All Elite Wrestling (AEW) returned to Portland this past week for the massive 4-hour AEW Summer Blockbuster! This show featured a stacked lineup of appearances and matches, including the sequel to the Dream Match with Will Ospreay vs. Swerve Strickland, the contract signing for All In with Okada and Omega putting the International and Continental Championships on the line – and Timeless Toni Storm clashing with Julia Hart, with a close eye from Mercedes Mone! To top it off, The Hurt Syndicate also wrestled their first match with new recruit MJF!
Those are just a few of the key stories from an incredibly rich and action-packed AEW TV special.
Check out our contributor Bear Perrys’ incredible photographic coverage and results below.
-Will Ospreay vs Swerve Strickland ends in time limit draw. Jon Moxley and The Death Riders surround the ring after Swerve calls for sudden death. The Young Bucks take advantage and use thumb tac covered shoes to dual super kick Ospreay, who was protecting a handcuffed Strickland.
-Mistico defeated Blake Christian by pinfall and then was confronted by The Hurt Syndicate. MJF vowed to bring back The American Championship for his match against Mistico for AEW Grand Slam Mexico.
-The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley, MJF, and Shelton Benjamin) defeated “Speedball” Mike Bailey, Kevin Knight and Mascara Dorada. MJF unmasked Dorada.
-“Hangman” Adam Page was duct taped and kidnapped by the Death Riders. Moxley cut a promo on Page, telling him to stop worrying about everyone else and focus on their match at All In for the AEW World Championship. Page headbutts Moxley and is saved by The Opps. Vowing to get revenge on Mox and company.
-TayJay (Tay Melo & Anna Jay) defeated Mega Bad (Megan Bayne & Penelope Ford) by pinfall.
-Okada and Omega contract signing ends with Don Callis & Okada attacking Omega, forcing him to leave in an ambulance coughing up blood.
-Kyle Fletcher defeated Anthony Bowens
-In a promotion for the CMLL x AEW crossover, Atlantis and Atlantis Jr were being honoured, only to be interrupted and attacked by FTR. This erupted into an all out brawl, with Brody King, the Don Callis family, Bandido, Adam Cole, Templario, and more fighting in/out of the ring.
-TIMELESS Toni Storm defeated Julia Hart, only to have her victory spoiled by The CEO Mercedes Mone, whom she is facing at All In, for Storm’s AEW Women’s World Championship.
-Willow Nightingale, Tomohiro Ishii, and Mark Briscoe defeated MxM Collection (Mason Madden, Mansoor and Taya Valkyrie) by pinfall.
-Bandido defeated The Beast Mortos by pinfall.
-Thekla defeated Queen Aminata by submission
-The Don Callis Family (Josh Alexander, Lance Archer, and Konosuke Takeshita) and Hechicero defeated Paragon (Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly, & Roderick Strong) and Daniel Garcia by pinfall.
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