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All Elite Wrestling - Into 2023 and Beyond Dec 31, 2022 6:19:53 GMT 1 Asaemon and Be the Booker like this

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At midnight, on January 1, 2019 on a YouTube video the first salvo was officially launched....All Elite Wrestling was born....

...May 15, 2019 the announcement that wrestling will be returning to TNT for the first time since March 2001...

...May 25, 2019 AEW Double or Nothing ends with Jon Moxley taking out Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega reminding fans of the night Lex Luger ignited the Monday Night Wars...

...Champions were crowned and on October 2, 2019 AEW Dynamite made it's debut...

...a growing 2019 gave way to 2020 and a pandemic that changed everything, but a TV extension and news of a second show gave AEW the opportunity to survive through a rough year leading to....

...August 20, 2021. The First Dance. CM Punk. 'Nuff Said...

...September 5, 2021...perhaps the peak of AEW as CM Punk made his in-ring debut, and the night ended with Adam Cole and "The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson joining the company. Everything was looking like it was going to be on the up from here......

.....May 25, 2022....something that was barely registered at the time as AEW World Champion Adam Page and CM Punk had a verbal exchange on their way to their title match, but apparently some words that Page said went too far....

...June 3, 2022...on the same show that CM Punk made his triumphant return he lets the world know he is injured and will be able to defend the AEW World Championship. This would be the beginning of a run of injuries that would see Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly amongst others join the injured list throwing the summer months into chaos...but everything would be okay, CM Punk would return soon....

...August 17, 2022...CM Punk returns and goes off script, getting a "receipt" for what Adam Page had said earlier....trouble was brewing....

...September 4, 2022---CM Punk wins the title....CM Punk is injured (again)....a media scrum....and one backstage brawl.

One "black eye" after another, it was clear, AEW no longer was in the honeymoon stage with the fans. The demise of Vince McMahon and the rise of HHH was changing how fans looked at WWE at the worst time. As the controversies escalated, a meeting was called with Tony Khan and his father Shahid Khan to make plans for the future. Plans had been made in August to divest Tony of some of his responsibilities, new roles were created with capable people filling those roles, but this was the next step. While Tony would main his role as CEO and be the main force behind all financial decisions, someone would be taking on the production roles for the company. With everything looking so bleak, one ray of hope came with the announcement that one Michael Mansury would be joining the company with the titles of Senior Vice President and Co-Executive Producer. After having worked his way up through the production ranks in WWE, it had been assumed that Mansury would replace Kevin Dunn as the head of production in WWE, but instead he left the company to do other things. Stating that he felt he had unfinished business in the wrestling industry he came to AEW while Tony Khan would be responsible for leading the production and creative of Ring of Honor still. In AEW, Mansury would be working with a booking committee led by Lance Storm, Scott "Raven" Levy, and Jake Roberts and a team of coaches, Mansury was given the authority to do what he felt was needed to take AEW to the next level. First steps begin in December, with the advertising of a "new" AEW to begin with the Dynamite on January 4, 2023.

OOC: Okay, so this is going to be a bit different for me as I attempt a modern day mod for the first time. As someone who prefers "the alternative" to WWE, I fell in love with AEW, but have struggled with all the backstage drama in the last few months. So my plan with this is to try and find some way to bring back that love, while hoping that the real AEW can do the same. This means the end(?) of my other AEW diary, but my 1992 diary WILL continue. My plan for this diary is that it will mostly focus on AEW, although I am playing as a two person mod so that I can manipulate ROH and will post ROH PPVs. You will get to see what is going on in ROH though in a feature that you will see develop in the coming months. In order to try and make this as realistic as possible, once I have caught up to the present day, I will be posting once a week so that I can keep things like debuts, returns etc. as realistic as possible. With that said, wrestlers who are not on exclusive contracts are fair game. I hope that all makes sense, it is late at night, and I am watching Black Adam at the same time so my brain is divided.

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Date: December 7, 2022
TV Rating: 0.72
Location: H-E-B Center at Cedar Park, near Austin, TX

One immediate change to the show, prior to the opening theme there was a recap video that focused on tonight’s Main Event match between The Acclaimed and FTR, but also giving a few moments to MJF

Dynamite Diamond Battle Royale:

They clarified on commentary that the winner of this match will face MJF on a future show to determine who will be this years Dynamite Diamond ring winner. Wrestlers in this match include: Brian Cage, Dustin Rhodes, Ethan Page, Isiah Kassidy, “Jungle” Jack Perry, Kip Sabian, Lance Archer, Lee Moriarty, Marq Quen, Matt Hardy, Orange Cassidy, Ricky Starks, Shawn Dean, The Blade, and The Butcher. Archer made his presence felt immediately as he tossed both Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy out as the bell rang. Ethan Page was in shock as it was obviously that Private Party and Matt Hardy are in this match to try and help Page win it. Page went face to face with Archer and got shoved for that, so Matt Hardy came in and attacked Archer to no effect. Meanwhile Orange Cassidy eliminated The Blade before getting into a fight with Kip Sabian. This resulted in Sabian sending Orange over the ropes, but Cassidy was about to skin the cat back into the ring…but was pulled down by The Blade and eliminated! A destroyer by Dustin Rhodes sets up an easy elimination of Kip Sabian. The Butcher and Dustin Rhodes get into a fight on the ring apron, which ended with a Clothesline from The Butcher that eliminated Dustin Rhodes. Shawn Dean was the next victim for the Murderhawk Monster as he got sent flying over the top rope after a brief exchange with Archer. The Butcher was eliminated by Jack Perry, before Brian Cage tried to eliminate Perry. Lee Moriarty fell to a spear and was sent out of the match by Ricky Starks. Cage sent Perry over the rope, but Jack Perry managed to leverage Cage over the rope and out of the match, but Cage held onto him which allowed Ethan Page to kick him in the face and eliminate Perry from the match. Down to Page, Archer, Hardy, and Starks everyone worked together to eliminate Archer from the match. Page directed Matt Hardy to eliminate Starks, but Starks managed to eliminate him so the final two were Page and Starks. A Tornado DDT from Starks, but the spear missed, and Page went to toss him out, but Ricky hung onto the top rope and reversed and sent Page out of the ring to win the match at 12:47. Rating: 50

Immediately after the match MJF made his way out to mock “The Pebble,” just to have Starks turn it back on him by calling him a “fifth rate” Roddy Piper. The two men put on a verbal clinic, with Starks giving the promo of a lifetime building up to a match next week against MJF for both the AEW World Championship (The Full Gear Eliminator Tournament) and the Dynamite Diamond Ring.

A clip played with Darby Allin saying that Samoa Joe would have to kill him to stop Allin from regaining the AEW TNT Championship, while Sting stood quietly behind and giving quiet support.

Another clip played of Jon Moxley directing words at Adam Page, saying he respected Page for talking with his fists last week since it’s not All Elite Talking.

TNT Title: Samoa Joe vs. Darby Allin

Darby Allin did not wait for Joe to get into the ring before launching himself through the ropes with a Tope Suicida, but Joe redirected and sent him flying into the railing instead. Looking to add to the punishment, Joe pulled back the mats and slammed Allin on the concrete. Joe rolled him into the ring to start the match, but then rolled back outside and pulled Allin out and threw Darby into the post so hard that he bounced off and flew all the way to the table. Joe rolled back into the ring and let the ten count continue, but Darby managed to make his way back to the ring at the count of nine. The fight continued with Darby connecting with a coffin drop on Joe outside of the ring! Back in the ring, Joe tried to get the choke, but instead Allin connected with a Stunner and then a Code Red for a close two count. Building up speed, Darby charged at Joe who reversed into a Uranage! Allin managed to break out of the Muscle Buster with another Stunner and went for a Coffin Drop, but Joe managed to lock in the Coquina Clutch until Allin went out at 12:41. Rating: 62. These two showed great chemistry in this bout and hopefully they have more matches together in the future!

Backstage Tony Schiavone interviewed Orange Cassidy and Kip Sabian, with Cassidy willing to give Sabian a shot at the AEW All-Atlantic Championship on AEW Rampage, but Sabian is injured and isn’t ready to have that match yet. Cassidy blows it off and says that Sabian can find someone else to face him instead.

Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta vs. Jake Hager & Daniel Garcia

A couple of notes to begin before the match. The first was that Jon Moxley was at ringside to make sure the rest of the JAS did not interfere. Second, the chyron for Jake Hager said “with his hat” which was pretty funny. To begin the match Hager took his hat off, but he offered a second one to Claudio in an act of friendship. But Castagnoli quickly responded by kicking the hat into the crowd. The brawl was on! In short time Yuta found himself being double teamed by Hager and Garcia. A tag to Claudio changed the tide of the match as he engaged in a series of reversals with Hager which prompted chants of “We the People.” The end of the match saw Claudio trying for the Giant Swing on Hager, just to have Garcia jump on his back to break that up. Guevara tried to interfere but was stopped by Moxley. In the ring Hager had the Anklelock on Claudio and the ROH Pure Champion locked Yuta in a Dragon Tamer. But Claudio was able to reverse and send Hager flying into Garcia to break it up. A Ricola Bomb later and Claudio was able to pin Hager at 13:02. Rating: 55.

After the match Claudio got the microphone and called Moxley into the ring for a meeting of the BCC. It was noted that Bryan Danielson was at the hospital with William Regal. Claudio tried to tell Moxley that he needed to get over it, but Moxley pointed out that Claudio was not the one who had his World title stolen from him. Before they could say anything else, Tony Schiavone called for some order so that he could play a video. Tony pointed out that the video had been filmed a couple of weeks ago after AEW Full Gear and it was him, a cameraman (sworn to secrecy) in the back with William Regal. Regal began by saying that if they were seeing this video then something had happened to him, placing the blame most likely on that dastardly Maxwell Jacob Friedman. Regal continued that while he was sorry for what he had to do; he was not sorry he had done it. The Blackpool Combat Club had been started on violence and friendship, but lately it seemed that everyone was starting to get a little weak. Something like Regal helping MJF should not have been enough to cost Moxley the match, he should have seen it coming. And with the war that had been going on between the JAS and the Blackpool Combat Club, well quite frankly it should have been over already. But everyone was getting soft, and Regal needed to do something to bring the fighting spirit back. He knows that the BCC has it in them, but that it was time to remove the weakness that was William Regal. It was time for the boys to remember how violent they could be, so that they could finish things. They have always made Regal proud, but now it was time for them to see inside themselves what he saw in them. “You need to always keep eyes in the back of your head, you need to watch out for each other, you need to do whatever it takes to get the Blackpool Combat Club back to the top. I’m Blackpool Combat Club till the day I die! Fellas….it’s been emotional.” After the video Tony Schiavone tried to get a reaction from the shocked members of the BCC, with Moxley taking the microphone and looking like he was going to say something….before finally saying “screw this” and dropped the microphone as he walked away shaking his head. Perhaps too distracted he did not see Adam Page running out to attack him, allowing Page to get the advantage until they were broken up as Dynamite went to a commercial.

A House of Black promo with Malakai Black stating that the promotion is corrupted and sick, and that they are the cure that will remove the cancer from AEW.

Tony Schiavone had a sit-down interview with Jamie Hayter who offered to defend the AEW Womens Championship against the winner of the match on AEW Rampage between Hikaru Shida and The Bunny.

A quick recap video of Jade Cargill kicking Kiera Hogan out of The Baddies on the November 23, 2022 episode of AEW Dynamite.

Jade Cargill & Red Velvet vs. Madison Rayne & Kiera Hogan

Hogan started out the match and wanted Cargill, but Red Velvet started instead as the two got into a shoving match. Cargill waited from the outside for most of the match as Hogan and Rayne worked over Velvet. Finally, Hogan tossed Velvet towards Cargill and challenged her to get into the ring for a fight. Jade made the tag and came into the ring and blew Hogan off saying she wasn’t good enough to be in the ring with Cargill. Hogan responded with a punch, so Cargill smacked her so hard it took Hogan off of her feet. The two went back and forth until Jade went for Jaded, but Hogan turned it into a pin fall. As Cargill kicked out of that Kiera made the tag to Rayne knowing she was weakened. Unfortunately, Rayne did not last long against the TBS Champion, before she was pinned after a Jaded at 7:06. Rating: 38. Just another Jade match, but hopefully this is going somewhere as there was no mention of Bow Wow this week either.

A clip package played of the Best of Seven Series (2-1 Death Triangle), with comments spliced in from Death Triangle and The Elite hyping the next match in the series at the Winter Is Coming edition of AEW Dynamite.

Tony Schiavone was interviewing Saraya when Dr. Britt Baker and Rebel interrupted. Baker gave Saraya two tickets to the January 11, 2023 edition of AEW Dynamite at the KIA Forum. “You can either show up to watch me in a match, or if you can find a partner then the two of you can face me and Hayter.”

Excalibur runs down the card for AEW Dynamite: Winter Is Coming which will include a match between MJF and Ricky Starks for both the AEW World Championship and the Dynamite Diamond Ring.

AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Acclaimed vs. FTR

During the commercial break Jim Ross was introduced to the fans which received a loud ovation as he sat at the commentary table. The cheers carried over as the two teams made their way to the match, with the fans chanting “this is awesome” before the two teams even locked up. Things started off with a good feeling out process, before Bowens and Caster managed to out wrestle Harwood. The ensuing face off resulted in things get heated with pushes and shoved and bad words being exchanged. This turned into a full fledged brawl that resulted in Cash landing on the floor. Some scissoring later, and the Acclaimed soon had both members of FTR in Sharpshooters! After the commercial break, FTR had managed to turn things around and had Caster cut off from tagging Bowens. Just when it appeared he was getting close, Dax managed to make it look like Billy had tried to interfere getting him ejected from ringside to the loud dismay of the fans. This allowed FTR to continue working over Caster, and when he finally got the tag to Bowens the fans went crazy. The finish saw Dax being sent flying into Cash Wheeler, causing Cash to crash to the floor. Bowens got Dax trapped into a Crossface and got the submission victory at 17:52. Rating: 48. Maybe not as great as hoped for, but a great match, although yet another loss for FTR as they work their way towards probably leaving when their contract is up.

After the match FTR and The Acclaimed faced off with FTR looking hesitant to shake hands….which is when the Gunn’s showed up on the screen with a Christmas present….two dog collars and an invitation to a match at ROH Final Battle…DOUBLE DOG COLLARS for the ROH World Tag Team Championship, FTR vs. Dem Boys!

Overall Rating: 59. While the main event may not have been as great as hoped for, it was still a really good match. Add to that a GREAT battle of words, I would go so far as to say almost a star making performance for Ricky Starks, and some other very good matches this was one of the best Dynamite’s in a long time. It does appear that William Regal is indeed on his way out, and while it was a bit of a stretch how he was written out, at least they attempted to put a bow on the storyline and send the BCC in a new direction.

Date: December 9, 2022

TV Rating: 0.27

Location: H-E-B Center at Cedar Park, near Austin, TX

Jon Moxley vs. Konosuke Takeshita

So the rumours are that both Rene Paquette and Jon Moxley were sick this week, hence why Rene was not on Dynamite this week. With that said you would not have known by the way that Moxley performed tonight. While these two have met in the past, this match was different as Moxley was clearly more aggressive and Takeshita came across as more confident. It was a strong back and forth encounter that looked to be over after a Paradigm Shift, but Takeshita kicked out at ONE! The fans went nuts for Takeshita as Moxley went for a knee strike that Takeshita kicked out of two. As Moxley went for an Arm Bar, Takeshita reversed into some head stomps that got him a two count. Out of that the fight soon ended as Moxley connected with another Paradigm Shift. But instead of going for a pin fall, Moxley quickly pulled Takeshita to his feet and lifted him up to drop with him with a Death Rider to get the definitive pin fall at 12:51. Rating: 62.

After the match Moxley grabbed a microphone and said that he knew Page still wasn’t cleared for action in the ring, “but if you want a fight why don’t you come on down and we will face off right now!” This time though AEW was prepared and there was a wall of security that got in the way, so Moxley climbed to the top turnbuckle and dived off onto Page and the guards as we went to commercial break.

Up next they played the clip from their website from after AEW Dynamite where The Acclaimed came back through the curtains looking for Billy Gunn just to find out he had been attacked. They stopped to check on him when they were attacked from behind by Matt Taven and Mike Bennett….The Kingdom!

Another Book of Hobbs segments, with Powerhouse Hobbs talking about how he had to scrub his brother’s blood off the porch. These segments are filmed nicely, but woah that was some dark stuff.

Hikaru Shida vs. The Bunny

With the winner of this getting the first title match with Jamie Hayter, it was no surprise that these two started off in a hurry with some slugging back and forth. But as Shida missed a jumping knee, The Bunny was able to take over with a choke in the corner. Some more choking on the ropes before Shida managed to get a Small Package for two count. The Bunny fired off a series of Clotheslines, before trying for her finisher just to have Shida reverse into an Inverted DDT. Penelope tried to distract by throwing a kendo stick into the ring, and it almost worked as The Bunny got a two count. Shida took out both heels on the floor, and came back into the ring with a Michinoku Driver for two. A katana kick is enough to end the match at 8:02 for Shida. Rating: 46.

As Shida was having her hand raised in the middle of the ring, Jamie Hayter came out and raised the AEW Womens Championship into the air while the commentators announced that their title match would occur on December 21 at Holiday Bash.

Backstage after AEW Dynamite Brian Cage is with Tony Schiavone and demands a match against Jack Perry that is confirmed by Tony Khan, through Excalibur at the announcer’s desk, will be happening at the Winter is Coming AEW Dynamite.

The Firm (Big Bill/Lee Moriarty) vs. JT LaMotta/Ryan Davidson

In an extremely short match, The Firm defeated JT LaMotta and Ryan Davidson in 2:49 when the newly rechristened Big Bill pinned JT LaMotta with an East River Crossing. Rating: 42.

FTR promised to finish things with the Briscoe’s at ROH Final Battle, and Samoa Joe hyped his match against Juice Robinson for the ROH Television Championship.

AEW All-Atlantic Championship: Orange Cassidy vs. ???

It turned out that it was the man from Moustache Mountain making his AEW debut to challenge for the Championship. Trent quickly showed a lack of patience for Orange Cassidy’s antics. He had attempted to connect with a running chop, but Cassidy dodged that and gave a high-five to the referee. That resulted in Seven attacking Cassidy and the match went back and forth with Seven showing he had kept the aggressive side that he had finished NXT with. As Cassidy came off the top trope with a DDT, Seven punched him in the gut and then went for a Piledriver that got two. This did not last though as Orange managed to get a Beach Break shortly after to wrap the match up at 11:49. Rating: 43.

After the match Kip Sabian jumped Orange Cassidy, with Trent Seven joining in on the beatdown. But the Texan Dustin Rhodes made his way out to make the save in his home state at the show ended.

Overall Rating: 51. This started off with a great match and moved into the continuation of the Moxley/Page angle, and into an unexpectedly great match between Shida and The Bunny. Trent Seven was definitely a surprise, and I know some people were quick to mock his weight, but he looks to be in similar shape to the end of NXT UK. Interesting that this is the first wrestler to show up from there and it will be interesting to see if any others NXT UK wrestlers show up going into the new year. As for Seven, he was a great trainer with Tyler Bate, so maybe he will be able to rub off on some other wrestlers in AEW.

AEW Dark Taping Results:

In a poor match, Swerve Strickland defeated Action Andretti in 8:07 by pinfall with a Swerve Stomp. (48)

In an extremely short match, Brian Cage defeated JT LaMotta in 2:52 by pinfall with a Weapon X. (57)

In a bout that had sub-par wrestling and little heat, Top Flight defeated Aaron Solow and Cole Karter in 7:35 when Darius Martin submitted Aaron Solow. (41)

A hype video played for Winter is Coming focusing on the World Championship match between MJF and Ricky Starks and the Best of Seven Series

In a decent match, Jay Lethal defeated Ryan Davidson in 8:24 by pinfall with a Lethal Injection. (48)

A hype package for the ROH Final Battle replay was shown

In a decent match, Bandido defeated Paul London in 12:45 by pinfall with a Phoenix Splash. (57)

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Pick 'Em Contest:

Willow Nightingale vs. Trish Adora (Zero Hour)

Jericho Appreciation Society (Angelo Parker and Matt Menard) vs. Shinobi Shadow Squad (Cheeseburger and Eli Isom) (Zero Hour)

Máscara Dorada vs. Jeff Cobb (Zero Hour)

AR Fox/Blake Christian vs. Dralistico/RUSH

Dalton Castle and The Boys (c) vs. The Embassy for the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship

Swerve in Our Glory vs. Shane Taylor Promotions

Samoa Joe (c) vs. Juice Robinson for the ROH World Television Championship

Mercedes Martinez (c) vs. Athena for the ROH Women’s World Championship

Daniel Garcia (c) vs. Wheeler Yuta for the ROH Pure Championship (Pure Wrestling Rules Match)

FTR (c) vs. The Briscoes for the ROH World Tag Team Championship (Double Dog Collar Match)

Chris Jericho (c) vs. Claudio Castagnoli for the ROH World Championship (if Castagnoli loses, he must join the Jericho Appreciation Society)

OOC: The winners of these prediction contests will help to book the AEW Battle of the Belt events in the new year to mimic "fan voting" similar to WWE's Taboo Tuesday/Cyber Sundays.

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Willow Nightingale vs. Trish Adora (Zero Hour)

Jericho Appreciation Society (Angelo Parker and Matt Menard) vs. Shinobi Shadow Squad (Cheeseburger and Eli Isom) (Zero Hour)

Máscara Dorada vs. Jeff Cobb (Zero Hour)

AR Fox/Blake Christian vs. Dralistico/RUSH

Dalton Castle and The Boys (c) vs. The Embassy for the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship

Swerve in Our Glory vs. Shane Taylor Promotions

Samoa Joe (c) vs. Juice Robinson for the ROH World Television Championship

Mercedes Martinez (c) vs. Athena for the ROH Women’s World Championship

Daniel Garcia (c) vs. Wheeler Yuta for the ROH Pure Championship (Pure Wrestling Rules Match)

FTR (c) vs. The Briscoes for the ROH World Tag Team Championship (Double Dog Collar Match)

Chris Jericho (c) vs. Claudio Castagnoli for the ROH World Championship (if Castagnoli loses, he must join the Jericho Appreciation Society)

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Date: December 10, 2022
PPV Rating: 16698 viewers
Location: College Park Center in Arlington, Texas.

In a pre-show bout that had decent wrestling but didn't have much heat, Jeff Cobb defeated Mascara Dorada in 8:22 by pinfall with a Tour of the Islands. (51)

In a pre-show bout that had sub-par wrestling and little heat, Angelo Parker and Matt Menard defeated Shinobi Shadow Squad in 6:11 when Angelo Parker submitted Eli Isom. (37)

In a pre-show bout that had terrible wrestling and non-existent crowd heat, Willow Nightingale defeated Trish Adora in 6:35 by pinfall. (32)

AR Fox & Blake Christian vs. Dralistico/Rush

A series of high spots got the PPV off to a good start with Rush and his brother going up against the veteran Fox and Christian. Rush got the victory at 11:29 when he pinned Blake Christian with a Diving Senton. (43)

After the match, Preston Vance joined his fellow LFI members in a beatdown on AR Fox and Blake Christian.

A video played celebrating the wrestling history of Mercedes Martinez in wrestling, and the recent change in attitude of Athena.

ROH Women’s Championship: Mercedes Martinez vs. Athena

Unfortunately this match was only decent, which was in part due to the fact that Martinez and Athena did not Martinez also seemed to be a step behind Athena, but at least the fans were in to Athena and when she got the victory with the O Face at 12:57 they went nuts for the NEW ROH Women’s Champion. Rating: 39.

Lexy Nair interviewed Shane Taylor who was angry that Keith Lee had “left him behind” and now it was his chance to show Lee what a mistake that way.

Keith Lee/Swerve Strickland vs. Shane Taylor Promotions

This was one of the big matches that I was looking for, and it did not disappoint. The beginning of the match kept Lee and Shane Taylor apart from each other, but finally they did meet and the fans went crazy for the interaction. The end of the match saw Keith Lee accidentally nail Swerve with a Clothesline. After that Strickland left his partner to fend for himself, and fortunately J.D. Griffey and Shane Taylor had their own miscommunication and Lee was able to get the Spirit Bomb at 12:46 to win the match. Rating: 44.

A video on the ROH history of Dalton Castle segued into a bit about the Embassy prior to the title match.

ROH Six Man Tag Team Championship: Dalton Castle/The Boys vs. The Embassy

This went about how you would expect, with the Boys mostly being tossed around by The Embassy and Castle managing to control the match when he was in there. Somewhat surprisingly though it was Castle who was pinned after the finish saw him and Cage going at it for a little bit of solid action. The match ended with Cage pinning Dalton Castle after a Weapon X to crown NEW ROH Six Man Tag Team Champions. Rating: 40.

A video package played showing the history between the JAS and the BCC focusing on the feud between Garcia and YUTA in particular.

Angelo Parker and Matt Menard came out to mock the crowd and promise a JAS sweep tonight, when Wheeler YUTA came out to chase them away and set up the next match.

ROH Pure Championship: Daniel Garcia vs. Wheeler YUTA

The three judges for the match where Christopher Daniels, BJ Whitmer, and Jerry Lynn. These two worked this match with the Pure rules to perfection, even if the crowd wasn’t as into the match as would have been hoped. Garcia managed to make YUTA use up his three rope breaks before the seven minute mark making it look like YUTA was going to be done quickly, but he managed to put on a comeback and almost looked like he was going to end it with some elbows to the head, but Garcia managed to reverse into the Dragon Slayer to get the submission victory with YUTA in the ropes. Rating: 47

A video played to hype the final match between FTR and The Briscoe’s.

ROH World Tag Team Championship; Double Dog Collar Match: FTR vs. The Briscoes

And so it came to this. All four men bled, all four men gave it their all in this match, but in the end FTR lost their first title belts as Jay used his chain to choke Dax Harwood out and to become NEW ROH World Tag Team Champions! It is hard to say which of their matches was the overall best, but this match ended this feud just perfectly. What a year that FTR, specifically Dax, have had. Will be interesting to see what 2023 brings.

After the match the Gunn’s ran in to attack the weakened FTR until the Briscoe’s made the safe. After the save, the Briscoe’s and FTR shook hands.

ROH World Television Championship: Samoa Joe vs. Juice Robinson

Somehow these two were expected to deliver after that match? Joe seemed to realize that and he went out there and put on a great show, bringing the violence, and almost looking like the Joe of old. Surprisingly this was a pretty equal match though which helped Robinson looked better, but the ending saw Wardlow providing a distraction causing Joe to break the Coquina Clutch. When he tried to set up for the Muscle Buster, Juice managed to reverse it into the Pulp Friction and become the NEW ROH World Television Champion at 12:36. Rating: 47.

A video played prior to the Main Event, with the reminder of the stipulations that Claudio will join the JAS if he is unable to defeat Chris Jericho.

ROH World Championship: Chris Jericho vs. Claudio Castagnoli

After a slow start to play to the fans, these two started to fire it up. Jericho went for an early Judas Effect, just to have Claudio catch him with a Neutralizer for a close two count. As the fight moved to the outside Jericho managed to regain control, and kept rolling in and out of the ring to break up the count to work over Claudio on the outside. Unfortunately, even as the two men were working hard to make this match entertaining, the fans were too deflated. The show definitely peaked with the Tag Team Championship match. Near the end Claudio tried for the Giant Swing, but Jericho managed to reverse into the Walls of Jericho. Claudio teased tapping, but found the strength to make the ropes! This brought out Menard and Parker with the baseball bat. They distracted the referee and Jericho nailed Claudio with the bat….for TWO! After that the JAS was tossed and the match continued on, with Claudio getting Jericho in the Giant Swing…….and JERICHO GAVE UP! NEW ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli at 17:34. Rating: 40.

Wheeler YUTA joined Claudio in the ring to celebrate, but soon they were surrounded by Rush, Dralistico, and Preston Vance! Claudio and YUTA quickly went on the offense, but the numbers game was too much as LFI beat down the BCC, until some faimilar music began to play…..

…AND OUT RAN CHRIS HERO! With Hero on their side, the BCC chased LFI from the ring and the show ended with Chris Hero celebrating with Claudio and Wheeler.

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Winner: Asaemon-5

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Post by tg01 on Jan 10, 2023 5:17:36 GMT 1

Date: December 14, 2022

TV Rating: 0.73

Location: Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas

The show began with a long video looking at the history of Winter is Coming shows focusing on the AEW debut of Sting, the controversial defeat of Jon Moxley by Kenny Omega, and the AEW World Championship match that ended in a draw between Adam Page and Bryan Danielson.

After the opening Excalibur and Taz hyped the card for the show, leading to the first match of the evening…

AEW Best of Seven Series: Death Triangle (2) vs. The Elite (1)

Unlike previous matches in the series, this match immediately began at an up tempo speed with a lot of quick tag’s, breaking down into a series of dives outside. When things finally slowed down The Elite managed to isolate Rey Fenix and kept him grounded with a series of headlocks from all three members of The Elite. Using old school tag team tactics, The Elite drew PAC and Penta into the match so that they could beat Rey down behind the back of the referee. Omega connected with a V-Trigger and looked to end the match but PAC broke up the count. As PAC was forced out of the ring The Young Buck’s choked Rey with the tag rope. Finally Fenix managed to make the tag out and things broke down again, before Death Triangle got to take turns isolating Nick Jackson. The finish again saw everyone taking each other out with dives while Matt Jackson and PAC fought in the ring, with Matt finally getting the victory at 19:46 after connecting with the Worst Case Scenario. Rating: 63. This was a superb match, maybe the best in the series thus far, with a good blend of old school tag team psychology and modern up tempo moves.

MJF had the opportunity to hype the main event title match and congratulated “The Pebble” on finally cutting a good promo, but he doesn’t care about Ricky Starks living in his car and eating food with raccoons, tonight he will retain both his belt and his ring, and Starks with leave with nothing.

Rene Paquette was interviewing the newly christened Lethal Enterprises (Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, Sonjay Dutt, and Satnam Singh) backstage about the AEW World Tag Team Champions when they were interrupted by Eddie Kingston and Ortiz: “Sorry, I was just walking by, and did I hear you say something about the Tag Team belts? I’m sorry, what have you done to deserve a title shot? I mean the only thing your team has done this year is lose to a 70 year old man right? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Come on, prove yourselves in the ring first before you start running your mouths. Let’s go.”

The JAS, noticeably without Chris Jericho, were with Tony Schiavone backstage. When Tony tried to ask about Jericho, he was ignored as the JAS talked about their boy Daniel Garcia defending the ROH Pure Championship. Again Tony asked about Jericho, and Matt Menard went on him about how Jericho was just taking a one week break after his exhausting reign as ROH World Champion. As JAS walked away Tony just shook his head and sent it back to the ring.

Brian Cage vs. “Jungle” Jack Perry

A classic battle between the bigger, muscle wise at least, Cage vs the smaller Jack Perry. That size difference played out well as Cage was able to convincingly throw Perry around the ring a few times, before Perry was ablet o make a comeback with his speed. A Lariat from Cage was reversed into a Canadian Destroyer from Perry for a two count, that Perry then turned into a Snare Trap. Cage was able to break out of that, but was shortly after rolled up at 7:46 to give Perry the impressive win. Rating: 57.

Rene Paquette is backstage with the NEW ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler YUTA. She congratulates Claudio and asks what is next for the BCC after the events of the past week. Claudio makes sure to thank William Regal for bringing them together, and for once again sharpening the BCC so that they were able to focus on becoming Champions again, “you’ll get them next time Wheeler,” and as soon as Moxley and Danielson get back it is time for the BCC to sit down and plan out the future. “Uh, you wouldn’t be chance know where Jon is?’ When Rene shakes her head Claudio continues “well no matter, I’m sure he will find us soon.”

A video plays showing fans what happened at ROH Final Battle 2022 when Swerve Strickland left his partner, Keith Lee behind after some miscommunication between the two of them.

Backstage interviews Keith Lee who says that this has gone on long enough, and that where he comes from disputes like this are settled face to face. “Swerve, we can either talk it out or we can fight it out, but next week we are going to solve this. See you then.”

The Factory (Aaron Solow, Nick Comoroto, and QT Marshall) vs. The House of Black

The bell rang and The House of Black immediately attacked The Factory with the fight spilling to the floor where The House of Black destroyed them, before Brody King ended the match in the ring with an All Seeing Eye on Aaron Solow at 1:25. Rating: 48

Tony Schiavone is interviewing AEW Womens Champion Jamie Hayter about her match next week against Hikaru Shida when Dr. Britt Baker interrupts to talk about the tag team match against Saraya in Los Angeles, stating that Saray has no friends. This leads to Skye Blue stepping up and saying she may not be Saraya’s partner, but Saraya is someone she looks up to and if Baker wants to run her mouth then Blue will shut it on Rampage!

Bandido vs. Paul London

Prior to this match clips were shown of the two competing against each other on AEW Dark. While it makes sense that London has slowed a step, Bandido more than made up for it here with another impressive showing. This time London actually did get the opportunity to go for his Shooting Star Press, but Bandido rolled out of the way and quickly made his way to the top turnbuckle to launch off with a Phoenix Splash to pick up the win at 12:09. Splash. Rating: 57

Ricky Starks gives his retort to build up to the main event and makes it clear how important this match is to him.

Tony Schiavone is with Maria Kanellis as clips are shown to remind us that The Kingdom knocked The Acclaimed out following their title defense against FTR last week. Maria Kanellis says that they have heard everyone complaining about The Kingdom going after the titles, “but unlike some others around here, my boys actually have the resume to back up their title challenge, go ahead and show the video.” This led to a clip package featuring ROH clips featuring Matt Taven with the ROH World, World Television, and Six-Man Tag Team Championship before moving to clips of The Kingdom with the ROH World Tag Team Championship, and even a still picture of them with the IWGP World Tag Team Championship.

A video played showing the history between Anna Jay/Tay Melo and Ruby Soho, including Melo injuring Soho and keeping her out for months until her return at the end of November.

Ruby Soho vs. Tay Melo

Tay Melo attacked off of the ring apron to start this grudge match off with the two competitors fighting outside of the ring. Back in the ring Soho manages to turn the momentum after a trio of Backdrop Drivers but only gets a two count. After a Riot Kick, Melo escapes to the outside while Ruby waits for her to get back into the match. Fed up of waiting Soho finally went out there, just to get caught with a DDT on the ramp that almost got the count out victory for Melo. Melo was firmly in control now, but when she went for a TayKo, Soho reversed into a Destination Unknown to pick up the victory at 7:58. Rating: 53.

Post-match Anna Jay attacked Soho, and was soon joined by Melo as they left Soho laying as Dynamite went to commercial.

Backstage Rene Paquette has been given the assignment to talk with the Dark Order and Adam Page. The Dark Order begin by saying they have not forgotten about Preston Vance and what he did to Brodie Jr., but right now they are trying to convince Page that he needs to heal before he goes after Moxley any longer. A frustrated Page snaps and starts to talk about how he was fine. “But you want a status update? You want to know why I can’t wrestle Moxley in the ring and I have to resort to fighting him? Fine, here’s a status update! I'll give you the one I never gave in October. When I was laying face down on the mat, snoring, for sixty seconds. And they rolled me over, and they put me in the back of an ambulance, and I started to come to on the way to the hospital, and they're asking me questions, and I kinda started to get them right after a while: 'What's today's date?' October 18th, I knew it. 'Where are we at?' We're in Cincinnati. 'Who are you wrestling?' The world champion, that's who I'm wrestling. And they said that, 'Hangman you've got about a hundred missed calls, text messages, you-- if we wanna answer your phone, you've gotta unlock it' and they hand me my phone. And the screen lights up and they say 'Is that your son? He's- he's cute. What's his name?' [pause] 'What's his name?' [Page gets choked up] And his green eyes look back up at me and I... I didn't know... I didn't know. For a whole hour I didn't know. I'd been to hell. That's hell. So Moxley I don’t’ care if they clear me, or they don’t, because sooner rather than later I am going to give you a taste of that hell, and I don’t care if it means I have to drag you along with me!”

Jon Moxley vs. Steven Stetson

It should be noted that Stetson was standing in the ring with a cowboy hat on before the bell rang. Moxley put his hands behind his back and told Stetson to give him his best shot, so after some hesitation Stetson nailed him with a couple of punches. When that didn’t work he bounced off the ropes and walked right into a kick and the Paradigm Shift to end this match at 1:41. Rating: 61

After the match Moxley grabbed a microphone and Stetson’s cowboy hat and told Stetson to get up. Slowly Stetson rose to his feet while Moxley was on the microphone talking to Page. “Hell eh? You think you are going to drag me to hell? I think you should be careful what you wish for Page, and maybe you should just go home and spend time with your son before something much worse happens to you. Like this.” As Stetson was on his feet with his Cowboy Hat back on Moxley levelled him with a King Kong Lariat that was so hard it launched the cowboy hat off of Stetson, and sent Stetson crashing to the mat. Moxley made sure to pick up the cowboy hat as he exited the ring and put it on his head as he posed with the fans behind his back as the segment ended.

As Jim Ross comes out before the Main Event, Excalibur announced that the fifth match in the Best of Seven Series between Death Triangle and The Elite has been moved to next week’s AEW Rampage. “The reason for this is that in addition to the AEW Women’s Championship match between Jamie Hayter and Hikaru Shida, next week on AEW Dynamite it will be the Holiday Bash…..BATTLEBOWL! Twenty men will randomly be selected to complete in five tag team matches next week on Dynamite, and the winners will complete in the Battlebowl on Rampage with the winner of the Holiday Bash Battlebowl getting the first AEW World Championship title shot against the winner of tonight’s Main Event on the FIRST Dynamite of 2023! Join us online after AEW Rampage as the names are drawn and the tag matches are announced.”

AEW World Championship/Dynamite Diamond Ring: Maxwell Jacob Friedman vs. Ricky Starks

The two men ran the ropes before MJF managed to knock Starks off of his feed, and then mocked Starks posing. That turned into a strut, so Stars sent him flying over the ropes to the outside. When MJF got back into the ring the two went into a series of pin fall attempts, before MJF snuck into the ropes. When Starks went to retrieve him, Starks snuck in a finger poke to the eye. Now it was MJF who sent Starks over the ropes to the outside so that he could do another strut! After a commercial break MJF was working Starks over with an Abdominal Stretch, but Starks reversed with a Hiptoss and then a Ligerbomb! That only got a two count, but then Ricky set up for the Roshambo, but MJF hooked the top rope with his foot and managed to change momentum and spun Ricky around to set up the Powerbomb on the knee for a two count! Starks manages to fight back...and then they both go for the eyes at the same time! As the World Champion recovered he switched strategies and began to work over the arm he injured with the Powerbomb. This worked until Starks hit the Spear, but he was then too injured to go for the pin. This led to MJF locking in the Salt of the Earth and Ricky fought against it before getting his foot on the rope to break it. Except MJF did not let go, and had to be forcibly be removed. He argued with referee Paul Turner saying he should have been disqualified, but that was the turning point for Starks who got fired up by the fans and made the comeback. That ended with a Roshambo, and Starks went for the pin fall with one arm. ONE....TWO....STARKS WAS PULLED OUT OF THE RING BY ETHAN PAGE! Starks took Page out with a Spear and then rolled back into the ring, where MJF Cradled him...for TWO! Ricky attempted one more Roshambo, but his arm was too messed up from the Spears and he dropped MJF who managed to lock in the Salt of the Earth in the middle of the ring. Starks tried everything but he could not get to the ropes and he had to submit at 16:55. by pinfall with a Swanton Bomb. During the match we also had Ethan Page run in and attack Starks. Maxwell Jacob Friedman wins the AEW Dynamite Diamond Ring title. Maxwell Jacob Friedman makes defence number one of the AEW title. Rating: 52.

Overall Rating: 59

Date: December 16, 2022

TV Rating: 0.30

Location: Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas

The show began with a video recapping the history of the feud between BCC and the JAS, beginning with Moxley’s debut at AEW Double or Nothing in 2019 when he attacked Jericho, continued through the Anarchy in the Arena, and ending with Claudio’s ROH World Championship victory over Chris Jericho, with tonight’s match intended to be “the end” of this feud.

Jon Moxley vs. Sammy Guevara

Sammy attacked quickly and managed to stomp Moxley down in the corner, but Moxley connected with a Lariat that led to Sammy going outside to try and get away. Moxley went to go for a dive, but paused momentarily as Tay was standing in the way. With a shrug, Moxley instead went for a Plancha on Sammy. As Moxley posed for the fans he turned around to get hit with a high knee. As the fight continued, things took a bit of a sick turn when Sammy tore Moxley’s earring right out of his ear causing Moxley to bleed. Sammy bite at the ear lobe to draw more blood. Tay got involved in it as well, and in a sick, sick moment Sammy and Tay exchanged a kiss with Moxley’s blood all over their faces. The end of the match saw Sammy connect with a Paradigm Shift of his own before going up top for a Swanton that got a two count. Fighting to the top again Sammy connects with a Spanish Fly, but Moxley rolled through and pulled Guevara up and connected with a Paradigm Shift at 13:40 to win the match. Rating: 60.

Moxley got a microphone after the match and called Adam Page out, but this time in addition to security coming out to make sure they don’t fight, Claudio and Wheeler YUTA came into the ring and tried to talk Moxley down.

Backstage FTR respond to The Guns with Dax admitting that he broke his “ass bone” during the match where they lost the ROH World Tag Team titles, but they are going to the Gunns and they are going to get their asses whupped very soon!

Jade Cargill and the Baddies spoke about Kiera Hogan, with threats lobbed at Bow Wow as well as that story seems to continue.

Dr. Britt Baker DMD vs. Skye Blue

Blue put up such a fight at the beginning of the match that Britt’s crew actually intervene while Baker was able to distract the referee. From there Britt started to take over with some choking in the corner, and a Butterfly Suplex that got two. A roll up got a close two count by Skye Blue, and then she attempted Code Blue but Baker managed to break out of the hold and then set up a Curb Stomp at 5:35 to get a pin fall. Rating: 38.

Finally, there is some movement on the Preston Vance storyline as Jim Ross as a sit down interview with him. Preston talks about how Mr. Brodie Lee had been the one who hand picked him, but he was done being held back by a bunch of losers, and Brodie Jr. is a spoiled little snot nosed punk!

AEW TNT Championship: Samoa Joe vs. Ryan Davidson

This was a rather short match, that ended with a Muscle Buster at 2:50. Rating: 55.

As Joe stood in the ring Wardlow was shown in the back with Tony Schiavone with Wardlow making a challenge for the TNT Championship, but he was interrupted as the new ROH World Television Champion showed up and said that he had talked with Tony Khan and on December 28 in Colorado, Juice would be getting a shot as he had already defeated Joe, something Wardlow had not been able to do. Wardlow gives a glare of annoyance and says “fine, good luck, but this time I won’t be around to help you out.”

Best Friends/Dustin Rhodes/Orange Cassidy vs. Kip Sabian/The Blade/The Butcher/Trent Seven

During the Mark Henry interview the Best Friends once again messed with Mark Henry’s punch line, while Danhausen remained fascinated with Dustin Rhodes. It was Trent vs. Trent to begin with an exchanging of chops, before Seven got in a surprise punch that soon led to a brawl involving both teams. As the dust settled and Orange and Kip were left standing in the ring, Kip mocked Orange by kicking him with the soft kicks. The mind games worked as Cassidy soon found himself trapped and getting worked over by the entire heel side. A hot tag to Texas native Dustin Rhodes changed everything as he connected with Powerslams on everyone, with each one bringing a louder response from the fans. Near the end Penelope Ford distracted the referee as The Bunny got into the ring….so Orange acted like he got kicked in the nuts! And then Danhausen did it as well! All the women were kicked out! Kip got set up for a Shattered Dreams from Orange Cassidy, which allowed the referee to be distracted for Dustin Rhodes to actually kick Sabian. A Running Bulldog on Trent Seven allowed Dustin to get the victory for his team at 12:42. Rating: 55.

Overall Rating: 55

AEW Dark Taping Results:

In a poor match, Angelico defeated Action Andretti in 7:57 by submission with a Cruceta Invertida. (46)

In a decent match, Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal defeated The Iron Savages in 7:50 when Jeff Jarrett submitted Bear Boulder with a Figure-Four Leglock. (49)

A hype video played for the AEW Women’s Championship match between Jamie Hayter and Hikaru Shida that is set to be the main event of AEW Dynamite Holiday Bash Battlebowl!

In a bout that didn't have much heat and terrible wrestling, Hikaru Shida defeated Samantha Starr in 4:43 by submission with a Shidax Queen. (22)

Stokely Hathaway hyped his team of Big Bill and Lee Moriarty on the way to the ring for the next match.

In a decent match, The Firm I defeated Fuego del Sol and Luther in 6:30 when Big Bill pinned Luther with an East River Crossing. (48)

In a decent match, Konosuke Takeshita defeated Peter Avalon in 7:55 by pinfall with a Touchdown. (49)

In a decent match, Daniel Garcia defeated Paul London in 8:26 by submission. (55)

After Rampage aired, there was an AEW Control Center on the AEW Social Media with Tony Schiavone and referee Aubrey Edwards where the names were “randomly drawn” for AEW Holiday Bash Battlebowl giving us the following tag team matches next week on Dynamite:

Bandido/Brian Cage vs. JAS (Angelo Parker/Matt Menard)

Eddie Kingston/Jay Lethal vs. Lee Moriarty/Ortiz

Big Bill/QT Marshall vs. Jake Hager/”Jungle” Jack Perry

Ethan Page/Ricky Starks vs. Jeff Jarrett/Matt Hardy

Angelico/Sammy Guevara vs. Dante Martin/Matt Sydal

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Date: December 21, 2022

TV Rating: 0.78

Location: Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas

The show began with a video package that focused on Hikaru Shida’s reign as AEW Women’s Champion during the pandemic era, and the rise of Jamie Hayter to her first title defense tonight.

After the opening Excalibur and Taz hyped the card for the show, and explained the Lethal Lottery tag team matches as part of the Holiday Bash Battlebow. From there they introduced the first interview segment for the Lethal Lottery Tag Team matches.

The interviews were retro style with the wrestlers against a green screen background giving their thoughts on the first match with Matt Sydal reminding us that he had teamed with Dante Martin briefly back in 2021, while Sammy was cocky about the match.

AEW Holiday Bash Battlebowl Lethal Lottery Match: Angelico/Sammy Guevara vs. Dante Martin/Matt Sydal

As expected when this match was announced, it was a series of high spots throughout the entire match. Every wrestler got a moment to shine, and the end of the match saw a series of pin falls before Sammy Guevara got the victory for his team at 7:49 following a Shooting Star Press. Rating: 51.

The next Lethal Lottery Interview saw opposing foes talking first with Eddie Kingston and Ortiz agreeing that tonight they might be facing off, but it was nothing personal, Jay Lethal and Lee Moriarty were next with Jeff Jarrett telling Lethal that they would both win tonight and together they would win the Battlebowl, but Lee interrupted to point out he has something to say about that.

AEW Holiday Bash Battlebowl Lethal Lottery Match: Eddie Kingston/Jay Lethal vs. Lee Moriarty/Ortiz

From the moment the bell rang this match was a wild brawl as Eddie Kingston was his usual disruptive self, forcing Lethal to let him start the match for starters. Eddie and Lee fought to start, but when Lee did tag out, Jay would not tag in so Eddie and Ortiz had to fight to start, but they seemed to have no problem both trying to win the match. Finally Kingston managed to get into position to smack Lethal across the face to get him into the match. The end of the match saw Eddie in the ring with Lee again and a Backfist ended the match at 12:42. Rating: 51.

Tony Schiavone interviewed the JAS about their match, but an angry Chris Jericho announced that he was issuing an open challenge for next week’s AEW Dynamite for anyone on the AEW roster. Menard and Parker finished the segment to hype up their AEW Lethal Lottery tag match.

A segment played with Brian Cage and Bandido with Cage telling Bandido to just follow him so that they can get the victory in their match.

AEW Holiday Bash Battlebowl Lethal Lottery Match: Angelo Parker/Matt Menard vs. Bandido/Brian Cage

This was a fun match with Parker and Menard using their tag team abilities to work Bandido over after Cage had started the match. The end of the match saw Bandido using his speed to send Parker into Cage on the outside, and then finishing Menard off with the Phoenix Splash at 12:18. Rating: 56.

After the match Bandido is celebrating when Brian Cage attacked him with a Clothesline and then a Drill Claw!

A video played from last weeks show where MJF was backstage and was furious about Danielson coming after him and about the AEW Battlebowl and in a threatening manner said he would be talking to the “Khan Man” about this.

In the hype interviews for the next match, Ricky Starks talked about his defeat last week and his history with Ethan Page, Jeff Jarrett celebrated with Jay Lethal and said “one down and one to go,” and then Stokely Hathaway and Ethan Page told a dejected Matt Hardy that he knew what to do!

AEW Holiday Bash Battlebowl Lethal Lottery Match: Ethan Page/Ricky Starks vs. Jeff Jarrett/Matt Hardy

Ethan Page started the match with Matt Hardy and yelled at him until Hardy lay down and Page went for the pin….just to have his own tag team partner pull him off! Starks and Page immediately got into a shoving match, and Starks pushed Page towards Hardy who actually went for a roll up for a pin fall that only got two. After that Jeff got tagged into the match and things settled down into a more competitive tag team match. At the end of the match Starks made the tag to Page, leaving Page and Hardy in the match again. But after making the tag, Starks nailed Page with a Spear and then told Matt Hardy to go for the pin, which Hardy managed to get at 12:36. Rating: 46.

Before a backstage interview could begin Bryan Danielson was talking with Rene and asked where Jon was, and she let him know that he and Adam Page had been told to stay home tonight. When the interview began Danielson started to talk about MJF with Danielson saying that he may have been trained by Shawn Michaels, but it was William Regal that Danielson credits for making him the man he is today. And MJF can run, but eventually he is going to run out of places to hide and Danielson will get his hands on him. After the “cut”, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler YUTA joined the segment and asked Danielson why he had been ignoring them, and Danielson explained that while the BCC will always be important to him, this is person and he needs to destroy MJF and he doesn’t want anyone else to have blood on his hands, and that is how that ended.

Charlie Haas/Paul London vs. The Kingdom

This match was actually pretty decent as Haas and London had excellent chemistry which was unexpected. The match itself served the purpose of getting The Kingdom out in front of the fans who may not be aware of their history. The end of the match saw Matt Taven get the pinfall after he connected with Climax on Paul London at 7:17. Rating: 50.

After the match Maria got into the ring and as Taven and Bennett did a mocking version of the scissors Maria said into a microphone: “The Kingdom….has arrived!”

A final hype segment for the Lethal Lottery tag team match played with “Jungle” Jack Perry (“I’m coming for you Maxwell you piece of trash”), Jake Hager (“I. Love. This. Hat!”), Big Bill (with Stokely Hathaway), and QT Marshall hyping the match.

AEW Holiday Bash Battlebowl Lethal Lottery Match: Big Bill/QT Marshall vs. Jake Hager/”Jungle” Jack Perry

This short match saw Jack Perry begin against QT, but Hager tagged in and quickly took QT down and got him to submit with the Ankle Lock at 3:03. Rating: 47.

A video on the Best of Seven being all tied up with comments from both teams prior to their tie-breaker match on AEW Rampage.

Tony Schiavone is in the ring with RICK ROSS to mediate the meeting between Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland. Ross definitely was not censored when he called Lee a “big mother f*cker.” Lee is ready to throw down, but Swerve uses his words to deescalate things, before agreeing to a match with Lee to settle things in his home state of Washington in two weeks. The addition of Ross did not help this segment a great deal as he kept talking over everything, but watching Keith Lee corpse almost made the whole thing worth it.

Samoa Joe wishes everyone a Happy Holidays, and tells Juice to enjoy his time with his family because these will be the last Holidays he ever sees. “And Wardlow if you show your face, that goes for you too.”

As Jim Ross makes his way out before the Main Event we get the rundown of what is coming up, with Tony Khan making a match between Ethan Page and Ricky Starks next week on Dynamite, The Gunns vs. FTR, Samoa Joe vs. Juice Robinson for the AEW TNT Championship, Chris Jericho’s open challenge and Jon Moxley and Adam Page will have a face to face interview with Tony Schiavone, and both have agreed that if they want to have a match soon they cannot get physical during the segment. On Rampage this week it will be the ten man AEW Holiday Bash Battlebowl with the winner facing MJF for the AEW World Championship on the first Dynamite of 2023 and it’s Match Five between Death Triangle and The Elite!

AEW Womens Championship: Jamie Hayter vs. Hikaru Shida

How impressive has the connection between Jamie Hayter and the fans been that they were willing to let this be the Main Event? With that pressure on them, these two went out there and absolutely delivered a banger of a match! While Baker and Rebel followed Hayter out, they were sent to the back after Rebel got caught trying to interfere. From there these two just fired off with one hard hitting strike after another, leaving both looking like they would be sore tomorrow. Hayter missed with a Katana Kick, and Hayter managed to reverse into a Powerbomb for a close two count. Hayter pulled Shida to her feet and connected with the Ripcord Lariat to get her first title defense at 14:19. Rating: 54

Overall Rating: 60

Date: December 23, 2022

TV Rating: 0.34

Location: Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas

AEW Holiday Bash Battlebowl Battle Royale

Wrestlers in the match include: Angelico, Bandido, Brian Cage, Eddie Kingston, Jake Hager, Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, "Jungle" Jack Perry, Matt Hardy, and Sammy Guevara. MJF was shown in a skybox throughout the match. Angelico began the match by taking Hager’s hat and doing some dance moves in the middle of the ring while everyone watched him. He came to a stop and Hager took his hat back, and then threw Angelico immediately out of the ring. With Angelico out of the match Matt Hardy went after his old foe Sammy Guevara, Kingston started to fight with Lethal and Jarrett, Bandido and Cage faced off, and Jake Hager tried to eliminate his tag team partner from the Lethal Lottery part of the Battlebowl. Guevara and Hardy ended up coming between Kingston and Lethal Enterprises, and after Sammy bumped against Eddie, Eddie took one look at his hated rival and he leveled him with a Spinning Backfist! That allowed Matt Hardy to connect with the Twist of Fate and he sent Guevara over the ropes and out of the match! Brian Cage tried to elevate Bandido over the top rope and out of the ring, but Bandido landed on the ring apron…and raised Brian Cage up with a Suplex and dropped him to the floor eliminating him! What a feat of strength! Before Bandido could get back into the ring Jeff Jarrett caught him with a Dropkick that sent Bandido off of the ring apron and landing hard on Cage on the floor dizzying both men. Jeff Jarrett did his strut and almost got eliminated by Jack Perry, but Jay Lethal made the save. Hager got involved with Perry again, and tried to Powerbomb Perry out of the ring, but “Jungle” Jack reversed with a Head Scissors and eliminated Hager instead! But Hager would not let go of Perry which allowed Jay Lethal to nail him off of the ring apron to end his time in the ring to loud boos. The Final Four were: Eddie Kingston, Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, and Matt Hardy. Hardy took a step back as Kingston took on both Jay and Jeff. Lethal Enterprises almost managed to eliminate Kingston but he fought back and sent Jay out of the ring when he attempted to go for the Lethal Injection. Kingston was trying to leverage Jeff out of the ring, and Hardy finally moved in and lifted Kingston up and eliminated both of them to win the AEW Holiday Bash Battlebowl at 12:26! Rating: 61

From his private skybox MJF was shown smirking and clapping sarcastically as Matt celebrated the victory.

Backstage Tony Schiavone was trying to interview the Best Friends and Dustin Rhodes, when Kip Sabian and his allies interrupted and chaos ensued as Tony sent it to the ring for the next match.

Dustin Rhodes vs. Trent Seven

These two veterans went out there and had a fun back and forth, that soon saw their allies getting involved outside of the ring. Dustin Rhodes decided to do his Cannonball from the ring onto the two groups as they were fighting outside. Seven looked to end the match with the Seven Star Lariat, but the Texas fans got behind their native son and he just managed to kick out on time. From there Trent lifted Dustin Rhodes up onto his shoulders for the Burning Hammer, but Rhodes reversed out of that and picked Trent up in the air for the Lone Star State of Mind and got the three count at 7:31. Rating: 49.

A video plays on the history between Ruby Soho and Anna Jay/Tay Melo and then Ruby announces that while she doesn’t really want a tag team partner, she is going to join with Willow Nightingale to face Jay and Melo on the next AEW Dynamite.

AEW TBS Championship: Jade Cargill vs. Jessica James

James got in some moves at the beginning, but Cargill quickly took over and put her out of her misery with the Jaded at 2:33. Rating: 29.

In the latest Book of Hobbs segment Powerhouse Hobbs talked about how the monster around him ended up turning Hobbs into a Monster himself.

A recap video of the tremendous AEW Womens Championship match between Jamie Hayter and Hikaru Shida played. What a great match!

The Elite and Death Triangle joined Mark Henry because….”it looks like there has been enough talk, it’s time….for the Main Event!”

Ricky Starks and Ethan Page hyped their match for AEW Dynamite with Page promising that Starks would not beat him again!

AEW Best of Seven Series: Death Triangle (2) vs. The Elite (2)

This has been the best match of the series thus far, maybe all the matches should have been on Rampage? Unlike the previous match this one was a sprint, with a lot of tags so that there was always fresh men in the ring. Every smooth was crisp, and the tag team moves were on spot. The finish of the match saw Kenny Omega putting the match away with the One Winged Angel on Rey Fenix at 16:40. Rating: 74.

Overall Rating: 69

AEW Dark Taping Results:

A video from the House of Black started the show with all three wrestlers in action tonight.

In a decent match, Malakai Black defeated Action Andretti in 8:15 by pinfall with an Owari Death Stomp. (52)

In a bout that didn't have much heat and terrible wrestling, Brody King defeated Charlie Haas in 8:14 by pinfall with an All Seeing Eye. (34)

In an extremely short match, Buddy Matthews defeated Fuego del Sol in 4:37 by pinfall. (40)

Rene Paquette interviewed Nyla Rose, Marina Shafir, and Vickie Guerrero prior to the next match.

In an extremely short match, Nyla Rose defeated Jessica James in 5:02 by submission with a Camel Clutch. (33)

In a bout that had terrible wrestling and non-existent crowd heat, Preston Vance defeated Shawn Dean in 5:11 by submission. (24)

In a decent match, Rush defeated Paul London in 11:13 by pinfall with a Martillo Negro. (50)

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