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AEW Dynamite took place on a Saturday night this week thanks to the NBA playoffs but the show itself didn't disappoint.
AEW Dynamite kicked off with tag-team action pitting FTR against Private Party. We also had The Elite in action tonight as well as the finals of the AEW Women's Tag-Team Cup Tournament. However, tonight was all about The Dark Order.
FTR vs Private Party kicked off AEW Dynamite
The match of AEW Dynamite saw FTR square off against Private Party. This match followed FTR's attack on the legendary Rock N' Roll Express last week.
Cash and Harwood started the match off strong, taking control early and isolating Marc Quen in their corner. Quen briefly broke free and locked in a sleeper hold but FTR traded tags brilliants to take back control.
Quen finally tagged in Kassidy who came in off the hot tag. Kassidy took the fight to FTR, laying out Cash and Harwood. Kassidy looked in good touch but almost got rolled up. Quen broke it up and tagged in. Cash nailed Harwood with a picture-perfect spinebuster only for Kassidy to break it up.
Isiah Kassidy then launched himself over the top rope at Harwood but Tully Blanchard pulled him away. FTR followed it up by hitting the Goodnight Express to Marc Quen to pick up another big win.
AEW Dynamite Results: FTR def. Private Party
A great way to being AEW Dynamite, especially for FTR. Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood celebrated with Tully Blanchard inside the ring after their win.
GRADE - C
MJF was out next on AEW Dynamite with his lawyer. WHile MJF was almost at a loss for words, his lawyer said that the Paradigm Shift almost ended MJF's career and it needed to be banned. MJF's lawyer then said he had drawn a contract that said the Paradigm Shift was banned from All Out.
MJF's lawyer then threatened to sue Jon Moxley if he didn't sign the contract.
AEW Dynamite: Jurassic Express and Natural Nightmares vs Lucha Bros, The Butcher, and The Blade
A big 8-man tag match was up next on AEW Dynamite. The heels blindsided the faces before the match started. They managed to isolate QT Marshall and took turns laying into him until he managed to tag Dustin Rhodes in.
Dustin looked in great touch as he laid into Butcher and Blade but soon got cut off from his teammate himself. Fenix had the referee distracted as Pentagon got some cheapshots in. Back from the break, Dustin Rhodes tried to fight back on AEW Dynamite but got taken out by an enzuigiri from Fenix.
Things broke down at this point as Luchasaurus tagged in and cleaned house. We saw Jungle Boy hit a couple of stunning dives. This left Pentagon and Luchasauus in the ring. Luchasaurus hit a chokeslam followed by a standing moonsault for a nearfall.
The Butcher and The Blade briefly isolated Luchasaurus but QT Marshall came in for the same. Marshall was taken out by Pentagon and Fenix. Dustin Rhodes nuked Fenix with a Canadian Destroyer.
Pentagon and The Blade got into an argument at this point. This gave Jungle Boy the opening to roll up The Blade for the win.
AEW Dynamite Results: Jurassic Express and Natural Nightmares def. Lucha Bros, The Butcher and The Blade
Eddie Kingston was out next and he implored Lucha Bros and The Butcher and Blade to stop arguing and to join forces with him. It looks like we have seen the rise of another faction in AEW.
GRADE - C
AEW Dynamite: Chris Jericho challenges Orange Cassidy
Orange Cassidy was out in the AEW Dynamite ring with the Best Friends, after his massive win against Chris Jericho last week. Before Cassidy could get a word in, Chris Jericho's music hit.
Chris Jericho started off by congratulating Orange Cassidy, saying that he actually had some respect for Cassidy now. Jericho added that now that both men had one win over each other, they needed to face each other in a third match to see who the better man was.
Chris Jericho added that this wouldn't just be any ordinary match, but would be the first-ever Mimosa Mayhem match.
The Inner Circle then made their way out to ringside and surrounded Orange Cassidy and Best Friends around the AEW Dynamite ring. At Chris Jericho's signal, the Inner Circle laid into them.
Chris Jericho nailed Orange Cassidy with the Judas Effect. With Cassidy alone in the ring, the Inner Circle held him upside down and poured a little bit of the bubbly into his face. The Inner Circle then posed over Orange Cassidy as he was laid out on the mat.
GRADE - B
AEW Dynamite: The Elite vs The Dark Order
Nick Jackson and Alan Angels started the AEW Dynamite match off. It was a good start from Nick Jackson who soon tagged in his brother Matt and they hit Angels with a double dropkick. Matt then hit Angels with a couple of Northern Lights suplexes before Reynolds and Silver broke it up.
Kenny Omega came in as the legal man but he got hit with a low blow by Angels. John Silver then booted a steel chair into Omega's face at ringside. Great work from Reynolds and SIlver to get their team back in it before rolling the legal man, Kenny Omega, back in,
Alan Angels showed off what he can do as he hit Kenny Omega with a series of kicks. He then went for the double stomp from the top rope but missed and got taken out. Nick Jackson and Alex Reynolds came in as the legal men.
Nick Jackson dished out some great offense before tagging Matt Jackson back in. Together they double teamed Alan Angels on AEW Dynamite.
Alex Reynolds and John Silver isolated Kenny Omega and got a nearfall off a pinning combination. The Bucks went for the Meltzer Driver but Reynolds and Silver hit stereo Tombstone Piledrivers on AEW Dynamite. Matt Jackson replied with a superkick to Reynolds. The Bucks then caught Angels with a double Superkick in midair.
The Bucks and Omega then hit Angels with a modified Indytaker before Omega finished it off with a One Winged Angel.
AEW Dynamite Results: Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks def. The Dark Order
GRADE - B
AEW Dynamite: Darby Allin vs Will Hobbs
Darby Allin wasted no time and hit Hobbs with a dropkick before the bell rang on AEW Dynamite. Allin followed it up with a suicide dive out to ringside. Hobbs showed off his power briefly by tossing Allin around the ring.
It was an impressive showing from Hobbs who continued to use his power to dominate the match and even got a couple of pin attempts in. Allin hit back with a modified Stunner and then headed to the top rope and landed a Coffin Drop for the win.
AEW Dynamite Results: Darby Allin def. Will Hobbs
Ricky Starks then interrupted Darby Allin's victory celebrations. Starks came out dressed like Allin, in the facepaint and with a skateboard, and mocked him. While this was going on, Brian Cage blindsided Allin in the middle of the ring and took him out with a shot of the FTW World Championship belt.
Starks then joined Cage in the ring and called Darby Allin out for being a loser. It's clear that we will see these two face each other again in the future. Ricky Starks looked great in this segment.
GRADE - B
NWA Women's Champion Thunder Rosa made a brief appearance on AEW Dynamite, challenging AEW Women's Champion Hikaru Shida.
AEW Dynamite: Nightmare Sisters vs Ivelisse and Diamante (AEW Women's Tag-Team Cup tournament final)
Diamante and Ivelisse made a solid start to the match, clearly using their experience as an advantage. They isolated Brandi Rhodes early but Allie pulled things back for her team.
Rhodes tagged back in and hit Diamante with a pump kick. Allie came in with a sliding clothesline. Ivelisse tried to wrest back control for her team but got cut down wit ha Spear from Brandi Rhodes.
Allie and Diamante were the legal competitors. Diamante hit a nasty spinning forearm and tagged in Ivelisse. QT Marshall tried to interfere but he was knocked off the apron. Brandi Rhodes then got dumped out of the ring and onto QT Marshall.
Ivelisse and Diamante had Allie where the wanted her. Ivelisse finished her off, sending her face-first into the mat and then catching her with a boot to the jaw. This was enough to get Ivelisse and Diamante the win.
AEW Dynamite Results: Ivelisse and Diamante win the AEW Women's Tag-Team Cup tournament
GRADE - B
AEW Dynamite: Cody (C) vs Mr. Brodie Lee (for the TNT Championship)
Mr. Brodie Lee was in a nasty mood for this one on AEW Dynamite, taking the fight to Cody from the get-go. Despite Cody's flurry of early strikes, it was all Brodie Lee afterward. Lee hit Cody with a nasty powerbomb in the middle of the ring as Arn Anderson started to look concerned at ringside.
Brodie Lee followed it up with another powerbomb and followed it up with the Discus Lariat to pin Cody and win the TNT Championship. The most shocking part of this match was how one-sided it was and how less offense Cody got in.
AEW Dynamite Results: Brodie Lee def. Cody
The Dark Order members came out on AEW Dynamite to celebrate with their leader. In his post-match interview, Lee said that executives like Tony Schiavone had held him down and now that he had finally gotten a chance, he had shown what he could do. Cody was taken away on a stretcher as the members of The Dark Order continued to celebrate in the ring.
The Dark order then assaulted Arn Anderson on the entrance ramp and then brought Cody back out. Lee pushed him off the stretcher and hit him in the head with a bag. We don't know what the bag contained it couldn't have been cotton wool. It later turned out to be the old TNT Championship belt.
The Dark Order then brought out Dustin Rhodes and QT Marshall who had clearly been attacked earlier on in the night. Brandi Rhodes came out to try and protect Cody from further assault but Anna Jay choked her out.
The Dark Order just changed the landscape of AEW.
GRADE - A
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