AEW Dynamite Outcomes: Winners, Grades, Response and Highlights from January 11
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AEW offered a PPV-worthy card Wednesday night time in its Los Angeles debut.Credit score: All Elite Wrestling
AEW Dynamite has seen its fair proportion of loaded match playing cards since its inception in 2019, however you’d be hard-pressed to search out one with extra high-profile matches than the one it produced Wednesday night time for its return to Los Angeles.
The Elite and Dying Triangle settled their Greatest of seven Sequence for the AEW World Trios Championship, whereas “Hangman” Adam Web page and Jon Moxley wrote the newest chapter of their rivalry with a hotly anticipated grudge match.
Throw in a mystery-partner angle and a possible show-stealing matchup between Bryan Danielson and Konosuke Takeshita, and AEW offered a blockbuster night time of motion on TBS.
Match Card
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- Greatest of seven Sequence for the AEW World Trios Championship: The Elite vs. Dying Triangle (Match Seven: Escalera de la Muerte)
- Jon Moxley vs. “Hangman” Adam Web page
- Bryan Danielson vs. Konosuke Takeshita
- Jungle Boy and Hook vs. Large Invoice and Lee Moriarty
- Saraya and Toni Storm vs. Britt Baker and Jamie Hayter
- Jericho Appreciation Society promo
Jon Moxley vs. ‘Hangman’ Adam Web page
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Credit score: All Elite Wrestling
Adam Web page silenced all doubters with an emphatic victory over Jon Moxley within the night time’s opening contest.
With the followers in Los Angeles solidly behind him, Hangman fought via Moxley’s try to take advantage of his earlier head harm. He absorbed every part thrown at him by the previous AEW world champion earlier than partaking him in a strike-heavy change late.
Beautiful Moxley, Web page uncorked one final Buckshot Lariat to flatten his opponent and rating the pinfall victory.
This was a hellish combat between two guys who don’t like one another, with some jaw-dropping physicality. The final lariat appeared to have damaged Moxley’s nostril, including to the theme of the match.
Web page wanted the win. After manner too lengthy, he earned a signature victory over the most well liked star in professional wrestling in 2022. The place this takes him shifting ahead stays to be seen, however he can now start to rehabilitate a personality that was harm by the artistic supplied him a yr in the past.
Outcome
Web page defeated Moxley
Grade
B+
Prime Moments
- The power Moxley brings to the sector makes him an ideal candidate to kick off any present.
- Moxley delivered rights, then stomps, to the top of Web page because the referee warned Hangman to guard himself or he would cease the match.
- Web page unleashed a collection of hard-hitting lariats.
- Moxley taunted Hangman followers with a double middle-finger salute.
- The opponents engaged in a late-match slap combat that gave method to the end.
Adam Cole Returns
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Credit score: All Elite Wrestling
For the primary time since August, Adam Cole returned to AEW tv, hitting the ring for an emotional promo.
The previous Ring of Honor and NXT world champion relived the lengthy journey again earlier than revealing that he has returned, which is dangerous information for the All Elite Wrestling locker room.
Cole was a complete babyface right here, thanking the followers and enjoying up the gratitude he has for them and the enterprise. It’s the proper name for him, given his recognition from the primary time he stepped via the curtain at All Out 2021 and the response he obtained following his return from a prolonged absence.
With a heel world champion and a serious villainous faction within the Jericho Appreciation Society, there are many opponents for a babyface Cole. Then, when the chance arises, flip him again.
He’s adaptable, good within the ring and perpetually over. Now, Tony Khan has a second probability to guide him because the high-profile fundamental occasion attraction he’s moderately than the secondary determine he was previous to his departure.
Grade
A
Prime Moments
- “I’ve given you nothing for six months however you had been nonetheless there for me. For that, I’m eternally grateful. Thanks!”
- “The dangerous information…it is not for me. The dangerous information is for the AEW locker room as a result of Adam Cole is again! I am not going anyplace!”
Jungle Boy and Hook vs. Large Invoice and Lee Moriarty
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Credit score: All Elite Wrestling
After weeks of teasing Hook suplexing Large Invoice, the AEW followers received every part they wished when the FTW champion teamed with Jungle Boy to battle Invoice and his accomplice in The Agency, Lee Moriarty.
The heels managed early, isolating Jungle Boy till a sizzling tag to Hook sparked the babyface comeback. He delivered the long-awaited suplex to an unlimited pop and choked out Moriarty to safe the victory.
An inoffensive match, this was actually concerning the one spot, with Invoice bumping big for his smaller opponent after which promoting the shock of it together with his facial expressions.
This can most likely be revisited, or at the very least the Hook-Jungle Boy group can be, however it will hardly be a nasty factor if it had been a one-and-done. Neither man actually must be a part of a thrown-together tandem at this level.
Outcome
JungleHook defeated The Agency
Grade
C+
Prime Moments
- The pop for the recent tag to Hook was reflective of how widespread the 23-year-old is and the effectiveness of his presentation.
- Hook T-bone suplexed the life out of Large Invoice to an enormous ovation.
Bryan Danielson vs. Konosuke Takeshita
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Credit score: All Elite Wrestling
Bryan Danielson and Konosuke Takeshita had been scheduled for a show-stealing one-on-one encounter Wednesday night time on Dynamite, however MJF couldn’t cease himself interjecting early with a pre-match promo.
Danielson finally interrupted the AEW world champion and proceeded to take the combat to Takeshita. What ensued was an excellent wrestling bout that concurrently put over the depth and motivation of the possible No. 1 contender and the tenacity and resiliency of his younger opponent.
The American Dragon shook off what gave the impression to be a probably severe knee harm to stomp away at Takeshita, then submit him to the Regal Stretch, a pleasant ode to his mentor and a person on the middle of his feud with MJF.
The expectations for this match had been lofty because of the high quality of Danielson and Takeshita’s work, they usually lived as much as them. This was hard-hitting and featured some nice sequences and reversals en path to the end that noticed the proper man go over, however not with out successfully establishing his opponent as a star of the longer term.
If Danielson goes to be constantly producing bangers like this, the highway to his showdown with MJF goes to be a rewarding one for the AEW followers.
Outcome
Danielson submitted Takeshita
Grade
A+
Prime Moments
- “And I believed Danielson was a nasty public speaker,” MJF mentioned after Takeshita responded to him in Japanese.
- MJF insulted Ken Jeong and Freddie Prinze Jr., each of whom had been at ringside.
- Takeshita rocked Danielson with a top-rope lariat.
- A nasty botch at ringside resulted in an unpleasant bump during which Danielson’s leg grew to become trapped beneath Takeshita. It clearly affected the possible No. 1 contender, who struggled to place weight on the joint.
- The gang popped for Takeshita making it to the ropes, proof of the connection he has solid with the followers since early in his profession.
Saraya and Toni Storm vs. Britt Baker and Jamie Hayter
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Credit score: All Elite Wrestling
Hikaru Shida took exception to Saraya deeming Toni Storm the very best wrestler on the earth every week in the past, and her presence at ringside finally led to the downfall of her associates.
Late on in a wild, extremely aggressive match, Shida slid her trademark kendo stick into the squared circle, just for Britt Baker to apply it to Storm, resulting in victory for her and AEW world girls’s champion Jamie Hayter.
There have been so many individuals anticipating Mercedes Moné to make her AEW debut that it hung over this match like a darkish cloud. The gang was red-hot for Hayter, however the response to the match and the arduous work of the ladies concerned was harm by the anticipation for a second that by no means got here.
It is a disgrace as a result of the story of Shida being so decided to assist her mates and show her worth to Saraya, solely to unintentionally result in her defeat, was rather well finished and can result in a full-fledged heel flip for the previous girls’s champion down the road.
This did not want Moné as a result of everybody right here delivered a very strong match, which was enhanced by the storytelling.
Outcome
Baker and Hayter defeated Saraya and Storm
Grade
B+
Prime Moments
- Storm utilized the Texas Cloverleaf to Baker, however Hayter rocked her with a kick to the face.
- Storm and Hayter exchanged forearms to the face, with Excalibur recalling that it was just like the barrage of strikes that fractured the previous’s face at Full Gear.
Jericho Appreciation Society
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Credit score: All Elite Wrestling
We’re just a few days into 2023, and we have already got a candidate for the worst promo section of the yr.
The Jericho Appreciation Society had been braggadocious and celebratory as they took to the squared circle for a promo section. Matt Menard put over the JAS hurling Ricky Starks via a desk, whereas Chris Jericho celebrated sending Motion Andretti again to the minor leagues. Besides, he did not.
The babyfaces interrupted, and one of many worst back-and-forths ensued, with not one of the normal robust talkers elevating a section that appeared doomed from the beginning.
Andretti didn’t come throughout as notably likable, Starks fumbled his phrases a few occasions, and probably the most memorable line got here courtesy of…Jake Hager?
It was an ineffective section that we might have been spared had they shot a fast backstage promo to arrange Starks vs. Hager for subsequent week.
Grade
D
Prime Second
- “I am gonna slap your face throughout your face,” Hager warned, drawing a smirk from Starks in a so-bad-it-was-great second.
Greatest of seven Sequence for AEW World Trios Titles: The Elite vs. Dying Triangle
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Credit score: All Elite Wrestling
The Greatest of seven Sequence for the AEW World Trios Championship got here to a much-needed conclusion in Wednesday’s fundamental occasion, with The Elite predictably defeating Dying Triangle to regain the gold.
The spots had been shows of unimaginable athleticism and creativity. There is no such thing as a denying the work and threat that went into executing them to the precision each groups did.
Nonetheless, this felt extra of the identical as we’ve seen all through the collection: An abundance of frenetically paced spots, some overacting by one participant specifically, typical dazzling offense from The Younger Bucks and even higher stuff from the underrated PAC.
The group all of us anticipated to win did, and all is correct with the world of AEW. Or one thing like that.
Who The Elite strikes on to feud with subsequent stays to be seen, however it is going to most likely be a gaggle like Home of Black, which may least afford to be touchdown pads for Omega and the Bucks as they try to determine themselves as the best trio of all time.
An important match? Most likely, however it is time to retire this matchup and for The Elite to modify issues up with one thing greater than the chaotic party-style tag matches they’ve perfected.
Outcome
The Elite defeated Dying Triangle
Grade
A
Prime Moments
- From the start of the match, the group was very into Dying Triangle, a response the corporate could not have anticipated, as The Elite had been virtually definitely anticipated to be the favourite.
- Rey Fenix despatched Nick Jackson off the highest rope with a hurricanrana and legs-first right into a ladder, drawing “oohs” from the group.
- Matt Jackson’s rolling Northern Lights suplexes culminated with one onto a ladder.
- Alex Abrahantes knocked over a ladder, taking Matt Jackson off of it. Brandon Cutler hit the ring and sprayed Abrahantes’ eyes, taking him out of the equation.
- Penta delivered a Worry Issue to Matt on a ladder.
- Omega supplied a One-Winged Angel off the ladder to Fenix. PAC adopted with a 450 splash, however Omega received his knees up.
