Your Hosts : Jim Ross , Tony Shiavone & Excalibur
Tonight Darby Alin vs Chris Jericho for the AEW World Title happens as well as the tag team tournament continues as S.C.U vs Best Friends. This show is in Philadelphia PA. Home of the old ECW. SCU is out as they are suddenly attacked by the Lucha Brothers ! Jim Ross sells this as a literal mugging as Daniels is pile drove on the ramp way. Kazarian is saved by Scorpio Sky !
Daniels is out of this as they seemingly load Daniels on the stretcher. The Bucks and others join the scene as the referee tells Scorpio that Daniels can't go tonight. Scorpio declares he will take the spot then. He is taping his hands for it. Chuck Taylor and Trent Baretta . Kazarian starts out with Taylor but he's still selling his back as both Best Friends start working him over with crisp tags and get a near pin fall.
Trent takes over Scorpio with a back suplex and later Taylor bites his toes ? WTF ? Later both men work over Kazarian's back against the railing, Then outside they perform a good double team move on Scorpio and Kazarian. With him being thrown into Trent for a spear ! The Best Friends deliver the assisted suplex to Kazarian ! As they continue to work over his injured back.
The fans are hot for this match. Finally the heels get paid back as they let Kazarian get away by being arrogant. This allows a hot tag as Scorpio starts to deliver his offense. Jim Ross sells that Scorpio is the most athletic worker in AEW. Then outside we get some fun as Taylor misses Scorpio and delivers a suicide dive on his own partner. Then we see Kazarian deliver an outside huricanrana ! Finally its time for Scorpio Sky fly ! He lands on his feet with a splash and kicks off his last shoe.
SCU nearly gets the pin as Kazarian and Sky deliver a good double team move. But Kazarian is back in still selling his hurt back. The soul food move to the face. The Best Friends waste time as Sky stops the hug in middle of the ring. Sky later eats a combo out of the ring and we get this Hug as Excalibur sells it and Ross comically down plays it. Finally they deliver the doomsday knee from top rope on Kazarian and both do a combo pin...as Frankie KICKS OUT !
Baretta tries a pile driver on the apron as Scorpio saves his partner. Barretta later eats the double team finisher in ring from Sky and Kazarian . SCU wins after a hot good tag match. Kazarian gives props to Scorpio for what he did on short notice. Jim Ross claims a star was born tonight in Philadelphia.
Back to AEW after a long commercial break. In ring the tag team Pride & Powerful come out. This is Ortiz and Santana. Part of the Jericho "Inner Circle" we get these 2 men. Jim Ross sells the 2 men of having no conscious. The announcers plug the t-shirts. John Silver starts the match off as he weirdly does this crazy power pose. He eats a kick from Santana. The 2 men start working over Silver and Douglas is worked over outside where he was knocked.
Ortiz mocks Silver and his posing. While the 2 men deliver the street sweeper in this quick tag team squash match to get the finish. To sell them as a dangerous tag team for the division. Post match El Champion joins us on the tron. Plugging his tag team. Putting them over as street thugs and pit bulls. At Full Gear Santana & Ortiz wants the Young Bucks ! November 9th , at Full Gear do you accept the challenge Bucky Boys.
We get a video clip of Cody Rhodes in his kitchen as his wife details what he has to do this week media wise for AEW. Brandy claims he disappears when things like this happen as he is intent on being champion. On being World Champion. DDP sells how well he knows Cody and his family for years. We see Michelle Rhodes (his mom) who sells her son being so driven. Then we see Jim Ross & Tony Shiavone sell the schedule he's on doing meetings and training for Jericho. Shiavone puts over his talent. MJF is there discussing his friend as well.
Dr. Britt Baker is out challenging for the AEW Women's title. She is facing Riho who has a little girl in audience happy. Jim Ross sells Baker for being tough and not covering up her black eye in make up. Fans get behind Riho early. The 2 women have never faced each other in a single match as the 2 start trying each other out. The 2 try some amateur wrestling and both work their way to the ropes.
Baker tries the lockjaw submission but Riho gets her way to ring ropes. Later both start to work as they soon work their way to top turnbuckle for a spot. Baker attempts a super plex and later eats a diving cross body , she rolls over for a pin attempt. Riho matrixes out of it ! Later in a cool spot Riho reverses out and delivers a stomp from a roll up. She later tries a double stomp from top rope and misses. Baker delivers a running clothesline. Then later delivers a TKO in a spot !
Britt Baker goes for a pin at one time and Riho kicks out. Later in a fun spot Riho tries several pin attempts. Then in a quick move Baker nails a swinging fisherman's neck breaker and nearly gets the win ! Riho kicks out ! In a cool spot much later Riho does a north lights suplex into a pin attempt showing for a small girl she has some power. Then we get a spot where Riho tries a submission hold stretching Baker ! She later does a double stomp off the top rope as she works the back.
Riho misses the double knee strike in her 2nd attempt and Baker after another swinging neckbreaker tries to lock on lockjaw. But Riho won't open her mouth ! She reverses into a roll up pin ! Which was great to see as a finish. Jim Ross sells that Riho has been doing this for a long while since she was 9 years old. All 3 sell Britt Baker is gonna get better and be something down the road.
As an update on Daniels from earlier ; he suffered a neck stinger . He is up and active right now. The Lucha Brothers vs Jurassic Express is next up as we get a silly entrance for Jurassic Express. The Jurassic Express is Marko Stunt and Jungle Boy. Originally Luchasauris was supposed to be here but he has a thigh injury so he can't go. Pentagon & Rey Fenix are part of the Lucha Brothers.
Pentagon starts off with Marco Stunt who is like a little kid. He's mocked as is Jungle Boy as the 2 deliver a nice combo move on Pentagon. Then later Phoenix and Pentagon try to double team Stunt who manages a great reversal and is thrown at Phoenix and he gets caught with a DDT ! We see some great combo moves from Jungle Boy and Stunt and that lasts til Pentagon catches Stunt with a super kick in corner after he's tossed towards him.
Phoenix in a cool spot later (among cool spots) delivers an enziguri to Stunt off top turnbuckle and arm drag take down to Jungle Boy ! Then later in a spot Stunt is caught by Pentagon in a hard pump handle slam into pin attempt ! But by some wild miracle Stunt kicks out ! Pentagon clashes with the female referee who won't take his crap.
Back from commercial Marco Stunt is being beaten on. Jim Ross sells the little guy as taking a pure beating the entire time but staying up. Fans get behind Stunt to make that hot tag to finally Jack Perry. A fact Jim Ross sells his full name finally. Both Marco and Jungle Boy deliver some good tag team moves as Jim Ross pleads with Marco to rest in corner. Later Marco is swung by his hair in a spot. Then we see Pentagon deliver the arm breaker.
A foot stomp into pocket pile driver sets up the win for Lucha Brothers. Jim Ross sells them as a serious brutal tag team to set up the big match next week with Private Party !
Up next is Pac/Jon Moxley vs Hangman Page/Kenny Omega. Pac is going by the nickname "The Bastard" as Jim Ross jokes the time he finally got Pac to smile was saying he was very anti-social. Moxley comes out with his coat spray painted with MOX . He claims he doesn't want Pac as his partner , he is the top of the food chain in AEW. He wants Kenny Omega's head on his wall come Full Gear.
So we have 2 former WWE guys (Moxley and Pac) vs the AEW guys . Omega wants Moxley as Hangman tries to stop him. But as Moxley argues with Pac , he attacks to get revenge. Page is like fuck it and goes after Pac outside as now all 4 work making quick tags. Omega delivers the crusher to Pac over his head in a nice spot. Jim Ross sells this silly bit of team work Pac and Moxley are attempting to do.