AEW Dynamite Results: Review, Grades, Card For April 15
Welcome to the Spring BreakThru, folks. Tonight’s episode of AEW Dynamite features multiple title matches and more. The show is headlined by MJF putting his AEW World Championship up against Darby Allin, and will also feature a TNT Championship Match between “The Jet” Kevin Knight and Claudio Castagnoli, and a TBS Championship Match between Willow Nightingale and Kamille, among much more.
AEW Dynamite Card
- Will Ospreay vs. Hechicero
- Tommaso Ciampa vs. Dezmond Xavier
- Renee Paquette interviews Chris Jericho
- TNT Championship: “The Jet” Kevin Knight (c) vs. Claudio Castagnoli
- TBS Championship: Willow Nightingale (c) vs. Kamille
- AEW World Championship: MJF (c) vs. Darby Allin
AEW Dynamite Results
The show opens up with MJF pulling up in an SUV, and interrupting Renee Paquette talking about his upcoming match. MJF goes on a rant about beating “Hangman” Page, and laughs off Paquette as she tries to bring up Darby, who MJF casually dismisses as noting that he’s beaten him twice already, before bragging about how he banished Page from getting a title shot again. Paquette tries to tell MJF that Allin wants a match, but Don Callis interrupts the pair, and the two go back-and-forth for a bit as Don reveals that Andrade lost his match, which MJF didn’t know.
Paquette finally yells and tells MJF he has a title match tonight, and right now, in fact. An irate MJF storms off, demanding to know what’s going on. Meanwhile, Darby is making his entrance, and MJF is right behind him. In the ring, MJF screams he wasn’t ready for a match he just found out about three seconds ago. He keeps going on about how much money he has and derides Tony Khan, then asks how it would look if AEW forced him to wrestle while hurt.
MJF says he knows Allin is a talented wrestler, but that he’s actually doing him a favor by not wrestling. He says the reason people love him is because he’s like them in that he’s a good-but-not-great person. He tells Darby he isn’t ready to become champion, to which Allin says if he’s not ready now, he’ll never be ready. Allin said he’s killed himself for AEW, and while crying, Allin says that he always told himself he’d climb to the top of the sport. MJF tries calming him down, and tells him the match isn’t happening right now.
That’s when Bryan Danielson pops up from the commentary desk. He said he spoke to Tony Khan and MJF is right, the match isn’t happening right now…it’s happening later tonight, as the main event of the show. An irate MJF can’t believe it, but the crowd is going crazy for it.
A brief video of Kenny Omega entering the training room following his AEW Dynasty match is shown. He says he and Will Ospreay spoke and agreed they didn’t get the outcomes they wanted. Omega says he felt like he let everyone down. Ospreay said it’s still his dream to become AEW Champion, and he hadn’t given up on that dream just yet, before noting that Omega was his hero.
Tommaso Ciampa vs. Dezmond Xavier
- Ciampa wins this one in a quick match, getting the win after hitting Xavier with a Project Ciampa and running knee strike.
Winner – Tommaso Ciampa
After the match, Ciampa took to the microphone and said that Xavier was just an example of what he could do. He then directed a message at Allin, saying it didn’t matter who won tonight, that he was coming for the AEW World Championship.
Grade – C+
It was an okay match, but obviously more so geared toward setting up Ciampa as someone who will be going after the big title eventually.
FTR comes down to the ring, and Dax Harwood immediately starts calling all the crowd members fat and losers. Stokely gets on the microphone and says FTR is the Goliath of AEW, and there are just nothing but David’s in the rest of the tag team division. Cash then took the microphone and said that he wanted to hold a moment of silence for the careers of Copeland and Christian Cage.
TNT Championship: “Jet” Kevin Knight (c) vs. Claudio Castagnoli
- Knight retains his title here in a back-and-forth battle against Claudio. The match comes to an end after Claudio looked primed to win, throwing around Knight for a Giant Swing. However, after going for a catapult in the corner, Knight leapt out of the way, and then hit a big splash. He then won with a UFO Splash.
Winner – Kevin Knight
After the match, the pair showed each other some respect, with Knight calling Castagnoli one of the hardest hitting stars he’s ever been in the ring with. He then turned his attention to Mike Bailey, noting that he knows Bailey is upset with himself, but says that when one door closes, another opens. Knight said he was also keeping his eye on the main event, too.
Grade – B-
This was a decent match, but felt pretty predictable in terms of outcome. I guess Knight is also going after a bigger title, so we’ll see how that goes.
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