Just as Dynamite started tonight (July 23), AEW announced their latest tournament. Eight teams will compete for the right to get hurt by challenge Tag champs Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin, starting with FTR and JetSpeed (we were told we’d learn more about the other first round match-ups “later”).
#AEWDynamite is LIVE from Chicago, and BREAKING NEWS
— AEW on TV (@AEWonTV) July 24, 2025
We begin our tournament to crown challengers to the AEW World Tag Titles!
We are LIVE on TBS and HBO Max pic.twitter.com/a4Z2qy7eS3
Speedball Mike Bailey
& Kevin Knight started hot, but Bailey seemed to tweak his knee landing on the floor after he and his partner performed tandem splashes...
JETSPEED TAKES FLIGHT!
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) July 24, 2025
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... and Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler capitalized on that, and targeted Knight’s knee as well. JetSpeed recovered, surviving stereo Sharpshooters to get back on the offensive.
.@SpeedballBailey is going to make sure @CashWheelerFTR stays down on the outside!
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) July 24, 2025
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But the Top Guys managed to avoid taking a pin... by any means necessary. And when the referee’s vision was blocked, their manager Stokely Hathaway got involved to not only save Dax from a pin, but to use his crutch to give him leverage to pin Knight.
Yoink! #AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/R8ex0wlTPB
— TDE Wrestling (@tde_gif) July 24, 2025
Hathaway is walking with a crutch because Adam Copeland spear-ed him in half last week when Stoke told the Rated R Superstar that there’s a restraining order preventing him from putting his hands on Dax & Cash. Cope had a workaround, paying the faction FTR just moved one step closer to challenging for the belts... The Hurt Syndicate.
They did what they do until security separated them.
WHAT?! @RatedRCope made a deal with AEW World Tag Team Champions The Hurt Syndicate to do what they to best to FTR!
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) July 24, 2025
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The Top Guys need two more wins to win to earn a shot at Lashley & Benjamin, but I don’t think Cope will let them get that far.
Get complete results from tonight’s Dynamite here.
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