AEW Dynamite 1/21/2026

AEW Dynamite 1/21/2026

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/aew-dynamite-1142026-maximum-carnage.html

We are in Orlando, FL. Excalibur, Tony Schiavone and Taz are on commentary.

Tony Schiavone interviews MJF in the ring. He brags about himself.  He talks about his title belt and says it costs more than the fans had in their bank accounts. He says he's the world champ. He says it's the year of the devil and nobody is on his level. Brody King comes down and gets on the mic. King says all he can think of is the various ways he wants to hurt him. He says nothing else would give him more joy than ripping out his spine. He says we all know MJF is just a b!tch.

King says he wants a match with him tonight. MJF says no. MJF says King is all bark and no bite. He says King has only beaten tomato can's and jobbers. He says he needs to beat elite talent and says the match won't take place until he does. He says if King interrupts him again, they will have a problem. MJF then backs off and says he has to go.  

Jetspeed and Adam Page are interviewed. Page says they are the trios team and need a name. They offer some silly names. Page says he's fighting Shibata on Collision. Mike says he expects Kevin to do what he does best vs Swerve tonight. Page tells Mike that Joe hits hard and if he can outlast him, he can beat him. Kevin asks Page how he should beat Swerve. Page says it'll be a hell of a main event.

Samoa Joe vs Mike Bailey

Joe stalls outside to start. Joe backs him up in the corner and hits punches and headbutts. They trade forearms and Joe headbutts him. Mike facekicks him twice. Mike hits leg and chest kicks. Mike dropkicks him out. Joe blocks a baseball slide and chops him down outside. 

Mike's head is banged off the rails. Mike flying kicks him outside. Mike baseball slides him then asai moonsaults him outside. Hook and Shibata come out. Joe back elbows Mike and boots him out of the ring. Hook and Shibata stomp Mike outside. Mike is sent into the apron edge.  

We go to PiP break and return. They chop each other in the corner.  Mike boots him out of the corner and enzugiri's him from the apron. Mike top rope dropkicks him. Mike hits kicks on Joe then misses a running ssp. Joe misses a senton. Mike superkicks him. Mike top rope ssp's Joe for 2. They trade shots on the apron. Mike sweeps him on the apron then misses a standing moonsault double knee there. Shibata suplexes Mike on the apron and holds on to suplex him on the floor. Shibata then drops him knee first on his knee.

Joe stomps on Mike. Mike chops Joe in the ring. Joe drops Mike on his knees. Joe hits punches and then leg kicks him. Joe rolls Mike into an ankle lock. Joe hits leg kicks. Mike does a crane kick. Mike PK's him and moonsault double knee drops him. Mike buzzsaw kicks him for 2.

Mike corkscrew kicks him in the corner. Mike holds his leg after a missed 2nd rope move. Mike rolls up Joe for 2. Joe goes for a choke and Mike rolls him up for 2. Mike spin kicks him in the face. Shibata and Hook interrupt. Joe muscle busters Mike and wins.

Thoughts: Mike won as expected here. It went a lot longer than I thought the match was fine but there was a lot of interference that got a little annoying. These two matched up pretty well and hit each other hard.  

Street Fight - The Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta and Daniel Garcia) vs The Don Callis Family (Rocky Romero, Hechicero and Lance Archer)

Don Callis is on commentary. Lance and Mox fight in the aisle. Yuta hits punches on Hech on the ramp. DG stomps a trash can into Hech's leg, DG ankle locks Hech on the ramp. Hech seemingly taps out but the ref ignores it (the announcers stupidly bring this up and you can see Taz looking confused). Rocky hits Yuta with a trash can lid then hits DG with it too.

Mox hits mounted corner punches on Lance. Lance takes corner attacks. Lance is held for a dropkick then double clotheslined over the top. Lance chokeslams Yuta through a table. We go to PiP break and return. 

Yuta has a trash can on his head and is double basement dropkicked. Mox is triple teamed. Mox throws a trash can at Hech and RR is bakcb ody dropped over the top by him. Mox hits forearms on Lance. Lance crossbodies Mox. Marina Shafir gets behind Lance. Lance sets up a table in the corner. Lance grabs her by the throat and MS triangles him. MS grabs his ankle and Mox cutters Lance. 

Lance running slams Mox through a table. DG chops Lance. Yuta flying knees Lance. Lance takes a flying knee + STO combo. Hech and RR do stereo submissions. DG and Yuta then put stereo submissions on. Yuta is lariated over the top. Mox double ddt's RR and Hech. 

Mox grabs a barbed wire glass board. RR guillotines Mox in mid-air. Lance chokeslams Mox on the barbed wire and glass. Lance cannonballs The Riders off the apron. Pac hits Lance with a crutch on the ramp. Claudio then hits Lance with the crutch and bangs his head off something that sparks.

MS low blows Hech. Mox bulldog chokes RR in the ring. DG piledrivers RR. DG sharpshooters RR. Mox curbstomps RR while he's in it and the ref says RR is out. The Death Riders win.

Thoughts: It was an okay brawl here. Nothing too memorable and Mox  only got some blood on his back from the glass with no one else bleeding. Mox going into the barbed wire glass was the big moment of this one. The Death Riders won but the victor didn't matter that much here.

Mox gets in Don Callis' face at commentary and says  to tell his boy where to find him. 

Thekla's crew does a promo. Thek says they give title shots to everyone but Kris Statlander gets mad when she pins her. She says she will give her one week to enjoy her life and prepapre her friends and family. She says she wants her title shot next week. Hart says Willow is the TBS champ and they never had their rematch so she wants it on Collision. Thek then spits in the camera and says to drown in the taste of toxic.

FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) vs Alec Price and Jordan Oliver

Big Stoke says AP and JO picked the wrong night to try and impress the world. Stoke says he hopes Mark Davis and Jake Doyle are watching. He says visit helpbigstoke.com and donate something for his injuries. He says to give it up for FTR.

Cash wristlocks JO then waistlock takedowns him. Cash side headlcoks him. Cash shoulders him over twice. Cash cradles him for 2. Cash chops him in the corner. JO goes up and over him then hiptosses him. JO double chops and dropkicks him. Dax is then dropkicked too. JO's team htis stereo topes.

AP suicide dives outside. JO top rope crossbodies Cash then AP top rope M. Bison stomps Cash for 2. Cash lariats AP. Cash htis chops and euros on AP in the corner. Dax takes a fameasser and a low dropkick. JO backrolls Dax for 2 then sunset flips him for 2. Dax lariat JO over then flapjacks AP. Dax short arm lariats AP. 

Dax chops JO in the corner. JO bodypresses Dax down when Dax can't superplex him. JO gets a 2 count on it. AP boots Cash on the apron and JO is thrown out. AP takes a big rig and is pinned.

Thoughts: The faces were a little sloppy here. They flipped and flew around as expected. It was alright but I don't love debuting teams with losses and that's what they did here.

Kris, Willow and Harley do a promo. Kris says Thekla doesn't know who she is. She says her mind is greater than Thek thinks. She says if anyone wants an eliminator match on Collision, she will show what she is about. Willow agrees to Hart's rematch idea and says she can't wait to powerbomb her again. Harley says she will also be there. She says don't think they forgot about Skye and she says they will punch her in the face if she gets involved.  

Kenny Omega vs Josh Alexander

KO gets hit from behind during his entrance and he rolls down the ramp. JA rams him into the apron edge. Don Callis hits KO in front of the ref but they say the bell didn't ring so it's okay. JA chokes Kenny with something then throws him into the steps. KO hits punches on JA then moonsaults off the rail onto him. KO slingshot plancha's him outside.

The match officially starts. KO hits chops on JA. KO boots him and headbusters him. KO hurricanrana's JA. KO facekicks JA off the apron. JA drops KO on the apron with a slam. We go to PiP break and return. KO chops JA then JA knees him in the gut. JA torture rack bombs him for 2. 

JA boma-ye's him. JA hits a green bay plunge for 2. JA is sent into the post then KO dragon suplexes him on the exposed floor. KO tope con hilos him outside. KO top rope dropkicks him from behind. KO ushigoroshi's him for 2. JA gamengiri's him. JA goes for a suplex over the top and both fall outside.

They trade forearms outside. JA's head is banged off the commentary table. KO then chases Don Callis away. JA ankle locks him outside and bangs KO's leg off the apron edge. JA crossbodies KO's back on the apron. KO pumping knees him on the ropes, powerbombs him the running pumping knees him for 2. KO hits a one winged angel on JA and wins.

Thoughts: I didn't like it. Josh took a dragon suplex on the exposed floor and wrestled for another 10 minutes without an issue. That should have taken him out yet it meant nothing here. I also didn't like the nonsense with the "match not starting" despite them being out there and fighting.

Omega says Don Callis struck while he wasn't at 100%. He says he hasn't felt this good in years. He says Don doesn't have one member that can beat him at where he's at now. 

Taz does a breakdown of MJF's armbar and crossface on Bandido. Taz did one or two these a long time ago, stopped, then revived it here.

Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford vs Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa

The faces head in and the fight starts. The faces hit shots on the heels. Toni boots Meg in the corner. Mina and Toni PK Meg. Toni twisting drops Mina onto Meg. Mina slingshot tornillo's Meg for 2.  Meg lariats Mina then fallaway slams Toni. Meg throws Mina out onto Toni but overshoots and Mina lands on the floor. Mina is down for a bit after this then Meg throws Ford onto them. 

We go to PiP break and return. Meg gets a 2 count on Mina. Meg chops Mina in the corner. Mina boots Meg out of the corner. Meg germans Mina. Mina top rope dropkicks Meg. 

Toni comes in and hits dropkicks and snapmares on Ford. She facekicks her. Toni germans Ford. Toni corner hip attacks Ford. The faces double hip attack the heels off the apron. Mina goes up the buckles and plancha's the heels outside. Mina top rope diving slingblades Ford for 2. 

Mina high kicks Meg. Meg flying facekicks Mina then throws Ford into a cutter on Mina for 2. Toni ddt's Meg then ford stunners Toni. Mina urakens Ford. Meg flying lariats Mina. Mina takes a doomsday device and is pinned. Marina Shafira comes out and does mother's milk on Toni.

Thoughts: It was a good tag here. Mina was definitely rocked from being thrown to the floor and Shafir was late on her run-in at the end but the actual work was good. I thought the girls hustled and Toni tried hard.

Swerve Strickland vs Kevin Knight

They lock up. SS firemans' carry takeovers him. SS throws him. SS takes him over and headscissors him from the mat. KK headflips out. SS takes KK down. KK armdrags him into an armlock. SS is pulled over the top but flips on the apron. KK slingshot plancha's him outside. KK top rope crossbodies SS then does a dance.

KK is sat up top and SS chops him down to the floor. KK back body drops him off the steps to the floor. KK steps up to the apron and dropkicks SS outside. MJF is watching in a skybox. We go to PiP break and return. 

SS torture rack backreakers KK. SS dances. KK hits forearms and punches him. KK suplexes him. KK hits punches and jumping lariats him. KK slams him. SS rolls into a flatliner on him. SS running facekicks him. KK sunset bombs SS then rolls into a jumping ddt on him. 

They go on the apron and SS death valley drivers him on the apron. SS piledrivers him on the rail top. 
SS top rope 450's KK. He then dragon sleepers him. SS goes up top and the crowd chants, "please be careful". KK top rope hurricanrana's him down. KK coast to coast dropkicks him. KK hits a top rope 180 splash for 2. KK does a house call kick on SS. They trade shots and pump kick each other at the same time. SS flying house call kicks him in the air. SS hits a kudo driver on him. SS hits a JML driver on him and pins him.

Thoughts: It was a bit of a longer bout. I liked KK copying some of Swerve's stuff and trying to show him up with SS eventually putting him down. I would have cut some of the stuff out like the death valley driver on the apron. I thought it was an okay bout overall though. 

Overall thoughts: They went until 10:12PM here which I didn't appreciate. It was a very wrestling heavy show with only the opening segment not being wrestling focused. I didn't like Kenny/Josh but I thought the rest of the matches were fine. I would say the main was the best match of the night here. I'd give this a 6 out of 10 as they had a lot of good wrestling but not much else. This was an okay show but it was a little long.