AEW Dynamite
March 8, 2023
Golden 1 Center
Sacramento, CA
Welcome to our live coverage of AEW Dynamite. As always, we will have the results up immediately after every match. Refresh this page often to see updated results.
Tonight on AEW Dynamite:
-TNT Championship Match: Wardlow (champion) vs Powerhouse Hobbs
– All-Atlantic Championship Match: Orange Cassidy (champion) vs Jay Lethal
– AR Fox & Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) vs Jericho Appreciation Society (Chris Jericho, Daniel Garcia, & Sammy Guevera)
– Sky Blue vs Ruby Soho
The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & John Silver) vs The Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli & Jon Moxley)
Our live coverage begins at 8PM EST
-All-Atlantic Championship Match
Orange Cassidy (champion) (with Chuck Taylor, Trent Baretta, & Danhausen) vs Jay Lethal (with Jeff Jarrett, Sonjay Dutt, & Satnam Singh)
Chuck Taylor, Trent Baretta, & Danhausen did not accompany Cassidy to the ring. Jarrett, Dutt, & Singh were stopped by the referees and officials from coming to the ring to accompany Lethal.
Jay Lethal came off the top rope with a flying elbow, but Orange Cassidy got his knees up. Lethal then hit the cutter on Cassidy for a near fall. Lethal dropped Cassidy on neck first on the top rope. Lethal went for the Lethal Injection, but got caught up on the ropes. Cassidy hit the Orange Punch on Lethal and pinned him.
Winner: Orange Cassidy
Lethal left the ring and Jarrett came from behind Cassidy and gave him The Stroke. Jarrett then smashed the guitar over Cassidy’s knee. Chuck Taylor and Trent Baretta came in sending Jarrett running into the stands.
They showed footage of Wardlow’s vehicle that was broken into. Wardlow’s TNT Championship and ring gear was stolen from the vehicle.
Backstage, Powerhouse Hobbs said he is taking Wardlow’s championship tonight.
In the ring, Ricky Starks said he took down JAS and Chris Jericho. The Bullet Club logo came on the video screen, their music played, and Juice Robinson attacked Starks from behind.
Backstage, Wardlow said he’s been dealing with a great deal of loss lately. He said fortunately some buddies let him borrow some clothes as he was wearing a 7 star FTR shirt. He said tonight’s match against Powerhouse Hobbs will be a falls count anywhere, anything goes match.
In the ring, Ruby Soho said the fans created this monster. When she had her first title match against Britt Baker and lost, the fans were thrilled. When she beat Kris Statlander, the fans booed her out of the building. When Jamie Hayter pinned her at Revolution, that’s when she realized nobody would come to her defense. Nobody would appreciate her in AEW, but she’s not the only one. They didn’t appreciate Toni Storm or Saraya. They came here to build the women’s division, but you can’t build on a broken foundation. You can only demolish it and start new.
Ruby Soho vs Sky Blue
Blue hit Soho with a Superkick. Soho then hit Destination Unknown on Blue for the win. After the match, Storm and Saraya came into the ring and spray painted an L on Blue. Willow Nightingale came in to talk to Soho. Storm and Saraya ambushed Willow from behind. Soho kicked Nightingale and Saraya spray painted an L on her
Winner: Ruby Soho
Backstage, Rene Paquette asked Hangman Page if this is over between himself and Jon Moxley. Page apologized to Renee on what she had to see him do to Jon Moxley on Sunday. For him, this is now over.
MJF said he made Bryan Danielson tap out at Revolution. He will celebrate is Re-Bar Mitzvah and nobody is going to dethrone him because his reign of terror has just begun.
In the ring, Cash Wheeler said he wants to talk about how bad the last few months have been. FTR lost to The Gunns. They lost to The Acclaimed. They lost three sets of tag titles in a month. Then they lost one of their best friends in the world. They knew they had to take a step away. They then realized they can’t sit home listening to The Gunns call themselves the best tag team in wrestling. Dax Harwood said they need to win the tag team titles from The Gunns for themselves, for The Briscoes, and for the fans.
Backstage, Jade Cargill said that since next week they are going to Canada, they need to bring out the best opponent Canada has so they can get stepped on.
AR Fox & Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) vs Jericho Appreciation Society (Chris Jericho, Daniel Garcia, & Sammy Guevera) (with Angelo Parker, Matt Menard, & Jake Hager)
Chris Jericho hit Darius Martin with a kick. Jericho tried to get him in The Walls of Jericho, but Darius countered with a small package. Jericho distracted the referee and Jake Hater hit Darius in the back with a bat. He followed that up with the Judas Effect for the win.
Winners: Jericho Appreciation Society
After the match, Jericho said he is now laying claim to the number one contenders to the AEW Trios Championship and told The House of Black to get out here. The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega came out. Omega said for three years, their paths didn’t cross. Don Callis came out and grabbed the microphone and said The Elite established the Trios Championships, and after the match they had at Revolution, they are the number one contenders. Callis said that he and Jericho have been friends for 33 years, and while he admits Jericho is one of the greatest of all time, he is only the second best from Winnipeg. Jericho challenged Callis to bring his team to the ring. The House of Black came on the video screen. Malakai said they both deserve to be humiliated in their home town. The lights went out. When they came back on, The House of Black were on the ramp and said, if they want them, come get them. The lights went back out and when they came back on, they were gone.
Backstage, Tony Khan said Orange Cassidy requested an open challenge match against Jeff Jarrett next week. He will honor this and they will fight next week. He said next week marks the fifth and final defense of the All-Atlantic championship on international soil. It is the only AEW Championship to change hands on international soil. Next week, in partnership with Warner Brothers Discovery in support of Shazam! Fury of the Gods, next week in Winnipeg, it will be Orange Cassidy vs Jeff Jarrett for what will now be known as the AEW International Championship.
Bryan Danielson said he always thought he was doing this for his kids. He was forced to retire. At Revolution, After he woke up from being unconscious and he was in the LeBell Lock, his first instinct was to fight. As he was fighting, he realized he couldn’t feel his arms and his left leg didn’t have any strength anymore. When MJF said he wouldn’t be able to play with his kids, it dawned on him that he was right and he was putting himself before his family. Tapping out made him ashamed more than anything else. It’s now time for him to go home.
The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & John Silver) vs The Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli & Jon Moxley) (with Wheeler Yuta)
Jon Silver caught Jon Moxley with a kick. Alex Reynolds went for the Stunner on Moxley, but Moxley caught him in the rear choke. He then suplexed him and got him in another choke hold and Reynolds tapped out.
Winners: Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli
After the match, Moxley applied the Chokehold again on Reynolds. Silver came in to break it up, but Castagnoli gut-wrench suplexed him over the top rope. Evil Uno came down and attacked Moxley. Yuta clipped Uno’s leg and Yuta held him back while Moxley slapped him. Hangman Page came down and hit Castagnoli. Castagnoli gave him a forearm and all three beat down Page before the referees broke it up.
Backstage, The Acclaimed said they are going to make their way back to the tag team titles. Angelo Parker and Matt Menard showed up and told The Acclaimed they know they are sports entertainers at heart and insinuated they should join JAS. The Acclaimed laughed at them and walked off.
TNT Championship Falls Count Anywhere Match: Wardlow (champion) vs Powerhouse Hobbs
This match started backstage. Hobbs threw Wardlow into the side of a car door and suplexed him on the hood of it. Wardlow backflipped Hobbs onto the front window of the car. They fought to the ring.
Wardlow was getting ready to powerbomb Hobbs near the announce desk when QT Marshall hit Wardlow in the back with a chair. Wardlow grabbed Marshall by the throat, but Marshall gave him a low blow and hit Wardlow in the throat with the chair. He then hit Wardlow in the head with the chair. Marshall helped Hobbs up to his feet. Hobbs and Marshall threw Wardlow off the stage. The referee counted to 10 and declared Hobbs the winner and new TNT Champion
Winner: Powerhouse Hobbs
