TNT Champion Kevin Knight addresses his shocking betrayal of Darby Allin at Double or Nothing. Plus, Kris Statlander meets Hikaru Shida in a Lights Out Philly Street Fight. You can catch AEW Dynamite LIVE on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT on TSN2, the TSN App, and TSN.ca. Then at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT, the action moves to USA Network for a special one-hour edition of Collision.
TNT Champion “The Jet” Kevin Knight speaks
So much happened at this past Sunday night’s Double or Nothing, but by the time the show was over, the name on everybody’s lips wasn’t even a person on the card. After Maxwell Jacob Friedman regained the AEW World Championship from Darby Allin, the now three-time champion decided he wasn’t finished with his rival, who was in dire need of medical attention and being strapped into a stretcher. Before MJF was able to enact even more damage, Kevin Knight arrived to save the day...well, at least that’s what we thought.
As Friedman tore up the ramp and Allin was being wheeled up, something changed in Knight’s eyes. Perched upon the top rope, the TNT Champion hit the stretcher-bound Allin with a UFO Splash to the shock of the crowd. To add insult to injury, Knight dumped the stretcher over on the floor. An incredulous and relieved MJF could only smile at the carnage.
On Wednesday night, we’ll hear from Knight and find out why he did what he did to a fellow Buddy Wayne Academy student. And what about his partner, “Speedball” Mike Bailey? Surely he was just as blindsided by this attack as Allin was himself. Just how will Knight justify this brutal attack?
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Lights Out Philly Street Fight: Kris Statlander vs. Hikaru Shida
Kris Statlander should have listened to her gut. In the weeks since she formed a partnership with fellow former AEW Women’s World Champion Hikaru Shida, she could tell something was up with her. And despite her misgivings, she still stayed by her side. Statlander paid for that trust at Double or Nothing.
In the four-way match for Thekla’s AEW Women’s World Championship that also included Jamie Hayter, Statlander appeared to have the match won. After leveling the champion with Staturday Night Fever, Statlander was unable to get the pin on account of Shida, who waffled her in the head with a kendo stick. Hayter immediately jumped Shida and dumped her out of the ring, but that gave time for Thekla to recover and curbstomp a prone Statlander to retain her title.
Now on Dynamite, Statlander is out for revenge and is more than happy to let Shida bring her kendo stick. The two women will meet in a Lights Out Philly Street Fight, meaning that Statlander and Shida won’t be bound by the traditional constraints of a regular match. Anything goes and the result will not officially count towards their AEW records.
The match will be the 11th Lights Out match in AEW history, the second of 2026 and only the second contested between two women. The only other Lights Out match in the women’s division was a famous one and it came back on the Mar. 11, 2021 Dynamite. On that night, Thunder Rosa defeated Britt Baker in a bloody and violent encounter.
Wednesday night’s match will be only the third singles contest between Statlander and Shida and the first in nearly two years. Statlander has won the two previous matches, but with this stipulation, history isn’t going to matter on Dynamite. Can Statlander enact a measure of vengeance or will Shida have more brutality in store for her former ally?
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Owen Hart Cup quarter-finals match: AEW National Champion “Dunkzilla” Mark Davis (w/ Don Callis and “The Murderhawk Monster” Lance Archer) vs. “Jungle” Jack Perry
Two men who have become very well-acquainted with one another over the past several weeks face off with a spot in the Owen Hart final four on the line when Mark Davis meets Jack Perry. While their last two singles matches had a title on the line, this one doesn’t. But Wednesday night’s encounter could lead to an AEW World Championship match in the main event of August’s All In at Wembley Stadium.
In late April at Dynasty in Vancouver, Perry put his AEW National Championship up for grabs against Davis. It was a battle of speed against strength and Perry’s quickness won out in the end. Avoiding a lariat from Davis, Perry caught the big Aussie in a hurricanrana for a surprise pin.
Davis would strike back, though. At the Fairway to Hell edition of Collision on Mar. 9, the two men met back up in a rematch for the title. With Don Callis distracting the referee, Perry’s old rival, Ricochet, made his way down to ringside to strike Perry in the back with a golf club. That allowed Davis to hit Perry with Close Your Eyes and Count to F--- and earn his first singles title in AEW.
Perry hasn’t forgotten about that match as witnessed during this past Sunday night’s Stadium Stampede when he almost ran Davis over with his van. Perry actually looked devastated to have not committed vehicular homicide live on pay-per-view. He did get the last laugh at Double or Nothing, though, as the team of The Elite (Perry, Kenny Omega, Nick Jackson and Matt Jackson), The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin) and Chris Jericho defeated The Don Callis Family (Davis and Andrade El Idolo), The Dogs (Clark Connors and David Finlay) and The Demand (Ricochet, Toa Liona and Bishop Kaun).
The winner of Wednesday night’s match moves on to meet Will Ospreay in the semis. Another match with Ospreay would be of keen interest to Davis, who left his former ally lying in a heap after their last encounter that he won by referee’s stoppage. Can Perry move on or will Davis take the next step towards Wembley?
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JERICHO vs. Ricochet
He almost got his revenge on Sunday night. Chris Jericho was so close to finally getting a win over Ricochet, he could taste it. But it didn’t come to pass.
During the Stadium Stampede match at Double or Nothing, Ricochet was dead to rights. Surrounded in the ring by all of his opponents, he was in trouble. First, he fell prey to a knee strike from Shelton Benjamin before getting planted with a Bobby Lashley spear. Barely able to get up, old foe Jack Perry leveled him with the Sacrifice Knee. That was followed up by a BTE Trigger from the Jackson brothers. Just as Jericho was to deliver the coup de grace, a Judas Effect, Bishop Kaun pushed his stablemate out of the way and took the blow for Ricochet. Kaun would then eat a V-Trigger from Kenny Omega, a seven-way superkick and a Lionsault from Jericho to take the loss for his team.
Ricochet might not be so lucky on Dynamite. The former AEW National Champion will once again go one-on-one with Jericho and this time he can’t count on any help from his Demand associates GOA (Kaun and Toa Liona). Seconds will be barred from ringside, making it a true singles match.
While Ricochet has had Jericho’s number in their matches prior to Sunday, he had significant help in each of them from Kaun and Liona. It will be up to him to beat the former AEW World Champion on his own on Wednesday night. Jericho will be up for the challenge, but will Ricochet?
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MJF’s three-time AEW World Championship celebration
Maxwell Jacob Friedman got his AEW World Championship back on Sunday night and he didn’t lose his (surgically enhanced?) locks, defeating Darby Allin in a brutal title-versus-hair match. Now on Wednesday night, MJF will celebrate becoming just the second man to hold the company’s top prize for a third time. In typical MJF style, you can count on the celebration to be understated and tasteful...or not.
Just what kind of self-aggrandizing spectacle does Friedman have planned? And will there be somebody kind enough to interrupt the proceedings?
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AEW World Tag Team Champions Cage & Cope (Christian Cage and “The Rated-R Superstar” Adam Copeland) hold a 5-Second Pose
For the benefit of those with flash photography, new AEW World Tag Team Champions Christian Cage and Adam Copeland will break out the 5-Second Pose on Wednesday night to mark their title win at Double or Nothing. The tag team icons defeated bitter rivals FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) to claim their first titles in 25 years and eighth overall. Giving Cage a live mic might be a bad idea, but he will undoubtedly have something to say on Dynamite.
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We’ll hear from “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher and Don Callis
At Double or Nothing, Konosuke Takeshita outlasted his rival and Don Callis Family stablemate Kazuchika Okada to win the AEW International Championship. His celebrations would be short-lived, however, as Mark Davis and Rocky Romero prepared to attack him. Before they could, though, the returning Kyle Fletcher’s music hit and he made his way down to the ring.
The always impeccably dressed Fletcher embraced his “Protoshita” tag partner...before planting him with a lariat. He then laid out Takeshita with his newly one title as Okada smirked in the corner. Takeshita was officially out of the Family.
On Wednesday night, Fletcher and Callis will explain their actions and why they chose Okada over Takeshita. How will this slimy duo justify their decision?
