With just 72 hours left for ALL Out, All Elite Wrestling comes to you from the Fishers Event Centre in Indianapolis for a special 3 hour Dynamite + Collision. Swerve Strickland and New Level defend their Trios Championship, while both AEW World Champion Will Ospreay and challenger Jon Moxley will be in action before their clash on Saturday. All this and more comes your way. Let’s light the fuse.
We open Dynamite with some words by the Demand as they challenge Swerve Strickland and New Level for the Trios Championship. Afterwards we head ringside for the match
AEW World Trios Championship: Swerve Strickland and New Level vs The Demand
Strickland and Ricochet start things off for their respective teams. Demand try to cut off Strickland from his partners but he makes a tag to Creed. Demand does end up with control soon enough as the power of GOA catches the Champs off guard. The challengers put up a good challenge but it wasn’t enough as a house call from Strickland was enough to ensure the Champs retain. Fun match, New Level continues to shine in every match they get.
Their challengers for All Out, Hangman Page and Brodido came out next. Page congratulates the champions and warns them about Strickland. Swerve bites back asking Page if he will abandon them like his previous partners. Bandido end things by saying they will win the titles on Saturday.
Winners (And Still) – Swerve Strickland and New Level
We go backstage with Will Ospreay, Francesco Akira and Speedball Bailey. Ospreay asks Bailey to join the United Empire, which he accepted almost immediately. Don’t know how happy Callum Newman will be about this…. let’s see.
Backstage with Thekla where she talks about two different kinds of bi*ches, the dumb one and the real one. She asks Willow if she knows which one she is and says it’s going to get toxic come Saturday.
AEW Continental Championship Eliminator: Jon Moxley vs. Dezmond Xavier
The two lock up, but Xavier’s agility is giving him the advantage as Mox is not able to properly get him down on the mat. Mox got his opening when Xavier was just a little late getting back to the ring, walking in to a boot. Mox was continuously trying to keep things grounded, eventually Xavier would get free. Atlast the Bulldog choke would be the end of the Rascal’s night as Mox wins. Mox’s TV matches are always good and this is not different.
Winner – Jon Moxley
Cut to backstage where Steven Borden and Darby Allin are approached by Adam Copeland. Cope gives the young Borden props but gives him a nice warning as the pair look for a future tag title oppurtuinity.
We head to ringside again as we hear from both the Young Bucks and FTR ahead of All Out. Bucks take some shots at FTR calling them the Dudley Boyz, and mentions they’re not getting any younger and this might be their last shot at the titles. Christian Cage then comes out and talks some trash off his own, but Copeland stops him from going too far. Eventually it ends in a brawl between the teams. Potential match of the night on Saturday imo.
We hear from Willow Nightingale responding to Thekla from earlier. She points out that the last time they met, it was not Thekla who came out with the win. Let’s see if it holds true again.
Tommaso Ciampa vs Jake Doyle
Doyle goes after Ciampa early on, but the Psycho Killer sends him to the outside. Ciampa brings him back into the ring but is caught this time. The finish almost mirrored this as Doyle brought Ciampa back into the ring but was caught by a running knee. After the match, we get Okada and Ciampa face to face ahead of their match at All Out. Had some moments, it did it’s job.
Winner – Tommaso Ciampa
AEW TBS Championship Match: Persephone vs Hyan
Persephone is showing the power advantage she has, throwing all sorts of attacks at the challenger. Hyan is trying to fight back, but to no avail. She eventually musters enough fight in her to have a comeback and get some near falls of her own, but the champ stole one with a cradle pin and the rope for some extra leverage. An alright match, guessing this will lead to Maya World’s rematch against Persephone.
Winner (And Still )- Persephone
United Empire (Ospreay, Bailey) vs Death Riders (Castagnoli, Kidd)
Bailey and Kidd start things off, Kidd tries to get Bailey on the ground, but Bailey is up in no time. Some good team work by Ospreay and Bailey. But as it is always the case, the Death Riders claw and bite back control, in the case of Kidd literally speaking. The World Champion ended up getting things done by countering the big swing into a head scissors followed by a Styles Clash for the win. Bailey on the United Empire paying off dividends from the get go, wonder if he’ll pop up in New Japan.
Post match, Ospreay gets on the mic, thanks the crowd and also Jon Moxley. For his guidance, for being the ace etc. Mox arrives and tries some psychological warfare but Ospreay seems to be fully locked in.
Winners – United Empire
After this the Dynamite Portion ends and we start on Collision as Ospreay and Bailey go up the stage.
We then hear from Jack Perry responding to the Opps, he smiles at the prospect of having to face Katsuyori Shibata.
Once again down to the ring for a sitdown interview with Brawling Birds and Divine Dominion by Renee Paquette ahead of their match at All Out. Bayne and Kross have some tea sets on a table, a supposed gift from the challengers as they take back the titles on Saturday they say. Things didn’t stay cordial for too long as they ended up brawling with challengers on top.
We then see Roderick Strong, who walks off after saying he can’t take it anymore after failing to reclaim the Trios Titles.
Kevin Knight and Kyle Fletcher vs The Outrunners
It is Fletcher and Floyd who get things underway, Knight and Fletcher continues to show signs off a great team with some good combination work. The Outrunners did have their moments at times, but it was too much for them as the Don Callis Family gets the win with a Brain buster-UFO splash combination.
The pair are asked by Renee if this momentum will carry through to All Out, they agreed. Their opponents for All Out appear way up in the rafters, they exchange some words before we Allin’s music hits and we move on.
Winners – Kyle Fletcher and Kevin Knight
We see Jericho coming out to the ring, as we see what happened last week when he beat Nick Wayne and the beatdown recieved post match. Jericho addresses what happened last week and tells Wayne to come out. Jericho talks about the similarities of each other, when the he was Wayne’s age. It ended with a rematch being made for Grand Slam France. I’m sure there’s atleast a dozen people hyped for that.
Backstage, we see Hyan introduce her new tag partner after her loss earlier and it’s Thunder Rosa. Hyan and Rosa vs Persephone and Baker at Pittsburgh.
Queen Aminata vs Skye Blue
Mercedes Mone joins commentary for the match. Both women exchange moves early on as neither got the conclusive advantage. Blue took advantage of an opening to send Aminata to the steps hard. She couldn’t control Aminata that long as she fought back and eventually won by Off With Her Head. Maybe could’ve used a couple more minutes.
Julia immediately attacked the winner, leading to Mina Shirakawa getting involved. It turned chaotic quick with both Thekla and Nightingale getting in the mix. It ended with Mone standing on top of the announce table, reminding everyone who’s champion.
Backstage once more as Britt Baker and Persephone accept the challenge for next week. Further more, Persephone throws out an open challenge for anyone except Maya World, Thunder Rosa or Hyan at All Out for the TBS Championship.
PAC vs Ace Austin
It was mostly Ace Austin in the opening section of the match with PAC having to get out of harms way multiple times. PAC still got his composure back getting on top of the match, Austin tried for a comeback and a potential victory but the Death Rider came out on top with a Belly to Belly followed by a Black Arrow.
PAC locks Austin in a Brutalizer until Jay White comes out for the save. The Dogs and Death Riders come in and this leads to an all out brawl ahead of the Tailgate Brawl at All Out. Andrade El Idolo made an appearance to throwdown with his All Out adversary. The show comes to a close with all this still going on.
Winner – PAC
