AEW Dynasty 2025 Discussion

[Kamran]

COUNTDOWN TO DYNASTY

THE MATCHES

• AEW World Championship: Jon Moxley (c) vs. Swerve Strickland
• AEW Women's World Championship: "Timeless" Toni Storm (c) vs. Megan Bayne
• AEW International Championship: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Ricochet vs. "Speedball" Mike Bailey
• AEW World Trios Championship: Death Riders vs. Rated FTR
• AEW TNT Championship: Daniel Garcia (c) vs. Adam Cole
• AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Hurt Syndicate (c) vs. The Learning Tree (Big Bill and Bryan Keith)
• Men's Owen Hart Cup Tournament First Round: Will Ospreay vs. Kevin Knight
• Women's Owen Hart Cup Tournament First Round: Mercedes Moné vs. Julia Hart
• Men's Owen Hart Cup Tournament First Round: Kyle Fletcher vs. Mark Briscoe
• Title vs. Mask match for the ROH World Championship: Chris Jericho (title) vs. Bandido (mask)    

Zero Hour:

• Nick Wayne and CRU vs. AR Fox and Top Flight 
• Max Caster vs. TBA

HOW TO WATCH

Prime Video / TrillerTV / YouTube / PPV.com

POSTERS

Edited April 6, 2025 by Kamran

[I Bent My Wookie]

I'm quite concerned for Bandido. Has Jericho got a tour lined up? Does MJF cost the Hurt Business the tag titles and the Learning Tree then turn on their no title leader if he loses? Or is Bandido secretly a snack under the mask and Tony has found he's much more marketable with his face on show? 

All this and more. On Dynasty.

[Chili]

It kind of crept up on me this PPV, from the look of the card I think this might be a sleeper of a PPV where it's a B show that absolutely exceeds expectations (I'm looking at you Mox)

[Statto]

Think I'll keep my money in my pocket this month. I've no doubt there'll be some cracking matches, but there's nothing I really care about like there was at Revolution.

[burchybabi]

Mark Briscoe vs Kyle Fletcher Owen Hart tournament first round match now also added

[LaGoosh]

Isn't there like 7 weeks between now and Double or Nothing? Not sure why they're doing the first round matches so early as surely you want the finals to the tournament on that show? Also first round matches being on PPV just bothers me a bit - that's what TV is for!

A very B show level PPV card. They've done alright considering Revolution was only 4 weeks ago. I'm most invested in the main event just because I am desperate for a Swerve win - I don't think I care about the actual match itself too much. The International Championship should be a fun spotfest we'll all forget about as soon as it's over. Toni Storm vs Megan Bayne will probably be match of the night - really hoping Storm doesn't lose! She's great!

Rest of the show would make a decent episode of Collision I suppose.

[RedTwoster]

The build-up has been good for most of this, so I’ll be tuning in. Given that Wrestlemania is this month, I’d imagine everyone will be super-motivated to make sure they put on a better show, and I think they’ll probably will. The triple threat in particular should be a spectacle, I can’t wait for that.

I’ll be skipping the Jericho and TNT title matches though. Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I actually find Daniel Garcia incredibly dull. He’s a great wrestler, but as  a character he offers very little. I’m not particularly excited by the idea of his title run continuing, or of Adam Cole defeating him.

Edited April 4, 2025 by RedTwoster

[HarmonicGenerator]

10 minutes ago, RedTwoster said:

I’ll be skipping the Jericho and TNT title matches though. Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I actually find Daniel Garcia incredibly dull. He’s a great wrestler, but as  a character he offers very little. I’m not particularly excited by the idea of his title run continuing, or of Adam Cole defeating him.

Same. There was something there when he almost-but-didn't turn on Jericho, and something there again when he first started doing the dance, but the last year or so I've found him quite boring. And Cole is Cole.

[Chili]

TBH I watch all the matches on PPVs because the stuff I not that into still might surprise me and I kinda like to watch it in full to get the complete flow of the PPV. I treat them differently to TV episodes. That's just my way of processing it. 

I quite enjoy Daniel Garcia generally, but I think he was a victim of some stop/start ideas, especially that Jericho turn that never was. His Continental Classic run in the first tournament was a great story. Still love me some Daddy Zandig too.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

Same. There was something there when he almost-but-didn't turn on Jericho, and something there again when he first started doing the dance, but the last year or so I've found him quite boring. And Cole is Cole.

Yeah I'm on this train too. When he was torn between Danielson and the Jericho society he really had something, but he's vanilla for ages.

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I'm quite concerned for Bandido. Has Jericho got a tour lined up? Does MJF cost the Hurt Business the tag titles and the Learning Tree then turn on their no title leader if he loses? Or is Bandido secretly a snack under the mask and Tony has found he's much more marketable with his face on show? 

@I Bent My Wookie I don't know this, but if I were to speculate it's because the semi regular "let's try and get ROH a TV deal" season is over, so they're putting the belt on someone who's just going to be on Honor club.

Feels like a massive waste of Bandido, who could be a decent secondary title holder or continue his tag team with Hobbs.

Edited April 4, 2025 by Duke

[BrodyGraham]

16 hours ago, I Bent My Wookie said:

I'm quite concerned for Bandido. Has Jericho got a tour lined up? Does MJF cost the Hurt Business the tag titles and the Learning Tree then turn on their no title leader if he loses? Or is Bandido secretly a snack under the mask and Tony has found he's much more marketable with his face on show? 

All this and more. On Dynasty.

According to Rocky Romero, I think, when he was doing colour Comms for New Japan, Bandido is a ridiculously handsome man. They used to go on about how it was a crime that he wrestled in a mask.

I'll be buying this. There's really only the tag title match that I can't see delivering on the night.

[Hannibal Scorch]

59 minutes ago, BrodyGraham said:

According to Rocky Romero, I think, when he was doing colour Comms for New Japan, Bandido is a ridiculously handsome man. They used to go on about how it was a crime that he wrestled in a mask.

I heard similar about that El Generico fella and now thanks to his charity work we’ll never know the truth.

I have two leftfield booking ideas. Craziest first. Kevin Knight beats Ospreay. Ospreay doesn’t need a title shot at All In (Come on announce Forbidden Door already), and I love an upset in a tournament.

Second, I predict Shelton Benjamin will have missed his connecting flight and MJF, always the professional packing his gear when not booked, helps Lashley beat the Learning Tree with a disgruntled Shelton appearing post match to see MJF celebrating in the ring with MVP and Big Bob, convincing Lashley to welcome MJF to the syndicate.

[abucalves]

So it's being reported that Darby Allin is starting his climb on the 15th and it can take 2 months (and longer for inexperienced people) seemingly taking him out of the Owen completely. It has to be Hangman lads.

[Kamran]

They've released some posters, which I've added to the first post. Once again, I love the Toni Storm one, you can tell whoever is doing them is having a lot of fun.

[Gooner]

Very average card on paper, hopefully anyone who is paying and staying up late to watch, enjoy themselves. 

To win:

Jon Moxley

Toni Storm

Kenny Omega 

Death Riders 

Adam Cole

The Hurt Business 

Will Ospreay

Mercedes Mone

Bandido