Welcome to the Fightful.com live discussion & coverage for the April 5, 2023 edition AEW Dynamite on TBS.
We will bring results and breakdowns for every match and segment on the show. Follow Fightful on Twitter.com/Fightful and Facebook.com/FIGHTFULONLINE
Here's what is set for the show.
Preview.
AEW Dynamite (4/5)
- AEW World Trios Championship: House of Black (Malakai Black, Buddy Matthews & Brody King) (c) vs. Orange Cassidy & Best Friends (Trent Beretta & Chuck Taylor)
- FTW Championship: HOOK (c) vs. Ethan Page
- AEW World Tag Team Championship vs. AEW Careers: The Gunns (Austin & Colten Gunn) (c) vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood)
- AEW Women's World Championship: Jamie Hayter (c) vs. Riho
- Sammy Guevara vs. Komander
- Ricky Starks vs. Juice Robinson
- The Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta & Bryan Danielson) speak.
- The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster) give their answer to the Jericho Appreciation Society.
- Tony Khan has a very important announcement.
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Live Coverage.
Ricky Starks vs. Juice Robinson
The match never gets underway as Switchblade Jay White comes down and attacks Ricky Starks along with Robinson. He hits the Blade Runner. He is all elite.
- Backstage, Chris Jericho explains that he came out at the end of AEW Dynamite last week because he believes Adam Cole was disrespectful to Daniel Garcia. Keith Lee interrupts him and says that Jericho has been the poster child of disrespect since he arrived and challenges Jericho to match next week.
AEW World Trios Championship: House of Black (Malakai Black, Buddy Matthews & Brody King) (c) vs. Orange Cassidy & Best Friends (Trent Beretta & Chuck Taylor)
Trent's mom Sue drives the challengers to the ring. Trent starts the match with Black. The action goes back and forth as Cassidy is now the legal man and tries to dive onto Kings of the Black Throne, who catch him and slam him onto the apron. The Challengers are able to hit a triple-team maneuver.
Eventually, everyone starts taking each other out with their finishers. Cassidy nails King with an Orange Punch. Chuck Taylor and Buddy Matthews are legal. Taylor gets a two-count with a roll-up. Matthews gets out of it and stomps Taylor for the win.
Winners and still AEW World Trios Champions: House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King & Buddy Matthews)
- Christian Cage stands by a red room, and out comes a returning Luchasaurus.
AEW Women’s World Championship: Jamie Hayter (c) (w/ Britt Baker) vs. Riho
Jamie goes for an early Hayter-ade, but it gets countered. Both women go back and forth. As the match continues, Riho dives onto the champion. Both women go back and forth on the apron and Jamie gets control. Riho gets control and hits a 619. Riho gets a series of near falls. Hayter comes back and gets a near fall of her own off of a Lariat. Jamie goes for a suplex but it gets countered with a DDT. In the end, Hayter nails a boot to the face, a Lariat, and Hayter-ade.
Winner and still AEW Women’s World Championship: Jamie Hayter.
- Renee Paquette interviews The Outcasts. All three promise they will take the AEW Women’s World Championship from Jamie Hayter.
The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster) give their answer to the Jericho Appreciation Society
The Acclaimed declined the offer, but 2point0 will have none of it and say they are teeming with The Acclaimed on AEW Rampage this week.
MJF Day
Maxwell Jacob Friedman is played out to the ring by a band and sings Pennies from Heaven before being given the key to the city and telling a story about how a math teacher in elementary school didn't believe in him, calling her a bitch. Maxwell goes to leave and offers to perform an encore but gets attacked by Jack Perry on the stage.
Jack and Maxwell get separated. Sammy Guevara comes out for his match and holds the AEW World Title over his head.
Sammy Guevara vs. Komander
The match immediately starts with a running knee from Sammy. Both men immediately begin flipping around. Komander hits an Asai Moonsault. Later in the match, Komander tries to walk the ropes and dive onto Sammy on the outside, but he gets hit with another knee. Komander gets in your fall with a shooting star and another with a hurricanrana, In the end, Sammy catches his opponent with a springboard Cutter as the masked man is walking the ropes and follows that up with a GTH for the victory.
Winner: Sammy Guevara.
- After the match, Guevara runs down Maxwell Jacob Friedman for never beating him cleanly, and he says he doesn't care if he's loved or hated. He will be the next champion because, unlike Max, he's not using this company to get anywhere else.
FTW Champion: HOOK (c) vs. Ethan Page
HOOK takes the early advantage, but Page quickly takes control on the outside. Back in the ring, he goes for a Twist of Fate, but it gets countered, and HOOK delivers one of his own. Ethan Page tries to utilize the belt, but Matt Hardy doesn't let him get it, and he hits Ethan with the belt instead. HOOK wins with the Redrum.
Winner and still FTW Champion: HOOK
- Nigel McGuinness and Tony Khan announced AEW All In will be held on August 27 in London, England. Adam Cole reports that the show will be held in Wembley Stadium.
Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta w/ Bryan Danielson) in Trios action
All three men dominated and quickly defeated their competitors. Wheeler taps out one of the competitors for victory. After the match, Bryan Danielson says he loves these men and says they embody what it means to be a professional wrestler saying that the whole locker room is filled with amateurs.
Hangman Page comes out and gets assaulted by the BCC. Bryan Danielson says no one saves him because nobody loves him before digging into Hangman's face with a screwdriver.
AEW World Tag Team Championship vs. AEW Careers: The Gunns (Austin & Colten Gunn) (c) vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood)
FTR almost get the victory with Shatter Machine but Colton pulls the referee out of the ring. The Gunns try to get disqualified by low-blowing Dax. Cash bags the referee not to. The Gunns utilize the Tag Team Championship belt to counter a Headbutt, but Dax kicks out. FTR wins with a double Sunset Flip and a double pinfall. Mark Briscoe celebrates with them in the end.
Winners and new AEW World Tag Team Champions: FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood)
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