AEW Dynamite Review - September 10, 2025

By Graham "GSM" Matthews

AEW World Champion "Hangman" Adam Page def. Josh Alexander (Non-Title); AEW TNT Champion Kyle Fletcher Confronted Page

This was a rematch from Alexander's AEW debut earlier this year. Alexander has had a ton of tag team matches since then and not nearly enough singles matches, so I'm glad he got the singles spotlight here. Granted, the outcome was never in doubt, but it was a damn good match, nonetheless. Page's verbal exchange with Fletcher was also strong and I appreciated that Fletcher did all the talking despite Don Callis coming out with him.

Riho and Alex Windsor def. Emi Sakura and AEW TNT Champion Mercedes Mone

AEW dusting off Sakura just so she could get pinned to give Riho a momentum boost was high comedy. Was there no one else on the roster they could've gotten for that spot? The match itself was solid and served its purpose. I still couldn't care less about Mone vs. Riho at All Out, but with Riho being an AEW original, I'm sure there's plenty of "sickos" who do care and are excited for it.

FTR and Stokley Addressed the Audience

We've already seen FTR get mega heat from the 2300 Arena crowd in recent weeks, so this didn't feel like anything new, even with FTR roughing up a cameraman. Plus, Adam Copeland and Christian Cage not showing up made this segment less eventful and effective. The video package promoting the match for All Out was well done, but it feels like the feud is in a holding pattern until the pay-per-view. Perhaps they're not rushing into it after all and there really isn't much more they can do.

Ricochet def. Shelton Benjamin

Ricochet and The Gates of Agony will face The Hurt Syndicate at All Out, so this served as a small preview of that. They had the quality contest they were capable of without going (pardon the pun) all out. The scissors stuff is stupid, but it's expected from Ricochet at this point. I guess they're just leaning into Hurt Syndicate being babyfaces even though they never actually turned.

AEW Women's World Champion "Timeless" Toni Storm def. Skye Blue in a Philadelphia Street Fight

It wouldn't be an ECW Arena show without a Street Fight! The problem is that AEW does so many of these that this hardly felt special and thus the stipulation wasn't needed, but to the credit of Storm and Blue, they put forth an admirable effort and had a decent brawl. The post-match chaos helped hype the four-way for the AEW Women's World Championship at All Out.

The Young Bucks and The Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta) def. AEW World Tag Team Champions Brodido and AEW World Trios Champions The Opps (Samoa Joe, Katsuyori Shibata and Powerhouse Hobbs) in a $500,000 Match

I'm shocked this wasn't billed as an "all-star" match. Instead, $500,000 was on the line. What an innovative concept we've never seen in AEW before! I kid, I kid. It was your run-of-the-mill AEW multi-man tag team match, but the action was enjoyable enough. I wasn't a fan of the outcome because the Bucks should have to overcome more adversity as part of their new gimmick and not win $500,000. The big news was Daniel Garcia attacking Darby Allin afterward and seemingly aligning with Death Riders. I assumed it was coming, but it doesn't make it any less unnecessary.

Overall Show

I'm sure All Out will deliver from an in-ring standpoint as most AEW pay-per-views do, but the build has largely been lackluster and doesn't at all feel like it's on the level of WWE Wrestlepalooza that same night in terms of buzz or general excitement (unless you're an AEW die-hard). As for this edition of Dynamite, it was average on the whole with the usual entertaining wrestling, pay-per-view hype and some storyline developments, most notably at the end.

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