AEW Dynamite Winter is Coming rolled into Atlanta with two title matches on the docket, including the first-ever AEW Women’s tag team titles.
Let’s get into the results:
AEW Women’s Tag Team titles: Babes of Wrath (Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale) def. Timeless Lovebombs (Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa)
Continental Classic Gold League: Kazuchika Okada def. Jungle Boy Jack Perry
Tornado Tag: Swerve Strickland and Hangman Adam Page def. The Opps (Hobbs and Katsuyori Shibata)
Continental Classic Gold League: Speedball Mike Bailey def. Kyle Fletcher
AEW World title: Samoa Joe def. Eddie Kingston
Notes:
Following the opening title match, Samoa Joe and The Opps gave an interview backstage addressing Eddie Kingston.
After the break, Jon Moxley flanked by the Death Riders is the one cutting a promo backstage. He’s bemoaning the shape his body is in, but insists he can still score while there is one grain of sand in the hour glass. Daniel Garcia joins in lauding their own group.
After Okada’s win last, Don Callis and his family tried to recruit Perry with the lure of the Young Bucks stolen money as a signing bonus. Perry refused and was eventually saved by The Young Bucks and Luchasaurus.
Mark Briscoe gives his first promo as TNT Champion only to be interrupted by Daniel Garcia who will challenge him on Collision. After some exchanged words, Garcia face palms the champion and Briscoe drops him with a punch. For some reason, Wheeler Yuta and Marina Shafir stop Garcia from attacking the champ.
The Triangle of Madness continued attacking the women’s locker room to goad Kris Statlander and got their wish as the Women’s champ arrived and chased them off.
Before the tornado tag match could start between The Opps and Page/Swerve, the latter arrived via the stands with chains and in Strickland’s case, a staple gun. The fight then went through the arena – pretty cool.
Callis lays down a challenge to the Bucks and Jack Perry for a six-man in Manchester, UK for the million dollars.
Hangman Adam Page declares he is coming for the winner of Samoa Joe and Eddie Kingston at World’s End.
Analysis:
Bell-to-bell, yet another strong episode of AEW TV. Starting off with crowning the new women’s tag team champions was a smart move and going with Nightingale and Cameron was bold, but smart. It does a lot for the both of them.
The Callis family vs The Elite is mildly repetitive. This week was eerily similar to last week with some small differences, The six-man tag match next week should take it to another level.
Speedball Mike Bailey and Kyle Fletcher had a fantastic outing. Should come as no surprise given both of their in-ring prowess, but Fletcher just can’t miss at the moment. A reverse hurricanranna on the outside from Bailey to Fletcher almost made up for the bodyslam the Canadian took on the barricade. Quality stuff for a TV match.
Eddie Kingston tapping out to Samoa Joe is interesting. No one thought Kingston would win, but to build it like he isn’t a world title level winner and he never wins the big one, to just have him lose seems like it doesn’t give Kingston many places to go as a character.
A no-show from MJF who was widely expected to return in December. I wonder if he would be factored in to the world title at World’s End.
