On September 11th, 2024 AEW aired the 258th episode of Dynamite live in Louisville Kentucky inside Rupp Arena.
-Kicking off this week’s Dynamite with words from Jon Moxley after what he did to Bryan Danielson at All Out where Moxley said that over 2 years ago they made a commitment to build something real and tangible, long after they were gone. Moxley says he looks around and all he sees is egos out of control and he can’t take it anymore. He says their mentor calls Danielson his favorite but he saw himself in Moxley and once told them they are who they are and can’t pretend to be someone else. He’s not a villain or a hero but the one true king of these lands. They tried Danielson’s way but diplomacy failed and today he chooses war.
-We then see Darby Allin skateboarding into the arena
-Tony Schiavone is in the ring and introduces The Patriarchy. Christian Cage says that Nick Wayne told him that the word on the street is that Christian Cage has infinite aura and most people would say that’s true and now that he has this contract it’s undeniable. Cage says something very interesting happened in the Gauntlet Match at All In when he looked into Killswitch’s eyes and saw that the lightbulb had finally gone off and in that moment he realized that he is a monster, a wrecking machine & a killer and he belongs to Cage. Schiavone brings up how he almost cashed in at All Out as the crowd starts chanting for Luchasaurus. Cage said he decided it wasn’t the right time or place but tells Bryan Danielson that his days are numbered and being nearly suffocated is nothing compared to what he will do to him to get the AEW World Champion and he will wish that Brie Bella was the one with CTE instead. Cage continues that he is the reigning, defending, undisputed next AEW World Champion.
-We then see Kip Sabian in the front row watching on before he walks off.
-Renee Paquette is in the back with International Champion Will Ospreay & The Don Callis Family as Don Callis says he has a great idea. Callis says since Ospreay has won every Casino Gauntlet he has been in, he should tag with Kyle Fletcher to be in it. Ospreay appreciates it but says he has a lot going on and has to focus on Ricochet. Callis says that Ospreay does owe him a favor before Fletcher says he is so tired of coming so close but never quite getting it done and there is nobody who knows him better than Ospreay. Ospreay admits he can’t say no to him as Konosuke Takeshita looks pissed off and gives Ospreay a death stare.
TNT Title Match
Jack Perry (c) vs. Lio Rush
Lio Rush sends Jack Perry to the outside but stops short from diving into him as Perry goes and shoves Action Andretti on the outside.
Rush & Perry continue to fight on the outside as Perry drops Rush face first onto the apron as we go to picture in picture.
After the break Andretti keeps getting involved as Aubrey Edwards ejects him to the back.
Rush sends Perry to the outside and hits him with a pair of tope suicidas.
Rush sends Perry back inside and tries to dive off the top rope but Perry dodges it just to get hit with a standing Spanish Fly for two.
Perry catches Rush and sends him right into the middle turnbuckle with the Snake Eyes.
Perry hits a pair of snap Dragon Suplexes but Rush is able to escape out of a 3rd attempt and hits a poisonrana.
Rush tries to springboard off the ropes but gets hit with a knee strike followed by another running knee for the win.
Winner & Still TNT Champion: Jack Perry (STILL CHAMPION!!!)
-Alex Marvez is in the back and tries to get a word with Perry about what happened at All Out. Perry says people like him get crucified in this life to be worshipped in the next before he gets back on his bus and drives off.
-We then go to Renee Paquette who is with Hangman Page and talks about all the things he did to Swerve Strickland and asks where his head is now. Page says if he found 1,000 houses that Strickland calls home he would burn 1,000 houses down and he meant every word he said to Swerve. For the people who were there in person to witness it, he made no mistake and he meant it and now he speaks to all of you, if they get in his way and stand between him & Strickland and try to protect him he will find them and hurt them. We then see Page walk off and stare down Top Flight before moving on to Dark Order. Evil Uno says he doesn’t even know who Page is before Jeff Jarrett gets in Page’s face and says his family has seen a lot of guys take the dark path Page has and it all ends up in the same exact place, full of remorse and regret and tells Page he’s going to regret the day he laid hands on his wife and will find out that the toughest, most ruthless son of bitch he will face in his life is the man in the mirror. Page attacks Jarrett right away and says he didn’t ask him before members of the roster get in between and separate them.
Trios Match
Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) & Komander vs. Lord Crewe, Jon Cruz & Local Jobber
Private Party & Komander come out to face Lord Crewe, Jon Cruz & Local Jobber in trios action but before the match can start they get attacked by Jon Moxley, PAC, Claudio Castagnoli & Marina Shafir.
Winners: No One (Match Never Got Started)
-PAC gets on the mic and says enough is enough and this company is broken and what happened at All Out was inevitable and as for him he has been very lost for very long but not anymore as now he has something to believe in and a purpose. PAC says this company is ours and tosses the mic down.
-We see Chris Jericho & The Learning Tree driving in with a HI GUY5 license plate as Jericho says it’s a wonderful day as he has the jacket Orange Cassidy ruined. He has Cassidy’s backpack as collateral and even though the $7,000 wasn’t in it, he found something else just as interesting that he will reveal later on.
Sammy Guevara vs. Ricochet
Sammy Guevara & Ricochet starts the match mirroring each other with their moves before both coming up short on a thrust kick.
Ricochet hits a dropkick sending Guevara to the outside where he hits him with a twisting dive landing on his feet.
They start working their way up the ramp as Guevara sends Ricochet into the entrance tunnel before knocking him out with a kick.
Guevara mounts the top of the tunnel and hits a moonsault as we go to picture in picture.
After the break they are back in the ring as Guevara is able to dodge Ricochet and send him to the outside where he hits him with a sliding dropkick.
Guevara’s turn now hits a running dive to the outside to Ricochet as they go back to fighting on the ramp before Ricochet runs and jumps off the barricade onto Guevara.
Back in the ring Ricochet hits a running shooting star press for a two count.
Ricochet starts hitting some kicks before Guevara rolls him up for a two.
Ricochet puts Guevara on his shoulders but he reserves it into a Destroyer, then goes to the top rope and hits a cutter for another two.
Guevara stays in control until Ricochet escapes a GTH attempt and hits an Axe Kick followed by Vertigo to get the win.
Winner: Ricochet
-After the match The Beast Mortos appears and takes out Ricochet with a spear. Guevara runs in with a spear and chases Mortos away.
-Backstage Renee Paquette is with Continental Champion Kazuchika Okada and she asks Okada what is next after retaining the Continental Title at All Out. Okada starts pretending to cry before saying it was so easy. Don Callis & Konosuke Takeshita walk in Callis says that he didn’t pin Takeshita. Okada says that Takeshita will be a champion but not Continental Champion and calls Callis a bitch as Takeshita gets in his face.
-Darby Allin makes his way down to the ring and says that somebody has been looking for him and he is right here. Jon Moxley’s music hits as he & Marina Shafir make their way through the crowd. Moxley shows that he doesn’t have any weapons on him and puts his hands up before entering the ring. Shafir gets in Allin’s face before Moxley pulls her away and says he doesn’t know what Allin heard but nothing has changed between them. Allin cuts him off and says they act like superstars and they came from nothing hoping they don’t go back to that before he talks about his struggles to get here. He doesn’t take this for granted and how AEW gave him everything before he tells Moxley a story he never told anyone else. Allin says in his 1st year of wrestling he was looking for a hero and all those people disappointed him before he found Moxley, as he didn’t change for anybody and he knew he wanted to be just like him. Darby talks about how they 1st met in a high school gym in the independents and how nervous he was that day in wrestling his hero Jon Moxley, Even though he lost that match, he gained the confidence that he could be in the ring with someone like Moxley.
-Allin says he couldn’t do what he did to Danielson and asks him why he called him out. Moxley cuts to the chase and says that Allin was supposed to have a match at Grand Slam but it won’t happen now because he’s indisposed. He says that Allin isn’t ready to be a world champion and he doesn’t have time to explain and tells Allin to hand over that title shot to him. Allin calls Moxley stupid and asks him if he’s been drinking again and says Moxley didn’t earn it and if he wants it so bad to do something about it. Moxley says he will earn it and makes a match between them at Grand Slam and says Darby will never be the world champion. Moxley says that the title shot will be his and this time he will teach him that lesson the hard way. Allin accepts for Grand Slam and if Moxley wants to burn AEW to the ground do not be surprised when he pulls him into the fire.
-Alex Marvez is in the back with Christopher Daniels and asks about what just happened, but Nigel McGuinness interrupts and says he needs to go talk to Tony Khan right now, no matter how busy he is as he will want to hear this.
Non Title Match
Women’s Champion Mariah May vs. Queen Aminata
If Aminata wins she gets a Women’s Title Match.
Mariah May & Queen Aminata starts the match by dodging each other and going for pins before Aminata stops May with a running PK but misses the hip attack on the ropes.
May starts twisting up Aminata on the ropes before hitting her with a dropkick.
May continues to attack Aminata on the apron before bringing her with her to the outside as we go to picture in picture.
After the break May is in control by putting Aminata on the top rope where she chops away at her but Aminata is able to push her off and roll her up for two.
Aminata hits a snap suplex and a German suplex sending May against the ropes where she is able to hit her with a running kick getting a two count.
May comes back with a DDT off the ropes but Aminata comes right back with a scoop slam then heads to the top rope but misses a stomp.
May comes right back with a dropkick and a running knee followed by Storm Zero to get the win.
Winner: Women’s Champion Mariah May
-After the match May gets on the mic and says she still hasn’t had her championship celebration and says that something and someone is missing before telling Mina Shirakawa to please come back.
-We go to AEW World Tag Team Champions Young Bucks in the back who said when they started this company they wanted to have the best tag team division in wrestling but said they really meant themselves and they are still here doing all the heavy lifting. They hear the complaints about having new champions but say they should be mad at all the teams who can’t defeat them and this is the reason why they booked this Tag Team Casino Gauntlet and ask if there is anyone who can get a title shot against them at Grand Slam and tells them they will need good luck as they will be out there watching live.
Trios Match
The Learning Tree (Chris Jericho, Bryan Keith & Big Bill) vs. Iron Savages (Jacked Jameson, Boulder & Bronson)
Chris Jericho starts the match with Boulder by smacking him and gets punched down.
Jericho quickly tags out to Big Bill as Boulder whips Bill into the corner but misses the splash causing Bill to hit a splash of his own followed by a big boot.
Bryan Keith & Jacked Jameson tag in as Keith catches Jameson off the corner with Diamond Dust before tagging in Jericho who puts his foot on Jameson’s chest to get the win.
Winners: The Learning Tree
-After the match Jericho gets on the mic and continues talking about Cassidy ruining this jacket over 4 years ago and thinks that Cassidy isn’t going to give him the $7,000 so he’ll keep taking things from him. He reveals what he found in the backpack is a picture of Cassidy with Best Friends. He says that Cassidy is still obsessed with friendship and says there are no friends in pro wrestling and if he thinks he has a friend he’s probably being used as Bill gives Jericho an interesting look. Jericho tells Cassidy that he wants his cash and Cassidy is going to give him that cash. We cut to Cassidy on the screen & says he does have Jericho’s cash as we see Kyle O’Reilly & Mark Briscoe dumping a whole bunch of change into Jericho’s new car with an excavator.
-We go to Nigel McGuinness who’s in the ring and talks about there not being an AEW World Title match at Grand Slam but it’s probably for the best as Bryan Danielson is probably somewhere choking as Justin Roberts did with a tie. McGuinness continues that they should have a world champion competing on the show and shows a contract, saying he’s had to watch Danielson’s years over the years that the success should have been his, and that Danielson is afraid of him. McGuinness says that Tony Khan knows a money match when he sees one and says at Grand Slam it’ll be Bryan Danielson against Nigel McGuinness and he guarantees that at Arthur Ashe Stadium, Oasis will play him to the ring and asks if Bryan Danielson will join him to The Final Countdown or if we’ve seen the final match of the American coward.
-We go to FTW Champion Hook who says he respects Roderick Strong but his respect was disturbed when he and his buddies jumped him and he went and whined about his foot being under the rope and this is not the Strong he knows and respects. He challenges Strong to any time and place that he wants and he wants to see Strong try and take the FTW Title from him.
AEW World Tag Team Titles #1 Contenders 9 Team Casino Gauntlet Match
FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) vs. United Empire (International Champion Will Ospreay & Kyle Fletcher) vs. The Righteous (Vincent & Dutch) vs. Undisputed Kingdom (Mike Bennett & Matt Taven) vs. The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster) vs. MxM Collection (Mason Madden & Mansoor) vs. Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) vs. The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd & Truth Mangum) vs. Grizzled Young Veterans (Zack Gibson & James Drake)
FTR comes out as the 1st team followed by United Empire is the 2nd team.
Kyle Fletcher & Dax Harwood take it to the outside right away as Will Ospreay sends Cash Wheeler down with a hurricanrana.
FTR starts double teaming on Ospreay but Fletcher is there to stop the pin attempt from a Liger Bomb.
Harwood stops Ospreay on the top rope where he hits the superplex followed by the splash by Wheeler then a cover as Ospreay kicks out. The Righteous come out as the 3rd team and go after FTR.
They take it to Ospreay next and go for multiple pin attempts but aren’t able to secure the win.
Fletcher comes back with a cutter on Dutch but gets a two as the 4th team is revealed to be Undisputed Kingdom. They go after Ospreay as we go to picture in picture.
After the break The Acclaimed come out as the 5th team & they all start fighting on the outside.
Back in the ring Max Caster hits a top rope crossbody on Matt Taven before hitting Dutch with a Death Valley Driver then a cover but Wheeler breaks it up.
The Acclaimed both hit Fameassers on Harwood as MxM Collection comes out as the next team and gets right in The Acclaimed face as Undisputed Kingdom attack both teams.
MxM Collection stays in control but worries more about posing than winning the match.
All the teams in the ring hit an multi man suplex as we go back to picture in picture.
After the break all the teams fighting on the outside as Top Flight comes out as the next team. They all battle until it’s just Ospreay & Dante Martin having a face off before going at it.
They run the ropes and test each other out until Dante sends Ospreay to the outside.
FTR runs in and hits Shatter Machine on Bowens but every other team breaks it up as The Outrunners come out and take everybody out. Grizzled Young Veterans come out as the 9th & final team.
FTR stops them at the top of the ramp as they brawl to the back with GYV not even being able to enter the match.
Turbo Floyd & Mansoor end up on the top rope where Floyd suplexes Mansoor onto everybody else on the outside. The Outrunners got for the pin but Vincent is there to break it up.
Everybody starts taking turns hitting offense in the ring with Dante coming close on the pin off of Fletcher.
Dante tries a splash to Fletcher but he gets his knees up followed by Hidden Blade from Ospreay as Fletcher rolls up Dante to get the win.
Winners & #1 Contenders To The AEW World Tag Team Titles: United Empire
Friday’s Rampage
Trios Match
The Conglomeration (Kyle O’Reilly, Orange Cassidy & Mark Briscoe) vs. Dark Order (Alex Reynolds, John Silver & Evil Uno)
Kamille vs. Robyn Renegade
Roderick Strong vs. Beef
Tag Team Match
The Outcasts (Harley Cameron & Saraya) vs. The Hex (Allysin Kay & Marti Belle)
Konosuke Takeshita vs. Action Andretti
Saturday’s Collision
Non Title Match
TNT Champion Jack Perry vs. Christopher Daniels
Trios Match
The Conglomeration (Kyle O’Reilly & Mark Briscoe) & Hologram vs. The Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese) & The Beast Mortos
Trios Champion Wheeler Yuta vs. Anthony Henry
Trios Match
Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) & Komander vs.
Trios Match
Bang Bang Gang (Juice Robinson, Austin Gunn & Coleton Gunn) vs. Cage Of Agony (Brian Cage, Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona)
Yuka Sakazaki vs. Serena Deeb
Queen Aminata vs. Robyn Renegade
Tag Team Match
FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) vs. Grizzled Young Veterans (Zack Gibson & James Drake)
Next Week’s Dynamite
Chris Jericho vs. Orange Cassidy
Trios Match
The Elite (AEW World Tag Team Champions Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson & Continental Champion Kazuchika Okada) vs. International Champion Will Ospreay & The Don Callis Family (Konosuke Takeshita & Kyle Fletcher)
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