AEW Dynamite Results: Review, Grades, Card For August 20

By Matt Black

Our AEW Dynamite results for tonight include a trios matchup as the Death Riders take on Hiroshi Tanahashi and JetSpeed, FTR takes on Brodido in the World Tag Team Title Eliminator Finals, Adam Copeland and Christian Cage will speak with Tony Schiavone, Athena teams with Mercedes Moné to take on Alex Windsor and “Timeless” Toni Storm, and we’ll hear from AEW World Champion Hangman Page.

Tonight’s episode of Dynamite will take place at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland.

AEW Dynamite Card

The announced card is as follows:

  • Death Riders vs. JetSpeed and Hiroshi Tanahashi
  • AEW World Tag Team Title Eliminator Finals: FTR vs. Brodido
  • Mercedes Moné and Athena vs. Toni Storm and Alex Windsor
  • Adam Copeland and Christian Cage speak to Tony Schiavone
  • Will Ospreay goes face-to-face with Jon Moxley
  • We’ll hear from AEW World Champion Hangman Page
  • Bryan Danielson on commentary

AEW Dynamite Results:

This week’s episode of Dynamite kicks off with Bryan Danielson coming to the ring to join the commentary team for tonight’s show.

Danielson leads the crowd with some “YES!” chants before Will Ospreay makes his way to the ring.

Will Ospreay says it’s been one of the worst months of his life, but he can always trust Glasgow to cheer him on. Ospreay touches on some previous memories in Scotland. Ospreay says he got some bad news last week due to what Jon Moxley and the Death Riders did to him.

Will says he wasn’t cleared for Forbidden Door last week, so he took matters into his own hands. Ospreay says AEW isn’t responsible for anything that happens to him in the Lights Out steel cage match this weekend. Ospreay says if he can’t be himself after Sunday, he’s leaving everything he has in the ring.

Will says he’s doing this for revenge, and they are going to tear the Death Riders apart at Forbidden Door. Ospreay says before he goes under the knife, he’s going to take his pound of flesh from the Death Riders.

The Death Riders are here…

This brings out Jon Moxley and Marina Shafir. Mox and Ospreay go face-to-face as Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta appear at ringside. Ospreay says this Sunday he’s coming for Moxley, so if he wants to get rid of him, don’t let his boys do it… do it himself.

The Death Riders go to attack, but JetSpeed and Hiroshi Tanahashi make the save. This takes us right into our opening contest.

Death Riders (w/ Marina Shafir) vs. JetSpeed and Hiroshi Tanahashi

  • The finish of the match saw Hiroshi Tanahashi hit Wheeler Yuta with High Fly Flow to score the pinfall victory for his team.

Winners: JetSpeed and Hiroshi Tanahashi

After the match, all hell breaks loose as Bullet Club: War Dogs, Will Ospreay, the Young Bucks, Darby Allin, Paragon, and The Opps all get involved and proceed to brawl all over the venue. It ends with Allin hitting a Coffin Drop on pretty much everyone.

Grade: B+

This was a wild 30 minutes to kick off tonight’s show. The thought of AEW losing Ospreay for the foreseeable future after Sunday freaking sucks, but it can’t be helped. The match itself was good, but everything before and after it essentially meant more than the actual matchup.

The video package plays hyping up the main event of Forbidden Door between Hangman Page and MJF.

Cope and Cage are reunited once again

Tony Schiavone is in the ring and brings out Adam Copeland and Christian Cage, who both come to the ring separately. Cage tries to tell everyone to sit down and shut their mouths, Copeland cuts him off and says not to be that guy right now because all these people love them. Copeland accepts the fact that Cage is an asshole, and sometimes you in this business you need an asshole and Cage is his asshole.

Cage says at All In, Copeland told him to go find himself, and he said he did just that and found himself. Cage says he doesn’t need to change a thing because he’s perfect just the way he is. Christian says he and Copeland aren’t on the same page, but they’re at least writing in the same book.

Cage says this is a reunion out of necessity and that Copeland will help him with his Nick Wayne problem, and he will help Cope with his FTR problem. Christian promises to be the best tag partner Copeland has ever had.

This brings out Kip Sabian and Mother Wayne. Sabian calls Cage pathetic. Nick Wayne appears on the Tron on crutches and reveals that he was injured last week. Wayne won’t be competing at Forbidden Door, but says he’s always one step ahead.

Luchasaurus (Killswitch) makes his return and chokeslams Copeland and Cage. He will team with Sabian this Sunday at Forbidden Door.

Mark Briscoe is backstage and says he’s there to find and kill MJF tonight.

MJF needs some help…

Backstage, MJF approaches Ricochet and GOA and wants to conduct business, and asks for help in taking out Mark Briscoe tonight. Ricochet agrees. They go to talk about their plan before they tell the cameraman to get lost.

AEW World Tag Team Title Eliminator Finals: FTR (w/ Stokely Hathaway) vs. Brodido

  • The finish of the match saw both teams wrestle to a 30-minute time limit draw.

Winners: No contest

This means both teams will face The Hurt Syndicate this Sunday at Forbidden Door for the AEW World Tag Team Titles.

After the match, Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin come out on the stage and taunt both teams by holding their titles in the air.

Grade: A

These four men told an incredible story in that ring tonight. I must say that I was surprised by the time limit draw. This also seemingly protects The Hurt Syndicate this weekend as they can drop the titles without being pinned. It will be very interesting to see what happens in this match on Sunday.

The Hangman cometh…

AEW World Champion Hangman Page makes his way to the ring to speak to the crowd. Page says last week he was jumped from behind in the parking lot by MJF. Page says that’s how Friedman likes to handle things. Hangman says he knows it’s a waste of time to call MJF out because he’s an immature and gutless coward.

Hangman says this will be the only opportunity MJF gets at the AEW World Championship, and at Forbidden Door, he’s going to shove his bobot up MJF’s ass. Friedman’s music plays, but he doesn’t come out. Schiavone says MJF wants to speak to him, but he can’t leave the ring.

MJF comes on the Tron with Ricochet and GOA. Friedman says Hangman needs to accept his three stipulations for his match at Forbidden Door, or he’s going to light Mark Briscoe on fire.

  • The title can change hands via DQ
  • The title can change hands via countout
  • MJF doesn’t have to put up his contract to get his title shot

MJF gives Page til the count of five, and Page agrees at four. Friedman congratulates Hangman on still being the hero. Page storms backstage to find MJF as the show goes to commercial.

After the commercial, Page finds Ricochet backstage and lays him out with a steel chair and asks where MJF is. Security tells him that MJF already left, and Page takes the security guard out as well, for good measure.

Mercedes Moné and Athena vs. Toni Storm and Alex Windsor

  • The finish of this match saw Athena hit Alex Windsor with the O-Face to score the pinfall victory for her team.

Winners: Mercedes Moné and Athena

Grade: B+

Toni Storm is checked on at ringside by the medics as the commentary team implies she could have a neck injury as AEW Dynamite goes off the air.

AEW Dynamite Review:

For the most part, I really enjoyed this show. But AEW figuring out a cute way to keep MJF’s stupid contract in play got on my last nerve. I hate this concept in AEW. It’s such a WWE-like crutch and not something other companies need to be doing.

You could argue that the Money in the Bank contract has already outlived its welcome in wrestling, so for AEW to do their own take on it is incredibly frustrating. If we take that out of the show, I really have no complaints, but that is a BIG one as far as I’m concerned.



It won’t take away my enjoyment of Sunday’s show, but I really wish wrestling companies in general would stop using stupid crutches to get over their terrible storyline ideas.

Grade: B+

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What did you think of this week’s episode of AEW Dynamite? What was your favorite match or segment? Let us know your overall thoughts by sounding off in the comments section below.

Matt Black
Matt Black

Matt Black has been covering wrestling video games since WWE Warzone from Acclaim. Coverage of wrestling video games eventually lead him into the world of wrestling news. Matt is a fan of every wrestling company and enjoys the current state of the industry in 2024.

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