AEW World Tag Team Champions Brodido take on Kazuchika Okada and Konosuke Takeshita in a Double Jeopardy Elimination Match. Plus, Kyle Fletcher defends the TNT Championship against Orange Cassidy. You can catch a 2.5-hour AEW Dynamite LIVE on Tuesday night at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT on TSN2, the TSN App, and TSN.ca.
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Double Jeopardy Elimination Match: AEW World Tag Team Champions Brodido (“Big, Bad” Brody King and ROH World Champion Bandido) vs. The Don Callis Family (AEW Unified Champion “The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada and “The Alpha” Konosuke Takeshita (w/ Don Callis and “The Murderhawk Monster” Lance Archer)
An intriguing match on Tuesday night will produce a new No. 1 contender for one championship, but it remains to be seen which title that is. In what’s being billed as a Double Jeopardy Elimination Match, the AEW World Tag Team Champions Brody King and Bandido take on the Don Callis Family duo of Kazuchika Okada and Konosuke Takeshita. The person who wins the pinfall on Tuesday night earns a title shot: If Okada or Takeshita wins, the Don Callis Family gets an AEW World Tag Team Championship match. Should King or Bandido win, the man who gets the pinfall or submission earns a shot a Okada’s AEW Unified Championship. This becomes interesting for a couple of reasons. This past Friday night at Arena Mexico, Bandido defended his ROH World Championship against another member of the Don Callis Family in Hechicero. During the match, Bandido badly injured his shoulder to the point that he couldn’t manage to hit the 21-Plex on Hechicero. He ended up retaining his title with a roll-up, but it was more of an escape than it was a win. So questions over Bandido’s health certainly linger. And what about the team on the other side of the ring? Over the past several weeks, it’s been quite evident that while Okada and Takeshita might be in the same faction, there isn’t a ton of camaraderie between them. In fact, Takeshita challenged Okada for his title at All Out in Toronto in a three-way match that also included Mascara Dorada. Just when it appeared that Takeshita had the match won when he hit Dorada with Raging Fire, Okada stole the pin by dumping Takeshita out of the ring and pinning Dorada after a Rainmaker. Even with the chance at the tag titles on the line, there’s absolutely no guarantee that Okada and Takeshita can stay on the same page long enough to earn one. What’s going to happen when these two teams filled with question marks hit the ring on Tuesday night?
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TNT Championship match: “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher (c) (w/ Don Callis and “The Walking Weapon” Josh Alexander) vs. Kyle O’Reilly (w/ Roderick Strong)
It will be the Battle of the Kyles II on Tuesday night in Jacksonville. On the June 26 edition of Collision, Kyle Fletcher and Surrey, BC’s Kyle O’Reilly had a hard-fought battle to the delight of the crowd in Kent, WA, who serenaded the two men with chants like “Kyle forever!” and “You sick Kyle!” It was Fletcher who ended up winning the match, picking up the victory with his sheer-drop brainbuster following interference from Lance Archer. It will be more than just getting his win back that O’Reilly will be after on Tuesday. It’s going to be personal as O’Reilly will be looking to avenge both of his Conglomeration mates, Hologram and Orange Cassidy. After Hologram was the victim of a backstage beating that will keep him on the shelf for the rest of 2025, he seemingly appeared during Cassidy’s title match with Fletcher last week. But after he pushed Cassidy off of the top rope and ended up costing him the TNT Championship, it became clear that this wasn’t Hologram at all. It was El Clon, the newest member of the Family. And while O’Reilly will be out for revenge, he will also look to take Fletcher’s TNT Championship. The match will be fourth defence of the title he won back on July 31 when he defeated “The Natural” Dustin Rhodes in an absolutely brutal Chicago Street Fight. Hiromu Takahashi, Komander and Cassidy, last week, were all unable to unseat the Sydney native. O’Reilly is no stranger to gold. While his exploits as a tag-team wrestler, alongside Bobby Fish as reDRagon, with Adam Cole as Future Shock and with Roderick Strong, are well-known, O’Reilly is also an accomplished singles wrestler. At Ring of Honor’s Final Battle in 2016, O’Reilly defeated Cole to win the ROH World Championship. He also previously held the Pro Wrestling Guerrilla World Championship in 2014. This will be another giant test for Fletcher and, although he’s beaten O’Reilly before, all bets are off with a title on the line. The other big question is what can O’Reilly do to neutralize the expected interference from the Don Callis Family? Strong will undoubtedly be at his side, but that might not be enough. Might he need to make a call to the Conglomeration?
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Jon Moxley (w/ “The Problem” Marina Shafir and Daniel Garcia) vs. New Japan Strong Openweight Champion “The Stone Pitbull” Tomohiro Ishii
Sometimes you turn into professional wrestling for a technical spectacle from the likes of a Zack Sabre Jr. or you want to see Hologram or Komander put on an aerial display. But sometimes, you just want to see two dudes beat the hell out of each other and that’s what you’re going to get on Tuesday night when four-time AEW World Champion Jon Moxley goes one on one with Tomohiro Ishii. Rest assured, you’re not going to see anything technical or aerial from these two world-renowned brawlers. Moxley and Ishii are familiar foes, having done battle on a number of occasions, but have only wrestled twice in singles contests. Memorably, Moxley defeated Ishii in a B-Block match during the 2019 G1 Climax that was a five-star brawl. The two have also wrestled once before on Dynamite with Moxley getting the pin with a Death Rider back on June 26, 2023 from Hamilton, Ont. Tuesday night’s match will go down with the spectre of Darby Allin hanging over it. Mox will once again meet Allin at WrestleDream, but this time in an “I Quit” match after their coffin match at All Out didn’t solve anything between the two. With Ishii more than enough to deal with on his own, will Mox also have to deal with Allin at some point on Tuesday night?
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Street fight: The Hurt Syndicate (“The Almighty” Bobby Lashley, “The Standard of Excellence” Shelton Benjamin and Montel Vontavious Porter) vs. The Demand (Ricochet, Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona)
Just as the All Out match between Darby Allin and Jon Moxley didn’t settle their issues, the feud between the Hurt Syndicate and the Demand is still burning after their match in Toronto. During that trios match, with Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin incapacitated, Ricochet, Toa Liona and Bishop Kaun triple-teamed MVP with Ricochet eventually putting him down with the Spirit Gun after focusing in on Porter’s bad knee. In the days afterward, MVP went to great pains to explain that he was the one who let his team down. He acknowledged that while he was no longer a regular wrestler, that wasn’t an excuse to let his teammates down the way he did. On Tuesday night, the Hurt Syndicate will have a shot at payback and things will be a little bit different because it’s going to be an anything-goes street fight on Dynamite. It’s hard to say who a street fight favours because these teams have similar profiles led by the respective power of Lashley and Liona. When weapons and the like are introduced into the proceedings, all bets are off. Whichever of the two teams is able to best adapt to the rules (or lack thereof) will be the one who comes out of Dynamite with a big win. With pride on the line, will it be the Hurt Syndicate or Demand emerging victorious?
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“Freshly Squeezed” Orange Cassidy vs. “The Bastard” PAC
For the first time in six months, “The Bastard” is back in action on Dynamite. PAC made his return from injury at All Out as he helped Death Riders stablemate Jon Moxley defeat Darby Allin in a coffin match. It was PAC who delivered the decisive blow in the match, planting Allin with a brutal crucifix power bomb from inside of the ring to on top of a coffin on the outside, caving in the top of it. This past Wednesday night on Dynamite, PAC returned to make life miserable for Allin again when he wrapped a belt around Allin’s neck and leveled him with a lariat after Allin and AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander defeated Marina Shafir and Wheeler YUTA in a mixed tag. Buoyed from his destructive reappearance, PAC challenged Orange Cassidy to a match this past Saturday night on Collision. Interestingly enough, PAC’s challenge came with a caveat - both men would leave their respective factions, the Death Riders and the Conglomeration, in the back and settle things one on one. PAC and Cassidy are old rivals with a number of memorable AEW matches in the books. Perhaps the most notable among them was when Cassidy defeated PAC for the AEW All-Atlantic Championship in Toronto in the fall of 2022. But that match is Cassidy’s only victory over PAC. All told, PAC is 8-0-2 against Cassidy in their previous matches. With PAC wrestling for the first time in six months, there will obviously be questions of ring rust, but the edge Cassidy has in that department isn’t exactly a big one. Tuesday night’s match will only be Cassidy’s fourth since returning from a torn pec that kept him out of action from March until September. Can PAC continue his mastery of Cassidy or will Cassidy give “The Bastard” a defeat in his return?
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“The CEO” Mercedes Mone holds an open challenge for the TBS Championship
You can say a lot of things about Mercedes Mone’s attitude, but you certainly cannot deny she’s a fighting champion. Last week on Dynamite, Mone issued an open challenge for her TBS Championship to any competitor from the state of Florida. Can somebody end her 500-day reign as champion?
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The Jurassic Express (Jack Perry and Luchasaurus) are in action
For the first time since June 2022, former AEW World Tag Team Champions the Jurassic Express will be in action. The reunited Jack Perry and Luchasaurus will partake in their first Dynamite match since June 1. Who will step up to challenge the former champs?
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AEW World Champion “Hangman” Adam Page and AEW World Trios Champion Samoa Joe meet face to face
On last Wednesday night’s Dynamite, Adam Page stepped in for the injured Katsuyori Shibata to team with The Opps’ Samoa Joe and Powerhouse Hobbs in a match against the Death Riders’ Jon Moxley, Daniel Garcia and Claudio Castagnoli. After they won the match, Joe took umbrage with the way that Page handed him his AEW World Trios Championship belt, appearing to accidentally drop it at his feet. The incident devolved into a shouting match that Hobbs couldn’t quell with security entering the ring to separate the two men. Later in the night, Page officially challenged Joe to an AEW World Championship match at WrestleDream. On Tuesday night, the two men will meet in the ring with former champion Joe likely to remind the Cowboy that he’s never defeated him before. Will this encounter remain civil?
