Posted on 7/02/126 by Bob Magee

AEW Dynamite was LIVE on TBS and HBO Max at Viejas Arena in
San Diego, California! With so much to handle coming off AEW
x NJPW Forbidden Door, there was no time to waste,
especially with the AEW World Title and vacant TBS
Championship on the line in San Diego!

AEW World Champion MJF survived everything Mark Briscoe
could throw at him, including a Jay Driller, and in the end,
MJF retained his AEW World Title. When MJF tried to do more
damage after the match, Kenny Omega made the save and
challenged MJF to face him later tonight! MJF said no, but
he was willing to face Omega next week if Omega agreed that
if he lost, he could never be AEW World Champion again. By
the end of the night, Omega accepted and brawled with MJF
before they meet next week at Beach Break!

For the first time in AEW, we saw a Survival of the Fittest
match with six women battling to win the vacant TBS Title.
In the end, it came down to Kris Statlander and Hikaru
Shida, but Persephone, who Statlander eliminated just
minutes earlier, nailed Statlander with the TBS Title to
knock her out! Shida quickly put on a submission and won by
referee’s stoppage to become the NEW TBS Champion!

Plus, Will Ospreay and Jon Moxley beat The Swirl, and after
offering Ospreay a spot in the Death Riders following
Forbidden Door, it appears as if Ospreay accepted! And
Andrade El Ídolo made it clear he’s out of the Don Callis
Family and wants the AEW World Title, only to be attacked by
the Callis Family! 

All that and so much more went down on Dynamite tonight from
San Diego!

Will Ospreay, Jon Moxley, Kenny Omega and MJF Have Words
After Forbidden Door

Renee Paquette caught up with Will Ospreay and Alex Windsor
after Forbidden Door and his win in the Owen Hart Foundation
Men’s Tournament. Before Ospreay could explain much about
the feeling of winning other than a weight being lifted off
his shoulders, they were interrupted by Jon Moxley. Ospreay
wanted to catch up with him, so Paquette exited, and Windsor
did as well, as she didn’t seem interested in hearing what
Moxley had to say. Moxley gave Ospreay an ice pack and said
it was hard to come down from all of that. He asked if
Ospreay was okay, and Ospreay said it was and thanked Moxley
for being out there, but he had something he wanted to ask
Moxley: “A few weeks ago, you said you started to see ‘it”
with me. What do you mean by that?”

Moxley paused, “Well, if I could explain that in words, I’d
do that for everybody. He who defines himself can never know
who he really is. Now, you wanna be the real thing? You
gotta live it. Look, man. This place, All Elite Wrestling,
could be something great. This is the greatest sport in the
world. But this business has always been full of carnies and
liars and backstabbers. Those that wear their insecurities
on their sleeves. It’s like a bucket of crabs, and they all
pull each other down. It’s up to us to protect this place,
to preserve this craft. It’s not about this Hart Title> stuff. Will, be of service. Look, we took a vote
on it.”

And Moxley pulled out a Death Riders patch. “I don’t give
these away to just anybody. You wanna wear this? You can
ride with us. You can ride with me. Anywhere you wanna go.
I’m proud of ya.” 

Moxley gave Ospreay the patch and walked away. As Ospreay
walked down the hallway and stared at the patch, Kenny Omega
was standing there and said, “Jeez, look at you. You’re a
bloody mess. Nice patch. What you did today, Will, was
fantastic. That was next level shit. You have no idea how
proud I am of you. You’re the Owen Hart Cup winner. 2026
Main Event of Wembley…”

Ospreay cut him off, “Ken, I can’t tell you how much I
appreciate you being here right now, but you’re not my dad
and this situation, I can see you looking at this Death Riders patch> and I get it.”

Omega said he’s just looking out for Ospreay, but Ospreay
said he understands. “But just because you’ve given up on
yourself doesn’t mean I’ve given up on myself.”

Omega questioned Ospreay’s statement and asked who’s given
up? AEW World Champion MJF came out of a different locker
room and said he didn’t want to interrupt “this lovers’
quarrel, it’s so cute.” Omega said MJF is just so funny, but
in a couple of days, he has to defend the AEW World Title
against Mark Briscoe. 

“And if you survive that, guess who’s gonna be coming to
knock at your door?”

MJF looked at Omega and stepped past him to get in Ospreay’s
face.

“I’ll see you at Wembley, bruv.” And then MJF left, so Omega
continued speaking to Ospreay.

“Look, you’re emotional, you’re beat up. Get some rest, and
I’ll see you on Wednesday. This doesn’t top what we have.
You’ll always be my friend, and I’ll always care. Take care
of yourself.”

Ospreay looked at the Death Riders patch one more time.


AEW World Championship Match: MJF (c) def. Mark Briscoe

After all that newsworthy conversation following Forbidden
Door, it was time to focus back up on our opening contest,
the AEW World Title match that Mark Briscoe earned three
days ago by pinning MJF to beat Team DCMJF in the steel
cage. 

A huge “Let’s Go Briscoe!” chant erupted at the bell. MJF
grabbed a headlock, but when he came off the ropes, Briscoe
flattened him with a huge spinebuster. MJF feigned an issue
with his knee coming out of the corner, but it was just a
ruse to lure Briscoe into a piledriver! That got an early
two-count. MJF ripped off Briscoe’s bandage from Forbidden
Door and bit the wound! MJF dug his nails into Briscoe’s
forehead and backdropped him out of the corner. Briscoe was
pouring blood just as bad, if not worse, than Forbidden
Door. MJF backdropped Briscoe out of the corner again and
continued to pose as Briscoe tried to shake out the cobwebs.
MJF tried a third backdrop, but Briscoe landed on his feet
unbeknownst to MJF, who went to the ropes to celebrate. He
turned around into palm strikes from Briscoe and then a big
kick that sent him to the corner. Briscoe followed with a
clothesline and threw MJF out of the corner with an
exploder. Briscoe hit MJF with a senton roll and went up
top, but MJF crotched him by falling on the top rope. He
tried to bring Briscoe down, but Briscoe bit him in the
forehead and sent him down with a headbutt. Briscoe came
down with a Froggy Bow! MJF kicked out at two!

Briscoe tried to lock MJF up for the Jay Driller, but the
champion whipped Briscoe down to the mat. Briscoe sent MJF
to the outside and cannonballed through the ropes to take
out MJF. Briscoe threw a chair in the ring and followed
after it. He fired up the crowd by clapping the chair and
set it up near the ropes. Briscoe leapt off the chair with a
cannonball over the ropes that clobbered MJF! Briscoe pulled
a table out from under the ring and threw MJF into the steel
steps. Briscoe set up the table and put MJF on it before
climbing to the top rope, but MJF sprang back up and threw
Briscoe down onto the apron! MJF flipped the table over and
put it back under the ring!

MJF continued to pick apart Briscoe and taunt the crowd, but
Briscoe started coming back with strikes, and MJF made the
mistake of spitting in Briscoe’s face! Briscoe unloaded on
MJF and clotheslined him over the top back to the floor.
Briscoe pulled up the protective mat to expose the concrete
and tried a Jay Driller, but MJF backdropped Briscoe onto
the cold concrete floor! MJF picked up Briscoe for a
tombstone on the concrete, but this time Briscoe turned it
around and bodyslammed MJF on the concrete! Briscoe got on
the apron and dropped a Bang Bang Elbow onto MJF’s prone
body on the dangerous concrete slab.

Briscoe brought MJF back in and planted him with a Cutthroat
Driver! 1-2-MJF kicked out! Briscoe is trying to find
another gear, but is clearly fighting to see through all the
blood pouring down his face. Briscoe tried for a Jay Driller
on the apron, but MJF fought it off, so Briscoe headbutted
him to the floor. Briscoe continued to punish MJF around the
ringside area and brought the table back out from under the
ring! Briscoe charged at MJF, but MJF got out of the chair
he was in and sent Briscoe into it with a drop toehold! MJF
put Briscoe in the chair and charged at him, but Briscoe was
ready with a thrust shot to cut MJF off! Briscoe came off
the barricade with a blockbuster onto MJF! He put MJF on the
table and climbed back to the top rope, slipping on his own
blood on the way. Briscoe came down on MJF with the Froggy
Bow, and the table was obliterated! Briscoe threw MJF in and
covered, but MJF managed to get his foot on the rope just in
time!

Briscoe pulled MJF up for a Jay Driller, so MJF pushed away
and put his thumb in Briscoe’s eye. Briscoe stopped MJF’s
combo with a huge clothesline and nailed another Froggy Bow
from the top rope! Briscoe hit MJF with a Jay Driller! 1-2-
MJF KICKED OUT OF THE JAY DRILLER FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!
Briscoe was slow to keep the attack on, but managed to put
MJF on the middle rope and tried for an avalanche Jay
Driller, only for MJF to gouge the eyes and get back to the
mat. MJF sent Briscoe to the apron and wanted the Heat
Seeker, so Briscoe knocked MJF away and leapt over the top
rope for a sunset flip. MJF sat down on it to get a near-
fall, and then Briscoe got one of his own. Briscoe tried
another Jay Driller, but MJF stood up and dropped Briscoe
with an Alabama Slam! MJF moved Briscoe to the ropes and
spiked him with a Heat Seeker to get the three-count and a
successful AEW World Championship defense!


MJF Gives Kenny Omega A High Stakes Ultimatum


MJF celebrated after the match, but that wasn’t enough. He
put on the Dynamite Diamond Ring and smashed it across
Briscoe’s face. MJF forced the medical staff out of the ring
and measured Briscoe for another shot, but Kenny Omega hit
the ring to make the save! MJF bailed up the ramp, and Omega
got a mic. Omega told MJF that he had told him he was coming
and that if he cheated his way past Briscoe, Omega was going
to come knocking. Omega said he could face MJF tonight! 

First, MJF insulted California and said it was bad enough he
had to wrestle “that white-trash hick Mark Briscoe” and then
wondered if Omega really wanted him to wrestle again. Omega
said yes, so MJF said no. MJF said it was laughable that
Omega thought he deserved another shot at the Triple B. MJF
beat him twice and kicked out of “The World Famous One
Winged Angel” like it was nothing. MJF is a fraud, not a
god, so the answer is no.

MJF went to leave and turned around. “Big Hebrew just had a
big idea. I’ll wrestle you next week on one condition.” 

Omega said, “NAME IT!”

MJF continued, “Okay, so you wanna make a deal with the
Devil, alright. This is an exploding offer, Kenneth. If I
don’t have an answer by the end of the night, you will never
get a shot at the Triple B. Kenny Omega vs. MJF in the main
event, next week, Beach Break, if I win, the same thing
happens to you that happened to your old pal, ‘Hangman’ Adam
Page. If I win and you lose, you will never be able to
become AEW World Champion again.”


MJF Addresses Andrade and Runs Into Will Ospreay


Renee Paquette caught up with AEW World Champion MJF and
asked if MJF felt prepared to face Kenny Omega next week if
Omega agrees to MJF’s demands. MJF said he’d get to that
question in a minute, but first, MJF wanted to address
Andrade. He said it wasn’t a good idea for “The Real Latino
Man” to put his hands on “Big Hebrew.” And payback is
coming, but Andrade won’t know when, and it will hit “like a
ton of bricks.” MJF went back to Paquette’s question about
Omega and proceeded to run down all the people he’s
defeated, and it was quite a list of World Champions and
future Hall of Famers. And now Omega wants to face him
again? He’s 0-2 against Big Hebrew. 

“Kenny, the best wrestler in the world ain’t ‘The Best Bout
Machine.’ It damn sure ain’t ‘The Aerial Assassin’ Will
Ospreay, bruv. The best wrestler in the world is Maxwell
Jacob Friedman.”

MJF said none of this matters because Omega won’t agree to
his terms, “Because Kenny Omega is literally gutless.”

Ospreay walked up to MJF and said, “Max, you better be
careful. You’ll end up breaking your neck sucking yourself
off like that. I have to ask one question and one question
only. Why the stipulation? Why?”

“It’s because I’m the champ and you’re not.”

MJF told Ospreay he’d see his “pale ass” at Wembley.


Andrade El Ídolo Attacked by the Don Callis Family


Tony Schiavone introduced Andrade and reviewed the events
that led to Andrade turning on MJF at Death’s Door at
Forbidden Door. Andrade said he’s done with the Don Callis
Family. It’s time to beat that “pendejo” MJF and become the
new AEW World Champion.

“So, I have one question.”

The crowd said it before he could.

“HOW YOU KNOW?”

Jake Doyle, Lance Archer, Brian Cage, TNT Champion “The Jet”
Kevin Knight and Don Callis ran out for an attack on
Andrade. They beat him into the ring, where Brian Cage
finished him off with a Drill Claw! Callis said he has
something important to say! “How you know, cabron? Get this
piece of turncoat garbage out of my sight because Kevin
Knight has a match to win!” Cage threw Andrade out of the
ring and to the floor!


Mercedes Moné Says All In is the Last Piece


“They said I couldn’t do it again, so I did it twice. The
first-ever two-time Owen Hart Cup winner. Another milestone
with my name on it. Another reminder that none of you are on
my level. In every company I walk into, I am the
conversation. Every division I step into, I raise the
standard. And every woman that’s stepped across from me has
learned the same lesson: ‘Dreams don’t win championships. I
do.’ At All In: London, the AEW Women’s World Title is the
last piece of what’s already mine.”


TNT Championship: "The Jet" Kevin Knight (c) def. ROH World
TV Champion "Blackheart" Lio Rush


Knight remained in the ring after the attack on Andrade and
waited for Rush to slither to the ring. Rush had a backpack
and slid it towards Knight at the bell. Knight cautiously
opened the bag and pulled out a black ROH World TV
Championship. Knight came down awkwardly, trying to avoid
Rush’s unorthodox movements, so Rush bit Knight’s knee! Rush
lit up Knight with lightning-quick strikes and chops. Doyle
pulled Knight out of the ring to reset, although Knight
seemed thrown off his game by Rush’s tactics. Knight got on
the apron, but Rush was there with a handspring kick. Rush
galloped around the ring and dove through the ropes to take
out Knight! Callis and Doyle went to check on Knight, but
when Callis turned around, Rush was right in his face!
Callis took off towards the crowd to escape, and the crowd
chanted “LIO!”

Knight tried to turn things around, but his knee remained an
issue throughout the match, as we saw when Knight missed a
springboard and started limping even worse. Knight couldn’t
get his usual height for a clothesline and wound up eating a
big kick from Rush, who followed with a bounce-back stunner
to get a near-fall! Rush locked in a front chancery, but
Doyle pulled Knight to safety to help break the hold. Rush
went up top and dove into the arms of Doyle, but slipped
away and pushed Doyle into the ringpost. That allowed Knight
to spring up on the apron and come down with a vicious
clothesline. Knight threw Rush back in and clobbered him
with a springboard clothesline. Rush countered Knight into a
rollup for a near-fall, but Knight came back with a pop-up
spinebuster! He picked Rush back up and finished him off
with a Crash Landing to get the pinfall victory for the
successful TNT Title defense!

Darby Allin is here! Allin came out to the top of the ramp
with a microphone and said he has Knight’s attention now. So
what is he gonna do with it? Allin wants a TNT Championship
match, and if Knight says no, what happened at Forbidden
Door will keep happening. Knight started this, so how is he
going to finish it?

Knight said he’s tired of dealing with Allin and his stunts.

“If you want a TNT Title match…”

Callis took the mic to cut him off and said he had something
important to say. Callis said Allin is a great champion and
wrestler. Still, with the stunt he pulled three days ago on
Knight, he crossed the line from wrestler to criminal, and
they don’t reward criminal behavior, so Allin will never get
a match with Knight as long as Callis has something to say
about it.

Allin just grinned and nodded his head. “You dug your grave,
Kevin. If that’s what you wanna do, you dug your grave.”

Allin left while Callis continued to berate Allin from the
ring. While this was all going on, Knight’s former partner,
“Speedball” Mike Bailey, was watching from the crowd.


Jericho and Tommaso Ciampa Brawl Before Beach Break!


We went back to Collision, where Jericho beat JD Drake and
put him in a Walls of Jericho while Tony Schiavone said he
was better than Ciampa in response to Ciampa doing the same
thing to Schiavone in the weeks prior. Back live on
Dynamite, Renee Paquette asked Ciampa’s reaction to Jericho
using his own line against him. Ciampa called him a bully,
but Ciampa said Paquette is going to right the wrong and
tell everybody at home, “Tommaso Ciampa is better…” Paquette
immediately protested, so Ciampa told her to stop
interrupting and started again. A garbage can flew in and
hit Ciampa in the head! It was Jericho! 

He threw Ciampa into a pile of chairs, and they fought
outside into the loading dock, where some security tried to
intervene. Ciampa kicked them away and kept coming at
Jericho with a shopping cart. He got hold of a power drill
and went after Jericho, but Jericho knocked it away. They
continued to fight near the television trucks, and security
pulled Ciampa away, but Jericho leapt out of the back of a
truck onto Ciampa and security. More security came to pull
the two apart. They’ll meet next week on Dynamite Beach
Break!


Kenny Omega Weighs His Decision with the Young Bucks


Renee Paquette went to The Elite’s locker room to get a word
with Kenny Omega and was let in by Brandon Cutler. She found
Omega talking with the Young Bucks and asked whether Omega
had come to any conclusion. Matt Jackson said they were in
the middle of that discussion. “Two Elite comrades have
fallen to the same stipulation. Let’s just discuss this.”

Nick Jackson stopped his brother, “This is Kenny Omega. The
Cleaner. The best professional wrestler in the history of
this sport that we love. He’s got this. He’s a gambling man,
I’m a gambling man.”

Omega cut them off and apologized to Paquette, saying it was
a tough decision.

“If I can’t challenge ever again, what’s there left for me?
And what’s Max getting out of this? And when I really think
back to my first reign as champion, I needed help. I needed
to go to a dark place to get the job done. And I didn’t like
the man looking back at me in the mirror. This is my chance
to make it right, and if I’m gonna do that, I wanna do that
on my own. So if I take this match, as much as I love you
guys, it’s win or lose alone.” 

The Bucks said no matter what he decides, they’ll have his
back. Paquette left as Omega and the Bucks continued to
discuss. 


Jon Moxley & Will Ospreay def. The Swirl (Lee Johnson &
Blake Christian) w/ Jay Lethal


With The Swirl already in the ring, Ospreay made his
entrance, alone, down the ramp and to the ring. Moxley came
through the crowd with Marina Shafir. Christian chopped
Moxley’s knee to jumpstart the match and knocked Ospreay out
of the ring! Johnson and Christian double-teamed Moxley in
the corner, and he collapsed to the mat. Johnson continued
to stomp Moxley in the corner, and Christian threw Moxley
into the adjacent corner. Moxley fired out of the corner and
unloaded on Christian with punches, but when Moxley sent
Johnson towards Christian, Johnson monkey flipped Christian
into Moxley for a flying clothesline!

The Swirl took too long celebrating, so Christian ate a
boot, and Moxley tagged Ospreay. He quickly took Christian
down and knocked Johnson off the apron. Ospreay sent
Christian to the floor with a hurricanrana, then followed up
with a crossbody onto both Johnson and Christian! He threw
Christian back in to keep the heat on, but The Swirl double-
teamed Moxley and then Ospreay to take control of the match
with some electric offense!

Moxley ate a big boot from Johnson as Christian took Ospreay
down on the apron. The Swirl hit a stomp/Death Valley Driver
combo on Moxley, but only got a two-count. The Swirl got
Moxley in the corner, but he fought out with a boot and back
elbow. Moxley struck and chopped Johnson and Christian until
Lethal tripped him from the outside. Shafir took care of
Lethal with a bodyslam on the floor!

Back in the ring, Johnson lit up Moxley with kicks, but
Moxley threw a desperation lariat that connected! Ospreay
tagged in and quickly unloaded on Christian and Johnson
before hitting a spin kick on both. Ospreay hit a corkscrew
splash on Johnson to get a near-fall. Moxley and Ospreay did
the Death Riders corner attacks on Johnson, but Christian
came off the top at Moxley only for Ospreay to push Mox out
of the way and hit Christian with a cutter on the way down!
Moxley hit a Paradigm Shift on Johnson and Ospreay
immediately followed with the Hidden Blade! What a combo!
That got the three-count! 

Ospreay was wearing the Death Riders patch on his attire!
He’s in!


Christian Cage & Adam Copeland Speak After Forbidden Door


Lexy Nair caught up with Cage and Cope after their
successful AEW World Tag Team Championship defense against
The Dogs. Cage said it was a given and had no doubt they
were going to walk out still AEW World Tag Team Champions,
but what’s the deal with Jay White? Cope said White owed him
a favor and they are even now. Cage said before White sat at
home and collected a paycheck for a year, he had a problem
with him, and he still does. He walked away, and Cope said,
“Goodbye?”


"Switchblade" Jay White Addresses The Dogs


White came out with the entire Bang Bang Gang and the San
Diego crowd chanted, “Welcome back!”

White said it’s been 459 days since he’s last been here.
Before he left, no one could escape the wrath of the Death
Riders. Now, the fans don’t seem to mind them, and the Death
Riders are palling around with the “biggest fraud in the
industry!” “I’m not here to talk about you, Billy.”

White was here to talk about Bang Bang Gang! White said they
are back together just in time because someone let The Dogs
out. He properly asked who let the Dogs out. He wanted to
address Clark Connors, Gabe Kidd, and a man he has known a
long time, David Finlay, going back to when they broke into
Japan together. Finlay’s been able to pick up everything so
quickly because he was born into this industry. If anyone
has a right to say wrestling is in their blood, it’s him.

“But David, it still doesn’t change the fact that you’re
still just a nepo-baby bitch boy!” The San Diego crowd
caught on with that one, but White said to wait until Finlay
is out there to chant that.

Finlay took out White in Japan before he could thank the
fans who raised him, but now they are in AEW in an AEW ring,
and although they’ve only been around for a short time, the
stench of The Dogs’ arrogance has lingered far too long.

“So who better to clear the air, so we can all breathe easy,
than yours truly? ‘Cause simply put, I’m a cut above. I’m
the most elite in this ring. I’m the most high. I’m the
Switchblade. I’m the catalyst of professional wrestling.
Ain’t nobody got what I got. And David, Sunday was just the
beginning. You will breathe with me because this is still MY
era. This is the Switchblade Era. David, Dogs and anyone
else, if you’re not down with that, the Collision Cowboys
and San Diego, we got two words for ya: GUNNS UP!”


Shane Taylor Promotions Challenge Jay White and Bang Bang
Gang for Collision!

Shane Taylor said after 15 months, Bang Bang Gang is back at
full strength, but since they’ve been gone, a new crew has
been running Collision. They challenged White to pick any
three friends and face them on Collision! 


Survival of the Fittest Match for the TBS Championship:
Hikaru Shida def. Kris Statlander, Maika, Harley Cameron,
CMLL World Women’s Champion Persephone and Queen Aminata


Our main event would crown the new TBS Champion, and all six
women would be in the ring at the same time in this
elimination match. All six women went at it at the bell, and
Persephone and Shida were the only two left in the ring as
the others fought on the outside. Shida rolled up Persephone
for a near-fall and threw her into the ropes, but Cameron
caught Persephone. Shida charged, so Persephone moved, and
Shida caught a knee from Cameron and ran into a clothesline
from Persephone. A low bridge sent Shida to the floor. Maika
was in next, but Persephone sent her to Cameron for a kick
to the back. Persephone set up Cameron to hit a Shining
Wizard on Maika. Aminata and Shida came back in, but were
quickly taken to opposite corners by Persephone and Cameron.
After Cameron finished mounted punches on Aminata,
Persephone grabbed her for a crucifix powerbomb and pinned
Cameron to eliminate her!

PERSEPHONE ELIMINATED HARLEY CAMERON

Statlander pushed Persephone, as Cameron is her friend, so
Persephone rolled up Statlander for a near-fall! Statlander
and Maika started working together until they slugged it
out. Shida cracked Statlander with a kendo stick from the
outside, which was legal in this matchup! Shida came in, and
they traded vertical suplexes. Maika knocked Shida to the
mat, but Shida tried to transition to a submission.
Statlander stopped Shida from using her kendo stick again,
but when she got a hold of it, Persephone grabbed the other
side and yanked Statlander from the apron to the floor! 

Back in the ring, Shida moved the referee in front of her to
distract Maika and then rolled up Maika to trap her for a
three-count!

HIKARU SHIDA ELIMINATED HAIKU

Aminata and Shida battled on the top rope until Aminata
chopped Shida back down to the mat. Aminata rolled through a
diving foot stomp attempt, but Shida stopped her with a
knee. Aminata came back with the Queen's Crown headbutt and
absolutely crushed Shida with Off With Her Head! Persephone
rolled up on Aminata out of nowhere!

PERSEPHONE ELIMINATED QUEEN AMINATA

Persephone blocked a boot from Statlander and turned it into
a capture German Suplex for a near-fall. Statlander and
Persephone took each other out with clotheslines, so Shida
ran in for pin attempts on both, but neither stayed down for
three. Statlander was double-teamed by Persephone and Shida,
but broke them apart with a back elbow from the second rope.
She dropped Persephone with a Fisherman’s Driver, but
Persephone kicked out! Persephone escaped Statlander's grip
and tried for a crucifix powerbomb, but Statlander got free
and picked up Persephone for Staturday Night Fever.
Persephone reversed it into a pin attempt, but Statlander
reversed that into a deep cradle to get the three-count on
Persephone! 

KRIS STATLANDER ELIMINATED PERSEPHONE

We were down to Stat and Shida! Shida hit a Falcon Arrow,
but Statlander kicked out just in time! Shida went outside
and grabbed the TBS Title; she tried to hit Statlander with
it, but Stat ducked and booted it out of her hand.
Statlander tried for Staturday Night Fever, so Shida dropped
down into a rollup for a two-count, only for Statlander to
get her own two-count followed by another near-fall for
Shida. Shida got Stat in an ankle lock, and Statlander made
it to the ropes, but there was no break in a match like
this! Persephone cracked Statlander in the head with the TBS
Title! Shida locked Statlander in a submission, but
Statlander was out cold, so the referee called for the
bell! 

HIKARU SHIDA IS THE NEW TBS CHAMPION!


Kenny Omega Accepts MJF’s Demands Before Brawl to End
Dynamite


Omega was waiting to come out, but Will Ospreay stopped him
and tried to get his music cut. He told Omega he wanted him
to win the AEW World Title and he wants to wrestle him at
Wembley Stadium, but is this a good idea? Omega asked
Ospreay if he doesn’t think he can do it. Ospreay said, of
course he believes in Omega, but he doesn’t know if Omega
believes in himself. Omega cut him off and said he’s out of
time. This could be his last shot. 

“Think about it this way. When you broke your neck? What I’m
standing on right now is my death ground. So I’m gonna go
out, I’m gonna go out guns a-blazing. I just hope I have
your support.” 

Ospreay said, “You always have.”

They embraced, and Omega went to the ring.

The crowd chanted for Omega, as he began to speak, noting
that he’s been doing this for nearly 30 years, more than
half his life. There’s no greater passion than stepping
through the ropes and giving the fans everything he has.
Whether it was the 14-year-old boy or the 42-year-old
broken-down man, he’s won titles. He’s broken records.
Records that may never be broken again. A career he could
look back on fondly. But there’s a selfish part of him that
thinks it’s not enough. There’s just enough left in the tank
if Omega can believe. If Will can believe. If the Young
Bucks can believe. If the people can believe, just one more
time…

“ONE MORE TIME!” 

Then Omega knows he can be a champion everyone can be proud
of and go on to face Will Ospreay for the AEW World Title on
the greatest stage at Wembley Stadium to represent All Elite
Wrestling, where the best wrestle! Where he can face Will
Ospreay, the winner of the Owen Hart Cup.

“And all I have to do is put it all on the line against you,
Max. If I fail, I will become just like Cody. I will become
just like Hangman. I will become just another man who can
never challenge for that belt again. And the question is, is
the cost simply too high? And the answer is no. You want me
to put it all on the line, Max? If I lose this time around,
you’ll never see me in another title match again! And boy
wouldn’t that make you happy. Well, Max, there’s one
possibility I don’t think you've even considered. And it’s
that, yes, I am still that person that people call the Best
Bout Machine. I’m still that person that people call The
Cleaner. I’m still to some out there, the God of
Professional Wrestling.”

Omega paused. “And I can’t lie, Max. To have one more chance
to beat the brakes off you while I’m still healthy? Ooooh,
it just gets the blood flowing, don’t it? So Max, am I going
to accept your offer? THE ANSWER IS YES! So next week, Max,
bring the BBB, bring yourself, and get ready to pass over
what has rightfully been mine since the last time we
wrestled, because this time I’m coming prepared, and I don’t
know if you are for what I have in store for you. But until
then, Max, I must bid adieu. So everybody say it with me if
you know the words. Goodbye and goodnight. BANG!”

MJF attacked Omega from behind!

MJF put on the Dynamite Diamond Ring and lined up Omega, but
Omega double-legged MJF and took him down to the mat. A host
of security personnel ran out to separate the two, but they
each escaped multiple times to continue the fight. Security
pulled MJF from the ring, and he went up the ramp, while
Omega remained in the ring. MJF taunted Omega from the aisle
with the AEW World Title as Dynamite came to a close!

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