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The AEW Dynamite first anniversary show didn't disappoint. We saw all four titles in AEW on the line. This included Jon Moxley defending the AEW World Championship in a No DQ match. We also had Cody defend the TNT Championship against Orange Cassidy and Hikaru Shida defending against Big Swole.
The AEW Tag Team Titles kicked off AEW Dynamite as FTR faced Best Friends.
FTR (C) vs Best Friends (for the AEW Tag-Team Championships) on AEW Dynamite
Trent and Dax Harwood started the match off on AEW Dynamite for their respective teams. Both men traded chops in the middle of the ring. Trent tried to roll up Harwood but got double-teamed by FTR. Wheeler continued to work on Trent, isolating him in the corner on AEW Dynamite.
Both Trent and Wheeler tagged out, bringing Harwood and Chuckie T in as the legal men. Chuckie hit a dive before Tully tried to get involved. Chuck tried to grab Tully by the jacket but Harwood stopped him.
Best Friends hit Wheeler with the Soul Food half-and-half before Trent followed it up with a knee strike for a near fall. Harwood tagged back in and sent Trent crashing down on the turnbuckle. Harwood got on the top turnbuckle but Chuckie T got on the apron and knocked him off. Best Friends hit Harwood with the Strong Zero. Wheeler broke up the count just in the nick time.
Trent and Harwood brawled into the ringside area where Kip Sabian was busy playing an arcade machine. Trent went head-first into the machine, destroying it. Back in the ring, FTR tried to hit the Goodnight Express on Trent but Chuck Taylor stopped it before it was too later.
Wheeler took matters into his own hands and smacked Trent with the title belt while the referee's back was turned. That was enough for Harwood to pin him.
FTR def. Best Friends on AEW Dynamite.
Miro, who was upset about Trent breaking the arcade machine, attacked Best Friends after the match.
GRADE - B
Miro and Kip Sabian vs Sean Maluta and Lee Johnson on AEW Dynamite
Miro went right after Sean Maluta, taking the match outside where he tossed Maluta into the barricade. Back inside the ring, Miro took out Lee Johnson before tagging Sabian in.
Kip hit a splash from the top rope before tagging Miro back in. Miro quickly forced Lee Johnson to tap out.
Miro and Kip Sabian def. Sean Maluta and Lee Johnson on AEW Dynamite.
GRADE - C
After the match, we cut backstage to see Lance Archer attacking Jon Moxley ahead of their title match later in the night.
MJF's makes a "huge announcement" on AEW Dynamite
MJF was out next to make his big announcement on AEW Dynamite. He first invited Chris Jericho down to the ring for his groundbreaking announcement.
Jericho came down to the ring with the rest of the Inner Circle. MJF started out by saying that Sammy Guevara finally had a jacket. Guevara put it on at Jericho's insistence but it turned out to be too big for him.
MJF then called Jericho a 'genetic freak' before Jericho demanded to know MJF had to announce. MJF said that despite him and Jericho being top draws in AEW, there was a reason he and Jericho had not gotten physical yet. MJF then floated the idea of working together with Jericho. MJF said that he wanted to join the Inner Circle.
Ortiz took the mic and told MJF that he wasn't wanted in the Inner Circle. Jericho calmed Ortiz down and said that the Inner Circle would have to think it over. Instead, Jericho told MJF that he wanted to meet him one-on-one on next week's AEW Dynamite for a a steak dinner.
Cody (C) vs Orange Cassidy (for the TNT Championship) on AEW Dynamite
Cody and Orange Cassidy locked up in this highly anticipated AEW Dynamite match, but it was pretty much a stalemate at the start. Cody went to grab Cassidy from behind but he slipped out. Cody took control with a vertical suplex and followed it by whipping Orange Cassidy into the turnbuckle.
Cody started to dominate the match at this stage. He had Cassidy down in the middle of the ring and hit him with a bodyslam. Cody then headed to the top rope and missed with a double axehandle.
Orange Cassidy replied with his patented lazy kicks and Cody hit him with an uppercut. Cassidy wasn't happy and hit back with a superkick forcing Cody to retreat to ringside. The Dark Order tried to get involved but were ejected by the referee after Orange Cassidy stopped John Silver from using the TNT Championship belt as a weapon.
Back in the ring, Cody hit the Cody Cutter before following it up with a basement dropkick. We got a look at Cody's dark side as a frustrated Cody slammed Orange Cassidy's leg into the ringpost. Cody then hit Orange Cassidy with a reverse vertical suplex from the top rope.
Cody wanted to smash Orange Cassidy's leg into the ringpost again but this time, he ended up going face-first nto the ringpost. Despite this, Cody locked in the Figure-4 Leglock forcing Orange Cassidy to reach for the bottom rope. Orange Cassidy reversed an attempted Cross Rhodes and hit a DDT. Orange Casssidy followed it up with the Beach Break but it wasn't enough.
With time running out, Orange Cassidy rolled Cody up. However, time ran out before the three-count, ending the match in a draw.
The TNT Championship Match ended in a time limit draw on AEW Dynamite.
GRADE - C
Matt Hardy was at ringside with Tony Schiavone. We learned that Matt had been cleared to wrestle again. We then got a brief promo video where Sammy Guevara said that it was his goal to put Matt Hardy on the shelf every time he was cleared to return. It looks like one of the company's best feuds will continue on AEW Dynamite.
Who will compete to earn the right to challenge for the AEW Tag Championships?
Tony Schiavone was in the middle of the ring when we came back to AEW Dynamite to draw lots to determine who would fight to be the next #1 contenders for the AEW Tag Team Championship.
The teams who were drawn to compete ended up being Private Party, Silver and Reynolds, The Butcher and The Blade, and The Young Bucks. The segment ended in chaos after The Young Bucks started dishing out superkicks.
Hikaru Shida (C) vs Big Swole (for the AEW Women's Championship) on AEW Dynamite
Hikaru Shida dominated the early stages of the match. Shida overpowered Swole before the match spilled out to ringside. Swole briefly took control after blindsiding Shida but the champ was soon back in it. Shida had Swole positioned on the barricade and laid into her.
Back in the ring, Shida hit a Samoan Drop. Swole hit back with a cutter onto the entrance ramp followed by a second in the middle of the ring. Shida replied with a German Suplex for a nearfall. Unable to put Swole away, Shida followed up with a Falcon Arrow for another nearfall.
Swole connected with the Dirty Dancing, forcing Shida to reach for the bottom rope. Shida replied with her patented knee strike to put Swole away and retain the AEW Women's Championship in an excellent championship bout on AEW Dynamite.
Hikaru Shida def. Big Swole on AEW Dynamite.
GRADE - B
Jon Moxley (C) vs Lance Archer (No DQ match for the AEW World Championship) on AEW Dynamite
Jon Moxley was in no mood to play around and went right after Lance Archer as soon as he got into the ring, not even waiting for the bell. Moxley dodged a clothesline and planted Archer with a Paradigm Shift right away. The AEW Dynamite main event briefly spilled out to ringside where Archer took control.
Back in the ring, Moxley threw a clothesline at Archer that stopped him in his tracks but wasn't enough to take him down. Archer tossed the champ out of the ring and followed him out, taking out a table from underneath the ring.
Moxley and Archer traded strikes in the ring. Archer floored the champion with a right hand. Moxley replied with a release German Suplex with the challenger looking a little shaky. Moxley took out a number of chairs and got into the ring.
The champion tossed a chair at Lance Archer's face before setting up two more in the middle of the ring. Moxley went for a Death Valley Driver but Archer broke out and chokeslammed the champion through two chairs. Moxley went for a suicide dive but Archer tossed a garbage can at him before he could launch himself.
Moxley then hit Archer with a low blow with both men on the apron. Mox then hit a Paradigm Shift through two tables set up at ringside.
Back in the ring, Moxley locked in the Bulldog Choke but it couldn't put Archer away. The finish saw Archer hit Moxley with the Blackout but Moxley reversed Archer's attempted pin to get the win and retain his title in a hard hitting AEW Dynamite main event.
Jon Moxley def. Lance Archer on AEW Dynamite.
GRADE - A
AEW Dynamite ended with no titles changing hands.
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