AEW Dynamite 200 live results: Toni Storm vs. Hikaru Shida
AEW Dynamite’s 200th episode airs live tonight from Tampa, Florida, and includes a Women’s World Championship match.
Toni Storm defends the AEW Women’s World title against Hikaru Shida, a former Women’s World Champion whose 372-day reign remains the longest in the title’s history.
The Ring of Honor Tag Team Championship will also be on the line, with Aussie Open’s Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis defending against El Hijo del Vikingo & Komander.
The Elite will return to the ring for the first time since Blood & Guts, with Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks facing Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, & Satnam Singh in trios action.
AEW World Champion MJF is scheduled for a promo on the show.
FTW Champion Jack Perry will have a face-to-face segment with AEW coach Jerry Lynn.
Chris Jericho will team with Konosuke Takeshita against Sammy Guevara & Daniel Garcia.
Jon Moxley vs. Trent Beretta vs. Penta El Zero Miedo in an anything goes triple threat match is also set for tonight’s show.
Our live coverage begins at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
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The 200th episode of AEW Dynamite comes on the air with Excalibur welcoming us alongside Tony Schiavone and Taz, as Judas hits and Chris Jericho & Konosuke Takeshita make their way out along with Don Callis, who nearly got caught with pyro on the ramp.
Chris Jericho & Konosuke Takeshita (w/Don Callis) defeated Sammy Guevara & Daniel Garcia
(I enjoyed the story told here in the opener, as Jericho somewhat reluctantly made his choice between the J.A.S. and Don Callis’ Family. The situation forced Jericho to make a decision, whether he wanted to or not. While he didn’t see the interference, he accepted it and got the win as a result.)
Guevara & Jericho traded chops early until a misdirect jumping knee from Guevara led to a Le Sex Gods pose from he & Garcia. When Garcia tagged in, he thrusted at Jericho and demanded Takeshita make the tag. Takeshita put on the boosters early and hit a leaping clothesline before mocking the thrusting by Garcia. With Garcia down, Jericho tagged in and slapped Garcia, only waking him up. Callis tripped the leg and Garcia ran right into a big boot with Jericho unaware of the trip heading into commercial.
After being isolated the entire break, Garcia got the knees up on a Lionsaut which allowed Guevara to make the hot tag and meet Takeshita with a huge cross body. Both Takeshita & Jericho were tossed to the floor and Guevara hit back to back dives leading to a huge Frog Splash back inside for two. Jericho & Guevera had a scrap before Garcia bolted in with a tackle on Jericho while Takeshita hit Guevara with a Blue Thunder Bomb. After Guevara avoided the Walls of Takeshtia, he caught an incoming Jericho with a Spanish Fly. Guevara got the tag to Garcia, who ran right into a Code Breaker for two.
Garcia was sent to the corner and exploded out with a flying knee, as Takeshita was sent outside again by Guevara, who hit a massive Shooting Star to the floor and his elbow popped Takeshita right in the face. Back inside, Garcia tried for the Dragon Slayer, while referee Aubrey for some reason turned her attention to the floor. This allowed Don Callis to crack Garcia with the baseball bat and Jericho was visibly displeased at first, but decided to get the cover and the win.
-Backstage Tony Khan thanks the fans for watching the 200th episode of Dynamite on the road to All In at Wembley Stadium in London. We weren’t told how fans will be able to watch All In, but instead threw it to a video package highlighting the history of Dynamite thus far.
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-Renee Paquette tried to get a word with Chris Jericho backstage when a furious Daddy Magic Matt Menard stormed up and said next week is a mandatory J.A.S. meeting.
Jack Perry & Jerry Lynn Face to Face
Tony Schiavone introduced Perry to the ring and he was booed loudly as he ripped the microphone away and demanded Jerry Lynn come out and get his ass kicked. Lynn came to the stage and said as much as he’d like to make an example of Perry, it’d be child abuse. Lynn said he doesn’t run the show, but no doctor would clear him to get in that ring. Instead, Lynn called a good friend from ECW who still does wrestle, which got huge RVD chants. The sounds of Pantera’s ‘Walk’ hit and Rob Van Dam made his way to the ring to his old ECW entrance music. RVD & Perry had a face off, but Perry retreated as RVD & Jerry Lynn posed in the ring. Perry tried a sneak attack with a chair, which RVD nearly hit a Van Daminator, but Perry dodged and bailed again through the crowd, literally hiding behind a child.
-A video package on the upcoming AEW Women’s Title match is shown between Toni Storm & Hikaru Shida.
Trent Beretta defeated Jon Moxley & Penta El Zero Miedo (w/Alex Abrahantes) in an Anything Goes Match
(Well, if you didn’t like the violence from Blood & Guts a few weeks ago, this probably wasn’t the match for you. If you did, this match delivered huge, as this was violent, brutal and set up the next chapter in the new rivalry with The BCC & Best Friends as a bloody Beretta got easily the biggest singles win in his AEW career so far. I was hoping for a Sue cameo, but with what is set up for Rampage, perhaps she’ll show up then.)
Beretta immediately took out Moxley with a dive and Penta quickly followed with one of his own to kick things off. Weapons are placed all over ringside as Penta waffled a charging Moxley with a trash can shot and Beretta as well. Penta posed too long and ran into a Cutter by Moxley, who grabbed a barbed wire 2×4 under the ring. Before he could use it, Penta hit a backstabber, but Beretta broke it up. Moxley took Beretta down and used the barbed wire 2×4, hitting a piledriver onto it, landing more on his own back instead. Beretta fought back with a back suplex onto the barbed wire as Penta & Abrahantes set up tables ringside. Beretta, bleeding now, was set up on the tables, but Penta was cut off in the ropes by Moxley and his barbed wire. Beretta joined and hit a massive superplex on Moxley through the tables as they went to commercial.
Penta set up more tables during break and we had a three way slugfest when we returned. Beretta wanted a superplex on Penta through the table, but Penta countered into a wild Avalanche Destroyer through the table. Moxley pulled Penta up and tackled him through the other table set up. Moxley grabbed a bag under the ring and dumped out thumbtacks before ripping off Penta’s shirt. Moxley & Penta traded finisher attempts until Moxley hit a piledriver onto the tacks for two. A flipping suplex onto the tacks followed, as Moxley sacrificed himself to hit a Cutter on Beretta on the tacks. Beretta countered a piledriver and laid out Moxley with a Crunchie onto the tacks, but Penta chucked a trash can at Beretta to break the pin. Another three way slugfest ensued before Beretta ate a King Kong Lariat into the tacks leaving Moxley & Penta to duke it out. Moxley hit a Paradigm Shift on Penta, but Beretta flew in with a flying knee and picked the scraps, pinning Penta.
Post match, Moxley trapped Beretta in the rear naked choke as Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta made their way through the crowd but were met by Orange Cassidy & Chuck Taylor. The BCC were beating down Cassidy & Taylor ringside before Beretta came flying off the top to wipe them all out. The BCC retreated, but not before Cassidy popped Moxley with an Orange Punch. Taylor said this all didn’t accomplish anything, so Best Friends challenge Moxley & Castagnoli to a Parking Lot fight on Rampage. This would be the second Parking Lot fight in AEW, with the first being Best Friends classic against LAX a few years back.
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-Renee Paquette is backstage with Rob Van Dam, who said he’s in AEW because he heard Jack Perry run his mouth. Next week, RVD challenges Perry for the FTW Title. When RVD wins the title, he’ll retire the title as he doesn’t see it getting bigger than with Rob…Van…Dam.
MJF & Adam Cole’s All In Announcement
MJF came out to a loud ovation from the crowd and said pardon him, as he’s getting a little emotional. MJF said he had A.D.D. and Rejection Sensitive Disorder, meaning his brain is structured different and can’t regulate rejection based emotions or behaviors making life sometimes difficult. MJF said there is a lot about his past the fans don’t know and a lot of it he’s blacked out, but a memory he held was when he was bullied as a child. He thought the only way to protect himself was to attack people before they could attack them. MJF realized being a scumbag is easy, but not the way to go as he did it because he was scared. He’s not scared anymore because of the fans, who showed they cared about Max and had sympathy for the Devil. MJF said he’s still a scumbag, but he’s ready to be the fans scumbag. This got “He’s Our Scumbag” chants from the crowd. One person taught him he could trust, be vulnerable and deserves a friend, as he introduced Adam Cole, his best friend.
Adam Cole walked out with no entrance music and said he appreciated MJF sharing his story and the man he’s become, saying he’s not alone. For years Cole was a jerk because he was scared, but put over MJF becoming the man he’s destined to be, as deep down there’s a good guy in there. Cole and the fans are proud of him, as MJF thanks Cole for performing verbal fellatio on him, but he’s still a scumbag. MJF brings up how he promised Cole a World Title match last week, but he thought about it and Cole doesn’t deserve a match, he deserves THE match, at All In. MJF has a contract and said there’s no one else he’d want to make history with than Cole. Without reading it, Cole signed the contract, as both men hugged, we get a graphic on the big screen and each posed in corners. We see Roderick Strong backstage going nuts, throwing everything when Matt Taven & Mike Bennett walked up saying Cole always forgets about his true friends before walking off. Cole, of course, has history in ROH being members of The Kingdom.
With the main event of All In seemingly set, Excalibur told us All In will be on traditional PPV, Bleacher Report, cable & satellite providers, international Fite TV and more.
Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) defeated Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal & Satnam Singh (w/Sonjay Dutt & Karen Jarrett)
(This match was crammed with a whole lot of bells and whistles the second half, but we were robbed of the probably impossible visual of Omega doing a One Winged Angel on Singh. Post match, I got a kick out of the little smirk Omega gave when they mentioned Collision.)
Never thought I’d say this in 2023, but Jeff Jarrett & Kenny Omega started things off with Jarrett hitting an early bodyslam and Fargo Strut. Lethal tagged in and was quickly taken down, allowing The Bucks to make fast tags. A pop up hurricanrana and double dropkick led to Singh making a tag and a fired up Matt quickly realized his mistake, so he tagged in Nick. The Bucks hit multiple dropkicks until Singh just hit a cross body that wiped out both Jackson’s. Singh, Lethal & Jarrett all mocked The Elite pose as they went to break isolating Nick.
Nick managed to get the hot tag to Omega after commercial, dropping Lethal with You Can’t Escape, but Lethal got the knees up on the moonsault with Singh running distraction. Lethal Injection avoided by The Bucks, who dropped Lethal & Jarrett with superkicks and chopped down Singh with superkicks until Omega popped the big man with a V-Trigger. Omega signaled for One Winged Angel until Karen Jarrett took the ref, allowing Sonjay Dutt to cut off Omega. Lethal Combination connected on Omega as Brandon Cutler sprayed the cold spray into the face of Karen. Matt & Jeff Hardy ran to ringside and dispatched of Dutt, while Jarrett was about to guitar shot Omega, but Hangman Page appeared and hit a Buckshot Lariat. Lethal tried a guitar shot of his own, but ate a V-Trigger and One Winged Angel by Omega for the pin. The Elite stood tall as Nick wailed on the guitar when their music played.
Post match, Omega handed Page a microphone, who said for those unaware The Elite had resigned with AEW. Omega said whether it be Dynamite, ROH, Rampage or even Collision, you’ll be seeing more of them in AEW and did his Goodbye & Goodnight line.
-Mogul Embassy is backstage and AR Fox said if Darby Allin and he were so close, why didn’t Allin get him into AEW in the first place and not talk to him for five years. Swerve Strickland told the cameras to cut to a movie they made, as we saw Strickland & Fox showing up at the Buddy Wayne Academy where Nick Wayne was training. Strickland asked what does the Fox say, as Fox chucked a skateboard at a trainee while Wayne, who put up a brief fight, was blasted with a bottle. Strickland showed the camera a photo of Wayne with his father and laid it down as a busted open Wayne crawled to his phone. Strickland made Wayne call Allin, who picked up and asked why Allin didn’t get Fox signed years ago when he could’ve. The ghosts of Allin’s past are here to haunt him, as this is just the beginning. Wayne was left in a pool of blood as they left. This was wild stuff to say the least.
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Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) defeated El Hijo del Vikingo & Komander (w/Alex Abrahantes) to retain the ROH Tag Team Titles
(My goodness was this match action packed and the crowd was on fire for it. I did think we were getting a title change towards the end there, but Fletcher & Davis were too much for the high flyers. This was an excellent tag team battle.)
A lighting quick start from Vikingo, who sent Fletcher to the floor as Komander walked off Vikingo’s shoulders onto a hurricanrana on Davis, who regrouped outside with Fletcher. Back inside, Komander was caught with a fireman’s carry punt kick, but couldn’t isolate him long, as Komander lowered the top rope and sent Fletcher again to the floor. Komander wall walked Davis, who was sent to the outside by a springing Vikingo. Fletcher found himself hung up in the ropes and Vikingo hit a guillotine legdrop. Both tried double dives, but were caught by Davis & Fletcher, who ran around ringside and colliding both together.
Komander was isolated during break, as Vikingo made a hot tag, but was quickly flattened with a double superkick in mid air. A running up and over slam from Davis & Fletcher got only two, as Vikingo was sandwiched with a double forearm shot. While Vikingo was in a fireman’s carry, Komander came flying in off the back and hit a leaping Destroyer on Fletcher while Vikingo hit a Crucifix Bomb on Davis. Aussie Open was sent to the floor, as Vikingo & Komander both did a rope walk into moonsaults outside. With Davis down inside, Vikingo & Komander hit a double 450 splash, but Fletcher broke it up. Fletcher & Vikingo spilled outside, as Komander tried his rope walk Shooting Star, but missed, as Davis & Fletcher connected with Coriolis to retain the titles.
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Hikaru Shida defated Toni Storm (w/Saraya & Ruby Soho) to win the AEW Women’s Title
(It was only a matter of time before all the interference blew up in The Outcasts faces and tonight was that night. The crowd was very much behind Shida and it paid off huge, as a new champion was crowned in what turned into a fun main event. Commentary really put over how Shida was champion when fans weren’t there and now in her second title reign, will get to fulfill that dream.)
Both ladies traded forearms to start before Storm regrouped with The Outcasts. Back inside, Shida drapped Storm on the edge of the apron and hit a running knee before sending Storm into the guard rail. Shida tried for punches, but Storm slipped out and dropped Shida head first on the railing. In the ring, Storm was suplexed into the corner and then suplexed proper as Shida tried to regroup, but was still dazed by running into the railing. Storm got control and hit a running hip attack to send Shida out to get briefly beat up by Ruby Soho & Saraya, who is extra loud tonight with her screaming. Storm stayed in control during the final picture in picture of the night.
Shida avoided Sweet Cheek Music in the corner and hit a release German to follow. An enzugiri sent Storm to the corner and Shida hit multiple running knee strikes before finally getting her ten corner punches. Shida hit a missile dropkick for a two count, as Shida connected with a Meteora for a close near fall. Shida wanted a superplex, but Saraya took the ref, Soho tripped up Shida and Storm connected with a Tornado DDT. Storm connected with a violent Sweet Cheek Music and DDT, but Shida still had fight.
Both ladies had a battle of chops and forearms until Shida popped Storm with a pumping knee and Falcon Arrow for two. Saraya tossed the kendo stick in the ring right in front of the ref, as Storm dared Shida to hit her with it to get disqualified. Shida instead smacked Soho on the apron with it. As the ref turned to take the kendo stick away, Storm blinded Shida with the spray paint, hit Storm Zero, but Shida kicked out to a loud ovation. Storm wanted another Storm Zero, but Shida was able to backdrop out and get a high stack for the flash pin and the title. Confetti rained, as Shida, who carried the women’s division during the pandemic era, gets the opportunity to do so now in front of fans.
AEW Rampage 8/4/23
· Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta vs. Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli in a Parking Lot Fight
· Anna Jay vs. Skye Blue
· Swerve Strickland & AR Fox in action
· Keith Lee & The Hardys vs. Kip Sabian, The Butcher & The Blade
AEW Collision 8/5/23
· CM Punk defends the Real World Title against Ricky Starks with Guest Referee Ricky Steamboat
· FTR defend their AEW Tag Team Titles against Big Bill & Brian Cage
· Kris Statlander defends the TBS Title against Mercedes Martinez
· We hear from The Acclaimed
AEW Dynamite 8/9/23
· Jack Perry defends the FTW Title against Rob Van Dam under FTW Rules