CONTAINS SPOILERS
AEW DYNAMITE was broadcast live on TBS from the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, IL!
Excalibur, Nigel McGuinness, and Tony Schiavone were the broadcast team for tonight’s event.
It’s Wednesday night and you know what that means!
MVP and The Hurt Syndicate came to the ring to open the show!
MVP: “Attention AEW viewing audience, this is an official announcement from the Hurt Syndicate. I am standing in between two of the finest athletes to ever grace a professional wrestling ring. Tonight it’s about the lessons that we teach.
“When MVP offers you his business card, an opportunity to join the Hurt Syndicate, that’s like me giving you an opportunity to change your life. If you’re like Swerve Strickland, you’re not terribly smart. At Full Gear, Bobby Lashley beat the snot out of Swerve Strickland.
“Swerve is an amazing young man, a former World champion, but he is not the most dangerous man in AEW. Bobby Lashley is the most dangerous man in AEW. Bobby Lashley is a walking Armageddon. We come here to take championship titles and leverage them for more money and more power. We are the merchants of misery. We are in the profession of pain. What do we do? We hurt people.”
Continental Classic Blue League Match!
The Conglomeration’s Mark Briscoe
vs.
The Hurt Syndicate’s Shelton Benjamin!
The fans chanted “Dem Boys! Dem Boy!”
Briscoe chopped at Shelton. Briscoe booted Benjamin out of the ring and followed up with a dropkick through the ropes to the arena floor. Benjamin hurled Briscoe with a belly to belly suplex. Shelton whipped Briscoe into the steel steps.
Shelton threw Mark off the top turnbuckle with another belly to belly suplex! Shelton clobbered Mark with forearms but Mark shrugged them off and taunted Shelton! Mark rallied back with redneck Kungfu.
Mark landed the froggy bow right on target. Shelton rolled out of the ring. Briscoe dropped a cactus elbow off the apron. Mark climbed back up to the top turnbuckle. Mark jumped but Benjamin raised his boots. Shelton punished Briscoe with repeated suplexes.
Shelton hit Mark with a thrust kick for a near fall. Shelton nailed Briscoe with an exploder into a powerslam and collected his first three points after pinning Mark Briscoe!
Tony Schiavone welcomed NJPW Strong Champion and TBS Champion “The CEO” Mercedes Mone onto the stage!
“The Brickhouse” Kamille accompanied the champion.
Mercedes: “Kris Statlander gave me one of the hardest fights of my entire career and proved she is one of the very best in the ring. But I am the greatest TBS Champion of all time. And at Full Gear I showed the world how a real woman gets the job done. And Kamille, since you can’t get the job done, I want to tell you—”
Kamille: “Shut up! Are you stupid or are you dumb? You can’t fire me because I quit.”
ROH World Championship Match!
“The Nueve” Chris Jericho (c.) (with “The Red Wood” Big Bill & “The Bad Apple” Bryan Keith)
vs. “The Stone Pitbull” Tomohiro Ishii!
Jericho and Ishii traded chops in the center of the ring. Ishii nailed the champion with a German Suplex. Jericho returned fire with a lariat. Ishii served up a running lariat of his own.
Jericho spiked Ishii with a DDT on the ring apron. Ishii got back in the ring and both men exchanged strikes, lefts and rights back and forth. Jericho was busted open, bleeding from the mouth.
Chris Jericho superplexed the challenger but Ishii popped up to his feet. Ishii cracked Jericho with a lariat to the side of the head as Jericho attempted the Judas Effect. Both men collapsed.
Jericho connected with a lionsault for a near fall. Jericho smashed Ishii with the Judas Effect and the Code Breaker, but Ishii got right back up to his feet. Ishii countered the Walls and then speared Jericho for a near fall!
Ishii cracked Jericho with a Code Breaker and rocked the champion with a lariat, but Jericho kicked out at the two-count. Ishii charged at Jericho, but Jericho countered with a perfectly timed Jericho Effect, followed by a second Judas Effect to score the pin and retain the title!
Swerve: “Rebuilding is something I do very well. Win or lose, I figure it out. I’ve never been hit by someone as hard as I have by Bobby.”
Max Caster walked by laughing.
Swerve: “What’s funny, man?”
Max: “You used to be a house of fire.”
Swerve heard enough of Caster’s mockery, and Swerve struck Caster down. Prince Nana told Swerve they had to leave quickly.
Tony Schiavone interviewed “Hangman” Adam Page in the ring!
Page: “First of all, if Christopher Daniels wants to get in my way, I will knock him back on his ass and the next time he will not get back up. And as for Full Gear, I made a deal, and I kept up my end of the deal. And Christian, if you kept up your end of the deal, I’d be back in town tomorrow with the World Championship around my waist! But you failed Christian!
“My intention is and always has been to be the AEW Men’s World Champion! It should have never been Swerve. It shouldn’t have been Bryan’s or Mox’s, and it won’t be Christians, because it’s always been mine!”
“Switchblade” Jay White walked onto the stage!
Jay White: “I have a question for you. What happened in your match with Switchblade Jay White at Full Gear? That’s hard for you to answer. What happened to your match against me at WrestleDream? You lost both of those matches. If anyone is worthy of the AEW World Championship, it’s not the Hangman, it’s the Switchblade. If five times still isn’t enough, if you’d like another taste of the Switchblade, we can do it tonight!”
“The Bastard” PAC ambushed Jay White while Wheeler Yuta blindsided Adam Page in the ring. Jay White fought them off and got in the ring, but Page knocked down Jay White. Marina Shafir cracked Page with the briefcase. Jay White grabbed Marina, but AEW World Champion Jon Moxley jumped in, held Jay White, until Marina Shafir choked out Jay White. The Death Riders began to swarm and stomp on Jay White! PAC battered Jay White with the briefcase!
“There is no one to stomp them,” said Nigel.
Continental Classic Gold League Match!
Ricochet vs. The Death Riders’ AEW World Trios Champion Claudio Castagnoli!
Claudio rocked Ricochet with a scoop slam. Ricochet rallied back with a step-up hurracanrana. Claudio whipped Ricochet into the barricade and followed up with a European uppercut.
Ricochet came back with a tope suicida. Ricochet went for a springboard, but Claudio grounded him by lunging at the ropes.
Claudio caught Ricochet out of midair and wiped him out with a back breaker and then a big boot for a near fall. Ricochet flipped over the top rope and crashed onto Claudio, and then landed on his feet! Ricochet took down Claudio with a flying forearm, followed by a moonsault off the middle rope.
Claudio ran and stomped on Ricochet. Claudio applied a sharpshooter in the center of the ring. Claudio transitioned into a cross face, but Ricochet rolled up Claudio for a two-count. Claudio removed the padding from the barricade and then planted Ricochet across it. Claudio ran over Ricochet with a lariat and pinned Ricochet!
“Claudio trucked Ricochet with that lariat to pick up his first three points, first on the board in the Gold League,” said Excalibur.
Renee Paquette was backstage with Don Callis and Kyle Fletcher!
Don Callis: “We’re on a mission to destroy Will Ospreay. We didn’t just beat him, we decimated him at Full Gear! Because we proved, what I’ve been saying all along, that Kyle is better than Will, and we’re just getting started.”
Fletcher: “Full Gear, we made it 100% certain that Kyle Fletcher is better than Will Ospreay. And the Continental Classic belongs to me so tune in this Saturday!”
Up next: Adam Cole came to the ring with the Undisputed Kingdom—Matt Taven & Mike Bennett!
Adam Cole: “I am so sick and tired of playing this game. Max, if you were half the man that you claim to be, then you’d be a man and fight me. But you’re not because you’re a little bitch. After what you did to Roddy, when I get my hands on you, I’m going to beat you within an inch of your pathetic life!”
Kyle O’Reilly came down to the ring!
Kyle: “Adam, with all due respect, man, you fought Max, and it didn’t work out. Let’s try something a little different. Let me fight Max.”
Adam: “Kyle, stop! After what you said last week, that really stuck with me.”
Kyle: “This isn’t for you. I’m doing this for Roddy.”
MJF appeared on the screen.
MJF: “Guys, with regards to both of you wanting to fight me, I’m going to say no. My mind is focused on something more important. The Dynamite Diamone Battle Royal next week.”
Cole: “Well then let me be the first to enter that battle royal.”
Kyle: “And let me be the second!”
Wrestle Dynasty 2025 International Women’s Cup Qualifier Semifinal Match!
Jamie Hayter vs. Queen Aminata!
Queen Aminata used a hip toss. Hayter cracked the Queen with an elbow strike. Hayter and Aminata traded thudding chops. Hayter suplexed Aminata into the turnbuckles.
Queen Aminata retaliated with a snap suplex. Aminata wiped out Jamie with a charging boot to the face. Aminata used her power to plant Hayter face first into the mat. Hayter hit a back breaker. Hayter drilled Queen Aminata with the Hayter Ade and picked up the pinfall victory!
After the match, the arena lights turned off. A spotlight appeared on the ramp, but no one was there. Excalibur speculated that it was more mind games from Julia Hart.
Renee sat down earlier in the day with Mina Shirakawa!
Mina: “I knew the day would come. I have been waiting a long time. If Mariah could do that to Toni Storm, I knew she could do that to me too. I never wanted it to happen. Mariah May is so selfish she has to kill anyone who gets close to her. And if that’s the real Mariah May, then introduce her to the real Mina.”
AEW Women’s World Champion Mariah May broke a bottle over Mina’s head from behind. Mariah said, “I want Mina!”
Continental Classic Gold League Match!
Darby Allin vs. House of Black’s Brody King!
Brody shoved Darby after a collar and elbow lockup. Darby shoved Brody. Brody splashed Darby with two consecutive sentons for a near fall.
Brody splashed Darby in the corner, imposing his will on Darby. Brody chopped Darby, knocking Darby to the arena floor.
Brody tied up Darby in the tree of woe and hit him with a running cannonball for a near fall. Darby chomped on Brody’s forehead and then clobbered him with an avalanche code red!
Darby blasted Brody with a tope, followed by a Coffin Drop to the floor! Darby nailed Brody with another Coffin Drop on the arena floor from the top turnbuckle! Darby went for a Coffin Splash, but Brody caught him. Brody drilled Darby with the Gonzo Bomb and pinned Darby!
“What a hell of a match!” said Tony Schiavone.
After the match Claudio came to the ring with a steel chair. Brody King got back into the ring and stopped Claudio in his tracks. Next week, Brody will be facing Claudio!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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