AEW Dynamite 12/2/20 - Moxley vs. Omega Winter is Coming

 

The Dynamite Diamond battle royal is up to start - but the winner of the battle royal doesn't get the ring. Instead, the last two men have a match next week - so it's basically like the gauntlet for the gold in Impact. This wasn't done last year, but this fits a Sammy-MJF match nicely. Matt throws out Kassidy as they shill Statefarm. Reynolds and Silver hit a stunner/German combo before Hangman lariats Serpentico out before a tremendous celebration by Silver.

Spears is out, but Tully loads up the glove anyway to likely take out Sky. And boom, he's out! Quen and Hardy take out Silver with Hardy celebrating. Dark Order prevents Hangman's elimination, but MATT TAKES HIM OUT ANYWAY! Miro beats up OC and tosses Joey and Lee around. Inner Circle stands in the corner and Joey takes an AMAZING bump for the spinout uranage. Miro interrupts Silly String and takes out Matt and Quen and Joey! Hoss warfare between Wardlow and Miro before everyone gangs up on Miro and they send him out. Sammy and Jungle Boy have tremendous exchanges on the apron before MJF tosses Jack out but BY GOLLY SAMMY IS OUT TOO! Wardlow, MJF, and OC are remaining. 

Wardlow saves MJF, but MJF is pissed and Wardlow is taken out with an Orange Punch as is MJF. OC takes out Wardlow, so next week is MJF vs. Orange Cassidy, with MJF having to essentially defend his diamond ring as if it's a title. I love it. Kaz is out in a slick SCU black and yellow basketball jersey to face Jericho! Jericho comes out in a tremendous black and gold jacket before they start off with some stalling and a long headlock. Triangle dropkick is avoided by Kaz and he drops him for an over the top legdrop!

Codebreaker hits! DOUBLE BICEP BY JERICHO. Lionsault meets knees and a legdrop gets 2 for Kaz. Flux Capacitor hits for 2.5! Codebreaker countered into a Walls by Kaz and Ortiz tries to madball him, but Hager tells him to stop. Wardlow and MJF ARE OUT WITH A TOWEL! Tremendous callback there to Jericho-Cody and Sammy prevents the towel usage. Judas Effect hits and ends it. Great match and a fantastic story piece for the Inner Circle with MJF framing Sammy for the towel. Jericho tells them to cut the shit because if they can't all get along in a week, they're splitting up forever. 

Bucks are with Marvez and he asks about their match next week with TH2 and Nick asks him if he remembers being superkicked and Matt says that they're going to be fighting champions. If they can beat the champs, they'll get a shot. The Acclaimed come in and bury the book before battle rapping them and saying WORLDSTAR. TH2 jumps the bucks before SCU makes a save. Britt talks shit about Lelyla Hirsch before mocking her height, and getting armbarred right away. Great REBEL NOT REBA graphic.

Hirsch goes for a cross armbar, but Britt grabs a tooth. DDT hits for Britt. Britt piefaces her like Leyla gets a big LEYLA chant. Leyla suicide dives Rebel when Britt pulls her into the shot and Britt slingblades her. They're setting up a nice 1-2-3 Kid vs. Razor finish here. Leyla avoids the lockjaw and gets an armbar and a pump knee! Rebel distracts the ref for a buckle flatliner. Twisting fisherman's and the lockjaw ends it. ROSA JUMPS BRITT! Hirsch tosses Rebel and then Rosa fights with Britt more. This rules! JERRY LYNN is out and gets a big chant. Great stuff all round. Team Taz vs. Darby and Cody is up. WWE-esque 2 seconds of action before a break. 

Starks chases Darby right into a Hobbs bodyblock. Hobbs beats the shit out of Darby and man is he a great babyface in peril. Darby is such a great face in peril. Shame this match is set up to make Cody, WHO DARBY BEAT, into the star instead of focusing on raising Darby's stock. MASSIVE reverse bearhug by Hobbs and then an EARPLEX BY HOBBS! Cody comes in and springboard-sorta dropkick hits Hobbs before a pump kick. He throws out the weight belt and Starks rakes the eyes. Cody cutter and the coffin drop end it. Good stuff. Glad Darby won in the end there. Arn comes in and slugs Starks before getting dropped. Dustin comes to make a save for Arn - which is a nice little callback to 1994 with Dustin being willing to save the man.

STING COMES OUT AND IS AMAZING. We get he and Cody, Darby, and Arn in staredowns. Tremendous stuff. Shida will face Abadon next week and she mocks her for being a cosplayer and then gets spooked and wants to do that over, but Alex can't do it since they're live. Lance teams with the Lucha bros to face Kingston and the Butcher and Blade. Sting speaks next week AND IT MIGHT BE WITH TONY! Mox says it's time to make them go banana. 

Don Callis is here for the main event! Callis feels so special on these shows only being here for Omega matches.  Roberts hypes Omega's winning streak being the longest in AEW and he has just launched a supplement line! Mox is out and we get some amazing shots of them. God, this feels so big.

Kenny and Mox start off with some floatovers and we get more Statefarm plugs. Back and forth shoulderblocks with Mox sending him down. ROPE DRAGON SCREW BY KENNY. He's using Tana's tactics here with an apron dragon screw and the kotaro crusher hits for 2. Kenny rushes in AND EATS A WESTERN LARIAT! OVERHEAD CAM SHOT FOR THE KNEEBAR! Mox gets a pair of Germans! Mox gets an STF in PIP. 

Omega hits the Terminator dive, but Mox recovers and hits the shift! No cover, with Mox getting heelish and bringing chairs in. I like the line they're walking here with Moxley being heelish - but not being a heel.  He sets the chairs up for DUELING SLAPS! PUNCHES. V TRIGGER BY KENNY! Mox gets another shift but it's only good for 2.5! 

SUICIDE DIVE FROM MOX INTO AN OMEGA V TRIGGER! Tremendous! V TRIGGER TO THE NECK IN THE CORNER! Tiger driver '98 hits for 2.9! Kneeling knee and an Okada dropkick set up a RIPCORD V TRIGGER! Electric chair German gets 2 for Kenny! They fight on the floor and Kenny is tossed into a ringside heater off the top by Mox. Callis goes to check on him. Oh this is too good. You can just sense something's up and it's great. Mox tosses him in to slug away. Mox slugs Don and Kenny grabs the mic and slugs him! Mox is bloody. V TRIGGERS HIT! A THIRD! FOURTH IN THE CORNER! ONE WINGED ANGEL HITS AND OMEGA IS THE AEW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION!

Kenny and Don leave and Tony calls all this bullshit. Tremendous stuff. Don says that THIS TUESDAY ON AXS TV, Don and Kenny will tell everyone about it! Oh man, this is going to be good for Impact - hopefully, they can use the TNT boost to help the show and company out as a whole. This one title change may wind up doing a lot of good for wrestling overall.