again.
As they went for the elevated piledriver on Cope, Christian Cage ran out with Spike to make the save! However, right behind him was ROH Television Champion Nick Wayne with a chair. Christian was ready and used Spike to smack the chair out of Wayne’s hand, as Cope speared an attacking Kip Sabian!
Cope turned Christian around and hugged him! And Christian returned the embrace?!
Cage nodded after the hug, but left up the ramp on his own as Cope remained in the ring left to wonder where the two stood after so much animosity over the years.
Brody King, Tomohiro Ishii, Hologram, and Hiromu Takahashi def. The Young Bucks, Kyle Fletcher, and Josh Alexander
A bunch of pyro hit at what seemed to be the wrong time and a voice said the Young Bucks wouldn’t be getting music tonight. Matt and Nick Jackson walked out complaining yet again, although entrance videos for Mr. Instant Replay and Slick Nick appeared. So they had that going for them, which is nice.
The Bucks were joined by their partners, TNT Champion “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher and “Walking Weapon” Josh Alexander of The Don Callis Family.
Brody King, Tomohiro Ishii, and Hologram made their way to the ring and awaited their mystery partner. In a total surprise, former five-time IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi joined the team and immediately began the match with Fletcher
The tide turned when King was down on the outside, and the Bucks feigned superkicking ring announcer Justin Roberts, but then actually did it!
Before the Bucks, Fletcher, and Alexander had a chance to celebrate, Hologram twisted himself to the outside, taking out all four of his opponents.
When Dynamite returned from break, Tony Schiavone announced he was told by Tony Khan that both Matt and Nick Jackson were fined $10,000 each for kicking Roberts earlier in the match. That’s not good for the merch design budget!
As the match continued, King was cut off from his teammates, as Alexander worked him over on the outside. Luckily, he found just enough daylight to tag in Ishii and we got back to the battle we saw between Ishii and Fletcher on AEW Collision this past weekend.
In that match, Fletcher hit a brutal brainbuster to Ishii on the apron and he looked to do it again, only for Takahashi to make the save with a kick to Fletcher’s knee.
The action spilled back into the ring with the Bucks coming into control, as Alexander and Fletcher aided them in taking out all their opponents.
The Bucks and Fletcher hit an assisted spike piledriver with Fletcher to King on the ramp! All of a sudden, this unfamiliar team looked unstoppable.
A fresh Takahashi would finally get back into the match and swung the momentum back in his team’s favor for a time, although the numbers game would get the best of him. The Bucks got into their tandem offense before turning it over to Fletcher and Alexander, who hit some tag team offense of their own, yet Takahashi wouldn’t stay down.
Amazingly, King battled his way back into the match, sending Fletcher to the outside. Both teams then traded dives to the outside with Hologram taking out both Bucks.
Back in the ring, Takahashi got the better of Alexander and planted him with a Timebomb for the pin!.
After the match, Tony Khan made it official for AEW Forbidden Door, as Takahashi will challenge Fletcher for the TNT Championship!
Swerve Strickland Addresses Kazuchika Okada, Mox Recruits?
Before being able to address his Forbidden Door opponent, AEW Unified Champion Kazuchika Okada, Swerve Strickland was asked by Renee Paquette if he was cleared for action. Swerve brushed off the concern and before he could say more, Okada made his way out.
Okada immediately called out the injured knee of Swerve and said he’d have no chance at Forbidden Door…”Bitch!”
Swerve immediately shoved Okada and the two were broken up by security before anything else could happen.
Alicia Atout caught up with The Death Riders backstage to get Moxley’s thoughts on Will Ospreay recruiting Hiroshi Tanahashi for their Lights Out Steel Cage match at Forbidden Door and who would be joining Mox’s side. Mox seemed completely taken aback by the news and didn’t comment any further. Mox went into the extras locker room to find the Young Bucks, but closed the door before anything was heard.
Two Huge Matches Made for AEW Forbidden Door
Before the main event, Tony Schiavone informed us of two, brand new matches made for AEW Forbidden Door. It looks like Cope and Christian Cage will have to put any of their issues behind them, as they will team up to face the ROH Television Champion Nick Wayne and Kip Sabian of The Matriarchy. And the teams have been set for the Lights Out Steel Cage Match! Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Gabe Kidd, and the Young Bucks face Will Ospreay, Darby Allin, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kenny Omega, and Kota Ibushi!
AEW Trios Champions The Opps def. LFI
We welcome Samoa Joe back to AEW for his first action since All In Texas! It didn’t take long for Joe to get involved, showing absolutely no signs of rust.
Katsuyori Shibata tagged in and after a flurry of offense, was cornered by La Faccion Ingobernable. Eventually, Powerhouse Hobbs got into the mix and put his full power on display, swinging the match back in his team’s favor.
At the end, Joe caught Dralistico in the Kokina Clutch while Shibata and Hobbs kept the rest of LFI at bay, as the AEW Trios Champions earned a victory in the main event.
MJF Attacks Hangman Page in the Parking Lot
Renee Paquette caught up with AEW World Champion Hangman Adam Page to get his thoughts on MJF executing his Casino Gauntlet Championship contract at Forbidden Door. Before the champion could say much, he was attacked from behind by MJF. The challenger promised the champion he would break him and walked away, as Page was left laying against a car.
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