AEW World Champion Will Ospreay and AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley will get a heated preview of their upcoming title showdown when Dynamite airs live from Norfolk, Virginia, on Wednesday, September 16, with just ten days remaining until All Out in Chicago.
Ospreay has already chosen his first challenger as champion, tapping Moxley for a showdown at All Out. Before that match happens, the two land on opposite sides of a six-man tag on Dynamite, with Ospreay teaming alongside AEW National Champion Andrade El Ídolo and Francesco Akira to face Moxley, PAC and Gabe Kidd. The tension has been building for weeks — PAC and Kidd have insisted they warned Moxley about bringing Ospreay in to train, and last week Kidd and The Dogs targeted Andrade after his National Title defense, only for Ospreay to make the save. With that history boiling over, the trios match figures to be more than a simple tune-up; it’s a live look at how these two former rivals-turned-training partners-turned-opponents interact with a title program now hanging over them.
Elsewhere on the card, Chris Jericho and Nick Wayne settle their grudge in singles competition for the first time on Dynamite. The feud escalated after Jericho suggested Wayne was the one pinned in the Casino Gauntlet at All In: London, prompting a low blow from Wayne and a retaliatory Judas Effect from Jericho following Wayne’s win over Komander on Collision. It’s a classic experience-versus-youth pairing that AEW has built patiently over several weeks.
The tag team division also gets a jolt, as AEW World Tag Team Champions Christian Cage and Adam Copeland aren’t waiting for their three-way ladder match at All Out to tangle with FTR again. They’ll team with TNT Champion Darby Allin and Steven Borden against Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler, and the Don Callis Family’s Kyle Fletcher and Kevin Knight. The eight-man tag ties together multiple threads — FTR and Stoke’s interference in last week’s Young Bucks tables match, and the ongoing conflict between Allin, Borden, and the Callis stable — setting up what should be one of the night’s most chaotic segments.
On the women’s side, AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champion Jamie Hayter steps into singles action against Lena Kross of Divine Dominion, a preview of the Chicago Street Fight rematch for the tag titles set for All Out. The Brawling Birds have been under pressure since winning the belts at All In: London, with Megan Bayne recently attacking Alex Windsor with a title belt, so Hayter will be looking to gain momentum heading into a stipulation that favors aggression over technical wrestling.
With All Out closing in, AEW is using this Dynamite to stack direct confrontations between opponents who’ll collide again in Chicago, giving fans a clearer sense of where these programs stand before the pay-per-view. Dynamite airs live at 8 p.m. ET on TBS and streams on HBO Max from the Chartway Arena at Ted Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, Virginia.
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