A 10-man Mile High Madness tag match headlines Wednesday night’s show. Plus, the Babes of Wrath put the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions on the line against Megabad. You can catch AEW Dynamite LIVE on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT on TSN2, the TSN App, and TSN.ca.
Mile High Madness - Anything Goes Match: The Demand (AEW National Champion Ricochet, Toa Liona and Bishop Kaun) and AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) (w/ Big Stoke) vs. “Jungle” Jack Perry, The Young Bucks (Nick Jackson and Matt Jackson) and Rascalz (Zachary Wentz and Dezmond Xavier) (w/ Myron Reed)
Much happened this past Saturday night on Collision. In the opening contest, The Demand of Ricochet, Toa Liona and Bishop Kaun came up short in their attempt to wrest the AEW World Trios Championships away from Jet Set Rodeo (“Hangman” Adam Page, “Speedball” Mike Bailey and “The Jet” Kevin Knight), no thanks to Jack Perry. In the closing stages of the match, the familiar sound of Baltimora’s “Tarzan Boy” hit the PA and Perry walked out onto the stage. Ricochet turned his attention from the task at hand to his heated rival. When he focused back on Page in the ring, it was too late - the distraction allowed the former AEW World Champion to set up a Buckshot Lariat to put Ricochet away. It wouldn’t be the last time we would see The Demand or Perry that night.
With the show emanating from Oceanside, CA, there was a major contingent of Jackson family members in the front row to see The Young Bucks (Nick Jackson and Matt Jackson) in action as they defeated The Swirl of Blake Christian and Lee Johnson, winning their match with a BTE Trigger on Christian. We would also see the Jacksons later on in the evening.
In the main event, FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) took on the Rascalz duo of Zachary Wentz and Dezmond Xavier in an AEW World Tag Team Title Eliminator Match. As the match played out, Wheeler became increasingly annoyed at the presence of Myron Reed at ringside, eventually attacking him. This caused the Jacksons, who will take on FTR at Revolution for the titles, to come back to ringside to alert the referee to what was happening. As Wheeler attempted to chase off the Bucks with a chair, Harwood became distracted and fell prey to a Hot Fire Flame and Wentz earned a future title shot for his team.
Before the Jacksons could gloat about FTR’s loss, they were laid out from behind by GOA. As this was happening, Stokely Hathaway threw powder into the eyes of the Jacksons’ father and Harwood dragged their brother, Malachi, over the guardrail. Perry attempted to intervene, but a hidden Ricochet nailed him with a brutal-looking Spirit Gun out of nowhere. FTR pulled Malachi into the ring and laid him out with a spike piledriver. Harwood, Wheeler and The Demand headed to the back, admiring their destruction, as Wentz, Dez and Reed tended to Malachi.
Now on Wednesday, these 10 men will share a ring in an anything-goes-match that is bound to be insane. Not only does the match happen before FTR will defend their titles against the Bucks at the PPV and Rascalz at some point, it’s going down only days before giant match for the GOA. On Friday at New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s The New Beginning USA in Long Beach, CA, Liona and Kaun will challenge Unbound Co.’s Knockout Brothers (OSKAR and Yuto-Ice) for the IWGP World Tag Team Championships.
Chaos will reign on Dynamite, but which of these quintets will escape with a win?
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AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship match: Babes of Wrath (TBS Champion Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron) (c) vs. Megabad (“Megasus” Megan Bayne and “The Superbad Girl” Penelope Ford) (w/ Lena Kross)
If the AEW World Tag Team Champions Babes of Wrath (Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron) thought they were done with Megabad (Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford) after Grand Slam Australia, they were dead wrong. At the Feb. 14 show, the champs retained their titles when Cameron caught Ford in a backslide. But there was no time to celebrate.
In the immediate aftermath of the win, the champs were waylaid by the 6′0 Lena Kross. The physically impressive Aussie destroyed the champions and stood tall (quite literally) with Megabad, holding the tag belts and Nightingale’s TBS Championship. They weren’t done with the Babes just yet.
On Wednesday, the champs once again put their titles on the line, but this time they must deal with the presence of Kross on the outside. Nightingale and Cameron know full well that she alone can turn the tide of the match if they let her. But the more time they spend worrying about Kross, the less they focus on Bayne and Ford and that’s a recipe for disaster.
Since winning the inaugural women’s tag belts over the Timeless Love Bombs (Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa) on the Dec. 12 edition of Dynamite, Nightingale and Cameron have successfully defended them on three occasions. Their one blemish during their reign was the World Tag Team Title Eliminator on the Feb. 4 Dynamite that earned Megabad their title shot in Sydney.
Bayne and Ford have beaten the champs before - can they do it again?
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AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley (w/ “The Problem” Marina Shafir) vs. El Clon (w/ Don Callis and “The Murderhawk Monster” Lance Archer)
If the no-time-limit match for the AEW Continental Championship between Jon Moxley and Konosuke Takeshita at Revolution is the main course of the ongoing war between the Death Riders and Don Callis Family, then consider Wednesday night’s match an aperitif. On Dynamite, Moxley takes on El Clon in a match that will be closely watched by both factions.
For one of pro wrestling’s preeminent brawlers, Moxley has a shocking amount of experience against luchadors and will approach a match against Clon with confidence. In recent years, Moxley has taken on the likes of Mistico, Mascara Dorada, Hechicero, Volador Jr. and Komander and has shared the ring with Rey Mysterio Jr. on numerous occasions over his career.
On last week’s Dynamite, the Family team of Clon, Mark Davis and Takeshita defeated Mox, PAC and Daniel Garcia, so the two men are already familiar with each other, but it will be another recent match of El Clon’s that he will draw from to prepare for a singles match against Moxley. On the Jan. 28 edition of Dynamite, Clon unsuccessfully challenged for the TNT Championship against Mark Briscoe. If there is somebody else in AEW who shares a similar in-ring ethos to Mox, it’s Briscoe. Clon can take what worked and what didn’t against Briscoe to inform his approach on Wednesday night.
Since this is not a Continental Championship match, seconds (or even more) are permitted at ringside, so the chances of external forces getting involved in the match are high. Which one of these two men can avoid the extracurriculars to pick up a statement win?
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“Freshly Squeezed” Orange Cassidy vs. “War Ready” Gabe Kidd (w/ “100 Proof” Clark Connors)
Gabe Kidd’s blood feud with Darby Allin has drawn in more components in recent weeks. The psychotic Brit returned to AEW on the Jan. 31 edition of Collision after Allin defeated Kidd’s current Unbound Co. and former Bullet Club War Dogs stablemate Clark Connors. Delivering a vicious beating to Allin, Kidd let him know that this was no longer him doing the bidding of the Death Riders as a mercenary, but Kidd’s own vendetta.
On the Feb. 11 Dynamite, Kidd and Connors jumped Allin in the back, forced him into the trunk of a car and left him hogtied in the middle of the Nevada desert. But if Kidd thought that was enough to rid himself of Allin, he would be mistaken. On last week’s Dynamite, Allin attacked Kidd and dragged him into the crowd during a tag match between him and Connors and The Conglomeration’s Orange Cassidy and Tomohiro Ishii. Kidd’s disappearance led to Connors being left alone to fall prey to an Orange Punch and a trademark Ishii brainbuster as The Conglomeration picked up the victory.
An irate Kidd interrupted Saturday night’s Collision and commandeered a microphone. Kidd threatened Cassidy for getting involved in his business and challenged him to a match any time, any place. And that brings us to Wednesday night when Kidd goes one-on-one with Cassidy.
The match on Dynamite will be Kidd’s first-ever singles match on the program, but not the first time he’s met Cassidy in a singles match. Back at New Japan’s Collision in Philadelphia show back in the spring of 2023, Cassidy successfully defended the AEW International Championship against Kidd, putting him away with Beach Break.
But much has changed in nearly three years and Kidd will be keen to demonstrate that on Wednesday night. Can Cassidy survive the unhinged Kidd’s onslaught?
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“Big, Bad” Brody King vs. “Dunkzilla” Mark Davis (w/ Don Callis and “The Muderhawk Monster” Lance Archer)
Brody King came close, but he ultimately couldn’t become AEW World Champion. After decimating Maxwell Jacob Friedman in a World Title Eliminator, King earned his title shot against MJF at Grand Slam Australia. Friedman’s focus on King’s injured knee proved to be the key to victory. As the match approached the 20-minute mark, King attempted to put MJF away with a Gonzo Bomb, but his knee buckled. His attempt at the hanging choke was also thwarted when Friedman went after his knee. This allowed MJF to hit King with a tombstone before planting him with a Heatseeker to pick up the three-count.
For the first time since the loss in Sydney, King returns to action and has vowed to work his way back up to title contention. His first task will be a tall one in the form of the Don Callis Family’s Mark Davis. The big Aussie finds himself as a singles competitor with the serious injury to tag partner Jake Doyle.
A match between King and Davis will be what the great Big E calls “big meaty men slapping meat” or what Jim Ross would call “a hoss fight.” A win over King would be a major statement by Davis to announce himself as a singles competitor. A former IWGP World Tag Team Champion and ROH World Tag Team Champion as part of Aussie Open alongside Kyle Fletcher, Davis can see a career parallel in King. King himself is a former AEW World Tag Team Champion and AEW World Trios Champion, but doesn’t have the singles bona fides to match his exploits in the tag and trios divisions.
Will King kickstart his march back to the top or can Davis pick up the biggest win of his singles career?
