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Add FightsATW on GoogleThe road to Double or Nothing 2026 reached its final stop tonight on AEW Dynamite, live from Portland, Maine, on TBS and HBO Max! Just days from one of wrestling’s biggest cards to date, we were still treated to a jam-packed card of non-stop action. Is Will Ospreay an official member of the Death Riders? Did Bandido finally get his hands on the MOST VIOLENT MAN in pro wrestling, Swerve Strickland?! And can Darby Allin finish the GREATEST chain of title defenses we have ever seen from a champion and finally lock eyes with MJF? If you missed anything from tonight’s spectacle, we’ve got you covered here! For more updates on all AEW content, stay tuned to FightsATW.com.
TRIOS MATCH: RICOCHET & DON CALLIS FAMILY’S (ANDRADE EL ÍDOLO & AEW NATIONAL CHAMP MARK DAVIS VS. THE YOUNG BUCKS (NICK & MATT JACKSON) & JERICHO
The chaos on Dynamite started immediately as Jericho and Ricochet kicked things off before Ricochet quickly tagged out to Andrade El Idolo. Andrade wasted no time entertaining the audience at ringside, literally stopping mid-match to flirt with fans, while the action exploded around the international superstar. The Young Bucks answered by unloading rapid-fire offense, including stereo dives and a missile dropkick from Jericho that had the crowd going nuts.
Jericho rolled back the clock with an avalanche Frankensteiner and a Codebreaker, while the Bucks turned the ring into a superkick party. Andrade delivered one of the night’s standout sequences, channeling his inner Eddie Guerrero with the Three Amigos before suplexing both Bucks. The biggest moment came outside the ring when Jericho launched Ricochet through a table with a brutal back suplex off the barricade, sending the arena into mayhem.
Just as the Bucks seemed poised to win with a BTE Trigger on Andrade, outside interference changed everything. The Dogs stormed in, and David Finlay blasted the Bucks with a shillelagh behind referee Aubrey Edwards’ back, allowing Andrade to steal the pinfall for the Don Callis Family and Ricochet. The insanity continued as Jack Perry arrived armed with a bag of onions, smashing Toa Liona and sending onions flying everywhere in one of the year’s most bizarre moments. Moments later, The Hurt Syndicate arrived, sparking a full-scale brawl that gave fans a taste of Stadium Stampede.
WINNERS: Don Callis Family & Ricochet
DID THE AEW CHAMPION STAY HOT AGAINST SPEEDBALL?
Darby Allin delivered a brutally honest backstage interview with Renee Paquette, admitting he feels every ounce of pain from defending the championship week after week but refuses to back down from the responsibility that comes with holding the gold. Darby took direct aim at Maxwell Jacob Friedman, saying the reason he forced MJF into a hair vs. title stipulation is that his image is his greatest weakness, promising that losing his hair in front of Hollywood cameras and red carpets would haunt him forever. He also sent a fired-up warning to Mike Bailey, declaring he’ll do absolutely anything to keep the title and expects Speedball to bring that same desperation when they collide. The intensity only grew as a dramatic video package followed, showcasing Darby’s grueling championship defenses and reinforcing just how much punishment the champion has endured on his path to this showdown.
ANYTHING GOES MATCH: MARK BRISCOE VS. TOMMASO CIAMPA
Mark Briscoe and Tommaso Ciampa didn’t waste a second turning their fight into an absolute horror movie scene. They brawled through trash cans, chains, chairs, and broken weapons from the opening bell. Ciampa tried to take control early with vicious shots using Briscoe’s own trash can, but he accidentally triggered a mousetrap while digging for weapons under the ring. Briscoe answered with his trademark redneck kung fu and, hitting a cannonball senton off the apron, smashed Ciampa with broom handles and chains before disaster struck. Using the chain wrapped around his hand, Ciampa slung Briscoe off the turnbuckles and through a table, then pushed the violence further by dragging a cheese grater across Briscoe’s forehead, leaving blood pouring down his face.
The brutality became even more unhinged. Briscoe stormed back by spraying a fire extinguisher before introducing barbed wire, stapling it to a table in preparation for something catastrophic. Ciampa retaliated with precision, grinding the wire into Briscoe’s face and stapling papers directly onto his bloodied forehead while sporting a tack-covered knee brace that turned every strike into a weapon. The two men traded punches while drenched in blood, with Briscoe stabbing Ciampa repeatedly in the face with a screwdriver before the war reached its climax. After escaping an Air Raid Crash, Briscoe delivered a savage suplex across two back-to-back steel chairs, then finished the nightmare with a devastating Jay Driller off the apron through the barbed-wire table. Somehow still standing, Briscoe climbed to the top rope one final time and crushed Ciampa with the Froggy Bow to survive one of the most violent battles in AEW history.
WINNER: Mark Briscoe
WHO’S HOUSE?! SWERVE MAKES HIS RETURN TO DYNAMITE
What was supposed to be a routine in-ring hype segment for the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament quickly turned into chaos when Prince Nana stormed through the crowd and hijacked Tony Schiavone’s interview before proudly introducing “the most dangerous man in AEW,” Swerve Strickland. Before Swerve could finish his entrance, Bandido blindsided him on the ramp. The two traded shots around ringside, with Bandido launching a huge tope con giro and smashing Swerve into the steel steps before Nana tried to interfere with a chair. That distraction gave Strickland the opening to viciously attack Bandido’s knee and the back of his head, shifting momentum back in his favor. Bandido responded with a massive military press slam that sent Swerve retreating to the floor just in time to narrowly avoid a potentially devastating chair shot.
BREAKING NEWS CONCERNING THE TBS CHAMPIONSHIP
In an emotional backstage promo, Willow Nightingale reflected on the biggest accomplishments of her AEW career, calling her AEW TBS Championship victory over Mercedes Moné the moment that truly proved she belongs at the top of the division. She spoke proudly about winning the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament, tag team gold, and her multiple TBS title reigns, but revealed that a shoulder injury suffered during her latest defense against Red Velvet has forced her into a heartbreaking decision. Fighting back emotion, she announced she must withdraw from the Owen tournament and relinquish the AEW TBS Championship, ending a reign she said she was honored to carry as the face of TBS. Despite the devastating setback, especially with Double or Nothing taking place near her home in New York, Willow promised fans that her smile and determination will remain intact, vowing she will return and climb right back to the top of AEW. Commentary later confirmed that a mystery wildcard entrant will now fill her spot in the tournament.
AEW CONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP ELIMINATOR MATCH: JON MOXLEY (c) VS. KYLE O’REILLY
With an AEW Continental Championship opportunity hanging in the balance, Kyle O’Reilly pushed Jon Moxley to his absolute limit in an eliminator battle that felt more like a fight for survival than a wrestling match. From the opening lockup, the two traded strikes, submissions, and brutal body shots, with Moxley repeatedly targeting O’Reilly’s ribs while Kyle answered with sharp kicks and relentless grappling. Mox controlled stretches of the match with his violent style, stomping hands, hammering the body, and dropping O’Reilly with heavy elbows and lariats, but Kyle refused to stay down. Even while clutching his injured midsection, O’Reilly continued attacking Moxley’s leg with ankle locks and knee strikes, forcing the champion to constantly scramble for the ropes. Both men exchanged submissions in rapid succession, including chokes, armbars, and ankle locks, in a sequence that had the crowd hanging on every second.
The final minute turned into pure desperation as both competitors emptied the tank in the middle of the ring. O’Reilly trapped Moxley in a deep ankle lock grapevine while the champion clawed at the mat and even bit his own hand to stop himself from tapping out. Moxley’s body was fading fast, but the clock expired before he could surrender, resulting in a dramatic draw that officially earned O’Reilly a future shot at the AEW Continental Championship. After the bell, an exhausted but fired-up Kyle grabbed a microphone and made it clear he wasn’t interested in moral victories, declaring that Moxley “barely survived” him and demanding their eventual title match have no time limit so the champion has nowhere left to run.
WINNER: DRAW
EYES ARE ON GOLD!
Renee Paquette attempted to interview Hikaru Shida and Kris Statlander. She questioned their title ambitions, only for Shida to repeatedly talk over her, confidently promising that one of them would capture championship gold on Sunday. Even after Renee pointed out that Statlander still hadn’t officially been medically cleared, Shida brushed it aside and claimed they were only there tonight to scout the rest of the division. The segment ended with Statlander finally snapping, grabbing Shida by the collar and demanding she “knock it off,” adding even more tension to an already shaky alliance. Moments later, Rush delivered an intense backstage warning of his own, declaring that if Darby Allin survives this week as champion, he wants the next shot at the AEW Men’s World Championship next week, promising destruction with his signature message: “mess with the bull, you get the horns.”
8 WOMAN TAG MATCH: ROH WOMAN’S CHAMP ATHENA & TRIANGLE OF MADNESS (AEW WOMAN’S CHAMP THEKLA, JULIA HART & SKYE BLUE) VS. THUNDER ROSA, MINA SHIRAKAWA & THE BRAWLING BIRDS (ALEX WINDSOR & JAMIE HAYTER)
Thunder Rosa and Athena opened the match with a fast-paced exchange of counters, arm drags, and high-speed reversals before the chaos spread to the rest of the teams. Jamie Hayter brought the power game with strikes, while Mina Shirakawa dazzled with smooth counters and a springboard tornillo that lit up the crowd. Thekla entered with her usual unpredictable aggression, but the pace never slowed as all eight women traded momentum-changing moments.
The heels isolated Shirakawa until she reached Thunder Rosa for the hot tag, igniting the arena as Rosa stormed through the heels with lariats, knees, and a huge northern lights suplex. The match broke down into complete chaos with nearly everyone hitting their signature offensive moves in a frantic “everybody get your moment” spot, highlighted by Athena bulldozing through the field and leaving bodies everywhere. Mina later countered Athena’s dive attempt on the outside with a slick DDT on the floor, but the numbers game ultimately caught up to the babyfaces. With Julia Hart providing the decisive distraction by spitting mist into Thunder Rosa’s face, Thekla capitalized with a schoolboy pin to steal the win for Athena and Triangle of Madness.
WINNER: Athena & Triangle of Madness
MOXLEY VS. O’REILLY AT DOUBLE OR NOTHING?
Renee Paquette attempts to get a word with Jon Moxley while he and the Death Riders grind through pushups, but Moxley rises unfazed. He dismissed the idea that Kyle O’Reilly’s time-limit draw was any kind of moral victory, because champions like him don’t deal in consolation prizes or sweat the small stuff. Instead, he gives O’Reilly credit for pushing him to the edge, admitting the relentless technician made him better, forced him to rethink everything, and helped sharpen the mindset needed to survive as champion and become the man he wants to be. Moxley acknowledges Kyle has tapped him out twice before, but with the title and everything that matters now on the line, he says the odds of it happening a third time are slim to none. When it becomes Game 7, when the championship is on the line, and the entire game is on the line, the house always wins, and Jon Moxley never misses.
AEW CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH: DARBY ALLIN (c) VS. “SPEEDBALL” MIKE BAILEY
Maxwell Jacob Friedman strutted down to ringside to join commentary for tonight’s main event just as the bell sounded. The challenger, “Speedball” Mike Bailey, wasted no time taking the fight straight to Darby Allin. Bailey exploded out of the gates with a blistering dropkick and a spinning roundhouse before Darby narrowly escaped to the apron, but Speedball stayed relentless with a savage legsweep that sent the champion crashing to the floor. Bailey followed with a breathtaking triangle moonsault and brutalized Allin around ringside, bouncing him off the barricade and steel with punishing strikes and a crushing double knee drop. The challenger even took time to show some love to the front row before driving Darby into the barricade again, but the champion finally cut him off dramatically, crotching Bailey on the barricade and planting him with a devastating Scorpion Death Drop across it.
The war intensified as both men traded heavy shots around ringside, with Allin trapping Bailey’s bare foot beneath the steel steps before wiping him out with a suicide dive. Inside the ring, Speedball countered the Coffin Drop and nearly stole the championship with Ultima Weapon, but Darby answered with a crushing Coffin Drop that left both men laid out. As the referee counted, MJF suddenly inserted himself by sliding Bailey’s foot onto the ropes to save the title reign. The chaos fueled the final stretch, with Bailey cracking Darby with a flash kick and a huge crescent strike before the champion trapped him in the Scorpion Deathlock dead center of the ring. Knight desperately tried to get his partner going from ringside as Bailey clawed toward the ropes, but Allin instantly reapplied the hold after the break, wrenching back until Speedball finally had no choice but to submit, allowing Darby Allin to survive another war and retain the AEW Men’s World Championship.
WINNER: AND STILL AEW CHAMPION DARBY ALLIN
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