AEW Dynamite 12-15-21 - WINTER IS COMING - Page vs. Danielson

 DANIELSON VS. PAGE STARTS THE SHOW OFF. Unreal. We get a staredown and no company in the US does as good a job of shooting the action as they do. Saving the best for first to ensure it gets as much ad-free time as possible - I love it! Bryan gets a takedown and is SO PLEASED with himself. Tremendous. Every time Page gets an edge, Bryan goes right to the rope. 

DANIELSON CHOPS and then Page runs through another one and chops him into the buckle! Bryan brings back the kneeling figure four forearms! Danielson teases a suicide dive, BUT HE'S A HEEL so he eats a boot and then eats a dive. Danielson, clearing taking notes from The Miz - catches him perfectly. Danielson does JUMPING JACKS DURING THE AD BREAK.

Back suplex by the champ! SUICIDE DIVE AND MOONSAULT BY HANGMAN! Big death valley bomb hits for Page and gets 2! Page moonsault misses and a la majistral gets 2! ANKLE LOCK BY BRYAN! Danielson hoists him up for it AND KICKS HIS RIBS! Trio of corner dropkicks lead to a POP-UP POWERBOMB. He goes for another moonsault, but Bryan tosses him on the apron! BRYAN/NIGEL SHOULDER RAMS INTO THE POST!

One slides into the head and Page is sliced and eats a baseball slide and a flying knee off the apron. APRON KICKS BY BRYAN lead to HIM KICKING THE POST. Page takes the covers off the barricade and traps Bryan's boot in it TO KICK HIM. Love it. Page is MORE RUTHLESS due to Bryan doing that to him. FIGURE FOUR BY PAGE! 

Triangle and THEN THE RAMPAGE BOMB BUT ANOTHER TRIANGLE WITH ELBOWS! Page gets the rope! Tombstone piledriver outta nowhere to Bryan gets 2! Flying knee to the arm in the rope before a Regalplex by Bryan! Super back suplex hits for 2.9! Gotch driver attempt on the apron BUT HANGMAN DEAD EYES HIM! Page doesn't want to wait and dives INTO BRYAN WHO THROWS HIM INTO A TIMEKEEPER'S TABLE! 

DDT by Bryan. GERMAN BY PAGE! Page goes for a forearm, but eats a kick and then a giant PK to the other one!  SUPER GERMAN BY BRYAN BUT PAGE BACKFLIPS OUT AND DISCUS LARIATS HIM! DISCUS FOREARM BY PAGE! ROUNDHOUSE BY BRYAN! "I'M GONNA KICK HIS FUCKING HEAD IN!" - Danielson ARM TRAP KICKS! Danielson smacks him around. BUSAIKU KNEE MEETS A DEADEYE-ish move for 2.9. 

"I'M GONNA KICK HIS FUCKING HEAD IN!" - Page. NO SWEARING! ARM-TRAP STOMPS BY PAGE! BUCKSHOT INTO A LEBELL LOCK BY BRYAN! PAGE'S EYES ARE COVERED! CROSSFACES BY BRYAN! Slingshot to Danielson to the floor and A BUCKSHOT WITHOUT THEATRICS HITS! OG BUCKSHOT HITS BUT TIME HAS EXPIRED! AEW HAS ITS FIRST HOUR-LONG EPIC! Tremendous!

THE SUPERKLIQ (and Bobby Fish) - poor Bobby Fish gets And Zoidberg'd. Wardlow destroys Sydal and Spears chairshots Sydal a bunch. Spears tells Wardlow that he has to go get some bubbly for MJF - he'll drive and Wardlow can just go buy it in his gear. Tay challenges Penelope to a submission match and Ford says she'll tap her out like a pussy with the Muta lock on Rampage. Malakai Black says the past isn't a crutch - it's an arrow and the House of Black is here. "Now you're so much more than a king..." - Cool. Brody King looks to be AEW-bound.

Deeb vs. Shida is up with Deeb in a new PROFESSOR OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING robe and Shida...wearing what looks like a diaper. Figure four on the post WITH THE STEPS...Smart - looks safer. AEW on TBS ad. Good matwork here. Nothing too amazing. FALCON ARROW BY SHIDA! Cradle counters and Deeb gets a half-crab! Deeb undoes the top buckle pad and eats it after a figure four counter and a jacknife pin ends it. Good-ish, not amazing. 

Griff and Pillman bicker over saving Julia and Griff threatens Malakai Black with a broken jaw. I do not like his chances on that one. HOOK HYPE VIDEO. MJF comes out and calls this place a goddamn dump and their daughters swallow. They're also anti-education and pro-incest. MJF gets Ryback over saying that Punk's like him - underwhelming wins over nobodies and tonight he'll win with a headlock!

Dynamite ring is put on a pedestal with a Maxwell Just Farted sign and then we get a CORNETTE IS OUT OF TOUCH sign. Dante hits a big dive to the floor and is shining in the main event slot. MJF gives him a lot of shine with a diving knee to the floor! Big forearm shiver to MJF sends him down! MJF avoids the Nosedive and lands a right hand. 10 COUNT PUNCHES...to the buckle by Dante. Teaching moment there. 

HEADLOCK TAKEOVER gets 2 for MJF. DANTE GETS ONE FOR 2. I love that single line meaning something more in this match. LIGERBOMB GETS 2! Nosedive hits and Starks puts MJF's foot on the rope! SALT OF THE EARTH IS ON AND HE TAPS HIM! THREE-TIME DIAMOND RING WINNER! THE LIGHTS GO OUT!

Sting and Darby attack FTR! MJF low-blows Sting! CM Punk chant to set up one hell of a six-man tag! Punk, Sting, and Darby vs. MJF and FTR is going to be amazing. They needed six man tag titles long ago for stuff like this. The match is made for next week's Dynamite!