Claudio meets Cassidy for International title on Dynamite on TSN2

Claudio Castagnoli vies for Orange Cassidy's AEW International Championship. Plus, AEW World Champion MJF teams with three partners to take on Bullet Club Gold and the team of Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega is in action. You can catch AEW Dynamite LIVE at 8pm et/5pm pt on TSN2, streaming on the TSN App and on TSN.ca.

AEW International Championship match: "Freshly Squeezed" Orange Cassidy (c) vs. Claudio Castagnoli (w/ Wheeler YUTA) - On last week's Dynamite, "The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson incurred a broken orbital bone thanks to a combination Orange Punch-Rainmaker from Orange Cassidy and Kazuchika Okada. The injury will keep the six-time world champion out of action for the rest of the year. The loss of Danielson has made his Blackpool Combat Club stablemate Claudio Castagnoli irate. "The Swiss Cyborg" has accused Cassidy of malicious intent over the injury and has vowed to hit him where it hurts by taking away the AEW International Championship. Cassidy is now in his second reign as champion, having defeated Rey Fenix for the title on the Oct. 10 edition of Dynamite. Previously, Cassidy won the title from "The Bastard" PAC in the fall of 2022 in Toronto and went on to successfully defend it on 31 occasions before finally dropping it to BCC member Jon Moxley at All Out this past September. Wednesday night's match will mark Cassidy's second defence of his second reign, having defeated the Dark Order's John Silver at Battle of the Belts VIII last month. Now with a personal vendetta, Castagnoli will be even more motivated to win back some gold for the first time since Eddie Kingston ended his second reign as ROH World Champion at Grand Slam in September. While Cassidy and Castagnoli first faced off in 2007 and have shared a ring numerous times since then, this will mark the first-ever singles match between the two. Can Castagnoli avenge Danielson's injury or will Cassidy's second reign as AEW International Champion keep rolling on?

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Eight-man tag team match: Bullet Club Gold ("Switchblade" Jay White, "Rock Hard" Juice Robinson, Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn) vs. AEW World Champion and ROH World Tag Team Champion Maxwell Jacob Friedman and ??? - MJF is a marked man right now. The longest-reigning AEW World Champion in company history, Friedman successfully defended his title this past Saturday night on Collision against the former longest-reigning champion in Kenny Omega, but the wolves are still howling at the door. After the match, we saw that all of ROH World TV Champion Samoa Joe, Powerhouse Hobbs and MJF's former associate Wardlow were all watching on intently on TVs backstage. But more immediate to any of their potential challenges is the man who physically holds the AEW World Championship right now in "Switchblade" Jay White. The sadistic Aussie took the title away from MJF several weeks ago and has the opportunity to actually win it in the main event of the Full Gear pay-per-view on Nov. 17. The match comes as White's Bullet Club Gold has attempted to make life hell for Friedman. MJF was able to turn aside the challenge of Juice Robinson in a match for the Dynamite Diamond Ring last Wednesday night, but he now faces the prospect of pulling double duty at the PPV with former AEW World Tag Team Champions Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn set to challenge for the ROH World Tag Team Championships seemingly against Friedman alone with Adam Cole recuperating from ankle surgery. What's become evident is that outside of Cole, there are very few people MJF trusts and that is certainly problematic for Wednesday night when he needs three partners take on BCG in an eight-man tag. Both the AEW World Trios Champions The Acclaimed (Max Caster and Anthony Bowens) and Billy Gunn and Roderick Strong and The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Mike Bennett) have offered their services, but both trios have been rebuffed by the champion. While MJF is a proud man, surely his pride won't let him take on all of Bullet Club Gold on his own, will it?

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AEW Women's World Championship match: Hikaru Shida (c) vs. Willow Nightingale - The first-ever three-time world champion in AEW, Hikaru Shida is not slowing down in her third reign as AEW Women's World Champion. Since winning the title on the Oct. 10 edition of Dynamite, Shida has already successfully defended her title on two occasions, defeating Ruby Soho and then Abadon on this past Saturday night's Collision. On Wednesday night, she will answer the challenge of one of the women's division's most popular competitors in Willow Nightingale. The winner of this past summer's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament, Nightingale is still looking for her first championship in AEW. That doesn't mean she doesn't already have championship mettle. Nightingale defeated Mercedes Moné this past May to become the inaugural New Japan Strong Women's Champion before dropping it in July to Giulia. Still, in matches for the AEW Women's World Championship, the ROH Women's World Championship and TBS Championship, Nightengale is 0-7. Will this be the match where her luck finally changes? The two women have only met once before in singles competition with Shida picking up the win.

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The Golden Jets ("The Cleaner" Kenny Omega and "The Ocho" Chris Jericho) vs. "Daddy Magic" Matt Menard and "Cool Hand Ang" Angelo Parker (w/ Anna Jay) - Nobody has taken the dissolution of the Jericho Appreciation Society more personally than Matt Menard. While other members of the former stable have given its leader Chris Jericho the benefit of the doubt, Menard hasn't been interested. Menard feels betrayed by Jericho even considering an alliance with Don Callis and believes that the eight-time world champion turned his back on the group that did nothing but support him. So incensed is Menard that he gladly accepted the invitation from Callis to work as a mercenary alongside Angelo Parker to take out the team of Jericho and Kenny Omega on Dynamite. The question, of course, is what kind of shape is Jericho in. The last time we saw him in a ring was on the Oct. 10 edition of Dynamite when he was utterly destroyed by Powerhouse Hobbs. So bad was the beating that Jericho needed to be hospitalized. On last week's Dynamite, Jericho cryptically told Renee Paquette that he had friends to back him up against Hobbs and the rest of the Don Callis Family and that one of them was even bigger than Hobbs himself. Having always proven himself to be one step ahead of his competition over the course of his career, does Jericho have something up his sleeve? But before he can reveal that, can he and Omega take out his former associates in Menard and Parker?

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PLUS:

- AEW president Tony Khan makes a special announcement