Here are the quick results from tonight’s ARW Dynamite in Montreal, Canada:
Match 1: Continental Classic Gold Block: Jon Moxley vs. Rush
Result: Jon Moxley beat Rush by ref stoppage (technical submission).
Moxley is 3-0, 9 points. Rush is 1-2, 3 points. This means some losers tonight will potentially be eliminated from Finals contention.
The Kingdom interviewed.
MJF/Adam Page go at it verbally until Samoa Joe breaks it up. MJF thinks Page is The Devil.
Match 2: Continental Classic Gold Block: Mark Briscoe vs. Swerve Strickland
Result: Swerve Strickland beat Mark Briscoe
Strickland is 3-0, 9 points. Briscoe is 0-3, 0 points and can’t advance to the Finals.
Samoa Joe comes out for his match but the lights go out and The Devil’s Masked Men surround the ring. Lights go out again and when they come back on, they’re gone. We then see Joe alone in the ring and The Devil appears on the screen above the entrance area, cutting to MJF having been laid out, apparently by a broken beer bottle.
Jon Moxley promo. Swerve Strickland interrupts. Somebody’s 0 Has Got To Go and it’ll be next week at Winter Is Coming.
Match 3: AEW Women’s Champion Toni Storm vs. Skye Blue for the title
Result: AEW Women’s Champion Toni Storm beat Skye Blue to retain the title. Next up: Possibly Riho, who returned post-match to crash the victory celebration.
Match 4: Continental Classic Gold Block: Jay Lethal vs. Jay White
Result: Jay White beat Jay Lethal
White is 2-1, 6 points. Lethal is 0-3, 0 points and can’t advance to the Finals.
Friday on Rampage: Powerhouse Hobbs & Konosuke Takeshita vs. Christopher Dnaiels & Matt Sydal, Abadon vs. Trish Adora, Bryan Danielson vs. Daniel Garcia in the Continental Classic and Orange Cassidy & Danhause
Next week: Srickland-Moxley, White-Briscoe and Rush-Lethal in the Classic. Also Samoa Joe Speaks and The Von Erichs return to Dallas, plus Adam Page vs. Roderick Strong.
Main Event: AEW TNT Champion Christian Cage vs. Adam Copeland for the title
Result: AEW TNT Champion Christian Cage beat Adam Copeland to retain the title. Screwjob of course, in this case when Nick Wayne’s mom came out and turned on Copeland.
As a whole the show was average to just above average again. Not a bad show but outside of the Continental Classic, which continues to be solid if unspectacular, there’s nothing to care about. The main event finish was a big Go F*ck Yourself to all the non-Christian fans, and the fans in general. Not Best For Business and the live business is struggling for AEW right now regardless of how Tony Khan spins it.
Next week is the annual Winter Is Coming special.
