AEW: Men’s & Women’s Casino Gauntlet #1 Spot Four-way Matches Set for 6/25 AEW Dynamite Show, Backstage Update on Kota Ibushi’s AEW In-Ring Return Match, AEW’s Original Plans for Motor City Machine Guns for All In 2024

Jun 25, 2025

Men’s & Women’s Casino Gauntlet #1 Spot Four-way Matches Announced for Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite Show

AEW CEO Tony Khan announced two new matches for the card of Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the accesso ShoWare Center in Kent, Washington.

The first new match announced was a Women’s Casino Gauntlet #1 Spot Four-way match of Willow Nightingale vs. Athena vs. Thunder Rosa vs. Kris Statlander.

Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite
8pm ET/7pm CT, on TBS + Max
TOMORROW! Wed. 6/25

4-Way Match for the #1 Spot in the #AEWAllInTexas Casino Gauntlet@willowwrestles
vs
ROH Women’s World Champion @AthenaPalmer_FG
vs@thunderrosa22
vs@callmekrisstat

Don’t miss #AEWDynamite TOMORROW! pic.twitter.com/tkFLpWpKN4
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) June 25, 2025

The second new match announced was a Men’s Casino Gauntlet #1 Spot Four-way match of Konosuke Takeshita vs. Mark Briscoe vs. Roderick Strong vs. Bandido.

Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite
8pm ET/7pm CT, on TBS + Max
TOMORROW! Wed. 6/25

4-Way Match for the #1 Spot in the #AEWAllInTexas Casino Gauntlet@Takesoup
vs@SussexCoChicken
vs@roderickstrong
vs
ROH World Champion@bandidowrestler

Don’t miss Wednesday Dynamite
TOMORROW NIGHT! pic.twitter.com/RrefAJuxD0
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) June 25, 2025

Current card for June 25th AEW Dynamite show:

Men’s Casino Gauntlet #1 Spot Four-way match – Konosuke Takeshita vs. Mark Briscoe vs. Roderick Strong vs. Bandido
Women’s Casino Gauntlet #1 Spot Four-way match – Willow Nightingale vs. Athena vs. Thunder Rosa vs. Kris Statlander
Kota Ibushi vs. Trent Beretta

Backstage Update on Kota Ibushi’s AEW In-Ring Return Match & Reason for Trent Beretta as Opponent

As noted before, Kota Ibushi made his surprise return to AEW at this past Saturday’s AEW Collision show and was recently announced to be facing off against Trent Beretta for his in-ring return at Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Kent, Washington.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that AEW officials viewed Beretta as being an appropriate matchup for Ibushi’s in-ring return due to his familiarity with the American television style of wrestling and the Japanese style that Ibushi is more familiar with.

It was reported that those spoken to stated that Ibushi is in a much better place physically than he has been in a long time. Prior to his return, Ibushi had been out of action for AEW since January of 2024 due to injuries to both of his ankles and surgery and wrestled sparingly outside of AEW over the past year.

AEW’s Original Plans for Motor City Machine Guns for All In 2024 Had MCMG Signed with Company

Motor City Machine Guns’ Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin have been signed with WWE since September of 2024. Prior to their signing with WWE, AEW had also been interested in signing the tag team following their departures from TNA Wrestling.

Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp reported that his sources stated that MCMG did have meetings with AEW last year for a potential deal that did not come to fruition in the end.

Sapp reported that AEW officials original plans were for MCMG to feud with the Young Bucks for the AEW World Tag Team Championship leading to a match at All In: London 2024.

Those spoken to reportedly stated that during MCMG’s talks with AEW, things went “radio silent” leading to those within AEW to believe that the team were WWE bound.

Sapp reported that MCMG’s signing with WWE lead to AEW officials pivoting on their original plans for the Young Bucks to defend their tag titles against FTR and The Acclaimed instead for All In: London 2024.