Posted on 10/23/125 by Bob Magee
After the massive AEW WrestleDream in St. Louis, there was
plenty of fallout to deal with in San Antonio, Texas for AEW
Dynamite LIVE on TNT and HBO Max!
The AEW Unified Championship was on the line, and “The
Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada retained the title in an
excellent main event by holding off a fantastic challenge
from ROH World Champion and one-half of the AEW World Tag
Team Champions, Bandido!
We expected the AEW World Trios match to be a hard-hitting
affair, but The Hurt Syndicate and The Opps couldn’t settle
things alone. An appearance by Ricochet made it clear The
Demand was not done with the Syndicate, as the Opps were
able to retain.
The bracket for the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship
Tournament was revealed, featuring a matchup determined by a
4-way tag match won by Jamie Hayter and Queen Aminata to
select their first-round opponents, Julia Hart and Skye
Blue. The tournament will officially begin next week on
Dynamite!
Mercedes Moné had her 12 Belts Celebration, but was
interrupted by AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander
and Harley Cameron. Statlander reminded Moné of what’s to
come when they meet for Statlander’s AEW Women’s World
Championship at Full Gear next month!
Here's everything that happened on AEW Dynamite for October
22, 2025, including your full results and match recaps.
Hangman Makes a Promise to Samoa Joe
We went back to this past Saturday, where while being
checked out in medical after his beating at the hands of The
Opps at WrestleDream, “Hangman” Adam Page repeatedly
wondered if Joe had lost his mind. As Page continued to
escalate his tone, the doctor asked the wounded champion to
calm down. Page left Joe with one final statement, “Joe,
when I find you, I am going to ruin your goddamn life!”
AEW World Trios Championship Match: The Opps (Samoa Joe,
Powerhouse Hobbs and Katsuyori Shibata) (c) def. The Hurt
Syndicate (Bobby Lashey, Shelton Benjamin and MVP)
After a brief faceoff between the six men, Shelton Benjamin
and Katsuyori Shibata kicked off our first match of the
evening for the AEW World Trios Titles. The two veterans
traded some mat wrestling until Benjamin gained a brief
advantage to bring in Lashley. The crowd chanted for Hobbs,
prompting Shibata to make the tag. As a “BEEF” chant rang
out, Joe tagged Hobbs on the back before he made any contact
with Lashley and covered up Hobbs’ chest with a towel, much
to the chagrin of the beef-loving crowd in San Antonio.
Lashley ended the fun and games as soon as Joe turned around
with a big shot that knocked Joe to the ground. Lashley
punished Joe in the corner and tried to do the same in the
other, but Joe made a brief comeback until Lashley dropped
him with a front-face slam.
Benjamin tagged in and went right to the top, so Joe walked
away as Benjamin came off, although Benjamin was also ready
and landed on his feet! Joe had enough of that and tagged
out to Hobbs. Benjamin cracked Hobbs with a heel kick, but
Hobbs battled back with a clothesline over the top. Lashley
did the same to Hobbs and walked right into a high boot from
Shibata. MVP entered to clobber Shibata with a big boot of
his own. Joe got back in and threw MVP over the top rope,
but turned right into a Benjamin knee strike in the corner.
Hobbs was waiting for Benjamin with a running powerslam,
which Joe followed with a running senton to put Benjamin in
serious trouble.
After all three members of The Opps punished Benjamin for an
extended period of time, he looked completely worn out,
which Bryan Danielson attributed to the level of competition
The Hurt Syndicate faced in The Demand at WrestleDream.
Benjamin finally rattled Joe with a massive reversal into a
DDT, and Lashley tagged back in. Shibata also tagged back
in, and Lashley absolutely decimated him all over the ring
until a Dominator nearly won the match, until Hobbs broke it
up.
We finally got the faceoff that was teased early as Hobbs
and Lashley started throwing bombs in the middle of the
ring. Hobbs hit a shot to Lashley’s throat, but Lashley was
briefly able to apply the Hurt Lock until Hobbs backed him
into the corner for some elbows. The two connected in a
giant collision after both going for clotheslines. Shibata
remained the legal man, so he nailed Lashley with a PK and
got a two count.
MVP and Joe tagged in, but Joe immediately cut him off by
ripping at the eyes, so MVP countered with a shot to the
throat and a Ballin’ elbow for a nearfall that Shibata broke
up. Benjamin threw Shibata with a German suplex, but walked
into a huge spinebuster from Hobbs. Lashley was waiting for
Hobbs with a spinebuster of his own, but he didn’t see a big
boot from Joe that knocked him from the ring. MVP broke out
of a Coquina Clutch with a jawbreaker and went for the Play
of the Day until Ricochet arrived and jumped on the apron.
The distraction allowed Joe to reapply the Coquina Clutch
for the submission victory and successful defense of the AEW
World Trios Titles. The Demand, clad in matching capes,
smugly watched from the ramp until the Syndicate ran them
off. Back in the ring, Tony Schiavone asked Joe about the
actions towards “Hangman” Adam Page.
“First of all, I wanna say what a pleasure it is to be here
in San Antonio, tonight! Cause you gotta understand, when
you have a man like Powerhouse Hobbs around, it’s good to
have these big ole fat San Antonio women around to keep him
occupied.”
Hobbs showed off what appeared to be a lifting routine he
practiced in a local gym.
“Now onto the question, ‘Why, Joe, Why?’ And it’s really
simple, because I exist. As long as I’m on Planet Earth and
you call yourself a champion, I will come hunting for you.
As long as you stride this earth thinking you're the man,
the very best you can be, I am waiting to show you you are
not that man!”
San Antonio responded with loud chants of “Cowboy Shit!”
“Cowboy Shit!” “Cowboy Shit!”
Joe continued, “And much like these people say, Hangman Adam
Page, you may think that this is just some cowboy shit, but
rest assured, just like every one of you slack-jawed Texans
in here, I will slap your cowboy ass and make you my bitch,
just like every sports team has made this state their
bitch!”
That did not go over well with the crowd.
“Because if you haven’t noticed, what stands before you is
The Opps. We stand in opposition to everybody, and rest
assured, we’re never lacking.”
Kris Statlander Accepts Mercedes Moné’s Full Gear Challenge
Earlier today, we saw UltiMoné arrive at the arena in style
in a Rolls Royce, accompanied by 12 men holding her record-
breaking number of titles ahead of her 12 Belts Moné
Celebration later tonight.
Renee Paquette was live with Kris Statlander to get her
thoughts on defeating “Timeless” Toni Storm to retain the
AEW Women’s World Championship at WrestleDream.
Statlander said, “Toni Storm, if there’s anyone I could have
stripped with, cuddled with, beat the shit out of, and then
made up with, well, I’m glad it was you.”
Paquette then asked Statlander about the challenge she
received from Moné for the AEW Women’s World Championship at
AEW Full Gear on November 22.
“I don’t need a celebration tonight because I’m not focused
on what I did. I’m focused on what I’m going to do. And
Mercedes, since we’re making history tonight, I beat Toni
Storm twice. Have you? I won the AEW Women’s World
Championship? Have you? If you think that I’m the same
person that you beat last year at Full Gear, well, I promise
you, I am so much more. You may be the one who broke the
glass ceilings, but I’m going to soar past it and take this
title to heights you’ve never seen before, and you are
coming along for the ride. Full Gear. AEW Women’s World
Championship. Kris Statlander vs. Mercedes Moné. Oh, have a
nice celebration tonight.”
Statlander coyly smiled as she delivered that last sentence
and exited.
Darby Allin Makes It Clear What He’ll Do for AEW
As he made his way to the ring, Allin carried the AEW flag
he took to the top of Mount Everest and used to choke Jon
Moxley at WrestleDream en route to making Moxley say, “I
quit.” He got on his knees, placed the flag on the ring, and
kissed it. Allin remained on his knees as he spoke, “Before
I climbed Mount Everest, there was a lot of people saying I
was irresponsible and I could never really be the face of
this company…because I was gonna get myself killed? It’d be
really bad for PR. But I’d like to argue the exact opposite.
BECAUSE I’M WILLING TO GO PLACES FOR THIS COMPANY NO ONE
ELSE WILL GO! I AM WILLING TO DIE FOR THIS PLACE! I WILL DIE
FOR THIS PLACE!”
That elicited a “DARBY!” chant from the crowd as he removed
his jacket.
“The marks on my body from Saturday tell a story. I was
never gonna say, ‘I quit,’ Saturday, but I’m wearing the
scars today. And I ain’t stupid. I know the Death Riders
aren’t going away just like that. So Jon Moxley, let me tell
you something. As long as the Death Riders are breathing,
Darby Allin isn’t far behind.”
Allin dropped the microphone and exited with the flag
Jurassic Express Wants More Than $500K
“Jungle” Jack Perry lamented how long it had been since he
was in a match like the one Jurassic Express had at
WrestleDream, especially a tag team match like that, but
made it clear that he and Luchasaurus beat the greatest team
of this generation in the Young Bucks. Now, it’s time for
Jurassic Express to do what initially brought them together,
and when it’s time, they’ll come after their AEW World Tag
Team Championships.
4-Way Tag Match: Queen Aminata & Jamie Hayter def. Skye Blue
& Julia Hart, Willow Nightingale & Harley Cameron, and Megan
Bayne & Penelope Ford
The winners of this match got to pick their first-round
opponent in the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship
Tournament. Nightingale and Blue started off with
Nightingale asserting her power over Blue, but then she
brought in Cameron for some tandem offense. Cameron lost
control when Blue nailed Cameron with a side kick, but she
couldn't capitalize when Ford made a blind tag.
Ford hit a handspring shoulder thrust in the corner, which
brought Bayne into the match. She continued to pound away on
Cameron in the corner, but when she and Ford went for a
double suplex, Nightingale pulled Cameron out of harm’s way.
Ford sent Nightingale to the outside, where Blue and Hart
went to work while Cameron fought off Bayne long enough to
tag Hayter.
The crowd was amped to see Hayter and Bayne face off, and to
make sure they wouldn’t be interrupted, Hayter knocked Ford
off the apron. Hayter and Bayne came to blows in the middle,
and Bayne won the battle with high elbows and then a big
boot. Bayne escaped a suplex and wound up in front of
Aminata so she tagged Hayter and they went for a double
suplex, but Bayne reversed it into a suplex on both of them
in a ridiculous display of power. And she wasn’t done! Bayne
dove to the outside to take out Nightingale, Hayter, and
Aminata with a dive as Ford moonsaulted from the top to the
floor onto Blue and Hart! Bayne and Ford were in total
control!
As Bayne punished Aminata in the ring, Hart made a blind tag
to take over on Aminata. Hart walked her the ropes and
struck down on Aminata from an arm wringer. Blue tagged in,
but Hart remained in the ring for some double-team offense,
although they tried to do too much, allowing Aminata to make
a desperation tag to Nightingale. She ran through both Blue
and Hart and stacked them in her corner before crushing them
with a hip attack. She kicked Hart from the ring and nearly
won the match with a spinebuster, but Blue kicked out in
time. Nightingale called for Cameron, who came in to ping-
pong Blue with chops and then a kick. Nightingale set up for
the Babe with the Powerbomb, but was quickly stopped by a
Bayne clothesline.
Cameron jumped on Bayne’s back, but escaped when she backed
into the corner. Bayne dragged Blue to her corner to allow
Ford to tag back in. Bayne threw her into an assisted cutter
on Nightingale, but Hart was back in to break up the pin.
Hart and Blue were dropped by a double stunner from Ford and
a double German suplex by Bayne in another fantastic display
of power. Bayne got Nightingale on her shoulders as Ford
went to the top for a doomsday device, but Nightingale sent
Bayne into Ford, knocking her all the way to the floor. With
Bayne dazed, Nightingale pounced her from the ring!
Hayter made a blind tag on Nightingale, making her and Ford
the legal women in the match. However, Hayter and Aminata
decided to double-team Nightingale and knocked her from the
ring with a double back elbow. They turned their focus to
Ford with a double big boot. They snatched Ford back to her
feet so Aminata could thump her with a headbutt immediately
followed by Hayterade, and that combo was lethal enough to
get the three count. Hayter and Aminata earned the right to
select their first-round opponents, and Hayter had the
microphone to make the pick!
“Isn’t tag team wrestling just fantastic? Now, since we won,
I don’t think we should wait to choose our pick. Sisters of
Sin, you’re a pain in our asses. We choose you! Let’s have
it!”
It’ll be Jamie Hayter and Queen Aminata vs. Julia Hart and
Skye Blue in the first round of the AEW Women’s World Tag
Team Championship Tournament. We’d find out what the rest of
the bracket looked like later on Dynamite.
The Young Bucks Have to Tag with Old Rivals for Money
Matt and Nick Jackson were caught banging on Tony Khan’s
door, begging for another money match. Renee Paquette caught
up with them to ask about their apparent desperation and
what’s next. Nick said, “We don’t know what’s next for us.
We’re poor. We’re broke. For goodness' sakes, we’re trying
to get Tony out here because we want a money match and we
will wrestle anyone. We will team with anyone. Tony, I know
you’re watching. Open that door!”
As Nick continued to knock, Matt shooed Renee away, and Tony
answered the door!
“Hey, it’s been a while. It’s nice to see you guys. Well, I
heard what you were saying. You said you want a money match.
You said you’ll team with anybody. You said you’ll fight
anybody. OK, well, I’ll put some money up. How bout you guys
fight Jurassic Express and JetSpeed!”
Matt wondered aloud, “Four on two?”
Tony responded, “No, I’ll put up four hundred thousand
dollars in a four-on-four all-star match: JetSpeed and
Jurassic Express, right here in San Antonio this Saturday on
Collision, against you two and these guys…”
The door opened, and out walked Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler,
and Big Stoke. As the Bucks and FTR stood across from each
other, Matt spoke first, “Listen, guys, I know we have a bit
of a checkered past…”
Nick cut him off, “Hey! Water under the bridge. We need the
money. Sounds great.”
Stokely jumped in, “Well, listen, the holidays are coming up
so I think you two may need this more than we do.” He
slapped a one-dollar bill on Nick’s chest and walked away
with FTR. The Bucks looked embarrassed, but Nick still put
the dollar in his pocket.
Mercedes Moné’s 12 Belts Celebration Crashed by Mini-Moné &
Statlander!
Renee Paquette was in the ring to run through UltiMoné’s
accomplishments from last week, including becoming the
longest reigning TBS Champion, defending the CMLL World
Women’s Championship in Arena Mexico, defending her TBS
Championship, and winning the Interim ROH Women’s World TV
Title from Mina Shirakawa at WrestleDream to break Ultimo
Dragon’s belt record and make her 11 Belts Moné. The next
day, she flew to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and won the WPW
Women’s Championship for championship number 12!
Paquette introduced Moné with her parade of championships,
but as the men lined up with her titles, we heard the
familiar voice of Mini Moné back in the ring near a
celebratory cake.
“San Antonioooooooo! Please say hello to your CEO! Renee,
thank you for that lovely introduction. I am the best to do
it. Three countries, three record-setting victories in three
days! Wait, don’t they say bad things happen in threes?
Never mind! I am a global champion! Just like I said I would
be. Now, everyone, let’s do the CEO dance to celebrate! Even
you, Renee. Come on, move those hips!”
As the crowd chanted, Paquette obliged, but the real-life
version of Moné made her way to the ring and was clearly
perturbed. She sent her belt boys to the back. She also told
Paquette to leave the ring.
Moné addressed Mini Moné, “Harley, what the hell do you
think you’re doing? You stupid dumb marks wanna mock me? You
guys wanna laugh at me after everything I’ve done for this
company and for women’s wrestling?”
Mini Moné repeated that last line in a mocking tone, so Moné
stewed and gathered herself to respond. “Harley, you are so
pathetic. Wasn’t it just a couple weeks ago, you were
begging me to be your tag team partner? Now you’re out here
disrespecting me? Laughing at me? Are you that desperate for
attention? This? Tonight is about me! This is my moment.
This is my celebration. What I have done becoming 12 Belts
Moné is gonna go down as one of the greatest accomplishments
in professional wrestling history. Me, UltiMoné is gonna be
talked about for years to come, but you? You stupid,
pathetic little marks wanna laugh at me? I am tired of the
disrespect, so if you wanna laugh at something, Harley.
Laugh at this!”
With that, Moné shoved the puppet into the cake as the crowd
booed. Cameron popped out from under the table and was
grabbed by Moné, but Statlander made a surprise appearance
and slammed Moné face-first into the cake! Moné screamed in
embarrassment as Statlander picked her up and put her
through the table, leaving her in a heap of cake. Statlander
and Cameron celebrated their successful plan!
Jon Moxley Speaks After WrestleDream
We went back to comments from Jon Moxley on Saturday night
after losing his “I Quit” match to Darby Allin.
“Well, I did not deliver on what I promised. Tonight, it was
your strength that was the deciding factor. Your absolute
commitment to self-destruction was the deciding factor. One
of these days, Darby Allin, that is going to be your
downfall. Tomorrow, tomorrow, the sun rises again. We get
out of bed and we get back to work. Our unwavering
commitment to being the best every single day, 365 days a
year, giving everything we have. Our only competition is
ourselves. There is absolutely nobody in professional
wrestling who does what I do. Who does what we do, that can
hold a candle to the standard I set? The standard that we
set. But sometimes, you make a promise and you give
everything you have. And you really believe you can pull it
off. You swear his body was gonna fold. I believed in my
heart, he was. So he made me a liar. But no matter how
tonight went, I know exactly who I am and what I do here.”
Kyle O’Reilly def. Jon Moxley by Disqualification
Accompanied to the top of the ramp by Orange Cassidy, Willow
Nightingale, Mark Briscoe, Tomohiro Ishii, and eventually
Roderick Strong, O’Reilly got an encouraging send-off from
The Conglomeration and Strong. They returned to the back
while Moxley entered through the crowd with Shafir. Moxley
danced around O’Reilly as the crowd reminded him of the
words he said at WrestleDream. Moxley got frustrated by some
early mat wrestling and flipped off O’Reilly out of
frustration. O’Reilly stayed on Moxley as they continued to
battle on the mat. O’Reilly caught Moxley in a flying
armbar, but stomped his way free and started to chop away at
O’Reilly. O’Reilly came right back with shots of his own,
but Moxley bit him and shoved O’Reilly to the outside.
After weathering an extended attack on the outside, O’Reilly
nailed a flying dropkick from the apron to a seated Moxley
on the floor! He got Mox back in the ring and took him down
with a series of powerful kicks. O’Reilly was locked in a
triangle sleeper, but Mox broke it by catapulting O’Reilly
into the bottom rope neck-first! They found themselves on
the outside of the apron until O’Reilly slammed Moxley’s arm
into the edge.
O’Reilly came off the top with a knee to Moxley’s shoulder
and nearly pinned him. Moxley and O’Reilly traded
submissions until Moxley barely escaped a cross armbreaker.
Mox crushed O’Reilly with a big lariat and followed with a
piledriver, but O’Reilly kicked out! Moxley went to the
Bulldog Choke, but O’Reilly escaped with his foot on the
ropes. Moxley missed a stomp, so O’Reilly chopped his knee.
O’Reilly went for a rebound lariat, but Moxley avoided it,
so O’Reilly put him in an ankle lock! Mox grabbed and
elbowed referee Paul Turner, as other referees swarmed the
ring and the bell rang, signaling a disqualification. The
Conglomeration and Strong came out with Strong going right
after Moxley, only for the Death Riders to hit the ring as
referees tried to separate the two sides.
Trios Match: Roderick Strong & The Conglomeration (Mark
Briscoe & Orange Cassidy) def. The Death Riders (Claudio
Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, & Daniel Garcia)
Order was restored long enough to get both sides to their
corners for this Trios Match. Cassidy and Yuta showed how
well they knew each other by trading many pin attempts to
open the match, but Yuta tagged out to Garcia when OC went
for the Orange Punch. Garcia celebrated a small victory of
outwrestling Cassidy on the mat, so Briscoe tagged in,
unbeknownst to Garcia. He pounded away on Garcia, then
brought Strong in for the first time. Strong got a few shots
on Garcia before he made a desperation tag to Castagnoli.
Strong fought with everything he had to strike Castagnoli
with powerful shots and even battled out of the Death
Riders’ corner by nailing Garcia and Yuta. Garcia came back
in for a brief distraction, so Castagnoli was able to knock
Strong to the outside. Yuta tried to attack Strong, but ate
a backbreaker on the guardrail! Castagnoli went out to chase
Strong, who dove back inside the ring to come flying at
Castagnoli with a pair of boots, but they were caught.
Strong kicked himself free and hit the running boots on the
second attempt, followed by another backbreaker on the
guardrail. Castagnoli was sent back into the ring, but Yuta
grabbed Strong’s foot as he tried to get back in. That
opened the door for Castagnoli to attack and drop Strong
throat-first on the guardrail!
Castagnoli continued to work over Strong in the ring, but he
eventually hit some desperation offense and tagged in
Cassidy! Cassidy sent Yuta and Garcia to the outside, but
faked a dive to lure them back in, so he took them down with
a double dropkick. Castagnoli came back in and ate a Stundog
Millionaire from Cassidy, who immediately followed with a
dive to Garcia on the outside. Briscoe fought off a 2-on-1
advantage for Castagnoli and Yuta and then hit a pair of
boots through the ropes to Garcia. With all three Death
Riders on the floor, Briscoe hit a twisting press from the
top to take them all out! He threw Yuta in the ring and hit
a fisherman’s buster for a two count. Briscoe tried for a
Jay Driller until Garcia came in to cut it off. Strong saved
Briscoe from a guillotine, but Castagnoli threw Strong to
the mat. Cassidy came off the top looking for a diving DDT
on Castagnoli, only to be caught and dropped by an uppercut.
Briscoe returned with a boot to Castagnoli, but turned into
a 3-on-1 attack from the Death Riders. Strong saved Briscoe
again, leaving Yuta alone with Briscoe in the ring. Briscoe
hit a huge lariat and Jay Driller on Yuta for the pinfall!
PAC immediately hit the ring to attack, but Ishii was right
there to even the odds, as these two resumed their
hostilities from their match at AEW Tailgate Brawl. Moxley
returned to the ringside area, and Shafir nailed Ishii with
a low blow from behind. The Death Riders cleared the
commentary desk so Castagnoli could throw Cassidy through
it, but Darby Allin arrived to hit Castagnoli in the knee
with a bat. Another shot to the gut gave Cassidy the chance
to hit an Orange Punch. The Death Riders retreated through
the crowd as Allin stared them down from the ring.
Mercedes Moné Has A New Partner in an Old Rival
Alicia Atout caught up with Moné, who was still covered in
cake and screaming about what happened earlier in the night.
ROH Women’s World Champion Athena appeared to calm Moné down
and reminded Moné that they are both here to make history
and build a legacy. And she suggested they do it again as
AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions. Moné said she liked
the sound of that, “Title number 13!” Athena and Moné left
together, apparently re-forming their brief alliance from
earlier this year.
Mark Briscoe Wants Another Shot at Kyle Fletcher
After defeating Mark Briscoe to retain his TNT Championship
at WrestleDream, Fletcher made it clear he was done with
Briscoe following his victory in their fifth singles
encounter. Briscoe marched down to the ring and wanted to
retort, asking for one more chance at the TNT Championship.
Don Callis handled the request, but questioned Briscoe’s
focus because of all the kids he has to support. He denied
the request and left the ring, as Briscoe and Fletcher had
words.
The AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship Bracket
Revealed!
We’ll see eight teams and sixteen women battle to see who
will be the first AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions.
First-round matchups include Queen Aminata and Jamie Hayter
vs. Sisters of Sin (Skye Blue and Julia Hart), Willow
Nightingale and Harley Cameron vs. TBS Champion Mercedes
Moné and ROH World Women’s Champion Athena, Alex Windsor and
Rhio vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa, and Megan
Bayne and Penelope Ford vs. TayJay (Tay Melo and Anna Jay)!
The tournament starts next week on Dynamite!
After the bracket was revealed, Renee Paquette caught up
with Mina Shirakawa to discuss her team with “Timeless” Toni
Storm, which she called the Timeless Love Bombs. She was
interrupted by Thekla, who insulted Shirakawa about her
recent losses, so Shirakawa challenged her to a match on AEW
Collision this Saturday night!
AEW Unified Championship Match: “The Rainmaker” Kazuchika
Okada (c) def. ROH World Champion and AEW World Tag Team
Champion Bandido
Our main event began with a feeling-out process between the
two until Okada took a shortcut with a kick to the gut.
Bandido fought back and played some mind games by sticking
his finger gun in Okada’s face. A hurricanrana sent Okada to
the outside, but when Bandido tried to dive to the outside,
Okada bailed. When Bandido chased, Okada hid and then
attacked Bandido right in front of his family. Bandido
quickly turned it around with an arm drag from the apron.
Back in the ring, Okada took control back with a flapjack
and remained in control.
Okada hit his middle finger pose, but that gave Bandido the
chance to recover and hit a tornillo from the top to Okada.
He sent Okada to the outside and struck him with a dive to
the floor. Bandido sent Okada back in and punished him with
a series of kicks. Bandido leapt to the top and hit every
bit of a frog splash, but Okada kicked out!
Okada found some separation by pulling Bandido’s bad
shoulder into the ropes. He started toying with Bandido’s
shoulder by kicking it away and adjusted his normal
tombstone into a shoulderbreaker on his knee! Bandido tried
to get medical help from the ringside physician, but Okada
pulled him back to the ring and continued to work on the
shoulder. Bandido somehow battled back with one arm and hit
a spinning back fist! He nailed Okada with the X Knee and
successfully attempted a 21 Plex! He was too hurt to get to
Okada in time, and Okada kicked out at two!
Bandido reversed a powerbomb out of the corner, but was
planted by a picture-perfect Okada dropkick. Okada went for
the Rainmaker, but Bandido turned it into a small package,
and Okada just kicked out in time. Bandido went for a splash
in the corner, but jumped right into a pair of boots to the
chest. Okada went for the Rainmaker, but Bandido ducked and
hit one of his own with his healthy arm! He crushed Okada
with another X Knee and went for another 21 Plex, only for
Okada to avoid it and put Bandido down with a Rainmaker to
get the three count. Okada retained the AEW Unified
Championship!
The Don Callis Family came out to celebrate, but IWGP World
Heavyweight Champion “The Alpha” Konosuke Takeshita came out
after the rest of the Family by himself. Callis and Kyle
Fletcher cut Takeshita off in the aisle, as Okada smiled in
the ring to end the night in San Antonio.
Catch AEW Collision on TNT and HBO Max from right back here
in San Antonio Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT!
And remember… We are AEW—Where The Best Wrestle!