Before the next match, The Young Bucks (Matthew and Nicholas Jackson) are given an enhancement talent-style introduction with the words "STAT, TALENT NAME, SOCIAL MEDIA" on the chyron.
The Young Bucks (Matthew and Nicholas Jackson) beat The Outrunners (Truth Magnum and Turbo Floyd) to advance in the AEW World Tag Team Championship Eliminator Tournament. After the match, "The Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada shows up to celebrate with The Young Bucks, then the three of them gang up on The Outrunners. Suddenly, Swerve Strickland and Prince Nana, and Swerve helps The Outrunners get the upper hand. The Young Bucks save Okada from getting double teamed, but Swerve takes all three men out with a five from the top rope.
Backstage, Renee Paquette interviews Mark Briscoe. As Mark Briscoe wants to know where MJF is at, Ricochet and Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona) arrive, and Ricochet says Briscoe should be more worried about him, especially after what he did to him at Revolution. Briscoe says he has become a different animal since Revolution and that he will whip his ass, then says it is a fraction of what he will do to MJF. Ricochet calls Briscoe a loser as he says he will see him later tonight.
Backstage, MJF tries to meet with The Hurt Syndicate (MVP, Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Lashley) and gets Shelton Benjamin. MJF apologizes, but Shelton tells him that MVP is not here because he is disgusted with him, then Shelton reveals that the watch MJF gave Lashley is "from Temu." Shelton says that the only reason MJF did not get laid out is because MVP stuck his neck out for him, then tells MJF to take his fake watch and leave and that he is out of The Hurt Syndicate.
Tony Schiavone introduces Christian Cage to the ring. On the subject of being told by Adam Copeland to go find himself, Christian Cage says that he is an asshole who is numb to the world and everything in it and that he was only obsessed with being AEW World Champion. He says that after he cashed in and hit the perfect Spear, he came into contact with his past, became "an asshole with feeling," and it cost him everything. Christian says that while he has no problem with Kip Sabian and "The Prodigy" Nick Wayne standing up to him, they have not earned the right to question him, for he has done more in the business than they have in their entire careers. He says he took a risk and deviated from the plan because he did not think The Patriarchy (Wayne, Sabian, Mother Wayne) would pull the plan off, and states that they know nothing about risk after they rode off his coattails as he did everything that he did. Christian says he has also heard what Copeland has said to him, then asks if what he said to him was really that bad, as he himself was an opportunist who did unsavory things to get to the top. He then tells Copeland that they are so different, yet somehow, they are the same. As for The Patriarchy, they embarrassed him at All In and decided they did not need a patriarch before making some innuendos regarding Mother Wayne. As for Nick Wayne, he asks him how it will go when he has to show up and actually fight, for he has answered the bell for the things he has said. He says that Nick Wayne had more talent than he did and that he protected him from everything, and while Nick Wayne has every tool to be the new face of AEW now and forever, he will have to go through him to do it. Christian then tells Nick Wayne that he has a father who is dead and a father who is dead to him, and officially disowns Nick Wayne. On the way out, Mother Wayne shows up and tries to slap Christian Cage, but it serves as a distraction for Nick Wayne and Kip Sabian to ambush Christian. Nick Wayne disowns Christian in turn before he and Sabian clap metal folding chairs into both sides of Christian's head.
Backstage, we hear from FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) and Stokely Hathaway. Stokely says Adam Copeland is banned from the building tonight after his recent action, and that The Hurt Syndicate (MVP, Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Lashley) committed "an act of cowardice." He also addresses The Bang Bang Gang (Juice Robinson and Austin Gunn), saying they are good, but they are not FTR. Suddenly, The Young Bucks (Matthew and Nicholas Jackson) show up, and FTR puts their past beef behind them as they hope to see them in the finals of the AEW World Tag Team Championship Eliminator Tournament. Stokely tries to make The Young Bucks flinch as FTR leaves.
"Hangman" Adam Page retains the AEW World Championship against Jon Moxley in a match where everyone is banned from ringside. During the match, Hangman accidentally knocks referee Paul Turner down with Moxley's feet as he spins Moxley around for Deadeye. Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta show up. As security deals with them, Marina Shafir hands the AEW World Championship to Moxley, who hits Hangman in the head with the title only for Hangman to kick out. Paul Turner sees Marina Shafir and removes her from ringside, and when security confronts her, Shafir has to be held back by Claudio as she apologizes to Moxley while fending security off. As security does their job, Darby Allin shows up and takes out Claudio, Yuta, Shafir and all of security with a dive off a balcony. Hangman hits a distracted Moxley with a Buckshot Lariat, but Moxley escapes Deadeye and goes for a sleeper. Hangman counters the sleeper with a Deadeye, then hits another Buckshot Lariat to win and retain.
Athena and Billie Starkz beat "Timeless" Toni Storm and Alex Windsor after Athena tags herself in to hit Toni with the Oh! Face.
Backstage, Renee Paquette interviews "Hangman" Adam Page when MJF shows up and confronts him for calling him a coward, stating that Hangman is the real coward for refusing to face him unless it is on his terms. MJF brings up Swerve Strickland to try to coerce a title shot out of Hangman, but Hangman is not having this and tells MJF that he will have to face Mark Briscoe to get to him before stating there is nothing to stop him from beating MJF's ass.
Backstage, Alicia Atout interviews Willow Nightingale, who says that she has a match with "The Toxic Spider" Thekla tomorrow night on Collision.
Mark Briscoe beats Ricochet. During the match, Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona) show up, and as they get involved in the match, Bandido and Brody King show up to take them out so that Briscoe can get the win. After the match, Mark Briscoe says tonight is just getting started before calling out MJF for evoking Jay Briscoe's name more than once, then says he has never felt like this before and that he needs help. He says that if he kills MJF in cold blood, he will not see his brother in Heaven, for he will not repent and he will not even feel the slightest bit of remorse. Briscoe tells MJF to make his day and face him in the ring right here and right now. MJF's entrance theme hits, but MJF shows up on the video screen. MJF says he is not an idiot and that he considers Briscoe a waste of his time, and that next week, he will face Briscoe to get to "Hangman" Adam Page. He then says this assumes that Mark Briscoe makes it, and MJF suddenly shows up from behind Briscoe and kicks him in the groin and attacks him before asking who the real coward is. MJF puts on the Dynamite Diamond Ring, then "Hangman" Adam Page shows up. MJF rushes out of the ring to avoid both a Buckshot Lariat and a Jay Driller.
Here are the highlights for tonight's show!
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