AEW Dynamite (and Collision) airs tonight (May 6) with a live show from North Charleston Coliseum in North Charleston, South Carolina. This is the fourth episode of Dynamite during the six week build to Double or Nothing, which takes place on May 24.
Tony Khan is raising the stakes with AEW’s extra hour of live TV
AEW gets an extra hour of programming tonight, with one hour of Collision taking place after Dynamite’s two hours are up. President Tony Khan is raising the stakes for AEW’s 3-hour live special by channeling his inner ECW-era Paul Heyman to book a Double
Jeopardy match.
Tonight’s Double Jeopardy match features AEW World Trios Champion Orange Cassidy vs. AEW World Tag Team Champion Dax Harwood. If Dax wins, then FTR and Tommaso Ciampa earn a future shot at the trios titles. If Orange wins, then The Conglomeration earns a future shot at the tag team belts.
This match came about after FTR tried to ambush Adam Copeland and Christian Cage last week, only to be thwarted by Cassidy, Kyle O’Reilly, and Roderick Strong. Big Stoke got a popcorn bucket smashed over his head along the way, and Ciampa later ate a piece out of his beard.
More importantly, Ciampa reminded everyone that the last time he teamed up with the Top Guys in March, they put Mark Briscoe on the injured list. The Psycho Killer is very happy to also injure the rest of The Conglomeration if that’s what leads him back to holding championship gold in AEW.
Will Cope & Cage (and maybe Briscoe?) be on hand to ruin FTR and Ciampa’s night during this Double Jeopardy match? Tune into AEW’s live three hour block of programming tonight to find out.
The rest of the card
Darby Allin probably won’t be AEW world champion for long, because he plans to defend the belt every single week until his body gives out. His title is up for grabs tonight in a match against TNT Champion Kevin Knight, who pulled off an underdog win over MJF last week. After Allin retains the gold, will MJF show up to cut a promo that convinces Darby to give him a rematch at Double or Nothing? What is MJF willing to put on the line to make that happen?
AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley vs. Juice Robinson is scheduled for tonight in a title eliminator match, which is AEW’s way of trying to make a non-title match sound more important than it actually is. Juice’s Ass Boys just returned on Collision to help deal with the numbers game of the Death Riders, but everyone is presumably banned from ringside during this bout, per the Continental title rules.
Hikaru Shida & Kris Statlander vs. Harley Cameron & Mina Shirakawa is also booked for tonight. Shida plans to make it up to Stat after she blew it in last week’s AEW women’s world tag team championship match. Will Shida make things right by blasting Statlander in the head with a kendo stick and cementing her heel turn?
Other stuff to keep an eye on
– TBS Champion Willow Nightingale just added Anna Jay to the list of AEW comebacks that she has recently killed, to go along with Queen Aminata, Kamille, and Shida. Does Tony Khan plan to feed her the comebacks of other women like Tay Melo and Nyla Rose before a bigger star like Britt Baker or Mercedes Mone returns to put an end to this gimmick at Double or Nothing?
– Chris Jericho is “the guy who gets his ass beat by The Demand every week that he shows up,” and that includes last week when Ricochet’s group beat his ass backstage. Is Jericho in any shape to return tonight for another ass beating? Does he have a plan to turn his luck around with a rematch against Ricochet at Double or Nothing?
– Will Ospreay is now training with the Death Riders, in an angle that might not make much sense to fans who haven’t been keeping up with Collision. Samoa Joe wants Ospreay to abandon Moxley’s crew and instead run with him and The Opps. How will Ospreay respond to Joe’s offer?
– Tony Khan typically books the annual Anarchy in the Arena match at Double or Nothing, and the Young Bucks are often at the center of it. Will the match be formally announced during tonight’s broadcast, with the rest of the cast of characters becoming clear?
– Swerve Strickland is clearing out saloons while hunting down ROH World Champion Bandido. Is Swerve’s search for AEW’s most wanted man motivated by his feud earlier this year with Brody King? Fuck ICE.
– AEW Women’s World Champion Thekla says she’d like to stop calling the women in AEW dumb bitches, but unfortunately there are just too many dumb bitches in AEW. With that in mind, are Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor dumb enough to seek a rematch with Thekla at Double or Nothing, or will a new dumb bitch emerge over the next couple of weeks?
– Will there be a big blow up between Konosuke Takeshita and AEW International Champion Kazuchika Okada ahead of their title match at Double or Nothing, or will they settle for middle fingers and tense staredowns for now?
– RUSH is picking up wins against low carders and jobbers in recent weeks, which is usually a sign that AEW is about to book him in a championship match. Could he be the next man up in Darby Allin’s schedule of weekly world title matches?
– What’s next for the Hurt Syndicate after they couldn’t get the job done with Jericho against The Demand?
– Here’s something that made me chuckle. AEW’s web site says the following about tonight’s event: “The hottest brand in sports entertainment is headed your way.” What the hell is this about? Is AEW also now where the best sports entertain, or is some other promotion planning to invade tonight’s broadcast?
– Will AEW commentators find a way to indirectly mock Nick LoPiccolo for being so pathetic and desperate with his nonsense stories trying to bury the company?
– Even though we’re technically getting Collision tonight, AEW is delivering a one hour show called Fairway to Hell on Saturday night (May 9) opposite WWE Backlash. AEW National Champion “Jungle” Jack Perry is defending his title against Mark Davis on that card, who he already beat at Dynasty. Hey, doesn’t Perry have something like 331 more Don Callis family members to beat before AEW needs to start booking these rematches?
– Speaking of WWE, they are in the news for releasing dozens of wrestlers like New Day, Motor City Machine Guns, Aleister Black, Santos Escobar, Wyatt Sicks, and Kairi Sane. Most of these stars are assumed to be getting paid for the next 90 days and unable to show up in AEW during that time. But is there someone on the list of WWE departures whose contract actually expired, allowing them to show up in AEW in time for Double or Nothing?
– Where the f*** is Hangman Page?
What will you be looking for on Dynamite?
