AEW Dynamite Outcomes: Winners, Dwell Grades, Response and Highlights from Nov. 1
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A monster eight-man tag crew match headlined Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite as world champion MJF teamed with three companions of his selecting to battle Bullet Membership Gold’s “Switchblade” Jay White, Juice Robinson and The Gunns.
That bout headlined a present that additionally featured the most recent title defenses by worldwide champion Orange Cassidy and AEW world ladies’s champion Hikaru Shida, in addition to constructing towards Full Gear on November 18.
What went down, who emerged victorious and the way did every section of the present grade out?
Discover out with this recap of the most recent episode of All Elite Wrestling’s flagship present.
Match Card
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- AEW Worldwide Championship: Orange Cassidy vs. Claudio Castagnoli
- AEW World Ladies’s Championship: Hikaru Shida vs. Willow Nightingale
- Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega vs. “Cool Hand” Angelo Parker and “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard
- Eight-man tag crew match: Bullet Membership Gold vs. MJF and three companions of his selecting
- “Hangman” Adam Web page and The Younger Bucks vs. Brian Cage and Gates of Agony
- Tony Khan’s essential announcement
Introduced prematurely of Wednesday’s present had been:
AEW Worldwide Championship: Orange Cassidy vs. Claudio Castagnoli
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- Castagnoli dominated early. It was good to see after a current stretch wherein he spent an excessive amount of time as one of many secondary guys for the Blackpool Fight Membership.
- Referee Bryce Remsburg booted Hook and Wheeler Yuta from ringside in hopes of making certain the competition remained one-on-one.
- Castagnoli utilizing his unreal energy to hold Cassidy up the steps and onto the ring apron whereas in a vertical suplex was extraordinary.
- The top performed off of the end to Saturday’s tag crew match, the place Castagnoli popped Cassidy up and rocked him with an uppercut. Right here, Freshly Squeezed countered, blocking together with his ft, then taking him over with a hurricanrana for the pinfall. An excellent contact.
- Backstage, MJF tried to recruit Kenny Omega for Wednesday evening’s essential occasion, however Chris Jericho slammed the door in his face. Then, Wardlow grabbed him and vowed to take every thing from him when he least anticipated it.
Credit score: All Elite Wrestling
Dynamite kicked off with a powerful match for the AEW Worldwide Championship that noticed Orange Cassidy efficiently defend towards Claudio Castagnoli.
Freshly Squeezed overcame an aggressive and bodily dominant efficiency by Castagnoli, who overwhelmed the champion together with his energy benefit.
As he has performed so usually, the titleholder proved his resiliency, absorbing every thing thrown at him and countering an tried pop-up uppercut with a headscissors takeover for the win.
The defeat is devastating for Castagnoli, who has misplaced greater than he has gained of late and dangers falling into the pack regardless of being probably the greatest wrestlers on the roster.
For Cassidy, it continued a narrative of resilience and underrated toughness that has dominated his previous 12 months.
A post-match beatdown by Jon Moxley and backstage problem all however confirmed the 2 will run again their All Out essential occasion at Full Gear.
Outcome
Cassidy defeated Castagnoli to retain
Grade
A
Prime Moments and Takeaways
Hangman Web page and The Younger Bucks vs. Brian Cage and Gates of Agony
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- Excalibur and Taz correctly defined Prince Nana’s absence at ringside by reminding followers he broke into Web page’s house per week in the past and thought higher of being round him.
- Strickland interrupted Web page’s late-match surge and stole his focus. Hangman took off after Swerve and Nana, leaving the Bucks to go it alone towards the heels.
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Brian Cage of Mogul Embassy, Toa Linoa and Kaun battled Ring of Honor world trios champions Hangman Web page and The Younger Bucks within the evening’s subsequent bout.
Late within the bout, Web page tagged in and seemed to be a person pushed by revenge. A distraction by Swerve Strickland drove him away from the ring and left The Younger Bucks to endure the punishment of a three-on-two drawback.
Mogul Embassy made quick work of the outmatched babyfaces and pinned Nick Jackson to attain the win and regain the championship.
An infuriated Matt Jackson tore the ringside space aside, whereas Excalibur defined away the frustration of Strickland’s actions towards Web page.
Possibly it was the results of Swerve being the very best heel within the firm. Maybe, although, it was the results of the most recent profession disappointment in a sequence of them. Might we be seeing the beginnings of a Younger Bucks heel flip?
Outcome
Mogul Embassy defeated The Elite to win the titles
Grade
B
Prime Moments and Takeaways
Adam Copeland Promo
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- Copeland shouted out Tony Schiavone for sporting “the entire hats” that he does behind the scenes in a pleasant nod to one of many unsung heroes of the corporate.
- Cage, Luchasaurus and Wayne interrupted. “Louisville, shut your rattling mouths whereas I conduct enterprise,” Cage mentioned.
- Tony Khan made his newest “essential” announcement:
- And the gang went…gentle.
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Christian Cage, Luchasaurus and Nick Wayne interrupted an in-ring promo from Adam Copeland, with the TNT champion vowing to interrupt the neck of his former pal.
For a second, it regarded like he might succeed earlier than Sting and Darby Allin hit the ring to make the save.
The Rated R Celebrity finally obliterated Cage with a Spear and supplied to companion Sting and Allin at Full Gear. He stared the heels down to shut issues out.
This was a predictable section that delivered the end result most anticipated, with Copeland becoming a member of his fellow babyfaces for Full Gear and establishing a showdown between him and Cage.
The predictability shouldn’t be essentially a nasty factor as a result of it delivered a logical growth and arrange a giant PPV showdown. That match, with the transferring items concerned and a crowd that might be desperate to see Copeland and Cage’s lengthy historical past writing its newest chapter, is a worthy essential occasion on any card.
Grade
B
Prime Moments and Takeaways
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Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega vs. Angelo Parker and Matt Menard
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- The heels used the baseball bat on Jericho’s face however had been unable to maintain him down for 3.
- One other wild swing of the bat by Parker was met by the Judas Impact as Jericho scored the win for his crew.
- Callis challenged Jericho and Omega to a Avenue Combat in Ontario, California in two weeks on Dynamite. Omega supplied up Kota Ibushi as a companion and Jericho produced Paul Wight.
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Don Callis, Konosuke Takeshita, Kyle Fletcher and Powerhouse Hobbs joined the commentary crew, hoping to get a chook’s eye view of Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega’s newest outing as a tag crew towards “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard and “Cool Hand” Angelo Parker.
The babyfaces withstood every thing their opponents threw at them, together with a shot to the pinnacle with a baseball bat, and scored the win off Judas Impact from Jericho to Parker.
The match was secondary to the announcement that adopted, with the revelation of a Avenue Combat in two weeks that can pit The Don Callis Household (Takeshita, Fletcher, Hobbs and Sammy Guevara) towards Omega, Jericho, Kota Ibushi and Paul Wight.
Sure, we’re about to see one other 50-something star on AEW tv when there’s a roster stuffed with shiny, younger and thrilling names. The reserving determination is smart throughout the context of the story at play—Jericho having a pal larger than Hobbs—however is it actually essential?
Wight is a legend and a future Corridor of Famer who deserves the acclaim, however is anybody clamoring for his return to AEW TV at this level?
At the very least a Avenue Combat will permit him to masks any weaknesses he might have at this level, although the concept of The Callis Household doubtlessly dropping to the mismatched crew of babyfaces looks like a reserving catastrophe.
Outcome
Jericho and Omega defeated Parker and Menard
Grade
C+
Prime Moments and Takeaways
AEW World Ladies’s Championship: Hikaru Shida vs. Willow Nightingale
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- Backstage, Matt Jackson took exception to Kenny Omega partnering with Chris Jericho of late and lashed out at him.
- The commentary crew reminded viewers that Nightingale is the 2023 Owen Hart Memorial Ladies’s Match winner, one thing that’s straightforward to overlook given the style wherein she has been booked since then.
- Nightingale kicked out of an avalanche Falcon Arrow, and Shida returned the favor by kicking out of a Loss of life Valley Driver in two dramatic near-falls.
- Storm interrupted the post-match celebration of Shida, who attacked her all the best way to the again. Seconds later, Julia Hart returned and supplied Nightingale her hand. Blue stood between the 2 and proceeded to spray blue mist within the face of Hart to ship her scurrying.
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Hikaru Shida efficiently retained her AEW World Ladies’s Championship by defeating Willow Nightingale in a hard-fought match that proved dramatic down the stretch.
After the bout, we noticed the most recent from Toni Storm, who was chased to the again by the champion, in addition to Skye Blue spraying blue mist within the face of the returning Julia Hart.
First, the match.
Shida and Nightingale delivered a enjoyable contest, however the end result was by no means in query and that may be a downside. Sooner or later, Willow must win one in every of these matches earlier than followers lose confidence in her ever successful a giant one.
Positive, AEW can flip that right into a storyline in some unspecified time in the future, however it feels just like the followers’ sentiment for that second to occur has already worn off to an extent.
The stuff with Storm continues to be nice, even in small doses like this.
The post-match involving Nightingale, Blue and Hart was equally stable because it offers the ladies’s division a secondary program followers can spend money on as a substitute of every thing centering round titles.
Outcome
Shida defeated Nightingale to retain the title
Grade
B
Prime Moments and Takeaways
Eight-Man Tag Staff Important Occasion
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- MJF hit the ring in a pink scarf, a “Scissor Me” shirt and pink tights to match his teammates. Reluctantly, in fact.
- The champ repeatedly refused to scissor his companions, constructing step by step to the payoff later within the match.
- The heels breaking apart the four-way scissor was a terrific spot, and that’s not a sentence I ever envisioned writing.
- MJF’s sizzling tag could be the very best in wrestling proper now, or at the very least second to Cody Rhodes’ in WWE.
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The hunt for 3 companions left MJF overwhelmed down and discouraged, and he ultimately selected the one trio that repeatedly supplied up their companies to his dismay: The Acclaimed and Daddy Ass.
That foursome battled Bullet Membership Gold’s Jay White, Juice Robinson and The Gunns within the evening’s essential occasion.
An action-packed bout culminated with a sizzling tag to MJF late, an brisk barrage by the AEW world champion, and an emphatic Blade Runner and pinfall victory for White.
The Acclaimed and Daddy Ass fended off Robinson and The Gunns, leaving White to tease a shot on the AEW title. As an alternative, Max Caster threw himself in hurt’s method and took the blow for MJF earlier than the heels escaped up the ramp.
White taking the pin as decisively as he did was a pleasant change of tempo, MJF doesn’t lose usually so beating him means one thing. Switchblade might not really feel like he has an opportunity to win, particularly with the revelation that AEW Worlds Finish will happen on December 30 in Lengthy Island, however this goes a great distance in constructing perception that he would possibly.
The stuff with Caster proving himself to MJF, then the four-way scissor on the finish of the published, was additional proof of the champion’s development and evolution since forming his friendship with Adam Cole.
He’s extra keen to just accept others, which he would not have performed 4 months in the past. It’s deliberate storytelling that hopefully has a payoff worthy of the time invested in it.
Outcome
Bullet Membership Gold defeated MJF, The Acclaimed, and Daddy Ass
Grade
B+
Prime Moments and Takeaways
General Grade
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Credit score: All Elite Wrestling
There was loads to love about Wednesday’s present.
The MJF stuff is nice as a result of he is a good performer. Orange Cassidy and Claudio Castagnoli had the evening’s greatest match, and the intensification of the rivalry between Hangman Web page and Swerve Strickland made for high quality TV.
Even the introduction of a couple of ongoing storyline within the ladies’s division, through a section that seamlessly intertwined them, was a welcome addition to a present that’s all too usually fast to push that roster apart.
For all the nice there was, although, AEW continues to stray additional away from the corporate that made followers fall in love with it within the first place. The really feel is off, the median age of the celebs on the broadcasts grows with each passing week, and it looks like there is no such thing as a long-term path creatively (with the potential exception of the MJF stuff).
Maybe the main target needs to be on that as a substitute of essential bulletins that might have been emails.
As a complete, the present was adequate to earn a stable grade. Shifting ahead, although, Tony Khan and Co. should ask themselves what they need AEW to be, as a result of in its present state, the reply has by no means been much less obvious.
Grade: C+
