AEW Dynamite live results: Kenny Omega vs. Swerve Strickland
AEW Dynamite is live tonight from Sacramento, California.
Coming off two shows this weekend in Australia, the company has booked a main event featuring two top stars for this week’s episode, as Kenny Omega faces Swerve Strickland. Both wrestlers are coming off losses to Andrade El Idolo in the recent tournament to determine a new number one contender for MJF’s AEW World Championship.
Also scheduled, MJF and Hangman Page will appear in a face-to-face segment after their AEW Revolution match was made official over the weekend.
The in-ring television debut of the Brawling Birds, Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor, is also set for the show.
The TBS Championship will be on the line, with Willow Nightingale defending against Marina Shafir, Megan Bayne, and Mina Shirakawa in a four-way match.
Dynamite takes place at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento. According to WrestleTix, 2,672 tickets had been distributed as of Monday.
Our live coverage begins at 8 p.m. Eastern.
AEW Dynamite comes on the air with Excalibur welcoming us alongside Bryan Danielson & Tony Schiavone as they throw it to comments from tonight’s competitors.
Mina Shirakawa is up first talking about how it’s Mina Time to grow, as everyone wants her, but she wants the TBS Title. Willow Nightingale talks about not having to be pinned to lose her title tonight, but realizes that comes with the territory. She can kick ass in Australia with Harley and fly to Sacramento to defend her title. Megan Bayne said gold belongs to the All Elite Goddess. We then cut to Swerve Strickland who said he needs this, as Kenny Omega said Strickland got in the way of what he wanted the most, so until he’s no longer in his way, he’ll wish him goodbye and good night.
Renee Paquette caught up with Orange Cassidy earlier today and asked about Roderick Strong walking out on him last week and he said thankfully with The Conglomeration, there are a lot of them. Tomohiro Ishii walks in and he’ll be teaming with Cassidy tonight against Gabe Kidd & Clark Connors.
AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley vs. Mark Davis in a Continental Title Eliminator
(Fending off another Callis Family member threat, commentary drove home how Moxley hasn’t slayed the one demon he’s wanted to the most so far, in Konosuke Takeshita. Another strong showing from Davis, who continues his run of competitive matches against top tier talent. All roads for Moxley have to lead to Takeshita, so it’s good that he’s still doing Eliminator matches, even though Takeshita will most likely be getting the shot at Revolution.)
During Moxley’s entrance, Renee Paquette is ringside talking about Moxley being unable to close that loop against Konosuke Takeshita, going to a time limit draw with him in Australia. Meanwhile, Davis wants to use this opportunity with Jake Doyle on the shelf, to prove to the Callis Family that he can be their X-Factor. Bryan Danielson was severely disappointed that we didn’t see bald headed Wheeler Yuta during Moxley’s entrance, as he was rocking a hoodie. Despite his history with the Death Riders, Danielson respected that Moxley forced Yuta to get in the ring and have his head shaved after losing the match at Grand Slam.
Davis used his size early, trucking Moxley with a running body block and dishing out corner strikes. Moxley fired back, tried a sunset flip, but Davis squished him like a pancake dropping all his weight on Moxley’s sternum. Sliding forearm strike in the corner, as Moxley wobbles to the outside, where Davis was relentless with his attack. Moxley ducked a punch and Davis clocked the ring post so hard it started to bleed, allowing Moxley to hit a Tope Suicida to get the fans loudly behind him. Moxley wrenched at the fingers and stomped on them on the steps into commercial.
Back from break, Davis has gained control and ran through Moxley against the LED board. Quickly back to the ring, Davis went up top, but Moxley cut him off and bit at the bloody finger before delivering a superplex for the double down. Moxley again went back to the sunset flip, but avoided Davis sitting out and clocked him with a PK, but Davis kicked out at 1. Slugfest ensues at the 10-minute mark, as Davis hits an enzugiri, but Moxley ducked a lariat into a flash cutter. Davis spun out of a sleeper into a backdrop suplex, as both rose from separate corners, charged and Moxley hit a series of lariats, until Davis kicked away at one and hit a home run shot. Davis wanted a piledriver, Moxley slid out, dodged a charge into a school boy for two. Davis, from a gut wrench position hit an insane piledriver, but Moxley just got a shoulder up. Davis slapped on a sleeper, Moxley escaped, but Davis popped him with another lariat. Whiffing on another enzugiri, Moxley followed with a Curb Stomp into the double down. Both collide with clothesline attempts, neither budging initially, but the third, Moxley crumbled. Moxley floated over a piledriver and sank in a Bulldog Choke, where Davis frantically tapped.
Match Result: Jon Moxley submitted Mark Davis
-After Grand Slam last weekend, Hangman Adam Page said he now knows why Andrade is called El Idolo. The next time MJF tries to kick him in the balls, Page will make sure he doesn’t have a happy future. At Revolution, Page is coming for the World Championship and he’ll end MJF to take it. Look into his eyes and know he’s telling the truth, Max.
-FTR & Stokely make their way to the ring, as we’ll hear from the AEW Tag Team Champions up next.
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FTR & Stokely Address The Young Bucks
Dax Harwood barely was able to start talking before Shut The F*ck Up chants rang out. He brought up how The Young Bucks called themselves the best team in the world 10 years ago, but cut to today and they’re sitting comfortably in second place. Stokely said truth be told, it pisses him off that last week on Dynamite, The Young Bucks shook hands with The Rascalz & Private Party, which is interesting, as The Bucks tried to run Private Party out of the company a year ago, but now they are good? That fakeness is what Stokely hates about professional wrestling. Who is at the top of FTR’s hate list is Matt & Nick Jackson, under them are their parents, followed by their delinquent kids running around backstage. The Bucks appear behind them and take out Harwood & Wheeler with superkicks, leaving Stokely alone, spinning around in his wheelchair, backtracking like crazy. The crowd chants for another superkick and they got their wish, as Stokely gets clocked out of his wheelchair with a Superkick Party. The Bucks hold up the Tag Titles and officially challenge FTR for the titles at Revolution, in their backyard.
-Brody King is backstage with Bandido at Grand Slam, talking about how he was this close to winning the AEW World Title, he could taste it. King isn’t sitting around feeling sorry for himself, bring the biggest and baddest, February 25th, he’s getting back into the World Title hunt and he’s looking for a fight. Loud F*ck ICE chants were heard from the Sacramento crowd in the background as the promo was shown.
Since 2022, Ryan has been the Recapper/Reviewer for both AEW PPVs & Dynamite for F4WOnline & the Wrestling Observer. Previously, he recapped AEW Dark from 2021-2022 for PWTorch.