AEW Dynamite Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights from March 22
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Darby Allin teamed with Sting and Orange Cassidy in a star-studded trios match Wednesday. Credit: All Elite Wrestling
Fresh off of tossing his name in the swimming pool for an AEW World Championship match versus MJF, Darby Allin teamed with Sting and AEW global champ Orange Cassidy to fight The Butcher, The Blade and Kip Sabian in a smash hit trios match Wednesday.
That match signed up with a jam-packed card that likewise included Kenny Omega and Jon Moxley, along with a promotion from Adam Cole simply one week prior to his much-anticipated go back to in-ring action.
What decreased as All Elite Wrestling continues to lay the structure for its Double or Nothing pay-per-view on May 28?
Find out with this wrap-up of the current episode of Dynamite.
Match Card
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Announced for the March 22 episode ahead of time:
- Kenny Omega vs. El Hijo del Vikingo
- Jon Moxley vs. Stu Grayson
- No Disqualification match: Hook vs. Stokely Hathaway
- Skye Blue vs. Toni Storm
- Orange Cassidy, Darby Allin and Sting vs. The Butcher, The Blade and Kip Sabian
- AEW World Tag Team Championship: Top Flight vs. The Gunns
- Adam Cole discount
Orange Cassidy, Darby Allin and Sting vs. Butcher, Blade and Kip Sabian
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Credit: All Elite Wrestling
Butcher and Blade assaulted Orange Cassidy backstage at your house Rules live occasion this previous weekend. Wednesday night, the assailants partnered with Kip Sabian to fight the AEW global champ and his partners, Darby Allin and Sting.
A high-energy match with a red-hot crowd, this opener was the best start to the program.
Sabian, Butcher and Blade are amongst the most underutilized names in AEW, however they had the chance to shine prior to the babyface resurgence.
At 64 years of age, Sting once again showed he is among the most electrifying professional wrestlers in the world as he had the crowd eating in restaurants of the palm of his hand all the method through this.
Cassidy was terrific, as normal, and Allin blew up off the screen anytime he remained in the ring.
There was a lot to like about this one, the least of which was the focus by Allin after the match on the graphic for Double or Nothing on May28 He figures to be among 3 rivals tough MJF for the AEW World Championship if recently’s opening section, and a video plan airing today, are any indicator.
Result
Sting, Allin and Cassidy beat Butcher, Blade and Sabian
Grade
B+
Top Moments
- Sabian buffooned Cassidy as the commentary group advised audiences of their history together.
- Cassidy, remaining real to his character, used half-assed face paint in an effort to match his partners.
- ” Kind of a lukewarm tag,” Taz stated as Allin tagged in the normally sluggish Cassidy.
- Sting set Sabian up for the Scorpion Death Drop however took a minute to let the response from the crowd construct.
- Allin gazed extremely at the Double or Nothing graphic, while Cassidy put his sunglasses on Sting.
AEW World Tag Team Championship: Top Flight vs. The Gunns
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Credit: All Elite Wrestling
Austin and Colten Gunn intended to continue their unanticipated run as AEW world tag group champs Wednesday night by beating Top Flight’s Dante and Darius Martin.
As one might anticipate, it was far from simple.
The Gunns soaked up the late resurgence by the oppositions and were then in the best location at the correct time, taking advantage of outdoors disturbance from The Kingdom’s Matt Taven and Mike Bennett prior to downing Dante with 3: 10 to Yuma for the effective defense.
After the match, FTR goaded The Gunns into a champion match by swearing to stop AEW if they can’t win the titles. The heels accepted prior to spitting in their competitors’ faces and running away the ring.
We will learn precisely what the future holds for Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler based upon whether they win the tag titles or not. A loss all however assurances they are leaving at the conclusion of their agreements, however a win would recommend they are sticking to AEW.
The bout preceding the post-match promotion was great for what it was and shined some light on the Ring of Honor item by method of The Kingdom’s participation.
Result
The Gunns beat Top Flight
Grade
C+
Top Moments
- The heat was off the charts for The Gunns as they went into the arena, showing that something is working, even if there are still concerns about the reservation that got them to the tag titles.
- Taven and Bennett tried to interfere, however Dante cleaned them out at ringside. The diversion established the surface, however, as the champs maintained.
- The pop for FTR was transcendent and the greatest of the night to this point.
- Harwood used to give up AEW along with Wheeler if they can’t beat The Gunns for the tag titles.
Hook vs. Stokely Hathaway
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Credit: All Elite Wrestling
Stokely Hathaway tried to leave his match with Hook, producing a “physician’s note” that was bit more than “he’s ill” composed on a Wingstop invoice.
It didn’t work.
The loudmouth supervisor took a pounding that saw him manhandled around the ringside location and after that suplexed onto a guardrail that caved under him.
Hook put him out cold with Redrum, extending his win streak and leaving the mouth piece of The Firm unconscious.
Backstage, Matt Hardy tried to inspire Ethan Page into avenging their supervisor by challenging Hook for the FTW Championship.
Remember, Hardy is just part of The Firm due to losing a terms match to Page and would relatively enjoy the chance to see All Ego get a comparable beatdown at the hands of The Cold-Hearted Handsome Devil.
This was great enjoyable, as Hathaway is terrific, and Hook’s aura matches his representation of the unstoppable badass.
Result
Hook beat Hathaway
Grade
C+
Top Moments
- Hathaway’s facial expressions and body movement are on point. He is so excellent– quickly among the most interesting entertainers on the lineup– regardless of not being an active wrestler. Really Bobby Heenan-esque.
- Hardy tried to goad Page into avenging Hathaway while seeing backstage.
Adam Cole Promo
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Credit: All Elite Wrestling
Adam Cole will go back to the squared circle for the very first time in months next Wednesday night in St. Louis, however he required to the squared circle today for a discount about that return.
It was disrupted by the Jericho Appreciation Society’s Daniel Garcia, who complained all of the attention paid to Cole when he has actually existed working and main-eventing programs for the previous year.
Cole informed Garcia that if he wished to battle him, he was on, and the match was made authorities for next Wednesday night.
Backstage, Don Callis rejected Kenny Omega’s issue for The Young Bucks, who were removed from the arena in an ambulance at the top of the program following a sneak attack, and advised him to concentrate on his own match on Wednesday night.
The promotion from Cole and Garcia sufficed to establish what need to be a fiercely expected match on next week’s program. Garcia almost slipping and calling himself a professional wrestler was a great touch and suggestion that he is not always all-in on the JAS.
Callis’ persistence that Omega need to not fret about the Bucks and rather concentrate on El Hijo del Vikingo recommended that the beatdown of the Jacksons was committed by him and his desire for his customer to go it alone, instead of by Blackpool Combat Club.
It will be interesting to see how this specific story plays out since that two-minute discount was more intriguing than anything that decreased in the ring minutes previously.
Grade
B
Top Moments
- ” All the kids appreciate me a lot, I’ve ended up being a locker space leader,” Garcia stated prior to providing to put Cole in his location.
- ” I’ve been showing I’m one of the very best professional wrestlers …” Garcia stated. “Sports performers!” It was a great tease that he still has actually not entirely taken in into the Jericho Appreciation Society.
- ” What makes me unique? When they call the freakin’ bell. That’s what makes me unique,” Cole stated in a callback to his promotion on Karrion Kross in NXT.
- ” Those kids will be great in a couple of months,” Callis informed recruiter Alex Marvez.
Stu Grayson vs. Jon Moxley
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Credit: All Elite Wrestling
Stu Grayson went back to AEW a week back, kipping down a wonderful efficiency prior to catching Jon Moxley’s bulldog choke.
Wednesday night, The Dark Order OG had the chance to avenge that defeat by squaring off in individually action with the previous AEW world champ.
Like recently, Grayson revealed out, ensuring Moxley understood he remained in there with a person efficient in distressing him. The BCC’s Wheeler Yuta and Claudio Castagnoli tried to interfere, acknowledging the danger the Canadian was to their colleague.
Grayson shrugged it off and continued to roll. He endured the bulldog choke and countered a Paradigm Shift however ultimately caught a top-rope Death Rider, and Moxley made a harder-fought success than he most likely anticipated.
The match was strong, and Grayson continued to look inspired to show to Tony Khan and AEW that they were incorrect for letting him stroll in 2015. Moxley worked well with him, and the BCC as heels have actually matched them up until now.
Result
Moxley beat Grayson
Grade
B
Top Moments
- Grayson provided a long-distance 450 splash, however Moxley tossed out at 2.
- The babyface powered out of the bulldog choke and knocked Moxley into the corner, breaking the hold.
- Moxley broke out the avalanche Death Rider for the win.
Skye Blue vs. Toni Storm
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Credit: All Elite Wrestling
Homegrown AEW rival Skye Blue fought The Outcasts’ Toni Storm, who was accompanied by Saraya and Ruby Soho.
After outdoors disturbance by the latter set, Storm controlled the match through the business break, working her less-experienced challenger over.
Blue installed a return and even provided her Code Blue finisher, just for Soho to get included and avoid the authorities from counting the fall. The interruption enabled Storm to recuperate, providing the running hip attack and scoring the win following Storm Zero.
After the match, The Outcasts teased spray-painting Blue, just for Willow Nightingale and Riho to chase them off.
Using Nightingale, Riho and Blue to deal with The Outcasts and conserving Britt Baker and Jamie Hayter for Double or Nothing is a wise relocation. Those 3 babyfaces are widely enjoyed and can make Saraya, Storm and Soho heat.
That unavoidable trios match can be constructed towards and utilized as a prominent addition to Dynamite or Rampage prior to moving the heels onto Baker, Hayter and whoever Tony Khan produces to group with them.
For the very first time in a very long time, it seems like there is a strategy with the ladies’s department, which is extremely welcome.
Result
Storm beat Blue
Grade
C+
Top Moments
- Saraya and Soho stomped Blue on the arena flooring, unbeknown to the authorities.
- Riho hurried to the ring, once again with an unusually thick lead pipeline.
- The babyfaces cleared the heels out of the ring and stood high, bold them to continue the battle.
Kenny Omega vs. El Hijo del Vikingo
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Credit: All Elite Wrestling
If you were too preoccupied to fire up Google and discover who El Hijo del Vikingo was prior to Wednesday’s program, you sure understand who he is now following a breakout efficiency that presented the very best high-flyer in business to a brand-new area of fans.
The rival, out of AAA in Mexico, took the program with an unequaled aerial toolbox that was on complete screen versus previous AEW world champ Kenny Omega.
Billed as a worldwide dream match throughout the night, Vikingo and Omega impressed with unchecked athleticism, each area upping the ante till a vicious V-Trigger and One-Winged Angel put Vikingo down for the count.
It was a wonderful screen of athleticism and a breakout efficiency from Vikingo that revealed him to the world. You might not have actually asked any young star from any other promo on the planet to come in and achieve what he did at the level that he did.
With that stated, the match seemed like it was missing out on something. Possibly it was a cohesive story. Possibly it was a thread that connected all of the areas together.
Excalibur mentioned it on commentary, discussing the earlier attack on The Young Bucks as being especially sidetracking for Omega, however it would have been great to see him play that up in any element of his efficiency, even if it was a short-term interaction with Don Callis.
Lacking the bow that connects all of it together was the only thing keeping this one from attaining rarefied air as one of the very best Dynamite centerpieces in the program’s history.
After the match, Blackpool Combat Club assaulted Omega till Adam Page drove among the ambulances back to the arena and made the conserve, just for Callis to phony a bump and blame it on Hangman.
This was the 2nd effort by Callis to get Omega to disregard his pals or produce some sort of schism in between them, plainly seeing his meal ticket escaping from him.
Eventually, Omega will understand this and divided from the heel supervisor for great, however it will be fascinating to see the number of weaves there are up until we get to that point.
Result
Omega beat Vikingo
Grade
B+
Top Moments
- Vikingo cleaned Omega out with a tope prior to the bell, disrupting the previous champ’s entryway.
- Excalibur established the story of the attack withstood by The Young Bucks weighing on the mind of Omega, leading to the early path by Vikingo.
- Vikingo countered a powerbomb off the leading rope and drove Omega’s head into the mat in a scary minute. He followed up with an inside-out springboard phoenix splash.
- Vikingo provided a diving toxin rana with a 630 senton from the ring, over the top, that drove Omega through a table.
- Callis feigned being assaulted by Page, seeking to even more the separation in between Hangman and Omega.
