All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Dynamite 12/21 and Rampage 12/23

December 21, 2022 4:42 PM - Season 4, Episode 12

When Dynamite falls upon the winter solstice, we get Holiday Bash, featuring promos from Ricky Starks and Bryan Danielson, a Women's Championship match, and a must-win match for the Elite in their best-of-seven trios campaign against Death Triangle.

The announced card for tonight:

-- The "next chapter" in The Book of Powerhouse Hobbs
-- Bryan Danielson will address the crowd about MJF punching WIlliam Regal all the way back to WWE
-- Ricky Starks will appear live
-- Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland face-to-face meeting, moderated by Rick Ross (!!!)
-- FTR vs. The Gunns
-- Death Triangle (3) vs. The Elite (1) – AEW World Trios Championship Best of 7 Series, Match 5 (No DQ stipulation)
-- Jamie Hayter (c) vs. Hikaru Shida for the AEW Women’s World Championship

posted by The Pluto Gangsta (6 comments total)

Little light on announced matches here, Tony... maybe the Dark Order can do something? Maybe there can be more than one women's match in two hours?
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 4:43 PM on December 21, 2022

That Rick Ross segment was a beautiful trainwreck. Everyone blew their cues, Ross kept talking on the microphone way past when he should have, the audio was weird, he cussed on air, then two absolute freaky looking white people came out to do Swerve's bidding? Gorgeous.

"LET'S MAKE HISTORY!"
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:38 PM on December 21, 2022

Great main event of the women's championship, the crowd started out kind of cool to both of them (and actually favoring Hayter a little, I think) but they were into it by the end. And now we could have some Shida/Saraya/Storm vs. Hayter/Baker/Rebel* women's trios? Thank you!

*Rebel actually took a bump, can you believe it?
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 7:11 PM on December 21, 2022

I'm not 100 percent convinced that Tony (well, Kenny) isn't willing to swerve the entire wrestling universe by ending a best-of-seven series in six, but I can hope.
posted by Etrigan at 11:05 AM on December 23, 2022

Oh man, ticket holders for January 11 would be soooooo pissed if they don’t get their ladder match. Perhaps it was a mistake to announce stips for the last few matches in advance?
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 2:31 PM on December 23, 2022

They really shoulda said something like “winner of each match gets to pick the stipulation for the next”.
posted by Etrigan at 3:35 PM on December 23, 2022