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AEW DYNAMITE REPORT
NOVEMBER 12, 2025
GREENSBORO, N.C. AT FIRST HORIZON COLISEUM
AIRED ON TBS & HBO MAX
REPORT BY WADE KELLER, PWTORCH EDITOR
Commentators: Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, Bryan Danielson
Ring Announcer: Justin Roberts
Attendance: WrestleTix reported that 4,981 tickets had been distributed as of showtime; arena is set up for 5,177. The arena has a capacity of 22,000 spectators when configured for concerts.
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[HOUR ONE]
-Excalibur introduced the show as the camera panned the crowd of just under 5,000.
(1) KRIS STATLANDER & TONI STORM & WILLOW NIGHTINGALE & MINA SHIRAKAWA & JAMIE HAYTER vs. MERCEDES MONE & SKYE BLUE & JULIA HART & MEGAN BAYNE & MARINA SHAFIR & TEKLA – Women’s Blood & Guts match
Justin Roberts stood at ringside and introduced the “first-ever women’s Blood & Guts.” He ran through the format as a double-cage lowered over two rings. Blue came out first followed by WIllow. Danielson said this is the first time he’d been present for a Blood & Guts matches and he was “taken aback by the structure.” The bell rang 4 minutes into the hour. Willow battered Blue early and swung her around by her hair. Excalibur and Danielson talked about how women get when their hair is up. “When my wife puts her hair up, I know I’m in for it,” Danielson said. Willow gave Blue a slingshot powerbomb into the side of the cage and then a Pounce into the cage. She came up bleeding.
Hart came out second for her team. Hart and Blue took over against Willow. They searched for something in a turnbuckle, but came up empty. Excalibur said wrestlers earlier were able to scout the cage and might’ve placed a weapon somewhere.
Next out was Cameron. She beat up Hart and Blue as Willow recovered in the other ring. Willow landed a cannonball in the corner against Blue with a trash can lid resting on her. They cut to a double-box break at 10:00. [c/db]
Tekla entered next. She whipped her opponents with her belt. Jamie Hayter entered next to even the sides three-on-three. Hayter slammed Tekla face-first onto thumb tacks.
Fourth out for the heels was Megan Bayne. Bayne battered foes with a trash can lid. Fourth out for the babyfaces was Kris Statlander with a pool cue in hand. Stat got in some offense and hten offered a handshake to Willow. Willow backed away. Bayne shoved Statlander into Willow. Statlander and Bayne then had a staredown. They cut to another double-box break at 20:00. [c/db]
Fifth out for the heels was Statlander. Schiavone wondered if she’d go straight for Statlander. Mercedes stopped to sip a drink from a table at ringside which was flanked by men holding her belts for her. After a struggle, Mercedes gave Statlander a DDT onto her TBS Title belt. She left the cage and brought more of her belts into the ring. Her partners used the belts as weapons against their opponents. “This is what this women’s division has come to,” said Schiavone. “Blood feuds, animosity, danger.” Mercedes didn’t like the blood getting on her hands. Shirakawa made her entrance with a barbed wire bat (I’d say that seems like a better choice than a pool cue).
Shafir made her entrance 30:00 in. She dragged a bloodied Statlander out of the ring and pulled out a bed of nails. Statlander fought back. Shafir kicked Statlander onto the nails. She flat-backed onto them and winced as fans chanted, “Holy shit!” Shafir gave her a middle finger gesture and then entered the ring. The final entrant was Toni Storm. Storm bashed opponents with her fist wrapped in pearls.
The cage door closed and the match “officially began” 32:00 in. Storm and Shirkawa worked together in one ring against all their foes, then hugged. They cut to another double-box break at 34:00. [c/db]
Hayter powerbombed Blue off the side of the cage onto a table, which did not break. Hayter then leaped onto Blue with an elbowdrop. (They landed on the table from the long-way angle, so the physics of the impact made it less likely to break than if it was perpendicular to them; live and learn… or die and don’t learn.)
Mercedes gave Storm a Money Maker. She gave a back stabber to Statlander. Harley then held up her Mercedes doll. Mercedes yanked it off her hand. Fans booed. Harley had brass knux on her fist under the puppet and KO’d Mercedes.
Hart and Tekla crawled through an opening on the trusses. Hart walked at ringside and approached the referee and demanded the key. Tekla speared the ref and then they took the key and unlocked the door. Danielson said male wrestlers wouldn’t be able to get through them. (I bet Darby could. And Jack Perry.) Mercedes threw Harley, Hayter, and Statlander out of the ring. Tekla speared them at ringside. Mercedes and Statlander climbed the truss. Excalibur said this is ill-advised. Statlander put Mercedes on her shoulders and she leaped onto the table with the belts on it.
Storm put a mirror against Shafir in the corner and charged for a hip attack, but Shafir stood and threw the mirror into the face of Storm. Fans chanted “Holy shit!” Shirakawa, covered in blood herself, gasped. Shirakawa bashed Bayne with the barbed wire bat. She then put Bayne in a figure-four leglock with a the aluminum bat wedged in there. Shafir stomped on Shirakawa to break it up. “This is wilder than I even imagined,” Shiavone said. Bayne bashed Shirakawa as Shafir held her. The other heels held Storm and made her watch. Storm couldn’t stand it and thus surrendered.
Mercedes was still KO’d at ringside on the broken table as the other five heels celebrated the win. Storm checked on Shirakawa.
WINNERS: Mercedes & Bayne & Hart & Blue & Tekla & Shafir in 47:00.
(Keller’s Analysis: Wild and violent and bloody match. There’s a certain extra level of suspension of disbelief with some of the spots and strategies and decisions by the wrestlers, but it worked overall, I thought. I think the women wriggling through the openings in the trusses was fine, but those should be blocked next time as to not make it seem pointless to even “lock” everyone in the cage. I totally get objections to breaking the concept of the match – which is that everyone is locked in and can’t get out. I liked the finish, but only for Toni Storm, who’s so dramatically emotional as a character, so you could imagine her wanting to protect her friend from taking more punishment than was advisable with no hope of it ending.)
-They went to the announcers at ringside who commented on Hangman vs. Samoa Joe at Full Gear, but first Hangman vs. Powerhouse Hobbs in a Falls Count Anywhere match.
-A brief video set the stage for Hangman vs. Hobbs. [c]
-Back from the break, The Don Callis Family attacked Jurassic Express in the parking lot. Perry tried to fight back with a trash can lid, but was overwhelmed. A smiling Kazuchika Okada walked out a tailer with The Young Bucks and stood alongside Don Callis. Callis said Kenny Omega will be on Dynamite next week. He told the Bucks to send Omega a message and join the Don Callis Family. Okada pointed at his watch and said, “Decision time!”
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(2) “HANGMAN” ADAM PAGE vs. “POWERHOUSE” HOBBS – Falls Count Anywhere
The bell rang one minute into the hour. Hobbs yanked a turnbuckle pad off. Hangman did the same in the opposite corner. The announcers talked about Hobbs’s primary job was to weaken Hangman for Full Gear. Hobbs ducked a leaping Hangman and the checked him hard to the mat at 2:00. Hobbs stripped off Hangman’s bandages around his ribs and then kicked him to the floor where he rammed him into the ringside barricade.
Hangman avoided a charging Hobbs, who crashed into the ringside steps. Hangman leaped off the steps, but Hobbs caught him and rammed him into the ring apron and then onto the announce desk. Hobbs told Schiavone, “It’s your fault.” Hobbs then powerslammed Hangman onto the steps. They cut to a break at 5:00. [c/db]
Back from the break, Hobbs placed Hangman on the announce desk and then stood on the desk. His foot slipped and his left leg got wedged briefly in a hole in the desk for cables. Hangman backdropped Hobbs to the floor. Fans chanted “Cowboy Shit!” Hangman clotheslined Hobbs over the ringside barricade into the crowd.
Hobbs powerslammed a charging Hangman through a table and scored a two count at 12:00. They fought up the steps amongst fans in the lower bowl. Hangman got a running start and hit Hobbs and knocked him off the top of a tunnel onto a table with electronic equipment on it. Hangman walked down the steps and covered him for a three count.
WINNER: Hangman in 14:00.
(Keller’s Analysis: Kinda refreshing to see the finish there as I was fully expecting the match to continue a few more minutes and that bump would be “just another spot.” They did a good job here with the format.)
-Katsuyori Shibata attacked Hangman as he was celebrating. Shibata threw Hangman into the ring where Joe arrived and bashed Hangman. The cage began to lower as Joe and Shibata battered him. Eddie Kingston ran out. Shibata prevented him from entering the cage. Hook ran out and slid into the ring. Eddie made it in before the cage fully lowered. Joe and Shibata stood at ringside and watched as fans chanted, “Eddie! Eddie!” Hangman picked up a mic and yelled at Joe. He said if Joe wanted him inside a cage, all he had to do was ask, “you dumb-ass.” He then told him their match at Full Gear will be in a cage. [c]
-Schiavone stood mid-ring and introduced Ricky Steamboat, talking about what he meant to pro wrestling in that arena. Steamboat, age 72, walked out smiling. He had to leap over a gap between the steps and the ring. Danielson called him an incredible human. He said he pulled him aside when he was 20 years old and gave him advice which he never forgot.
Steamboat said he wanted to give a shoutout to TBS for airing this episode. He pointed at a poster that said the Mt. Rushmore of Greensboro is Steamboat, Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, and Sting. He said his no. 1 nemesis was Ric Flair back in the day. He let out a “woo!” He said in 1977 he arrived at Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling. He said Flair told Jim Crockett that he saw something in this “new kid that just came in.” He was interrupted by FTR and Stokely Hathaway.
Steamboat shook hands with Dax and Cash. Steamboat said he knows Dax. He said a few years back, he worked with him watched him climb the ladder since then. Stokely said he couldn’t believe he was sharing the ring with Steamboat. Fans booed him. He said they haven’t met before. He introduced himself. He told Steamboat many people confuse him with Denzel Washington. He said he is synonymous with pro wrestling history, especially in that building. He said that’s ironic, because at Full Gear, FTR will make history when they become three-time AEW Tag Team Champions. He said he would be honored if his favorite wrestler was there to witness it live. He asked Steamboat if he has Macho Man’s phone number, “I haven’t see him on Tik Tok in a minute.”
Cash told Steamboat that Stokley can be feisty sometimes, but they hold him in the highest regard. He said they were hand-picked to be his partners in Steamboat’s last match back in 2022. Cash said Steamboat knows if anyone could make him look more than a shell of his former self, it’s FTR. Steamboat soaked that up. Dax said he doesn’t know if it’s common knowledge, but Steamboat trained him and he learned so much. He then struggled to come up with something Steamboat taught him. He said he now realizes Steamboat never said one intelligent thing in his entire life.
Steamboat interrupted and said one thing he didn’t teach him is that his attitude has gone in the toilet. He told Dax that it doesn’t matter how much he makes, but rather how much you save. He said if Steamboat took that advice himself, he wouldn’t have to be there tonight. Dax said when Steamboat was teaching him, who would have guessed he’d turn into a bigger legend than Steamboat ever was. Dax went nose-to-nose with Steamboat. It got intense and Steamboat shoved Dax. Dax told Steamboat to get out of his ring. Cash held open the ropes.
Steamboat said a few years ago, he would have told both of them to kiss his ass, but sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. He said he’s going to turn 73 soon, so he’s going to be the smarter man today. He turned to leave. Cash held him and Dax punched him. Dax set up a piledriver, but then Brody King and Bandido ran out and attacked FTR. Brody clotheslined Cash over the top rope to the floor. Dax then chopped Steamboat. Then Dax bumped for him. Stokely yanked Dax to safety. [c]
(3) DARBY ALLIN & ORANGE CASSIDY & MARK BRISCOE & KYLE O’REILLY & RODERICK STRONG vs. JON MOXLEY & PAC & DANIEL GARCIA & WHEELER YUTA & CLAUDIO CASTAGNOLI – Men’s Blood & Guts match
Darby came out first with a skateboard. Then Wheeler. The bell rang 41 minutes into the second hour. When Wheeler stalled by yelling at fans at ringside, Darby dropkicked him. They fought at ringside and then back into the ring. Yuta was in control until Darby landed a Coffin Drop style off the side of the cage. Darby used his skateboard as a weapon. Yuta took over with a low blow. Fans booed.
At 5:00, Orange Cassidy made his entrance. A bloodied Yuta waited for Cassidy. Cassidy broke his sunglasses and then punched Yuta with them. He followed with a DDT and a kip up. Darby then got up and went after Yuta.Cassidy punched Yuta in the abdomen with his chain-wrapped fist. Then he stomped the skateboard onto Yuta’s back.
Next out to even the odds was Garcia. Garcia wore an N95 mask as he walked through the crowd. Schiavone said the mask wouldn’t protect him and wondered what it was about. (Maybe he legit didn’t want to catch something from all the fans he’d be within 18 inches of?) He took the mask off as soon as he got to ringside. Garcia and Yuta took control against Cassidy and Darby. They cut to a double-box break at 10:00. [c/db]
Next up, Mark Briscoe’s entrance theme played. Excalibur said this is why the advantage of so crucial. He said he couldn’t think of a better man to have by your side in a match like this. The music stopped. They went backstage to Renee Paquette who said she was tryign to figure out why Briscoe didn’t make his entrance. They went into Briscoe’s locker room and he was writhing in pain. Strong volunteered to go out next as Briscoe was tended to.
Strong entered. Two minutes later, Claudio entered. Strong was bloodied.
[HOUR THREE]
O’Reilly entered next. They cut to a double-box break. Jon Moxley then came out two minutes later. He used a fork against Strong’s face. He stabbed Darby’s back. He gave it to Garcia who sadistically scraped Darby’s spine with it. Garcia threw Darvy into the cage and Darby tumbled head-first between the cage and the ring. Mox left the ring and grabbed a barbed wire baseball bat, a bucket, and the frame of the mirror from the women’s match earlier.
The countdown clock reached zero, but Briscoe couldn’t come out. Mox scraped O’Reilly’s forehead with the mirror frame. Renee said Briscoe was still being tended to and she said the Don Callis Family were responsible. She said he was out of the match so it would be 5-on-4 for the Death Riders. Mox and Darby stuff-piledrove Darby onto the broken glass. Mox dragged Darby across the glass. They cut to a full break at 29:00. [c]
Back from the break, Darby hung from the top of the cage and swung onto a crowd below with a Coffin Drop. Pac then made his entrance, the last entrance before the cage door closed.
The match officially began 33 minutes since it started. Schiavone said O’Reilly was more bloody than he had ever seen Ric Flair. Excalibur noted that Yuta has the referee’s key to the door and stuffed it in his trunks. Briscoe made his way to the ring and used a bolt cutter to break open the door. He entered with a chair and threw it at Garcia’s head. Claudio mistakenly crashed into Pac when Briscoe moved. Cassidy used a wrench as a weapon against Pac as Strong battered Mox with his chain-wrapped-fist.
Briscoe put Yuta on a table at ringside and looked up toward the top of the cage. Garcia intervened. Briscoe put Garcia on the table and then climbed to the top of the cage. He played to the crowd, but Garcia rolled off the table. O’Reilly then applied a cross armbreaker on Garcia at ringside. Garcia ranked his eyes.
Yuta met Briscoe on the roof of the cage. Brisoe knocked Yuta onto his back and then lowered a rope to O’Reilly who hooked it to several chairs. Briscoe then pulled the chairs up to him to use against Yuta. They got caught up briefly and fans cheered when he got them loose. Yuta had a chair, too, and he and Briscoe swung at each other. Briscoe got the better of Yuta and bashed him on the back. Briscoe set up a Jay Driller. Yuta gave Briscoe a low-blow. Yuta hit Briscoe in the head with a chairshot. They cut to the final break of the show. [c/db]
Back from the break, Yuta and Briscoe were fighting on the roof of the cage. Briscoe kicked Yuta low and then gave him a Jay Driller onto chairs.
Meanwhile, Darby and Claudio were battling with a hammer. As soon as Briscoe climbed to the floor, Pac went after him at ringside. Gabe Kid showed up and zapped Darby with a stun gun. He dragged Darby to the stage.
Garcia put Cassidy in a sleeper and put his hands in is pockets. Mox stapled Cassidy’s hands into his pockets. Meanwhile, on the stage, Pac climbed to the top of the entrance stage tunnel. Gabe shoved Darby up there. Pac and Darby fought up there. Pac eyed a two tables set up below. Gabe came out with lighter fluid and a lighter. He set the table on fire. Pac threw Darby onto it. Darby crashed through the table and his shorts were briefly on fire as he rolled several times and extinguished the flames.
Back in the ring, Mox put a chain across O’Reilly’s mouth and then applied a Bulldog Choke. O’Reilly gave Mox a middle finger gesture. Claudio put O’Reilly’s head into the chair. Cassidy kipped up and yanked his hands out of his pockets. He landed an Orange Punch.
At ringside, Briscoe suplexed Pac off the ringside steps through a table. In the ring, Strong suplexed Garcia into a table in the corner. Strong did the same to Yuta. On a second try, the table broke. Cassidy charged at Mox, but Claudio intercepted him. Cassidy countered with an Orange Punch. He then gave one to Mox. O’Reilly put Mox in a standing anklelock. Mox countered into a Bulldog Choke. O’Reilly shifted into a kneebar. Mox tapped out.
Excalibur called it unprecedented violence on TBS.
WINNERS: Darby & O’Reilly & Strong & Briscoe & Cassidy in 54:00.
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