AEW paid tribute to late star PacAEW Dynamite:,” which featured an emotional 10-man tag team main event with Bryan Danielson returning to square off with the Death Riders. Wardlow also returned to the Don Callis household after it was teased at AEW All Outbut he couldn’t help but lead his team to victory.
The bout, which pitted Wheeler Utah, Claudio Castagnoli, Daniel Garcia, Gabe Kidd and Danielson against Wardlow, Lance Archer, Mark Davis, Jake Doyle and Josh Alexander, started with more brawling as soon as Danielson’s music hit.
Danielson hit the back of Alexander’s head with a knee drop and Castagnoli followed up with a swing before Utah ended the sequence with a pinfall. Davis and Archer tried to isolate Utah in the ring before trying to get as many Death Riders out of their corner as possible.
Utah was able to tag Danielson, who took out DCF to go one-on-one with Alexander. He elbowed him off the ropes, then hit the Yes. with legs. Alexander dodged a roundhouse kick and brought Danielson into an ankle lock, but the American Dragon quickly countered into a Lebel lock.
Wardlow powerbombed Garcia and came close to Castagnoli, but ate an uppercut off the middle rope. After some offense from both teams, Danielson and Yuta hit double Busaiku knees, but the heels still dominated. Archer tried to choke Marina Shafir, but she got locked in an arm chair over the ropes and Garcia tossed Archer out of the ring.
Garcia hit his signature dance in the corner to taunt Doyle, who then took the Death Riders train of uppercuts. Eventually, Kidd hit a lariat and Garcia hit Doyle with a dropkick and Castagnoli hit one, allowing Garcia to get the pinfall.