AEW Fright Night Dynamite Results 10/30/24

It’s All Hallow’s Eve and we’ve got a special edition of Dynamite!

• Kamille vs. Kris Statlander
• Shelton Benjamin vs. Swerve Strickland
• Adam Cole vs. Buddy Matthews
• AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Young Bucks (c) vs. Private Party

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AEW Fright Night Dynamite

The Blackpool Combat Club (if that’s still their name?) is shown in a cold open, but wait, the video gets cut off and here’s Orange Cassidy walking to the ring!

Cassidy says he doesn’t do this and he doesn’t like this. Cassidy is no leader, but after last week when he watched his best friend Chuck Taylor get his neck crushed by a steel chair… Cassidy was surrounded by the people that he shouldn’t have been. Cassidy says these people are very very young, and he was surrounded by the future of AEW, and they’ve got no idea the danger they’re in. They don’t know how dangerous Jon Moxley is. Cassidy knew right then and there what he needed to do. Moxley doesn’t need AEW, and he never has. Cassidy needs AEW. Cassidy doesn’t exist without AEW. There is no me, no us, no this, without AEW.

Now, Cassidy knows what he needs to do. Cassidy needs to stop this, and cut the head off the snake. How? Jon Moxley. Full Gear. Cassidy will take the symbol of AEW, what it represents, out of Moxley’s back, and into Cassidy’s backpack. Cassidy isn’t hard to find, he’s where he is every single week. Right here, in this ring… because he’s “Freshly Squeezed” Orange Cassidy. And he’s the next AEW World Champion. And… he still doesn’t need a catchphrase.

Live from the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio with Tony Schiavone, Excalibur, and Matt Menard on commentary tonight, by the way.

Renee is with Mercedes Mone and Kamille. Renee wants a prediction, but Mercedes hates stupid questions. Renee wishes Kamille luck, but Mercedes tells her you don’t need luck when you’re with the CEO.

Match #1. Adam Cole vs. Buddy Matthews

Handshake to start, surprisingly. Matthews muscles Cole around to start. Cole retreats to the outside and drops off the apron, favoring his previously broken ankle. Cole tends to his ankle as Matthews punts him from the apron as we go to commercial break. Cole gets rolled in the ring and walks into a sleeper hold. Superplex off the top by Matthews and he holds on, but Cole reverses into a brainbuster on the knee! Both guys down now. DDT on the apron by Cole! Both guys fall to the floor. 7, 8, 9.. but Cole breaks the count. Cole is in the ring first and Matthews follows, but walks right into the HeatSeeker! Two count. Cole looks for Panama Sunrise but Matthews holds on, grabs the ankle, and DDTs the leg. Twice. Three times. Matthews then crushes Cole’s leg on the steel steps! Doc Sampson is here and calls it off, as Cole walks with him to the back. Matthews takes the mic and says the new Adam Cole is fragile, and the old Adam Cole wouldn’t walk away… and the new Adam Cole is a little bitch! Cole rushes back to the ring and it’s a hockey fight. Superkick by Cole. Another one. Cole wants the Shining Wizard but the knee buckles, allowing Matthews to hit the stomp! One, two, no! Doctor now looks at the ankle again and Matthews tells him to throw in the towel. Pump kick by Cole! Two. Enziguiri by Cole and a running knee to the face! Two count. Cole wants the Panama Sunrise but eats a knee to the face. Buckle bomb! Curb stomp! Cole is out at one! Elbows by Cole. Matthews runs into a superkick and the Panama Sunrise finally hits! Matthews rolls to the outside… another Panama Sunrise from the apron! Holy cow. Cole lowers the boom and this one is over!

Winner: Adam Cole

Rating: ***1/2. Slower pace to start but Cole showed no ill effects from the injury. Fun back and forth here and I think we often forget how good Buddy Matthews is.

Kyle O’Reilly is shown watching Adam Cole’s match from the back.

Cole takes the mic and thanks Buddy Matthews for reminding him who the hell the real Adam Cole is. Cole extends his hand and Matthews shakes.

LIGHTS GO OUT.

LIGHTS COME BACK ON.

Cole is now shaking the hand of Malakai Black, as Cole slowly walks to the back.