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AEW Dynamite Results: Review, Grades, Card For May 28

By Matt Black

Our AEW Dynamite results for tonight include Adam Cole defending the TNT Championship against Kyle Fletcher, Speedball Mike Bailey teaming with Mark Briscoe and Willow Nightingale to take on Jon Moxley, Gabe Kidd, and Marina Shafir, and we’ll hear from Men’s Owen Hart Cup winner Hangman Page.

AEW Dynamite Card

The announced card is as follows:

  • TNT Championship: Adam Cole (c) vs. Kyle Fletcher
  • International Championship Four-Way Qualifier: Josh Alexander vs. Brody King
  • No Disqualification Tag Match: Anna Jay and Harley Cameron vs. Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford
  • Speedball Mike Bailey, Mark Briscoe, and Willow Nightingale vs. Jon Moxley, Gabe Kidd, and Marina Shafir
  • Timeless Toni Storm and Mercedes Moné meet face-to-face
  • We’ll hear from Hangman Page

AEW Dynamite Results:

This week’s episode of AEW Dynamite kicks off with Tony Schiavone in the ring who brings out Men’s Owen Hart Cup winner Hangman Page.

Hangman Page says triumph in life is fleeting and momentary, but so is defeat. Page says in the past three years it’s something he let himself lose sight of. Page says the win and loss isn’t important, it’s what you decide to do about it matters.

Hangman thanks Will Ospreay for the fight of his life and why he decided to do this in the first place. Page says Ospreay is someone who can help carry this company forward. Page says he can’t relish in this victory and he returns the Owen Hart Championship to Schiavone.

Hangman says he must now look forward to the AEW World Championship. Page puts over the title and its importance. Page says for the last seven months that title has been hidden from the world and locked away in a briefcase. Hangman says that title is supposed to be a shining beacon of what the company represents.

Swerve Strickland wants answers…

Page promises that in seven weeks in Texas he will win the AEW World Championship and remove it from the briefcase and that is a promise he will keep. This brings out Swerve Strickland. Swerve says he’s out there to ask him about this, they play a recap video from the Young Bucks explaining that they cost Strickland the AEW World Championship for Hangman.

Strickland wants to know if what the Young Bucks said was true. Hangman calls Swerve a dumbass and says at Dynasty he even thought about helping him. Page says if he wanted to cost Swerve the match at Dynasty he would have done it himself because he has done it before.

Can Will Ospreay save the day?

Swerve says that sounds good but says Hangman is still full of shit. Before things can come to blows, this brings out Will Ospreay. Ospreay says he hates getting involved in Swerve’s business and he looks at him like he’s a big brother, but he’s wrong about Hangman.

Ospreay says you learn a lot about someone when you get in the ring with them, and he puts over Hangman picking him up and shaking his hand like a man after their match. Will says he can tell that Page cares about this place and Swerve did the same thing for him last year.

Ospreay says people are starting to believe in them again. Ospreay says it’s not them, it’s him. Will says they have one shot at this and they can make it easier on Page if they all work together. Swerve knocks the microphone out of Ospreay’s hand and says he’ll never work with Hangman before storming out.

Hangman Page tells Ospreay that he’ll never take Strickland’s help and walks out on Ospreay too leaving him alone in the ring.

A video recap plays from Sunday’s Anarchy in the Arena match.

Outside we see the Death Riders show up and head right into the building for their mixed trios matchup.

Jon Moxley, Gabe Kidd, and Marina Shafir (w/ Wheeler Yuta) vs. Speedball Mike Bailey, Mark Briscoe, and Willow Nightingale

  • The finish of the match saw Jon Moxley lock Mark Briscoe in a bulldog choke to win the match via passout.

Winners: The Death Riders

Grade: B+

Fun trios match to kick off the in-ring action on tonight’s show. The outcome was to expected, so no one should be surprised by the outcome.

We get a vingette from The Hurt Syndicate featuring post-match comments from Double or Nothing. Most of it was basically MJF running his mouth.

We hear from Ricochet who teases his next step in AEW is to put a new faction around him to help secure him some championship gold. He used the word crew which might be a sly hint to CRU (Lio Rush and Action Andretti), but it could have just been a coincidence.

No Disqualification Tag Match: Anna Jay and Harley Cameron vs. Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford

  • The finish of the match saw Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford hit a Doomsday Device on Harley Cameron to score the pinfall victory.

Winners: Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford

Grade: A-

This was a wild one. Pretty sure Harley suffered a broken nose in this bout, which isn’t great. Hopefully, she’ll be okay. But this was a great street fight style match. When AEW finally introduces women’s tag team titles, it should be a great division.

AEW Trios World Championship: The Opps vs. The Frat House

  • The finish of the match saw Powerhouse Hobbs hit Cole Karter with a spinebuster to score the pinfall victory for his team.

Winners: And still World Trios Champions, The Opps

Grade: B

I’m sure this was designed as a squash match, but it went on way too long to be considered one. This could have been done in half the time and been much more effective.

Thekla makes her AEW Dynamite debut

Renee Paquette is in the ring, and she brings out Jamie Hayter. Hayter begins to question what’s next for her, and the lights go out. When they come back on Thekla is in the ring and she lays out Hayter. I guess we know what’s next for Hayter now.

TNT Championship: Adam Cole (c) vs. Kyle Fletcher (w/ Don Callis and Lance Archer)

  • The finish of the match saw Josh Alexander attack Adam Cole when he was about to hit the BOOM to retain his title, causing a disqualification.

Winner: Adam Cole retains via disqualification

After the match, Brody King hit the ring to make the save. He’ll have his match with Josh Alexander after the commercial break.

Grade: B+

Fletcher’s careless apron powerbomb infuriated me. Cole could have broken his neck off a move like that. The fact that he was okay and was able to finish the match is truly a miracle. The terrible finish kept this match from entering the A-grade territory.

International Championship Four-Way Qualifier: Josh Alexander vs. Brody King

  • The finish of the match saw Brody King hit Josh Alexander with the Gonzo Bomb to score the pinfall victory.

Winner: Brody King

Grade: A

Best thing on the show tonight. This was a win that Brody King desperately needed, and I’m glad he got it. I can’t wait to see him in the ring with Kenny Omega next week as part of a four-way for the International Championship.

The rivalry between Kyle Fletcher and Adam Cole isn’t over

We go backstage where Kyle Fletcher is complaining that he didn’t ask for anyone’s help, and he should be the TNT Champion right now. Adam Cole comes in and the two brawl before being separated by security. Cole calls Fletcher a deadman.

The CEO meets the Timeless one…

Mercedes Moné makes her way to the ring and calls herself the greatest Owen Hart Cup winner of all time. Moné keeps talking about how great she is until she’s finally interrupted by Toni Storm, who makes her way to the ring.

Storm lays out the AEW Women’s World Championship between them. Moné says the AEW fans are sick of the black and white and want a champion full of color. Storm says she’s waited so long for Mercedes and runs down what she’s done in AEW, but she’s never spoken or looked at her. Storm wants to know what took so long. Moné says it comes down to patience.

Moné says it’s about her and her legacy and calls herself the Beyoncé of women’s wrestling again. Storm says Moné has never met anyone like her. Moné says they will have the greatest women’s match of all time at All In: Texas.

Storm says the difference between them is that while Moné wants all the titles, she needs only one. The two trade some sexual innuendo lines. Storm says Mercedes might be the greatest of all time, but unfortunately for her, she is timeless!

The two women shake hands, and Storm kisses Moné’s hand. Mercedes tries to hit her finish, but Toni gets out and tries to hit hers, but Mercedes escapes. The two have a dance-off of sorts as AEW Dynamite goes off the air.

AEW Dynamite Review:

It was a good episode of Dynamite, but I honestly expected more as a follow-up from Sunday’s pay-per-view. They don’t have a ton of time to build up their biggest show of the year, and I don’t think this show did anything other than build the two matches we already know. They gotta fill this card out if they want to get people traveling for this event. I guess we’ll see what happens next week during a four-hour episode of Dynamite.

Grade: B+

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What did you think of AEW Dynamite this week? What was your favorite match or segment? Let us know your thoughts by sounding off in the comments section below.

Matt Black
Matt Black

Matt Black has been covering wrestling video games since WWE Warzone from Acclaim. Coverage of wrestling video games eventually lead him into the world of wrestling news. Matt is a fan of every wrestling company and enjoys the current state of the industry in 2024.

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