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Tag Team #1 Contender’s Battle Royal
Tully Blanchard’s on the outside trying to interfere, but he accidentally eliminates Cash Wheeler. Nobody has their partner left in the match. Everyone remaining is going at it solo. O’Reilly takes control of the match momentarily before Trent halts him. The only two men standing at Santana & Trent. The two men trade blows with the crowd firmly behind the action. Santana gets planted with a suplex, but Trent can’t capitalize. Santana nails Trent with a massive lariat grounding him.
Both Santana & Trent are trading moves on the apron which gives the opening for O’Reilly & Jackson to eliminate them. Only four men are left in the ring. O’Reilly gets Harwood onto the apron and into a leg submission. Harwood tries to drop O’Reilly with strikes on the apron and stomps him. However, Bobby Fish returns to ringside and takes Harwood out of the match. It’s either going to be reDRagon, Young Bucks, or Dark Order going to Revolution.
Nick Silver takes control of the match but gets leveled with a series of superkicks from Matt Jackson. O’Reilly takes out both men to win the match for reDragon!
Winners: reDragon
After the match, Hangman Page storms the ring and takes out reDragon. Adam Cole tries hitting Page with a sneak attack, but Page turns the tables on him. Before Page can hit his lariat on Cole, reDragon removes COle from the ring. Page takes advantage of O’Reilly being thrown in the ring to take him out instead.
Page gets on the mic and tells a story about Cole’s desire to win the AEW Championship. He says Cole never realized he was moving closer and closer to a six-foot hole in the ground. Page says Cole’s taking one step too close to the grave and the better Adam will hit him.
Backstage, Tony Schoviane interviews Bryan Danielson. He says he’s going to show Daniel Garcia the difference between their mentors tonight. Danielson also tells Jon Moxley that tonight he will bleed with him.
MJF hits the ring to discuss his upcoming Dog Collar match with CM Punk. He says he knows he’s not the easiest person to like, but he wants an opportunity. The audience boos. MJF says it’s easy to believe he was raised with a silver spoon in his mouth, but he says the only reason he got out of bed in the morning was wrestling. MJF says he loves AEW and meeting CM Punk meant the world to him.
MJF says he has severe ADHD and every day at school was hell. He says football was the one thing he was good it. He was one of only two Jewish kids on the team. He asks the crowd if there any “Jews” in the house. He said one day he saw his teammates walking up to him, but they looked angry. They were holding rolls of quarters, and they all threw the quarters at him. They said, “pick it up Jew boy”. He cried at home, but he stopped when he remembered he got to meet CM Punk.
CM Punk was his hero, the guy he looked up to. He wanted to learn how to speak up for himself and be just like CM Punk. He had football scholarships left and right, but he didn’t care. All MJF wanted was to be just like CM Punk. MJF references the moment CM Punk quit WWE and left all of his fans. He says he buried his happiness and dreams after learning about it.
Kings Of The Black Throne vs PAC & Penta Oscuro
Penta lands a crossbody on King to take him down. All four men are down and the ref begins the count. Black’s the first to get to his feet and they attempt a double team maneuver. PAC hits King with a pump kick to the jaw, but it’s not enough to take him down. A second one is still unable to take him off his feet. Finally, King’s hit with a german suplex to take him down. However, Black makes a secret tag. Black attempts to use the mist, but he’s stopped by Penta. Penta uses that distraction to get the pinfall on Black for the win.
Winners: PAC & Penta Oscuro
Following the match, King ambushes Penta from behind. It’s a total beatdown. King turns his attention to PAC and stomps him in the corner. Black brings Penta’s shovel into the ring and places it on Penta’s neck. The lights go off, and BUDDY MATTHEWS IS IN THE RING. Black looks like he’s seen a ghost.
Black backs away from Matthews in fear, but then Matthews hits PAC with a ferocious kick to the face. Matthews stomps Penta in the corner as well. King takes out the legion of security that tries to hit the ring. The House Of Black is tearing through everyone. Black sets up a chair for Matthews to stomp Penta’s face into.
Eddie Kingston & Chris Jericho both make their way to the ring. The crowd sings JUDAS, and Kingston is over it. Kingston doesn’t appreciate the security in the ring, and Jericho refers to Kingston as a street thug. Kingston says he doesn’t know why they’re doing this because he’s not a sports entertainer. Kingston says since Jericho’s not going to fight him, they might as well get two women in the ring to wrestle.
Kingston says it’s a wrestling company, not a sports entertainment company. Jericho says they’re down the road from Stamford, but he guarantees this sports entertainment will actually be entertaining. He says he had never heard of Kingston before they hired him. Jericho says he thought they were talking about Eddie Edwards at first. He says Kingston looked like a jobber. Jericho says when he heard Kingston’s promo, he realized this guy was good. He says Kingston has something special and what it takes to get to the top.
Chris Jericho said it wouldn’t be long before Kingston became a huge babyface in AEW. Jericho says Kingston got over his physical and mental issues and finally made it to the big time at 38 years old. He says he never gave two shits about Kingston’s sob story or him in general. Jericho says Kingston’s jealous of him because he made it to the big time when he was 22. By the time Jericho was 38, he had already main evented PPVs and been world champion. He also made millions of dollars.
Chris Jericho says Kingston knows deep down he could never be at his level. Kingston says he doesn’t care about what Jericho’s saying. Kingston said Jericho main evented all of those events because he wasn’t there. He says he’s not like the others that lie. Kingston says he’s going to do this his way and be himself until he dies. Kingston says Jericho’s sucking the blood out of him.
Kingston issues a challenge for a match against Jericho at AEW Revolution. Jericho says Kingston is terrified to make it to the top and level he’s on. Jericho claims Kingston would fall if he ever made it to the top. Chris Jericho brings up Kingston’s uncle and father who he claims are both failures. He says deep inside Kingston feels he’s a failure and can’t win the big one.
Jericho says he’s the big one in the company, not anyone else. Chris Jericho accepts Kingston’s challenge for the PPV. However, he says Kingston won’t win the big one, but if he beats him, he will look him in the eyes, shake his hand, and give him his respect. Kingston says he wants the version of Jericho that won the AEW Championship. Kingston says to give him the Jericho that Levesque hated. Jericho says Kingston will always be a loser and never win the big one.
Face of the Revolution Qualifier: Ricky Starks vs Dark Order’s 10
10 makes it to his feet and chops Starks into the corner. Starks fires back with his own chops and a knee to 10’s gut. With 10 on the ropes, Starks whips him but ends up on the receiving end of a leveling shoulder tackle.
10 catches Starks into a full nelson and releases him to nail a huge lariat. 10 goes for another full nelson and locks it in completely. Starks rips at the mask to break the hold and hits a big spear on 10 for the win!
Winner: Ricky Starks
Backstage The Young Bucks accuse reDRagon of double-crossing them. They still have a chance to find their way into the title match at Revolution. Adam Cole says they have to get along with The Young Bucks because he has a lot on his plate.
Jade Cargill (C) vs. The Bunny – TBS Championship
Bunny places Jade in a chin lock and wraps her legs around her body. Jade escapes and lands a big back elbow on Bunny. Bunny doesn’t stay down long and rakes Jade’s eyes. Bunny charges Jade, but ends up getting slammed to the made with a spinebuster.
Matt Hardy’s ejected from ringside after trying to interfere on Bunny’s behalf. With Jade distracted, Bunny tries to roll her up, but it’s not enough for the upset. Jade transitions Bunny into a facefirst slam into the match to retain her championship.
Winner (and still champion): Jade Cargill
Jade gets on the mic and asks who’s next, and Tay Conti makes an appearance! Conti says she’s the one who is going to beat Jade’s ass and races into the ring. She gets into Jade’s face, but Bunny interjects and attacks Tay Conti and gets knocked out. With Tay busy with Bunny, she doesn’t see Jade’s pump kick coming which takes her down.
Bryan Danielson vs. Daniel Garcia
Danielson gets out of the ring and Garcia tries suplexing him back in. Danielson suplexes him out of the ring instead and follows it up with a knee off the apron. Danielson climbs to the top rope and levels Garcia with a missile dropkick. Danielson delivers punishing strikes to Garcia and locks in a half crab. The half crab turns into each man trying to use a heel hook. Both men get to their feet and Danielson hits a tiger suplex. Danielson gets the cattle mutilation locked in, but Garcia gets out and grabs him for an ankle lock.
Both men are trading blows with the young upstart hanging in there with Danielson. Garcia slaps Danielson, but he gets caught by a series of stomps to the face. Danielson wins with the triangle sleeper.
Winner: Bryan Danielson
2.0 ambushes Danielson after the match, but Jon Moxley storms the ring to make the save. He easily takes out both men. Garcia tries to smash Moxley with a chair, but Danielson stops him. Moxley drops Garcia with a Paradigm Shift to take him out of the equation.
Danielson gets on the mic and brings up Moxley’s comments about bleeding together. Bryan agrees to a match against Moxley at AEW Revolution but tells him not to be surprised if he’s the only one bleeding.
