AEW Dynamite Results – Forbidden Door Go-Home Show

Welcome to our live recap of Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite results.

AEW Dynamite airs live once again from the OVO Hydro Arena in Glasgow, Scotland , tonight. Pure dead brilliance is what we can expect on the Forbidden Door Go-Home Show. NJPW’s President and wrestling ace, Hiroshi Tanahashi, joins Kevin Knight and “Speedball” Mike Bailey of JetSpeed as they take on Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta of the Death Riders. Moxley then comes face-to-face with Will Ospreay. BroDido’s Bandido and Brody King clash with FTR in the finals of the Forbidden Door World Tag Team Title Eliminator Tournament. Ahead of his AEW Men’s World Championship defense at Forbidden Door, Hangman Adam Page speaks about that bampot, MJF. Lastly, Mercedes Mone aligns with her fellow Owen Hart Foundation Tournament finalist, Athena, against AEW Women’s World Champion “Timeless” Toni Storm and Mone’s Forbidden Door challenger, Alex Windsor.

It seems AEW’s setting up a spectacular show for the Glaswegians tonight. The matches are sure to deliver with some undoubtedly reaction-worthy storyline developments. Moreover, the final matches set up for this big spectacle will assuredly leave fans salivating. Given FTR and Big Stoke’s recent hostile interactions with Adam Copeland and Christian Cage, I imagine this will factor heavily as both FTR and BroDido vie for tag team gold against the Hurt Syndicate.

Follow along with live results from tonight’s card with updated play-by-play and takes from the matches!

AEW Dynamite Card Tonight:

• Forbidden Door World Tag Team Title Eliminator Tournament Finals: FTR w/ Big Stoke versus BroDido
• Death Riders versus Hiroshi Tanahashi and JetSpeed
• Tony Schiavone interview: Christian Cage and Adam Copeland
• Athena and Mercedes Mone versus “Timeless” Toni Storm and Alex Windsor
• Will Ospreay and Jon Moxley face-to-face
• We’ll hear from AEW World Champion Hangman Adam Page
• Bryan Danielson guest commentator
• and more!

Where is AEW Dynamite Tonight?

AEW Dynamite airs live tonight from the OVO Hydro Arena in Glasgow, Scotland.

AEW Dynamite Results

• Hiroshi Tanahashi and JetSpeed defeated the Death Riders
• FTR versus BroDido end ed in a time-limit draw – both teams face Hurt Syndicate at Forbidden Door
• Athena and Mercedes Mone defeated Toni Storm and Alex Windsor

Bryan Danielson joined the commentary desk as Excalibur excitedly greeted viewers. Cameras showed Hangman Page as he approached the arena.

Will Ospreay and Jon Moxley Face-to-Face

Glasgow warmly greeted Ospreay. He opened his speech by sharing a very UK story. On a more serious note, he admitted his fears inflicted by Jon Moxley and the Death Riders back at All In that caused his injuries. That fear caused him to lay out this Lights Out Steel Cage Match, so that if he were to go down, he’d go down fighting for blood. “Tooth and nail”, as he put it.

Moxley and Marina Shafir slithered into the arena and entered the ring. Moxley stood inches away from Ospreay, smirking. Claudio Castagnoli an d Wheeler Yuta stood on opposite sides at ringside to threaten Ospreay. He urged Moxley that, if he wanted to finish him off, to do it himself, instead of Castagnoli, or Yuta.

Hiroshi Tanahashi & JetSpeed (Kevin Knight & “Speedball” Mike Bailey) defeated Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, & Wheeler Yuta)

(A lot happened. So much chaos from start to way past the finish. I love it.)

Tanahashi leveled the playing field by dropkicking everyone’s legs. Bailey worked Yuta’s neck. Bailey likely wound up nauseated by Castagnoli’s patented swing, saved only by a swift dropkick by Knight. Shafir took out Knight near the commentary table, to which Referee Bryce Remsburg responded by ejecting her. Ospreay sauntered delicately to her and carried her off to the back.

Yuta tagged in at the same time Tanahashi did. The Ace landed a senton on Yuta, only for Moxley to lay him out. Bailey’s kicks staggered Moxley and Castagnoli. JetSpeed rendered Castagnoli and Moxley horizontal at r ingside with Moonsaults. JetSpeed and Tanahashi quelled a Death Riders comeback with a coordinated Twist’n’Shout. Gabe Kidd and his Bullet Club War Dogs (Clark Connors, Drilla Moloney, and Robbie X) distracted Tanahashi. Ospreay returned again, this time with a body bag. Tanahashi pinned Yuta after a High Fly Flow.

Post-match, Ospreay had not yet opened the bag when the Young Bucks assaulted him. The Death Riders and the War Dogs attacked their opponents. Darby Allin broke out of the bodybag and leapt on Moxley for a beatdown. The Opps and Ospreay evened the odds as the Death Riders and War Dogs retreated. Samoa Joe, and Powerhouse Hobbs were left standing while Allin fell from a nearby mezzanine. Shibata kicked his fallen foes as Ospreay’s music played the babyfaces out.

Tony Schiavone interviewed Christian Cage and Adam Copeland

(Not the cathartic reunion fans were hoping for, but the most logical step. Cage has been a dastardly person, and his story with Copeland is quite a ways away from resolving. But that Luchasaurus return was its own feel-good moment.)

“Metalingus” by Alterbridge gained a Scottish sing-along as Copeland proudly embraced them. Cage joined him, demanding that the crowd shut up so he could conduct his business. Copeland awkwardly called Cage his “asshole.” Cage said he “found” himself, and found that he didn’t need to change a thing about him; he’s perfect the way he is. Cage further elaborated that he still wasn’t on the same page as Copeland, but that they’re writing in the same book. Copeland’s eyes subtly twinkled when Cage mentioned they were the best tag team in history. Cage gave his word that he’d shake Copeland’s hand after their match at Forbidden Door.

The Patriarchy confronted him: Kip Sabian and Martha Wayne at the entrance, and Nick Wayne on crutches on the tron from the ring in his garage. Nick informed Cage that he’s always one step ahead. An eerie vignette then played as Killswitch was revived. Cage sent Sabian over the top rope while Killswitch chokeslammed Copeland. The wrestling dinosaur then did the same to Cage.

Mark Briscoe backstage promo

Briscoe spoke very briefly about his issues to MJF as he wan dered manically in the back. He stated he was in Glasgow, Scotland, to kill the challenger for the AEW Men’s World Championship

MJF approached Ricochet and the Gates of Agony

Interrupting Ricochet, MJF disrespected him and his posse before recruiting them against Mark Briscoe’s rampage.

FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) versus BroDido (Brody King & Bandido) ended in a time-limit draw

(A seemingly never-ending thrill ride. Just when it seemed one team was inches away from victory, the entire setup changed. Though the pace early on dictated that such a finish was inevitable, it didn’t negate the intensity from start to finish. King’s blood added so much depth to it as he stayed alive.

King swiftly got the better of Dax Harwood. Bandido’s agility superseded Harwood’s strategy and technical proficiency. Refusing to tag as Wheeler came in, Bandido instead grappled with the hairier half of the tag team.

The Hurt Syndicate was revealed to be watching from backstage.

Harwood grabbed a microphone, demanding that Glasgow respect Stokely Hathaway as blood trickled down King’s foreh ead. Bandido made a hot tag that wore out FTR. Wheeeler tumbled to the ringside with a headscissor takedown. FTR caught Bandido mid-tope and hurled him into the ring apron. Hathaway struck Bandido with a steel pipe hidden in his arm sling. King marched in with chops, punctuated by charging himself as a cannonball at them in the corner.

Wheeler whirled King to the floor outside with a Tornado-DDT. Harwood sought a suplex from the top rope; Bandido countered by adding dead weight.  King sought to choke Harwood on the apron, but resorted to chopping him down instead. The blood has not stopped flowing in rivulets, and it took a piledriver to the apron to leave him lifeless outside.

Bandido transitioned a Shatter Machine to a DDT on Wheeler. Hoping to suplex both members of FTR, Bandido instead crumpled after a Shatter Machine; King broke up the resulting pin. Shades of the Dudley Boys were cast on the match as FTR brought out a table. King flung Harwood around outside. Wheeler soared across the top rope, l anding only on the table. The match ended in a time-limit draw.

Post-match , Bandido planted Wheeler and attempted a pinfall, with the referee responding that the match already ended in a time-limit draw. Tony Khan announced via the ring announcer that both teams would be challenging The Hurt Syndicate at Forbidden Door.

Hangman Page promo

Page called out MJF’s cowardice in not meeting him in the ring. He declared that at Forbidden Door, he’d shove his “size twelve ostrich leathers” up MJF’s rear end. MJF’s music played, but didn’t emerge. Tony Schiavone told Page tha t he couldn’t leave the ring or else the match would be off. MJF greeted him as Ricochet, and the Gates of Agony oversaw a tied-up and incapacitated Mark Briscoe. The quartet doused the Sussex County Chicken in gasoline. MJF added extra stipulations to their championship match at Forbidden Door. As he threatened to set Briscoe alight, Page pleaded for them to release Briscoe until he ultimately agreed to MJF’s demands. Page was last seen charging to the back with a steel chair.

The three stipulations:

1. The title can change hands via DQ.
2. The title can change hands via countout.
3. MJF does not have to use his title contract.

Hangman Page’s Rampage

Page ambushed Ricochet, to which security informed him that MJF had already fled th e arena. He stormed off. Gates of Agony burst onto the scene too late.

Athena and Mercedes Mone defeated “Timeless” Toni Storm and Alex Windsor

(That finish made me dislike Aubrey Edwards at that moment. I mean, she was right, but she definitely could’ve alerted her to Athena. All joke aside, this was a fun match with a deflating finish.)

Windsor and Mone began things with some grappling, leading to a shoulder takedown on the CEO. Mone rolled Windsor with a Tornado-Deep Arm Drag. She jumped into a flying crossbody across the ring in the corner. Storm sniffed Mone’s neck and demanded her to get in her belly (a throwback to Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers films). Athena blasted Storm with a hip attack. The Fallen Goddess’s mockery didn’t cease there, as she mimicked Storm’s “Timeless” pose.

Storm and Windsor swung each other into clotheslining their opponents in the corners. Storm grabbed Mone’s chest, confusing her. Athena took Storm out and demanded that the CEO get her head in the game. She then slammed Storm on the floor, further berating Mone. Windsor threw herself into the opposition and called out her own name.

Storm swung a comeback with a suplex to Athena. Windsor followed with a short-arm lariat. Storm set Windsor up for a destructive dive onto Athena, but Mone tossed the Brit overboard. Athena and Mone coordinated a Lawnblower + Statement Maker combination. Windsor dropped Mone with a sprinting lariat and a Blue Thunderbomb. On the steel steps, Athena drove Storm down with a piledriver. Windsor countered another Statement Maker with a Samoan Drop. She tapped Mone out with a Sharpshooter, but her hand was lifeless under the rope. Windsor argued with Referee Aubrey Edwards about it, fully distracting herself. Athena took advantage with an O-Face for the pinfall.

Post-match, Persephone from CMLL pushed Mone down when she neared her location at the barricade.

Closing thoughts

Aside from Bozilla being announced for the TBS Championship 4-way match at Forbidden Door, and the 3-way for the Men’s World Tag Team Championship, nothing new was revealed about the upcoming show. Yet, the Will Ospreay and Jon Moxley segment elevated that feud. MJF felt as sadistic and evil as he did during his feud with CM Punk, with Hangman Page feeling much like Sting and Magnum TA. But perhaps the most pleasing moment was having a healthy Killswitch make his return. I do hope he returns to his name of Luchasaurus, however. The show was action-packed, betraying the fact that only three matches transpired.