AEW Dynamite is live from the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, OR. at 8/7c on TBS and HBO Max.
A detailed video package looking back at Darby Allin upsetting MJF last week to become the AEW World Championship is shown.
MJF Is Pissed, Gets Confronted By Kevin Knight
Live inside the arena, MJF’s theme hits. He storms out and he’s pissed. He demands his music be cut off. He calls what happened last week the “Seattle Screwjob.” He points out that he wasn’t ready after an all out war with Kenny Omega at Dynasty, before calling the fans dumb for thinking Darby could beat him at 100 percent. He then hypes himself as the man who made sure Hangman Page could never challenge for the title again.
MJF boasts being the man who “kicked out of the One-Winged Angel like it was nothing” before telling Darby he doesn’t care about his title match against the Psycho Killer. If Darby has an ounce of dignity he’ll give MJF a rematch.
Instead of Darby, however, Kevin Knight, the new TNT Champion smirking at the former World Champion as he heads to the ring. He calls MJF whiny and a little b*tch. Fans chant little b*tch. Kevin says the Jet has arrived in Portland, and he is too fly. Before MJF gets to hating, he should ask himself, don’t the new champ look clean with the title around his waist?
When you’re a fighting champion you’re willing to put the title on the line. MJF talks about being screwed, but Kevin had him pinned for what seemed like an eternity just weeks ago. If anyone should talk about being cheated, Kevin should be “Two Belts Jet” by now. MJF addresses some “facts” that Knight laid out, before stating that he beat Kevin with a Heatseeker for an “easy dub.”
If anyone should be World Champion, it should be MJF and MJF alone. He respects the new hardware though, telling the crowd to give it up for the new TNT Champion. He says the title fits him like a glove, as he seems the TNT Championship type, someone with a ceiling, a good hand, etc etc. He then claims The Jet is not AEW World Championship material. MJF says he wants the TNT title. Knight says they can do it tonight. MJF says next week.
Backstage With Chris Jericho & The Demand
Backstage, we see Renee Paquette with Chris Jericho and The Demand. We find out there will be a trios bout with them. Jericho has yet to reveal his tag partners as Ricochet talks about him being the man who got his ass beat by Ricochet. Jericho informs him that he went and got that phrase trademarked.
From there, he proceeds to show off a t-shirt with the phrase, mocking Ricochet some more as he tells The Demand that he doesn’t have to find two guys that like him to face the trio, just two people that don’t like Ricochet. He taunts Ricochet for being bald and walks off.
Brody King vs. Lio Rush
We head back inside the arena and down to the ring for our opening contest.
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