AEW WrestleDream 2024 takes place at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington. Featured matches on the card include Bryan Danielson facing off with Jon Moxley, a heated battle between Hangman Page and Jay White, and six other big title matches.
AEW WrestleDream Card:
- ROH World Television Championship: Atlantis Jr. (c) vs. Brian Cage
- MxM Collection (Mansoor and Mason Madden) (with TBA) vs. The Acclaimed (with Billy Gunn)
- Anna Jay vs. Harley Cameron (with Saraya)
- The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy and Kyle O’Reilly) and The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum) vs. The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds and John Silver) and Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari and Tony Nese)
- ROH World Championship: Mark Briscoe (c) vs. Chris Jericho (with Big Bill and Bryan Keith)
- Darby Allin vs. Brody King
- AEW TNT Championship: Jack Perry (c) vs. Katsuyori Shibata
- AEW International Championship: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Ricochet vs. Konosuke Takeshita
- AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) (c) vs. Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen)
- AEW Women’s World Championship: Mariah May (c) vs. Willow Nightingale
- “Hangman” Adam Page vs. Jay White
- 2 Out Of 3 Falls: Hologram vs. The Beast Mortos
- AEW World Championship: Bryan Danielson (c) vs. Jon Moxley (with Marina Shafir)
AEW WrestleDream Results:
ROH World TV Title: Atlantis Jr. (c) vs. Brian Cage
Cage won after hitting a Drill Claw. This was a fun opener on the Zero Hour portion of the broadcast. Quick match that featured a clash of styles, but Cage used strength to win in the end.
Winner and NEW ROH World Television Champion: Brian Cage
Grade: B –
Anna Jay vs. Harley Cameron
Anna Jay won after hitting her finisher, a reverse backpack facebuster-like move. The match itself was pretty slow with Harley playing the heel. Anna Jay’s finisher is pretty cool and it really popped the crowd at the end. What didn’t work, however, was the referee very obviously putting Harley’s left shoulder down before making the cover.
Winner – Anna Jay
Grade: B –
MxM Collection (w/ Rico) vs. The Acclaimed (with Billy Gunn)
The Acclaimed picks up the win after a top rope elbow drop. The humor in the feud is juvenile, but the ways they used it in the match itself worked. If there’s one complaint, this match went on a little too long. It would have been much better with a shorter time and/or a couple of the final stall spots eliminated. Rico was a real highlight here, seeing him share some screen time with Billy Gunn was great.
Winners – The Acclaimed
Grade: B –
Mercedes Moné and Kamille are walking through the backstage area and Mercedes is complaining about the amenities. They run into Queen Aminata, and they bicker a bit before parting ways.
Tony Khan then comes to the stage with some of Antonio Inoki’s family. He puts over Inoki and him being a dreamer. Tony then asked to lead the crowd in a chant of Inoki’s catchphrase. It came off awkwardly on TV, as it sounded like the crowd didn’t follow along with them.
The Conglomeration and The Outrunners vs. The Dark Order and Premier Athletes
The Outrunners are really over. The heels spent most of the match trying to keep Orange grounded. The Outrunners finally got the hot tag and cleared house. Josh Woods got involved, but Rocky Romero laid him out. After a bit of a melee, Turbo Floyd “hulked up” and beat up Daivari and set him up for Orange Cassidy. Orange had a pin after an Orange Punch, but Mark Sterling breaks up the pin. Sterling gets attacked, we see a dive to the floor as The Outrunners hit their finisher for the win.
Winners – The Conglomeration and The Outrunners
This was definitely a crowd participation match. Uno throwing the papers at Orange after he’d been worked over by three of his opponents was hilarious. This match was an interesting choice considering it followed another comedy tag team match. If anything, this match did a better job of keeping the crowd into it.
Grade: B
Kyle O’Reilly approaches Kazuchika Okada and says it’s good to see him, and points out that they’ve never wrestled before. O’Reilly asks for a match, and Okada thinks about. Okada says hell no … bitch! O’Reilly says that’s ok, he should have tried a different approach. He decks Okada, and they scrap before security runs in. Christopher Daniels throws them both out of the building.
Hangman Page vs. Jay White
White tries to use Hangman’s temper against him. They start off slow before things pick up after a suplex by White. They head up top, but Hangman shoves his thumbs into White’s eyes. White gets Hangman in a tree of woe and chops the heck out of him before poking Hangman’s eyes. White turned for a moment, and Hangman hit a Death Valley Driver on the apron.
Hangman powerbombed White on the steps, and it looked brutal. Hangman brought a belt out and went to whip White, but the referee stopped him. White got up on the ramp and dared Hangman to hit him, but ducked an attack and viciously slammed Hangman’s knee off the side of the stage.
Hangman teased Buckshot throughout the match. His injured knee slowed his final attempt. Hangman leaped in, but White countered with Blade Runner for the win.
Winner – Jay White
Grade: A
This was violent and made great use of its time. It started off slow and built quickly. I love how White hurting Hangman’s knee on the stage came into play as it cost Hangman the match. This, and Hangman’s temper, really added to the story they told here.
AEW Women’s World Championship: Mariah May (c) vs. Willow Nightingale
Willow overcame Mariah’s early offense and put her in a nasty-looking variation of a Figure Four. Willow slammed Mariah head and hit a cannonball, but came up empty on a moonsault. Mariah connected with a double dropkick and follows with MayDay for two! Mariah couldn’t believe Willow kicked out. They reverse each other a few times before Willow drops Mariah with a stiff kick. Willow hits a Death Valley Driver in the corner, but Mariah somehow kicks out.
Mariah goes for a headscissors on the ropes, but Willow blocks it and nearly hits a super powerbomb. Mariah blocks and hits a hurricanrana, then follows with a knee strike and Storm Zero to retain.
Winner – Mariah May
Grade: B+
Just like they said on commentary, Mariah earned this one. Willow was a great opponent for her. I’m a little surprised we didn’t advance on the Toni Storm end of things, but it didn’t take away from the match, either.
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AEW TNT Championship: Jack Perry (c) vs. Katsuyori Shibata
Shibata was calm as a cucumber, no matter what Perry through at him. Shibata used chops to his advantage early on, which popped the crowd. Perry spit in his face, and Shibata remained calm. It got a little more heated after this, with Shibata laying it in a little harder with kicks and punches.
Shibata took control towards the end, hitting a Death Valley Driver and a fireman’s carry into a kneebreaker. Shibata applied a sleeper and grapevined it, but Perry leaned back and pins him!
Winner – Jack Perry
Perry attacked Shibata after the bell and lays him out with the TNT Championship. Daniel Garcia comes out and makes the save, getting in Perry’s face. Perry leaves, and MJF returns! He talks trash to Garcia, and Perry sneaks back in a decks Garcia with the title. MJF gloats at having the upper hand, then pummels Garcia with punches. MJF cuts a promo as he keeps attacking Garcia, and he says he got his Dynamite Diamond back. He says he’s going to make Garcia kiss it, but Adam Cole cuts him off! MJF mocks Cole and asks what he’s going to do about it, then Cole runs to the ring and MJF runs, realizing Cole is healthy now.
Grade: B+
I like the ending a lot! (The pin and the run-ins!) The match itself was decent, and the pinfall was smart. Shibata looked dominant, but Perry gets a lucky, but clean win. He keeps his heat after the match by hitting Garcia with the title, then gets out of the way. Garcia didn’t really get that beat up here, so the way MJF delivered his promo over him made him look a bit weak. Despite that, I like how they linked MJF and Cole’s return. We never resolved the devil storyline, and now they have switched it to Cole as the face and MJF as the heel.
AEW International Title: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Ricochet vs. Konosuke Takeshita
Things got interesting when Ricochet and Ospreay teamed up for a bit. Takeshita used his power to hold his own and stay in it. There was an insane sequence in the middle of the bout where Ospreay took a lariat from Takeshita, did a flip and landed on his feet, He rebounded off the ropes and took out Takeshita, but Ricochet hit him with a 450º. Takeshita popped the crowd after hitting a German suplex on both opponents.
Takeshita sends Ricochet through a table with a cradle driver. Ospreay goes to pin Takeshita but Don Callis pulls the ref outside. Ospreay drives to attack him, but a guy in a hood runs in an attacks him. It’s Kyle Fletcher! Ospreay can’t believe it, then turns to look at Callis as he holds him head. Takeshita pulls his elbow pad down and knees Ospreay and makes the cover as Fletcher looks on at ringside.
Winner AND NEW International Champion – Konosuke Takeshita
Grade: B+
“What have you done, Kyle Fletcher?” The match itself was really good, although it’s slightly disappointing that hijinks interrupt another match involving Ospreay and Ricochet. It will be interesting to see where they go from here. Props to Excalibur for using the word “compunction.”
Jerry Lynn and Orange Cassidy are shown backstage. Jerry says if he wanted to, he could be the man in AEW. HOOK walks over and tells Orange to listen to Jerry, because Orange is the man.
Swerve Strickland is in the house
Swerve thanks the fans for the reception, but he will cut to the chase. Regarding his health, he says he is still feeling it a bit, and he’s got some tingling. He says it seems like the things he said about Bryan Danielson are following him now… but he is cleared. Swerve wants to talk about his future, but MVP and Shelton Benjamin cut him off.
MVP says Swerve hasn’t gotten back to him, so he must be deep in thought about his offer. He says Swerve is floundering a bit, but he can help out. MVP wants to talk business, but Swerve brings up their past together. Swerve says he learned a lot from MVP, and Shelton was a big inspiration to him. He weighs the pros and cons of siding with Nana and MVP, but calls Nana family and says he doesn’t turn on family.
Shelton threatens Swerve and says they weren’t giving him an offer, he’s either with them or against them. Nana and MVP try to get in their way, and Christopher Daniels runs out with a group of security before it goes any further.
We didn’t get Lashley here. However, it was more surprising that this basically ended without physicality. Swerve took a great dig at Nana and said he “still sells weed to high school kids in hotel parking lots,” which got a pop from the crowd. This could’ve been a TV segment, but it worked here.
2 Out Of 3 Falls: Hologram vs. The Beast Mortos
Hologram wins the match. Hologram won the first fall before Mortos evened things up. Commentary pointed out how this was technically the first time Hologram has been pinned in an AEW ring.
There was a really close call where Hologram hit a reverse hurricanrana on the apron, but landed on his head. He was fine and connected with a dive off of the turnbuckles. Hologram finally got the pinfall after hitting an airplane spin into a seated powerbomb.
Winner – Hologram
Grade: B-
This was a nice showcase for Hologram, but it really didn’t need to be on this show. I’m sure there’s a reason why, but this felt like there weren’t any stakes to the match other than bragging rights. It was nothing bad, but I wasn’t too invested in it overall.
Darby Allin vs. Brody King
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