On October 23rd, 2024 AEW aired the 264th episode of Dynamite live in Salt Lake City Utah inside Maverik Center.
Note: This review will be shorter then normal as it be the last few mins of the match.
-Kicking off this week’s Dynamite with a another video narrated by Jon Moxley with highlights of what he and his crew have been doing the last couple of weeks and how the roster has been reacting to it.
-We cut to Moxley in a desert talking about how caterpillars don’t just become butterflies and have to adapt to nature before saying that tonight on Dynamite, just a little piece of someone will be destroyed forever but it’s for the greater good as Moxley gets in the back of the pick up truck with his crew and drive off through the desert.
-We then see Mark Briscoe, Daniel Garcia, Dark Order, Private Party and many more members of the AEW roster waiting in the parking lot with weapons.
-We go to the ring with Tony Schiavone who brings out Hangman Page. Schiavone asks Page where his mind is now due to his recent actions, and Page snatches the mic from him and says last week he took Jay White’s head off and before almost took Juice Robinson’s life and he knocked out Austin Gunn so bad a couple of weeks ago that he doubt he remembers is brother’s name. Colten Gunn shows up from behind and starts attacking Page, taking him to the outside where Page dodges him as Colten goes crashing over the barricade onto the timekeeper’s table. Page sends Colten back inside and starts choking him out with his belt before Jay White’s music hits, he & Robinson run out as White enters and chases Page limping away. White gets on the mic and says Page can hobble away but he can’t hide from him, and he will always have his number at 4-0 and it would have been a perfect 5-0 if Christian Cage didn’t help him. White says Page will never be able to measure up to him and he can hide behind all the blood and fire he wants. They haven’t seen the last of each other and will see each other real soon.
-We get a video package for Sammy Guevara & Shelton Benjamin as MVP says Benjamin is gifted at hurting people and he won’t do it for free. They finish by saying to trust the process and they’ve done it before and will do it again.
Shelton Benjamin vs Sammy Guevara
They go back & forth before Sammy Guevara hits a cutter but only gets a one count.
MVP starts yelling at Shelton Benjamin to stop playing with your food.
As Guevara springboards back in, he gets stopped with a superkick before Benjamin hits him with another one. Benjamin hits a knee strike in the corner followed by the powerslam to get the win
Winner: Shelton Benjamin
-Renee Paquette is backstage and tries to get a word with Women’s Champion Mariah May & she has luggage that he opens up and tosses before saying that Anna Jay doesn’t belong in the ring or locker room with her as Jay shows up and goes after May but quickly gets separated by Christopher Daniels & he tells her to stop because she already has a title shot.
-We get a video showing the history of Will Ospreay & Kyle Fletcher with words from Ospreay talking about their friendship.
-We cut to Tony Schiavone who introduces Fletcher and Don Callis to the ring. Fletcher says the crowd can boo him all they want but he’s only here to talk to Ospreay and talks about how it’s been 11 days that Ospreay has been laid out in a hospital bed due to the herniated disc he doesn’t tell anybody about. And just like these people, he has been wondering Why, Kyle, Why and that makes him happy, and says the fans are just as much to blame as Ospreay is. When he got to AEW they said he had the brightest future in professional wrestling until Ospreay came in and instead of saying he’s the next big thing he was called the next Will Ospreay. He took every one of those comparisons as an insult because, in reality, he is bigger, stronger, faster & better than Ospreay in every single way. Back in 2021 when he joined the United Empire, Ospreay was the kingpin with a killer instinct as the crowd chants for him to wrap it up but Fletcher says that Callis bought him all the TV time he needed to get this off his chest so they will listen to him.
-He brings up why he left NJPW and how Kazuchika Okada brought Ospreay in there to make him his brother but Ospreay stabbed him in the back. He then brings up that when Kenny Omega left, Ospreay stepped up as the biggest foreigner in the company but was told he would never fill Omega’s shoes so he stabbed him with a screwdriver and dropped him on his head with the Tiger Driver. He knew what he had to do to get out of Ospreay’s shadow because that’s the lesson he taught him. Callis made him realize that Ospreay never wanted Fletcher to surpass him because that’s the king of person Ospreay is; selfish. He will give Ospreay one chance to save face with these people, and these people start chanting ‘Shut the fuck up’. Fletcher says Ospreay will ignore the doctor’s orders and his family and will step in the ring with him next week. He will send him back to that hospital bed, a lot longer than 11 days, and will hit Tiger Drivers until his neck withers to dust. One thing has become apparent, if he wants to take this company to heights it’s never been before he can be nothing like him. Callis then hands Fletcher an electric razor as Fletcher says he is nothing like Ospreay and starts shaving off his hair while saying he is nothing like you.
-We see footage of Konosuke Takeshita retaining his title against Josh Alexander at Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling’s Forged In Excellence Night 2 before Ricochet came out to him.
-Renee Paquette is backstage with Ricochet & says he is a man of his word about showing up anywhere to go after Takeshita. Takeshita has screwed him out of the International Title twice and told Takeshita to come find him on Rampage this Friday. MVP & Benjamin walk in and say they have a history but new company and new beginnings and suggest starting new before handing him his card.
Tag Team Match
The Pillars Of Density (Hunter Grey & Parviz) vs. Murder Machines (Lance Archer & Brian Cage)
Brian Cage hits a spinebuster plus a German suplex.
Murder Machines hits a powerbomb/chokeslam combo to get the win.
Winners: Murder Machines
-We go back to the roster waiting outside, as Chuck Taylor tells Mark Briscoe they need him as his match is up next before telling Orange Cassidy he’s known him for a long time and gives him some words of encouragement.
ROH World Title Ladder Match
Mark Briscoe (c) vs. Chris Jericho
Mark Briscoe & Chris Jericho start brawling a bit before Briscoe sets up a table places Jericho on top of it and climbs the tall ladder before he can do anything, Bryan Keith runs out and climbs the ladder also.
Rocky Romero runs out with a kendo stick and chases Keith away.
Briscoe jumps off the top of the ladder and hits Froggy Bow through Jericho and the table followed by Jay Driller.
Briscoe climbs the ladder again but Big Bill runs out and grabs Briscoe, chokeslamming him through 2 tables set up on the outside.
Bill puts Jericho on his shoulders and climbs up the ladder as Jericho grabs the ROH World Title
Winner & New ROH World Champion: Chris Jericho (NEW CHAMPION!!!)
-After the match Tomohiro Ishii comes out with Rocky Romero and stares down Jericho from the ramp.
-We see a video package of Kris Statlander training in the gym as she gets ready for her upcoming match with Kamille.
-Adam Cole comes to the ring but before he can say anything he gets interrupted by the rest of Undisputed Kingdom as Roderick Strong talks about how MJF used Cole and didn’t even check in on him when he was injured but they did. Mike Bennett says they started this together and they will finish this together. Matt Taven says this was never about MJF but about them and when they think about some of their favorite moments of their life, it’s when they were all together. Strong says he is so proud of Cole for coming back from his injury and finishing what they started, taking out MJF together and as his best friend, he needs Cole to know that he wants MJF first. Cole says he is right and maybe they should finish it tonight and call out MJF to the ring. We cut to MJF on the tron as he is getting a massage from a woman. MJF says that greed has blinded Cole and he will never get his hands on him unlike Natalia over here. MJF makes a proposition that whoever gets to 3 wins first will get to face him but he won’t show his face until Full Gear. Undisputed Kingdom all embrace to end the segment as Kyle O’Reilly is seen looking on from the back.
-Renee Paquette is in the back with Jamie Hayter who says she’s listened to everything that Penelope Ford has said and it’s all BS as she slept on floors and could name so many reasons why she worked for this and wasn’t handed anything. She says she’s here looking for a fight and Ford is nowhere to be found and will make her the victim of her return, 2 weeks from tonight on Dynamite.
Trios Match
House Of Black (Malakai Black, Buddy Matthews & Brody King) vs. Pirata De La Muerte, Jaden Monroe & Kevin Koa
House Of Black starts triple teaming on everyone before they hit a triple team cannonball/kick combo followed by a powerbomb on Jaden Monroe follow by a Curb Stomp from Buddy Matthews to get the win.
Winners: House Of Black
-After the match Matthews gets on the mic and says now that he’s clear, he wants Adam Cole next week.
-Renee Paquette is in the back with Undisputed Kingdom and wants a reaction from Cole. Cole gets in Matthews’s face and asks if he has some sort of problem with him and asks him what his deal is. Matthews says it’s to prove one point and that is that Cole is fragile.
Queen Aminata vs. Kamille
Queen Aminata kicks Kamille up against the ropes getting a two count.
They go back & forth before Kamille hits a Torture Rack Bomb for two.
Kamille hits Road To Damascus to get the win.
Winner: Kamille
-After the match Kris Statlander comes and gets in Kamille’s face before Mercedes Mone gets in between them and laughs at Statlander’s body compared to Kamille’s. Mone goes to attack Statlander but it does nothing as Statlander goes after both of them. As Mone’ holds Statlander’s leg, Kamille grabs her and hits her with Road To Damascus.
-We go back to the roster in the parking lot as a car approaches but it ends up being The Patriarchy as Christian Cage says he’s the next AEW World Champion and nobody can take his contract. Christian spots Kip Sabian and chases him away.
-They end up heading into the ring as Sabian says he wants to explain himself. We cut to Hook who tells Renee he saw the security footage of who attacked his dad and the scumbag is in the ring now. Hook enters the ring and takes out Nick Wayne but as he corners Christian, Sabian hits Hook with a low blow. Christian tells Sabian he knows why he has been doing what he’s been doing the last couple of weeks but said he’ll deal with him later. Wayne takes out Hook with Wayne’s World with some help from Christian before Christian hits Hook with Killswitch on top of his contract case. Christian calls Hook Tyler and tells him that it’s not what it seems. The Patriarchy leaves with Kip Sabian by their side.
Trios Match
The Elite (AEW World Tag Team Champions Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson & TNT Champion Jack Perry) vs. Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) & Daniel Garica
The Elite start triple teaming on Isiah Kassidy as they hit him with a springboard powerbomb but Marq Quen is there to break it up.
Daniel Garcia joins back up and takes out Perry with a boot over the barricade.
Private Party escapes out of a TK Driver before Kassidy rolls up Matthew to get the victory.
Winners: Private Party & Daniel Garica
-After the match Kassidy gets on the mic and says they proved here tonight that they can beat Young Bucks and ask for a rematch for the AEW World Tag Team Titles. Young Bucks start leaving so Kassidy makes an offer that they can’t turn down and that is if they lose the match and don’t win the titles, they have to split up. Quen is surprised and starts questioning Kassidy but Young Bucks agree so Kassidy says the match is next week.
-We cut back outside as Marina Shafir gets out of the truck just for Wheeler Yuta & Claudio Castagnoli to show up in the ring with chairs to take out Garcia & Private Party. Jon Moxley shows up all in black, drags Chuck Taylor into the ring, and wraps a chair over his neck before Castagnoli stomps on him. Orange Cassidy and the rest of the AEW roster run in just a couple of seconds too late as Blackpool Combat Club runs away through the crowd. The Elite are on top of the ramp and question what they should do, as Cassidy is staring down in anger at what just happened to Taylor.
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