All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: January 1, 2025: FIght for the Fallen

January 1, 2025 5:05 PM - Season 6, Episode 14

THE MOTHER OF ALL SIMULCASTS: Dynamite makes it's premiere on HBO Max while still airing on TBS, while also staging a fundraiser for North Carolinians. The newly announced "Rated FTR" comes after Moxley's Death Riders, Julia Hart makes her return to active duty, The Acclaimed slow splintering continues, and "The Last Outlaw" kicks off his retirement year tour (probably).

Tonight's announced card:

Trios match: The Death Riders vs. Rated FTR (Adam Copeland + FTR)
Jamie Hayter vs. Julia Hart
"Hangman" Adam Page vs. Orange Cassidy
The Hurt Syndicate vs. The Acclaimed
Three-way Match: Swerve Strickland vs. Roderick Strong vs. Jay White -- Winner gets the #1 spot in the Casino Gauntlet
Jeff Jarrett addresses his future

posted by The Pluto Gangsta (5 comments total)

Hangman is held responsible for Moxley retaining at World's End, but this crowd is treating him like at least a partial babyface. How can he get some proper heel heat if attacking Cassidy post-match and then attacking Christopher Daniels in his civvies doesn't do it?
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:31 PM on January 1

MVP straight up telling the audience that Hurt Syndicate has no interest in Max Caster makes me think that he's after Anthony Bowens in the break-up instead. I can't be the only one who thinks so?
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:35 PM on January 1

Julia Hart returns, and even before the match begins her new outfit EXCELS. Her outer jacket is a combination of Undertaker and Rita Repulsa, and her gear is like if a cheerleader was joined with the Carnage symbiote.

Hayter is definitely bigger and stronger, but Julia clambers all over her like a spider to avoid her power moves, other than a few savage-looking backbreakers. She gets the win by spraying her black mist in Jamie's face, which after all is her standard method of recruiting women to evil (see also Skye Blue, Willow Nightingale).
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:22 PM on January 1

The three-way for the Casino Gauntlet was by-the-numbers until Ricochet showed up dressed in a preacher's powder-blue suit to stab Swerve in the head with a pair of scissors and then headbutt him a bunch of times. By the end his nice white shirt was blood-stained all to heck and this heel turn has become much more savage. (Side note: How many AEW talent are going to get Swerve's blood on their face?) Someone pointed out to me that these two have never had a match together, even when they were "Prince Puma" and "Killshot" in Lucha Underground.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:41 PM on January 1

Wheeler Yuta exists to take the pin for the Death Riders, us usual, eating a spear from Copeland, a Blade Runner from Jay White (as payback for World's End), and finally a Shatter Machine. Rated FTR gets a win going into Collision, where they'll face Chris Jericho and the Learning Tree.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 7:08 PM on January 1