5/15/24 AEW Dynamite Recap
We go live into the arena for the first match, as Don Callis, Excalibur, Taz, and Tony Schiavone are on commentary from Everett, Washington.
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Match 1 – Tag Team Match
Bryan Danielson and Jon Moxley vs. Jeff Cobb and Kyle Fletcher
Cobb and Fletcher attack Moxley during his entrance, but Danielson rushes the ring to make the save. Danielson delivers shots to Fletcher and slams him into the barricade. Danielson slams Cobb into the barricade, and then Moxley clotheslines Fletcher off the barricade. Danielson dropkicks Cobb against the barricade as Moxley chokes Fletcher with his shirt and delivers right hands. Moxley delivers a running knee strike to Fletcher as Danielson gets Cobb in the ring and the referee calls for the bell.
Danielson delivers kicks to Cobb in the corner, and then follows with a dropkick before tagging in Moxley. Moxley delivers right hands in the corner and gouges his eyes before delivering a low dropkick to Cobbs’ knee. Moxley takes Cobb down as Danielson tags in and delivers a kick to the chest. Danielson applies a Figure Four, and Moxley tags in to drop an elbow on Cobb for a two count. Cobb comes back and backs Moxley into the corner, and then Fletcher tags in and delivers quick shots to Moxley’s head. Fletcher chops Moxley in the corner, but Moxley turns it around with chops and elbow strikes of his own. Moxley delivers a corner clothesline and puts Fletcher up top. Moxley delivers another chop, and then rakes his fingernails on Fletcher’s back. Moxley bites Fletcher’s face, and then delivers a superplex for a two count. Cobb comes in and delivers a shot to Moxley, but Moxley delivers a shot to Fletcher’s midsection and tags Danielson in. Danielson delivers a diving knee strike as Fletcher is draped over the to[ rope, and the show heads to a commercial.
Back from the break, Fletcher knocks Danielson to the floor and tags Cobb in. Cobb delivers a shot to Moxley, but Moxley comes back with back elbows. Moxley drops Cobb with a suplex and tags in Danielson. Danielson delivers a shot to Cobb and knocks Fletcher to the floor. Danielson delivers round kicks to Cobb in the corner, and then drops him with a flying elbow strike. Danielson sends Cobb to the outside and dives, but Cobb moves and Danielson sends Fletcher into the barricade. Cobb attacks Danielson from behind and gets him back into the ring. Cobb slams Danielson down and goes for a standing moonsault, but Danielson dodges it. Danielson takes Cobb down again, and then Moxley and Fletcher tag in. Moxley gains the advantage with shots and headbutts, but Fletcher kicks him in the face. Fletcher charges across, but Moxley drops him with a clothesline. Moxley slams Cobb down, but Fletcher comes back with a Michinoku Driver for a two count.
Cobb sends Moxley to the corner, and then he and Fletcher double-team Moxley for a bit. Fletcher delivers a Tombstone Piledriver and goes for the cover, but Moxley kicks out. Cobb tags back in and puts Moxley on his shoulders. Fletcher goes up top, but Moxley gets free and sends Cobb into Fletcher. Danielson delivers the Busaiku Knee to Cobb, and then follows with a roundhouse kick to Fletcher. Moxley delivers Death Rider to Fletcher and gets the pin fall.
Winners: Bryan Danielson and Jon Moxley
-After the match, Cobb and Fletcher beat down Danielson in the corner as Konosuke Takeshita attacks Moxley. Takeshita suplexes Moxley from the top and delivers shots to him, but Claudio Castagnoli runs to the ring and makes the save.
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A video package plays for ongoing feud between the AEW World Champion, Swerve Strickland, and the number on contender, Christian Cage.
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The AEW TNT Champion, Adam Copeland, makes his way to the stage, but Brody King and Buddy Matthews attack him from behind. Matthews slams Copeland into the ring steps, and King follows with right hands before throwing Copeland in the ring. Malakai Black walks to ringside with the title as Matthews and King get some chairs in the ring. King and Matthews hold Copeland up as Black grabs a microphone. Black says he doesn’t understand why Copeland continues the façade of pretending to be who he thinks he is. Black tells Matthews to take Copeland’s wedding ring off. Matthews hands it to Black, who puts it in his pocket. They drag Copeland to the corner and put chairs on either side of his head as King sets up for the cannonball senton.
Kyle O’Reilly runs in to make the save, but King beats him down and throws him back to the floor. Matthews throws O’Reilly toward Black, who delivers The End. King delivers the cannonball senton to Copeland as Black and Matthews dropkick the chairs into Copeland’s head.
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Footage of this past Saturday’s NJPW Resurgence event from this past Saturday airs. The footage shows part of Eddie Kingston’s match, followed by footage of The Elite attacking him. The Elite are backstage and Matthew says it looks like Kingston got bit by the injury bug. Jack Perry says it looks like Anarchy in the Arena might be four on three, unless FTR and Moxley forfeit. Nicholas says they’ve taken out Tony Khan, Kenny Omega, and now Kingston, and then Kazuchika Okada says he will take out Dax Harwood tonight and calls him a bitch.
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Renee Paquette interviews FTR. Paquette asks them about being down a man, and Cash Wheeler says it doesn’t matter to them what the numbers are, but they have found a fourth member. Dax Harwood says name-calling isn’t very nice, but then says it looks like Okada is The Elite’s bitch.
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Jack Perry has joined the commentary team for the next match.
Match 2 – AEW World Tag Team Championship Eliminator Match
The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) vs. Christopher Daniels and Matt Sydal
Sydal delivers a jumping knee strike to Nicholas and rolls him up for a two quick count. Daniels and Matthew tag in and get in each other’s faces. Daniels slams Matthew into the corner and delivers right hands. Daniels delivers more shots to Matthew and knocks Nicholas to the floor. Sydal tags back in and sends Matthew back into the corner. Daniels delivers an enzuigiri and Sydal splashes down onto Matthew. Sydal goes for the cover, but Matthew kicks out at two. Nicholas makes the blind tag in and drops Sydal with a roundhouse kick. Nicholas sends Daniels to the floor and drops him with a kick. The Bucks double-team Sydal as the show heads to a commercial.
Back from the break, The Bucks continue to double-team Sydal, but he fights back and tags in Daniels. Daniels sends Matthew back to the apron, and then slams Nicholas down. Daniels goes for Angels Wings on Nicholas, but Matthew breaks it up. Daniels takes Matthew right back down and goes for the BME on Nicholas, but Matthew delivers a superkick. Sydal sends Matthew to the outside and takes him out with a dive. Nicholas delivers an enzuigiri to Daniels, but Daniels comes back with a palm strike. Daniels goes for a hurricanrana, but Matthew saves Nicholas and tags in. The Bucks deliver the TK Driver to Daniels and Matthew gets the pin fall.
Winners: The Young Bucks
-After the match, Matthew says Daniels should know better than to put his hands on them and speak down on them. Matthew says they are trying to clean up the office from all of the toxicity, and Daniels is trying to mess it all up. Matthew says they have bad news, and then fires Daniels. Matthew says they got him a severance package with thirty days pay and have arranged for a security escort out of the building. Matthew thanks Daniels for five years of work. Perry raises a toast to the Bucks, and then dumps his drink over Tony Schiavone’s head.
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Renee interviews the AEW Women’s World Champion, Toni Storm, who is with Luther and Mariah May. Renee says Saraya, Luther, and May are banned from ringside for Storm’s match against Harley Cameron tonight and then asks her how she is feeling with everything happening with Serena Deeb. Storm talks about Cameron and then says she’ll handle her later on. Storm then says she will leave Deeb lying in Las Vegas.
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Malakai Black is backstage and has Adam Copeland’s wedding ring in his hand. He talks about Copeland’s ring holding him back and then accepts his challenge for a Barbed Wire Steel Cage Match at Double or Nothing. Black then says he accepts on the condition that if he wins, Copeland will bend the knee for the House of Black.
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Match 3 – Singles Match
Hook vs. Sebastian Wolfe
Hook delivers a T-bone suplex immediately, and then follows with cross-face shots. Hook applies Redrum, and Wolfe immediately taps out.
Winner: Hook
-After the match, Hook says he is here for Chris Jericho and the FTW Championship. Hook calls out Jericho, who comes to the ring with Big Bill. Jericho says he is glad to see Hook back and is glad to share the spotlight with him again. Hook says he wants Jericho in the spotlight alone and challenges him to a match for the FTW Championship tonight. Jericho says he would love that, but tonight is a teaching moment, not a fighting moment. Jericho says he and the Redwood are here to entertain everyone and says that is why the title is now the For The World title.
Jericho says Hook has to earn his way back up, and he and a few others will have a qualification match on Collision. Hook says that sounds good, and then hits Jericho in the head with the microphone. Hook delivers shots to Jericho, but Bill saves Jericho. Jericho delivers an elbow shot to Hook, and then Bill beats Hook down again. Katsuyori Shibata runs out to make the save, and delivers a boot to Bill to send him to the floor. Jericho was busted open from the microphone shot, and he and Bill back up the ramp as Shibata and Hook stare them down.
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Swerve Strickland cuts a promo backstage. Strickland says he ended the Mogul Embassy this past weekend, and he will get to Christian Cage soon. Strickland says may have been the one to get put in a coffin, but he is going to be the one to put Cage in his grave. Strickland says he is putting the final nail in the Mogul Embassy’s coffin tonight, and then welcomes Brian Cage to Swerve’s house.
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Match 4 – AEW World Championship Eliminator Match
Swerve Strickland vs. Brian Cage
Strickland immediately drops Cage with double knees, but Cage comes back and delivers shots in the corner. Strickland sends Cage to the outside and dives, but Cage catches him. Strickland gets free and kicks Cage in the face. Strickland delivers another kick from the apron and works over Cage’s arm against the barricade. Strickland tries to wrap Cage’s arm around the ring post, but Cage pulls him into it and gets back into the ring. Cage delivers shots to Strickland on the apron and goes for a suplex, but Strickland drops down and delivers a flatliner for a one count. Strickland works over Cage’s arm and delivers chops into the corner. Strickland follows with right hands, but Cage turns it around and delivers a few shots of his own. Cage backs Strickland into the corner and delivers a few back elbows. Strickland comes back with a kick to the face, but Cage throws him into the turnbuckles as the show heads to a commercial.
Back from the break, Cage delivers a superplex for a two count. Cage sends Strickland to the corner and charges, but Strickland dodges and works over Cage’s arm in the corner. Cage comes back with a back elbow, but Strickland comes right back and takes Cage down. Strickland delivers a few back elbows in the corner and follows with a diving uppercut. Strickland delivers a brain buster and goes for the cover, but Cage kicks out at two. Cage comes back with a knee strike and goes for Weapon X, but Strickland counters out and goes for an arm-bar. Cage counters out and powerbombs Strickland into the turnbuckles. Cage slams Strickland down and goes for the cover, but Strickland kicks out at two. Strickland counters the Drill Claw with a roll-up for a two count, and then delivers a headbutt. Strickland kicks Cage in the face, and then follows with a Swerve Stomp on the apron.
Strickland gets Cage back into the ring and connects with a 450 splash for a two count. Cage comes back with a pair of powerbombs and gets a two count and goes for the Drill Claw, but Strickland counters again. Strickland delivers an elbow strike, but Cage comes back with a thrust kick. Strickland comes back with more shots, and then follows with elbow strikes. Cage shoves him off, but Strickland counters a powerbomb with a stomp. Strickland snaps Cage’s arm back, and then delivers the House Call for the pin fall.
Winner: Swerve Strickland
-After the match, Strickland hits Cage’s arm with a chair, and then puts his arm on top of the chair as Christian Cage’s music hits. Cage comes to the stage with Mother Wayne. Strickland goes to hit Cage with the chair again, but Nick Wayne delivers a low-blow to Strickland. Killswitch comes to the ring and drops Strickland down with a shot. Wayne picks up a family picture of Strickland’s, and then breaks it over his head. Cage and Mother Wayne walk to the ring as Strickland has been cut open. Killswitch chokes Strickland over the middle rope, and then Cage says Strickland embarrassed Wayne at his own home last year.
Cage says he is now forced to embarrass Strickland, and then asks Strickland if his daughter is proud of him. Cage rubs the picture in Strickland’s blood, and then says he took his blood tonight and will take the World Championship in two weeks. Cage and Mother Wayne back up the ramp as Killswitch continues to choke Strickland over the middle rope.
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Renee interviews Hook and Shibata backstage. Hook says the odds could not mean less to him and says he will beat whoever he has to beat to get Jericho. Shibata uses his phone to ask if Hook would even beat him and says he wants a shot at Jericho as well. Hook says he versus Shibata to get a shot at Jericho is fine with him. Samoa Joe walks in and says he used to think Hook was something special, but now he is falling for the same trick every week. Joe says if Hook and Shibata stopped getting duped, they could be serious. Joe walks away as Hook says he’ll fight him too, and Shibata uses his phone to say Joe is too large to wear a shirt with a floral pattern.
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Match 5 – Grudge Match
Harley Cameron vs. Toni Storm
Cameron kicks Storm in the midsection and takes her down with a side-headlock take down. Storm turns it into a head-scissors, but Cameron gets free. Storm applies a side-headlock and drops Cameron with a shoulder tackle. Storm takes Cameron down with a side-headlock take down, but Cameron pulls Storm’s hair to get free. Cameron delivers a few shots and runs the ropes, but Storm drops her with a Thesz Press and follows with right hands. Storm sends Cameron to the outside with a hip attack in the ropes, and then Serena Deeb appears on the stage. Cameron comes back and slams Storm into the ring steps and the apron. Cameron tosses Storm back into the ring as the show heads to a commercial.
Back from the break, Cameron sends Storm to the corner and charges, but Storm dodges and delivers a Backstabber. Storm follows with a DDT and follows with a fisherman’s suplex for a two count. Cameron comes back with a few quick shots and gets a two count. Cameron runs the ropes, but Storm counters with Sky High for a two count. Cameron comes back and they exchange quick two counts, and then Storm delivers Storm Zero for the pin fall.
Winner: Toni Storm
-After the match, Storm and Deeb stare each other down.
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Arkady Aura interviews Roderick Strong, who is with Matt Taven, Mike Bennett, and Wardlow, and Will Ospreay. Ospreay calls all of them bellends and says he hates that he can’t put his hands on Strong right now because he’s get jumped by the rest of him. Ospreay says he doesn’t know why Strong is trying to get him to un-retire the Tiger Driver 91 and says he doesn’t respect Strong. Strong says he has never respected Ospreay because he has always been an idiot out of the ring. Strong calls Ospreay a child and says he doesn’t deserve to have the title. Strong says he overcame a serious neck injury and will never quit and calls Ospreay a coward. Ospreay says he is going to take the AEW International title at Double or Nothing and he will show everyone why he is the best and on another level.
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Renee is in the ring for the contract signing for the AEW TBS Championship Match at Double or Nothing between the champion, Willow Nightingale, and the challenger, Mercedes Mone. Nightingale says she respects Mone, but wonders if Mone actually respects the TBS Championship. Nightingale hypes up some past TBS Champions and the legacy of the title, and says everyone always sees her smiling. Nightingale says no matter what Mone does, she will never take that away from her.
Mone says back in 2015 while Nightingale was still training, she was changing the game forever. Mone says Nightingale is a great champion, but there is a difference between being great and being the greatest of all time. Mone she has been on the red carpets, throwing out first pitches, and sitting at courtside, because that is what a CEO does. Mone says her legacy is all about winning, and then Nightingale says the last time they wrestled she walks out a champion and Mone didn’t walk out at all. Mone slaps Nightingale, but Nightingale comes back and powerbombs Mone through the table.
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Match 6 – AEW Continental Championship Match
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Dax Harwood
They go back-and-forth as the bell rings, but neither man gains the advantage. Okada applies a side-headlock, but Harwood gets free and drops him with a shoulder tackle. Harwood goes for the Sharpshooter, but Okada pulls himself to the floor. Okada comes back in with a few shots to Harwood, but Harwood comes back with a few chops. Harwood slams Okada into the corner and follows with more chops. Okada comes back with a shoulder tackle and throws Harwood shoulder-first into the ring post as the show heads to a commercial.
Back from the break, Harwood slams Okada with a spine-buster. Okada comes back with a dropkick and puts Dax in the chair on the outside. Okada delivers a running kick to Harwood’s head, and then they exchange elbow strikes on the outside. Okada delivers an uppercut and drops him with a draping DDT from the barricade. Harwood gets back into the ring at the nine count and Okada goes for the Rainmaker, but Harwood collapses back down. Okada picks Harwood up, but Harwood comes back and they exchange shots before Harwood delivers a suplex. Harwood gains the advantage with more shots and goes for the Sharpshooter, but Okada kicks him in the chest to back him away. Okada goes for a Tombstone, but Harwood gets free with a few shots. Okada comes back with a neck-breaker over his knee and goes for the cover, but Harwood kicks out.
Okada goes up top, but Harwood cuts him off with a few right hands. Harwood delivers a superplex and they exchange headbutts and right hands as they get to their feet. Harwood gains the advantage with a chop and follows with a discus lariat. Harwood goes for a rebound powerbomb, but Okada rolls through. Harwood rolls right back through and gets a two count, and then goes for the Sharpshooter. Okada kicks him and goes for a Tombstone, but Harwood rolls through and delivers one of his own for a two count. Harwood goes for a diving headbutt, but Okada dodges it and sets up for the Rainmaker. Harwood ducks under and applies the Sharpshooter, but Okada quickly makes it to the ropes. Okada grabs the belt and tosses it in the ring, and then delivers a low-blow and the Rainmaker to Harwood as the referee was getting the belt out of the ring, and gets the pin fall.
Winner and still AEW Continental Champion: Kazuchika Okada
-After the match, Perry and The Bucks rush the ring to beat down Harwood, but Cash Wheeler and Bryan Danielson rush the ring to make the save. They get beat down as well, but then Darby Allin returns to even the numbers. Allin, Danielson, and FTR gain the advantage and clear the ring of The Elite as the show comes to a close.
