Things start off with Jake Roberts and Lance Archer, with Roberts saying the TNT Title was made for them. Jake does a great job putting Lance over as the focus. The title is a bone for the dog, and you can't take the bone from him. Roberts puts over Cabana as being good - but he's not 275 pounds of attitude like Lance Archer. They shill the match and the AEW watchalong contest. The Bubbly Bunch is a thing and Colt puts himself over and says he's over the top and fun - but he's a great wrestler at his core. THIS is how you hype up tournament matches to make each bout without a core story in it to have a story and stakes. Tale of the tape helps too.
Lance runs by and slugs a plant and then tears a sign. Colt flies in and the flying apple meets a German into a full nelson slam for 2. Jericho puts Archer over about being tough to have giant red braids like that.Archer goes for a second rope splash and misses before the crowd chants for Colt. Lance rushes in and he eats some bionic elbows! FLYING APPLE HITS! Fakeout splash hits and Jericho namedrops Super Porky. Pounce hits and Jericho and Tony debate calling it a pounce. Corner to mid-ring blackout ends it. Dr. Britt is in action next.
BUT FIRST, A GREAT SKIT WHERE SHE HAS GRIT! Ariel Helwani picks Hager to win. Surprised to see TNT allow them to list ESPN, but hey why not. Taz picks Mox. Gotta show love for his fellow orange and black lover. Then we get a video breakdown of the arm triangle by Taz. This is such smart stuff. It makes moves seem important and builds up the world a bit.
Britt stops by Shida and talks shit. Superkick to the shin and then the basement superkick. Britt poses next to Cassandra on the apron to mock her - great stuff. Toothbreaker against the rope ends it. Okay, that's a shit finish and maybe don't put people's mouths on ropes right now. Ron Funches picks MOX to win it. MIKE GOLDBERG PICKS JAKE HAGER! AEW DoN hype video airs. Bubbly Bunch is on Santana in a giant Dr. Seuss hat. The Inner Circle facetimes each other and Hager has his kids cover their ears say he's gonna beat the shit out of Mox.
Jericho says that Hangman's missing and Cody Exotic probably fed him to Phaoroah. And he has no TP and needs it now. Suge D, Sugar Dunkerton, and/or Pineapple Pete is here to face Sammy G. Tony says this match is due to Jericho not liking poor Pete and now he's pitting him against Sammy. Suge boogies for a bit "Sooge? Suge? Screw it - PINEAPPLE PETE!" Tony and Jericho are some great together. Delayed brainbuster gets 2 for Sammy, and Jericho says Sammy's milking the airtime.
Multiple squash Samoan drop gets 2 while Tony talks about Jericho getting Sammy into AEW. Diagonal V trigger by Sammy before a burning hammer GTS hits hard. Torture Knee ends it and Jericho made this match so much better. He talks about Dasha needing to hit Sammy G up before Sammy says he'll beat the shit out of Darby and then he does Danielson's reverse curb stomps to the chest and Darby makes a save. "The sex God always ends up on top!" - Jericho is tremendous. Big John hypes up Hager, while Excalibur says he picks Mox to win since it's a falls count anywhere match.
Kip and his great tron come out to face Chuck Taylor while Tony sings the Best Friends song. They plug LoisRules and Jericho says you can buy shirts, pinball machines, and comdoms. Tony adds in "EDIBLES!?" to the mix in the best way possible. Jericho says that you don't need a great physique to be a great wrestler whle Chuck puts a half-crab on and he cites Bobby Eaton. Jericho cuts a promo on Vanguard 1 for stealing his shirt, the little bastard. Penelope Ford whips Chucky's ass and Tony calls Orange one of the best managers he's seen before Jericho calls him out on that and says he's watched wrestling for 65 years. Samoan driver hits for Chuck and Jericho calls that that the Chucky Cheese. Pop up Ligerbomb gets 2 for Chucky. Chucky hits sole food off a tornado DDT before Penelope takes her top off to show off her bra and then Orange copies her. Ford hits a Litacanrana before Kip schoolboys Chucky to win in a match that went on way too long, but Jericho made worthwhile.
Some actor talks about the title match while Ortiz says Hager will win it tonight. Sammy G and his white Beats give the nod to Hager. Spears squashes the uber-jobber Shawn Spears. Mox and Hager square off at Daily's Place with the usual Dynamite set. "MOXLEY ONCE CHEATED DEATH WITH A STAPH INFECTION, BUT HAGER MAY PROVE TO BE STRONGER...THAN STAPH INFECTION!" all righty.
They brawl all over the place and Hager lands some stuff knees to the gut and hard punches. Hager takes him down and gets the ground arm triangle, but Mox gets the break. Well what's the ref going to do here in this no holds barred match? DQ him in a World title match? Mox hits him with a chair and Death Riders him for the win. This was a fun, stiff war and probably the best pure fight-style match in the empty arena era.
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