AEW Dynamite Winter is Coming live results: World title match
The AEW World Championship is on the line tonight in Georgia on the special Winter is Coming episode of Dynamite.
Samoa Joe defends the AEW World title against Eddie Kingston. It’s the first defense for Joe since defeating Hangman Page in a steel cage match at Full Gear last month to kick off his second reign as AEW World Champion. This will be Kingston’s first shot at the AEW title since challenging Jon Moxley for the belt at Full Gear in November 2020.
The inaugural AEW Women’s Tag Team Champions will be crowned on tonight’s show, with Timeless Love Bombs Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa facing Babes of Wrath Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron in the tournament finals.
Hangman Page and Swerve Strickland team up to face Katsuyori Shibata and Powerhouse Hobbs of The Opps in a tornado tag match.
A pair of Gold League Continental Classic matches will also take place tonight, with Kyle Fletcher vs. Mike Bailey, plus Kazuchika Okada vs. Jack Perry. Perry is substituting for Darby Allin after Allin was medically disqualified from continuing on in the tournament.
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AEW Dynamite: Winter is Coming comes on the air with Excalibur welcoming us alongside Tony Schiavone & Bryan Danielson before running down tonight’s card.
The Timeless Love Bombs (Timeless Toni Storm & Mina Shirakawa) vs. Babes of Wrath (Willow Nightingale & Harley Cameron) in the AEW Women’s Tag Team Title Tournament Finals
(I thought this was an excellent Final of the tournament with both teams looking very good throughout and the crowd was 50/50 all the way through. It is a pretty great full circle moment for The Babes of Wrath, as Cameron’s AEW debut on Dark a few years ago was against Nightingale and cut to now, they’re inaugural Tag Team Champions. I’m not sure where Storm & Shirakawa go from here, whether they remain a duo or go back out as singles, but I feared they were going to go heel in the post-match, which thankfully didn’t happen nor should it, as Storm especially is one of the most over babyfaces in the company.)
After last week’s Holiday Death Match, Excalibur questions if the Love Bombs are 100% heading into the Finals. Cameron & Shirakawa kick things off trading early takedowns and counters until Shirakawa did a little shimmy and pose. Cameron posted up in the corner and forced Shirakawa to motorboat her. Excalibur told Schiavone that’s something Danielson did to him in Detroit about 20 years ago. Nightingale & Storm tagged in, with the crowd loudly giving dueling chants as both ladies slugged it out with forearms. Cameron & Shirakawa try to intervene and start throwing bombs as well, until The Love Bombs get knocked outside. Cameron lined her opponents up, allowing Nightingale to hit a cannonball off the apron. Back inside, Cameron worked over Storm until she was saved by Shirakawa. Storm delivered a back breaker and made quick tags, keeping Cameron isolated with a spinning assisted body press for two. Cameron ducked a standing switch with a back suplex for the Nightingale hot tag. Lariats and chops aplenty dished out, until she ran through a double clothesline with one of her own before Pouncing Storm to the floor heading to break.
Shirakawa was worked over during commercial, until a spinning DDT on Nightingale created space enough for Storm to tag in and run wild. Cameron was spiked with a DDT of her own and signaled for the TCM Chicken Wing, but Nightingale made the save. Shirakawa fought off both ladies, getting Figure Four on Cameron while DDT’ing Nightingale. Figure Four proper applied, but Storm & Nightingale took turns turning their opponent over, so Nightingale attempted an Indian Death Lock leaving all four women to slug it out until everyone broke free. Everyone up firing off overhand chops and headbutts leading to a quadruple down. Storm sent Nightingale to the floor and helped Shirakawa get a Sling Blade out of the corner on Cameron. Storm Zero planted Cameron, but Nightingale broke the count and hit an overhead suplex on Storm on the floor. Cameron & Shirakawa traded forearms, as Shirakawa hit a few rolling elbows and spinning backfist. Shirakawa wanted a Glamourous Driver MINA, Cameron floated through with Her Finishing Move, as she tagged Nightingale, who hit a Doctor Bomb to get the pin and win the titles.
Post-match, Renee Paquette came to the ring to congratulate the new champions, as Nightingale said it was a hard fight, Cameron’s mouth is all bloodied up, but she’s proud of her. Nightingale said this year has been rough not knowing who has her back, but Cameron has through it all. Cameron talked about wrestling Nightingale in her second ever match a few years ago. Crowd chanted Babes of Wrath as they got pyro while Storm & Shirakawa consoled each other until facing off with the new champs, offering a handshake and hug.
Match Result: The Babes of Wrath defeated The Timeless Love Bombs to win the AEW Women’s Tag Team Titles when Nightingale pinned Shirakawa
-The Opps are backstage where Samoa Joe congratulated Eddie Kingston for his time finally coming. You wanted the real Samoa Joe, the crusader of the independents, not realizing that man has been standing in front of Kingston all along. Joe is ruthless by design and doesn’t care about men like Kingston, who are in his way from what he has. The man Kingston looked up to was a wonderful idea, but the one who will kick his ass tonight, is the man who will show him the reality of what this industry is.
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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.