
AEW Dynamite
January 22, 2025
By: John Siino
Knoxville Civic Coliseum in Knoxville, Tennessee
Commentary: Excalibur, Taz & Tony Schiavone
RESULTS
- AEW World Tag Team Title: Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin over Zay & Quen (c) via pinfall to become new champions (9:10)
- Swerve Strickland over AR Fox via pinfall (9:14)
- Adam Page over Tyler Shoop via pinfall (0:18)
- Jamie Hayter over Julia Hart via pinfall (9:35)
- Cope over PAC via pinfall (18:08)
Six Feet Down Under
The show starts with Tony Schiavone in the ring as he brings out both Will Ospreay & Kenny Omega. Ospreay starts by saying he’s glad Omega is not dead and thanks him for joining him but tells him that a lot has changed since Omega has been away. He has nothing to do with Don Callis and has done everything he can to stop them. He continues that Omega came at a bad time, and he’s been trying to stop Jon Moxley and the Death Riders, but Callis keeps getting in the way and can’t do this alone. Omega snatches the mic and tells Ospreay to stop and reminds Ospreay that not only did he try to break his neck but used a screwdriver, all because he was trying to prove that he was the best. Not only did Omega not believe Ospreay was better than him back then, but he didn’t believe he was better now. It took diverticulitis to almost kill him to have people know that Ospreay even existed, but now that he’s back, he is #1 and Ospreay is #2. Omega says he will never trust someone like Ospreay, which gets Ospreay fired up and gets in Omega’s face just for Don Callis to make his way out. Omega rushes toward Callis before he can say anything, but he gets jumped by Kyle Fletcher & Konosuke Takeshita. Ospreay hesitates for a bit before he runs out to help Omega. Ospreay takes Fletcher into the ring and starts attacking him in the corner until Takeshita stops him. Omega runs in and takes out Takeshita with a Snap Dragon Suplex, before teasing the Terminator Dive, but Fletcher stops him with a kick. All four continue to fight, taking it into the crowd and in the back, as Brian Cage & Lance Archer join in the brawl. Archer tries to chokeslam both Omega & Ospreay into the merch table, but they block him and put Archer through the table with a double suplex instead. Ospreay & Omega both start climbing the stage equipment and side of the crowd wall and hit double moonsaults. Omega gets on the mic and says the next time they get a chance; they will put Callis six feet down under. Speaking of ‘down under’, Omega suggests himself and Ospreay teaming up to take on Fletcher & Takeshita at Grand Slam Australia.
Worst Case Scenario
We get a video for PAC before cutting to the Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Marina Shafir & Wheeler Yuta) in the back. Jon Moxley talks about Cope waking up in 2025 in a world he doesn’t belong or understand, where the animals are big, faster, stronger, meaner & smarter. There are plenty of weak pathetic creatures here, and they’ll throw ‘Adam Copeland’ onto the pile. They bring up how Cope’s neck is hanging on by a thread, just like Bryan Danielson’s did. Maybe the next time Cope goes to the doctor, he gets some bad news and it’s a worst-case scenario. In that case, he won’t lose even a little bit of sleep over it, as he doesn’t have time to sleep or time for relics from the past. There’s too much work to do and they are building a future.
AEW World Tag Team Championship: Private Party (Zay & Quen) (c) vs. The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin)
Private Party comes out to their new ‘Flex On ‘Em’ song before it transitions into their old ‘Shots’ song. MVP goes to join the commentary table for this championship match as Bobby Lashley & Quen start. Private Party starts in control taking turns on Lashley & Shelton Benjamin, knocking them both to the outside where Private Party tries stereo suicide dives, but gets caught and tossed with belly-to-belly suplexes as MVP instructs Lashley to slam Zay onto the commentary table, which he does, breaking through it as we go to break.
Benjamin stays on top of Quen and goes for the pin, but Zay runs back in and breaks it up. Zay & Quen start attacking Lashley back and forth until Lashley stops Zay with a big spear, but Quen is there to break it up. All four men are in now going at it with Lashley hitting another spear on Zay to get the pin and the win.
Winners: The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin) by pinfall at 9:10, to become NEW AEW World Tag Team Champions
Mark Briscoe comes out to check on Private Party after the match before we get a video package for Mariah May ahead of her match with Toni Storm at Grand Slam Australia.
See You In Australia
Renee Paquette is in the back with Toni Storm who says she’s nervous and excited to meet May on Collision. Harley Cameron walks in and gives her good luck, as Storm says there’s no reason why Harley can’t wrestle in Australia either. They start going back in forth in their Australian lingo before they tell each other that they will see each other in Australia as Renee says she didn’t get a word of that.
The Gift of a 57-Year-Old Man
Alex Marvez is in the back with Jeff Jarrett, but Karen Jarrett interrupts and tells Jeff to remember what they talked about and to stay out of the mud, with the way he acted last week, that is not the type of person Jeff is anymore. Jeff says ‘he got this’ and heads to the ring. Jarrett says it’s great to be back here and as he was driving up here to gather his thoughts, Jerry Lawler came to his mind and it took him back to a tag match early in his career. He said those two guys physically and verbally kicked his ass, and he threw in some verbal jabs himself. When he went to the dressing room, Lawler got in his face and asked him ‘What the hell are you thinking out there, don’t ever get in the gutter with your opponent’. Sometimes it’s great to come back home to remember who you are and MJF is going to find out exactly who The Last Outlaw is. He said he and MJF are going to settle this ‘Southern’ style and he is going to take him out to the woodshed and beat his ass. Jarrett moves on from that and talks about how the fans inspired him to give him the juice to get into the Owen Hart Cup last year and have given him a gift. The gift of a 57-year-old man thinking he can become the AEW World Champion. Jarrett calls out Jon Moxley to get out there and talk. The Death Riders music hits as Claudio Castagnoli shows up from behind and takes out Jarrett with an uppercut. Claudio takes the mic and says nobody gets to Moxley before going through him first and tells Jarrett to stay out of their business. As Claudio leaves, Jarrett gets back on the mic and says Claudio will have to kill him to stop him. Jarrett says if he beats Claudio next week, he’ll get his world title shot. Claudio says that beating Jarrett lifeless is an interesting proposition and he’ll see him next week.
We get a video package for Megan Bayne, as Excalibur says she is a potential danger to anyone holding a championship in the AEW women’s division.
Swerve Strickland (w/ Prince Nana) vs. AR Fox
They start the match attempting to suplex each other, before Swerve Strickland sends AR Fox to the outside where he hits him with a moonsault. We see Ricochet in the back and it looks like he’s making his way into the venue. Swerve stays in control as we go to break.
We return with Swerve coming back from a moonsault, with a power slam and a diving elbow off the ropes. As he sets up for the House Call, Ricochet shows up on the apron with the scissors but gets chased away to the back by Prince Nana with a lead pipe. Fox takes control of the match, but he misses the 450 Splash. Swerve comes back with a flatliner and the House Call, before hitting the Swerve Stomp to get the pin and the win.
Winner: Swerve Strickland by pinfall at 9:14
As Swerve is helping Fox up, we cut to Ricochet on the tron as Ricochet says that next week everybody will be forced to hear everything he has to say as he has a lot to get off his chest. We see Ricochet has the scissors against Prince Nana’s neck and he can gut him, but he needs Nana to tell Swerve that there’s a new landlord and that rent is due.
Biggest & Baddest Bill
We go to another New York Minute from The Learning Tree as Chris Jericho says they are more somber this week because they lost last week on Maximum Carnage. They said they failed at taking out Powerhouse Hobbs, as Jericho asks Big Bill if they are comfortable with them losing and says learning moments only work if you learn from them and asks Bill when he’s going to start using the knowledge he bestowed on him and asks what he’s going to do. Bill says Jericho is right, and Hobbs can’t beat him as he is the biggest and baddest man in the entire industry, so he says this Saturday on Collision he is coming to find Hobbs.
Defying The Devil
We see an enhancement talent (Tyler Shoop) in the ring as MJF’s music hits as he makes his way to the ring. MJF tells Shoop to get the hell out of his ring and says to Jeff Jarrett that he deserves to give every wrestling fan an apology after his actions last week. If there’s anyone who deserves an apology more than anyone else, it’s him. When he offered to help Jarrett win the AEW World Championship, he didn’t do it because he believed in Jarrett, he did it because he thought Jarrett would be the easiest to manipulate and the easiest to beat. He says Jarrett is about as senile as he looks for thinking he can win without MJF’s help and by the time Claudio Castagnoli is done beating his brains next week, he will be senile. MJF tells Jarrett that professional wrestling doesn’t love him anymore and the fans don’t even love him anymore, which prompts a Double J chant. MJF says these dumb hicks can chant all they want, but it doesn’t change the fact that Jarrett is about to find out the hard way that sometimes you’re better off making a deal with the devil instead of defying him.
‘Hangman’ Adam Page makes his way to the ring and tells MJF to leave, as he has a match here.
Adam Page vs. Tyler Shoop
Tyler Shoop is a local wrestler who competes in the NWA territories. Adam Page takes it to Tyler Shoop right away and hits him with a clothesline to get the quick win.
Winner: Adam Page by pinfall at 18 seconds
Page continues to attack Shoop after the match, and hits him with the Angel’s Wings that he stole from Christopher Daniels last week. Daniels’s music hits as he makes his way out wearing a neck brace. Daniels tells Page he doesn’t want to fight him, but be a friend but every time he does that he messes it up. Daniels says he let his ego overtake him and he regrets having a violent match with a violent man, and he is going to regret that for the rest of his life. After that last Buckshot Lariat, his doctors have advised him to never wrestle again. He’s here to tell Page that he won. He won the last match that he’ll ever wrestle, so this is goodbye. He’s sorry and he hopes Page can be happy now.
We see that the Will Ospreay & Kenny Omega vs. Konosuke Takeshita & Kyle Fletcher match is made official for AEW Grand Slam Australia.
The Mone’ Train
We cut to Mercedes Mone’ walking in the back, as Renee Paquette congratulates her for having four championships in her collection and asks what else she has planned for 2025. Mercedes says she’s a global champion now, and is about to wrestle in Australia, and can’t wait to see who she will wrestle before Harley Cameron walks in with a guitar and sings a song about riding the ‘Mone’ Train’ and puts out the challenge. Mercedes says that Harley has never won a match, and says that will be a no to her challenge. Renee tells her that it was a good song though.
Jamie Hayter vs. Julia Hart
Julia Hart still comes out as ‘honoring the House of Black’. Right away Jamie Hayter knocks Hart to the outside and starts tossing her against the barricades. Hayter takes Hart back inside, hitting her with a missile dropkick for two. Hart mounts Hayter and attacks her as we go to break.
When we return, they are on the top rope as Hayter hits a back suplex. Hayter stays on top with a flurry of German Suplexes, before hitting a spinebuster for a two-count. Hart gets out of a single Crab submission, by grabbing the bottom rope. Hayter comes back with a crucifix bomb for two, before finishing off Hart with the Hayterade for the pin and the win.
Winner: Jamie Hayter by pinfall at 9:35
Hayter gets on the mic and talks about doing some attempted murder today before she says she has a very heavy respect for women like Hart who move to the beat of their own drum. Hayter says whether it’s Hart with two big men next to her or alone with no one beside her, she’s still a tough bitch. They both won one match each, and when Hart wants match number three, she got it.
We go to Powerhouse Hobbs who tells Big Bill that he won’t have to look for him very hard in Jacksonville, as he will be waiting for him in the parking lot.
We go to Swerve Strickland in the back who’s fired up and says Ricochet will need those scissors against him in two weeks in Atlanta, Georgia, but maybe he will catch him just a little sooner than that.
We see a video from Brody King, Buddy Matthews & Julia Hart who said they had a voice that went silent and they are done living in the shadows. No rules, no leaders, no Gods, and no masters, just violence. When they bark, they bark together.
Cope vs. PAC
They start the match slow, testing each other out with a test of strength before Cope goes for pin attempts. Cope sends PAC to the outside with a tijeras, before they start fighting on the apron where Cope picks up PAC and slams him face-first into the steel steps. They start fighting on the outside, as PAC slams Cope back neck-first into the ring post and keeps attacking his neck as Bryce Remsburg gets in between them. PAC hits Cope with a springboard crossbody to the outside as we head to a break.
When we return, Cope sends PAC flying to the corner with a John Woo dropkick. Cope struggles to get PAC up, but once he does PAC starts kicking away at Cope’s leg, but Cope comes right back with a big lariat followed by the Impaler DDT. Cope sets up for the spear, but PAC leapfrogs him and puts on the Brutalizer while Cope is holding him standing before they both collapse down. PAC keeps attacking Cope’s neck with a pump kick and hits a German Suplex, as Remsburg gets in between them again. PAC rushes in and puts the Brutalizer in, but Cope powers up and drives PAC back down. Cope hits a spear to the back of PAC, followed by another spear, but struggles to go for the cover. Cope hits an Airplane Spin into a TKO-style cutter to get the pin and the win.
Winner: Cope by pinfall at 18:08
We cut to the back where the rest of the Death Riders have FTR all tied up with The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express laid out on the ground before they hit Ricky Morton with a Conchairto. They start to make their way to the ring and surround Cope before they ambush him along with PAC. Jay White’s music hits as he makes his way out and takes out Claudio and PAC, but as he is about to hit the Blade Runner on Moxley, he gets taken out by Wheeler Yuta with a low blow. Marina Shafir joins in now as the Death Riders start stomping out on White & Cope. Moxley puts the Bulldog Choke on Cope, as Claudio & Yuta are holding White back.
Collision ‘Homecoming’ Line-Up
- Mariah May & Toni Storm face-to-face
- Gates of Agony vs. Brody King & Buddy Matthews
- Daniel Garcia, Matt Menard & Angelo Parker vs. Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong
Dynamite (1/29) Line-Up
- Will Ospreay vs. Brian Cage
- Jeff Jarrett vs. Claudio Castagnoli (Jarrett gets AEW World Title shot with win)
Dynamite (2/5) Line-Up
- Swerve Strickland vs. Ricochet
Grand Slam Australia Line-Up
- Kenny Omega & Will Ospreay vs. Konosuke Takeshita & Kyle Fletcher
- AEW Women’s World Title: Mariah May (c) vs. Toni Storm