Date: 10/12	7:00 PM
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Tonight, a very special episode of Dynamite, coming, for the first time, from Canada, specifically the largest city in Canada, Toronto! I already know it's a great show, because I'm doing this recap from a replay after having been there live last night! I needed to see if I was on TV. In the main event, Orange Cassidy challenges PAC for the All Atlantic Championship, while elsewhere on the card, Chris Jericho defends the ROH World Championship against Bryan Danielson, Daddy Ass fights Swerve, and Jungle Boy looks for revenge against former best friend Luchasaurus.

Renee Paquette comes out to kick off the show. The pop wasn't as loud as it was, like, three minutes earlier when she came out before the show to introduce Tony Khan. It's still a huge pop though.

She introduces herself, then Christian Cage.

Renee: "Christian, how does it feel to be here, back in Toronto?"

"It feels great to be back in Toronto, and as the face of not only the city of Toronto but the country of Canada, I'm going to go ahead and guarantee a victory tonight, and this guarantee is locked in, it's like the Toronto Maple Leafs going out in the first round of the playoffs, it's guaranteed. (This gets a mixed reaction from the crowd) Now introducing my right hand of destruction, Luchasaurus!"

Match One: Luchasaurus vs. Jungle Boy

Christian stays at the commentary table.

JB opens with a running dropkick, chop, punches in the corner, chages, Lucha presses him to the apron, JB with a shoulder tackle, dropkick into the middle rope, stands on Luchasaurus, drops down to the floor, punch, stares at Christian, wrenches Lucha's arm, both men back in the ring, Lucha with an overhead takedown into a German, JB with a chop, Lucha sets him up top, punches him to the floor, grabs the announce table, sets it up at ringside, Razor's Edge, blocked, JB with a punch, Lucha shoves him into the ring post, misses a chop and hits his hand on the ring post, JB wrenches his arm in the ring post, boot, kick on the floor, chop, arm wrench, Lucha shoves him into the apron, then into the barricade, then into a different part of the barricade, breaks the count, back suplex onto the apron, both men into the ring, stomp, strips the bandages from JB's back, punch to the back, JB with chops, Lucha with a suplex, shoulder tackle in the corner, chop, JB with a chop, Lucha with a whip, JB sells hard, Lucha stands on his head, then does it again, a third time, a fourth time, JB powers his way out, slides away, ducks a spear in the corner, Lucha lays out across the table, JB with a suicide dive, reversed into a chokeslam, reversed into a hurricanrana into the ring post, JB with a fireman's carry on the apron, blocked, Lucha goes for a Razor's Edge, blocked, JB with a forearm, superkick, shoulder tackle, sunset bomb through the table, Christian leaves the booth and heads down, JB rolls Lucha into the ring, staredown with Christian, Luchasaurus sits up, the crowd starts chanting "Edge is better" at Christian, Lucha and JB trade shots in the ring, Lucha with a backwards DVD, sets JB up top, follows, JB with punches, slides through, crotches Lucha, punch to the back, mounted punches, tree of woe, running dropkick, reversed into a leg-initiated takedown, chokeslam for two, burning hammer, blocked with elbows, JB goes for a DDT, reversed into a burning hammer, reversed into a crucifix bomb for two, Killswitch, reversed into an electric chair, reversed into a poison rana, Killswitch for two, snare trap, Luchasaurus nearly makes the rope, JB hooks the arm, Lucha gets the other hand around the rope, Christian blocks JB from draggin Lucha back into the middle of the ring, JB chases Christian, thinks better of it, goes up top, Christian with a distraction, Lucha with a chokeslam from the top, Burning Hammer for three.

Winner: Luchasaurus

Backstage, The Firm announce they've bought Private Party's contracts. Matt Hardy and Private Party walk in and protest. Hardy challenges Ethan Page to a match. Page suggests Page vs. Kassidy on Rampage. Kassidy wins, Private Party are free. Page wins, Matt Hardy has to join The Firm. Hardy accepts.

Back in the ring, QT Marshall calls the name WarJoe uncreative. Before the show came back from commercial, he also vowed not to let AEW come back to Canada for another three years, then threatened to make it 20 if the crowd complained.

Match Two: WarJoe vs. QT Marshall and Nick Comoroto

Factory go for a sneak attack, it does not do them very well, Joe with a Manhattan Drop to QT, running senton, punches, sets him up top, Wardlow escapes getting his ass beat on the floor long enough to run in, Joe beats him down, QT goes for a top rope splash, Joe walks off, tags in Wardlow, Wardlor beats down QT in the corner, headbutt, lariat, Comoroto in, Wardlow with a belly to belly, another, goes for a third, Comoroto with punches, shoulder tackles in the corner, body slam, blocked, Wardlow with a spinebuster, Joe in, holds Comoroto down for a Wardlow top rope senton, Joe locks in the rear naked choke, Comoroto passes out.

Winners: WarJoe

Joe feeds QT to Wardlow for a powerbomb. He goes for another, but The Embassy interrupt. They take issue with WarJoe getting involved with Embassy business last week. FTR come out  to a huge pop.

Dax says he can't ask WarJoe to wrestle again, so they found a new partner to face them at Rampage. Shawn Spears comes out! He rolls Aaron Solow into the ring for a Big Rig from FTR.

Backstage, JAS say they haven't heard from Danny Garcia all week, and they want revenge for that fact.

Match Three: Billy Gunn vs. Swerve Strickland

The Acclaimed's entrance rap includes references to Austin Matthews, hosers, and Trudeau wearing blackface.

Swerve with a slap, Gunn presses him to the corner, side headlock, Swerve whips out, Gunn with a tackle, clothesline, toss to the corner, Swerve leaps to the apron, elbow, dropkick, punch to the kidney on the floor, shove into the steel steps, rolls Gunn into the ring, cover for one, chinlock, whip, reversed, Swerve with a boot from the corner, top rope boot to the back of the leg, slams Gunn's knee into the mat, wrenches the leg, Gunn powers out, to his feet, Swerve with a punch, Gunn goes for a suplex, blocked, Swerve shoves Gunn to the floor, suicide knee drop, punches through the ropes, Gunn with a body slam, clothesline, another, jackhammer, misses a fameasser, misses a boot in the corner, Swerve drops that knee across his shoulder, Flatliner, top rope double foot stomp for two, misses a stom, Gunn with a rollup into a half nelson slam, reversed into a rollup in the ropes for three.

Winner: Swerve Strickland

The Acclaimed run out to check on Gunn. They go for a three-way scissor, but Mark Sterling comes out with Neese and Woods to announce he now ownes the trademark for "scissor me" in wrestling.

Alex Marvez is about to interview MJF about his pseudo face turn. Stokely Hathaway starts to interrupt, and MJF says last week was strike one, interrupting him was strike two. He gets back to Marvez, and says that he and Regal have a dark past that Regal probably doesn't remember, that he honestly can't say whether or not he was going to shake Yuta's hand, that he was taught at a young age that nice guys finish last, he knows everyone hates him, but he has no choice but to be the bad guy. He says he doesn't like himself either when he walks through the curtain, but it's what it takes.

After a commercial, Schiavone introduces Moxley.

"Jon Moxley, we are six days away from you defending the world title in your home town, not against just anyone, against the former world champion, Hangman Page."

"After three years, damn it's good to be in Toronto! And for much of that three years, I have been the AEW World Champion, and they have come from far and wide, all sizes, shapes, and styles to try to knock me off the mountain. They all think they have what it takes, but they haven't walked a mile in my shoes. Being champion isn't easy. You have a target on your back, everyone wants a piece of you, you wake up in pain every day. Some guys get there and crumple under the pressure, some faster than others. The world champion doesn't have the luxury of being anxious, there is no time for hesitation or ambiguity. But goddamn I love this job. But that does bring me to our boy, the cowboy, Hangman Adam Page."

Page comes out. "Whatever you have to say about me, I want you to say it to my face. Actually, you said it all last week. You said you respected me in the ring, you said you respected me as a person. And I would be lying if I didn't tell you that, coming from you, that meant the world to me. Because I have watched you for these past three years, and I've come to respect who you are in the ring, and who you are outside of it too. You are a hell of a champion, a hell of a father, a hell of a husband. And there have been times when I looked at you and saw the kind of man I wanted to me. (MJF appears in the sky box) You can watch all you want, you better listen. But you shattered all the illusions I had about you last week when you called me a nice kid. A kid, is that how you look at me? Am I a kid to you?"

"That's exactly what I think about you. I don't think you're the same guy who knocked me off a ladder a year ago. Next week, if you have the shot to take me out, I don't think you've got it in your guts to pull the trigger."

"Yeah, maybe you're right, maybe I'm not the same guy I was this time last year. I hesitated in May, and it cost me the championship. I went for the trios championship with my best friends, and we failed. And I have to watch week after week as they seemingly disappear. My old friends, they did disappear. So maybe I'm not the same guy. I'm angry, I can't sleep at night, I'm anxious, I'm depressed, the medicine is not working, but I'm still here because I am a man! I'm a former tag team champion, I'm a former world champion, I've watched my family members be lowered into the ground, and I've brought new life into this world, and I keep coming back because I'm a man! I know what I have to do next week in Cincinnati, and I don't care if your cousins are there, your sister is there, your mother is in the crowd, I will beat you to within an inch of your life to take back what I never should have lost. I have nothing left, just my shot and my word. So this is my word. I will be the next AEW World Champion. That is my word. And unlike him (MJF) I wanted to come out here and make sure I could tell you that face to face, man to man."

He shoulder bumps Mox on his way out, they stare each other down, and Page leaves.

They show a promo for the ROH World Title match.

Match Four: ROH World Championship: Chris Jericho (c) vs. Bryan Danielson

They play just enough of Judas for the crowd to start singing along before they switch to White Zombie.

Jericho offers a hand facetiously, Bryan kicks it away, trading strikes, Bryan with headbutts, clinch, knees, whip, reversed, Bryan with a catapult to the floor, suicide dive, body slam, the crowd sings Judas anyway, Bryan rolls Jericho into the ring, Jericho with a chop, Bryan with a headbutt, punches to the gut, kick, ten-punch, Jericho with chops, ten-punch, Bryan with chops, kick, chop, Jericho with chops, sets Bryan up top, chop, mounted punches, super hurricanrana, bow and arrow hold, toss into the apron, kidney punch, roundhouse kicks, cover for one as Jericho gets the bottom rope, Bryan with a shove, tackle, shove, kidney punch, Jericho with chops, Bryan with chops, kicks in the corner, body slam for two, trading strikes, Jericho with a whip, reversed, Jericho with a DDT, Bryan to the apron, Jericho with a springboard dropkick, suicide dive, chops on the floor, toss into the barricade, rolls Bryan into the ring, chop on the floor, Bryan with a clothesline, Yes Lock, reversed into Walls of Jericho, Bryan rolls back over, mounted elbows, locks in a Walls of Jericho of his own, Jericho powers out, rollup for two, Bryan with a roundhouse kick for two, elbows to the traps, Jericho to his feet, DVD for two, running kick, Lionsault, misses, Bryan goes up top, knee to the face, goes up top, knee, goes up top, Jericho catches him for a Codebreaker for two, trading chops, Jericho with a whip to the corner, Bryan floats over, misses a kick, Jericho shoves Bryan into the ref, mutual clothesline, Jericho grabs the ROH World Title, Garcia runs out, pulls the title out of Jericho's hands, says he doesn't need it, trading shoves, Bryan with a running knee to Jericho, Garcia levels Danielson with the title belt. Jericho covers for three.

Winner and STILL ROH World Champion: Chris Jericho

Backstage, Nyla Rose says she is the real TBS Champion because possession is nine tenths of the law. Anna Jay challenges her for Rampage. I actually don't think this was shown to the audience. Vickie starts to deny the challenge, Nyla accepts it anyway.

Match Five: Jamie Hayter and Britt Baker vs. Hikaru Shida and Interim Women's Champion Toni Storm

Jamie Hayter gets a huge reaction.

Shida and Hayter start off, Hayter with a shove, lockup, Shida shoves Hayter, Hayter with a boot to the gut, boot, chop in the ropes, whip, Shida with a dropkick, toss to the corner, Storm in, European uppercut, punches to the back, kick, toss to the corner, Hayter with a kick, mounted punches, cover for two, Baker with a foot choke, stands on Storm's face in the corner, Storm with an elbow, Hayter in, whip, tackle, kick to the back, chinlock, trading forearms, Hayter misses a punch, Storm with a clothesline, double tag, trading strikes, Shida with a jumping knee, ten-punch, Hayter tries to run in, gets punched herself, Shida with a superplex to Hayter, suplexes Baker on top of Hayter, middle rope meteora to Baker for two, Katana, blocked, Hayter with a backbreaker, Storm with a bulldog to Hayter, Baker with a neckbreaker to Storm, grabs the glove, Shida with forearms to both opponents, Hayter and Baker with a double superkick, Hayter with a clothesline, Baker with a stomp for two as Storm breaks the count, tosses Hayter to the floor, Baker with a boot, Storm responds with a DDT, Shida with an elbow, Storm hits Storm Zero, Shida covers for two as Hayter shoves Storm into the cover to break it up, Storm headbutts Hayter, Shida with a leaping knee, Storm with a DDT to Hayter on the floor, Baker reverses a falcon arrow into a rollup for two, lockjaw, Shida rolls her up for two, elbow, falcon arrow, trading rollups for two until Shida gets a three count!

Winners: Hikaru Shida and Toni Storm

Butcher and Blade challenge Mox and Claudio for Rampage.

Main Event: AEW All Atlantic Championship: PAC (c) vs. Orange Cassidy

Without giving anything away, this match is a banger.

Cassidy misses an Orange Punch, PAC with mixed strikes, leaping kick to the face, Cassidy with forearms, PAC with a running European uppercut in the corner, running boot in the corner, stuffs Cassidy's hands into his pockets, facetious roundhouse kicks, mocks the set-up for Cassidy's facetious superkick, Cassidy with a dropkick, suicide dive, reversed into a falcon arrow on the floor, PAC tosses Cassidy into the barricade, boot to the head, rolls Cassidy into the ring, boot to the back of the head, kick to the back of the head, another, drags him to the floor, drags him up the ramp, tombstone on the stage, runs back into the ring, Cassidy starts rolling down the ramp, stumbles on the floor, breaks the count at 9, PAC locks in the Brutalizer, Cassidy makes it to the rope, PAC goes for the hammer, ref blocks him, Cassidy with a suicide dive, suicide DDT, DDT in the ring, Orange Punch for two, PAC with a boot on the apron, piledriver, reversed into Beach Break, misses an Orange Punch, reversed into a Northern Lights, PAC locks the Brutalizer back in, Cassidy gets the ropes again, PAC goes for the hammer, a timekeeper blocks him, reveals himself to be Danhausen, curses PAC, PAC hits Danhausen with a forearm, the ref gets in his face again and tells him to put the hammer down, pulls it from his hands, PAC pulls another hammer from under the ring, Cassidy catches him with a punch, picks up the hammer, thinks about using it, the ref convinces him to hand it over, PAC with a rollup for two, Cassidy hits an Orange Punch, hits another for three!

Winner and NEW All Atlantic Champion: Orange Cassidy

After three years of being one of the most popular wrestlers in AEW, Orange Cassidy is finally a champion. Cassidy celebrates with orange confetti as Dynamite goes off the air.

After the show, Cassidy thanked the fans, and said that he doesn't like carrying things, so he asked for his backpack. Kris Statlander came out with the backpack, and they all celebrated together. Cassidy then spent a good fifteen minutes celebrating with fans, and Tony Khan ran out to join in.