All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: March 5, 2025

March 5, 2025 4:55 PM - Season 6, Episode 23

With four days left before Revolution, Adam Copeland hunts the last Death Rider standing between him and Jon Moxley. Swerve and Ricochet sign on the dotted line. A big tag match from the women's roster and a 4-on-4 match with the men's.

The announced card for tonight:

Swerve Strickland and Ricochet sign the contract for their No. 1 Contender's Match at AEW Revolution

Cope vs. Wheeler Yuta

Thunder Rosa & Kris Statlander vs. Megan Bayne & Penelope Ford

WIll Ospreay, Powerhouse Hobbs, Mark Briscoe & Orange Cassidy vs. Bryan Keith, Mark Davis, Lance Archer & Brian Cage

posted by The Pluto Gangsta (4 comments total)

MJF's promo from the streets of Sacramento plus the contract signing mean that the first 20ish minutes are talking segments, which is unusual for the show. The 4-on-4 is great, it's kind of a subtle joke that the heel team doesn't really trust or like their fellow heel Bryan Keith. After everyone has a chance to get their moves in, Ospreay gets the win with the OsCutter and then gets brutalized in the post-match -- a spinebuster onto a metal chair!

Interesting that Mark Davis seems to be showing dissent now, after the Australia show. There's a steel cage match coming at Revolution, so of course a hallmark of the stipulation is someone interfering.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:46 PM on March 5

The Outrunners are psyching themselves up for their tag team match with a 1987 motivitional workout video that I dearly hope makes it to YouTube. Meanwhile MJF runs away from Hangman angrily parking his Rivian and actually tricks Hangman into catching his stunt double instead!

MJF does the incredible thing that he does as a heel, which is to say things that are absolutely true whilst being an asshole. Why does the crowd still love Hangman even after he burned a man's house down? Why do they continue to validate his vengful rage but condemn MJF's selfishness? How face if do heel shit?

To prove his point, he sprays some lighter fluid on Hangman and makes to light him up -- and I get psyched for a genuine pyro spot -- only to get dragged away screaming "Let me prove my point!" Best heel work on television, at any company.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:31 PM on March 5

The Max Castor "Best Wrestler Alive" Open Challenge is interesting: it turns Castor into his own jobber, making him look more and more like a goober every time he loses. What's the end game here? Is there a rock bottom to hit here? (Anthony Bowens is reportedly taking some time off, which explains his absence.)

Meanwhile the final Mariah/Toni meeting is extremely dramatic and very quotable. From my watch group: "it's funny how [Mariah]'s managed to do a gimmick that's what if the "work yourself into a shoot" tweet was real.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:51 PM on March 5

OK the Toni/Mariah segment is up. Between Mariah going from the cold blooded emotionless psychopath to a wildly erratic combustible psychopath, and Toni laying down her Bane-in-The-Dark-Knight-Rises monologue, and Renee getting hazard pay sitting in the middle, can we start talking Emmy noms?
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 8:43 PM on March 5