Due to a blizzard that hit the area, AEW had a light crew for the March 19 Dynamite in Omaha. When Jon Moxley and Adam Copeland’s Street Fight for Mox’s AEW World championship started halfway through the show, we thought maybe it was getting the full final hour.
We should have known that wasn’t the case when Cope didn’t waste any time picking up where their much-panned Revolution match left off, jumping the champ while he was entering the arena in Nebraska tonight. The plunder came out shortly after we got to the ring area, and Mox took charge just before the first commercial break with a Paradigm Shift on the announce desk.
That was followed by a stretch of Mox trying to injure Cope’s surgically repaired neck, but the Rated R Superstar eventually turned the tide with the help of Spike, his nail-studded board. In one of the more gruesome things I’ve personally ever seen in a wrestling match, Spike ended up embedded in Moxley’s back.
It got really gnarly when Wheeler Yuta emerged to help the Death Riders’ leader. Cameras had to cut away to avoid making people sick, and potentially run afoul of partners and sponsors, as Moxley’s skin stretched when Yuta tried to remove the board.
As the medical team checked on the champ, Cope put Yuta through a table on the floor. His teammates Claudio Castagnoli and PAC soon followed, looking to help Mox and get revenge for Copeland taking them out on the road to Revolution.
FTR’s Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler were out to even the odds, and when Marina Shafir saved Mox from a pin after Copeland speared him through a table in the ring, Willow Nightingale followed to deal with her. The Patriarchy’s Kip Sabian & Nick Wayne were out, looking to stay in Christian Cage’s good graces by taking out his former tag partner.
All the chaos benefitted the champ, and he was able to retain with a bulldog choke.
Prince Nana watched all this from the back, and Mox will now defend against Nana’s man Swerve Strickland at April’s Dynasty PPV. Cope would seem to be exiting the World title scene, and into a story with his boys in FTR after Harwood refused to help him up and even shoved his partner while leaving…
Running this back allowed Mox to beat Cope one-on-one (kind of), and the two veterans a mulligan on a rough Revolution clash. It was better than that one, but that’s a low bar… and AEW may have to decide if doing that was worth the hand-wringing over the Spike spot that’s likely coming.
Get complete results from tonight’s episode of Dynamite here.