AEW WrestleDream 2024

They've got a killer set for this pre-show.  It's a pretty big night for AEW with it being possibly Danielson's final match as a full-timer. CHUCKY T IS ON THE PRE-SHOW and thanks RJ for getting him the wobbliest chair in Tacoma before saying he trained Ricochet in a backyard. GIDDY UP COWBOY with a great shot of Jay White.

Cage vs. Atlantis Jr is up for the ROH TV Title. Cage DVD is avoided, but a spinebuster hits. FLIP DIVE BY ATLANTIS JR! POWERPLEX TO MID-RING GETS 2 FOR CAGE! Pumphandle flatliner hits for 2 for Cage. TORTURE RACK BOMB BY ATLANTIS JR GETS 2! Superkick and a frog splash hit, but a super rana is met with an avalanche Ligerbomb for 2! Drillclaw into a victory roll for 2! DRILLCLAW ENDS IT and he wins the ROH TV Title! 

Rico appears with MxM Collection before Anna Jay vs. Harley Cameron. Harley bites the hand a bit after a hip attack. Anna gets a bow and arrow on the ringpost before Harley hits a Russian legsweep for 2. Kneeling Rough Ryder by Harley gets 2.5! Cradle exchanges for 2 before Sole Food gets 2 for Harley. Gori Bomb faceplant wins it for Anna Jay! Her new theme is fantastic - a mix of her old one with instrumentals better for a dome.

Jarrett gets drowned out by the crowd. Rico is out with MxM - but not as their partner! Slingblade-style facebuster by Bowens to Mansoor! Ligerbomb and a calf kick by MxM, but the Centerfold is avoided. Chokeslam by Madden into a German by Mansoor gets 2! Caster AA sets up a Scissor Me Timbers WITH MADDEN! AND AN ACTUAL ONE! Bowens dives onto MxM. RICO GOES FOR THE SPIN KICK, but Billy stops it and fameassers him! Mic drop ends it! This was fun.

Rated FTR video on helping Asheville. Mercedes arrives and Amanita is NOT AMUSED. Congomorunners are out to face THE DARK ORDER and Premier Athletes. Three sets of 10 punches BEFORE OC HITS 1! TURBO TAGS IN AND RUNS WILD! SLAMS ABOUND! DOUBLE BICEP DROP! Woods prevents Total Recall! Daivari frog splash gets 2 thanks to KOR! Turbo with a Hulk up! ORANGE PUNCH BUT THE OUTRUNNERS CONFRONT MARK! TOTAL RECALL WINS IT! 

Okada and KOR brawl and CD ejects them! Nice opening video and Jay White vs. Hangman opens it up! I'm a little disappointed that it isn't Mortos vs. Hologram, but I get starting it off with a bigger starpower match. Chop and basement dropkick by White and a big kneeling chop by White! Hangman grounds him and swarms him with elbows. BUCKLE FALLAWAY SLAM BY HANGMAN! Big sleeper by Hanger and spins it into a slam for 2. Gorgeous German by White gets 2! Hangman is caught in a tree of woe on the apron AND GETS CHOPPED! DEATH VALLEY BOMB ON THE APRON BY HANGER! Knreebreaker on the ramp prevents the buckshot AND THE BLADERUNNER ENDS IT!

Women's World Title match is up.  Shotgun dropkick by Mariah. THE POUNCE YOU CAN'T DENOUNCE hits! ANOTHER SHOTGUN DROPKICK! Nigel - The hunt that you love to hunt...at least I think it was hunt... Excalibur - Oh brother! WILLOW BITES THE EAR! Mariah May is so fantastic as a heel that she's just come into her own in a couple of months of being her own full act - and with the handicap of being a tribute to multiple eras of Toni Storm's career beforehand. Mariah can't get her up for Mayday, but lands a smooth German for 2 - love that!

Indian deathlock by Willow with Willow smashing her knee into her head! Moonsault misses for Willow! SHOTGUN MISSILE DROPKICK HITS FOR MARIAH! MAYDAY HITS FOR THE...2.9! POUNCE MET WITH A CLONKING HEADBUTT AND A WILLOW FOREARM/LARIAT! CORNER DVD BY WILLOW GETS 2! Avalanche bomb meets a May rana, V trigger and the Storm Zero ends it. THIS RULED!

Shibata vs. Jack Perry is up for the TNT Title. The tale of this being that Perry wants THE OLD SHIBATA is interesting. Perry wanted him and HE GETS HIM WITH THE CHOPS! PK and seated kicks by Perry and Shibata rolls out of the PK and hits a rising boot! Draping snap suplex off the apron and the corner forearms and hesitation dropkick hit before the half hatch gets 2! KAWADA KICKS BY SHIBATA! Draping DDT on the floor by Perry! Ushigoroshi and an RNC - BUT PERRY TRAPS HIS BACK AND PINS HIM! Perfect! Perry hits the knee afterwards. 

Daniel Garcia is out to save Shibata! MJF IS HERE! Perry jumps Danny and MJF brags about shooting movies and steps on Danny's throat. I normally don't like Dynamite angles on PPV - but this works well since it's MJF. He brings the ring back and makes Danny kiss it! BUT IT'S ADAM COLE, BAYBAY! And he's just a babyface and that's fine - it's the best role for him against MJF.

OSPREAY VS RICOCHET VS TAKESHITA IS UP! Callis calls talents meat puppets who perform for him - EXCEPT FOR TAKESHITA! "Let the thinker think and let the athlete wrestle!" Ricochet and Ospreay hit round kicks to Takeshita, but Ricochet eats a DDT on the floor before bringing a table into things. Ricochet Sasuke special is met with a powerslam position BUT OSPREAY SENDS THEM BOTH DOWN!

Combo DDT by Ospreay forces Takeshita down. Ricochet rolls right into a giant elbow shot by Takeshita! Apron chops to Takeshita and Ospreay jumps off of Ricochet's back onto a Takeshita apron DVD! METORIA BY RICOCHET TO TAKESHITA! Ospreay C4 prevents a dive through the table with Takeshita. Stormbreaker is met with a snap rana by Ricochet! BACKSLIDE DRIVER BY RICOCHET GETS 2! 

INVERTED OMORI DRIVER INTO A WHEELBARROW GERMAN BY TAKESHITA ON OSPREAY! Blue thunder to Ricochet gets 2! Ospreay superkick to Ricochet before a Takeshita forearm shot and an Oscutter! RICOCHET POISON RANA! MASSIVE POWER LARIAT TO RICOCHET GETS 2.9! OSPREAY RANAS RICOCHET OFF THE TOP INTO A CRADLE FOR 2.5 ON TAKESHITA! RIDE ON SHOOTING STAR PRESS BY RICOCHET HITS FOR 2! PUMP STOMP BY RICOCHET ON THE APRON! INVERTED OMORI DRIVER THROUGH THE TABLE BY TAKESHITA! 

Hidden Blade hits BUT CALLIS TAKES THE REF! FLETCHER SAVES CALLIS WITH THE SCREWDRIVER! RISING KNEE HITS OSPREAY! YES TAKESHITA WINS IT! TIGER DRIVER '91 BY FLETCHER TO OSPREAY! This is fantastic! Interference aside, that was an absolute classic - and sets up Ospreay vs. Fletcher nicely as a feature feud without worrying about the title hurting the booking. 

Jerry Lynn puts Orange Cassidy over as something special and he even dressed like him for Halloween and he can be the man. Hook tells him he is the man. Prince Nana is out and puts over his coffee and the FOREVER ROH...AEW WORLD CHAMPION SWERVE STRICKLAND! The forever champ gets an entrance he deserves! He says he's cleared, but banged up before MVP and Shelton come out. MVP says Nana clearly didn't give him his card because he hasn't heard from him yet. 

MVP is so much better as a manager than one would logically think he should be with how big he is - but he really grew a lot with his VIP Lounge. One of the few guys to really gain something from having a "talk show". MVP says he makes people better than they ever were. Swerve puts over their match in Defy and MVP says yeah, you beat me! MVP also doesn't mind putting others over himself at all times - normally, you'd have a heel find a way to back out of bringing up that loss to Swerve but he is selfless. Swerve says that with Nana, he lost his title, his home, and the cage match! But he wouldn't have had those things if it wasn't for him! 

Swerve says that Nana's taking more of a percentage, is still selling weed to high school kids in parking lots, and he's neurotic! BUT YOU ARE FAMILY! He has picked his side and Shelton threatens him before Daniels and the refs break it all up. Tony says that it's clear we haven't seen the end of this. After being called Black Mortos for some reason on Dynamite, he's thankfully back to being THE BEAST MORTOS! Give LFI the Trios titles so they can FINALLY do something on-paper with Rush and Mortos.

LU-CHA chant starts things off. Inverted and then regular slingblade by Mortos! Avalanche press slam is met with a headscissor and the diving crucifix bomb gets the first fall! MIDDLE ROPE TORNILLO GETS A FUCK YEAH! BELLY TO BELLY INTO THE CORNER BY MORTOS! CORNER SPEAR BY MORTOS! ANOTHER CORNER SPEAR MISSES AND A HOLOGRAM MOONSAULT HITS! Mortos avoids the Portal Bomb. Atlantis backbreaker/shock treatment, into a Powerbomb on the knee and a discus lariat get a fall for Mortos! 

SATELLITE HEADSCISSORS OFF THE TOP BY HOLOGRAM - that may be the single greatest example of how great a base Mortos is. Holy shit! POP-UP POISON RANA BY HOLOGRAM ON THE APRON! SOMERSAULT SENTON OFF THE APRON BY HOLOGRAM! Hologram hits a fallaway powerslam, but eats a discus lariat! AVALANCHE PRESS SLAM HITS FOR MORTOS FOR 2.9! Ropewalk crucifix bomb gets 2.9 for Hologram! Hook kick combo by Hologram! PORTAL BOMB WINS IT! THIS RULED! 

Brody King vs. Darby is up and setup with a student film highlight reel of Darby skating and looking cool. Brody chops the shit out of Darby on the floor. Darby air Sabu's into a forearm! Brody puts the steps on Darby and STEPS ON THEM AND THEN STOMPS! MASSIVE CHOPS! Brody chopping the soul out of dudes never gets old. Definitely gotta have Brody vs. Wahoo in 2K24 later. Corner avalanche into a tree of woe by Brody! Darby doing the coffin drop is even more fitting since Sting did that standing variant against Vader a lot. ROPE SLEEPER BY DARBY! 

BACK TO BACK AVALANCHE GERMANS BY BRODY GET 2! COFFIN DROP TO THE STEPS BY DARBY! Brody comes in at 2.9 only to eat another coffin drop and DARBY WINS IT. This was fantastic at what it needed to be - a showcase for both guys being amazing at what they do. Standing ovation for both guys and Brody hugs him - goddamn that was incredible! Private Party vs. the Young Bucks is up and it should be a career match for PP.

AMAZING RED HYPES UP PP IN THEIR VIDEO AS THEIR TRAINER. Bucks talk shit and we get a brawl and a bit of a stage dive by Quen, who stops for a second climbing in a mini-Homicide moment before flip diving! Tornillo by Zay and a dive gets 2 for Quen! Zay gets a double armdrag, BUT EATS A DOUBLE SUPERKICK! Zay with a springboard DDT to Matt for 2! Draping footstomp into the Ligerbomb MEETS A RANA FOR 2! ZAY WITH A SUPERKICK AND X FACTOR FOR 2! DESTROYER ON THE FLOOR AND QUEN HITS AN A BARRICADE 450! QUEN PREVENTS A TK DRIVER and Zay victory rolls Nick for 2! 

Double superkick and MORE BANG...no! GIN AND JUICE HITS FOR 2.9! MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK TO THE BUCKS GETS 2.9! Doomsday Dropkick from the Bucks and a dropkick into a senton and THE EVP TRIGGER! FOR 2.9! ZAY KICKED OUT TO A MASSIVE POP! ZAY AVOIDS AN EVP TRIGGER AND A CRADLE GETS 2.9! TK DRIVER ENDS IT AND WINS IT! DAMMIT! They did set up Top Flight nicely here being in the crowd to make it clear they'd be in the future mix, but wow what an incredible match

Mark Briscoe vs. Jericho is up for the ROH World Title. Hocket fight to start and Mark rushes into a codebreaker! ORANGE PUNCHES TO BILL! Chop and elbow shot by Mark! Excalibur talks about how Mark was consoling everyone else while Nigel says it was due to his faith in God. Avalanche rana by Jericho! Walls by Jericho and Keith hits Mark with a bat for 2. Rocky takes him out and Mark puts Jericho through a table with a step-up swanton!!  Froggy bow met with a codebreaker for 2. Judas effect misses, and Jericho avoids the J-Driller. JUDAS EFFECT HITS! J-DRILLER BY JERICHO HITS! FOR 2.9! Rolling death valley bomb and it's froggy bow time! C'MON BABY IT'S J-DRILLER TIME! 

FINAL COUNTDOWN TIME! Mox jumps him and tears his jacket off with BCC moments on it! Kneeling chops against the barricade in a chair, but Mox tosses the chair at him and chokes him with the cable! BUSAIKU KNEE WITH A CHAIR! CORNER DROPKICKS! RNC by Mox, but a Saito suplex by Danielson and a busaiku knee gets 2.9! Kneeling kicks on the SAT but Mox piledrives him! Nigel is swatted at by Mox and Marina attacks Bryan on the apron. Mox elbows him down for 2. Marina knees Bryan on the apron! FINGER SNAP TO BRYAN!

Mox stomps his neck on the steps while Marina moves the pads and a fan tells Mox HE'S YER FUCKIN BROTHER MAN! Mox gets backdropped and then takes the K-Tape off and bites and scratches the neck. CORNER HEAD BITING BY BRYAN! CORNER KICKS AND DROPKICK TIME! CURB STOMP BY MOX INTO A BULLDOG CHOKE! Ex puts it over as the move he beat Brodie Lee out with! TOMBSTONE BY MOX! 

Bryan stares him down as if to say BRING IT MOTHERFUCKER AND THEY DO! A minute of forearm shots! Mox eats a shitload of alternating kneeling kicks! Mox cutter is enabled by Marina AND SHE GETS CAUGHT BY THE REF AND EJECTED! FLIPPING GERMAN BY MOX LEADS TO A BUSAIKU KNEE FOR 2.9! "YOU'RE GONNA GET YOUR FUCKIN' HEAD KICKED IN!" FUCKIN' HEAD KICKS AND THE LEBELL LOCK IS ON! Mox got to the rope and Bryan moves the hand over into the double-armbreaker, but Mox gets the rope and blocks a tope and DEATHRIDERS HIM ON THE FLOOR! 

Hammer and anvil elbows to Danielson! LARIANTS HIT FOR MOX! MID-RING DEATH RIDER HITS! AND IT GETS 1! GOTCH-STYLE PILEDRIVER HITS and he wants the bulldog choke! Danielson avoids that but IS IN AN RNC AND IT'S OVER! The crew comes out and they just put the belt in a bag. AND MOX GETS A PLASTIC BAG! Wheeler and Mox save BUT WHEELER ATTACKS DARBY! 

They tape up Darby and Pac yells GET THAT MOTHERFUCKER! YUTA BAGS BRYAN! Darby is now fighting for Bryan's honor and also Sting's and his own - incredible! Private Party goes to save as does Jeff Jarrett! THEY PILLMANIZE HIS NECK AND CLAUDIO CURB STOMPS IT! What a chaotic scene to close out Bryan Danielson's final full-time match - and in fitting fashion, it put everyone else over at the same time.   

Excalibur cries amid a "thank you, Bryan!" chant and the roster mourns the end of his career like this. I think he'll be largely gone for the first half of 2025 and then the second half will be him KICKING THE FUCKING HEADS IN of everyone who wronged him in this angle.

 

AEW Dynamite 10-8-24 - Title Tuesday

This is a pretty weak on-paper lineup, but the 4-way women's match instead of Baker in a singles may be a better overall match. Mox cuts an intense promo on ending Danielson's career for him because he's been on a kamikaze mission for years. Danielson cut a promo in a video echoey area saying that it's not going to be his last Dynamite match. Darby calls out Brody King and we get a recap of their feud in AEW over the past two years - including Royal Rampage. Darby talks about Brody being nervous with his first kid on the way and wanting to be a part of AEW before he was in ROH and he was out of a job with two kids and he told TK to bring him in. 

Darby says he's the face of the company and Brody says he doesn't take it for granted - but he does. He's got a death wish and if he dies on Everest, AEW has no face and his dad has to work again. Darby fights him and Brody chokes him before getting hit with a rock. JJ is on commentary and he's good. Jake Roberts hands Archer over to Don Callis.

Garcia shows up backstage with Renee and he'll address his future later. Hologram vs. Komander is up with high-flying and then a snap suplex gets 2 for Hologram. Stutter-step swanton to the floor by Komander. Inverted Spanish fly by Hologram hits! Komander sorta hits a poison rana before Komander gets spiked on his head with it and a sky high counter to a Komander ropewalk hits! Inverted airplane spin into the powerbomb ends it - this was imperfect, but fun! Roberts is out with Beast Mortos, Dralistico and RUSH! I didn't have "Jake Roberts leading a group of luchadores" on my bingo card. Also, he's now Black Mortos - boo!

Mark cuts a subdued promo about it not being about the ROH Title now - he has to hurt him. Garcia comes out and says he isn't someone who disappears without an explanation and he's staying where the best wrestle. He's here to take over and not be little bro'd. Renee introduces the CEO of Spokane and Mercedes is annoyed at folks hopping on the Mone' train. The locker room thanks Garcia and Shibata says he's winning at WrestleDream and he'll face him - not the worst option.

Willow vs. Saraya vs. Nyla vs. Hayter with Mariah on commentary. Mariah - She fell ill? Did she swallow a tongue scraper or give herself a root canal!? "A star is here on commentary!" "Jarrett is here!" "KAREN JARRETT!?" Mariah - I like that she's starting Halloween early by dressing as Daphne from Scooby-Doo! I love her so much in this role. Saraya does little with Harley running wild briefly after Jamie and Willow go at it briefly. Mariah - Tony, do you need something? Like a mint or a BlueChew?! 

Nyla bowls over Saraya, but eats a Willow spinebuster. Jamie wears out Saraya with a chair while Mariah says it's her world to Jeff. PENELOPE FORD JUMPS HAYTER WITH A CHAIR! Mariah - GET HER, DAPHNE! Nasty fall for Nyla and she seems to tell the ref she's okay. Good Knight hits for 2! CORNER DVD FOR SARAYA AND A DOCTOR BOMB FOR HARLEY AND SHE PINS BOTH TO WIN IT!

 

 Learning Tree bullshit with Rocky Romero and they say he's being used in the Conglomeration. Switchblade is out to beat Cody Chunn quickly with a chop/punch combo in the corner. Spikes him on the spinning uranage and the bladerunner ends it! Juice does the pissing pose and Jay wants Hangman ONCE MORE. . AND HE'S GOING FOR THE WORLD TITLE! He's got Hangman at WrestleDream! Hook cuts a Taz-ish promo in front of a wall and threatens Kip Sabian. Christian talks about being a family man like Hook as he's lost Killswitch medically. Willow beats up Mariah and says she beat 3 former world champs and on Saturday, she'll make Mariah May a former world champ too! 

Mercedes is out to face Sakura, who gets machine gun chops in the corner. Mone hits an apron stunner and meteora off the apron. Crossface ends it after Sakura gets distracted by Kamille. Stat attacks Kamille. Stokely chats with Private Party and they've just moved on with Kris as a face and him as a heel and they call him a bandwagon jumper. Well that's accurate. Zay cuts a killer promo on the Bucks saying they're complacent, but they're going to take their spot! 

Ospreay is out to hype up the 3-way dressed as Ryo Hazuki and Don waffles about sending Takeshita to attack him and he admits to it. HE WAS THIS CLOSE TO WINNING THE TAG TITLES BECAUSE WILL WAS TOO MENTALLY WEAK! Ospreay tells him that he'd have had the World title too BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW SHIT, BRUV! OSPREAY THROWS DON DOWN and Takeshita jumps him! TAKESHITA HITS A GERMAN ON OSPREAY! He gives Fletcher a screwdriver and he walks away. ELBOW OF DEATH TO OSPREAY! RICOCHET SAVES OSPREAY!

Top Flight and Leila bicker with Andretti. Jack Perry puts over Shibata as a legendary badass while also putting over his huge hog. Yuta and Danielson are out to FINAL COUNTDOWN and Claudio and Pac use Claudio's epic 'Vania theme. Claudio hits Bryan on the floor with a Neutralizer. Danielson tags in and hits a shotgun missile dropkick to Claudio and then the corner dropkick. Corner kicks hit! 450 hits for Pac and gets 2 on Danielson! PAC GETS THE RING HAMMER YUTA GRABS IT! LeBell lock ends it as Pac taps! Danielson jumps Mox with a dive! Marina knees Yuta and Mox and Danielson smash each other around backstage. Claudio hits Yuta in the stomach with the hammer! Twice!

Boy they're kinda playing with fire having Mox do all this shit right before the PPV. ​​​​​​​Yuta reaching out for Bryan only for him to not pay attention... Okay, he eventually helps him.

WWE Raw 10-7-24 - GUNTHER vs Sami for the World Title

 

Joe Tessitore hypes up Bad Blood as a big show and the Sami Zayn main event with him having beaten Gunther for gold before. Tessitore is fantastic at these show-opening scenes setting the stage for the evening and making each show feel eventful. Sexyy Red is out and says a few things before a Bad Blood recap video airs and really does make it seem like a massive event. Punk's out looking more beaten up than usual and hobbles to the ramp and says it feels good to not be dead right now. He's alive but it doesn't feel like it and he won, but it doesn't feel like it. He wants to say it felt great slamming the door in the cell, but he's still left with a lot of questions about his future. He said he had zero cell matches in him and it's still true.

He wants to thank three groups that more in common than they want to admit. The ride-or-dies that show up for seven years before he came and chanted before he came home - thank you. He thanks his peers - most of them, and it's been a joy to be back with them. The third group is the folks that don't like him at all - he's turned their hate into cash, so thank you! He needs to go home and see his wife for the first time in five weeks and wants to say he'll see everyone soon, but doesn't know. Seth comes out to shoulderbutt him out of the way. 

He wants Punk to get well soon and he's been gone and now he's back. The Rock is back and Cody's teaming with Roman and getting punched by KO. He wants Bronson at some point and now Jey's out and Seth concedes the ring for the IC Title match. Woods hits an AA on the floor to start for an ad break after 30 seconds of action AFTER AN AD BREAK. Woods eats a goofy punch before landing a forearm shiver. Ropewalk into a Shelton superkick! Uso splash ends it! Woods doesn't smack hands like Kofi did with Jey.

Breakker runs in and hits the now-named SUPER SPEAR to Jey and then Kofi, and then Woods.  The Cody-KO issue is recapped and Cody is here...for some reason. Sheamus vs. Dunne is up with a liquor sponsorship for the donneybrook. Nice shot with a stick to start before they fight outside and Dunne avoids a brogue into a barrel and hits a tornado DDT off it before eating a powerslam through the announce table. Crossface with a stick by Dunne before a shot by Sheamus. Dunne hits a baseball slide to the floor before stick shots by Sheamo and the stick locks the arms for the beats on barrels! AVALANCHE WHITE NOISE THROUGH THE TABLES! HIGH CROSS HITS and gets 2! Cricket bat to the back of Sheamus gets 2.5! Dunne zipties Sheamus and gets 2! Brogue knee and kick ends it!

Cody chats with Sami and we get a last monster standing recap. Eva, Pearce, and Page are backstage yammering so Sexyy Red can chat. 10 woman tag is up with the PFC and unholy alliance facing Nattie, Zelina, Katana and Kayden, and Lyra. Katana dive for a break before Zelina axe kicks in the center and Sonya knees her to KO her for 2. Lyra hits the nothing but net to win it. Jade and Bianca hype up Damage CTRL next week for the titles. Kofi vs. Breakker is up next week too.  Gunther dominates Sami to start with uppercuts and chops. Sami is the best babyface in peril on US TV since Steamboat. Unreal. Blue thunder turned into a sleeper TURNED INTO A BLUE THUNDER FOR 2.

HELLUVA ON THE BARRICADE AND ONE TO THE HEAD but a face-first one IS MET WITH A LARIAT FOR 2.9! SHOTGUN DROPKICK AND POWERBOMB STACK FOR 2.9! POWERBOMB GETS 1 FOR GUNTHER! RNC IS ON FOR GUNTHER! And he traps him for the win. This was a fantastic match on fast-forward due to the hard out time. Cody stares him down. 

WWE Bad Blood 2024

 Two of the five matches on the card are pretty big between Punk and Drew in the cell and the Bloodline tag. Naomi, Bianca and Jade host and we get Goldberg in the crowd.  Drew vs Punk opens with a staredown and slugfest. Punk dominates in the corner before Drew gains control with hammer fists. 

Drew slams him into the cell before eating it himself, including some shots to the back of the head. Punk brings a table into play and a chair, so it's just like my game version of the match last night. Right down to Punk tasting the steps. Punk chokes him with a chair, which would almost be doable in games with the kendo stick. Floor claymore! Drew eats steps before smashing Punk on them.

Drew spikes him to get color! The ref checks on him and clears him. Drew wears the blood on his chest Wrench shot bloodies Drew before an axehandle version is met with a belly to belly. GTS but Drew goes outside. Claymore gets 2! Punk wants a sharpshooter! Drew spikes him with the wrench again to break it! APRON SUPLEX THROUGH A TABLE BY DREW! GTS GETS 2!  WHITE NOISE ON THE STEPS FOR 2! LOW BLOW BY DREW AND HE'S GOT TACKS! Or a bag of bracelet pieces and a claymore mises on the steps! Punk wraps a chain around his knee, beads to the mouth and a chain GTS ENDS IT! Easy five-star match here.

Bayley vs. Nia is hyped up and hearing Bayley say bitch is so weird. Jackie, Lilian, and Booker are in the crowd before the hosts are in the suite. Nia's out in a giant red outfit looking like a gumball. Camel clutch by Nia is escaped and met with a baseball slide for Nia. Suicide dive by Bayley! Sorta rana by Nia off the top and a belly to belly for 2 by Nia. Samoan drop by Nia gets 2 and BAYLEY GETS ONE TOO for 2. NIA SQUISHES THE REF! Rose plant gets a 10 count BUT NO RED AND TIFFY IS OUT! TAKER SETIUP BY NIA and she catches Tiffy and an O'Connor roll gets 2 for Bayley. AVALANCHE SAMOAN DROP after a Tiffy distraction and the banzai ends it!

Xavier Woods advertises the new Dragon Ball Z game. Balor vs. Priest is up with Priest in Hall blood drip gear. Lots of stomps and apron Kawada kicks from Balor and some eye attacks lead to Balor dominating over the giant babyface. Broken Arrow out of a balor Final cut gets 2! Goons help Finn get 2 off the double stomp, but they get wiped out and a South of Heaven ends it. This was fun. 

HHH is out to announce the beginning of a new era for WWE thanks to Crown Jewel. The reigning WWE Champion will face the World Champion for both divisions. Neither title is on the line BUT there will be a definitive winner and they get the Crown Jewel Championship. Gunther is out and says he'll win - so he's losing. He hypes up the legends tonight like GOLDBERG! He was lying when he said Goldberg was his favorite wrestler - how could anyone be impressed by a one trick pony? BILL hops the rail. 

Morgan vs. Rhea is up with a MORGAN AND MORGAN (and Morgan graphic. Rhea dominates with a lariat and knee to the jaw before a fallaway slam and some capture issues on my end. Dom tries to escape and Rhea hits him like a pinata with a kendo stick. Raquel jumps Rhea and we get a DQ after a wedgie. 

Crown Jewel hype and a 2025 calendar run. Bad Blood post-show will happen after the main event with the Bloodline tag battle. The silly BlackedRaw-style filmic video package with Roman and Cody re-airs. The Pinebluff band plays his theme to the ring in a way that I can't tell is better or worse than the Downstait one at Full Gear 2019. Oh good - Roman returns to an aisle full of violinists... WHAT IS THIS!? This for some reason isn't a tornado rules match and we start with a headlock from Cody to Fatu. 

The longest drawn-out tag in history leads to Roman vs. Solo for a bit with Roman getting corner-mount punches. Fatu attacks and hits an assalanche on Roman. Cody comes in and hits a flip flop and fly on Jacob before a Cody Cutter. Pop-up Samoan drop by Fatu! Tons of insanity, Jimmy returns and an OTC SPEAR ENDS IT! Tongans beat down Cody and Roman and Jimmy save. THE ROCK RETURNS TO STAREDOWN WITH CODY ON THE RAMP! Okay, so that seems to be coming up sooner rather than later then. Maybe Survivor Series for Rock's 28th anniversary.

AEW Dynamite 10-2-24 - Dynamite 5! Danielson vs. Okada

This is a massively-loaded show coming on the heels of the WBD-AEW deal being announced to a large extent. Mox tells Wheeler to pick sides and on October 12, he sends Danielson home. Nigel replaces Taz Ricochet vs. Ospreay starts things off! The Callis Family chats with Ospreay and Takeshita stays behind after Fletcher and Don leave. Well, that telegraphs things a bit but I don't mind it. 

Outstanding fast start before a double backflip ovation spot and a suicide dive by Ricochet! BARRICADE RANA BY RICOCHET! Ricochet avoids an oscutter by tossing him off the rope APRON OSCUTTER! Ricochet avalanche rana is met with a surefooted landing by Ospreay! OSCUTTER BY RICOCHET FOR 2! BACKSLIDE DRIVER GETS 2 FOR RICOCHET! Snap rana by Ricochet leads to a Styles clash for 2 and an oscutter for 2! Hidden blade avoided by Ricochet and THEN HIT BY RICOCHET! Shooting star and a stomp, vertigo is avoided and a reverse rana exchange! HIDDEN BLADE! Both sets of shoulders are down for the...retention. It is a draw! Okay - you've got a PPV in a week and a half, do a rematch there.

BUT TK ORDERS IT TO CONTINUE! Hidden blade, but TAKESHITA ATTACKS and lays out everyone! TV Time is up and grinds the show to a halt as Jericho wants an ROH World Title match at Wrestle Dream! Jericho evokes Jay's name and Mark throat chops him! Darby cuts a promo on riding metro buses and daydreaming and folks spat on him and he just minded his own business. He says he has nothing left to lose and offers up an open challenge at Wrestle Dream! 

Hangman vs. Juice is up and Hangman's intro has everything covered in a piss filter before he straps Juice to bits. Superplex by Juice and Nigel said he thanked TK and wrestling - NOT BRYAN DANIELSON! LEFT HAND OF GOD! CANNONBALL MISSES! Avalanche deadeye is met with a powebromb but a low blow opens the door to a buckshot win! Hanger hangs him with his belt BEFORE SWITCHBLADE RETURNS!  Spear through a table in the crowd by White! 

Jack and the bus are here and Shibata challenges him for Wrestle Dream and gets a maybe before beating him up and accepting with bus smashes! Deeb vs. Britt is up and we get a lot of matwork before a stretch muffler by Deeb and an avalanche air raid for 2! Lockjaw ends it and Aminata saves Britt from a beating. Hook vs. Joe gets hyped up in highlight form. Renee chats with Hook about Taz's off-screen attack He's gonna find who did this and come for them.

Christian Cage says he's your father figure, he's the face of TBS and the reigning, defending NEXT WORLD CHAMPION and he'll have it all soon. Mariah May chats with Renee and she buries Willow for losing all of her titles and Willow calls her a shady bitch and brawls. PRIVATE PARTY GETS A NEW THEME to face the Iron Savages and Jacked Jameson - who now follows me on Twitter! Gin and Juice ends it and they set up Bucks vs. Private Party again after hyping up their win over the Bucks in ep 2 of Dynamite. Zay cuts a great promo about saying they'd be new champs in the year and THEY WILL - his hand's messed up, his shoulder's messed up and Quen's pec's messed up BUT THEY'RE FEELING FROGGY! HE WANTS IT NOW!

The Bucks bring up the overrun and having time for it now - BUT they have limited dates and they're not gonna waste one on this town. THANKS GUYS! Perry jumps them AND SHIBATA SAVES! Trios match is made for Rampage - well that's a smart move to not kill the crowd. MVP is backstage and Nana says that people are talking spicy about he and Swerve before MVP says he doesn't deal with complaints. THE PRESIDENT OF HIS COMPLAINT DEPARTMENT IS SHELTON BENJAMIN!

At 9:51, the main event begins with the longest overrun in Dynamite history. The slow pace is perfect for the story they're telling - Okada WANTS this to go past 20 so only Danielson's title is on the line. Nigel tells the tale of their series with Bryan winning 1 with a broken arm and Okada winning 1 with a rainmaker. DIVING HEADBUTT MISSES and Nigel talks about how hard that is on a bad neck. God, Nigel adds so much to Bryan matches with the explanation of every part of the match's story. OKADA DROPKICK SENDS HIM TO THE FLOOR! I love them playing up that Danielson is actually the underdog here because he has a shorter time limit to win Okada's title than Okada has to win his. Okada dropkick and the rainmaker is turned into a triangle elbow shot! LeBell lock is on for Danielson! 19 MINUTE MARK! 

Okada rolls out for a countout attempt to end the Continental Crown title portion! DANIELSON DIVE! TOMBSTONE ON THE FLOOR BY OKADA! Corner chops and kicks by Danielson before a German is met with a shotgun dropkick by Okada! Arn trap kicks by Danielson right to the ribs! HE KICKS HIS FUCKING HEAD IN ON THE MAT! YES chants! BUSAIKU MET WITH A RAINMAKER BUT HE CAN'T COVER! This whole Danielson run in AEW feels like such a blessing - he came back from retirement and really was...okay in WWE and is now the best version of himself with both ROH and WWE versions of himself in one.

OKADA BIG BOOK BUT A GERMAN MISSES. BUSAIKU BY OKADA GETS 2! RAINMAKER BY DANIELSON GETS 2.9! Flash cradle by Danielson ends it! BUT THE BCC IS HERE! RAINMAKER FROM OKADA AFTER THE BELL! Mox says it's not about him and Yuta saves WITH A HAMMER. Mox wants it against him! Claudio doesn't attack Yuta and instead just covers up and shoves him off. Next week, Title Tuesday, he wants a fight with them! Yuta and Danielson against Claudio and Pac!