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Adam Cole's Friendship Triangle, Orange Cassidy Retains, JAS Walks Out On Jericho | AEW Fight Size

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Colin Tessier Jul 26, 2023 11:46PM

Here is your fight size update following AEW Dynamite on July 26, 2023.

- Adam Cole and AEW World Champion MJF discussed their upcoming title match with FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood). Cole told MJF he was becoming one of his best friends. MJF said he would give Cole a rematch for the world title no matter what happened. Roderick Strong interrupted, and he was clearly worried about Cole's friendship with MJF. Cole told him he was acting crazy and being possessive. He said Strong had to trust him.

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- Orange Cassidy defended the AEW International Championship against AR Fox. Cassidy won the bout and defended the title for the 27th time. Cassidy gave him his sunglasses, but Fox broke them and rocked Cassidy with a punch. Darby Allin came out and argued with Fox. Jon Moxley blindsided Cassidy. He hit the champion with a Paradigm Shift.

- Chris Jericho held a meeting with Annna Jay A.S., Tay Melo, Angelo Parker, and Matt Menard of the Jericho Appreciation Society. Tensions rose when Anna said Jericho was being selfish, and the group couldn't be there for him 100%. The JAS then walked away from Jericho.

- A video package recapped the history between Darby Allin and AR Fox.

- FTW Champion Jack Perry took a shot at ECW. Jerry Lynn interrupted, and Perry challenged the legend to meet him in the ring the following week.

- Don Callis gave Chris Jericho a painting and set up a tag team match where Jericho and Konosuke Takeshita would face Daniel Garcia and Sammy Guevara.

- Swerve Strickland and Darby Allin threw everything they had at each other. AR Fox turned on Allin and helped Strickland clinch the win. After the bout, Strickland welcomed Fox into the Mogul Embassy by giving him one of the group's shirts.

- PAC battled Gravity. Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta) watched the match backstage. PAC won and made sure that Gravity never forgot him.

- A vignette showed HOOK at a train station.

- In an interview, Britt Baker made it clear she would remind everyone that TBS was "That Britt Show."

- A video package recapped the Blood & Guts match.

- AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) sent a heated message to MJF and Adam Cole.

- Orange Cassidy interfered in the main event, where Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli faced Best Friends (Trent Beretta and Chuck Taylor) and the Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix). The Lucha Brothers scored the win by pinning Trent, as Cassidy brawled with Moxley.

- A wild brawl at the end of the show led to the announcment that Jon Moxley will face Trent Beretta and Penta El Zero Miedo in an Anything Goes Match.

- A video package recapped Billy Gunn leaving his boots in the ring on AEW Collision.

- Britt Baker defeated Taya Valkyrie.

- Don Callis commented on the painting he gave to Chris Jericho.

- Sammy Guevara looked ahead to his match on AEW Dynamite 200.

- Swerve Strickland seemingly tried to get Don Callis' attention in a tweet.

- Check out the card for the July 28 episode of AEW Rampage here.

- Click here to check out the card for the August 2 episode of AEW Dynamite.

Catch up on our coverage of the July 26 episode of AEW Dynamite here. For a full review, check out the post-show podcast on our YouTube channel.

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