Tonight’s AEW Dynamite, live on TBS from the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York.
AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland and AEW International Champion Will Ospreay vs. Gates of Agony (Toa Liona and Bishop Kaun)
Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinal: Jay White vs. Rey Fenix
Trios Match: Blackpool Combat Club’s (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta) vs. LIJ (Shingo Takagi, Titan and Hiromu Takahashi). Bryan Danielson will be on commentary for this match.
Saraya, Harley Cameron and Anna Jay vs. AEW World Women’s Champion Toni Storm, Mariah May and Mina Shirakawa
Tonight’s AEW Dynamite live on TBS from the EagleBank Arena on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
MJF vs. RUSH to kick off tonight’s show – commercial-free!
AEW World Tag Team Championship Eliminator Match: The Young Bucks vs. The Acclaimed
AEW Continental Championship Eliminator Match: Kazuchika Okada vs. TBA
All-Star Eight-Man Tag Team Match: Orange Cassidy, Dante Martin, Kyle O’Reilly and Mark Briscoe vs. Roderick Strong, Kyle Fletcher, Konosuke Takeshita and Zack Sabre Jr.
Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa sign the contract for the AEW Women’s World Championship Match at Forbidden Door.
AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland and Will Ospreay have a face to face
The Men’s and Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament brackets will be revealed
Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament Quarterfinals: Nyla Rose vs. Kris Statlander
Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament Quarterfinals: Claudio Castagnoli vs. PAC
Quietly, AEW has made some changes to their broadcasting team early in 2024. The promotion released long-time personality/ring announcer Dasha Gonzalez towards the end of March, and recently brought in Arkady Aura to serve as a backstage interviewer alongside Renee Paquette. And it looks as though the duo will be joined backstage by someone who previously had a cup of coffee in AEW.
Taking to X Wednesday night, Alicia Atout posted a photo of herself backstage at “AEW Dynamite,” revealing that she had signed with the promotion, and would be seeing fans every Wednesday. Atout wasted no time getting to work, conducting two social media exclusive interviews last night with Wheeler Yuta, following his emotional return after five months off recovering from a concussion, and Mark Briscoe after he defeated Brian Cage to qualify for the TNT Championship ladder match at Forbidden Door.
Tonight’s AEW Dynamite live on TBS from the Blue Arena in Loveland, Colorado.
MJF makes his return to Dynamite
Wheeler Yuta is medically cleared to return and will be in action with Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli and Jon Moxley, as the BCC take on CMLL stars Volador Jr, Magnus, Rugido and Esfinge
AEW World Championship: Swerve Strickland (c) vs. Roderick Strong
Mariah May vs. Saraya
TV Time with Chris Jericho
TBS Champion Mercedes Mone’s took to social media to say she will be at tonight’s show.
Who’s going to be in Colorado for this week’s #AEWDynamite? 🤑
This past weekend, Eddie Kingston lost his NJPW Strong Openweight Championship at NJPW Strong Resurgence in a No Ropes Last Man Standing Match against Gabe Kidd, which saw Kingston suplexed out of the ring, his leg colliding with the barricade. It was recently speculated that Kingston was dealing with a legitimate, significant injury and the worst seems to be confirmed.
On “AEW Dynamite,” AEW EVPs Matt and Nick Jackson explained that Kingston was too injured to compete in the upcoming Anarchy In The Arena Match at AEW Double or Nothing on May 26. Kingston was supposed to team with FTR and former rival Bryan Danielson to defend AEW’s honor against The New Elite’s Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Kazuchika Okada, and Jack Perry. There is no word on how long Kingston will be out of action. While the barricade legitimately injured Kingston, The Young Bucks and Jack Perry added narrative salt in the wound by attacking the former ROH World Champion after his loss. The attack marked the Bucks’ first time back in an NJPW ring since before AEW was founded in 2019.
Kingston took to Instagram to share a photo of him, seated in a wheelchair, smoking a cigar, captioned with a quote from famed amateur wrestler Dan Gable.
Kingston will be replaced by former AEW TNT Champion Darby Allin, who returned from numerous injuries, including being hit by a bus, to help FTR and Danielson fight off the New Elite at the end of the episode. According to Wrestling Observer’s Bryan Alvarez, Allin said he is not 100% heading into the brutal match, as on top of his many injuries, a superplex during the show’s main event led to Allin getting hit in the head with a beam while he was hiding under the ring.
Darby notes he's not 100%, he's still got a limp and his nose was broken by a fucking bus, and he thinks a beam hit him in the head when Dax did that superplex, so he needs to go to the hospital or something. He vows to see us next time.
In his first appearance on “AEW Dynamite” since December of 2023, Winnipeg’s hometown hero Kenny Omega detailed his struggles with diverticulitis, up to and including doctors telling him that he was staring down the barrel of a colostomy bag at best, and way too close for comfort to flat out dying at worst when he was diagnosed at the time. And while “The Cleaner” stated that he’d love to mix it up right now if it were up to him, he admitted that doctors told him that any blunt force trauma to his abdomen could be catastrophic. Enter: The Elite, who clearly cared not about their former comrade.
The familiar sound of coins hitting the floor hit first, with longtime Omega nemesis Kazuchika Okada entering the ring and inciting a staredown for the ages with Omega asking for “a few months” so they could run back their legendary New Japan Pro-Wrestling feud under the AEW umbrella just as soon as possible. But Okada hesitated and walked away, leading to an assault from Jack Perry and The Young Bucks that culminated in an EVP Trigger. As the beatdown ensued, FTR hit the ring to prevent any further damage, but eventually, once Omega was wheeled to the back on a gurney, about to be loaded into an ambulance, The Elite struck again, tossing Omega from the gurney and onto the cement floor as a distraught Dax Harwood looked on.
Omega, who admitted to being nervous about tonight’s appearance, hasn’t wrestled since defeating Ethan Page on “AEW Collision” in early December and hasn’t been seen at all since announcing via X that he would be out indefinitely due to his diagnosis.
