Maximum Carnage - Dynamite recap for January 15, 2025

Don Callis guests on commentary for the next match.

Kenny Omega beats "The Machine" Brian Cage. After the match, Lance Archer and Don Callis attack Omega, and Kyle Fletcher joins in. Suddenly, Will Ospreay shows up and fights Fletcher, then Archer goes for a choke slam. Ospreay flips out of the slam, then he and Omega finish Archer off. Omega and Ospreay have a confrontation, but Ospreay sees Fletcher coming and takes him down. "The Alpha" Konosuke Takeshita then shows up, and he and Omega brawl. Fletcher suplexes Omega from behind, and Takeshita hits a lariat. Ospreay fights Fletcher and Takeshita, but gets overpowered, and Fletcher and Takeshita soon stand tall in the ring.

We hear from MVP, who says he is not just an expert at managing wrestlers, but also being a wrestler, and for the first time in two-and-a-half years, he is lacing up the boots.

We hear from The Learning Tree ("The Learning Tree" Chris Jericho, "The Redwood" Big Bill, "The Bad Apple" Bryan Keith) for another "New York Minute." Jericho hypes up their match with The Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, PAC) against FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler), Powerhouse Hobbs, and The Outrunners (Truth Magnum and Turbo Floyd) on Collision. After Bryan Keith says "That's a dozen motherfuckers!", Big Bill says size matters. As for why The Learning Tree is teaming with The Death Riders, Jericho says he has known Moxley for a long time and knows they will be on the same page.

Ricochet heads to the ring. He is met with a "Whose house? Swerve's House!" chant as soon as he gets in the ring. Ricochet tries to speak, but keeps getting booed and receiving "Whose house? Swerve's House!" chants, then shows a picture of him bloodying up Swerve Strickland on the video screen before Prince Nana shows up out of the crowd with a metal folding chair. Nana smacks Ricochet in the back with the chair, then Swerve shows up with a long metal chain and nearly hits Ricochet with it. Ricochet tumbles out of the ring and flees through the crowd, even shoving a security guard at Swerve on his way out.

We see what Mercedes Moné has been up to since her last match in AEW: training, media appearances, and buying jewelry.

The Hurt Syndicate (MVP, Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Lashley) beat Mark Briscoe and Private Party (Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy) in a trios match.

We see a video package for Rated FTR (Adam Copeland, Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler).

Jeff Jarrett heads to the ring. Jarrett says the last few weeks have been humbling for him until MJF suddenly arrives and tells Jarrett he has yet to learn the definition of the world "humbling," then calls him out for turning him down last week. Jarrett chews MJF out for being too lazy to wrestle in the Casino Gauntlet, and MJF screams at Jarrett for interrupting him. MJF says he would be in the hall of fame if he retired tomorrow, and that Jarrett has convinced everyone he is a legend. He also calls Jeff Jarrett "the last thing you see before your favorite wrestling company dies" and "the definition of a pro wrestling Grim Reaper" and says his career makes him want to drink. MJF realizes Jarrett is a recovering alcoholic and proposes sending Jarrett back to rehab where he belongs, then tells Jarrett to tell Karen Jarrett to stick around so he can ship her back to Tennessee after she knows what his balls taste like. Jarrett admits that the best years of his career are behind him, but when he entered last years' Owen Hart Tournament, the fans awakened a passion in him that he did not know he still had, and he will do everything he can to keep that passion going. Jarrett says that passion will put him on track to becoming AEW World Champion, and that MJF can come out and poke fun at him and hurt him, but he was MJF before MJF was MJF and did it better than him. He also says that MJF confuses him, as he cannot tell if he is a dumbass or a scumbag, then concludes he is probably both before stating he feels sorry for him after being raised by a "call girl mother" and "an ambulance chasing old man." He also says that when he was born, his mom still made his dad pay for it, and also implies his girlfriend is a ring rat before stating that MJF needs him because he is drowning in his own shit and "a scared little boy." He says that MJF's best days are behind him, that he is scared of putting in the work to become world champion, and is scared of becoming a one-hit wonder. MJF says he is nothing like Jarrett and that he did not need his father to become a top guy, for he is self-made, and when he is king of the mountain, AEW makes history. He says he was on top of the world until he was screwed, and says the same people who put him on a pedestal have swept it all out from under him, and that he must become world champ to shove it down everyone else's throats. MJF scoffs at the idea of waiting behind Jarrett, saying that the fans are dumb and have never given a single solitary shit about him, and calls Jarrett a leech riding the coattails of a deceased friend. When MJF keeps mentioning Owen Hart, Jeff Jarrett snaps and attacks MJF. Security holds Jarrett back as Karen shows up, and MJF grabs Karen from behind briefly before running away.

We see a video package for Tomohiro Ishii vs. "The Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada for the AEW Continental Championship on Collision.

Hook beats Christian Cage by disqualification after Kip Sabian and "The Prodigy" Nick Wayne physically get involved in the match. After the match, Sabian and Wayne set up a Con-Chair-To on Hook. As Taz is about to step in, Samoa Joe suddenly shows up for the first time in months and goes on the attack, and Shibata helps Joe out.

Backstage, Renee Paquette interviews Jeff Jarrett. Suddenly, "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes shows up and says MJF does not know a thing about passion or anything they have been through like they do and that he is "110% behind" Jarrett and wants to see him become AEW World Champion. He says that "outlaws never die" and that the two of them are among the last of their kind.

"The Glamour" Mariah May guests on commentary for the next match.

Toni Storm beats Harley Cameron, Kris Statlander, Jamie Hayter, Megan Bayne, Julia Hart and Willow Nightingale in the Women's Casino Gauntlet Match to earn a shot at the AEW Women's World Championship at Grand Slam Australia.

Jon Moxley retains the AEW World Championship against Powerhouse Hobbs by submission with the bulldog choke after Marina Shafir hits Hobbs with the briefcase. After the match, The Death Riders (Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, PAC, Marina Shafir) gang up on Hobbs and even attack his injured knee. After attacking the knee with a chair, The Death Riders retreat as Rated FTR (Adam Copeland, Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler) rush into the ring to end the show.