AEW Dynamite Review – November 8, 2023
Kicking off this week’s Dynamite with Tony Schiavone is with AEW World Champion MJF as Schiavone asks how he feels after Jay White pinned him last week and MJF says anyone can get pinned before Adam Cole calls him on his phone. MJF puts it on the TV screen as Cole suggested MJF teams up with Samoa Joe at Full Gear to take on The Gunns but MJF is still against it. Daniel Garcia, Angelo Parker & Matt Menard walk in as MJF asks which version of Garcia he will get tonight to which Garcia says the professional wrestler. Strong rolls in with The Kingdom and tries to persuade MJF to team with him which he walks off on. Strong tries to talk to Cole but he hangs up on him. Strong says it’s time to remind people who the hell he is.
AEW World Title Match
MJF (c) vs. Daniel Garcia
Matt Menard & Angelo Parker get on the apron and try to talk some words to Daniel Garcia to get back into it. Garcia backs up MJF in the corner then he starts clapping that Garcia did a good job and extended his hand for sportsmanship.
Garcia smacks it away and starts to dance but MJF gives him a thumb in the eye then MJF stays in control as they go to picture in picture break.
After the break we see MJF hit a hammerlock DDT for a two count before Garcia comes back after blocking Heatseeker and hits a 1 armed piledriver in which MJF barely kicks out of.
Garcia puts on Dragon Tamer but MJF reverses it into Salt Of The Earth as Garcia taps out.
Winner By Submission & Still AEW World Champion: MJF (STILL CHAMPION!!!!)
After the match MJF puts his hand out again and just when it looks like Garcia is going to shake it Menard & Parker stop him. MJF yells at Garcia if he’s going to keep following them and gets the crowd to start a Danny chant. Garcia goes to shake his hand but gets stopped again.
We get a video hyping up tonight’s Mark Briscoe vs. Jay White as Briscoe talks about this being their 1st 1 on 1 match and how he knew White back when he couldn’t grow a beard. Briscoe said he’s ready for White’s backup and tells White to put his Full Gear title shot on the line as he will whip his ass tonight.
Tag Team Match
The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd & Truth Magnum) vs. Darby Allin & Sting
Truth Magnum & Darby Allin starts the match but Turbo Floyd quickly tags in as The Outrunners are keeping Allin in their corner until he makes the tag to Sting as Allin goes to dive to the outside but gets tripped up by Magnum.
The Outrunners start spinning around Sting but he takes them both out as they hit double splashes to them in the corner.
Sting punches Magnum down and locks in Scorpion Deathlock as Magnum immediately taps out.
Winners By Submission: Darby Allin & Sting
We go to earlier today where Tony Schiavone is with Women’s Champion Hikaru Shida & Toni Storm along with Lutha where the entire video is in black and white. Schiavone is hyping up their Women’s Title match at Full Gear with a contract signing as Shida asks Storm what happened to her. Storm says Shida happened by winning the Women’s Title. Now Shida doesn’t happen anymore and she will happen. Shida may have the Women’s Title but she will never have the spotlight as it belongs to Storm. Shida says she will beat Storm at Full Gear as Storm says Chin up, tits out and watch for the shoe but Shida knocks the shoe out of her hand.
Swerve Strickland vs. Pentagon Jr
Swerve Strickland & Pentagon Jr starts the match running the ropes until Strickland knocks down Pentagon Jr with a hurricanrana and jumps off the top rope with an elbow to the back of Pentagon then starts working on Pentagon’s hand until they go into a chop exchange.
Strickland starts pulling on the tongue of Pentagon before Pentagon sends Strickland to the outside after a backbreaker and goes to dive into him as Strickland meets him with a strike before dropping Pentagon face first into the steel steps.
They start fighting on the apron and outside until Pentagon hits a tope con giro on Swerve before they go to picture in picture break.
After the break they go back & forth with arm drags, kicks & punches before knocking each other down with a double clothesline.
Pentagon comes back with a Death Valley Driver/Jackhammer type move for a two count before dumping Strickland to the outside.
Pentagon meets Strickland on the apron and hits him with a Destroyer then they go back to fighting on the apron where Strickland hits a stomp to Pentagon as he is draped over before Strickland sends Pentagon back inside but misses 450 Splash.
Pentagon snaps Strickland’s arm back and hits Made In Japan for a two count then Strickland escapes out of a Fear Factor attempt and hits a Death Valley Driver.
Strickland comes back and breaks the wrist of Pentagon then goes to the top rope and hits Swerve Stomp for the win.
Winner: Swerve Strickland
After the match Strickland starts removing Pentagon’s mask but Hangman Page runs out with a chair and chases Strickland & Prince Nana away but can land a shot on Strickland knocking him down. Page continues with a couple more chair shots before security comes out just to get taken out with the chair. Referees come out as Page hits Dead Eye to Strickland off the ramp to a table ringside before officials finally send Page away.
Backstage Alex Marvez is with Bullet Club Gold as Jay White talks about MJF telling him to compare graphs and he will play along and indulge him. The reason why the graphs are like that is because MJF is searching for his name because of his insecurities. White says tonight he will show everybody that he is elite as he takes on Mark Briscoe.
We see a video from Don Callis hyping up The Don Callis Family set to clips of the new video game Like A Dragon Gaiden The Man Who Erased His Name.
We hear from Kenny Omega who talks about being beaten and broken before tying it to the game calling next week’s match the Like A Dragon Street Fight.
After the break we go backstage Renee Paquette is with Golden Jets as Jericho talks about The Don Callis Family not realizing they had friends in Paul Wight & Kota Ibushi before Young Bucks walk in and start making fun of their new The Golden Jets name and talk about them having a name also in The Elite and talk about how they created AEW. Jericho says he remembers him & Omega being there also as Matt Jackson brings up Jericho’s ego. Jericho talks about him and Omega being 2 of the greatest to do it and says he thinks The Golden Jets could beat Young Bucks. Bucks talks about them not being booked at Full Gear and proposes the idea of them having a Tag Team match. Jericho says he likes the idea but says when they will beat them they will take their AEW World Tag Team Title shot. Matt Jackson says if they win the Golden Jets are no more and they can do The Elite again. Omega says he doesn’t want to wrestle them but he’s beaten them before and he can do it again and maybe they can start acting like real adults instead of sissy, whiny, b*tchy children. Matt says it’s not the 1st time they heard that as Omega says they had to hear it from someone like him. Jericho says he can’t wait to beat them up and tells them he has his own dressing room.
ROH Television Title Match
Samoa Joe (c) vs. Keith Lee
Samoa Joe starts the match backing Keith Lee in the corner before they lock up then Joe ends up raking Lee in the eyes and then knocking him down with a shoulder tackle but Lee comes back with one of his own.
They start running the ropes until Lee sends Joe to outside with a crossbody as they go to a picture in picture break.
After the break Joe takes Lee down with a knee breaker starts kicking away at Lee’s knee as Joe continues for a while but Lee comes back with a German suplex on Joe.
Lee catches Joe into a pop up powerbomb but falls himself then Lee crawls over for the cover but Joe kicks out at two.
Lee goes to pick up Joe but Joe escapes and puts on the Coquina Clutch as Lee tries to fight out but eventually passes out as the referee stops the match.
Winner By Submission & Still ROH Television Champion: Samoa Joe (STILL CHAMPION!!!!)
After the match Joe gets on the mic and calls himself the greatest Television Champion of all time but he didn’t come here to be your Television Champion he said hunger defines the great well consider him officially hungry as of tonight he vacates the ROH World Television Title and says he is going after the AEW World Title.
We go to International Champion Orange Cassidy & FTW Champion Hook in the back as Cassidy says Jon Moxley has lost his mind saying he doesn’t respect him. Cassidy says he’s been thinking about Moxley ever since he left him in a bloody mess and he picks up the pieces of the International Title that Moxley drop. Cassidy says he has to beat Moxley to be the champion that he knows he is and at Full Gear he will beat him.
Tag Team Match
The Bollywood Boys (Harv Sihra & Gurv Sihra) vs. The Gunns (Austin & Coleton)
Colten Gunn & Gurv Sihra starts the match but Austin Gunn comes in and they hit 3:10 To Yuma on Gurv to get the win.
Winners: The Gunns
After the match Colten gets on the microphone and says MJF has been lying to everybody for years telling sob story after sob story and compares themselves to LeBron James and says they were made to TV doing this for 3 years. Austin calls MJF an embarrassment of a champion and says the only friends he has left are on the other side of the guard rails and says he hopes he picks one of them as his partner for Full Gear. MJF is watching on from backstage as Samoa Joe walks from behind him until MJF walks away.
We go to Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta in the back as Moxley says he’s been told to let Orange Cassidy off the hook but Cassidy knew exactly what he was doing. This isn’t about the International Title but the laws of nature. He says he has to set an example to Yuta by beating Cassidy and asks what kind of example is to Hook. Moxley asks Cassidy if he could make it to Full Gear as Yuta says he will see Hook in LA.
We see a Wardlow video where he feels his potential was being wasted and he was treated as worthless all because of MJF and the days of the devil ruling over AEW are coming to an end.
Red Velvet vs. Julia Hart
Match starts off with a lock up then they go back & forth for a bit until they both have a face off while doing splits before Julia Hart trips up Red Velvet.
Velvet can corner Hart in the corner with punches before stretching her out with a boot choke. Hart mounts a comeback as we go to picture in picture.
After the break Hart takes control before she heads to the top rope and hits a moonsault for the win.
Winner: Julia Hart
After the match Hart puts on Hartless to Velvet as Skye Blue makes her way to the ring & Blue & Hart go face 2 face before TBS Champion Kris Statlander & Willow Nightingale make their way to the ring. Nightingale checks on Velvet while Statlander gets in between Blue & Hart before Hart leaves and goes to the back.
We go to RJ City in the back and announces the new AEW signing Mariah May who says she’s excited to be in AEW. May says she just came from Stardom and now he’s excited to be part of the AEW women’s division and says she’s so excited that Toni Storm is here and followed her here. City says Storm just left and maybe next week she will introduce her to Storm as May gets very excited.
Jay White’s AEW World Title Shot
Jay White (h) vs. Mark Briscoe
Mark Briscoe knocks Jay White to the outside where he goes to regroup with Bullet Club Gold. Back inside Briscoe stays in control and knocks White the outside again where he meets him with a diving dropkick and a flying elbow off the apron.
White distracts the referee in the ring that he’s injured as the rest of Bullet Club Gold attack Briscoe going into picture in picture break.
After the break we see a chop exchange before Briscoe hits a neckbreaker for a two count then Briscoe follows with a fisherman’s buster for another two count. Briscoe hits a Death Valley Driver and Froggy Bow as White kicks out yet again at two.
We get some back & forth until Briscoe knocks down White with a clothesline and calls for Jay Driller but White is able to reverse it as he hits a Sleeper Suplex and brainbuster for a two count. Briscoe blocks Blade Runner but White comes back with another Sleeper Suplex then Blade Runner to get the win.
Winner & Still #1 Contender To The AEW World Title: Jay White
After the match MJF’s music hits but he appears behind Bullet Club Gold in the ring and takes out Juice Robinson & The Gunns. MJF teases going after White with the Dynamite Diamond Ring but White escapes up the ramp. MJF gets on the mic and says he hopes White has been having fun playing dress up because playtime is almost over as he has to get in the ring with MJF. MJF says when he won that title he promised himself to be the greatest AEW World Champion of all time and says White has to kill him to beat him as for the 1st time in his life he’s fighting for everybody who’s been on this journey including Adam Cole & everyone in this arena. MJF ends it by asking if White will be the 1st man to pull the trigger. The lights go out and when they come back on we see four masked men attacking Trios Champion The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn before they send Anthony Bowens through a glass window. We cut to the image of the man in the devil mask as MJF runs to the back to check on them. Joe walks in and says it looks like MJF is running out of friends.
Friday’s Rampage
Tag Team Match
FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) vs. El Hijo Del Vikingo & Komander
Saturday’s Collision
Trios Match
The Righteous (Vincent & Dutch) & Lance Archer vs. Adam Copeland, Darby Allin & Sting
Tag Team Match
La Faccion Ingobernable (Dralistico & Rush) vs. The Workhorsemen (Anthony Henry & JD Drake)
Next Week’s Dynamite
8 Man Tag Team Street Fight
The Don Callis Family (Konosuke Takeshita, Powerhouse Hobbs, Kyle Fletcher & TBD) vs. Golden Lovers (Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi), Chris Jericho & Paul Wight
Tag Team Match
International Champion Orange Cassidy & FTW Champion Hook vs. Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta)
Full Gear Card So Far (Nov 18th)
AEW World Title Match
MJF (c) vs. Jay White
ROH World Tag Team Titles Match
MJF & TBD (c) vs. The Gunns (Austin & Coleton) (Pre Show)
Women’s Title Match
Hikaru Shida (c) vs. Toni Storm
Trios Match
TNT Champion Christian Cage, Luchasaurus & Nick Wayne vs. Adam Copeland, Darby Allin & Sting
International Title Match
Orange Cassidy (c) vs. Jon Moxley
Hangman Page vs. Swerve Strickland
Young Bucks’ AEW World Tag Team Titles Shot
Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) (h) vs. Golden Jets (Chris Jericho & Kenny Omega) (If Golden Jets lost they must disband)
