AEW Dynamite Maximum Carnage live results: MJF vs. Bandido
AEW Maximum Carnage takes place tonight in Phoenix.
The AEW World Championship will be on the line when MJF defends against Ring of Honor World Champion Bandido, who earned the title shot by winning the Dynamite Diamond Ring.
Former AEW World Champion Kenny Omega is set to return on tonight’s show.
Darby Allin vs. PAC is also scheduled. PAC is the lone member of The Death Riders that Darby has yet to defeat.
Four teams will compete for a chance to earn an AEW World Tag Team title match, as The Young Bucks face GOA, JetSpeed, and The Don Callis Family’s Jake Doyle and Mark Davis.
AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander will team with AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale against The Triangle of Madness: Thekla, Julia Hart, and Skye Blue.
AEW Maximum Carnage takes place at Arizona Financial Theatre in Phoenix. Our live coverage begins at 8 p.m. Eastern.
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AEW Dynamite: Maximum Carnage comes on the air with Excalibur & Bryan Danielson, as they run down tonight’s card before we head backstage to Samoa Joe earlier today and said there’s never enough time to deal with fools and their foolishness. Adam Page is one of those fools, as The Opps need to prepare for their Trios Title Match on Collision, so he put out a bounty. The bounty has been posted and the hunter has come to claim his prize. Bryan Keith walks in and said three years ago, Page beat his ass like he stole something, but now, Keith is a different man who will make it personal and cash in, pay up!
Renee Paquette is in the crowd talking about the history between these two and Darby Allin nearly breaking PAC’s ankle last week to get this upcoming match. PAC has won both their singles matches previously and has been firing on all cylinders since his return, but never count out Darby Allin.
Darby Allin vs. PAC
(We’ve grown accustomed to Allin getting beaten up pretty violently and this was no different. The bumps he took were pretty gnarly, making you wonder, like always, how he’s able to walk out on his own when the match is over. I liked how the previous strategy by PAC that got him a win earlier in their feud, backfired and I’m interested in seeing where Allin goes from here, now that he’s conquered all of the Death Riders. Hopefully a run at the AEW Title could be in his future.)
Death Riders accompanied PAC through the crowd and they stopped by Paquette, where he told them all he’s going to do this by himself. They granted his wishes, as Justin Roberts was introducing PAC, who was leveled with a Tope Suicida by Allin, sending him over the barricade, as they brawl into the crowd before the match officially begins. There’s a point where we can barely see them fighting, it’s so dark, but we do catch Allin delivering a Coffin Drop off one of the upper levels. PAC stumbles back to ringside, scrambling away until he side-stepped a charging Allin with a German Suplex on the floor. PAC repositioned the steps and delivered a violent belly-to-belly, thrashing Allin’s back. Both men are back in the ring, as Allin told referee Paul Turner to ring the bell, as PAC immediately hit his sprinting lariat that turned Allin inside out. Placing Allin under the middle rope, PAC guillotined him, but again, Allin kicked out. PAC sent Allin landing face first off a huge back drop, as we go to commercial with PAC in firm control.
Back from break, Allin fought his way out of the corner connecting with a missile dropkick. Danielson talked about the pain he always felt delivering that move, he can’t imagine what Allin is feeling after that suplex into the steps. Allin continues firing up, but sprinted right into a release overhead suplex into the corner. PAC quickly brought Allin up top, this time with an Avalanche Belly-to-Belly, but wasn’t finished, as he connected with an Awesome Bomb from the ring and onto the entrance ramp. PAC waited in the corner, as Allin broke the count at 9 and flipped PAC off, as he jumped to the mat and seemed to tweak his previously injured ankle. Allin pounced, as he sent PAC outside and hit a Coffin Drop off the top, then another onto the apron, landing his own back just as much as PAC. Back inside, referee Turner got too close asking PAC if he wanted to continue in the corner, as PAC pulled him in and Turner took the bullet from a charging Allin.
With the referee down, Allin shot a double leg and sank in the Scorpion Death Lock, as PAC tapped, but called for the troops. Wheeler Yuta sprinted out with a chair, but suffered a Scorpion Death Drop. Allin hit another on PAC before placing the chair around the injured ankle. Allin Pillmanized PAC’s ankle with a Coffin Drop from the corner before re-applying the Scorpion Death Lock and PAC tapped out right as Paul Turner recovered. Post-match, Allin rolled to the ramp, as the rest of the Death Riders checked on PAC. Bryan Danielson questions if with this win and defeating all of the Death Riders, will this bring Allin peace?
Match Result: Darby Allin submitted PAC
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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.