Welcome to Fightful's live coverage of AEW Dynamite for March 22, 2023.
Here is what's on tap for the show:
AEW Dynamite (3/22)
- Kenny Omega vs. El Hijo del Vikingo
- No Disqualification: HOOK vs. Stokely Hathaway
- AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Gunns (Austin & Colten Gunn) (c) vs. Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin)
- Jon Moxley vs. Stu Grayson
- Toni Storm (with Saraya & Ruby Soho) vs. Skye Blue
- Butcher, Blade, & Kip Sabian vs. Darby Allin, Orange Cassidy & Sting
- Adam Cole speaks
- The Young Bucks are laid out backstage. Adam Page rides away with them in an ambulance.
Kenny Omega looks on sad.
Butcher, Blade, & Kip Sabian vs. Darby Allin, Orange Cassidy & Sting
Orange Cassidy had low-effort face paint on his face. Throughout the match, Sting utilized some of Orange's mannerisms, including barely trying to beat his chest. Sting gets the win with the Scorpion Death Drop.
Winners: Sting, Orange Cassidy, Darby Allin.
- A video package Recaps the segment last week between MJF, Darby Allin, Jungle Boy, and Sammy Guevara.
AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Gunns (Austin & Colten Gunn) (c) vs. Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin)
Top Flight had control early on, but once they took control, The Gunns isolated Dante. Dante eventually used his acrobatics to make the hot tag into his brother Darius hits a Spanish Fly. and dives onto Colten on the outside. The kingdom arrives on the scene to interfere. The Gunns hit their finisher for their win.
Winners and still champions: The Gunns.
- After the match, FTR arrived and challenge The Gunns to a championship match next week and say that if they don't win, they will quit AEW.
- Mark Sterling is with Jade Cargill again and says he is ready to issue Taya Valkyrie a cease and desist regarding her finishing move. Valkyrie vs. Leila Gray is set for this Friday.
- Stokely tries to give the referee a doctor's note, which is just a Wingstop receipt with "He Is Sick" written in Sharpie. HOOK hits a capture suplex on the ringside floor. He pulls out a guardrail from under the ring. Hathaway tries to get a brief moment of reprieve by using a fire extinguisher, but HOOK hits him with a chair, hits an Exploder onto the guardrail, locks in the Redrum, and gets the win.
Winner and still champion: HOOK.
- Adam Cole comes out to address the crowd. He is interrupted by Daniel Garcia. Garcia challenges him to imagine next week. Cole accepts and warns Garcia that the company he keeps has left him with a false sense of confidence.
- Backstage, Kenny Omega and Don Callis appear to be arguing about what happened to Matt and Nick Jackson, with Omega saying he wishes he would have went to the hospital with them.
Jon Moxley vs. Stu Grayson
Grayson starts the match aggressively, but Jon Moxley eventually takes control with a back suplex. Moxley then sends Grayson into the guardrail outside.
Moxley kept control, until The Dark Order & Blackpool Combat Club got into a confrontation on the outside and Grayson dived onto the BCC, Moxley followed that up with a suicide dive on Grayson. Back in the ring, Grayson got a near fall with the 450 Splash. Moxley almost got the wind with the Bulldog Choke. Moxley eventually gets the victory with the Avalanche Death Ridder. Dark Order immediately stops him from doing any further damage after the match.
Winner: Jon Moxley
- Ricky Starks challenges Juice Robinson to meet him on Rampage.
- QTV airs as they recap Hobbs vs. Fenix from Rampage. This Friday, Powerhouse Hobbs will defend his TNT Championship against Pent El Zero M.
Toni Storm vs. Skye Blue
Storm starts the match aggressively. Blue is able to send her to the outside with the Dropkick. Blue hits an Apron Frakensteiner. The Outcasts attack Blue on the floor. Blue takes a swing at Ruby, Storm nails her from behind. In the ring, Blue is eventually able to come back and get to near fall following a Crossbody. Ruby distracts the referee, allowing Storm not to be pinned after Blue hits the Code Red. Storm hits a dropkick and Sweet Cheeks Music followed by Storm Zero for the victory.
Winner: Toni Storm.
- After the match, Riho and Willow Nightingale prevent The Outcasts from doing further damage to Blue.
- Backstage, Moxley finds Stu Grayson being checked on by the medical team and attacks him.
Kenny Omega vs. El Hijo del Vikingo
Vikingo started the action before the bell even rang with a dive onto Kenny and an attack in the corner. After the bell rings, the match gets underway and both men deliver an absolute classic. Vikingo hits an early Dragonrana. Vikingo follows it up with double knees sending Kenny to the outside. Vikingo hits a Shooting Star Press from the apron and gets a near fall off of a 450 Splash. Kenny is able to get some momentum with a Backbreaker, but Vikingo is able to fight back. Taking the action to the apron, Kenny is able to hit a crazy monkey flip on the apron. Vikingo fights his way out of a Dragon Syplex attempt and hits a hurricanrana sending Kenny to the floor.
Down the line, Kenny goes for an Avalanche Powerbomb and gets countered with a Hurricanrana that drops him on his head. Viking then hits an apron Phoenix Splash for two. Omega is able to come back hit a Powerbomb and V-Trigger for two.
The action would eventually go to the floor again, and then Vikingo would hit a Springboard 630 through Omega, who was laying on a table on the outside.
The match eventually ends when Kenny is able to finally hit one final V-Trigger and the One Winged Angel.
Winner: Kenny Omega
- After the match, Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, and Claudio Castagnoli attack Omega. Hangman Page comes back driving an ambulance to save his former friend. Don Callis makes it seem as though Hangman hit him after running off the Blackpool Combat Club. Kenny Omega is mad that Hangman appears to have hit Callis and Don is successful in maintaining friction between the former members of The Elite for one more week.
