Posted on 1/11/126 by Bob Magee
Death Riders (PAC, Wheeler Yuta and Daniel Garcia) def.
SkyFlight (Scorpio Sky, Dante Martin and Darius Martin)
With Jon Moxley on commentary, it was time for our first
match of an evening that was set to be full of the best
trios action in the world! Scorpio Sky and Wheeler Yuta
opened things up for their respective teams, as both men
tried for multiple pin attempts with no success, so Darius
Martin tagged in for Sky. Yuta quickly tagged out to Daniel
Garcia, but Darius escaped a double team and then dropped
Garcia with a back elbow. Darius hit two strikes in the
corner, but then Garcia reversed a whip and sent Darius
face-first into the middle turnbuckle. Darius turned things
around when he got a blind tag by Dante Martin and dropped
Garcia with a Manhattan Drop so that Dante could send Garcia
face-first into Darius’s knee! That earned a two-count, so
Sky tagged back in.
PAC got frustrated and charged across the ring to take out
Dante and Darius before tagging in for the first time. He
immediately stomped Sky in the corner and tagged in Yuta,
who pounded away on Sky in the Death Riders' corner. Garcia
made a quick tag and gave Sky more of the same punishment.
Sky fought to his feet and stopped Garcia with an eye gouge.
Sky caught Garcia with a boot and tagged Dante. Dante nailed
Garcia with an enziguri and springboarded from the bottom
rope to dropkick Garcia! Dante avoided Garcia in the corner
but fell right into the arms of PAC, who chucked him back to
the ring, where Garcia nailed a side suplex. Garcia tagged
Yuta, and the two wailed away on Dante, as the Death Riders
were in complete control!
The Death Riders trapped Dante in the apron so that PAC
could hit a sliding dropkick from the ring! Dante kicked out
at two, as PAC taunted the SkyFlight corner.
“2026 PAC with the short hair, the bedhead…he’s my favorite
wrestler.” – Jon Moxley
Yuta tagged back in as the crowd tried to will Dante back to
his corner for a tag. He fought back with a high-angle
suplex, but Garcia and Yuta came back with a top-rop Hart
Attack that got a two count! PAC tagged back in and hit a
brutal kick combo, but Dante fired back with a desperation
dropkick! He tagged Darius, as Yuta tagged on his side.
Darius nailed Yuta with a rebound Spanish Fly and flew onto
Garcia on the outside. Back on the inside, Darius dropped
Yuta with a flatliner and nearly won the match when he
hooked in a fisherman’s suplex, but PAC came in for the
save! The match started to break down as Dante and Sky dove
onto Garcia and PAC! Marina Shafir got on the apron to
distract Darius, so Zayda Steel, who was alongside SkyFlight
tonight, got in her face. That allowed Darius to run Yuta
into Shafir to knock her off the apron and get a rollup on
Garcia for a two count! Darius launched Yuta from the apron
into a cutter by Dante on the inside, but Garcia broke it
up!
With Garcia distracting the referee, Yuta hit Darius with a
low blow. The Death Riders ran the conveyor belt attack on
Darius in the corner for two rotations until Yuta and PAC
went into a criss-cross that saw Yuta dive to the outside
for Dante while PAC flattened Darius with a clothesline! PAC
quickly locked in the Brutalizer to earn the submission
victory! PAC yelled into the camera, telling Darby Allin,
"Whatever happens on Wednesday, you did this to yourself!”
Back in the ring, Steel shoved Shafir, but Steel didn’t see
Megan Bayne get in the ring! Shafir booted Steel right into
a running powerbomb by Bayne! Bayne, Shafir, and Penelope
Ford posed over the fallen Steel.
The Conglomeration Has Momentum!
Lexy Nair was with TNT Champion Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy
and Roderick Strong, although when Nair called all three
“The Conglomeration,” Strong was quick to correct her
because he’s not part of the Conglomeration. However, he’s
not done with the Death Riders. Briscoe said it doesn’t
matter what faction wants it, they can come take on The
‘Glom! Briscoe said the word of the day is momentum because
Willow Nightingale is the TBS Champion and the Babes of
Wrath have the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championships, and
he’s not letting go of the TNT Title tonight when he faces
Hechicero because he’s got momentum! And he knows the Don
Callis Family might be lurking around, but it doesn’t
matter.
“As the saying goes, when two or more Conglomerates are in
the same place, then you have a full Conglomeration!”
Brody King def. Barrett Brown
As King made his way down the aisle, Brown tried to dive at
him through the ropes, but King was ready and caught him!
King chokeslammed Brown on the apron! That allowed King to
remove his entrance attire, and the bell rang. King squished
Brown in the corner and followed with a cannonball. A Gonzo
Bomb finished Brown to give King a quick victory! King
celebrated with the crowd around ringside and was joined by
his Brodido partner, ROH World Champion Bandido, who is just
four days away from facing MJF for the AEW World Title at
Maximum Carnage!
Josh Alexander and Lance Archer Send More Violent Messages
As Lance Archer destroyed various people behind him, Josh
Alexander dragged another lifeless body and told the world
that while Don Callis is in Japan celebrating Kazuchika
Okada’s monumental win at Wrestle Kingdom, they’ll be
watching El Clon defeat Komander and Hechicero beat Mark
Briscoe to bring the TNT Title back to the Don Callis
Family. Then, Alexander said JetSpeed should have stayed
down where Mark Davis and Jack Doyle put them, but if they
need to get another message, he has faith The Demand will
take care of them tonight. Archer closed things out by lawn
darting one poor soul into another against a wall!
Don Callis Family’s El Clon def. Komander
Komander and El Clon both showed a wide variety of pinning
combinations in an amazing series of reversals, although
that ended in a stalemate. El Clon caught Komander in midair
and dropped him across the knee before a six-strike combo in
the corner and a moonsault off the middle rope for a near-
fall!
El Clon taunted Komander, but he came back with a
hurricanrana. Komander springboarded into an armdrag and
then hit a pair of rising kicks from the apron before a
tornillo into a hurricanrana from the top rope! What a
combination of moves. Komander dove through the ropes onto
El Clon, but El Clon caught him and hip-tossed Komander onto
the ramp! El Clon followed with a suplex on the ramp, and
Komander was in big trouble! El Clon continued the assault
on the outside for several minutes.
Back in the ring, El Clon nailed a huge chop with Komander
trapped on the ropes. Komander came back with a defensive
kick followed by an innovative DDT to get himself back in
the match! Komander chopped El Clon and blocked another from
Clon. Komander blocked an El Clon monkey flip attempt and
hung on to his hands to spike El Clon with a Poisonrana! El
Clon kicked out at two!
El Clon caught a running kick from Komander and tried to
reverse the momentum into a tilt-o-whirl lung blower, but
somehow Komander landed on his feet! He scaled the ropes and
came off with a beautiful moonsault for a two count!
Komander tried to run the length of the ring on the ropes,
but El Clon moved, so Komander adjusted with a picturesque
moonsault onto El Clon on the floor! Komander tried to run
down the ropes, but El Clon avoided him and clobbered
Komander with a Pele kick. He nailed the lungblower on the
second attempt and tried for his Portal Bomb only for
Komander to reverse it into a poisionrana! El Clon kicked
out!
Komander went for a Code Red, but El Clon pulled him through
and trapped Komander in a Samoan Driver, but this time it
was Komander who kicked out! El Clon picked up Komander for
another Portal Bomb, and this time it connected to get the
three count! El Clon remains undefeated!
After the match, we saw Wrestle Kingdom highlights of
Konosuke Takeshita losing the IWGP World Heavyweight
Championship to IWGP Global Champion Yota Tsuji and AEW
International Champion Kazuchika Okada beating “The Ace”
Hiroshi Tanahashi in Tanahashi’s final match in the main
event.
Mina Shirakawa def. Lady Frost
Shirakawa received flowers from an unknown sender as she
made her way into the ring, but turned around into a
crescent kick from Frost, and we were underway!
Frost kicked the flowers from the ring and took it to
Shirakawa, as she struggled to get out of her entrance gear.
Frost yelled at Shirakawa as she kicked away at her in the
corner, but that only fired up Shirakawa! She attacked
Frost’s knee and nailed a tornillo from the apron for a two
count. Shirakawa charged into the corner, but Frost stopped
her and turned things around to put Shirakawa on the apron.
Frost crushed Shirakawa with a cartwheel cannonball! Frost
went to the top rope, so Shirakawa kicked her in the back of
the leg, and Storm was straddled on the second rope. Storm
escaped a German suplex and struck her way free, but
Shirakawa came back with two rolling elbows followed by a
kick to the back of the head and a backfist. She locked
Frost in a figure four leglock, which gave Frost no choice
but to tap out! Shirakawa returned to the flowers and
carried them away, as we all wondered about their source.
The Decline of Mercedes Moné
A somber Moné, still covered in cake, said, “Heroes don’t
build divisions. ICONS DO! Over 500 days, I held that
championship. Not because I was lucky. Because I was
undeniable! I was the greatest!”
She ran down her accomplishments and said it doesn’t matter
what year it is, because she will always be the greatest.
She is sick and tired of the disrespect around here.
“To show you bitches a lesson, I am taking a break from AEW.
To show you why and how I elevated. And good luck without me
because when I return, I am collecting more than just
titles.”
TNT Champion Mark Briscoe def. Don Callis Family’s
Hechicero
Hechicero quickly took Briscoe down to the mat, as he went
right after the TNT Champion’s arm. Briscoe came back with a
similar offense to try to confuse The Alchemist. Hechicero
slowed Briscoe down with a running kick to the side of the
head, followed by his patented hammerlock spin into a
backbreaker! Hechicero punished Briscoe in the corner, but
when he sent Briscoe to the opposite corner, the TNT
Champion moved to the apron and stopped the charging
Hechicero before knocking him to the floor. Briscoe followed
to the outside with chops and then tried to go back to the
apron, so Hechicero ran to stop him. Briscoe knocked him
back down and nailed a blockbuster from the apron to the
floor!
Briscoe got a chair and set it up near the ropes in the
ring, but before he could use it, Hechicero knocked it away.
Briscoe dropkicked Hechicero through the ropes and stayed on
the apron for a Bang Bang Elbow, but he jumped right into an
armbar from Hechicero on the floor! Hechicero ran Briscoe
shoulder-first into the steel post and did some more damage
with the assistance of a chair. Hechicero trapped Briscoe’s
arm in the corner and then mounted him for punches.
Hechicero blocked Briscoe’s comeback and kicked him to the
corner with a jumping shot to the side of the head.
Hechicero put Briscoe in a double-wrist lock until Briscoe
got his legs on the ropes to break the hold.
Briscoe got caught in another armbar but escaped long enough
to catch his breath. The two got into a strike battle until
Hechicero got Briscoe down and trapped Briscoe in another
armbar, but the champion got to the ropes at the 10-minute
mark. Hechicero missed a kick through the ropes, but when
Briscoe flipped after him, Hechicero got on Briscoe’s back.
Briscoe broke it by falling backwards onto the ramp. Briscoe
came back with a flipping dive from a chair in the ring to
the floor.
Briscoe nailed a running boot in the corner and dropped
Hechicero with a fisherman’s buster to get a two count.
Briscoe fired himself up and tried for a Jay Driller, but
his arm was too damaged. Hechicero nailed a flying head
scissors to get a two-count of his own! Hechicero seemed to
go for a Jay Driller, but dropped Briscoe into an
armbreaker! Hechicero nailed a rising knee in the corner and
put Briscoe on the top rope. He tried to put Briscoe in a
double wrist lock from the top, but Briscoe bit his way
loose, and Hechicero fell to the mat. Briscoe followed with
a Froggy Bow. Hechicero tried to come back with a flying
dropkick, but crashed and burned into the ropes. Briscoe
fought through the pain to hit a Jay Driller and pick up the
pinfall victory! Orange Cassidy and Roderick Strong came out
to celebrate with Briscoe!
Eddie Kingston & Ortiz Meet Grizzled Young Veterans Face-to-
Face
Backstage, Lexy Nair was with Eddie Kingston and Ortiz and
the Grizzled Young Veterans, as both sides agreed to no
physicality before they finally battle next Saturday at
Maximum Carnage. Zack Gibson and James Drake ran down Eddie
Kingston for how he handles his business and said he’s going
to drag down Ortiz with him. Ortiz and Kingston laughed that
off. Kingston said you reap what you sow, and they don’t
sow, they reap.
Plus, we took a look at the impending return of Kenny Omega
this Wednesday at Maximum Carnage!
FTR Has Quite a Recent History
We took a look at the history of FTR coming together with
Big Stoke, including the blow-up of Rated FTR, as well as
the victory that brought them back to the AEW World Tag Team
Titles.
AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander & AEW Women’s
World Tag Team Champions The Babes of Wrath (TBS Champion
Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron) def. Maya World, Hyan
and VertVixen
Statlander began things for her team with her power on full
display until she tagged in Cameron and slammed her on top
of Hyan for a near-fall. VertVixen tagged in, so Cameron put
her down with a slingblade. Nightingale tagged in, and she
hit a double-team side suplex with Cameron. Nightingale ate
a forearm smash from VertVixen, but cartwheeled out of
further danger and hit an enzuigiri for a two-count.
Nightingale, Statlander, and Cameron hit rapid-fire tags to
triple team VertVixen before Statlander stayed in control.
Cameron came in and found herself in trouble, so when she
nearly made the tag, her partners were attacked and knocked
off the apron. Cameron was triple-teamed, and then VertVixen
came off the top with a dropkick, but Nightingale came in to
break up the pin. World and Hyan smashed Nightingale and
threw her to the outside, but Statlander turned it into a
double hurricanrana. VertVixen ran over Statlander with a
big boot! Cameron escaped from VertVixen with a kick, and
Willow tagged in! She splashed VertVixen in the corner, and
then Cameron jumped on Willow for a backpack senton onto
VertVixen. Nightingale dropped Hyan with clotheslines,
followed by a spinebuster on World. Statlander tagged in,
and she and Statlander ran World and Hyan into each other
before Cameron came off the top with a crossbody.
VertVixen rolled in and escaped Staturday Night Fever, but
Statlander nailed a kick to the head followed by Staturday
Night Fever to get the three count! Cameron grabbed a
microphone to announce her “parents” (Statlander and
Nightingale) were back together and then prepared to clink
belts in solidarity. We heard the voice of Thekla, who
appeared on the announce table to run down the champions in
the ring. She said they make her sick. Their friendship does
nothing for her. She doesn’t need friends because she has
her sisters, and at Maximum Carnage, they will learn what it
means to get toxic. Statlander said Thekla may have her
sisters, but next week, they are all gonna call her “BIG
STAT DADDY!”
Don Callis "LIVE from Tokyo"
Callis said the Don Callis Family doesn’t make history; they
write history. They did it again in front of over 50,000
fans at the Tokyo Dome when the AEW International Champion
Kazuchika Okada retired Hiroshi Tanahashi at Wrestle
Kingdom.
Before Callis could say more, “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher
entered and said that while that was a big night for the
Family, that’s behind them, and someone needs to say
something to Okada. Callis said he doesn’t follow. Fletcher
reminded Callis that Okada stabbed Konosuke Takeshita in the
head with a screwdriver, the screwdriver Fletcher had
planted for his match with Jon Moxley, so Okada screwed both
of them. Callis said Okada only got screwed himself. He
walked in with the Continental Championship and walked out
without it.
Callis didn’t want Fletcher in the Continental Classic
because he wanted him to focus on the TNT Championship and
his destiny to become the greatest TNT Champ of all time,
but then Fletcher lost the title. Callis said they need
Fletcher to focus back on the TNT Title because he’s 3-3
with Briscoe, and it doesn’t take a genius to see that a
seventh match is coming. Callis said Fletcher should direct
all this energy back towards the TNT Championship.
ROH World Champion Bandido is Ready for AEW World Champion
MJF!
We heard from Bandido ahead of his AEW World Championship
match with MJF this Wednesday at Maximum Carnage. Despite
MJF’s best efforts towards Bandido this past Wednesday on
Dynamite, it was Bandido who stood tall and even held the
AEW World Title for a brief moment in what could have been a
glimpse of the future.
Bandido said all that matters is your heart.
“When the bell rings, your reign ends! I will be the AEW
World Champion!”
The Demand (AEW National Champion Ricochet, Toa Liona and
Bishop Kaun) def. Anthony Bowens & JetSpeed (“Speedball”
Mike Bailey and “The Jet” Kevin Knight)
Before Anthony Bowens could make his entrance, JetSpeed
decided to attack The Demand despite being outnumbered. They
were quickly subdued by Ricochet, Toa Liona and Bishop Kaun
until Bowens ran down to even the odds. He sent Liona over
the top with a low bridge and then wound up triple-teaming
Ricochet with JetSpeed before sending him over the top onto
GOA! Bowens and JetSpeed scissored!
Bailey and Bowens slingshotted themselves over the top onto
Ricochet and Kaun, but Knight was still too injured from the
bounty collection to launch himself. He was stopped by Liona
while Kaun hit a running suplex on Bailey. Liona threw
Knight into the ring post! Ricochet and Bowens battled in
the ring until Ricochet took advantage of a distraction on
the outside to knee Bowens in the back. The Demand found
themselves in a 3-on-1 advantage against Bowens, punishing
him in their corner.
Bowens escaped a suplex attempt to tag Bailey. He went to
the top with a big missile dropkick that connected with
Kaun. Bailey tagged Knight and then ran across the ring with
double big boots to take Liona and Ricochet off the apron!
Kaun knocked Bailey and Knight away in the corner until
Knight sprang up and took Kaun off the top with a
hurricanrana as Bailey hit a somersault onto Liona on the
floor! Knight hit a twisting UFO Splash to get a two-count.
Kaun stopped Knight from another toprope hurricanrana and
dropped Knight back-first on the top turnbuckle! Liona
followed with a running senton on the apron! The Demand was
posed over the lifeless body of Knight!
Knight finally fought back with a dropkick, but when he
tried to make a tag, Ricochet and Liona took Bailey and
Bowens off the apron and punished them on the floor! Kaun
missed a splash in the corner, and then both he and Knight
collided in the middle of the ring with crossbody attempts!
Ricochet tagged in, but so did Bowens! Bowens took on both
members of GOA and then dropped Ricochet with a face-first
slam from a fireman’s carry for a near-fall.
Ricochet rolled up Bowens for a two-count, and then Bowens
was sent into the second turnbuckle. Ricochet tagged Liona
and dialed up a swinging kick to Bowens through the ropes.
Ricochet nailed Bailey and then took out both members of
JetSpeed after skying over the top rope. Back in the ring,
Bowens was the victim of a triple team by The Demand with a
lungblower, powerbomb and finally a moonsault from the
second rope by Ricochet, but Bowens kicked out!
Bowens avoided a Spirit Gun and sent Ricochet into a double
superkick from JetSpeed. Ricochet walked into a side slam
from Bowens as GOA and JetSpeed took each other out, leaving
Bowens and Ricochet back alone in the ring. Bowens charged
at Ricochet in the corner and caught a double-boot attempt,
so he swung Ricochet in between the ropes and pulled him
through for a twisting DDT. Bowens went to the top, but had
to kick away Kaun. Liona also tried to stop him, but Bailey
knocked him to the floor. Ricochet grabbed Bailey, but
Bailey flipped out of it and hit a triangle moonsault to the
floor on Kaun. Bowens also dove to the floor and took out
Liona! In the ring, Ricochet turned into a flying
clothesline from Knight. With Ricochet down, Bowens ran into
him with a knee, but Ricochet kicked out at the nick of
time. All six men are down!
Bowens tried for a MollyWhop, but Liona knocked him away and
then ate superkicks from Bailey and Knight, yet stayed on
his feet! He threw Knight away and headbutted Bailey. Kaun
picked up Knight, and Liona put Bailey on Liona’s shoulders
for a double chestbreaker on JetSpeed! Liona missed a
running charge to Bowens and ate the steel steps. In the
ring, Bowens reversed a Vertigo attempt into a near-fall on
Ricochet. Bowens missed another MollyWhop attempt and then
traded rollups with Ricochet. Bowens hotshotted Ricochet on
the top rope, which allowed Kaun to make a tag. Bowens
nailed Ricochet with the MollyWhop to the back of the head,
but the AEW National Champion wasn’t the legal man as Bowens
covered him for the pin.
Kaun floored Bowens with a clothesline, and GOA finished
Bowens with Open the Gates to get the victory in our main
event! The Demand started assaulting Bowens after the bell,
which brought out Max Caster! Caster took his time getting
in the ring, but finally did when Bailey and Knight came
back in from the other side. All of a sudden, Caster, Bowens
and JetSpeed had the 4-on-3 advantage – until the Don Callis
Family hit the ring!
Josh Alexander, Hechicero, El Clon and Lance Archer
attacked, but Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong, Komander and
TNT Champion Mark Briscoe came out to clear The Demand and
Don Callis Family from the ring! What a wild brawl to end
our night in Arlington! We’ll see you on Wednesday for
Maximum Carnage!
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