The Elite (The Young Bucks & Kazuchika Okada) vs “Scissor Ace”: The Acclaimed (Max Caster, Anthony Bowens) & Hiroshi Tanahashi.
The majority of the segment that set up the match, barring the opening promo from The Acclaimed (which was just about their feud with The Elite/Bucks), is on Twitter. Tanahashi appeared via promo video.
Other Dynamite Updates:
— The previously set up match of “The Learning Tree” Chris Jericho, “The Redwood” Big Bill, and “The Bad Apple” Bryan Keith) vs Hook, Samoa Joe, and Katsuyori Shibata has been changed. (Video of this part of the segment on Twitter, and a video of the full segment on SquaredCircle.) At first Jericho said they had a surprise partner to take the supposedly injured Keith’s place. He threw to a video of Minoru Suzuki, noting he had not yet watched it.
Suzuki said he doesn’t care about The Learning Tree, and Jericho has gone soft. Instead of being on their team at FD, he wants a singles match against Jericho for the FTW title.
Then Joe, Hook, and Shibata entered; and after a brief promo a brawl broke out. According to AEW their trios match challenge is also still on, so we may see some NJPW talent as partners for Big Bill. (Update in the Collision spoilers.)
— Gabe Kidd was ringside with The Undisputed Kingdom (sans Wardlow) for ZSJ vs Kyle O’Reilly (UK have been trying to recruit Kyle ever since he returned). During the match, commentary announced Gabe & Roddy Strong vs The Infantry for Rampage (which was taped last week). Gabe and UK appeared to have a bit of a tiff while sitting in the crowd.
After the match, UK went to check on the defeated Kyle. Orange Cassidy came down to confront Zack. Robbie Eagles and Shane Haste came out (no music) to back up Zack. Tomohiro Ishii came out (w/his music) to back up OC. Gabe got on the apron and mouthed off at all of them. (Video of that part of the segment on Twitter.)
— Also a minor update that commentary confirmed that the non-Forbidden Door match of Ospreay vs Swerve for the AEW title is the main event of Forbidden Door.
AEW Collision Spoilers:
— Orange Cassidy & Tomohiro Ishii beat TMDK (assumedly Robbie Eagles & Shane Haste)
— A backstage segment with The Learning Tree, Hook, Shibata, and Samoa Joe leads to a brawl in the ring that is interrupted by Jeff Cobb. Cobb aligns with TLT to help take out Joe, Shibata, and Hook, having a brief staredown with Samoa Joe. To me this feels like Bill/Cobb/Keith or another UE guy vs Hook/Joe/Shibata at the PPV, and then Cobb vs Joe for the NJPWWorld title at a later date; possibly on the post-FD Dynamite. But we’ll see what happens.
— Konosuke Takeshita, El Phantasmo, & Jack Perry defeated Mark Briscoe, Dante Martin, & Lio Rush. This suggests that the match previously taped for this Friday’s Rampage of ELP vs AR Fox was a qualifier for the TNT title ladder match.
by EffingKENTA
