Powerhouse Hobbs wins Casino Gauntlet, earns AEW World title shot

Powerhouse Hobbs has earned an AEW World Championship match.

Hobbs won the Casino Gauntlet match on Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite to earn a shot at Jon Moxley and the AEW World title at next week’s Maximum Carnage edition of Dynamite.

After his victory, Hobbs was interviewed in the ring by Renee Paquette, and promised to make Moxley his “b-tch” next week in their World title tilt.

Hobbs outlasted Jay White, Hangman Page, Wheeler Yuta, Ricochet, Adam Cole, Daniel Garcia, Roderick Strong, Lance Archer, Kyle O’Reilly, and Jeff Jarrett in Wednesday’s Casino Gauntlet, pinning O’Reilly with a spinebuster.

For his part, Moxley was involved with Cope on Wednesday’s Dynamite, as his Death Riders group surrounded and beat down the Rated R Superstar. Hobbs entered to make the save for Cope, but Moxley and his Death Riders retreated rather than engaging with the next World title challenger.

Moxley has held the AEW World Championship since defeating Bryan Danielson for the belt at WrestleDream last October. Danielson’s full-time career ended with the match.

Our full report from this week’s Dynamite is here.