A few overnight announcements have added some big names to Wednesday night’s three-hour AEW programming block.
Samoa Joe will make his first in-ring appearance since dropping the AEW World Championship when he meets Isiah Kassidy in a singles bout. Joe went 17 minutes in the main event of AEW Dynasty against Swerve Strickland last month, losing the match and putting an end to his 113-day reign on top.
After Claudio Castagnoli fought one member of the Mogul Embassy in Swerve Strickland, he’ll go up against another this Wednesday when he fights Brian Cage. This match will be the second-ever time that Cage and Castagnoli find themselves in a match together. They previously met in a three-way on Dynamite, battling along with Nick Jackson as well.
While Castagnoli was unsuccessful in his challenge for the AEW World Championship against Strickland on Collision last Saturday, he went 21 minutes in total and gave the defending champ a tough match. Because of this, his time against the Embassy has not come to an end.
It was also recently announced for Dynamite that we’ll hear from Orange Cassidy, who has been caught in between a feud involved Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta during recent weeks.
Jay White will be in action, although it technically won’t be on Dynamite. He’ll face Dante Martin in a singles match as part of a special Rampage on Wednesday night. Rampage, while usually a Friday evening show, will instead take place immediately following Dynamite this week.
White and Martin had exchanges on Saturday as part of a six-man tag title bout between Bullet Club Gold and Top Flight.
Wednesday night’s plans seem pretty full now. Here’s everything that is expected to take place in Winnipeg:
AEW Dynamite
- We will learn who will challenge Swerve Strickland at Double or Nothing
- Kenny Omega returns
- Chris Jericho vs. Katsuyori Shibata (FTW Championship)
- Mariah May vs. Serena Deeb
- Adam Copeland vs. One of the House of Black members (TNT Championship)
- Brian Cage vs. Claudio Castagnoli
- Samoa Joe vs. Isiah Kassidy
- We’ll hear from Orange Cassidy
AEW Rampage
- Jay White vs. Dante Martin
