2020
Revolution
2020-02-29, Wintrust Arena, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Jake Hager def. Dustin Rhodes (subm.)
Hager reverses cross-arm break into ankle lock. With the
referee momentarily distracted, Hager hits a low blow. With a
triangle hold, he gets a submission victory.
- Darby Allin def. Sammy Guevara
The two men start beating each other outside the ring,
using the guard rail, Allin's skateboard and Guevara doing a 630
senton through a table on Allin. When the fight makes it into the
ring, Allin gets a pinfall after a coffin drop.
- AEW tagteam championship:
Kenny Omega & Adam Page (ch) def. The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson
& Nick Jackson)
Emotions were running wild as these two teams of former
Elite friends battled each other. The highly athletic style of the
Young Bucks meeting the heavier and more powerful style of their
opponents, but knowing each other so well neither team found a way to
finish off the other for a long time. Matt takes out Page with a set
of Northern Light Suplexes on the entrance ramp and think they have
the match won, but Kenny Omega does not go down so easily. Bucks set
up Omega for the Meltzer Driver, but it takes just long enough for
Page to block them. Page hits a buckshot lariat on Matt to get a
hard-fought pinfall victory for his team.
- AEW Women's championship:
Nyla Rose (ch) def. Kris Statlander
Statlander, who matches Rose in height while not in
weight, tries to hit a hurricanrana from the top rope. She did not
get it, and instead Rose hits a powerbomb to get the pinfall
victory.
- MJF [w/Wardlow] def. Cody [w/Arn Anderson]
MJF hits Rhodes with the diamond ring to take out Cody to
get the pinfall victory.
- Pac def. Orange Cassidy [w/Best Friends (Chuck Taylor & Trent
Beretta)] (subm.)
Cassidy surprises Pac by doing some amazing moves, but the
match quickly turns around when Pac takes the match to outside the
ring. Pac does a brain buster from the top rope, but pulls Cassidy up
before the three-count. He then sets up the Back Arrow, but Cassidy
rolls out. The Lucha Bros. come to the ring, taking out Best Friends,
allowing Pac to hit the Brutalizer for the submission victory.
- AEW World championship:
Jon Moxley [w/Santana & Ortiz] def. Chris Jericho (ch)
The match immediately moves outside the ring, with Jericho
trying to get himself disqualified. Jericho powerbombs Moxley on the
timekeeper's table. Hager comes out, helping Jericho, who puts Moxley
in the Walls of Jericho, but Moxley eventually gets a ring-rope
break. While the referee is busy sending the entire entourage back to
the locker room, Sammy Guevara comes to the ring, taking out Moxley
with the championship belt. Moxley comes back, and gets a pinfall
victory after the Paradigm shift.
TNT championship tournament 2020
2020-04-08 to 2020-05-23, Nightmare Factory, Norcross, Georgia, USA
A tournament was set up to crown the inaugural TNT champion, with the
finals scheduled for Double or Nothing.
The matches were taped early April due to the
Covid-19
pandemic, the dates below are the air dates.
First round:
- AEW Dynamite 2020-04-08:
Cody [w/Brandi Rhodes] def. Shawn Spears
Cody covers Spears after the Cross Rhodes, but fails to
get the pinfall victory. Instead he locks the figure four leglock,
but instead of a submission, he manages to get a pinfall
victory.
- AEW Dynamite 2020-04-15:
Lance Archer def. Colt Cabana
Archer pins Cabana after the blackout.
- AEW Dynamite 2020-04-22:
Darby Allin def. Sammy Guevara
Guevara attacks Allin outside the ring before the match
starts, but all Guevara gets are a couple of two-counts. Allin locks
in the Last Supper to get the pinfall victory.
- Dustin Rhodes [w/Brandi Rhodes] def. Kip Sabian [w/Penelope Ford]
Rhodes had decided that if he lost this match, he would
retire from wrestling in AEW. Rhodes gets the pinfall after the
Destroyer.
Semi-finals:
- AEW Dynamite 2020-04-29:
Cody [w/Brandi Rhodes] def. Darby Allin
Cody tries the coffin drop on Allin, but Allin gets his
knees up. Allin performs a coffin drop of his own, but Cody manages
to roll him up with a backslide to get the pinfall victory.
- Lance Archer def. Dustin Rhodes [w/Brandi Rhodes]
Archer completely destroys Rhodes, to advance to the
tournament final.
Shawn Spears | Cody | Cody | Finals at Double or Nothing
|
Cody
|
Sammy Guevara | Darby Allin
|
Darby Allin
|
Kip Sabian | Dustin Rhodes | Lance Archer
|
Dustin Rhodes
|
Lance Archer | Lance Archer
|
Colt Cabana
|
Double or Nothing
2020-05-23, Daily's Place, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Originally scheduled to take place at MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA, it was moved to a closed set due to the
Covid-19
pandemic.
Matches from Daily's Place:
- Casino ladder match:
Brian Cage [w/Taz] def. Frankie Kazarian, Scorpio Sky, Kip Sabian
[w/Penelope Ford], Darby Allin, Orange Cassidy, Colt Cabana, Joey
Janela, Luchasaurus
First to grab the poker chip above the ring gets a future
opportunity for the AEW World championship. Two men start out, with a
new person entering every two minutes until everyone has entered, or
someone has grabbed the chip. Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky of
SoCal Uncensored start out, Kip Sabian enters third, getting some
help from Jimmy Havoc to take out the SCU. Darby Allin enters fourth,
trying to take out Kazarian by jumping him on his skateboard from the
top of a ladder, hurting his leg and not returning until all other
enters the match. Cassidy enters fifth, taking a detour through the
commentary booth asking how to win the match before entering. Cabana
enters sixth, Janela seventh and Luchasaurus eighth. Brian Cage is
the mystery ninth entrant, climbing the ladder with Cassidy on his
back, not stopping until all other competitors bring him down,
burying him beneath a pile of junk outside the ring. Cage breaks
free, taking out everyone and climbs the ladder to grab the chip and
win the match.
- MJF [w/Wardlow] def. Jungle Boy
Jungle Boy has MJF in a crossface lock, but MJF bites his
way out of the hold. After a series of pin reversals, MJF eventually
gets the three-count using a modified European clutch.
- TNT championship tournament final:
Cody [w/Arn Anderson & Brandi Rhodes] def. Lance Archer [w/Jake
"The Snake" Roberts]
"Iron" Mike Tyson came to the ring first with the new
championship belt, there to present it to the inaugural champion.
Archer tried to slowly break down Cody, using his size advantage.
Cody goes for a springboard cutter from the top rope, but only gets a
one-count. Anderson and Roberts are thrown out from ringside, but
when Roberts try to return with a snake, he is stopped by Tyson. Cody
hits the Cross Rhodes twice, to become the champion.
- Kris Statlander def. Penelope Ford [w/Kip Sabian]
Ford replaced the injured Dr. Britt Baker. Statlander
takes out both Ford and Sabian outside the ring in a dive through the
ring ropes. Back in the ring, she hits the Big Bang Theory on Ford to
get the pinfall victory.
- Dustin Rhodes [w/Brandi Rhodes] def. Shawn Spears
Spears comes out in a suit, not dressed to wrestle, citing
rumours Rhodes not being in the house as the match was made on
Dynamite the same week. Spears demanded the referee count Rhodes out,
but Rhodes appears. After stripping Spears down to his underwear,
Rhodes hits the Final Reckoning and gets the pinfall.
- AEW Women's championship, No disqualification, no count-out:
Hikaru Shida def. Nyla Rose (ch)
The match started out with the two attacking each other
with Shida's kendo stick in the ring, but quickly spilled outside,
where Rose slams Shida through a poker table. Back in the ring, Rose
sets up a table in the ring corner and sends Shida through it, but is
unable to get the pinfall. Shida takes Rose down using the kendo
stick, getting the pinfall to become the new champion.
- AEW World championship:
Jon Moxley (ch) def. Mr. Brodie Lee (subm.)
This match also quickly spills outside, where Moxley is
suplexed onto a guard rail and Lee into the ring announcer's area.
Moxley hits the Paradigm Shift on Lee on the rampway to the ring,
breaking it and falling to the floor below. After two other paradigm
shifts in the ring, Moxley applies a sleeper and gets the submission
victory as Lee does not respond to the referee.
Match from TIAA Bank Field (adjacent, taped 2020-05-22):
- Stadium Stampede:
The Elite (The Young Bucks (Nick Jackson & Matt
Jackson) & Kenny Omega & "Broken" Matt Hardy &
Hangman Adam Page) def.
Inner Circle (Chris Jericho & Jake Hager & Sammy Guevara
& Santana & Ortiz)
A ring was set up at the 50-yard line of an American
football stadium, with the two teams starting from each side.
Pinfalls count anywhere. The "match" went on around the entire arena
complex, until Omega hits the One Winged Angle on Sammy
Guevara.
Fyter Fest
2020-07-01 and 2020-07-02, Daily's Place, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Originally scheduled to take place in London, England, UK, it was moved
to a closed set due to the
Covid-19
pandemic and held as two special episodes of AEW Dynamite.
- Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus) [w/Marco Stunt] def.
MJF & Wardlow
MJF inadvertently hits Wardlow with the Dynamite Diamond
Ring, allowing Luchasaurus to take out Wardlow and get the pinfall
victory for his team.
- AEW Women's championship:
Hikaru Shida (ch) def. Penelope Ford [w/Kip Sabian]
Sabian is ejected from the ring even before the match
starts, for putting his hands on the referee. Shida hits the Falcon
Arrow on Ford, but she reverses it. With the referee distracted,
Sabian comes back in trying to attack Shida with the kendo stick.
He misses, but Ford almost gets a pinfall due to the distraction.
After a second Falcon Arrow, Shida eventually gets the pinfall to
retain the championship.
- TNT championship:
Cody Rhodes (ch) [w/Arn Anderson] def. Jake Hager [w/Catalina]
With the referee distracted, Dustin Rhodes comes to the
ring, attacking Hager. Hager counters cross rhodes into a triangle,
but Rhodes counters and gets the pinfall victory.
- Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) [w/Matt Hardy] def.
Santana & Ortiz
Quen pins Ortiz to get the pinfall victory after a
double-team bulldog.
- AEW tagteam championship:
Kenny Omega & Adam Page (ch) def.
Best Friends (Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta)
Best Friends hit the Strong Zero on Page, but Omega saves
him just in time to avoid the three-count. Page hits the Dead-Eye and
a buckshot lariat on Trent, to retain the championships.
- AEW tagteam championship:
Kenny Omega & Adam Page (ch) def. Private Party (Isiah Kassidy
& Marq Quen) [w/Matt Hardy]
Page pins Kassidy after the Last Call double-team
move.
- Lance Archer [w/Jake "The Snake" Roberts] def. Joey Janela
Archer drives Janela through a table outside the ring,
then brings Janela back into the ring to get the three-count.
- The Butcher & The Blade & Lucha Brothers (Pentagon Jr. &
Rey Fénix) def. FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) & The Young
Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson)
Pentagon Jr. pins Matt Jackson after he and Fénix performs
the LP Driver on him.
- 2-on-1 handicap match:
Nyla Rose def. Kenzie Paige & Kylinn King
Rose powerbombs her two opponents on top of each other and
cover both for the pinfall victory.
- Dark Order (Mr. Brody Lee & Stu Grayson & Colt Cabana) def.
SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian &
Scorpio Sky)
Lee takes out Grayson with a discus lariat, and gives
Cabana the pin count.
- Chris Jericho [w/Santana & Ortiz] def. Orange Cassidy
Jericho attacks Cassidy with the baseball bat when the
referee is distracted, but Cassidy kicks out. Jericho eventually hits
the Judas Effect to get the pinfall victory.
Fight for the Fallen
2020-07-15, Daily's Place, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- TNT championship:
Cody (ch) [w/Arn Anderson] def. Sonny Kiss
Rhodes pins Kiss after the Cross Rhodes.
- FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) def. Lucha Brothers (Pentagon Jr. &
Rey Fénix)
Harwood rips the mask off Fénix, and rolls him up for a
small package as Fénix desperately tries to hide his face and is
unable to defend himself.
- The Elite (Kenny Omega (tag ch) & Matt Jackson & Nick
Jackson) def. Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus &
Marko Stunt)
Omega hits the One-Winged Angel on Stunt to get the
pinfall victory.
- The Nightmare Sisters (Allie & Brandi Rhodes) [w/Dustin Rhodes)
def. Kenzie Paige & MJ Jenkins
Allie pins Jenkins after a DDT.
- AEW World championship:
Jon Moxley (ch) def. Brian Cage [w/Taz] (subm.)
This match was originally schedules for the previous
week's Fyter Fest, but was postponed as Moxley was in quarantine due
to his wife Renee Young having contracted Covid-19. Moxley goes to
work on Cage's newly healed biceps, and when Moxley locks Cage in an
armbar Taz throws in the towel, giving Moxley the victory by
submission.
Women's tag team cup tournament: The Deadly Draw
2020-08-03 to 2020-08-22, Daily's Place, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Matches were taped starting 2020-07-29,
the dates below are the air dates.
First round:
- Night 1: 2020-08-03:
The Nightmare Sisters (Allie & Brandi Rhodes) [w/Dustin Rhodes
& QT Marshall] def. Mel & Penelope Ford [w/Kip Sabian]
Brandi pins Mel after a spear.
- Anna Jay & Tay Conti def. Ariane Andrew & Nyla Rose [w/Vickie
Guerrero]
Jay pins Andrew after a rolling neckbreaker.
- Night 2: 2020-08-10:
Big Swole & Lil' Swole def. Raché Chanel & "The Librarian"
Leva Bates [w/"The Librarian" Peter Avalon]
Big Swole pins Bates after a double rolling
neckbreaker.
- Ivelisse & Diamanté def. Dasha & Rachael Ellering
Ivelisse pins Dasha after the Destroyer.
Semi-finals:
- Night 3: 2020-08-17:
The Nightmare Sisters (Allie & Brandi Rhodes) [w/Dustin Rhodes
& QT Marshall] def. Big Swole & Lil' Swole
Dr. Britt Baker distracts Big Swole, allowing Allie to hit
a swinging neckbreaker on Lil's Swole and get the pinfall
victory.
- Ivelisse & Diamanté def. Anna Jay & Tay Conti
Ivelisse pins Conti after the sliced bread.
Final:
- AEW Dynamite 2020-08-22:
Ivelisse & Diamanté def. The Nightmare Sisters (Allie &
Brandi Rhodes) [w/Dustin Rhodes & QT Marshall]
Diamanté pins Allie after a snapmare roll-through.
Penelope Ford & Mel | Nightmare Sisters | Nightmare Sisters | Ivelisse & Diamanté
|
Nightmare Sisters
|
Raché Chanel & Leva Bates | Big & Lil' Swole
|
Big & Lil' Swole
|
Ivelisse & Diamanté | Ivelisse & Diamanté | Ivelisse & Diamanté
|
Dasha & Rachael Ellering
|
Nyla Rose & Ariane Andrew | Tai Conti & Anna Jay
|
Tai Conti & Anna Jay
|
All Out
2020-09-05, Daily's Place, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- Tooth and Nail match:
Big Swole def. Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D [w/Reba]
The match started at Baker's dentist's office, and ends
when Swole incapacitates Baker with an anaesthetic.
- The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) def. Jurassic
Express (Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus) [w/Marko Stunt]
The Young Bucks seemed to be both more desperate and more
aggressive than usual. Matt pins Jungle Boy after a second BTE
Trigger, after he kicks out of the first.
- Casino Battle Royale:
Elim. |
Group |
Name |
By |
1 | 1 | The Blade | Will Hobbs
|
2 | 1 | Christopher Daniels | Jake Hager
|
3 | 3 | Billy Gunn | Brian Cage
|
4 | 1 | Rey Fénix | Darby Allin
|
5 | 2 | Chuck Taylor | Santana & Ortiz
|
6 | 1 | Jake Hager | Sonny Kiss
|
7 | 4 | Sonny Kiss | Brian Cage
|
8 | 2 | Santana | Trent
|
9 | 1 | Trent | Lance Archer
|
10 | 2 | Ortiz | Lance Archer
|
11 | 3 | Penta El Zero | Frankie Kazarian
|
12 | 2 | Frankie Kazarian | The Butcher
|
13 | 3 | Ricky Starks | Darby Allin
|
14 | 3 | Darby Allin | Bryan Cage
|
15 | 4 | Shawn Spears | Matt Sydal
|
16 | 2 | Will Hobbs | Lance Archer
|
17 | 3 | Bryan Cage | Lance Archer
|
18 | 4 | The Butcher | Matt Sydal
|
19 | 5 | Matt Sydal | Eddie Kingston
|
20 | 4 | Eddie Kingston | Lance Archer
|
– | 4 | Lance Archer | –
|
Winner: Lance Archer, wins a future AEW championship match.
- Broken Rules match:
Matt Hardy def. Sammy Guevara
Stipulation: If Hardy loses, he must leave AEW. This was a
last man standing match that started at the adjacent TIAA Bank Field.
Guevara tries to spear Hardy through a table from a forklift and
falls badly. The medical personell tries to stop the match, but Hardy
refuses to stop and it is declared that the match must have a winner.
The match spills back into the ring area. The wrestlers climb the
scaffolding, Guevara is dropped and is unable to answer the ten-count,
giving Hardy the victory.
- AEW Women's championship:
Hikaru Shida (ch) def. Thunder Rosa
Rosa was NWA Women's champion and Tokyo Joshi Pro
Wrestling International Princess champion at the time, although she
was introduced only as NWA champion. Shida pins Rosa after a running
knee to retain the championship.
- Matt Cardona & Scorpio Sky & The Natural Nightmares (Dustin
Rhodes & QT Marshall) [w/Allie & Brandi Rhodes] def. Dark
Order (Brodie Lee (TNT ch) & Colt Cabana & Evil Uno & Stu
Grayson) [w/Anna Jay]
Cabana goes for a moonsault on Rhodes, but he moved away
and instead rolls up Cabana for the pinfall.
- AEW tagteam championship:
FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) [w/Tully Blanchard] def.
Kenny Omega & Adam Page (ch)
Wheeler pins Page after a piledriver.
- Mimosa Mayhem:
Orange Cassidy def. Chris Jericho
Stipulation: Match can be won by pinfall, submission, or
throwing the opponent into a tank of mimosa. With Jericho on the top
turnbuckle, Cassidy hits him with a running forearm, dropping him
in the tank of mimosa.
- AEW World championship:
Jon Moxley (ch) def. MJF [w/Wardlow]
Stipulation: Moxley's Paradigm Shift was banned. Mox pins
MJF after a double underhook DDT to retain the championship.
AEW world title eliminator tournament 2020
2020-10-21 and 2020-10-22, Daily's Place, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
First round:
- AEW Dynamite 2020-10-21:
Wardlow def. Jungle Boy
Wardlow performs a airplane spin on Jungle Boy and then
drops him flat. He then gets a pinfall victory to advance.
- Kenny Omega def. Sonny Kiss
Sonny Kiss replaced Joey Janela, who was in Covid-19
quarantine. Omega quickly applies the One-Winged Angel and gets the
pinfall victory.
- Rey Fénix def. Penta El Zero M
Fénix hits the Destroyer on his brother Penta, getting the
pinfall victory.
- "Hangman" Adam Page def. Colt Cabana
Pinfall after a buckshot lariat.
Semi-finals:
These matches were taped on 2020-10-22.
- AEW Dynamite 2020-10-28:
"Hangman" Adam Page def. Wardlow
Page pins Wardlow after the buckshot lariat.
- Kenny Omega def. Penta El Zero Miedo [w/Rey Fénix]
Rey Fénix forfeited his position in the semi-final to his
brother Penta due to a neck injury. Penta tries to take out Omega's
right arm, but Omega still manages to hit the One-Winged Angel to get
the pinfall victory.
Penta El Zero M | Rey Fénix Penta El Zero | Kenny Omega | Finals at Full Gear
|
Rey Fénix
|
Kenny Omega | Kenny Omega
|
Sonny Kiss
|
Colt Cabana | Hangman Page | Hangman Page
|
Hangman Page
|
Wardlow | Wardlow
|
Jungle Boy
|
Full Gear
2020-11-07, Daily's Place, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- AEW world title eliminator tournament final:
Kenny Omega def. "Hangman" Adam Pager
The match between the two former tag team champions
quickly got physical and spilled outside the ring. Omega eventually
hit the One-Winged Angel to get the pinfall victory and become the
number one contender for the AEW World championship.
- Orange Cassidy [w/Best Friends] def. John "4" Silver [w/Dark Order]
Cassidy picks up the pinfall victory after a back body
drop.
- TNT championship:
Darby Allin def. Cody Rhodes (ch)
Allin hits a Coffin drop on Rhodes, but is unable to get
the pinfall. Rhodes rolls up Allin, who counters, and after rolling
back and forth a few times Allin eventually manages to keep Rhodes
down for the referee to count to three.
- AEW Women's championship:
Hikaru Shida (ch)
Nyla Rose [w/Vickie Guerrero]
Shida had Rose down for the pinfall but drags Rose's head
up to break the count. Guerrero interferes, allowing Rose to gain some
momentum. It is not enough and Shida retains the championship by
pinfall after a knee to the face.
- AEW tagteam championship:
The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) def. FTR (Dax
Harwood & Cash Wheeler) (ch)
FTR's manager Tully Blanchard was banned from ringside
after having interfered in previous matches. Wheeler misses a 450
springboard slash on Matt whe Matt rolls away. Matt answers with a
superkick with the foot that FTR had removed his shoe from, knocking
out Wheeler to get the pinfall victory.
- Elite Deletion match:
Matt Hardy def. Sammy Guevara
This match took place in the woods at the Hardy compound,
partly in an outdoor wrestling ring. Ortiz and Santana from Inner
Circle came in attacking Hardy, who called for Private Party's Quen
and Kassidy who arrived to take them out. At one point, Gangrel
showed up, holding Hurricane Helms hostage. They end up in an indoor
ring, and the match end when Hardy pins Guevara on the concrete floor
after delivering a chair to the back of the head.
- MJF [w/Wardlow] def. Chris Jericho
Stipulation: If MJF wins, he joins Inner Circle. MJF
calls for Wardlow, who hands him the Dynamite Diamond ring. With the
refere distracted, Jake Hager hands Jericho a baseball bat. MJF plays
knocked out and while the referee talks to Jericho, MJF quickly rolls
him up for the pinfall.
- AEW World championship, I Quit match:
Jon Moxley (ch) def. Eddie Kingston
Kingston sets up a couple of steel chairs in the ring, but
Moxley answers with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. The match
gets more extreme from there. When Moxley locks Kingston in a camel
clutch with barbed wire, Kingston finally calls quits.