AEW Dynamite Report
February 15th, 2023
Sames Auto Arena in Laredo, TX
Commentary: Excalibur, Taz & Tony Schiavone
Tonight’s line-up:
*Texas Tornado Match: Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Rush & Preston Vance
*Orange Cassidy, The Acclaimed & Daddy Ass vs. Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, Satnam Singh & Sonjay Dutt
*Mark Briscoe vs. Josh Woods
*Dr. Britt Baker vs. Toni Storm vs. Ruby Soho
*Hangman Page vs. Kip Sabian
*Brian Cage vs. Jack Perry
*MJF must appear on the show
*Renee Paquette interviews Adam Cole
*Jim Ross interviews Wardlow
In Memoriam of Jerry Jarrett
The show started with a graphic for Jerry Jarrett.
Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, Satnam Singh & Sonjay Dutt vs. Orange Cassidy, The Acclaimed (Max Caster & Anthony Bowens) & Billy Gunn
Commentary mentioned how Jeff Jarrett wanted to do this tonight and is wrestling with a heavy heart, as Sonjay Dutt had a pencil inspired tie and was carrying Paul Walter Hauser’s Golden Globe. Danhausen brings Orange Cassidy out, before he heads to the back. Max Caster’s rap called Jerry Jarrett a legend but Jeff is a let down, mentioning him not getting anything for Valentine’s Day since TNA Lockdown and after this, The Acclaimed are going to go after the tag team titles again. Jay Lethal and Anthony Bowens started the match. As Jarrett and Max Caster go at it, the crowd chants ‘oh, scissor me, daddy’ as Caster hits a pair of arm drags and a dropkick. Jarrett mounted a comeback, before tagging in Satnam Singh. Caster teases tagging in the biggest man in their team in Billy Gunn, but Orange Cassidy tags himself in, instead. After Singh measures Cassidy’s height, he tags in Dutt. They tease going at it, before Gunn and Jarrett tag in. The Gunns head to the ramp and tease scissoring beforing doing the ‘suck it’ chop. Jarrett does the strut as Lethal and Singh comically do the same on the apron. Jarrett’s team plays the next couple minutes just playing with the crowd while working on Billy Gunn. Singh tags in and takes every out, before Gunn takes him down with the Famouser. As Dutt is distracting Aubrey Edwards, Jarrett uses the Golden Globe. Dutt tries to use the pencil, but Cassidy takes him out with the Orange Punch. The Acclaimed try going for Scissor Me Timbers, but Lethal breaks it up. Billy takes out Lethal before teasing Scissor Me Timbers himself. Jarrett breaks it up, and gets taken out with an Orange Punch before Cassidy does his Orange kicks then teases Scissor Me Timbers himself. Lethal takes him out, before Cassidy goes spilling to the outside with the headscissors on him. Bowens comes in and they finally hit the move, and pin Dutt for the win.
Winners: The Acclaimed (Max Caster & Anthony Bowens), Billy Gunn & Orange Cassidy by pinfall at 8:58
The Boogeyman
We see footage from last week of a bloody Bryan Danielson after his match where he says MJF is shaking in his boots and what he did was the act of a scared and desperate man who knows that the boogeyman is coming to take his AEW World Championship.
Texas Tornado Match: Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Rush & Preston Vance (w/ Jose the Assistant)
As Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli are making their entrance, they get attacked in the crowd by Rush & Preston Vance before the bell can ring and continue to fight as they head to picture-in-picture.
When we come back, they are still battling on the outside as Moxley has Rush in the figure four and Vance tosses Claudio into the barricade before tossing Moxley back inside as the match officially starts. Commentary brings up Moxley and Vance’s history with Moxley dominating him in their two encounters. Rush joins in as they start double teaming Moxley as the crowd chants ‘Perro’. They work on Moxley with a spinebuster and dropkick, before taunting the crowd. Claudio joins in to even the odds and takes out Vance with a springboard uppercut before teasing going for the Giant Swing, but Vance breaks out of it. Moxley tosses some chairs inside before awkwardly catapulting Rush into the barricade on the outside, as we see ‘Hangman’ Adam Page in the back watching this match. Claudio & Moxley mount the chair in the corner, before whipping Vance into it before Moxley takes out Rush on the outside with a suicide dive. Moxley starts biting Vance’s face before Vance spears Moxley through the ropes, off the apron onto Claudio & Rush. Rush & Vance start attacking Claudio’s shoulder with chairs on top of the ringside table, before flipping it over and covering it with chairs as we head to another picture-in-picture.
When we come back, Moxley is surprisingly bleeding, as he and Rush are going at it in the middle of the ring with chops and strikes. Vance comes in and takes out Moxley with a chain, but only gets a two count. Vance continues punching him with the chain as Page is still shown watching on. Claudio is finally able to get out of the rubble and takes the chain, knocking Vance out with it, busting him open. Claudio follows with the Giant Swing before going for the cover which Rush breaks up at two. The bloody Vance takes down the bloody Moxley with a discuss lariat, but only gets a two. All four go at it, hitting suplexes before it’s down to Rush and Claudio in a faceoff. Jose the Assistant comes in with a chair and takes out Claudio with it, before Wheeler Yuta runs out and takes Jose to the back. Rush hits an exploder suplex to Claudio in the corner, and teases going for the Bull’s Horns, but Claudio stops him with a spear that Vance breaks up the count for. Vance tries to choke Moxley out with the chain, but he reverses it, wraps it around Vance’s neck and starts choking him out, before putting on the Juji Gatame as the referee stops the match.
Winners: Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli by referee stoppage at 14:50
We cut to the back where Kip Sabian, The Butcher & The Blade are attacking Adam Page, before officials and the Dark Order run in to break it up, as commentary questions what that means for the match later tonight.
Sit Down with Wardlow
We head to earlier tonight, where Jim Ross is having a sit down with Wardlow and asks about private conversations Wardlow might have had with Samoa Joe when they were partners and asks what’s next for him. Wardlow mentioned sharing personal stories then goes into stories with his father where he wasn’t in his life from the age of 8 until he was a young adult. As he got older, he reentered his life but then revealed he had stage 4 cancer and the next time he saw him, he was sitting in a hospital bed. He was able to see him wrestle in his first indie show, as Wardlow promised to be a better man and he would make it, being the last thing he could say to him before getting the call that he passed. After seeing cancer take it from him, he decided to grow his hair and beard out for him, and Joe knew that and took it from him. The connection with his father was taken from him before he talks into the camera and says even though Joe survived every company and monster this business has had to offer, he will not survive Wardlow.
Mark Briscoe vs. Josh Woods (w/ Tony Nese & Mark Sterling)
Right away they get into a shoving match, as Excalibur brings up their history in Ring of Honor. Josh Woods goes to take down Mark Briscoe, before Briscoe backs him into the ropes to break it up. Briscoe ducks and shoulder blocks Woods, taking him to the outside where Briscoe runs the ropes, just to be tripped and taken to the outside by Tony Nese & Ari Daivari. The Lucha Brothers run out and fight Nese & Daivari to the back. Briscoe and Woods fight on the apron, where Woods takes Briscoe to the floor with a corkscrew suplex as we head to picture-in-picture.
When we come back, Briscoe scares Mark Sterling off the apron as Woods takes advantage with a jaw breaker and exploder suplex. Briscoe takes Woods to the outside and sets up the chair in the ring to do his cannonball dive to Woods on the outside. Briscoe sets up Woods on the rope and hits a Razor’s Edge for a two count. Briscoe calls for the Jay Driller, but Woods counters it and rolls through and hits Pure Chaos (rolling German Suplex) for a two count. They go back and forth before Briscoe hits an Enziguri and a rolling Death Valley Driver. Briscoe heads to the top and hits the Froggy Bow for the pin and the win.
Winner: Mark Briscoe by pinfall at 8:46
Mark looks into the camera and gives some words for Jay and says he’s going to carry on in his honor.
Sit Down with Adam Cole
We went to an interview with Renee Paquette sitting down with Adam Cole and asked him how he’s been. Cole says he’s been great and can’t be happier to be on the road with AEW. Cole is a little discouraged not being in the ring but he’s celebrating little victories like his eye looking in the right direction and not twitching. The fact he can go a day without throwing up and feeling nauseous. Cole said he looks at the roster and says it’s never been better and it’s absolutely stacked, and when he comes back he has to be prepared. He has a couple ideas on who he’ll be stepping into the ring with but won’t give any names, but says it’ll be good for him and for AEW.
Contractually Obligated
MJF comes out for his contractually obligated appearance here in Laredo, Texas before we head to commercials.
When we come back, he’s standing in the ring as the crowd is booing away and chanting, as MJF says he doesn’t speak Spanish. MJF says these people love Bryan Danielson and it pisses him off, because these schmucks used to be devil worshippers and cheer for him. MJF calls them disgusting fickle little monsters so he turned his back on them before they could turn their back on him. MJF continues calling himself the devil as the crowd chants ‘shut the fuck up’. MJF says Danielson isn’t honest about himself because in real life he is a worthless sack of trash. MJF says that’s not the only reason he hates him, he hates him because he has these people convinced that he’s better than him and that couldn’t be further from the truth. MJF asks why they think he’s the best in the world and questions if it is because of his entertainment, wrestling moves and 5 star bangings. MJF says they only get in this business to be world champion, and last time he checked and the only way you know you’re the best in the world is if you’re the man that’s holding the AEW World Championship and that’s something Danielson has never been able to accomplish. MJF knows at AEW Revolution, Danielson will give the performance of a lifetime and use every trick he learned in Japan, Mexico, UK & Canada and put him through the hardest match of his life, but after that clock strikes zero, MJF will be victorious, because Danielson isn’t the best wrestler in the world, MJF is. And at Revolution, he will prove it, he goes for his catchphrase but tells the crowd to shut their mouth and not chant along.
MJF then introduces Christopher Daniels, a man Danielson has looked up to. MJF tells Daniels to tell people the truth about Danielson. Daniels reveals that MJF paid him alot of money to talk trash about Danielson and in the past he would take this money, but that’s not the man he is today and says the truth is Bryan Danielson is set to knock MJF’s dick in the dirt and tosses the money back to MJF. Daniels brings up the first time he was in the ring with Danielson and he hit him so hard he thought he would and that’s when he knew Danielson would be great. He saw Danielson win the King of the Indies tournament in APW and that inspired the creation of Ring of Honor. And if there wasn’t a Ring of Honor, there might not be an AEW and definitely wouldn’t be an MJF. Daniels says everything Danielson wanted to do, he was a sponge and wanted to learn everything he could, one new thing every match he ever had and he watched him do it over and over again until he became a World Champion. And that’s why MJF hates him, because Danielson is exactly what MJF wishes he could be; the best wrestler in the world today. Daniels calls MJF a fraud and continues, before MJF knocks the mic out of his hand and starts pushing him around. They continue trash talking to each other, before Daniels smacks MJF. MJF comes back by kicking Daniels down low and putting on the Salt of the Earth. Danielson runs out and chases MJF away.
The Gunn Show
We go to a video package from The Gunns who talk about all the doubts people had on them and say they’ve had little experience and didn’t have to go to the indies to win the titles. And at Revolution, they will welcome us to the Gunn Show.
Jack Perry vs. Brian Cage (w/ Prince Nana)
Right away, Jack Perry takes Brian Cage into the corner with a drop kick, but Cage drives him into the other corner. Perry knocks Cage to the outside with a drop kick and hits him with a pair of topes, but Cage catches him on his third dive attempt and drops him onto the apron as we go to picture-in-picture.
When we come back, Cage is in control with a slingshot/power bomb type move for a two count as Excalibur mentions how similar it was to the Jurassic Express finisher. Cage hits a buckle bomb and the F5, for another two count. Perry takes control and hits a Death Valley Driver, but Cage kicks out at one. Perry follows with a crucifix bomb, elbow to the back of the head, and rolls up Cage for the pin and the win.
Winner: Jack Perry by pinfall at 7:27
Christian Cage Returns
As Perry is heading to the back, we get the return of Christian Cage who’s still wearing a sling. As Perry goes to rush to him, Cage sprays him with something that the commentary thinks is mace. Cage takes off the sling and arm brace, tells Perry he isn’t done with him and hits him with the Killswitch on the stage.
The Gunns’ Title Defense At Revolution
Renee Paquette is backstage and says The Gunns will defend the AEW World Tag Team Championship at AEW Revolution in a triple threat match. The competitors will be determined next week in a traditional battle royale, with a Casino Battle Royale the following week. The Acclaimed walk in and says the triple threat will turn into a four-way and it doesn’t matter if they fly people in and open the Forbidden Door for the other teams, they will win the titles regardless.
Let’s Ball
We go to The Elite who hype up NBA All-Star Weekend and ask if they are choosing Team Giannis or Team LeBron. Top Flight & AR Fox walk in and ask to run it back this Friday on Rampage Slam Dunk. They are about to agree, but Don Callis denies it. Dante Martin makes a ball joke, as Kenny Omega gets pissed off and agrees to the match as Nick Jackson throws a basketball to Brandon Cutler’s balls. There was a quick little House of Black disruption during this promo.
Adam Page vs. Kip Sabian (w/ Penelope Ford)
As Kip Sabian is in the ring wearing Adam Page’s hat, commentary questions if Page is even able to compete, before he comes out for this match. Sabian takes control right away and starts taunting Page with a cowboy dance. Page comes back with a fall-away slam and tries to knock Sabian off the apron, but he is able to dodge him before taking him out with a baseball dropkick and a kick off the apron. Sabian stays in control with a springboard moonsault to the outside as we head to picture-in-picture.
When we come back, they are fighting on the outside, before Page tosses Sabian back inside for a sit-out powerbomb, getting a two count. They go back and forth before Page hits a clothesline and the Dead Eye for the pin and the win.
Winner: Adam Page by pinfall at 6:39
Texas Death
As Page is in the ring, Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta head to the ring to confront him. Moxley says he knows Page thinks they have unfinished business, but they don’t as a couple weeks ago Page got pinned. Moxley says he has some respect for him, but zero fear and knows what he’s going to do before he’s going to do it, and there is no chance in hell that he will ever beat him again and tells him to let it go. Page grabs the mic and says he’s not happy with their last match and doesn’t think Moxley is with it ending in a roll-up and doesn’t think that’s how it ends and suggests a match at AEW Revolution with one man left standing. Moxley says Page doesn’t have any friends to talk him out of his decision as Dark Order’s music plays. Evil Uno, John Silver & Alex Reynolds walk out as Page tells them to stay out of it. Uno says he’s not afraid of Moxley and pie faces him, as they all confront each other. Moxley ignores Uno and suggests a Texas Death Match at Revolution.
Absolute Fraud
We go to the Jericho Appreciation Society as Chris Jericho says another match with Ricky Starks isn’t happening as he isn’t on his level. Daniel Garcia says this Friday on Rampage he will have a match with Starks and call him absolutely annoying and delusional as Jake Hager says he likes this hat. Garcia says he will prove to everybody that Starks is an absolute fraud.
Rampage Line-Up
- Daniel Garcia vs. Ricky Starks
- AEW World Trios Championship: The Elite (c) vs. Top Flight & AR Fox
- TBS Championship: Jade Cargill (c) vs. Vertvixen
- Dustin Rhodes vs. Swerve Strickland
Dynamite Line-Up
- Jon Moxley vs. Evil Uno
- Revolution Tag Team Battle Royale: Best Friends, Jeff Jarrett & Jay Lethal, Lucha Brothers, The Butcher & The Blade, Ari Daivari & Tony Nese, Matt Menard & Angelo Parker, John Silver & Alex Reynolds
Revolution Line-Up
- AEW World Championship 60-Minute Ironman Match: MJF (c) vs. Bryan Danielson
- TNT Championship: Samoa Joe (c) vs. Wardlow
- AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Gunns (c) vs. The Acclaimed vs. Winners of Revolution Tag Team Battle Royale vs. Winners of Casino Tag Royale
- Texas Death Match: Jon Moxley vs. Adam Page
Hook Suspended Pending Investigation
Tony Schiavone is backstage with Ethan Page, Matt Hardy, Isaiah Kassidy & Stokely Hathaway as Stokely says Hook broke his arm last week, while he’s wearing a cast and says Hook should be fired and he spent his weekend on conference calls with Angela Davis, Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson. Stokely calls himself a freak of nature, as Page asks where Stokely was last week at The Firm’s celebration bash. Schiavone says Hook has been suspended pending investigation.
Toni Storm (w/ Saraya) vs. Ruby Soho vs. Dr. Britt Baker DMD (w/ Jamie Hayter)
As Toni Storm and Saraya make their way to the ring, they attack a ‘fan’ in the crowd who was holding a DMD sign teasing spray painting her, before Ruby Soho comes out to stop them, albeit very casually. Right away, Dr. Britt Baker DMD and Storm go at it, as Storm holds Baker for Soho to attack her but she attacks Storm instead. Baker gets taken to theo outside where Storm takes her out with a hip attack, before Soho takes Storm to the outside with a Saito Suplex. Soho tries to decide which way to dive to, before Storm & Baker head back inside, as they head to picture-in-picture.
When we come back, Saray holds Baker’s boot as Soho hits her with a suplex, before Storm tries a hip attack, just for Soho to trip her up. Baker comes back with a double underhook suplex, but Storm breaks up the pin. Storm hits Soho with a German Suplex, as Baker rolls up Storm right away for a two count. Baker comes back with a neckbreaker on Storm for another two. Storm puts Soho in a Texas Cloverleaf, as Baker puts the Lockjaw on Soho as well. Saraya comes in and breaks up the count, as Storm takes out Hayter on the outside with a swinging DDT. Saraya goes after Baker, and grabs the spray paint, spraying Storm’s behind with it, as he hits the hip attack on Baker. Soho tosses Storm to the outside and rolls up Baker for the pin and the win.
Winner: Ruby Soho by pinfall at 9:22
Saraya and Hayter come in and both corner Soho asking her to choose sides, leaving her to make a choice.