All Elite Wrestling is live tonight at 8/7c on TBS and HBO Max with their annual ‘Beach Break’ themed episode of AEW Dynamite from Clearwater, FL.
Kenny Omega Kicks Things Off
The show begins with a live cold open backstage, where Kenny Omega is interviewed ahead of his high stakes main event clash for the AEW World Championship later tonight against reigning title-holder MJF. He says there’s no way he’s losing.
He talks about the seriousness of the match considering the stipulation, which calls for him to never receive another world title shot if he loses. He mentions that considering all he’s been through to even be able to get in the ring again, there’s nothing that will stop him from becoming champion again.
Tommaso Ciampa vs. Jericho
The Sum 41 ‘You Wanted War’ theme for AEW Dynamite hits, as we shoot live inside the venue, which is decked out with beach stuff like an old WCW Bash at the Beach pay-per-view from the late-1990s. Tommaso Ciampa makes his way out for the opening contest.
“The Pyscho Killer” settles inside the squared circle as the commentators welcome us to the show. Fozzy’s ‘Judas in my Mind’ hits and out comes Chris Jericho, still being introduced by the ring announcer as simply, ‘Jericho.’ Ciampa runs up and the two brawl on the ramp.
They continue to fight as Jericho’s theme continues to play. Jericho gets the better of things early on, and plays to the crowd to sing along louder to his song. They oblige. The fight finally makes it down to ringside, where the bell sounds to get things officially started.
Jericho delivers some chops in the corner. Jericho chokes Ciampa over the middle rope and connects with a knee strike. Jericho goes for the Walls of Jericho, but Ciampa rolls to the floor so Jericho takes him down with a dive from the top. Jericho gets Ciampa back into the ring, but Ciampa catches him with a DDT.
Ciampa delivers a running knee strike and heads to the apron, but Jericho comes back and they exchange strikes. Jericho delivers a Death Valley Driver, follows with a chop, and then throws Ciampa into the ring steps. Jericho goes for a suplex from the steps, but Ciampa slams his head into the ring post.
He then slams his face-first into the steps. Jericho has been busted open, and Ciampa follows with right hands and stomps as the show heads to a commercial. When the show returns, they exchange chops and Jericho delivers a corner clothesline. Jericho puts Ciampa up top and delivers more right hands.
Ciampa counters and delivers an avalanche air raid crash for a two count. Ciampa delivers right hands, but Jericho trips him up and goes for the Walls. Ciampa kicks him away and goes for the Walls himself, but Jericho rolls him up for a two count. Jericho delivers a hurricanrana from the top.
He follows that up with a brain-buster for another two count. They exchange chops and Ciampa grabs a sand bucket, but Jericho hits the Codebreaker as sand gets in his face. Jericho goes for the cover, but Ciampa kicks out at two. Jericho delivers a bulldog and goes for the Lionsault, but Ciampa dodges it.
Ciampa lowers his knee pad and goes for a knee strike, but Jericho counters into the Walls. Ciampa grabs the referee, but she gets away. Ciampa throws sand in Jericho’s face and hits a knee for the win. Afterwards, Ciampa hits Jericho with a chair and is restrained when attempting to use a power drill on him.
Winner: Tommaso Ciampa
MJF & Will Ospreay Brawl
In a special interview area, also decked out with the outdoor beach vibe, Renee Paquette interviews Will Ospreay. Ospreay says he is pulling for Omega tonight, but he can’t look past MJF. Ospreay says hopefully Omega can find a way through MJF’s antics and they can face each other in the All In main event.
MJF walks up and says no to that. MJF says he doesn’t judge Ospreay for any of his antics, like begging Jon Moxley for more and his weird relationship with Omega. MJF says Ospreay and Omega are good wrestlers, but he is a star. MJF says after tonight, Omega is never going to be able to challenge for the title again.
He says he is then going to take great pleasure in breaking Ospreay’s neck at All In. Ospreay says MJF doesn’t even crack the top 50 best wrestlers and there are 14 year old girls in Japan who are better. Ospreay says MJF will never be a part of that conversation. The two brawl. MJF tells him Omega is a dead man and it’s his fault.
AEW International Championship
Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Kyle Fletcher
Now it’s time for the first title tilt of the evening, as following a quick pre-taped video featuring The Brawling Birds beating up people in a bar, the show returns to the ringside area for the scheduled AEW International Championship match that has been a while in the making.
Kyle Fletcher makes his way out accompanied by Don Callis. Callis heads over and joins Excalibur, Tony Schiavone and Taz on commentary for this match. The reigning and defending AEW International Champion Konosuke Takeshita also makes his way out. They lock up and Fletcher backs Takeshita into the ropes.
Fletcher doesn’t give a clean break, and then applies a wrist-lock. Takeshita counters into one of his own, but Fletcher comes right back with a side headlock. Takeshita counters into one of his own, and then they exchange quick strikes. Takeshita delivers the Takeshita-line and follows with an elbow strike in the corner.
Takeshita follows with right hands and follows with an uppercut. Fletcher delivers a shoulder tackle and kicks Takeshita to the floor before delivering another kick from the apron. Takeshita comes back with a right hand and goes for an elbow strike, but Fletcher ducks and Takeshita connects with the ring post.
Fletcher works over Takeshita’s arm and slams him onto the apron. Fletcher delivers rights and lefts in the ring and continues to work over Takeshita’s arm. Takeshita comes back with a sleeper, but Fletcher counters out and continues the work on Takeshita’s arm.
Fletcher runs the ropes, but Takeshita counters with an exploder suplex. Takeshita drops Fletcher with a dive over the top-rope out to the floor. On that note, the show shifts gears and settles into a mid-match commercial break as the action continues. When the show returns, we see this one still in progress.
Both men are back in the ring now, trading strikes until Fletcher takes a boot. He blocks a leaping lariat with an uppercut before hitting the ropes, and runs into a Blue Thunder Bomb by the champ! Both men are down until Takeshita gets back to his feet. Fletcher is on the apron as Konosuke looks for a brain-buster, but Kyle blocks it.
He goes for a brain-buster of his own, but the champ breaks free, setting up for a tombstone piledriver onto the hardest part of the ring! He follows up with a wheelbarrow suplex dropping the challenger onto the apron, and both men fall to the floor.
Takeshita is the first to his feet, bringing Fletcher back into the ring as he looks for a running knee. Fletcher counters out, but gets taken to the mat with a reverse rana. Fletcher fights back, dropping the champ with a Michinoku Driver but it’s only good for two.
He sends Takeshita to the ropes, where the Alpha lands a big lariat to lay his challenger out. He pulls Kyle to the middle of the ring before going up top, but Kyle intercepts him. He is pushed back but lands a kick to the head of Takeshita, who fires back with a powerbomb sending Fletcher clear across the ring.
He goes for a running knee but is tripped up by Callis, but Fletcher gets caught by the champ with a Raging Fire. Takeshita is hurt as he crawls over for the pin, only for the challenger to grab the bottom rope. Konosuke goes to the corner to set up a big move.
He drops his knee pad for a Power Drive Knee, but Fletcher rolls through for a near fall. He breaks out of a backslide for a running kick, followed by a sheer drop brain-buster for a two-count. Fletcher hit another brain-buster, this time onto the turnbuckles, for the win. We have a new AEW International Champion.
Winner and NEW AEW International Champion: Kyle Fletcher
Mick Foley Interviews New AEW International Champion Kyle Fletcher
The rest of the Don Callis Family comes to celebrate with Fletcher, as the Conglomeration come to ringside to check on Takeshita. The show heads to a break. When the show returns, we see the Don Callis Family is still in the ring, where they are joined by Mick Foley.
Fletcher says Takeshita was never his friend and he was always number one in ProtoShita. Fletcher says Takeshita always rode his coattails, and then Callis interrupts. Callis says this is a celebration for Fletcher, not for Foley to steal the spotlight.
Foley says he meant it when he said it was a great match and Fletcher is one of the best, and then introduces us to the dogs who are on his shoes. Foley says the next time Callis is rude to him, one of them will meet his ass. Fletcher and Foley get in each other’s faces as Callis introduces the AEW TNT Champion, Kevin Knight.
Knight congratulates Fletcher on his win and says it took him long enough to bring gold to the Family. Knight says he still wants his AEW World Champion, and it doesn’t matter who wins tonight because Jet Two Belts is on the way. They are interrupted by Andrade El Idolo.
Andrade says he worked for the Family and Callis promised him the AEW World Championship. Andrade says he is going to take one of their belts now, and then Callis says if Andrade can beat Jake Doyle next week he can challenge Mark Davis for the AEW National Championship. Andrade says that is ‘tranquillo’ and then asks, ‘How you know?’
Andrade challenges them to get out of the ring, and then Doyle, Brian Cage, and Knight chase him backstage. Darby Allin a[[ears and attacks Knight, but Doyle and Cage beat him down. Cage grabs the skateboard, but it explodes in his hands. Andrade comes in, and he and Allin brawl with Knight and Doyle.
Jon Moxley & Will Ospreay vs. Anthony Henry & JD Drake
Back to the ring we go for tag-team action. Will Ospreay’s theme hits and out he comes. Out next is his tag-team partner and new friend from The Death Riders, Jon Moxley, accompanied by Marina Shafir. Already in the ring are their opponents, The WorkHorsemen duo of Anthony Henry and JD Drake.
The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with this one. Moxley and Henry start the match, and Moxley takes him down. Henry counters into a hammer-lock, but Moxley comes back into a side-headlock. Moxley works over Henry’s arm, but Henry counters out and drops Moxley with an arm-drag.
Moxley comes back with chops, but Henry kicks him in the midsection and tags in Drake. Drake drops Moxley with a chop, and then follows with another. Moxley kicks him in the face and comes back with chops and elbow strikes. Henry tags back in, and they double-team Moxley.
Drake connects with a running senton and Henry goes for the cover, but Moxley kicks out at two. Henry delivers round kicks, but Moxley counters with a dragon-screw and tags in Ospreay. Drake gets knocked into the barricade, and then Ospreay sends Henry to the outside as well.
Ospreay drops both of them with a cross-body over the top as the show heads to a commercial break with the match still in progress. When the show returns, we see things begin to pick up. Drake and Henry double-team Ospreay. They take him down and Drake goes for the cover, but Ospreay kicks out at two.
Ospreay comes back with a shot to Henry and a corkscrew kick to Drake before tagging Moxley in. Moxley drops Drake with a diving elbow through the ropes and gets him back into the ring. Moxley delivers right hands and bites his head. Moxley drops Henry with a cutter, but Drake comes back with a chop.
Moxley tells Shafir to fire him up, and she slaps him a few times. Moxley gets back into the ring and delivers clotheslines to Drake. Ospreay comes in and drops Drake with a Styles Clash as Moxley drops Henry with a piledriver. Mox hits Paradigm shift, Ospreay hits Hidden Blade and Mox makes the cover for the win.
Winners: Jon Moxley & Will Ospreay
AEW Women’s Championship No. 1 Contender Gauntlet
A vignette airs for the new TBS Champion, Hikaru Shida. She says as long as she holds the title, TBS stands for ‘The Best is Shida’. Speaking of the women’s division, we head back to ringside for a No. 1 Contender’s match for the AEW Women’s World title. Out comes reigning champion Thekla to join in on commentary for this one.
Athena and Maya World will start this mmulti-person match. As soon as the bell sounds to get things officially off and running, we see the two both exchange quick roll-ups for two counts. World delivers a suplex and connects with a springboard moonsault for another two count as Skye Blue enters the match.
Blue hits World with a kendo stick a few times, but Athena sends her out of the ring and slams her into the ring steps as Mercedes Mone is shown looking on from a lifeguard stand, and the show heads to a commercial as the action continues.
When the show returns, we see Mina Shirakawa enter the match and goes at it with World. Shirakawa connects with a tornillo and goes for the cover, but World kicks out at two as Rina enters the match. Blue comes back in, but Shirakawa and Rina drop her with a double dropkicks.
Rina drops Shirakawa with an overhead throw, but Athena kicks her in the face and gets a two count. World comes back with a dropkick to Athena, and then Rina takes World down and applies a cross arm-breaker as Julia Hart enters the match. Hart brings a trash can lid into the ring and hits everyone except Blue.
Hart hits Athena with a chair, and then hits a security guard with it as well. Blue steals Justin Roberts’s chair and shoves him to the floor before hitting security guards with a kendo stick. On that note, we head into another mid-match advertising time out as this one continues.
The show returns and things quickly start to pick up in this high stakes No. 1 Contender gauntlet to determine who gets a shot at AEW Women’s World Champion Thekla. Thunder Rosa enters the match. Rosa drops Blue and Hart with stunners and follows with a neck-breaker to Athena.
Rosa puts a chair against Blue and kicks it into her a few times before delivering a dropkick. Rosa goes for a few covers, but they are all broken up. Rina and Rose exchange strikes and Rosa delivers a neck-breaker over her knee. Athena comes in and delivers the O Face to Rosa.
Athena goes for the cover, but Shirakawa breaks it up. Shirakawa delivers strikes to Athena, but Athena delivers the O Face out of nowhere for another two count as Willow Nightingale enters the match. Nightingale delivers shots all around, and then drops Hart and Blue with a double clothesline.
Nightingale drops a group with a running senton from the apron, and then powerbombs Athena on the apron before delivering a Death Valley Driver on the floor. Hart and Blue come back with elbow strikes and thrust kicks, but World pulls Skye to the floor and delivers a Michinoku Driver.
Hart gets a two count on Nightingale, but Nightingale comes back with the Doctor Bomb and gets the pin fall. After the match, Thekla gets into the ring and drops Nightingale with a Spear. Megan Bayne and Lena Kross attack Hart and Blue.
The beat down happens on the stage and she drops them with scoop slams. Thekla delivers another shot to Nightingale and tries to hit her with the title belt, but Mone gets into the ring and lays Thekla and Nightingale out with her Owen Hart Cup title belt to end the eventful post-match scene.
Winner and NEW No. 1 Contender To AEW Women’s World Title: Willow Nightingale
“Jungle” Jack Perry Re-Signs With AEW
The show moves on to a special vignette showcasing one of the ‘Four Pillars of AEW,’ homegrown, day-one star “Jungle” Jack Perry, formerly known as Jungle Boy of Jurassic Express and “The Scapegoat.” It is announced that Jack Perry has officially re-signed with AEW.
‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey Issues Challenge
Now we see Renee Paquette backstage with ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey. Bailey says he is done talking about Kevin Knight, but he is still going to take something from the Don Callis Family. Bailey challenges Mark Davis for an AEW National Championship showdown on this week’s AEW Collision show.
AEW World Championship
MJF (c) vs. Kenny Omega
It’s main event time!
After some extended ring entrances and pre-match ring introductions, the bell finally sounds to get this highly-anticipated, high stakes AEW World Championship main event between MJF and Kenny Omega officially off-and-running. Remember, if Omega loses, he can never challenge for the AEW World Championship again.
Straight out of the gate, MJF and Omega go back and forth, and Omega delivers a quick suplex. Omega goes for the One Winged Angel, but MJF fights out and they spill to the floor. They brawl into the crowd for a bit, and then Omega eventually gets MJF back into the ring.
MJF connects with a cheap shot and gets Omega in the ropes. MJF delivers a few shots and they head to the outside again. They head up the stage, and Omega delivers a few shots. Omega climbs the lifeguard stand and drops MJF with a moonsault from the top.
Omega gets MJF back to the ring and immediately sends him to the floor with a dropkick. Omega drops MJF with a dive over the top and drops him with a leg lariat in the ring. Omega delivers a neck-breaker and goes for the V Trigger, but MJF counters with a drop-toe hold into the ropes.
MJF delivers knee strikes and elbow strikes, but Omega comes back with a knee of his own. They run the ropes and drop each other with clotheslines. MJF is able to delivers a few shots and delivers a package piledriver for a two count.
From there, MJF clears the commentary table and sets up for a piledriver, but Omega gets free and delivers a few right hands. Omega delivers a V Trigger that sends MJF through the table with authority. On that note, the show shifts gears and heads into a mid-match commercial break as the action continues.
When the show returns, we see the match still in progress. We see MJF come super close on a few attempts to finish Omega off, but he will not be denied. Omega hits three V-Triggers in a row, but it is ultimately his signature One-Winged Angel finisher that secures him the victory.
Kenny Omega is the new AEW World Champion. It will be Omega vs. Will Ospreay for the world title at AEW All In: London 2026 at Wembley Stadium later this year. Omega has a big celebration as the Beach Break special edition of AEW Dynamite comes to a close. Thanks for joining us!
Winner and NEW AEW World Champion: Kenny Omega
