AEW Dynamite Results: July 22, 2026 – Kevin Knight Keeps TNT Title from Darby Allin and Makes Kenny Omega Bleed, Divine Dominion Retain Tag Titles, More
- Jul 22
- 19 min read
It’s AEW Redemption week, and AEW Dynamite was LIVE from The Pinnacle in Nashville, Tennessee, on TBS and HBO Max. With just four days until AEW Redemption in Montreal, tensions were high, and titles were on the line, but who would take the momentum into such a big weekend?
TNT Champion “The Jet” Kevin Knight said he didn’t need the Don Callis Family to beat Darby Allin, and he was right. He did, however, need to crack Allin in the back of the head with the TNT Title, unbeknownst to the referee, en route to his record 10th TNT Championship defense. Later in the night, Knight used the TNT Title again to bloody AEW World Champion Kenny Omega before they meet at Redemption. Omega, Will Ospreay and AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley won the main event over Brian Cage, Hechicero and Jake Doyle. However, it descended into chaos when Omega tried to apologize to Moxley for some friendly fire during the match. That turned into a brawl with the Young Bucks, Moxley and Ospreay before they meet in Montreal on Sunday!
ROH World Champion Bandido gets his first shot at AEW International Champion “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher at Redemption, but tonight, he pinned Fletcher in a tag team match that saw Brodido beat ProtOkada. Before the match, Fletcher got into it with Knight and said he didn’t need the Callis Family to beat Bandido and said everyone would be banned from ringside!
AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions Divine Dominion took everything Sisters of Sin could throw at them but came away victorious in a wild no DQ match to retain their titles. AEW Women’s World Champion Thekla and her challenger Willow Nightingale had quite the war of words moderated by Mick Foley until it deteriorated into blows. But when Thekla tried to whip Willow, she was pounced out of the ring!
All that and so much more went down on our first of two nights in Nashville this week! Here are your complete Dynamite results!
AEW Dynamite Results Tonight for Nashville
Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay (and Jon Moxley) Are Ready to Battle
Ospreay and Omega were backstage to talk about tonight’s trios match, where they will tag with Jon Moxley against the Don Callis Family. Ospreay reminded everyone that they are undefeated as a team, but last time they teamed, Omega got a little tired. If he needs to rest tonight, especially with a big match on Sunday, he can tag out to Ospreay.
Omega reminded Ospreay that he also has a big match on Sunday, so he can reach out and tag Omega if he needs to tonight.
Moxley wandered in and wondered why there was no tension in the room before quickly leaving. Omega said there wasn’t, clearly pointing out that Moxley’s presence may have brought some tension into the mix.
TNT Championship Match: Don Callis Family's "The Jet" Kevin Knight (c) def. Darby Allin
Allin made his way to the ring first, as we saw everything he went through last week with Brian Cage. Knight was very careful to stay away from Allin and was in no rush to get in the ring. Allin had enough and took out Knight with a dive! Allin fought Knight into the crowd and backed up to get a running start before clotheslining Knight over the barricade and back into the ringside area. Allin threw Knight into another barricade and sat him in front of the timekeeper’s area. Allin took the top off the ring post and jumped off it to clothesline Knight off the barricade and into the timekeeper’s area! Allin covered so much ground with that leap of destruction!
Allin and Knight wound up back in the ring, and the bell rang to start the match officially! They fought to the ramp where Knight gouged Allin’s eyes before pushing him off onto the barricade crotch-first! OUCH! Knight jumped down and rebounded off the barricade to take Allin down to the floor. Allin is bleeding from around the eye! With Allin in pain, Knight tried to set up the steel steps, which allowed Allin to roll in to break the count. Knight pulled him back to the floor and dropped him with a nasty European uppercut. Knight trapped Allin under the steel steps and slingshotted him into the top step, blasting the top off it! Allin could be in dire straits, but Knight decided to go out to get him for a pin attempt. Allin kicked out as the crowd chanted for him.
Knight put Allin on the top turnbuckle, but Allin broke free with strikes and came off the top with an Avalanche Code Red with an extra revolution to slam Knight on his face! Allin immediately followed with another Code Red for a near-fall! They fought in the opposite corner with Allin trapping Knight on the apron against the ring post and hammering away at his shoulder. Allin kept the heat on Knight until they returned to the ring. They took each other out with clotheslines at the same time!
With both men pulling themselves to their feet on opposite sides of the ring, Knight got the advantage and stuck Allin with a stiff backbreaker across his knee. Allin kicked out! Knight berated Allin and pulled him up for a Crash Landing, but Allin reversed it into a Scorpion Death Drop position. Knight got out of it by dropping down, which launched Allin forward, but right into referee Paul Turner, who also hit his head on the rope! Knight trucked Allin with a lariat and went to the floor to get his TNT Title. Knight measured Allin in the ring, but Allin ducked and reversed it into a Scorpion Death Drop! The referee was still down!
Allin picked up the TNT Title and thought about using it, but threw it down and went to the top for a Coffin Drop. Knight took Allin out by the leg to drop him down to the top turnbuckle and followed with a belt shot to the back of Allin’s head! Knight pulled Allin down into the tree of woe and scaled the turnbuckles on the other side of the ring to hit a coast-to-coast dropkick! Knight went back up and finished Allin with a UFO Splash after the referee pushed through pain to make a slow three count. Knight steals one from Allin to make his now record 10th TNT Title defense. Before Knight left the ring, AEW International Champion “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher and “The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada made their way to the ring for the next match.
Kyle Fletcher and Kevin Knight Exchange Tense Words
Renee Paquette brought us back to Dynamite with the entire Don Callis Family in the ring. She mentioned the title matches coming up for the Family at Redemption, but Mark Davis interrupted her to say he’ll only have an AEW National Title match at Redemption if Andrade El Ídolo can scrape himself off the Fenway floor where he left him last week!
Paquette turned her attention to Knight and his AEW World Title match with Kenny Omega. Knight said he was going to become Jet2Belts on Sunday and reminded everyone that, with 10 TNT Title defenses, he holds the record for most defenses in a single reign, a mark formerly held by Fletcher. And he did it without the Don Callis Family.
Fletcher didn’t seem too pleased and took the mic from Paquette. He called out how impressive Knight thinks he is. He hopes Knight becomes Jet2Belts on Sunday and beats Kenny Omega. But Fletcher doesn’t need the Don Callis Family either and said he’s going to ask for everyone to be banned from ringside for his AEW International Title match with Bandido at Redemption. In fact, Fletcher has his match next, so why don’t they ban everyone right now and tell Knight to get out of his ring! Tensions were VERY high between two of the top dogs in the Don Callis Family.
Brodido (ROH World Champion Bandido and Brody King) def. Don Callis Family’s ProtOkada (AEW International Champion "The Protostar" Kyle Fletcher and “The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada)
Callis joined commentary and encouraged the back and forth between Fletcher and Knight, in yet another effort to calm the rocky waters in the Family. Bandido and Fletcher had a feeling-out process until Bandido took Fletcher down with a tilt-a-whirl snap, followed by a dropkick. King tagged in and threw Bandido into Fletcher in the corner. King followed with a clothesline, and both hit chops on Fletcher. Bandido launched Fletcher into King for a belly-to-back suplex. Bandido came off King’s shoulders with a splash, which King immediately followed with a senton. King pulled Fletcher into Bandido’s grasp for a chop and facebuster combo. King covered for a near-fall.
King chopped Fletcher to the corner and tagged Bandido back in the match. Bandido and Fletcher traded vertical suplex attempts until Okada made a blind tag. He immediately booted Bandido to the apron, so King came in to exchange with Okada and had the advantage until he missed a charge in the corner. ProtOkada put King down with a double suplex and then flapjacked Bandido! Fletcher and Okada shook hands to celebrate their teamwork, although it wasn’t the usual smiling faces we’re used to seeing from those two.
Okada and Fletcher kept Bandido isolated from King for an extended period to wear him down. Fletcher even took a shot at King to knock him off the apron. Okada tagged in and picked up Bandido for a tombstone, but Bandido slipped free and kicked Fletcher behind him. Okada grabbed him for a Rainmaker, so he slipped free of that and rolled over Fletcher’s back to make the tag to King! King chopped Okada into one corner and Fletcher into the other. He smashed both in the corner and sent Fletcher into Okada on the other side of the ring. King charged at Okada, who sent him to the apron, but King came back with a lariat on Okada. Fletcher went after King, but King dumped him on the apron with a Death Valley Driver! King hit a lariat in the corner and came off the ropes for another to take Okada down hard! 1-2-Okada kicked out! Okada and King reversed each other’s big moves until Okada picked up King for a neckbreaker over his knee! Fletcher tagged in and nailed a sprinting boot to the side of King’s face. He brought King out of the corner for a brainbuster, but King countered and planted Fletcher with a spinning side slam. Fletcher kicked out to keep the match alive!
King tagged Bandido, who got into a strike battle with Fletcher until he weakened Bandido with knee lifts to try a powerbomb, only for Bandido to escape and springboard right back into a thrust kick from Fletcher! Fletcher picked up Bandido for a high-angle powerbomb, which Bandido reversed into a Code Red! Okada broke it up in time! Bandido set up Fletcher for the 21 Plex, so Fletcher hung onto the ropes to block Bandido from completing the move. Fletcher switched and dropped Bandido with a half-and-half suplex. Bandido came right back with a pop-up X-Knee on Fletcher. Fletcher kicked out to keep the match alive! King tagged in and knocked Okada off the apron. King squished Fletcher in the corner with a cannonball and tagged Bandido, who hit a frog splash for another nearfall! Brodido set up Fletcher for Second Shooter, so Okada cut it off with a perfect dropkick to Bandido as he flipped off King! Okada pushed King into a thrust kick from Fletcher and snatched King for a Rainmaker, but King ducked, and Okada hit Fletcher. Okada looked down with some concern, but also appeared to shrug his shoulders.
King knocked Okada to the floor with a rolling elbow strike and immediately followed with a drive to knock Okada into the barricade. Back in the ring, Bandido lined up Fletcher for a 21 Plex and bridged it perfectly for the pinfall victory! Bandido just pinned the AEW International Champion! Can he do it again on Sunday to win the title? The Callis Family checked on Fletcher while Okada feigned regret. Fletcher went off on Okada, blaming him for the loss. Okada left up the ramp to get away from it all, but Callis saw the numbers advantage and sent his Family back to the apron. Before they could do anything, Andrade showed up and pointed at his Redemption opponent, AEW National Champion Mark Davis, as the Callis Family retreated to the floor.
The Painmaker is Coming for Tommaso Ciampa at Redemption
We took a special look at all the pain Jericho has dished out over his career, including previous matches where The Painmaker took over, including bloody battles in both AEW and NJPW.
“I am The Painmaker. And Tommaso Ciampa, at Redemption, hell is coming for you! HAHAHAHA!”
AEW Women's World Champion Thekla & Willow Nightingale Come to Blows In Front of Mick Foley!
Mick Foley made his way out to the top of the ramp to host the face-to-face between Thekla and Willow ahead of their AEW Women’s World Championship match at Redemption. Thekla was accompanied by Julia Hart and Skye Blue, Sisters of Sin, and all three were wearing their newly won Artist of STARDOM titles. Thekla dismissed Hart and Blue to prepare for their AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship match later tonight and introduced herself to Foley.
“It’s Thekla2Belts, baby!”
Thekla said they don’t have much time, so she told Foley to bring Willow out for this face-to-face. Willow said it was great to see everyone, including Thekla, face-to-face, instead of a cheap shot behind her back. Willow said there’s only one match stopping her from her dream of becoming AEW Women’s World Champion. Thekla mockingly said it was good to have Willow back and she knows Willow is made of “rainbows and sunshine and birds chirping,” but now she’s talking to the toxic one. Thekla doesn’t believe in “Smile Anyway” and thinks Willow is wearing a mask to hide her feelings, which means she’s just poison inside. So Thekla will do her a favor and beat the poison out of her to show everyone how ugly Willow actually is.
Willow said Thekla’s toxic act was all a facade. She talks so big because she feels so small. And it’s working because she has two belts. Willow pointed at the AEW Women’s World Title and said that’s the only one she cares about and Thekla is “just a shortcut for me to get to it!”
Foley had to get between the two to stop any physicality. He said he sees a lot of himself in Willow. They were both champions on TBS. They both took a beating and smiled away, although Willow’s smile had a few more teeth. Thekla told Foley to shut up, and Willow said that’s enough of the disrespect.
“You’re the one acting like a dumb bitch now!”
Willow with some unusually harsh words! She said Foley is a legend and her favorite, but he’s done some sick and twisted things to get the job done, and she’ll do the same to Thekla! And at Redemption, they both have everything to lose because they both want to walk into All In as champion. But Willow will put every bit of her blood into making that happen. Thekla was taken aback by Willow’s language and said After Willow’s bloodied, her dreams are shattered, and her clouds are pissed on, just remember one thing.
“SMILE ANYWAY!”
Thekla smacked Willow, and Foley got between the two of them until Thekla reached around and hit Willow in the side of the head with the microphone! She followed Willow down the ramp and turned around to flip off Foley. Thekla posed with her titles and took her belt off to whip Willow with it, but Willow POUNCED Thekla out of the ring!
Maya World & Willow Nightingale vs. AEW Women’s World Champion Thekla & TBS Champion Hikaru Shida set for Collision!
Before they face off for the TBS Championship at Redemption, both Maya World and champion Hikaru Shida left us with some final words, with Shida referring to World as “some nobody from the locker room.” World said she took Shida’s kendo stick and now she’s going to take her championship!
"Switchblade" Jay White def. "100 Proof" Clark Connors
White came to the ramp accompanied by the rest of Bang Bang Gang, but they sent him down to the ring alone, even though he was still carrying David Finlay’s shillelagh. Connors came out alone, but one has to wonder if Finlay is that far away. This is White’s first singles match since March 2025!
Connors bailed to the floor twice at the bell, but White wouldn’t chase after him and nearly caught Connors with a Blade Runner. Connors got a couple cheap shots in, but White took him down with a shoulder block. White controlled Connors on the mat and taunted him by slapping his stomach. White chopped and kicked Connors to the mat and covered for a near-fall. White followed Connors to the floor and dropped him on the corner of the apron with a front suplex! White hit a body blow to Connors, who rolled to the ramp. White threw him back in, so Connors used the referee to block White. That gave Connors the chance to drop White over the top rope by his neck. As White stumbled around on the ramp, Connors came through the ropes with a spear!
Connors continued to beat down White around the ringside area using the barricade and a lit match! Connors sat White in a chair, but missed a charge and sent himself into the barricade. White got back in the ring and snatched Connors with a Dragon Screw! White planted Connors with a DDT for a two-count. Connors came back with an eye rake and bounced off the ropes for a flying shoulder block! Connors and White traded reversals until White put Connors down with a urange, but Connors kicked out at two! Connors backed White into the corner and unleashed a barrage of strikes. He threw White back into the corner with a release German suplex and measured White for a spear. White stopped Connors and tried for the Blade Runner, but Connors got out of it. White put Connors down with a stiff kick and picked him back up for a head-and-neck suplex! White picked up Connors for a Blade Runner, so Connors rolled him up for a near-fall! White stumbled into a powerslam, but kicked out! Connors lined up another spear, but White was ready for it with a guillotine choke! White took Connors down to the mat and rolled it over into a bridge, which made Connors tap out! White wins by submission!
After the match, Connors tried to attack White from behind, so White dropped him with a Blade Runner! Finlay came up from behind and nailed White with his shillelagh! The rest of Bang Bang Gang hit the ring with Juice Robinson swinging a chain! Finlay pulled Connors into the crowd on a desk chair to escape!
Claudio Castagnoli & PAC Attack Cage & Cope!
While Adam Copeland and Christian Cage addressed last week’s AEW World Tag Team Championship defense, they barely had a chance to speak when Claudio Castagnoli and PAC jumped them! The sneak attack was swift and painful, as the Death Riders had no problems using the road cases to inflict even more damage. PAC yelled at Cage and Cope that they bit off more than they can chew before leaving the champions lying.
AEW Women's World Tag Team Championship Match (No DQ): Divine Dominion ("Colossal" Lena Kross and "Megasus" Megan Bayne) (c) def. Artist of STARDOM Champions Sisters of Sin (Skye Blue and Julia Hart)
Sisters of Sin made their way to the ring first, but when Divine Dominion came out and turned their backs to pose, Hart and Blue choked them from behind with kendo sticks! This match is underway!
Hart and Blue used the kendo sticks until Kross and Bayne knocked them away. Divine Dominion both got low-bridged to the floor. Hart hit a cannonball while Blue hit a big kick and Sisters of Sin were in control. They set up a table, but Kross and Bayne stopped them from using it, and all four women wound up back in the ring. Hart and Blue hit double thrust kicks, and Blue went to work on Bayne with a kendo stick while Hart trapped Kross in the tarantula. Blue alternated between hitting Kross and Bayne with the kendo stick. Hart hit double Sole Food to Bayne, but when she tried to follow up with a screwdriver, Bayne ducked, and Hart hit Blue!
Blue controlled Kross’ arm out of the corner and walked the ropes, but when she came down, Kross caught her and held her up while Bayne put a chair across the top turnbuckle. Kross slammed Hart face-first into the chair! Bayne suplexed Blue and put her in the corner with a chair over her face. Bayne threw another chair at Blue to make the impact that much worse! Blue was bleeding from the forehead! Divine Dominion continued to dominate on the outside and set up a table at the top of the ramp. But Blue knocked Kross back into the ring with a trash can shot. Sisters of Sin stood Bayne on a pair of chairs in front of the table and put her through it with a double powerbomb!
Back in the ring, Blue and Hart double-teamed Kross with a barrage of kicks. Kross kicked out with authority. Bayne made her way back to the ring as Kross turned things around. Hart took running kicks from Kross and Bayne before Bayne threw Hart out of the corner with a release German Suplex. Bayne covered, so Blue pushed Kross into the pin attempt to break it up. All four women took each other down, but wound up getting back to their feet, each holding a championship. Divine Dominion missed their belt shots, but appeared to get Sisters of Sin lined up for suplexes on the belts. Hart and Blue reversed into DDTs on the titles! Blue covered Kross, who kicked out at two. Blue fought out of Kross’ grasp on the top rope and trapped her head in the turnbuckle for a thrust kick. Blue had something in mind and climbed to the top rope from the outside, so she never saw Bayne coming when Bayne threw Blue off the ropes through a table on the floor!
That elicited a huge “HOLY SHIT!” from the Nashville crowd!
Back in the ring, Hart trapped Bayne in an octopus hold, but Bayne was able to power her way out of it to hit a spinning tombstone! Divine Dominion hit Divine Intervention on Hart for the successful title defense!
Bang Bang Gang Wants a Double Chain Tag Team Match with The Dogs at Redemption!
A fired-up Juice Robinson stood in front of the rest of Bang Bang Gang with a message for Clark Connors and David Finlay. He suggested they chain up The Dogs and proposed a double-chain tag-team match with Robinson and White facing Connors and Finlay at Redemption!
AEW World Champion Kenny Omega, Will Ospreay & AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley def. Don Callis Family's Brian Cage, CMLL World Heavyweight Champion Hechicero & Jake Doyle
AEW World Champion Kenny Omega was out first for the main event, followed by Ospreay and then Moxley through the crowd by himself. The Don Callis Family entered united, and Hechicero began the match with Ospreay. The two traded holds on the mat until Ospreay took Hechicero down with a flying headscissors. He tagged Omega, who hit one shot and tagged Ospreay back in, so he could grab control of Hechicero’s arm. Moxley tagged in and hammered Hechicero’s arm before tagging Ospreay again. Ospreay kicked Hechicero’s arm and tagged Omega. Omega came off the second rope to hit an axehandle smash. Omega tried to tag Ospreay, but he pointed to Moxley, who put his hand out, and Omega reluctantly tagged him!
Hechicero tripped Moxley into the corner and tagged Doyle. Doyle stomped Moxley into the mat and celebrated. That allowed Moxley to get back up and send Doyle to the floor. Moxley followed with a big dive through the ropes to send Doyle into the commentary desk. Back in the ring, Doyle pushed Moxley into the DCF corner, and Cage choked Moxley behind the referee’s back. Doyle splashed Moxley in the corner, but Moxley reversed Doyle into the opposite corner with force! Ospreay tagged back in and tried to hit a series of kicks, so Doyle blasted him with a forearm. Ospreay came back with a pair of kicks that sent Doyle back into his corner. Cage tagged in and ran through Ospreay. He lifted Ospreay for a vertical suplex, which Ospreay reversed into a Stundog Millionaire that knocked Cage to the floor. Ospreay fired up the crowd for a dive, but Doyle ruined the fun with a massive body block. Hechicero swept Moxley’s legs off the apron while Cage hit a double suplex on Omega and Ospreay in the ring!
Ospreay was desperately trying to make a tag, but couldn’t break free. Finally, he got away from Cage with a corkscrew kick and had a chance to make a tag, but couldn’t decide if he should tag Mox or Omega. He finally chose Omega, who immediately went to work on Cage and nearly beat him with You Can’t Escape. Cage came back with a tornado fireman’s carry slam and tagged Hechicero. Hechicero caught Omega with a rising knee in the corner and put him in a leg lock. As Omega crawled to the corner, Moxley reached out for a tag. Hechicero adjusted into a cross armbreaker, so Moxley had enough and stomped Hechicero to break it up and save Omega!
Doyle and Cage tried to suplex Moxley, but Omega pulled Moxley down to save him. Omega and Moxley took Cage and Doyle down and had a brief staredown. Hechicero stopped that, but Omega and Moxley were ready and hit strikes to set up Ospreay for a springboard forearm. With Hechicero in the corner, Moxley and Ospreay took turns hitting rapid-fire attacks in typical Death Riders’ fashion. Omega stopped Ospreay and decided he wanted to get in on the act. Ospreay and Omega threw Hechicero out of the corner into a cutter from Mox!
Ospreay went over the top with a plancha to Doyle. Omega tried to grab Cage for a Snap Dragon, but Cage powered out only for Omega to change his grip. Moxley booted Cage to assist Omega in a release German Suplex! Omega hit Cage with a Snap Dragon. Omega tried on Hechicero, but he escaped right into the clutches of Moxley. Omega tried to nail Hechicero with a jumping knee, but Hechicero ducked, and Omega nailed Moxley instead! Hechicero took Omega down with a flying guillotine for a near-fall!
Cage dropped Omega with a pumphandle knee to the face. Cage and Hechicero pulled Omega up into a big elbow strike from Doyle. Hechicero covered, but Ospreay made the save! Hechicero went to the top while Cage and Doyle picked up Ospreay and Omega for powerbombs. Moxley shook the top ropes to knock Hechicero back down while Ospreay and Omega reversed the powerbombs into hurricanranas! Ospreay floored Cage with a Hidden Blade while Omega blasted Doyle with a big knee. Moxley held Hechicero over the top rope with a choke until he let go for Ospreay to nail Hechicero with a thrust kick.
Ospreay hit a Hidden Blade from the front while Omega hit a V-Trigger on Hechicero from behind at the same time! Omega covered Hechicero for the pinfall victory! Omega and Ospreay celebrated in the ring until Moxley came in to join them.
Omega handed Moxley his AEW Continental Championship and tried to make amends for mistakenly hitting Mox during the match. Moxley ignored a handshake and got in Omega’s face until Ospreay got between them. Omega shoved Ospreay away a little too hard, and he hit the mat. Ospreay got in Omega’s face, but the Young Bucks hit the ring. Matt and Nick Jackson tried to get in the middle of it all, so Moxley nailed Matt! Nick didn’t like that, so he went right after Moxley. Ospreay backed up Moxley and went after Nick as Matt mounted Mox on the mat. Omega tried to pull Ospreay away, but Doyle came back in and grabbed Omega. Ospreay threw a wild back elbow that hit both Omega and Doyle. The Bucks fought Ospreay and Moxley to the floor in a preview of their Redemption tag team match.
Omega was alone in the ring, so Rocky Romero and Trent Beretta came out to attack, but he dropped them both with Snap Dragons. With RPG Vice propped up together on the ropes, Omega turned around for a V-Trigger, but when he hit the ropes, Kevin Knight came flying over the top from the ramp to nail Omega with the TNT Title! Knight grabbed the AEW World Title and posed with both belts over Omega and put his boot on Omega’s chest! Knight held the titles over a bleeding Omega as Dynamite came to a chaotic close!
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