AEW Dynamite Results – Feb. 8, 2023 – MJF vs. Takeshita

AEW
Feb 8, 2023

Results by Cory Strode of PWInsider.com

February 8, 2023
El Paso, TX – El Paso County Coliseum
Commentary: Excalibur, Taz & Tony Schiavone

Quick Match Results

  1. Championship Eliminator Match: MJF defeated Konosuke Takeshita via Salt of the Earth submission
  2. Championship Eliminator Match: Jamie Hayter defeated The Bunny via Hayterade
  3. Garcia-Guevara Gauntlet Match: Daniel Garcia defeated Ricky Starks after Chris Jericho hit Starks with a Judas Effect while he was disguised in the crowd
  4. Bryan Danielson defeated Rush via Busaiku Knee
  5. AEW World Trios Championship: The Elite defeated Top Flight & AR Fox via crucifix pin rollup by Omega on Fox
  6. AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Gunns defeated The Acclaimed (c) via roll up by Austin on Bowens after Colten hit Bowens with the belt – New Champions

Championship Eliminator Match
MJF vs. Konosuke Takeshita

Tony lets loose our first swear word of the night. This is also MJF’s first match of the year, which is kind of amazing when you think about how AEW has the top talent work a lot on TV.

MJF does a lot of old school heel work here, kicking Takeshita during the handshake, pulling the ref in front of him with Takeshita is trying to attack, and jacking jaws at the crowd. MJF also spends a lot of time going after Takeshita’s arm, since his arm bar in his finisher. Takeshita, for his part, does a lot to win over the crowd, including the tribute to Eddie Guerrero before a frog splash.

Through the match, the commentary is interesting, with Tony constantly ragging on MJF, and Taz sticking up for him. Taz isn’t going the heel route, he talks like the veteran who sees MJF as someone using smart moves to win the match.

The match moves at a fairly standard TV match pace, with MJF cutting off Takeshita who mixes big power moves to stuff off the top rope. This isn’t a match about flashy moves, it’s like most of MJF’s stuff, old school heel vs babyface stuff. MJF is great at talking the crowd on that ride.

MJF does a spot that injures his knee, giving the crowd hope that Takeshita will win. After Takeshita gets in a few big moves, MJF locks on the Salt of the Earth, showing no injury, so he did it to lure Takeshita in, and Takeshita has to tap out.

Winner: MJF

After the match, MJF gets the Diamond Ring from the ref, pops the ref with it, and then attacks Takeshita with it, busting him open. Bryan Danielson comes down to make the save.

Video Promo: Samoa Joe

New TNT Champion Samoa Joe cuts a pre-recorded video promo.

Championship Eliminator Match
Jamie Hayter vs. The Bunny

Each one comes out with their entourage.

Crowd is in Hayter’s corner. Pretty short match, with Hayter winning with a Hayterade (ripcord lariat) a minute after coming back for the picture in picture.

Winner: Jamie Hayter

Backstage: Saraya, Toni Storm, Leva Bates

Renee is in the back with Saraya and Toni Storm and they attack Leva Bates (who did a pretty poor job of selling) and spray paint an L on her because the AEW originals are Losers.

Backstage: MJF

In the back, Lexi is outside of MJF’s locker room and he invites her in. MJF tells Takeshita he’s no match for him. MJF then says people are treating him like a scumbag. He then tells a story of taking his high school crush on a drive. They had a crash, and because he had too many speeding tickets, he moved his crush to the driver’s side so she would get blamed for the crash.

He then explains that Bryan will never have a title match because he is a scumbag, and he’s proud of it.

Garcia-Guevara Gauntlet Match

If Ricky Starks beats members of the JAS, he’ll get a match with Chris Jericho tonight.

Ricky Starks vs. Angelo Parker

Parker goes after Starks immediately, but Starks beats him quickly with a spear.

Ricky Starks vs. Matt Menard

Starks immediately gets a quick roll up for the pin.

Ricky Starks vs. Daniel Garcia

Daniel Garcia comes out and he’s quickly followed by Sammy Guevara. They play mind games by both getting on the apron, and when Sammy starts to get in the ring, Garcia attacks Starks from behind.

Garcia gets to dominate during the picture in picture. Starks goes to the top, and Garcia meets him there and hits a superplex, but Starks immediately grabs Garcia for a Northern Lights Bomb. As Starks is outside the ring and masked fan hits Starks with a Judas Effect. Garcia drags Starks into the ring and gets the pin and the win.

Winner: Daniel Garcia

The masked fan comes into the ring and unmasks to show it was Chris Jericho, but we knew that since Taz messed up and called the back elbow the Judas Effect when it was hit outside the ring.

Backstage: The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn

Renee is with Billy Gunn and The Acclaimed. Billy says he will stay in the back to let the teams handle their business tonight.

Bryan Danielson vs. Rush

In the back, Renee is with Takeshita and Bryan Danielson in the back and they are interrupted by Rush’s team locking Bryan in the locker room.

Rush comes to the ring and he’s followed by MJF, limping on his way to the ring. He tells the ref that according to the rule book, Bryan has a match and to ring the bell. We see that Bryan broke out of the locker room as the ref is counting. MJF yells at her to count faster and she counts slower.

Bryan gets to the ring in time. MJF runs out and joins commentary. Rush goes after Bryan and stomps him down in the corner. Bryan finally starts to fight back and sells his shoulder as being useless. The match is basically just Rush beating the hell out of Bryan.

Bryan is busted open and Rush licks the blood off of his hands.

Bryan comes to life and they fight on the apron ending with Rush hitting a suplex from the apron to the floor. The fight through picture in picture and Bryan fights to try to lock on the LeBell lock, and Rush escapes. Bryan keep up the pressure with a charging leaping kick on the outside and then a shot gun drop kick off the top in the ring.

They each get a series of chops and kicks in the corner. Bryan kicks out of a straitjacket pile driver. Bryan is able to get the Busaiku knee for two. The crowd is into the match more than any other so far tonight. Bryan gets a second Busaiku knee for the pin and the win.

Winner and going on to face MJF at Revolution: Bryan Danielson

MJF comes to the ring and waits for Bryan to get up. MJF nails Bryan with the Diamond ring and then mounts him to beat him down. MJF then locks in the Salt of the Earth on the injured arm. MJF attacks officials when they come to break it up. The second group of officials are able to get into the ring and try to break it up as we go to break.

Backstage: Impractical Jokers

AEW World Trios Championship
The Elite vs. Top Flight & AR Fox

After the fast paced high flying opening, we move to Kenny Omega taking apart AR Fox, slowing the pace. When we come back from picture in picture it’s the Bucks and Kenny dominating, still. AR Fox is able to get a spotlight as he takes the beat down but works in some big moves himself.

Dante is the one who tags in and some of his leaps are just amazing. It’s almost as if he does front and back leaps where he twists to the side in air. Matt Jackson does a bit where he has Dante hooked, and then suplexes both Darius and AR Fox to pin all three which looked cool. Top Flight gets in the Nose Dive for a near fall, and that’s when the crowd explodes.

We then move to near falls, and a lot of them, with more big moves like the Meltzer Driver, moonsaults to the outside, V Triggers, and the rest. Kenny goes for a One Winged Angel but Fox reverses for a near fall. Kenny finally gets the win with a crucifix, but AR Fox got the most ring time and looked impressive.

Winners and still AEW Trio Champions: The Elite

Backstage: Stokely Hathaway, Hook

We get a video package for Hook. We then get Stokely Hathaway running down Hook backstage. Hook comes up behind him and gives Stokely an arm bar before walking away.

Rampage Card

Friday’s Rampage:

  • Trios Match: Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta vs. Kip Sabian, The Butcher & The Blade
  • Jungle Boy Jack Perry in action
  • Ruby Soho vs. Marina Shafir
  • We’ll hear from Mark Briscoe

AEW World Tag Team Championship
The Acclaimed (c) vs. The Gunns

As Max Caster works over Austin, his work has improved a lot over the last six months, and his moves look big and strong. The Acclaimed dominates before we go to picture in picture. There’s only about ten minutes left for the show and the rest of this championship match.

We come back to the Gunns keeping Max from tagging out. Max is able to get the hot tag and he batters the Gunns. He’s really got a way to connect with the crowd like a baby face champion, and I like how he knows the flow of a match. All four men start fighting in the ring until everyone is down. Bowens hits the ref as Austin gets out of the way of a punch. Austin takes out Bowens and waits to attack.

Billy Gunn comes to the ring, and stops him from attacks. Colten attacks Billy from behind with the belt. The Acclaimed are back up and they are all fighting without a ref. The Acclaimed get the Mic Drop and Caster tries to get the ref back into the ring, and he’s tossed into the ring. The ref only is able to count two before Colten pulls Bowens out of the ring. Bowens gets back in the ring and gets a two count. As Austin kicks Bowens off, Colten nails Bowens with the belt and Austin gets the pin and the win.

Winners and NEW AEW Champions: The Gunn Club

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