AEW Fight for the Fallen

 Daily's Place is shown and it looks absolutely stunning on TV. Peter Avalon comes down looking like a gloriously B-rate Rick Rude. The tron asks that you be quiet, and the fans are thankfully not obeying this edict. Alex Marvez is, but Excalibur doesn't care and Avalon shushes the fans. FINALLY, this Librarian stuff works! Sonny Kiss interrupts the promo and gets the Jaguars cheerleaders to do his intro. Well, this is how you make a star and with ONE INTRO, they've done it.

Avalon wants to shush him, but Kiss grabs the finger. Avalon shoves him AND SHUSHES HIM. Rana and a split armdrag hits for Kiss. Triple back handsrping slap in the corner! Twerking superkick leads to a split and Avalon nailing his own superkick. Axe kick and a dropsault leads to an uppercut and an exploder by Kiss. Twerksault gets 2! Distraction schoolboy gets 2 for Avalon. Avalon gets a Finlay roll, but misses a moonsault. Kiss kicks him and lands Hemme's Flying Firecrotch Guillotine to win it. This was a star-making match for Sonny Kiss - and his AEW solo debut went even better than it was in LU.

The Brotherhood talks about proceeds here go to gun violence victims. Britt Baker comes down with Riho to face Shoku Nakajima, with a wacky wolf and tail getup and Bea Priestley. Bea has her red Stardom belt while Shoku has her Tokyo Joshi belt. Shoku works with Britt, who looks gigantic next to her. Britt works her over with a long headscissor before she gets locked in a half crab and Britt gets to the rope. Nakajima goes to escape, but Britt grabs the tail and then Nakajima escapes and lands a big dropkick and makes a tag.

Baker exploders her and goes to tag the wrong partner before tagging her actual partner. Riho goes for a crossbody, but Bea slams her. Bea does the Shayna arm stomp and then gives a tag to her partner. Armbar codebreaker hits and the heels stomp away in the corner. Tags in and Nakajima lands a neckbreaker to Britt. Missile dropkick sorta hits and Britt tags out. Bea and Britt stiff the joshi girls and force tags!

Bea and Britt go at it with stiff forearms! Britt works her over in the corner, but eats a giant knee to the face for 2. Baker superkicks her and butterfly suplexes her for 2. Bea kicks Riho off the apron and Nakajima dropkicks Britt to the back and topes the faces. Bea lands a Regalplex for 2 Nakajima lands a senton as the closed captioning bleeds onto the screen for some reason. Riho lands a northern lights onto Nakajima for 2. Riho double stomps her for 2! Big Kaiji misses a senton off the top and Riho loses to a step-up rana being reversed into a cradle. Fantastic stuff!

Kip Sabian cuts a promo and says he doesn't feel like an underdog. He says that Page has special treatment and runs down a few reasons why - and he feels overlooked. Jim Ross comes down for his now-traditional pre-show intro to get the pop he always deserves. Alex Marvez gives him the title of the Dean from Gordon Solie. Well, in Florida, that's pretty fitting.

A Fyter Fest and DoN recap airs before the opening six man. MJF gives everyone a thumbs up and thumbs down. Sammy G and his cute bear avatar make it hard to hate him. Shawn Spears comes out with a Chairman/Perfect10n shirt. Darby Allin, Jimmy Havoc, and Joey Janela come out and all stand out as unique acts. It's a bit odd to have Janela go from main eventer to opener, but it shows that the card is ever-evolving and I don't mind that.

Janela works great with everyone in this. Havoc hits an acid rainmaker on MJF and Sammy hits a backstabber. Spears takes out Allin with a death valley driver - telling a tale that Spears beat a guy that took Cody to the limit, so it shows in his head that he has Cody's number. Private Party is shown in the crowd and Alex Jebailey is ejected. The fantastic Brandi-Allie hype video airs before Allie comes out in hot pink gear. Brandi is down and then AWESOME KONG RETURNS as Brandi's backup.

Brandi clubs her, but eats a senton for 2. Brandi eats a chop, but lands a modified PK for 2. Brandi stomps a mudhole in her before landing a kneeling superkick for 2. Allie lands a series of corner forearms before hitting the I'M ALLIE sliding D. Allie gets the Gulock and Brandi taps with the ref distracted by Kong. Brandi rakes the eyes and wins with the bionic spear. Awesome Kong sets up an implant buster before AJA KONG COMES DOWN! THEY STARE DOWN and that's going to rule...in a 10 minute match at All Out.

The Dark Order and their creepers are out to face Evans and Angelico and A Boy and His Dinostaur with Marko Stunt in a triple threat tag. Dark Order tears apart Jungle Boy, who is a fantastic babyface in peril. Uno splat swantons Jungle Boy for 2. Luchasaurus flips over Evans and lands a tail whip kick and then a Cro Cop kick before landing a standing moonsault! Dark Order hits the Fatality to win it and get a bye in the tourney.

Kip Sabian's out to face Adam Page. Page and Kip have fantastic chemistry together. Page gets a nice Finlay roll and a standing SSP for 2. Kip lands a PK and tons of shots to the face and splits his elbow open. Page gets a giant moonsault off the top onto the floor and sells the knee. PAGE POWERBOMBS HIM FROM THE RING TO THE RAMP! Giant neckbreaker off the top from Page only gets 2! They sell that the time limit could expire - which already puts this format over WWE's because you do want to see what happens. Page lands the Dead Eye and wins it with 53 seconds left!

A creeper unmasks as Jericho! Jericho slugs him and eyebrows him before landing a codebreaker and flipping everyone off. Initially, I thought that Jericho should absolutely be the first champion, but after this, they're setting up Page as the perfect first champ. They really can't go wrong either way. SCU's out with Scorp healing on Jacksonville as they all dress up in Jaguars gear. Lucha Bros are out and look so major league with the big intro.

Lucha Bros shine brightly with Daniels eating a superkick on the floor. Fenix goes for a dive on Daniels before he winds up hitting Pentagon and Daniels hits the Arabian moonsault. Aubrey sends Daniels out and then Kaz dives onto Fenix and Penta. Double wheelbarrow by SCU takes down Fenix while Marvez makes a good point about Kaz and Sky making their own chemistry, but in a long-winded way. They talk about The Great Leader Shah Kahn's design for this building - and it is fantastic. Monkey flip senton from the bros into SCU in the corner! Double stomp package piledriver ends it for the Lucha Bros! Lucha Bros beat them up with a custom black and gold ladder. Penta grabs a mic for a CERO MIEDO chant and gets it. He wants a ladder match with the Bucks at All Out!

Kenny Omega vs. CIMA is exactly what it should've been. CIMA looking strong at points, but Omega killing him to death with V triggers at all angles. CIMA lands a nasty meteora off the balcony into a table onto Omega! Omega buckle bombs him off a super meteora and snap dragons him down. Running V trigger hits for a crazy 2.9! Perfect Driver hits and CIMA is still on his knees! Crazy V trigger hits and CIMA avoids the Angel, and Kenny avoids the Schewein. CIMA lands a DDT off a running powerbomb attempt. CIMA slaps him, so Omega bicycle knees him. SCHWEIN ON THE APRON!

The fans chant YOU KILLED KENNY and he lands another meteora. CIMA drills him with nasty palm strikes and chops! CIMA counters a high kick with his own! V TRIGGER and a Jay driller! Another V trigger is countered into a cradle for 2.9! Kneeling V trigger and the One Winged Angel hits and wins it! This was damn near perfect and the best singles match I've ever seen CIMA in. This was better than Omega vs. Jericho at Double or Nothing too. An amazing Jericho video airs before he comes out.

 

 

He brags about having Hangman's blood on his hand. He says all he ever wanted was a thank you, and so he gets it from the fans and says he didn't want it from them. He calls Jacksonville Jackoffville and says he'll get his thank you by beating everyone in AEW. He says that the company was started by him, the TV deal starting in October is all due to him. Page comes out and beats up Jericho to get a bit of revenge. Jerry Lynn gets bumped trying to stop the carnage.

Bucks are out and Dustin's revamped more epic tron is great. I love the little echoes of the Goldust theme to start and he's added a black and red weight belt. Dustin points to the AEW logo on the tron in a perfect shot. Cody's out in black and red gear to match Dustin.

Cody and Nick work quickly to start things off. Matt eats a slew of uppercuts from both of the Brotherhood. Dustin spinebusters Matt hard. Cody X plexes Nick after a dragon screw on Matt. Matt avoids Din's Fire. Bucks get a double sharpshooter before the Brotherhood locks on a double figure four.

Things get risky as the Rhods hit a flip dive with Dustin and then Cody crossbodies on the floor. Nick is prepped for the ball kick, but Matt blind tags in and lands a superkick. Meltzer driver is met with a disaster knee and a disaster kick. Magic Killer-style Crossrhodes lands and gets 2.9! Double corner ball kick by the Brotherhood! Double director's cut spiral suplex/neckbreakers for 2. Bucks tease a double superkick, BUT HIT DROPDOWN UPPERCUTS so the Brotherhood HITS A DOUBLE SUPERKICK!

Cross Rhodes to Cody by Nick gets 2.9! Nick double dives onto Dustin and Cody eats a Metlzer driver and that ends it. Matt and Nick say that this match was all in the spirit of competition. The roster is out with Shah Kahn to present the $150,000 check with the execs and company as a whole donating. Kenny closes the show and says that tonight, we'll end it with a boing and not a bang.