All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: January 29, 2025

January 29, 2025 4:49 PM - Season 6, Episode 18

Women at the top of the card tonight (he said, hopefully) as magical joshi girl Yuka Sakazaki challenges Mercedes Moné for one of her several titles. Will Ospreay fights a large man. The secret Lucha Underground reunion continues with Ricochet vs. AR Fox, and Jeff Jarrett shoots his shot against Big Swiss on a painful path to the championship.

The announced card for Dynamite tonight:

TBS Championship Match: Mercedes Moné (c) vs. Yuka Sakazaki
Jeff Jarrett vs. Claudio Castagnoli -- If Jarrett wins, he gets a world championship match
Will Ospreay vs. Brian Cage
Ricochet vs. AR Fox
Wheeler Yuta vs. Jay White
Mariah May's reaction to Toni Storm's reveal that she was "Timeless" all along
We'll hear from MJF

posted by The Pluto Gangsta (2 comments total)

Will vs Brian Cage opens the show, and the circumstances give the two of them a strange kind of freedom: No matter who wins, the tag match for Grand Slam is locked, and you know for sure the Don Callis Family is going to jump him after the match. Ospreay's incapable of having a bad match, and Cage can pick his opponent up and walk halfway around the ring for a massive suplex, so everyone gets a thrill on the way to Australia.

ON THE OTHER HAND

The result of Jeff Jarrett vs. Claudio was also not in doubt, because in no universe can I imagine the result being anything other than the Swiss superman winning. So I'm pissed off that even in victory, Claudio looks like a chump who needs help from Wheeler Yuta and Moxley to win. Jarrett took two Neutralizers, and the second one so poorly that he obviously fell to his knees first!
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:55 PM on January 29

I could watch Ricochet and Fox all day, between Fox's elegant way of trapping Ric's leg into a suplex to Ric's leaping kicks, and bringing back The People's Moonsault!

Swerve was forbidden from interfering in the match --in fact, he'd been off camera all episode -- and the camera did a poor job of revealing him after the match, so I'm going to assume he and Prince Nana were hiding under the ring the entire time. Ric makes his escape by brandishing the scissors and literally hauling Fox on top of him to prevent the Swerve Stomp.

Now see, if this was a Lucha Underground episode, those golden scissors would be an actual cursed item turning Ric into a murder psychopath, that had to be neutralized by "ancient Aztec paper".
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:25 PM on January 29