AEW Dynamite Results – February 17, 2021

AEW Dynamite Results – February 17, 2021 – The road to the upcoming AEW Revolution 2021 pay-per-view continues to wind down, as this week’s AEW Dynamite on TNT kicks off from the Daily’s Place amphitheater in Jacksonville, FL.

“Hangman” Adam Page & Matt Hardy vs. TH2

Hardy sent out to the floor right as the bell rings, TH2 goes to work on Page, but he is able to fight off both of them. Page chops Evans, then tags in Hardy. Matt up to the second rope and hits an elbow drop on Evans’s arm, neckbreaker, pin, two. TH2 regains control of the match, Angelico kicks away at Hardy and brings Evans back into the ring. TH2 with a double foot stomp/side suplex combo, cover, two-count.

Angelico tags in, Hardy gets a few shots, but Evans slows that down with some attacks from the apron, cover by Angelico, two-count. Page gets into the match, avoids a pump kick and lands a spinebuster on Angelico. Page with a step-up clothesline on Evans, and then splashes down on him. Page takes Angelico down, goes for another pin, two. Page catches Evans midair and powerbombs him down on Angelico.

Page looks for his finisher, Hardy tags himself in. Angelico then shoves Hardy into the ropes and knocks Page down to the floor. Hardy gets taken down, Evans tries for a phoenix splash and completely messes it up, barely hitting Hardy. Page with double buckshot lariats on both guys, Hardy hits twist of fate on Angelico, cover, 1-2-3.

Winners: Hangman Page and Matt Hardy

Post-match, Hardy gets on the mic, says Page looks like a billion bucks and he is going to make a lot of money. Hardy says he’s going to make 30% of it, and he will be making money, too. He’s very happy that Page decided to sign with him. Page says he had some friends who told him to keep an extra set of papers up his sleeve. Page says Hardy should have looked at those papers a little closer. Hardy says he just sent it over to the lawyers. Page has the Jags mascot come out with the papers that Hardy signed. Hardy reads it over and says it’s not for a talent management contract it’s for a match at Revolution. If Page wins, he’ll earn Hardy’s first quarter earnings. Hardy calls Page a carny! He asks Page to put up his earnings. Page responds that we may have a “money match.” Hardy then tells Page that he’s finished as they shake hands. Isiah Kassidy was in the mascot costume and attacks Page from behind. Hardy tells TH2 he’ll pay them to beat up Page. The Dark Order runs out to make the save. Page nearly hits a buckshot lariat on Hardy, but he ducks it and runs off with Kassidy.

— We are backstage, where Alex Marvez is standing by with The Inner Circle. He talks to Santana and Ortiz and they talk about their AEW World Tag-Team Championship match against The Young Bucks tonight.

As the segment continues, MJF ends up hijacking the mic as he loses his cool bringing up Sammy Guevara recording him without his permission last week and then quitting The Inner Circle. Chris Jericho eventually tells MJF to calm down. He informs him that he doesn’t have to recap what happened, because everyone listening already saw the show last week, and the week before that, and the week before that. He goes on to say that Sammy Guevara is dead to him, and that he never wants to hear his name again. He says let’s get back to business tonight, before vowing that Santana & Ortiz will win the tag titles tonight.

AEW Women’s World Championship Eliminator Tournament
Riho vs. Serena Deeb

Commentary noting that Deeb tweaked her knee recently, and Riho is already targeting it in the early stages of the match.

As the bell sounds to kick off the match, the fans begin chanting “Welcome Back! Welcome Back!” at Riho. She soaks it in and then she and Deeb circle each other and lock up. The commentators put over both ladies as the two trade holds and control standing and in the clinch before the bout is taken down to the mat for some amateur style ground wrestling and submission-based grappling, with each lady getting holds and the other reversing out of it.

Deeb and Riho continue to trade turns in the lead, with neither establishing any lengthy run in control of the action. As Deeb starts to recover from her leg being worked over by the former AEW Women’s Champion, she takes back over the offense and sends Riho out to the floor. We head to a picture-in-picture commercial break on that note.

During the picture-in-picture commercial break, we see Deeb having her leg checked on by a ringside doctor before going out to the floor to go back to work on Riho. She brings her back in the ring and continues to dominate the action now as we see our first prolonged offensive run of dominance from someone in this match now.

We return from the break and we see Deeb has Riho on the mat locked in a rear-chin-lock as the commentators inform us about the doctor checking on Deeb during the break. They claim that Deeb insisted to the doctor that she’s able to continue, which she appears to be proving emphatically at this point.

Finally, Riho starts to shift the momentum back in her favor as she fights her way back into the bout. She blasts Deeb with a big elbow strike and some follow-up forearm shots on the NWA Women’s Champion in the corner, as the fans chant along with each shot. Deeb ends up turning Riho into the corner and she does the same to her. Riho hits a head-scissors moments later and blasts Deeb with a running knee to the grill in the corner for a near fall.

Riho looks for a northern lights suplex, however Deeb reverses into a front chancery submission standing, which Riho ends up escaping. She ends to the top-rope and dives but is caught by Deeb, who hits a veteran counter, as Jim Ross points out on commentary. She goes to work on Riho’s leg now, as the ring announcer informs us of the amount of time that has transpired in this time-limit tourney bout.

The fans and the commentators are getting super into this match now, as the fans are making a lot of noise and chants and the commentators are calling this one of the best women’s matches in recent memory. Riho starts making another comeback after Deeb settled into the offensive driver’s seat again. The former first-ever AEW Women’s World Champion fires up on offense with a vengeance now, as she picks up the pace and turns it on the NWA Women’s Champion looking to finish her off.

Riho climbs to the top-rope as J.R. calls her a fearless little warrior. She hits a diving cross-bow splash for a near fall, however Deeb survives and then rolls out to the floor to try and regroup. Riho, however, goes out after her. She grabs her by the hair and throws her back into the ring. She follows in after her, however, Deeb took advantage of her coming in and blasted her with a big shot. She grounds Riho and looks to step over with a finishing submission hold. We end up seeing a pin attempt as a reversal out of it.

AEW’s first-ever women’s champ finally hits the northern lights suplex she has attempted multiple times in this match, bridging for a pin afterwards, however Deeb kicks out. Deeb looks for her finisher moments later, however Riho reverses into a pin attempt. Deeb rolls out of it, but RIho reverses into another one and this time she gets the pin fall victory. The fans give this match a standing ovation and immediately break out into a “This Is Awesome” chant, which J.R. points out on commentary in case the viewers at home can’t hear it due to Riho’s theme music playing.

Winner and ADVANCING in the AEW Women’s World Championship Eliminator Tournament: Riho

– Video package shown of Jade Cargill doing some training, and shooting hoops with Shaq. The two will meet Cody Rhodes and Red Velvet on March 3.

Orange Cassidy vs. Luther

We return from the break to see Luther wrapping up his ring entrance, with fellow Chaos Project member Serpentico by his side. The bell sounds and we’re immediately off to an emphatic start, as Chuck Taylor is knocked off the ring apron and Luther immnediately goes to work on Cassidy.

Luther dominates Cassidy early on, as Serpentico hits a dive from the ring to the floor on Chuck. Meanwhile, Luther is still controlling the action in the ring until finally, Cassidy hits a sunset flip power-bomb on Luther from the ring apron to the floor. Ouch.

We see Serpentico in the ring creeping around waiting for Cassidy to come back in, however Chuck Taylor has recovered and is behind Serpentico and he takes him out before anything happens.

Finally, Cassidy gets Luther up and back in the ring, where the ref also joins them, all three unaware of what just transpired between Chuck and Serpentico. Regardless, Cassidy waits for Luther to get up and then blasts him with the Orange Punch for the 1-2-3.

Winner: Orange Cassidy

— A Team Taz recap video plays to hype up the Street Fight that also involves “The Icon” Sting and TNT Champion Darby Allin, at the upcoming AEW Revolution 2021 pay-per-view.

— Out comes “The Human Suplex Machine” himself accompanied by “The Machine” Brian Cage and one other member of Team Taz. Taz gets in the ring and talks about the Street Fight coming up before pointing out that due to weather issues, only two members of Team Taz are here tonight. He says maybe Sting sent some of his snow down there, but he digresses.

Finally, he brings up the fact that all week long he has been hearing and seeing advertisements claiming that “The Icon” is going to be calling out Team Taz. He says despite being down a few members, he calls Sting out to the ring.

The familiar sounds of the theme song of “The Icon” Sting plays and the pro wrestling legend emerges as the snow begins falling inside Daily’s Place. He settles into the ring and Taz begins ranting about how Sting needs his bat and has always needed it.

As he continues talking trash about how Sting needs his bat to be a tough guy, “The Icon” drops his bat and starts taking his big robe off. He immediately gets into a brawl with the two members of Team Taz in the ring. At first things go his way, but eventually he is hoisted up with ease by Brian Cage, who plants him down on the mat with his finisher.

The members of Team Taz stand over the fallen Icon as the commentators question Sting’s decision to throw his baseball bat down while being in the ring alone against those three men. Team Taz stands over Sting and pose before exiting the ring as the commentators plug the Street Fight coming up at AEW Revolution 2021.

– Backstage, Eddie Kingston talks about how he wanted tonight’s tag match against Lance Archer, Rey Fenix, and Jon Moxley. He talks about the history he’s had with each guy, noting Moxley is the demon he needs to get rid of most. Kingston says pills, drinks, nor women will get rid of him. Only beating Moxley will do that.

– Earlier today, Kenny Omega talks to a classroom of kids, and reads them a book. Don Callis and Michael Nakazawa are next to him. Omega has The Young Bucks’ autobiography. Alex Marvez walks in to ask a question, but he’s immediately told to stay to the side. Omega then reads about his match about Chris Jericho at NJPW and how business went up drastically. Callis then says Omega has to go and he has a lot of business to do. Omega then checks with someone to see if his popularity is going up? The kids want to play with Omega, Nakazawa says he’ll play. The kids all say “We hate Nakazawa” and pile up on him.

AEW World Tag Team Championship
The Young Bucks (c) vs. Santana and Ortiz

Young Bucks parents are at ringside, as are the rest of Inner Circle. Nick and Santana gets things started, trading a few moves. Ortiz tags in, Matt also does shortly after, hitting a few hip tosses on his opponents. Omega, Callis, Good Brothers all looking on from the back. Young Bucks take control of the match. Ortiz and Santana hit a swinging backbreaker on Nick. MJF gets too involved and the referee sends all of Inner Circle out to the back.

Santana flips Nick over, low dropkick, cover, two. Santana with a big chop, then tags in Ortiz. Ortiz with a body slam, tries for a splash, Nick moves and nails him with a superkick. Matt tags in, clothesline on Ortiz, then Santana. He swings away on both guys, hurricanrana on Santana. Ortiz kicks him away, but Matt sends him down to the floor. Matt with a twisting stunner, cover, two.

Santana works his way back into the match against Nick, hits a second rope falcon arrow for only a two-count. Nick then takes a twisting flapjack, Ortiz with a 3 in 1 submission. Nick rolls him up for a pin, two. Matt up to the top and hits an elbow drop on Ortiz. Santana gets put on Matt’s shoulders, Nick hits doomsday device. Matt now the legal man, powerbomb into a kick from Nick. Double superkicks on Santana, cover, Ortiz breaks it up. Nick sends Ortiz out to the floor. Young Bucks go for BTE Trigger, miss, and their knees collide. Santana with double cutters. Santana and Ortiz hit street sweeper on Nick, Matt just barely breaks it up.

Ortiz throws Matt into the barricade, Santana and Ortiz then powerbomb him into the ringside crowd. Ortiz yells “The best!” over and over to the crow. He heads into the ring, Nick with the roll-up for the 1-2-3!

Winners: The Young Bucks

The Inner Circle immediately attacks Matt and Nick. In the backstage area, Kenny wants to go help out. Callis holds him off and says he has an idea. He whispers something to Anderson and The Good Brothers head off. Brandon Cutler tries to help, but he’s dropped on the stage. Jericho and MJF each apply a submission to the brothers. Good Brothers make their way into the ring and Inner Circle decides to head out. Jericho talks some trash to Papa Buck, and gets shoved away. MJF says he’ll pay for that!

– Backstage, Brandi Rhodes says she wants to do a gender reveal on tonight’s show. Brandi says she’s the only person to know if it’s a boy or a girl, Cody doesn’t even know. Fireworks go off and we see on the screen, “It’s a girl!” Cody and Brandi kiss and he celebrates a bit after hearing the news. Cody then heads to commentary as the next match gets going.

– Face of the Revolution Ladder Match at Revolution will get a shot at the TNT Championship. Six wrestlers in the match. Announced so far: Cody, Scorpio Sky, and Penta El Zero M.

FTR vs. Matt and Mike Sydal

Harwood and Wheeler utilize quick, repetitive tags to keep fresh men on Mike Sydal at all times, as they enjoy an early offensive lead in the match. The commentators point out that Tully Blanchard is not here with FTR tonight due to weather conditions preventing him from making it to the show.

Mike finally makes the tag to Matt Sydal, who quickly turns the tables and shifts the momentum into the favor of the Sydal’s. Mike heads back into the ring and the two Sydal’s hit some double-team action until FTR sneaks in a blind tag and in the confusion, manage to take back control of the offensive lead in the match, just as J.R. leads us into a mid-match, picture-in-picture commercial break.

We’re back from the break and we see FTR is still dominating the action. Moments later, Sydal makes the tag and the Sydal Brothers continue to show some good synergy with some nice double-team spots. Cody talks on commentary about the great conditioning of the Sydal Brothers. Sydal hits a lightning spiral that takes out both members of FTR. Mike Sydal heads to the top-rope and hits a huge moonsault to the floor to take out both members of FTR.

Mike rolls him back in the ring and covers him, however the FTR member hangs on and keeps his team alive in this match. He works his way back to his feet and the two trade chops and punches as the fans start to get into this match. Cody talks about the upcoming battle against Shaq on March 3 as the action continues in the ring. FTR makes the tag and both men stay in the ring for some double-team action, however Matt Sydal ends up fighting them both off single-handedly.

Eventually, the numbers game is too much for Sydal as FTR takes over. Just as they go to finish off Matt, in comes Mike to break up the pin. The Sydal’s make a blind tag. One Sydal hits a top-rope flying double-knees. The other comes off the top with a big spot and makes the follow-up cover, however the FTR member gets his foot on the ropes. Harwood takes Matt’s leg out from under him while he goes to the top-rope, which sets things up for Wheeler to take over. He hits a big shot and tags in Harwood. The two set up and connect with the Big Rig finisher and make the pin for the victory.

Winners: FTR

Once the match ends, the ringside doctor comes in to check on Sydal. Meanwhile, the commentators congratulate Cody Rhodes one more time on his soon-to-be newborn baby daughter and then he exits the commentary table. Things aren’t over there, however, as FTR ambush the ringside doctor and take his scissors from him. As they approach Sydal with the scissors, the lights in the Daily’s Place amphitheater go out. When they come back on, we see the mask of Luchasaurus shown at the top of the entrance way with a spotlight on it. Finally, Jurassic Express are shown in the ring behind FTR and they begin dishing out some justice to Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler, with Luchasaurus debuting a new mask in the process.

— The commentators then wrap up the updated cards for next week’s Dynamite and the upcoming Revolution PPV and then they send things to a message from former AEW World Champion Jon Moxley.

Moxley talks about Eddie Kingston’s comments from earlier tonight about their storied past as former friends. He says he’ll continue beating his ass until he gets the message through his stubborn skull. He then turns his attention to KENTA, who he vows he will beat when the two meet in New Japan Pro Wrestling for his IWGP United States Championship. Finally, Mox focuses on Kenny Omega, telling him that he already informed him in the past that he can’t run. He then concludes by vowing he will get his AEW World Championship back before stating that, “The time is almost here to pull the trigger.”

Jon Moxley, Rey Fenix, and Lance Archer vs. Eddie Kingston, The Butcher, and The Blade with The Bunny

A huge brawl breaks out to start the match and the finally settles down to Moxley in the ring with Butcher and Blade. They double team Moxley with a Sidewalk Slam/Leg Drop combo. The heels triple team Moxley in their corner with quick tags and splashes in the corner. Archer tags in and starts tossing Blade all over the place. He hits a series of elbows and then a Belly-to-Belly Suplex. Archer goes for the New School but Butcher grabs his leg until Fenix walks the ropes and kicks him in the face! Archer dives off the top with a Flying Axe Handle on Blade.

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Moxley clotheslines Blade to the outside and then Archer hits a Flying Cross Body onto Butcher and Kingston. Fenix tags in and hits a Springboard Spinning Back Kick on Butcher and then hits a Springboard Lucha Arm Drag on Kingston. Fenix hits a Somersault Plancha onto Blade on the outside and then hits a Rolling Cutter on Butcher followed by a Frog Splash off the top for two.

Kingston hits Fenix with a T-Bone Suplex but eats a Big Boot from Archer. Butcher hits a big Cross Body Block on Archer but eats a German Suplex from Moxley. Blade walks into a Rolling Dropkick from Fenix as he tried to attack Moxley. Moxley and Kingston stare at each other and then trade nasty strikes!

Kingston blocks a Lariat and hits an Enziguri but then eats a Hook Kick from Fenix! Archer hits the Pounce on Kingston and Moxley puts Kingston in the Bulldog Choke! Blade and Butcher break up the submission but Fenix and Archer toss t hem to the floor. Archer Chokeslams Fenix on top of Butcher and Blade and then Archer hits a Rolling Senton onto them!

Archer drags Butcher into the crowd was Moxley and Kingston go back to striking. Kingston hits the Backfist From The Future but Moxley rebounds with a Lariat and the Paradigm Shift for the pin.

Winners: Moxley, Fenix & Archer

Moxley celebrates the win on the turnbuckle. He looks to the camera and suddenly gets attacked by The Good Brothers. The two hold Moxley as Kenny Omega comes out with a mic in hand. Omega shows Moxley some papers and sees Moxley slipped in a rematch clause. Omega says he’ll give it to him at Revolution, but he’s picking the match! Omega then announces an Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch for the title! Moxley ends up headbutting Omega, but eats a couple v-triggers. Omega had a small cut on his forehead and tells Moxley he’ll never get the title! Omega says to hit his music and he poses in the ring as the show closes.