A Cage highlight reel makes him look like a world-beater. BRITT IS HERE IN HER ROLES ROYCE! Cody faces Marq Quen for the TNT Title, and this can be a great learning experience for him. Sammy vs. Colt is on tap too and looks great. Hager and PNP face the Best Friends and Orange. FTR vs. Butcher and the Blade is up, and they've made Sutter look 55 in the graphic. Jericho comes out and says LE CHAMPION IS HERE!
FTR drives down - so the truck's part of their regular intro. The revamped FTR logo looks fantastic and their theme is solid. Love the beater truck being part of their intro - plays into the blue collar vibe they're going for. Jake and Lance look on annoyed. Sutter and Harwood chop each other a ton. Jericho says that FTR means "Follow The Rules" - so that's a new shirt and Jericho hypes up that the Inner Circle has two great teams in it. Giant FTR chant
Jericho says that Butcher looks like he's from Escape From New York, meaning Gangs of New York - so he means ALL THE NEW YORK MOVIES. Big crossbody block by Butcher and Blade gets an edge thanks to Butcher choking Cash in the corner. Swinging neckbreaker by Dax to Blade before a big brainbuster. DOUBLE DRAPING DDT TO BUTCHER! Powerplex hits and gets 2.9! GORGEOUS splash/elbow by Cash. Shatter Machine is now the Goodnight Express and the spike piledriver/Mind Breaker ends it - so that's their new finish. I like it - they get a finish they couldn't do in WWE, and use their WWE finish as a setup for their actual finish.
Tony interviews FTR mid-ring and Dax says this is the pinnacle of tag team wrestling before the Bucks come in and thank them for having a great match and winning it. The Bucks get on them for not introducing themselves properly - which is a great little dig at WWE not liking them for how they introduced themselves. Bucks are assholes to FTR before Butcher attacks the Bucks and now the tag champs are in.
The Natural Nightmares are backstage and find out they'll face Omega and Page next week for the titles. QT gave Bunny a Natural Nightmares jacket, which pisses of Brandi. Dustin sets the stakes up - they could win the titles, but he needs to get Allie out of his system. Tony says he doesn't trust Allie and Jericho says he should because QT does.
Penelope Ford comes out to team with Nyla as Jericho calls Kip sexy. Middle-aged bi-curious Jericho calling both Kip and Sammy sexy is great. Kris and Shida are here and Kris has "it". Jim Ross brings up the Canady Death Tours being near the Andromeda Galaxy. Kris boops everyone! Kris gets worked over for a bit before getting an edge thanks to Shida and uppercutting Nyla in the corner. Nyla grounds Kris and beats her down before a legdrop gets an ad break.
Jericho talks about Reba and how you should listen to what the doctor says - so she's not Rebel! "Drove it in her hard and strong!" Oh Jim... Big suplex by Shida to Ford gets 2. Big kneelift hits and Ross talks about Mr. Wrestling II's million dollar kneelift. Ford hits a stunner to Kris and then eats a knee to the...gut that's called the face. Stat hits an axe kick to Nyla and gets 2! Nyla avoids a suplex by Shida and drapes her for the diving knee on both. That spot seems like a great way to have someone land on another person's arm badly. Running knee to Rose by Shida! Falcon arrow gets 2! Kris dives on Kip and Ford belt shots Shida and hits the hottest fisherman's suplex ever to win it.
DARBY ALLIN VIDEO WITH TONY HAWK AIRS! Darby needs to be DLC in the THPS remake. NEW BRITT VIDEO! She talks about acing a microbiology exam she didn't know about and she has more struggles than any other woman in AEW.AEW figure ad airs. Hager destroys OC and Ortiz unleashes TIGER STYLE FLIPS! Jericho buries Trent for not having a last name and Ross says well, he used to. Faces win and Jericho beats them down with the bat. Jericho's about to get bags of oranges more over than any title in WWE. Bat to the head busts OC open and Jericho smacks him with a giant bag of oranges.
MJF insults Jungle Jack Perry getting a title shot before him. He says he is a shark and he's swimming in a sea of minnows - and Billy says he's the real great white. MJF insults his kids and they build up a Billy Gunn match in 2020 quite well. Colt and the Dark Order issues are replayed. Mr. Brodie Lee wants him in the Dark Order and that's an interesting pair in the ring. Sammy comes down with the Hit Me Up Mobile and hops in the ring with Ross saying he hopes he can go the whole show without being hit by a golf cart or a horse. Good advice.
Ross talks about Colt being 40 and getting self-doubt just due to that and not really due to any lack of skills. Skyline doesn't work and Sammy hits the GTH, playing off the same thing they did with Daniels where the Dark Order aims to exploit mental weakness. Uno and Grayson return with Mr. Brodie Lee, who picks up Colt to get him back on his feet literally. Sammy demands his music before Matt saunters down and tells him he respects him and sees a young Matt Hardy.
We get some MATTER OF FACTS before we get Broken Matt, or maybe it's Damascus. Joey says he came to AEW to become a star and went from wrestling Moxley in main events to fading away. Great Streets of Rage-style music for him as he gets a ride from Sonny Kiss. Fun character stuff here. Colt goes to meet Mr. Brodie Lee. Billy faces MJF next week and the tag champs face the Natural Nightmares. The TNT Title is on the line next week and Le Sex Gods face The Best Friends and the Fyter Fest tag title match is on the line while the Superbad Death Squad faces the Bucks. Mox arrives with Marvez and he's slicked his hair forward - and looks so much worse. He talks shit about Taz and Taz says that Cage is gonna take him out at Fyter Fest - and Mox eats a beating already. Spinebuster on a hood by Cage and then Taz tells him to lay off before Cage slams him into the back window.
Cody cuts a great promo about how important the TNT Title is. We get a Quen highlight reel and he comes out to a new Private Party theme. Hardy Party is out with now '99 Matt out for him. Cody's new shirt's profits go to help out LGTBQ youth and Quen has a BLM armband. Justin Roberts is such a great ring announcer - he makes every match seem like a big deal.
Cody attacks the knee and buzzsaw kicks him for 2. Dragon sleeper variant on the Romero special is locked on. Quen gets a sloppy moonsault block, but it works given the leg is damaged going in and throughout it. Quen hits a pair of flip dives and bangs the knee on the second and getting a Fosbury flop on the third for 2. Arn lets Quen go up top and Ross says that in his day, Arn would've attacked. 450 ON THE RAMP BY QUEN! Quen avoids an SSP and gets an ankle lock! Nightmare Lock is on and ends it! And that's how you get a finisher over - BEAT PEOPLE WITH IT!
Quen walks to the back and Hager walks out to set up Cody vs. Hager after he goes after Arn and Cody defends him. The Hardy Party is out and cleans house. More Inner Circle vs. Elite, but now with the Hardy Party in the mix to elevate Private Party - great stuff. Matt and Sammy brawl and a Twist of Fate hits. Cody says that Hager wants a title match at Fyter Fest, and it's on.
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