AEW aired Dynamite live from Buffalo New York & it’s the go home episode before Forbidden Door.
Kicking off this week’s Dynamite with MJF & before he can say anything he gets interrupted by Daniel Garcia & MJF says he’s glad these people love Garcia but tells him to tread lightly. Garcia starts by thanking MJF for saving him next week and says that since it’s Buffalo, everything here is his business. Garcia points to his family in the front row and says MJF will probably say something bad about this city or his family but Garcia is here to do something that nobody in the back has done to MJF before and that is say nice things.
MJF tells him to go on as Garcia says he was watching MJF every single week as the longest reigning AEW World Champion of all time making history. They had a conversation where MJF saw Garcia as more than being a lackey and a background character but as the same as himself a pillar of AEW. MJF told Tony Khan if he had enough wins he’d challenge for the AEW World Title and when he did it was the most embarrassing moment of his whole life. That match motivated Garcia to go on the best run of his career and now he’s somebody that these people can respect and believe in. Garcia doesn’t want to settle to be the pillar but to be the backbone and the future that AEW is built on, and for that, he wants to thank MJF. Garcia tells MJF after all that if MJF talks shit back he will look 2 faced and have Buffalo go against him.
MJF says he didn’t come out here to talk trash to these fine people in Buffalo but the reasons are to shamelessly shill Forbidden Door where he is challenging someone who looks like a poorly drawn comic book character in Hechicero before promoting his return to Collision on July 6th. His 2nd reason was to ask Garcia to come out as he had a question for him but before that he wanted to say thank you and shake Garcia’s hand. MJF says everybody else was jealous but says none of them were talented enough to take his spot but he knows one guy who’s getting closer and closer as he’s looking at Garcia. MJF says he gave Garcia the shot because he earned it and he reminds him of himself as two young very talented guys from New York. MJF says with all due respect he whipped Garcia’s ass without breaking a sweat however since then Garcia has grown exponentially. MJF says maybe it’s time Garcia got one more shot at the king but not just any shot, and proposes MJF vs. Daniel Garcia at Wembley Stadium for All In. Garcia starts saying that it is huge before he gets interrupted by International Champion Will Ospreay.
Ospreay says he appreciates Daniel Garcia and loves how he’s been racking up win after win to get a title shot for the International Title and says Garcia has lasted longer than he has in bed before apologizing to his girlfriend. Ospreay says next week Garcia has the title shot but he sweetens the deal by not only putting up the International Title but the AEW World Title and putting out his hand which Garcia shakes and agrees. MJF looks upset in the corner & MJF says that’s a big opportunity for Garcia and says he needs to focus on that and leaves.
We cut to AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland & Prince Nana in the back as Strickland is asking why Ospreay is offering title opportunities before the match and he doesn’t get him for putting the cart before the horse. Strickland says Ospreay better have his head on straight for tonight’s match.
Trios Match
Los Ingobernables De Japon (Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Titan) vs. Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta & Jon Moxley)
Shingo Takagi & Claudio Castagnoli starts the match by running the ropes and testing each other’s power before going into a forearm exchange followed by uppercuts from Castagnoli.
They both tag out to Wheeler Yuta & Hiromu Takahashi with Takahashi getting the upper hand before Los Ingobernables De Japon start triple teaming on Yuta in the corner.
Titan sends Yuta to the outside with a dropkick before hitting a tope suicida head first sending him back inside for a two count. Castagnoli enters and outpowers Titan before we go to picture in picture.
After the break Shingo fights off both Castagnoli & Jon Moxley before giving Yuta a brainbuster.
Moxley & Takagi go at it until Takagi knocks Moxley down with a clothesline.
Yuta & Takahashi go at it next with Yuta bouncing off the ropes and hitting a German suplex but Takahashi gets right back up and hits a Death Valley Driver for two.
Takahashi puts Yuta in a Dragon Sleeper but Moxley breaks it up with a chair shot as the match ends by disqualification.
Winners By DQ: Los Ingobernables De Japon
After the match they continue to brawl as Tetsuya Naito’s music hits as he takes his sweet time coming out and undressing so Moxley just meets him up the ramp as they start brawling to the back. Takagi keeps attacking Yuta in the middle of the ring with elbows as Bryan Danielson leaves the announce table and enters the ring as Takagi backs off.
Quarter Final Match Of The 2024 Owen Hart Cup
Rey Fenix vs. Trios Champion Jay White
Jay White catches Rey Fenix off the ropes but he comes right back with headscissors.
Fenix dives off the top rope and hits an arm drag sending White to the outside where he hits him with a tope.
They battle on the outside for a bit before White trips up Fenix as he was trying to jump up on the apron.
White stays in control as we go to picture in picture.
After the break White toying with Fenix who comes right back with chops.
Fenix hits a Frog Splash but only gets a two followed by a hurricanrana for another two.
White hits a DDT followed by a brainbuster for two of his own.
White stays on top of Fenix by hitting a Uranage before setting up for Blade Runner but Fenix turns it into a roll up for two.
They counter each other back and forth before White finally hits Blade Runner to get the win.
Winner: Trios Champion Jay White (9:20)
Rate: 6
After the match Bang Bang Gang come out with all their Trios Titles to celebrate as they get interrupted by The Patriarchy. White & Christian Cage get into each other’s faces before The Patriarchy back off.
We go to AEW World Tag Team Champions Young Bucks in the back & they address The Acclaimed for taking advantage of them last week by taking their titles and using them to win the match. They say they are still the AEW World Tag Team Champions, Kazuchika Okada is still the Continental Champion and Jack Perry will become TNT Champion after Forbidden Door. They talk about The Elite entering their own Wild Card in the Owen Hart Cup Tournament next week and win the AEW World Title as well and take over the world.
Max Caster gets on the mic and says that last week they fought the Young Cucks and the result surprised nobody because they pinned the tag team champions and earned themselves a title shot. They continue to call them cucks and say they proved that they can’t run the TV production, the company right or from a fight because The Acclaimed are getting their titles back. Anthony Bowens gets on the mic and says all they have to do is beat them 1 more time and says Young Bucks will have no excuses next time they come face 2 face and they have been discussing when to get their title shot.
They go to do their catchphrase but get cut off by Okada who comes out with Young Bucks. Okada says Scissor me, bitch before Matthew Jackson takes the mic from him. He gets booed so Nicholas Jackson says Okada & Young Bucks challenge The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn for Forbidden Door. Gunn says he can’t hear them over the boos but says he knows people in high places and knows a president as we see Hiroshi Tanahashi on the screen which says The Scissor Ace is coming to Forbidden Door.
Renee Paquette is in the back with The Conglomeration & Mark Briscoe starts talking about adding the TNT Title to his other shoulder before talking about if there’ll be any Zack Sabre Jr left for Orange Cassidy after he’s done with Kyle O’Reilly tonight. O’Reilly takes over and does his best Briscoe impersonation before Briscoe takes the reigns back and talks about fish & chips and calls ZSJ Peppa Pig.
Trios Match
Women’s Champion Toni Storm, Mina Shirakawa & Mariah May vs. The Outcasts (Harley Cameron & Saraya) & Anna Jay
Mina Shirakawa & Anna Jay start the match as Mina showboats a bit before kicking Jay out from the corner and teases to tag out to Toni Storm, before tagging Mariah May instead.
Harley Cameron tags in and starts working on May with elbows but she comes back with a spinning sidewalk slam before being conflicted on who to tag out to first.
Shirakawa & Storm both say she’s mine and try to tag each other in as Saraya & Jay attack them off the aprons as we go to picture in picture.
After the break Storm tags in and goes after The Outcasts before taking out Saraya with a German suplex followed by a hip attack in the corner.
Shirakawa tags herself in as Cameron tags in with a backstabber but May is there to break up the count.
Both teams run in now and go at it before Shirakawa hits a spinning backfist on Cameron followed by Mina Driver for the win.
Winners: Women’s Champion Toni Storm, Mina Shirakawa & Mariah May
After the match May grabs champagne and hands them to Storm & Shirakawa & they toast and drink together. Storm & May start dancing and Shirakawa grabs a bottle of champagne to attack Storm with but she ducks and Shirakawa knocks out May instead. They get into each other’s faces before officials keep them apart and tell them to save it for Sunday.
We see a video promoting the Winner Takes All Match.
We cut to TBS Champion Mercedes Mercedes in the back & says she flew all the way to Mexico to watch Vaquer’s NJPW Strong Women’s Title match but asks where Vaquer is tonight. Mercedes says she heard Vaquer has a match on Collision right here in Buffalo so she will sit ringside for that match and she will become 2 Belts Mone after Sunday.
Big Bill mentions how they were challenged but now don’t have their 3rd man available in Bryan Keith but in the words of Jericho about one door closing another forbidden door opens. Jericho gets on the mic and says he is in AEW for the young guys to help their careers and they have found another partner.
Jericho says they have a video from him that they haven’t watched yet as they want to watch it together with their branches before cutting to it. We see Minoru Suzuki on the screen who says he understands Jericho wants him as a partner but Suzuki says he doesn’t want to be Jericho’s partner but wants to wrestle him 1 on 1. Suzuki continues that he wants nothing to do with The Learning Tree and tells Jericho to put his FTW Title on the line and fight him. Keith starts yelling about how Jericho isn’t a chicken as Samoa Joe, Hook & Katsuyori Shibata make their way to the ring. Joe says they went back and watched every Learning Tree segment to get to knock them better as we cut to Shibata’s phone that says Oh brother, this guy sucks. They start brawling as The Learning Tree gets chased out of the ring.
Kyle O’Reilly vs. Zack Sabre Jr
Kyle O’Reilly & Zack Sabre Jr quickly try and take each other down before coming to a standstill.
O’Reilly & ZSJ work on trying to take each other down on the mat before ZSJ continues to work on O’Reilly’s limbs as we go to picture in picture.
After the break O’Reilly is kicking away at ZSJ knocking him down.
They start going back and forth on the ropes before O’Reilly suplexes Sabre right into an armbreaker but he’s able to roll out of it and puts on an ankle lock on O’Reilly but reverses it into one of his own.
They battle hard back & forth until ZSJ runs right into a kick from O’Reilly.
O’Reilly & ZSJ start trading smacks before ZSJ traps on the armbreaker as O’Reilly taps out.
Winner By Submission: Zack Sabre Jr (Recommend)
Orange Cassidy enters the ring as do Undisputed Kingdom who pushed Cassidy away so they can check on O’Reilly instead. Cassidy & ZSJ got into each other’s faces before Robbie Eagles & Shane Haste came out to be by ZSJ’s side. Tomohiro Ishii then comes out and stands side by side with Cassidy.
Tag Team Match
International Champion Will Ospreay & AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland vs. Gates Of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona)
Gates Of Agony starts attacking Swerve Strickland & Will Ospreay until it’s just Ospreay & Bishop Kaun in the ring.
Strickland & Ospreay try to take out Gates Of Agony but end up facing off with each other as Toa Liona takes them both out.
Gates Of Agony continue to double team on Strickland as we go to picture in picture.
After the break Gates Of Agony continues to double team on Strickland before he is finally able to fight them off and make the hot tag to Ospreay.
Ospreay fights them both off before hitting a standing Shooting Star Press on Kaun for a two.
He goes to the top rope but gets stopped by Liona as Kaun runs up and hits an avalanche Jackhammer then a cover but Strickland is there to break up the count for.
Strickland knocks Liona to the outside where he takes him out with Swerve Stomp as Ospreay teases the Tiger Driver 91 on Kaun but Kaun breaks out of it. Ospreay knocks Swerve off the apron by accident.
Strickland & Ospreay finally get on the same page and double team on Liona as Ospreay hits an OsCutter just for Liona to kick out.
Strickland holds down Kaun and snaps his arm as Ospreay takes out Liona with Hidden Blade to get the win.
Winners: International Champion Will Ospreay & AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland
Ospreay grabs the AEW World Title again but this time Strickland takes Ospreay out with House Call then holds the AEW World Title to close out Dynamite.
Remanding Quarter Final Matches
Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Takagi (Forbidden Door June 30th)
Jeff Jarrett vs. TBD (Beach Break July 3rd)
Women’s
Deonna Purrazzo vs. Hikaru Shida (Collision June 29th)
Mariah May vs. Saraya (TBD)
Friday’s Rampage
2 On 1 Handicap Match
The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd & Truth Mangum) vs. Orange Cassidy
Tag Team Match
The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean) vs. Roderick Strong & Gabe Kidd
TNT Title Qualifying Match
El Phantasmo vs. AR Fox
Shingo Takagi vs. Dalton Castle
Queen Aminata vs. Skye Blue
Saturday’s Collision
Serena Deeb vs. Kelly Madan
Tag Team Match
TMDK (Robbie Eagles & Shane Haste) vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Orange Cassidy
Stephanie Vaquer vs. Lady Frost
Hechicero vs. Kevin Blackwood
Daniel Garica vs. The Butcher
Quarter Final Match Of The 2024 Women’s Owen Hart Cup
Deonna Purrazzo vs. Hikaru Shida
Trios Match
Konosuke Takeshita, El Phantasmo & Jack Perry vs. Mark Briscoe, Dante Martin & Lio Rush
Updated Forbidden Door Card (June 30th) (Spoilers)
AEW World Title Match
Swerve Strickland (c) vs. International Champion Will Ospreay
TNT Title Fatal 6 Way Ladder Match
Konosuke Takeshita vs. Mark Briscoe vs. Jack Perry vs. Dante Martin vs. Lio Rush vs. El Phantasmo
Winner Takes All Match
Stephanie Vaquer (Strong Women’s) vs. Mercedes Mone (TBS)
Women’s Title Match
Toni Storm (c) vs. Mina Shirakawa
Zack Sabre Jr vs. Orange Cassidy
IWGP World Heavyweight Title Match
Jon Moxley (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito
Quarter Final Match Of The 2024 Owen Hart Cup
Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Takagi
MJF vs. Hechicero
Trios Match
The Elite (AEW World Tag Team Champions Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson & Continental Champion Kazuchika Okada) vs. NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi & The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster)
Tag Team Match
Willow Nightingale & Tam Nakano vs. Kris Statlander & Momo Watanabe (Pre Show)
Beach Break Card (July 3rd)
Quarter Final Match Of The 2024 Owen Hart Cup
Jeff Jarrett vs. TBD
Semi Final Match Of The 2024 Owen Hart Cup
PAC vs. Bryan Danielson or Shingo Takagi
Semi Final Match Of The 2024 Women’s Owen Hart Cup
Willow Nightingale vs. Kris Statlander
International Title Match
Will Ospreay (c) vs. Daniel Garica
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