As they say, “the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry”. Our plans to cover AEW Dynasty were besieged by unforeseen gremlins led by Spike and not Gizmo. That being the case, here is our condensed look at the show.

You will thanks us later, trust us.

AEW Dynasty 2025 Results

The Cru (Lio Rush and Action Andretti) and Nick Wayne versus Kip Sabian and Top Flight (Darius and Dante Martin) and AR Fox

Mother Wayne interferes knocking AR off the top rope. Wayne hits Wayne’s World for the win.

Winners: The Cru (Lio Rush and Action Andretti) and Nick Wayne

Max Caster versus ??? – Open Challenge Match

Caster tries to get the crowd to do his chant. Man, this gimmick is so lame and hurts Caster’s stock in AEW. The lights go out. Nobody recognizes the theme music. It is Anthony Bowens and Billy Gunn. Why would they put this on the pre-show? Isn’t The Acclaimed battling each other a big deal? Where is the lead-up?  I don’t get this. Bowens beats him in under a minute. Caster gets in no offence. Bowens knocks him out with a rolling elbow. I don’t get the point of this being booked like this. I really, really don’t. Bowens is calling himself the “Five Tool Player”.

Winner: Anthony Bowens 

Will Ospreay vs. Kevin Knight – Men’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament Match

Lots of kick outs of devastating moves that put other people away. Knight lands his frog splash. Ospreay kicks out. Ospreay hits the Styles Clash for a two count. Oscutter for a two count. Hidden Blade to the face. Knight and Ospreay shake hands after the match is over.

Winner: Will Ospreay

The Hurt Syndicate versus The Learning Tree (Big Bill and Bryan Keith) – AEW World Tag Team Championship Match

They are still running with this Learning Tree crap, eh? Bill and Keith could be more than they are but they are misused and booked poorly. MJF appears in the first row with his ring on. He punches Bill in the face but the camera completely misses the shot. Lashley spears Bill. MJF cheers and claps.

MVP on commentary: That is my buddy, MJF.

The Hurt Syndicate doesn’t look happy. MJF leaves through the crowd. Sheldon with a German Suplex. Lashley with a spear. The End…as you knew it would be before the bell even rang.

Winners: …and still AEW World Tag Team Champions, The Hurt Syndicate

Mercedes Moné vs. Julia Hart – Women’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament Match

What a botchfest. This is really terrible. Why are “CEO!” chants part of Mone’s entrance music? Talk about cheesy. Hart is wrestling in pants not tights. Harley Cameron and a muppet of some kind are watching backstage. Guess AEW didn’t learn from Rocko in the WWE. Puppets aren’t cool. Mone screws up a simple hop-up to the ropes. Mone resorts to her stripper dance to divert attention from her botch. Someone needs to teach Mone how to throw a punch. Hart and Mone screw up a spot where the two are back-to-back, in an attempted Money Maker. Even the official doesn’t seem to know what is going on. Hart does a moonsault. Mone puts her feet up but Hart falls short again. They keep redoing the same spot in which Hart rolls out of the Bank Statement to almost pin Mone. Mone wins the match with a clever crucifix-like roll-up.

Tony Schiavone: This was an absolutely fantastic wrestling match.

Get your prescription checked, Tony.

Athena is watching on a monitor in the back.

Winner: Mercedes Moné

Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli, Pac and Wheeler Yuta) (c) vs. Rated FTR (Cope, Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) – AEW World Trios Championship Match

Yuta dodges a spear from Cope. Cope almost hits Dash. Yuta shoves them into each other. Yuta with the running knee on Dash for the three count. FTR and Cope wander the ring wondering what went wrong. Cash and Cope help Dash up. They all hug. Cope raised their hands. As Cash goes to leave the ring Dash piledrives Cope. Cash is stunned. Dash goes outside the ring grabbing two steel chairs. As Cash protests, Dash sets-up Cope for the conchairto. Dash hands the chair to Cash. Cash throws the chair to the ground shoving Dash. Cash looks like he is helping Cope up. FTR hits the Shatter Machine on Cope and then a spike piledriver on a steel chair. Cash pulls a chair away from Dash. He hits the conchairto on Cope.

Winners: …and still AEW World Trios Champions, Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli, Pac and Wheeler Yuta.

Toni Storm (c) versus Megan Bayne – AEW Women’s World Champion

Why in the world has Bayne been given a championship match? This is hot-shotting at its finest. Footage of Storm jogging down the street and throwing herself on a bed, screaming??!!? Storm comes out dressed as a boxer and Luthor is doing his best Burgess Meredith imitation. I guess this is all a bad Rocky send-up? Oooookay. Sure. Bayne leaps onto Storm on the floor but Storm pulls Luthor in the way. She then uses Luthor’s prone body to DDT Bayne. Storm hits a bunch of hip attacks in a corner and then a Storm Zero but Megan kicks out at…one? Bayne backdrops Storm and labels her with two clotheslines as if nothing happened. She powerbombs Storm. Bayne lifts up Storm onto her shoulders. Storm rolls up Bayne for the win. I assume it is all downhill for Bayne now?

Winner: …and still AEW Women’s World Champion, Toni Storm.

Kyle Fletcher vs. Mark Briscoe – Men’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament Match

Everyone kicks out of everything kind of match. Briscoe should be AEW’s version of Mick Foley, including a world title run but…Briscoe tosses chairs into the ring. The official collects them all to dump them out. He misses one. Fletcher German Suplexes Briscoe onto a chair and then throws it out of the ring. Konosuke Takeshita is watching backstage. Fletcher slams Briscoe’s back onto the ring apron and the barricade. Briscoe hits a Froggy Bow from the top rope to the floor. Briscoe attempts another one. Kyle puts up his feet. Two running kicks in the corner and a brainbuster on the turnbuckle.

Winner: Kyle Fletcher

Chris Jericho (title) vs. Bandido (mask) – Title vs. Mask match for the ROH World Championship Match

Another crap match. Bandido’s family is at ringside. Jericho looks like he is wrestling in slow-motion. Jericho literally does nothing as Bandido holds him up for over a minute in a suplex. He then reverses an Irish Whip by Bandido but stumbles around like he is drunk and drops to the mat?!?!!? Jericho powerbombs Bandido on off the apron to the floor. The family is concerned. Jericho mocks them. Jericho takes a camera and starts filming them.

Jericho stands in the corner, mocks the family forever so Bandido can slam him down to the mat. Bandido screws up his 21 Blitz move. Jericho shoves the official. The official shoves him back. Bryan Keith comes out. Gravity intervenes. Jericho grabs his bat. He hits Bandido really gently on the shoulder. He hides the bat. Jericho pins Bandido. It looks like Jericho has lost a front tooth. Aubrey Edwards, who didn’t officiate the match, yacks with the family. The family points to the bat Jericho hid away. Edwards asks them to come to ringside and show her??!??

Edwards and the official actually calling the match confer. The match is restarted??!?!? How does that help Bandido? He was hit with a bat in the head and knocked unconscious? Shouldn’t Jericho just be disqualified? This is beyond stupid. Jericho grabs the sister by the hair. She slaps him. Bandido lands a GTS of sorts and his 21 Blitz for the quick win, despite being knocked out with a baseball bat a few minutes ago.

Winner: …and new ROH World Champion, Bandido

Daniel Garcia (c) vs. Adam Cole – AEW TNT Championship Match

Cole hurts his ankle leaping off the apron. Garcia targets that ankle. Cole lands two Panama Sunrises and the running knee strike to win the title. Garcia and Cole shake hands. Cole limps up the ramp.

Winner: …and new AEW TNT Champion, Adam Cole.

Kenny Omega (c) vs. Ricochet vs. “Speedball” Mike Bailey – AEW International Championship Match

Everyone kicks out of everything…again. A robe with puffy tiger ears is definitely the way to make people fear you, intimidate opponents, Speedball. Ugh. There are no DQs so why not use a chair or brass knuckles on someone? Too much flippy-flippy, transparently staged stuff to follow and moves that hit both people at once. Yeah, okay.

Just like we saw recently in a three-way match somewhere else, Ricochet decides to duck out of the ring and let the other two fight. Omega and Speedball slap Ricochet’s bald head. Speedball traps Omega over the barricade kicking him. Ricochet hoists Speedball up on the barricade and drops him on Omega.

The announcers go on and on about how this might affect Kenny Omega and his Diverticulitis surgery. I have had it. It is awful even when you don’t need surgery. Mine was cleared up after lots of antibiotics but this nonsense that Omega’s is STILL a tender area is not only an incredible exaggeration, it is deceptive. How long as they going to run with this baloney?

Bailey does his roundhouse kick deal catching Omega. He has Omega beat but Ricochet pulls the official out of position. Bailey mounts Ricochet and..slaps him in the head??!?!? Bailey does a backflip, misses Ricochet and smashes his knee on the apron. Richochet clips Bailey from behind hitting the official too. A V-Trigger knocks Speedball to the floor. Bailey misses the Ultimate Weapon hurting his knee again. Omega puts the knee bar on. Ricochet 450 splashes Omega for a two count.

Speedball oversells his knee injury with his screeching but he continues to do his kicks, etc. Bailey stands on one leg kicking Ricochet in the face. Omega hits the V-Trigger to break up Bailey’s pin on Ricochet with the Ultimate Weapon. Bailey gets hung up in the ropes. Omega pins Ricochet with a One-Winged Angel from the second rope. Okada comes out. Omega and Okada stare at each other in the ring. Omega leaves.

Winner: …and still AEW International Champion, Kenny Omega.

Jon Moxley (c) vs. Swerve Strickland – AEW World Championship

The crowd chants “Swerve house!” before he even appears. Lot of leg trips and mat wrestling to start things off. Moxley hauls off punching Swerve in the corner. They trade blows then it is back to a test of strength. It is like the AEW booking just focuses on one match at a time not on how it fits into the entire show. Weird that.

Swerve soccer kicks Moxley from the apron then throws him into the barricade. A forearm from Moxley knocks Swerve off the top rope to the floor. Marina Shafir stomps on him as she walks by. Moxley stomps Swerve’s head into the steps. Moxley throws Swerve over the announce table. Swerve is busted open.

Back in the ring, Moxley clotheslines Swerve head over heels. Swerve immediately strikes back with a kick to the head. Both men are down. Shafir enters the ring with the briefcase. Prince Nana has had enough. He gets in Shafir’s face. She clobbers Nana with the case. Swerve pushes Shafir into Moxley and he stuns her instead. Swerve gets a two count with the Paradigm Shift.

Moxley pulls out a ladder from under the ring. He sets them up in front of some ring steps. Moxley pushes Swerve up a ladder by his ass. Moxley aims to suplex Swerve off the ladder. Swerve battles back with haymakers and biting Moxley’s head. Moxley stands on the ladder and waits for Swerve to stomp him through the announce table below.

Swerve and Moxley punch, chop each other back in the ring. Shafir hands Moxley a chair. Moxley throws the chair. Swerve ducks. The chair hits the official. Swerve gives Moxley a spinebreaker.

“Hangman” Adam Page comes down to the ring. Page looks back and forth. He doesn’t know who to attack. Pac leaps up onto the apron kicking Page in the face. Wheeler Yuta and Claudio Castagnoli arrive. They swarm Page. Page dodges Yuta’s kick. He hits Claudio instead. Page dumps Pac to the floor and clotheslines Yuta over the top rope. Page spike Moxley with a Deadeye. Claudio pulls Page to the floor throwing him into the steel steps. The Opps break things up taking it to the Riders.

The lights go out as Swerve crawls towards Moxley. When the lights turn on, The Young Bucks have Swerve in the ring. Double knees to the face. Moxley rolls over pinning Swerve.

Winner: …and still AEW World Champion, John Moxley.