Forbidden Door is behind us and there’s big plans for AEW as we build towards All In: Wembley! :
- Tornado Tag: Le Sex Gods vs. Sting & Darby Allin
- Owen Hart Foundation Women’s Tournament Quarterfinal Match: Dr. Britt Baker DMD vs. Ruby Soho
- Tomohiro Ishii vs. Jon Moxley
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AEW Dynamite 6/28/23
Live from the FirstOntario Centre in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with Taz, Excalibur, and Tony Schiavone on the call!
Match #1. Jon Moxley w/ Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta vs. Tomohiro Ishii
Here. We. Go. HARD chops to start by both men. Ishii misses an enziguiri and Moxley fires back with hard elbows. Moxley bites Ishii’s face and Ishii responds with a bite of his own. Shoulder block by Moxley. Moxley sends Ishii to the outside as Claudio and Yuta look on. Ishii tries to get back in the ring but Moxley drops him with an elbows and follows up with a suicide dive.
Eddie Kingston’s music hits and he’s charging to the ring! Kingston chases Yuta and Claudio from the ring with a chair. Moxley throws Ishii into the guard rail and back in the ring, as Kingston watches on. Ishii fights back and connects with a superplex off the top. Two count. Back to firing live rounds in the middle of the ring now, and Moxley is bleeding, possibly from the nose. Moxley throws everything he has into a brutal right elbow/ “Idaho Jones” – Taz. Gotch Style Piledriver by Taz. Two count. Hammer and anvil elbows by Moxley as Ishii flips Moxley off, he delivers more. Bulldog Choke by Moxley but Ishii gets to his feet. Back suplex by Ishii. German suplex by Moxley. Ishii winds up on his feet but the King Kong Lariat floors him. One count! Lariat by Ishii! Moxley out at one! Regal Knee by Moxley! Regal Knee by Ishii! One count. Both men connect with a lariat in the center of the ring! Both men are on their knees delivering headbutts to each other. Blood is everywhere now and Moxley ducks under a lariat and hits the Paradigm Shift. Moxley looks for Death Ridger but Ishii counters with a DDT and a huge lariat. Two count! Ace Crusher by Moxley but Ishii bounces back up and hits the sliding lariat for another two count. Brainbuster attempt by Ishii but Moxley gets out and hits Death Rider! Moxley takes a second to cover but only gets a two count! Kingston and Claudio are staring daggers at each other from the outside. Moxley misses the stomp but Ishii hits an enziguiri, but staggers, and Moxley hits the stomp anyway. Death Rider! That’ll do it.
Winner: Jon Moxley
Rating: ****1/4. I love Tomohiro Ishii so damn much. This is the type of fight I love. This is why I love wrestling. Give me more!
Moxley shoulder checks Kingston on the way up the ramp. Kingston yells to Moxley that he didn’t need the BCC anyway.
Renee is in the back with Adam Cole. Here’s MJF. MJF congratulates Adam Cole for getting sick for Forbidden Door, and MJF wishes he thought of that. MJF offers to hang out with Adam Cole, and Cole begrudgingly accepts. This has amazing buddy-cop vibes all over it. MJF gives Adam Cole the new “Better Than You, BayBay” shirt.
Renee is in the back talking to her husband, Jon Moxley, and the rest of the BCC. Eddie Kingston interrupts and Renee screams that she is done, and Eddie better fix this. Great stuff.
Match #2. Orange Cassidy, El Hijo del Vikingo, & Keith Lee vs. Angelo Parker, Matt Menard, & Daniel Garcia
Britt Baker will not be wrestling Ruby Soho tonight, as per she’s sick with whatever Adam Cole had early this week, so that match will take place next week. Double jump tornillo arm drag and a corkscrew tieres by Vikingo to Garcia. Parker and Cassidy are in and it’s pocket hands. Menard accidentally clotheslines Parker and a dropkick by Cassidy sends Menard reeling. Garcia quickly attacks the injured hand of Cassidy but Cassidy reverses into a bow and arrow as Vikingo comes off the top with a double foot stomp. Running shooting star to Garcia by Vikingo gets two. Menard rips Vikingo off the apron and Parker connects with the drive-by. Axe handle off the top by Parker to Vikingo. Suplex and a cover by Parker for two. Garcia in quickly with a back suplex for two. Vikingo in trouble as the JAS corner him and make quick tags. Powerbomb by Menard and some forever clotheslines in the corner. Assisted elbow drop by Menard and Parker gets two. Viking leaps over Menard and tags Keith Lee. Lee clears the ring with forearms and a double crossbody. The JAS now triple-team Lee but Lee delivers a double clothesline with Garica on his back! Double chop by Lee and a running enziguiru by Vikingo, who’s now legal. Vikingo dives to the outside but takes out Keith Lee, who seemingly was supposed to catch him but didn’t, before picking Vikingo up and using him as a weapon. Moonsault off the top rope to the floor by Vikingo as Cassidy looks for the Orange Punch, and misses. Garica looks for DragonTamer after countering Beach Break, but stuffs Cassidy with a piledriver for two. Roll through by Garcia right into the DragonTamer! Superkick to the face by Vikingo, who gets sent to the outside by Parker. Orange Punch to Parker! Menard runs into Keith Lee a bunch but gets caught with the Super Nova and this one is over.
Winners: Keith Lee, Orange Cassidy, & El Hijo del Vikingo
Rating: **. This was fine, albeit insanely random. There were some awkward spots, which I guess is expected because of how random the teams were. Poor JAS.
Jericho is here with Renee & Sammy Guevara. Jericho has no problem getting dirty, and tonight it’s time for the Pain Maker.
Match #3. The Hung Bucks vs. The Dark Order
Nick Jackson and Alex Reynolds start. The crowd is pro-Young Bucks tonight. Both men trade hip tosses and an escalera takes Reynolds over and into his own corner. John Silver gets the tag and demands Hangman make the tag… and he does. Head scissors by Silver but Page escapes and hits a shoulder block, but Silver doesn’t budge. Back elbow to the face by Silver and Hangman makes the tag to Matt. Evil Uno runs into Hangman on the apron and double dropkicks by the Bucks to everyone. Gut buster and neck breaker combo by the Bucks but Evil Uno levels both of them with clotheslines. Bucks take Uno out with a pair of superkicks. Stereo crossbody and corkscrew plancha to the floor by the Bucks. Matt now yells at Hangman to get his head right before making the tag. Hangman tags out to Nick as we go to PIP. Slingshot into an enziguiru by the Bucks to Reynolds, with a double stomp finish right into a backstabber on John Silver. Hangman in now with Reynolds, but Hangman gets beat on and almost refuses to fight back, tagging Matt back in. Matt looks for the buckle bomb into the enziguiri but Reynolds hurricanranas Matt into his own corner and Nick hits him with an enziguiri. Evil Uno is in now and clearing the ring with big boots and clotheslines. Brainbuster to Matt. Referee-assisted neckbreaker to Nick. Piledriver to Nick gets a two count as Hangman breaks it up. Hangman won’t strike Uno so Uno slaps him in the face and finally it’s on. Uno sends a pair of charging Bucks to the floor and eats a crossbody from Uno. Cannonball senton by Uno to Nick on the floor and a flying DDT and double stomp from Reynolds off the apron. High kick. rolling elbow, enziguiri, Stunner, and German suplex combo with a jackknife cover gets a long two count on Page. Pendulum Bomb is blocked and an outside-in facebuster by Nick to Uno, right into a moonsault off the apron to Reynolds connects. Lariat by Hangman to Silver. Hangman looks for he Buckshot, but seems conflicted, as the Bucks tell him to do it. Hangman waits and Silver counters with a hurricanrana roll up for two. Kick combo by Silver but Hangman hits him with the Deadeye. BTE Trigger by the Bucks and the Buckshot ends this one.
Winners: The Hung Bucks
Rating: ***1/4. The match started off kind of slow but really picked up after the commercial break. The story of Hangman being so conflicted was a nice touch.
The BCC hit the ring and put the boots, and chairs, to the Bucks and Hangman. The Dark Order just sit there and watch it all happen! Hangman is getting destroyed with a sledgehammer and Yuta drops Matt through a chair with a brainbuster. Eddie Kingston is here! Claudio with a flying double stomp on Kingston and the beat down is on. Moxley won’t look at what’s being done to Kingston. Takeshita is also here with Callis. Moxley takes the mic and says prepare to be pushed further than possible and challenges The Elite to Blood & Guts at TD Bank Arena in Boston on July 19th!
Adam Cole is waiting for MJF, but here’s Roderick Strong. Cole says he knows MJF is playing him, but he’s playing along. MJF calls Roderick Strong “generic white guy”.
“Jungle Boy” Jack Perry is here. He’s still young, cashing fat checks, and banging the hottest bitch in the entire place. Well, now. Did Perry turn on Hook, or did everyone turn on him? Jungle Hook was special because of Jungle Boy, and Hook was lucky to ever stand next to him in a ring. Perry yells at the crowd to shut up. Perry says Hook is a fraud and he wants the FTW title, even though it means nothing to the company, he knows how much it means to Hook and his family.
Enter Hook.
Perry bails and Hooks chases him literally out of the arena.
Match #4. Ruby Soho vs. Alexia Nicole
Ruby attacks quickly. Lockjaw. Finito.
Winner: Ruby Soho
Rating: NR
Ruby runs down Canada and says she hopes Britt and Cole never have kids, because they’ll be a bunch of weak little bastards. Ruby has picked off Britt’s army of skanks one by one, and will leave Britt with nothing left after next week.
Match #5. Tornado Tag: Sammy Guevara & Chris Jericho vs. Sting & Darby Allin
Shotgun dropkick by Darby to Sammy as Sting and Jericho have a duel with their respective bats. Running coffin splash in the corner to Jericho and a Stinger Splash by Sting. Sammy with a diving cutter off the top to Darby. Jericho quickly attacks Sting from behind as the match finally breaks down. Jericho sends Sting into the guard rail, then Darby, as Sammy brings a ladder into the ring. Body slam by Jericho to Darby on the ramp, and a back suplex on the ring apron. Sammy and Jericho Irish whip Darby into the steel steps as he flips over them and lands back-first on the railing in a brutal spot. Suplex by Sammy to Darby on the floor. Sting has a chair and lays into Jericho as both men brawl through the crowd. Diving cutter from Sammy to Darby off the corner of the guard rail to the floor! Sting fights off Jericho and Sammy as Darby hits a coffin drop off the top rope to the floor, taking out Sammy but landing hard himself. Sting and Darby set up a pair of tables on the outside, as Darby sets up a ladder inside the ring. Sting takes the chair to Sammy and then meets Darby at the top of the ladder and JUMPS OFF HIMSELF. Sting didn’t connect 100% but that’s an insane distance. Suicide dive to Jericho by Darby on the far side of the ring and then a skateboard drop off the top. Jericho sends Darby into the ladder and then uses it as a weapon. Jericho gets Irish whipped face-first into the top of the ladder. Darby looks for the springboard coffin splash but Jericho hits him in the back with the skateboard and follows up with the Judas Effect. Darby flies out of the ring so he can’t be pinned! Sting is here and looks for the Scorpion but Jericho reverses into the Walls of Jericho. Sting fights to the corner and gets the bat and cracks Jericho in the head with it! Stinger Splash in the corner. Make that two, but Jericho catches him with an anti-air Code Breaker that gets two. Sting avoids the Judas Effect and drops Jericho with the Scorpion but only gets two. Jericho looks for another Code Breaker but Sting catches him in the Scorpion Death Lock and Jericho is forced to tap!
Winners: Sting & Darby Allin
Rating: ***. Man, I don’t even know how to rate this one. Just a sloppy, all over the place, complete cluster, in a relatively good way. Sting is slowly morphing into Terry Funk, and that’s a complement. Darby and Sammy are the perfect counterparts for these guys at this point. which is why they all work so well together. Sting vs. Jericho at Wembley?
Final Thoughts: After an unbelievably hot start, this show was kind of all over the place. I understand the issue with Britt Baker caused some rewrites, but the matches were really hit and miss. The main event was a fun cluster, the opener was outstanding, and the middle stuff was there. The thread of the BCC and The Elite kept me intrigued, and the Eddie Kingston/Jon Moxley stuff was great. 7/10.