AEW Dynamite (and Collision!) airs tonight (Nov. 11) with a 3+ hour live show emanating from Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah. This is the final episode of Dynamite during the four week build to Full Gear, which takes place on Saturday (Nov. 14).
Will Ospreay doesn’t look like the best wrestler in the world anymore
Team Callis defeated Team Ospreay last week in the men’s Blood & Guts match when Adam Copeland surrendered to prevent Kyle Fletcher from slitting Will Ospreay’s throat with a screwdriver. The AEW commentators talked as if Fletcher is now the favorite
to defeat Ospreay and become the new AEW world champion in the main event of Full Gear. In other words, AEW wants fans to wonder if Fletcher has now surpassed Ospreay as the best wrestler in the world.
Ospreay and Fletcher have a face-to-face confrontation scheduled on tonight’s three hour combo episode of Dynamite and Collision, which will probably be more like 3.5 hours because Tony Khan loves content overload and/or is terrible at ending AEW’s live TV shows on time. During their confrontation tonight, Fletcher will brag about subduing Ospreay last week and forcing his Blood & Guts team to surrender. It will be interesting to see how much of the blame for that loss Ospreay accepts, and how much he puts on the retiring Copeland.
I think the goal tonight is to keep Fletcher looking as strong as possible heading into Full Gear, so I don’t expect Will to remind Kyle that he was barely above “Jungle” Jack Perry’s level in the ring a couple weeks ago. Instead, the focus will probably be on Ospreay and Fletcher’s history in the ring together, which includes Fletcher defeating Ospreay two years ago at Full Gear 2024.
Can Kyle Fletcher convince Will Ospreay and the world that he is now the best wrestler in AEW and the favorite to win the promotion’s top championship at Full Gear? Tune into Dynamite/Collision for more than three hours tonight to find out.
The rest of the card
Marina Shafir and AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley team up tonight in a mixed tag match against Jay White and AEW Women’s World Champion Mercedes Mone. Shafir says The CEO hits like a “pussy ass bitch,” so Mercedes responded by helping The Cut take out Moxley and his Death Rider’s on old man Jericho’s cruise. Can Shafir back up her trash talk tonight and score a win over Mercedes ahead of their title match at Full Gear? Will The Conglomeration show up to make it clear that they accept Jon’s offer to fight alongside the Death Riders at Anarchy in the Arena? Did Orange Cassidy already take out Juice Robinson with Moxley’s fork?
There must not be any room left on the Full Gear card for Motor City Machine Guns and FTR, because they are having the final match of their best-of-five series tonight. Are Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley about to lose their first major program since signing with AEW in July, or is this how they earn a spot as the new number one contenders for the AEW world tag team championship?
Brody King and Bandido vs. New Level is booked on tonight’s card. Kofi and Austin Creed are scared of what they must become in order to to walk out of Full Gear’s Texas Death match as the new AEW world trios champions. Will they show off a new level of brutality with Swerve’s chain in hand tonight?
Finally, AEW National Champion Tommaso Ciampa makes his first title defense tonight against Speedball Bailey. Ciampa better enjoy his time with Ruby as much as he can, because this could be another title reign that goes up in smoke very quickly now that AEW’s newest signing Ilja Dragunov is looking for a piece of the Psycho Killer.
Other stuff to keep an eye on
– Is there any update on the injuries Darby Allin sustained after being gently nudged off the roof of Blood & Guts cage by Wardlow last week? Is Darby such a master at preserving his body that he is already recovered and ready to defend his TNT championship against Mr. Mayhem?
– On a similar note, what condition is Megan Bayne in after losing buckets of blood in the women’s Blood & Guts match? Can Brawling Birds and Wrathlander now forget about Triangle of Madness and Divine Dominion, and instead focus all of their attention on fighting each other for the AEW women’s world tag team championship at Full Gear?
– What does Adam Copeland have to say about his decision to surrender in the men’s Blood & Guts match? Will AEW International Champion Kazuchika Okada rub it in Cope’s loser face tonight with that shit-eating grin and his middle finger?
– The Young Bucks were manhandled and unable to fight off Mark Davis and Jake Doyle at the end of the men’s Blood & Guts match. Will Davis and Doyle assert their dominance tonight by beating the shit out of the AEW world tag team champions one final time before these teams fight over the gold at Full Gear?
– Now that Andrade is no longer a champion in AEW, he can focus on finding the right time to cash in his contract for a future AEW world title match. Is he prepared right now to announce the date of his world title match, or does he want to first see how things shake out between Ospreay and Fletcher at Full Gear?
– Nick Wayne is all about win-maxing these days after scoring two wins over old man Jericho. Which babyface plans to shut this cocky douchebag up? Will Jericho hire the Hurt Syndicate for the job?
– What will HOOK screw up next to force Samoa Joe’s hand at removing him from The Opps? How will Jack Perry factor into Joe’s decision, if at all?
– Assuming that Steven Borden walked out of Blood & Guts in one piece, how soon does he plan to retry that mid-air collision spot with Kevin Knight that caused his injury back in September?
-Is Tony Khan booking TBS Champion Queen Aminata vs. Persephone at Full Gear, or will there be other challengers involved in Queen’s first title defense?
– Where the f*** are MJF and Ricochet?
What will you be looking for on Dynamite?
