Posted on 9/25/125 by Bob Magee

We returned to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the Petersen
Events Center for an exciting night of AEW Dynamite four
days after the colossal events of AEW All Out in Toronto!

“Hangman” Adam Page turned back a tough challenge from
Pittsburgh’s own Lee Moriarty to retain the AEW World
Championship and later made the save for The Opps when they
were outnumbered by the Death Riders. In the main event, AEW
Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander defeated Mina
Shirakawa and appeared to be welcomed into the Death Riders
– until she dropped Wheeler Yuta and escaped through the
crowd. 

Plus, Orange Cassidy returned to AEW to rejoin The
Conglomeration in a victory over the Don Callis Family,
Brodido successfully defended the AEW World Tag Team Titles
against GOA, FTR had to deal with Willow Nightingale after
what they did to Beth Copeland, and much more!

Here's everything that happened on AEW Dynamite for
September 24, 2025, including your full results and match
recaps.

“Hangman” Adam Page Addresses Kyle Fletcher, Lee Moriarty

AEW World Champion “Hangman” Adam Page was backstage before
his AEW World Championship Open Challenge later tonight, but
first he gave his All Out challenger, TNT Champion “The
Protostar” Kyle Fletcher a lot of praise for pushing him to
such a level in their match. He wondered where Fletcher
would go from here, but as a fighting AEW World Champion, he
was set to face ROH World Pure Champion Lee Moriarty
tonight. He told Moriarty to bring his best.

AEW World Tag Team Championship Match: Brodido (ROH World
Champion Bandido and Brody King) (c) def. GOA (Bishop Kaun
and Toa Liona)

It looked like we’d be starting with the two big men, Brody
King and Toa Liona, until Bandido begged for the tag. The
fearless Bandido unsuccessfully tried to chop Liona down to
size, but it was Liona who powered Bandido down before
bringing in Kaun to do the same. GOA went for an early
double team, although unsuccessful, as Bandido averted
danger and made the tag to his partner! 

King chopped both opponents, sending Liona to the apron,
while he focused on Kaun. After setting Kaun up on the top
turnbuckle, King was poised for a superplex, but had his
legs taken out, which caught him in the tree of woe. Liona
took advantage with a big shoulder to the midsection, which
opened the door to some additional tandem offense, although
it was only enough for a two count.

GOA stayed in control for the next few minutes with quick
tags and more combo offense, even getting in a cheap shot on
Bandido to knock him off the apron. Immediately after, King
was able to escape from GOA to trap them in their corner,
yet there was no one to tag in his corner with Bandido still
on the floor. King took that as a sign to return to the
opposite corner with a cannonball to the downed Liona. That
gave King the chance to finally tag Bandido.

He came flying out of his corner, bouncing back and forth
between Liona and Kaun with lightning fast offense. Liona
missed a big punch combination in the corner with Bandido
dancing away from each swing with delight, before putting
Liona down with a double boot. Kaun tried to cut Bandido
off, but he was press slammed right into his partner. 

Bandido tried a 21 Plex on the much larger Liona to no
avail, leaving him open to more double team offense from
GOA. King made the save by grabbing both Liona and Kaun from
the top rope on each of his shoulders before taking them to
the mat in a ridiculous display of power. 

As King woofed for the dogs, he went for a splash on the
outside, but Liona caught him and sent him into the
timekeeper’s area. With referee Aubrey Edwards distracted by
the chaos on the outside, Ricochet came off commentary and
entered the ring with a chair to attack Bandido. Edwards saw
it in time and ejected him from the match, just as Bandido
nearly trapped Kaun in a pinning predicament for the win.

GOA put Bandido down with a double chokeslam, and when it
looked like he was finished, King made the save in the nick
of time! King sent Liona to the outside and followed with a
big dive while Bandido hit the 21 Plex on Kaun for the
successful AEW Tag Team Championship defense!

Who is The Conglomeration’s Mystery Partner?

Backstage, Alicia Atout was with Mark Briscoe, Hologram,
Willow Nightingale, Kyle O’Reilly, and Roderick Strong ahead
of tonight’s Trios Match against The Don Callis Family.
Briscoe was fired up to be in Pittsburgh and to be tagging
alongside Hologram, but Atout tried to find out who their
mystery partner was. 

Briscoe said the word of the day was mystery, so he couldn’t
give anything away. However, he woke up this morning and
decided to put on sunglasses because the future was so
bright. And with that Briscoe and Hologram put on familiar
sunglasses and exited with the rest after firing up the
crowd one more time. Before he left, O’Reilly said, “Thank
you, Jane. Where is my mind? Alicia.”

“CLON ACTIVATED…soon” flashed across the screen.

New AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander is Ready

Renee Paquette was with AEW Women’s World Champion Kris
Statlander and Harley Cameron to get a few words from the
new champion. After some loud, positive affirmations from
Cameron, Statlander said she’s a fighting champion and even
though she loves her opponent tonight, Mina Shirakawa,
someone must be her first. Before letting them go, Paquette
asked Statlander about her association with the Death
Riders. 

Statlander had a simple, but confident response, echoing
recent comments from Jon Moxley: “Things move really fast
when you make decisions.” She stared a hole through Paquette
as Cameron continued her antics.

AEW World Championship Open Challenge: “Hangman” Adam Page
(c) def. ROH World Pure Champion Lee Moriarty

The AEW World Champion “Hangman” Adam Page made his way to
the ring first, as we took a deeper look at one of
Pittsburgh’s best, Lee Moriarty.

As expected, Moriarty tried to grind down Page early with
some chain wrestling, although Page was prepared and had no
problem exchanging with Page until Moriarty threw a back
elbow in the corner. That seemed to make Page change his
approach, which went from respectful to intense.

With the pleasantries over, Page hit a big body slam and
when Moriarty tried to bounce right back, Page immediately
dropped him with a big boot. Unable to hide his pain, Page
continued to grab at his neck and traps, which were covered
in Kinesio tape from the beating he took at the hands of
Fletcher in Toronto.

Moriarty took control for a short time when he sent Page
headfirst into the second turnbuckle. He nearly won the
match with a springboard clothesline from the apron, as his
hometown showed him love despite the kick out.

Page bounced back with a fallaway slam and a big boot,
although Moriarty was able to hang in with his amazing
submission and reversal ability. He turned a Dead Eye into a
sprawling Octopus submission on a standing Hangman before
transitioning into a crossface. Page rolled through it,
dropped Moriarty with a big clothesline and a Dead Eye for
the successful AEW Championship defense after a great effort
from the challenger. 

Adam Copeland Goes Home?

After All Out on Saturday, Renee Paquette tried to get an
update from Adam Copeland on his wife, Beth Copeland, after
FTR hit her with a spike piledriver. He politely said he
couldn’t speak and was joined by Christian Cage in the
locker room. Clearly distraught with what happened to Beth,
Adam said he couldn’t do this anymore and now his family was
involved, so he had to go, and he might not come back. Cage
understood: “I don’t have a family anymore; go take care of
yours.”

“No, you do have family.” Copeland made that assurance to
Cage and shook his hand before leaving.

FTR and Big Stoke Get Interrupted by Willow Nightingale!

With Tony Schiavone in the ring, he introduced Dax Harwood
and Cash Wheeler along with Big Stoke after running down
their heinous actions toward Beth Copeland at All Out.

Once they made it to the ring, Schiavone told them what they
did was the worst thing he’d ever seen in an AEW ring.
Wheeler took the mic and said he needed to do this himself.
He acknowledged the boos and hatred from the crowd and said
he deserved it for what happened but quickly pivoted to
blaming Adam for bringing his childhood best friend,
Christian Cage, into all this, along with his wife. 

Big Stoke forgave Beth for the spear she hit him with on
Saturday, even though he was allegedly just going up the
ramp to greet her. “They say that chivalry is dead, but I
allowed, I allowed that woman to spear me!” He said the
worst thing about it is that she doesn’t even work here!

Harwood wouldn’t apologize for dropping Adam on his neck or
Cage on his brain, but he wanted to address Beth. Harwood
said he would never purposely hurt her, and he was trying to
intervene when she went after his best friend, Cash. “You
punched me in my broken nose. You watered my eyes. You
punched me in my nose, you watered my eyes, Beth. And when
you attacked me, I thought it was your husband. So, I picked
you up, and as Cash leapt off to your safety, I dropped you
on your head by accident.”

After another insult by Harwood about Beth being a woman, he
was interrupted by the music of Willow Nightingale.
Nightingale called out FTR’s whining but said she’s here to
talk about inspiration. She said women like Beth are why she
was able to do all the things she’s done, including coming
back from a broken neck to become All Elite! 

“Women like Beth are the reason women like me don’t take
sh*t from guys like you.”

That line bothered Harwood enough that he had to walk away,
as Pittsburgh cheered on Willow. She gave them another
chance to apologize or said they could leave the ring.

Big Stoke decided to address his former business associate,
claiming it was past 9 p.m., so it had to be past Willow’s
bedtime, unless she had a problem. And with that, she
slapped him. Before anything else could happen, JetSpeed
came out to even the odds. As FTR and Stoke went to leave,
they turned back to attack, but “Speedball” Mike Bailey and
“The Jet” Kevin Knight sent them from the ring with FTR
grabbing Stoke to save him from further harm.

MJF Promises to Return Doing It His Way

We saw comments from MJF after All Out, where he lost to
Mark Briscoe in a Tables N’ Tacks Match. He was beside
himself because he was so angry. He reminded us how he was
the biggest star in wrestling, and he was everywhere. Then,
Adam Cole came into his life, and it might sound sappy, but
he broke his heart. Then, he lost the AEW World
Championship. 

“I lost everything.”

He came back after rehabbing and knows he accomplished more
in that time frame than anyone could dream of. “But
something’s missing. I’m not MJF. I’m a caricature. I’m
playing MJF. Since I lost my title, I’ve made so many
mistakes just to force myself to snap out of it. And all the
while created doubt after doubt after doubt. See these tacks
all over my body? They aren’t tacks, they’re doubts.”

He said he can’t come back until he can look in the mirror
and not see a fraud.

“Let’s face it, folks. Ospreay, Swerve, Hangman. You can
[expletive] yourself all you want, but they were in my dust!
And now I’m in theirs.”

MJF promised he won’t come back until he’s the most
dangerous he’s ever been.

He grabbed a tack, put it in his mouth, and said “Doubt?
There were times I’m sure you knew, I bit off more than I
could check. But when there was doubt? I ate it up and I
spit it out.”

After spitting out the tack, MJF promised to return doing
things his way.

The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy, Mark Briscoe and
Hologram) def. The Don Callis Family (AEW Unified Champion
Kazuchika Okada, Konosuke Takeshita and Hechicero)

With The Don Callis Family by his side, Don Callis had
something to say before the next match. He reminded everyone
of his world-class painting skills and showed off some of
his past work. Then, he asked for his latest masterpiece to
be rolled out, which was a golden frame covered in a red
sheet that was perfectly centered at the top of the entrance
ramp.

“Unveil it!”

And the sheet dropped to reveal…ORANGE CASSIDY!

As “Where is My Mind?” blared, Cassidy stepped out from the
wrecked picture with Callis shouting out instructions to
attack. Rocky Romero charged right at Cassidy, who stepped
to the side, as Romero went flying into the empty frame.
Mark Briscoe and Hologram ran out to complete The
Conglomeration’s trios team for their match with AEW Unified
Champion Kazuchika Okada, Konosuke Takeshita and Hechicero.

OC got right in the ring to square up to Okada and
Takeshita, although Takeshita stepped in front of Okada only
for Okada to attack OC first. Cassidy hit a double dropkick
with his hands in his pockets to take them both down and
applied his sunglasses, although Takeshita and Okada
immediately attacked. Briscoe made the save, and everyone
spilled to the outside, except Cassidy. He lazily fell off
the top rope onto the Family below!

The Conglomeration took turns hitting 10 punches in the
corner on Hechicero with OC punctuating the end of it with a
single punch!

Hologram and Hechicero paired off with The Alchemist taking
control for the Family, as they continued to take cheap
shots to keep the advantage. Hologram had his mobility
weakened by Hechicero’s repeated attacks on his right leg. 

After escaping the clutches of Hechicero and Takeshita,
Hologram had to fight through Okada to finally make a tag to
Mark Briscoe. The fresh Briscoe exploded on Okada and almost
won the match with a Fisherman’s Buster. He tagged OC in,
who immediately collapsed into his former friend Okada’s
arms for a … hug? 

Okada had none of it and slugged away at Orange Cassidy, but
it was Takeshita who made the difference when he helped
Okada hit his patented neckbreaker before the two dispatched
of Briscoe and Hologram. OC came back with his devastating
kicks to the shins of both Okada and Takeshita before
hitting a double hurricanrana. Cassidy tagged Hologram back
in, as both he and Hologram were able to take out
Hechicero. 

Takeshita and Hologram traded big impact moves with Hologram
sending Takeshita out of the ring thanks to a Destroyer.
Hechicero attacked Hologram, but Cassidy was there with an
Orange Punch and Hologram followed with a Portal Bomb for
the win!

Kyle Fletcher vs. Hologram Next Week on Dynamite

TNT Champion “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher came out to the
top of the ramp to address his loss to “Hangman” Adam Page
at All Out, showing no loss of confidence because he showed
he belonged in the main event.

Then, he turned his attention to Hologram and his 34-0
record, putting out the challenge for next week on the
6th Anniversary of AEW Dynamite. Title vs. Streak. 

The match was made official by Tony Khan, so it’ll be
Fletcher putting up his TNT Championship against Hologram’s
undefeated streak.

Mina Shirakawa Will Bring Her Best to Kris Statlander

Renee Paquette had a chance to catch up with Interim ROH
Women’s World TV Champion Mina Shirakawa before her match
for the AEW Women’s World Championship against Kris
Statlander in the main event. Shirakawa said she hasn’t
heard from Toni Storm, but she fights for her, for herself,
and for the title. If Toni wanted her best when they battled
for the title, then she knew Toni would want the same
tonight for Mina. She’s ready for Statlander!

Jurassic Express Returns Next Week

After their reunion at All Out, we look back at the history
of Jack Perry and Luchasaurus from AEW Tag Team Champions to
break up and now back together again. Jurassic Express
returns on the 6th Anniversary of AEW Dynamite next week!

The Death Riders’ Claudio Castagnoli def. AEW World Trios
Champion Powerhouse Hobbs of The Opps

Castagnoli entered alone and so did Hobbs, but he did so
from the crowd. As soon as he hit the ring, these two
powerful men started throwing huge shots.

Hobbs hit a pair of bodyslams and then Castagnoli fought off
a third only for Hobbs to hit three more! The two spilled
through the ropes to the outside, but Hobbs missed a
shoulder block to a downed Claudio and crashed into the
steel steps. Castagnoli picked up the massive Hobbs and
deposited him the hard way in the front row before throwing
him back over the rail in a similar fashion.

As Castagnoli remained in control, Hobbs fought back to his
feet and won a strike exchange to get himself back into the
match. Hobbs bounced Castagnoli from corner to corner with
splashes, yet on the third attempt, Castagnoli was ready
with an uppercut and dropped Hobbs. Hobbs battled through
the pain to hit a big powerslam and followed with three more
bodyslams. Castagnoli blocked a fourth, but Hobbs was able
to fight through a small flurry to hit a huge clothesline.

PAC appeared on the apron with the distraction allowing
Castagnoli to catch Hobbs with an uppercut from behind and
roll him up for the win! Before anything else happened,
Samoa Joe ran down to chase away PAC, but in the ring, Hobbs
sent Claudio over the top rope to a waiting Joe. Then, PAC
returned with Wheeler Yuta and Daniel Garcia to attack
Hobbs. 

When the numbers were against The Opps, AEW World Champion
“Hangman” Adam Page hit the scene to provide backup, just as
they did for him many times before. They held the ring as
the Death Riders retreated through the crowd.

Tony Khan Announces AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship

It was time for our big announcement from AEW CEO, President
and Founder Tony Khan. He said AEW is “Where the Best
Wrestle” before talking up the greatness of the AEW’s
women’s division. And with all that talent, it’s time to
introduce new championships. Later this year, we’ll crown
the first AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions! He threw it
to Renee Paquette back in the arena to unveil the new gold!

AEW Women’s World Championship: Kris Statlander (c) def.
Interim ROH Women’s World TV Champion Mina Shirakawa

Statlander made her first entrance as champion to huge
applause from the appreciative Pittsburgh crowd, and it was
time for our main event. However, Wheeler Yuta made yet
another appearance to offer Statlander what has become
regular words of encouragement.

Some early dancing and theatrics from Shirakawa quickly
turned into a targeted attack on Statlander’s surgically
repaired knee. With Statlander hobbling on the outside,
Shirakawa hit her spinning splash to the floor!

Statlander fought through the onslaught to power her way
back into the match, even as Shirakawa reversed Statlander’s
offense repeatedly, the champion persevered. Perhaps
Shirakawa got a little too confident, as she danced over
Statlander too long, allowing Kris enough time to kick her
challenger away. 

After Statlander reversed a Glamour Bomb, Shirakawa reversed
a Staturday Night Fever, only to have Statlander drop her
head first, but it only got a two.

Shirakawa tried to stay on Statlander with strikes and
transitioned that into a figure four, although the champion
was able to make it to the ropes. Shirakawa hit a spinning
backfist and went for another figure four, but Statlander
reversed it into a Seatbelt pin to get the win!

Statlander Makes Her Death Riders Decision

As Statlander celebrated, Wheeler Yuta jumped in the ring to
congratulate her, but Harley Cameron got to Statlander first
for a hug. Meanwhile, Castagnoli, PAC and Daniel Garcia
surrounded the ring, as Jon Moxley and Marina Shafir made
their way to the ring. 

Moxley stood across from Statlander, but it was Yuta who
grabbed her in an embrace, which she seemed to reciprocate.
Yuta raised her arm, offering congratulations, and saying
welcome before Statlander dropped him with a shortarm
clothesline. She ducked a Shafir attack and gave Moxley a
double bird before escaping through the crowd with Cameron.

Darby Allin Chases the Death Riders Away with a
Flamethrower!

As Statlander continued to mock the Death Riders from the
crowd, Darby Allin appeared at the top of the ramp with a
flamethrower! Initially, Moxley and company lined up at the
bottom of the ramp, until Allin kept coming closer, igniting
the flame more and more with each step. They continued to
back up into the crowd with Allin taunting them from the
ring steps. 

“Jon, when are you gonna realize I’m never gonna quit? Jon
Moxley. WrestleDream. I Quit Match!” With Allin keeping the
flame hot, Moxley tried to laugh off the situation, as we
learned that Allin would team with Statlander to face Yuta
and Shafir in a Mixed Tag Match next week on the
6th Anniversary of Dynamite!

And that will do it from Pittsburgh!

Catch AEW Collision at the Marshall Health Network Arena in
Huntington, West Virginia this Saturday LIVE at 8 p.m. ET/7
p.m. CT on TNT and streaming on HBO Max!

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