AEW Dynamite 2-7-24 - Swerve vs Hangman III, Sting and Darby Go for Tag Gold

We're starting off strong with FULL ON MAGNUM HANGMAN and facing Swerve in the opener for the Revolution World Title shot. Watching this on DVR for Kadie's Palworld stream and we start off with a lock-up and Taz adding so much to it with his commentary on using it as a way to find weakness in a foe. MASSIVE big boot from Swerve off the irish whip! Swerve gets sent over and Hangman avoids a countout by resetting the clock and hits a fallaway slam on the floor. Chops in the corner lead to Taz plugging Wooo Energy and saying he's Segway Jones. BUT I DIGRESS. Orihara moonsault is avoided and Swerve hits the rolling flatliner!

Swerve eats a sunset bomb and gets spiked, but pop up for a Tornado kick only to eat a Liger bomb for 2! SWERVE AVOIDS A BUCKSHOT AND HITS ONE! SWERVE STOMP GETS 1-2...2.9! Hangman DDT ON THE BARRICADE! SWERVE STOMP ON THE APRON! Table time. REBOUNDER LARIAT BY HANGMAN AND A BUCKSHOT! FOOT ON THE ROPE JONES! Deadeye on the apron and it hits! He chairshots Nana! Swerve gets him with a chair and the swerve stomp hits BUT HE CAN'T COVER! JML Driver, but Hangman rolls through and snaps the hurt ankle! SWERVE HITS A DEADEYE OFF THE APRON THROUGH A TABLE!

A third swerve stomp misses and the ankle is done! Buckshot BUT NO THE JML DRIVER HITS BUT HE CAN'T COVER! HE DOES BUT THE TIME EXPIRES! The 30 minute time limit is over and they really do need regular time calls for this to mean more than a boo finish. Swerve, the valiant babyface yells NO! "I DIDN'T GO THROUGH ALL THIS FOR IT TO END LIKE THIS! HANGMAN, I'M NOT LETTING YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS THAT EASY!" Hangman tells him that YOU had to beat ME to become the number one contender and YOU DIDN'T DO IT!

Tony Schiavone has JUST SPOKEN TO TONY KHAN and it's not done! WE NOW HAVE TWO NUMBER ONE CONTENDERS and it will be a three-way at Revolution! Samoa Joe busts out the King Shark voice to say that they are embracing mediocrity and HE IS SAMOA JOE AND HE IS THE WORLD CHAMPION! AND THE BOTH OF YOU WILL SUFFER AS A RESULT! Toni Storm vs. Red Velvet is up with a lot of matwork from Toni. Hip attack and a snap DDT gets 2 for Toni. Toni gets a TORTURE ANKLE LOCK WITH A HEAD STOMP TO WIN!

Team CMLL vs. BCC is up! Voladar Jr, Hechicero and Mascara Dorado are out looking fantastic. Hech made himself a big star on Collision and redoes some of that with Danielson. Dorada and Claudio slug it out! Double armdrag to Danielson and Mox is a bit wonky but he uses Mox as a base to jump kick Danielson. Code Red to Claudio gets 2.5 when Mox breaks it up. Claudio and Heicho land back and forth shots! HEADSCISSOR GUIOLITTOINE HITS FOR 2! Claudio hits a ballshot and a cradle on Hechi to win.

The CMLL crowd guys including Mistico are out before jobbers are out to give Team CMLL a win soon. Tony Khan announces Big Business on March 13 in Boston - so likely Sasha's debut and maybe Okada too. Jericho vs. Takeshita is up and Jericho gets knees up on a senton. Ditto the Lionsault meeting knees there. AVALANCHE BLUE THUNDER BOMB HITS! ONLY A 2.9! Big knee, but Walls are on! Screwdriver to the head by Callis and the Walls are on and Jericho's out! He recovers at 2 hand drops and TAPS TO THE LIONTAMER! 

Title time for the Stinger! It's crazy that this whole run even happened and Sting gets to basically retire as a champion! We see Sting's sons in the crowd and they couldn't look more like Sting's sons if they tried. Walk and brawl before Sting runs wild with backhands and lariats!

Coffin and stinger splashes to Bill! STANDING COFFIN DROP TO BILL ON THE FLOOR! Darby stops Bill from preventing a breakup on the Deathlock, but Starks pulls himself out of the ring. Ricky pulls the buckle pad off and Sting splashes it and eats a spear for 2.9 with a bit of a delay from Ricky! Sting catches the spear and gets a deathdrop and the win! The Bucks come in and beat up the champs and THE LITTLE STINGERS who are just jacked. I love Taz making sure to call them Matthew and Nicholas. Paycheck Jones ova here! Darby gets sliced up by MATTHEW AND NICHOLAS!