AEW Dynamite Notes: Ricochet Announced as Entrant for Men’s Casino Gauntlet Match at All In Texas, Megan Bayne Wins #2 Spot for Women’s Casino Gauntlet Match at All In Texas, Gabe Kidd Makes Surprise Appearance, 7/10 Collision Show Card

Jul 9, 2025

Ricochet Announced as Entrant for Men’s Casino Gauntlet Match at All In Texas

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas featured Ricochet being announced as one of the official competitors for the Men’s Casino Gauntlet match at All In Texas.

Following Ricochet’s victory over Blake Christian and the Gates of Agony laying out Christian with an Open The Gates, a graphic was shown on the screen revealing Ricochet as an entrant for the Men’s Casino Gauntlet match.

Ricochet confirmed the Men’s Casino Gauntlet at AEW All In: Texas!#AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/Aj9GGGgoWG
— WrestlePurists (@WrestlePurists) July 10, 2025

Current confirmed field of competitors for Men’s Casino Gauntlet match:

Mark Briscoe
MJF
Mistico
Ricochet

Megan Bayne Wins #2 Spot for Women’s Casino Gauntlet Match at All In Texas

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured Megan Bayne earning the #2 spot for the Women’s Casino Gauntlet match at All In Texas, which takes place on July 12th at the Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.

This match featured Bayne defeating Queen Aminata, Thekla, and Tay Melo in a Four-way match.

Megan Bayne will be the number two entrant in the Women's Casino Gauntlet!

Kris Statlander and Megan Bayne will start the match.#AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/355U0ObZ9t
— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) July 10, 2025

Current card for AEW All In: Texas:

AEW World Championship Texas Death Match – Hangman Adam Page vs. Jon Moxley (c)
AEW Women’s World Championship – Mercedes Mone vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm (c)
AEW Continental and AEW International Championships Winner Takes All match – Kazuchika Okada (Continental) vs. Kenny Omega (International)
AEW TNT Championship – Kyle Fletcher vs. Adam Cole (c)
AEW World Tag Team Championship Three-way match – JetSpeed (Kevin Knight & “Speedball” Mike Bailey) vs. The Patriarchy (Nick Wayne & Christian Cage) vs. Hurt Syndicate (Shelton Benjamin & Bobby Lashley) (c)
Men’s Casino Gauntlet match – Mark Briscoe (#1 spot) vs. MJF (#2 spot) vs. Mistico vs. Ricochet vs. mystery opponent(s)
Women’s Casino Gauntlet match – Kris Statlander (#1 spot) vs. Megan Bayne (#2 spot) vs. mystery opponent(s)
Winner Gets to be AEW EVPs and If Ospreay & Strickland lose, then they can’t challenge for the AEW World title for a full year match – Will Ospreay & Swerve Strickland vs. The Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson)

Gabe Kidd Makes Surprise Appearance on Wednesday’s Dynamite Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured NJPW talent Gabe Kidd making a surprise return.

Following Samoa Joe’s victory over Wheeler Yuta, Joe’s victory celebration was cut short after Kidd ran out and attacked Joe. This led to The Opps’ Powerhouse Hobbs & Katsuyori Shibata running out to save Joe and cleared the ring of Kidd and Yuta.

GABE KIDD ATTACKS SAMOA JOE!#AEWDynamite
pic.twitter.com/oIGsecGYzr
— WrestlePurists (@WrestlePurists) July 10, 2025

This was Kidd’s first appearance in AEW since this past May’s Double or Nothing 2025 event.

Current Card for Thursday’s AEW Collision Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured one new match announced for the card of this week’s AEW Collision show on Thursday, July 10th at the Culwell Center in Garland, Texas.

This new match was setup following promos, storyline angles, and match card graphics throughout the show.

This new match announced was an Eight-Man Tag Team match of The Patriarchy & FTR vs. JetSpeed & The Outrunners.

Current card for July 10th AEW Collision show:

Eight-man Tag Team match – The Patriarchy (Nick Wayne & Christian Cage) & FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) vs. JetSpeed (Kevin Knight & “Speedball” Mike Bailey) & The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd & Truth Magnum)
Mistico vs. The Beast Mortos