Dynamite: Swerve and Ricochet square off; Toni Storm puts on a performance

Boris Roberto Aguilar

Dynamite: Swerve and Ricochet square off; Toni Storm puts on a performance

Greetings and salutations! Its another installment of AEW’s Dynamite tonight and on this show we have Swerve Strickland taking on Ricochet, Will Ospreay facing a member of The Don Callis Family, and Timeless Toni Storm taking on Queen Aminata. Here is the full announced card for the show:

  • Swerve Strickland vs. Ricochet
  • The Hounds of Hell vs. Kyle Fletcher and Konsuke Takeshita
  • Will Ospreay vs. A member of The Don Callis Family
  • Timeless Toni Storm vs. Queen Aminata
  • Hangman Page and MJF are scheduled to appear

With all of this and more, let’s get straight to the action.

This week’s episode of AEW Dynamite kicks off with Renee Paquette interviewing Jay White outside of the venue. White says that the only reason he is trusting Rated FTR is because of his dealing with the Death Riders. The Death Riders attack White outside, but Rated FTR come up from behind and everyone brawls. Marina Shafir moves Paquette out of the way. The brawl makes its way to the ringside area. Cope with a huge Spear on Claudio Castagnoli who saved Mox. As The Death Riders leave through the crowd, Cope gets on the microphone and wants his answer for his challenge at Revolution next month. Moxley tells Cope he deserves nothing, and with that the answer is no. With that said and done, Jay White challenges Moxley and Castagnoli to a Brisbane Street Fight at Australia Grand Slam next weekend.

We see a digital exclusive clip from this past week’s episode of AEW Collision, which shows Buddy Matthews confronting AEW Continental Champion Kazuchika Okada backstage. Matthews challenges him to a title match, but Okada shoots him down. Matthews says it seems like Okada is still a b*tch then and walks off. Okada comically mumbles under his breath, “I’m no b*tch.” He turns and sees the female backstage interviewer and softly repeats again, “…I’m no b*tch.” Hilarious stuff from Okada as always. After this wraps up, an official match graphic flashes across the screen officially confirming Kazuchika Okada vs. Buddy Matthews for the AEW Continental Championship at the upcoming AEW Grand Slam: Australia on February 15 in Brisbane.

Will Ospreay vs. Mark Davis

Ospreay eases into a offensive lead. Ospreay with a Springboard Os-cutter. Callis, who was on commentary is ready to get involved, but sets back down. Ospreay sets up a hidden blade, but Davis counters with a Clothesline. Davis hits Piledriver for a close 2-count. Davis is upset and rips the turnbuckle padding off one of the corners. Davis takes too much time as he walks right into a Hidden Blade as Ospreay gets the win.

Winner: Will Ospreay

After the match, Ospreay gets on the mic and out comes Kenny Omega. Don Callis runs away through the crowd. Omega gets on the mic and thanks Atlanta for the reception and says he has no clue what Callis has on Mark Davis. Omega says that he’s lucky he can trust Ospreay. Kyle Fletcher and Konsuke Takeshita come out but Don Callis holds them back. Omega says they can come to the ring and do it right now, but if they don’t want to, they better prepare for next week when they face each other in Australia.

Hurt Business Meets the Gunns

The Hurt Syndicate is out and MVP says this is an official announcement from The Hurt Syndicate. MVP gives props to Private Party and says they have a bright future, but they were the wrong people, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. MVP goes onto say that it wasn’t their fault they had to step into the ring with The Hurt Syndicate. MVP continues and puts the roster on notice as when they choose to come after more championships, they will hurt people and take them. With that said, MVP puts out an open challenge for the AEW World Tag Team Titles.

The call is answered by the returning Gunn Club, who say they want to come into the ring and talk business. MVP welcomes them. Austin Gunn says the only reason The Hurt Syndicate have those titles is because they haven’t been around. Colten Gunn says hurting people is part of the job, and they are here to take back their tag titles. A title match is set for next week’s Dynamite.

A video package plays where we see Harley Cameron’s first win on AEW Collision. Renee Paquette is backstage looking for Mercedes Moné but out comes Harley Cameron’s Moné puppet. Cameron says she’ll have a concert this Saturday on Collision. The real Mercedes Moné interrupts and calls Cameron a loser. She then says that losers don’t get to ride the Moné Train. As Moné walks away, Cameron flips her the bird, but Paquette tries to hide it.

Renee Paquette gets a word with Hangman Adam Page backstage and asks him about looking for Swerve Strickland. Hangman says it was a moment of weakness. Paquette asks him about ending Christopher Daniel’s career and Page says he doesn’t feel bad and doesn’t even regret a thing about how he did it. Max Caster shows up and runs his mouth asking Hangman to put Anthony Bowens or Billy Gunn in the hospital. Hangman says he would love to put someone in the hospital tonight, and he doesn’t see Bowens or Gunn. Caster runs as Hangman chases.

Hounds Of Hell (Brody King & Buddy Matthews) vs. Don Callis Family (Konosuke Takeshita & Kyle Fletcher)

A very 50/50 match to start off, but Takeshita and Fletcher take control of the match as Takeshita beats down on King. King is cut off from his partner. King with a Elbow that allows him to get to his corner, but Takeshita holds onto King and then takes out Matthews with a big punch that knocks him off the apron. Takeshita turns around and King blasts him, but Matthews is still down. Kyle Fletcher and Konosuke Takeshita hit a double-team Brainbuster on Brody King for the win.

Winners: Don Callis Family (Brody King & Buddy Matthews)

Samoa Joe and HOOK are backstage and they go into The Patriarchy’s locker room but are stopped by Kip Sabian and Nick Wayne. Cage is not there so HOOK and Taz beat them up. Cage sneaks back in with Mother Wayne after the fact to check on Wayne and Sabian.

MJF has a night…

MJFn is out and gets right to business saying this is All Elite Wrestling, not All Elderly Wrestling, making fun of Jarrett. MJF says that Jarrett is out of his business so he can go back to focusing on getting back the Triple B. Max Caster is out still running from Hangman Adam Page. Page and MJF have a quick face-to-face before he runs after Caster.

MJF says that he’s tired of people interrupting him. Out comes Dustin Rhodes. Rhodes tells MJF to shut up and keep people’s names like Owen Hart out of his mouth or he’s gonna kick his ass. Rhodes talks about how he went through hell to get clean and then says that MJF isn’t the devil. Dustin tells MJF that he’s better than him. MJF says the years of drugs turned Rhode’s brain into Swiss Cheese. MJF says that it took him 30 years to crawl out of his father’s shadow and now he’s in the shadows of his baby brother. Rhodes has heard enough and beats MJF down until security comes out. MJF with a below the belt shot…

“Timeless” Toni Storm vs. Queen Aminata

Mariah May is on commentary for this. Toni Storm is out and is dressed as May. May is not happy about Storm’s performance. Serena Deeb is watching the match. With Storm at ringside, Aminata hits a big dive onto Storm. Storm fights back into the lead and hits a Mayday for the win. This match was cut short due to a mid-match commercial (sigh).

Winner: “Timeless” Toni Storm

After the match, Renee Paquette goes into the ring and interviews Storm. Storm acts like May and says she’s the woman from hell. Mariah May throws down the headset and gets on the ring apron, but opts to just leave instead…

Dustin Rhodes is backstage and challenges MJF to a match next week on Dynamite.

Learning Tree does stuff…

The Learning Tree is at ringside, and Chris Jericho says no one wants Bandido in AEW. Jericho says there’s a $100,000 bounty on his head, so he’s giving this one to the Bounty Hunter Bryan Keith. He announces Bandido will face Keith on Collision and he’ll double the amount to 2ooK. Powerhouse Hobbs and The Outrunners come out and brawl with The Learning Tree until everyone is separated. The fight goes on as Hobbs and Bill keep brawling into the commercial.

Swerve Strickland vs. Ricochet

Very fun match that saw tons of action. Near the end of the match Swerve hits a German Suplex and rolls into a reverse Rock Bottom. Swerve jumps to the top-rope and hits a huge Swerve Stomp. Ricochet kicks out! The two are fighting on the ring apron and Ricochet hits a massive German Suplex on the hardest part of the ring. Back inside the ring, Ricochet hits a 450 splash off the ropes for another 2-count.

Ricochet heads to the top-rope again and hits a Shooting Star Press. After some smack talk, Swerve jumps up and hits a House Call on Ricochet. Swerve makes his way to the top and goes for another Swerve Stomp, but jumps right into a low-blow from Ricochet that the ref didn’t see. Ricochet hits a Spirit Gun for the win.

Winner: Ricochet

After the match, Ricochet steals Prince Nana’s Embassy robe and leaves

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