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Pentagon El Zero Miedo vs. Cody Rhodes
Rhodes wins with a roll up.
Winner: Cody Rhodes
Post-match, Penta attacks and swings away on Rhodes. Gunn Club and Dustin Rhodes make the save as Penta taunts them at ringside. QT Marshall walks out to the stage and asks Cody if he is okay. The group is asking QT why he wasn’t out there to help.
Backstage, Alex Marvez notes PAC and Rey Fenix still have a tag title shot against The Young Bucks. Matt says they may have lost singles matches to their challengers, but this is a tag match and they are still the best team in the world. Callis shows up and asks them how their dad is doing? They ask how his eye is doing?! Callis says he was just faking that black eye, but felt like maybe they should have kicked him. Callis says Matt and Nick aren’t the same guys he saw in NJPW. Matt and Nick may have founded this company, but he doesn’t see anything elite about them. Don continues that they have killed their careers and letting others take over. Callis mentioned Kenny Omega, says he’s way up high and those two are down in the basement, thus why he doesn’t pay any attention to them now. Callis says they are just another tag team in fancy tights that are living off their name, and then tells them to look in the mirror and ask themselves if they really are the same guy who dominated NJPW.
Jade Cargill vs. Dani Jordyn
Cargill wins with a huge release German suplex.
Winner: Jade Cargill
Post-match, Cargill goes right out to ringside and says something to Red Velvet. Velvet swings and Cargill dodges it. The two jaw some more as the referee gets Cargill to head to the back.
MJF’s group comes out to the ring. Tully gets on the mic and recaps last week’s attack. He says they are at the pinnicle of wrestling right now. Tully says he started with the greatest group of guys, and he plans on finishing out his career with the greatest group. MJF on the mic, he calls himself Judas. MJF says he’s the most charismatic guy in the wrestling and had to stand behind Jericho for six months. He did what he had to do and deal with Jericho’s “comedy bulls***” but he was plotting the whole way.
MJF says Jericho never saw what was coming because everyone thought MJF was trying to take over the group. Ultimately, he wanted to kill the Inner Circle from the inside, and build an even stronger faction. MJF says the group is known as The Pinnacle. He then runs down each member of the group and hypes them up. MJF then gets to himself and says after only one year he’s the most talked about guy in pro wrestling. He continues that he has another 25 years in the business and when it’s all said and done, Jericho won’t be the goat, it will be him. MJF closes with his “I’m better than you, and you know it!”
Matt Hardy, The Blade, The Butcher, and Private Party with The Bunny vs. Jurassic Express and Bear Country
Hardy seals the victory for his team with the Twist of Fate.
Winners: Matt Hardy, The Butcher, The Blade and Private Party
Backstage, Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston are getting ready for their tag match tonight. Moxley says he’s not feeling super good after what happened at Revolution, but it’s time to go to war again. Moxley says it’s time to fix the realproblem and that’s The Good Brothers. Moxley then mocks them a bit and says he doesn’t like them…and it’s not just because he wasted money on Talk ‘N Shop-A-Mania. Kingston then says to get a bit more serious — this isn’t the Impact Zone and this isn’t the Tokyo Dome. He calls Doc and Karl cowards, and a coward dies a thousand deaths. Moxley and Kingston are soldiers, and only die but once.
Backstage, Dash talks with Christian Cage and asks him what brought him to AEW. Cage says when a wrestler busts his ass inside a ring more than anyone else in the roster, that’s called a “workhorse.” Cage says he is the workhorse in professional wrestling, and if anyone forgot about that over the past seven years, he will remind them quickly when he gets in the ring. Cage then says there’s only one spot that interests him and that spot is occupied by Kenny Omega. Cage says he got to let Omega last week he’s on borrowed time, and will see him down the road, but first he needs to pick up a few wins in AEW. Cage says he’s in AEW to cement his legacy and put to action three simple words: “Out. Work. Everyone.”
The Good Brothers vs. Eddie Kingston and Jon Moxley
Moxley gets the win with an insure cradle.
Winners: Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston
Post-match, Good Brothers beat up Moxley immediately after the bell rings. Kenny Omega’s music hits and out he strolls (really enjoying his music) with Don Callis. Omega has a chair in hand and sets it up in the middle of the ring. Omega sits down in front of Moxley, Kingston knocks him off the chair and gets taken down and takes a magic killer. Omega gets his chair back, they put it around Kingston’s ankle. Karl goes up to the second rope and stomps down on it. Omega yells like a madman by Kingston’s face and boots him out of the ring.
Omega then puts the chair around Moxley’s throat! Young Bucks run out and tell Anderson to get down. Omega tries to get up and do it, but Matt gets in the way. Good Brothers want a “Too Sweet.” Young Bucks are jawing with Omega as Kenny joins the hand gesture. Matt and Nick say no way and walk out of the ring. Omega spins Matt around and puts “Too Sweet” right in his face. The two sides yell at each some more as Moxley finally wakes up and swings wildly with that chair, clearing out the ring. Kingston is demanding the Dr. and referee get him in the ring with Moxley, but they won’t let him go in because of his injury. Kingston finally claws his way in to talk with his friend as we go to break.
On the stage Tony Schiavone talks with AEW TNT Champion Darby Allin and Sting. Tony asks Allin about the Street Fight, but Allin says he’s been champion for a long time and has only defended the title three times. He says it’s a joke and wants to defend it every week. Allin says he wants to pay tribute to the best TNT Champion (Brodie Lee) and says there’s an open challenge to any Dark Order member. Lance Archer walks out and wonders how many times Sting is going to get interview by Tony.
Archer calls Allin an “indie-rific joke” and says if he likes coffins so much, Archer is going to put him in one. Roberts turns his attention to Sting and says he better not play with fire, and Archer is the baddest SOB in the compnay. He says the winds are changing in AEW and they better pay attention. Team Taz comes out, Brian Cage takes the mic from Taz and has something to say. He says Sting shows up like some hot shot and sticks his nose in their business after every week. Cage then says he respects Sting. With or without his bat, Ricky Starks is wrong, Sting is still the same as he’s ever been. Taz is wondering what the heck Cage is talking about?! Cage walks to the back with the rest of the group following behind.
– Scorpio Sky video package. Sky say he’s done everything he needs to do to become the face of the company. Sky says nice guys finish last, and that won’t happen again, he will not be someone else’s stepping stone. Sky says if he has to hurt someone to do it, so be it.
Angelico vs. Ray Fenix
Fenix wins with the sit out pile driver.
Winner: Ray Fenix
Britt Baker vs. Thunder Rosa – Unsanctioned Match
Rosa wins an intense match with a Thunder driver through a table on the floor.
Winner: Thunder Rosa
