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Jon Moxley Has No Sympathy For Punk, Danielson Beats Hager, Shida Pins Baker | AEW Fight Size

Wrestling
Colin Tessier Aug 31, 2022 11:30PM

Here is your post-AEW Dynamite fight size update for Wednesday, August 31, 2022.

- AEW Dynamite kicked off with a passionate message from Undisputed AEW World Champion Jon Moxley, who stated that he had no sympathy for CM Punk after he decisively defeated him last week. Though he revealed that he had an open contract for his match at All Out, Ace Steel took it and later convinced Punk to sign it.

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- Bryan Danielson picked up another big win; this time, he defeaed Jake Hager in a hard-fought match. After the bell, Chris Jericho tried to attack him, but Daniel Garcia interfered, which allowed Danielson to blast his All Out opponent with a running knee.

- One former AEW Women's World Champion pinned another on Wednesday. In a tag team match that also included Toni Storm and Jamie Hayter, Hikaru Shida pinned Britt Baker ahead of the four-way match for the AEW Interim Women's World Championship at All Out.

- As mentioned, Ace Steel motivated CM Punk to sign the contract for a rematch with Moxley, even after the former champion expressed his doubt about whether he could still be good enough in the aftermath in the ring.

- W. Morrissey surprisingly appeared and attacked The Wingmen before he aligned with Stokely Hathaway.

- Miro, Darby Allin, and Sting agreed to join forces to face the House of Black at AEW All Out, with Sting noting that, in Miro, the enemy of their enemy is a friend.

- Speaking of All Out, Kip Sabian will challenge PAC for the AEW All-Atlantic Championship on the Zero Hour pre-show. In a promo, Sabian discussed his master plan and promised that PAC would "embrace the change."

- In a sit-down interview, Christian Cage vowed to prove that Jungle Boy isn't on his level at All Out, while the latter declared that the veteran will be facing Jack Perry on Sunday.

- Wheeler Yuta scored a hard-fought win in a four-way match against RUSH, Rey Fenix, and Dante Martin. In doing so, he picked up more momentum ahead of the Casino Ladder Match at AEW All Out.

- Andrade El Idolo attacked the injured 10 and Evil Uno backstage, leaving John Silver and Alex Reynolds without a partner in the AEW World Trios Championship Tournament Rampage Final.

- Hangman Page stepped in and offered to team up with Silver and Reynolds. They accepted his offer, so the trio will face the Best Friends on AEW Rampage.

- In the Dynamite Final of the tournament, Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks defeated Will Ospreay and Aussie Open in an electric main event. As a result, they advanced to the finals, which will be held at All Out.

- Moxley had another message for Punk; he stated that if Punk wanted to go out on his shield, then that's what he'll get. He vowed to give Punk a display of pro wrestling violence on Sunday.

- FTR and Wardlow picked up a dominant win ahead of their trios match against Jay Lethal and the Motor City Machine Guns at AEW All Out.

- Wheeler Yuta will defend the ROH Pure Championship against Daniel Garcia next week on Dynamite.

- The updated card for AEW All Out can be found here.

- Check out the card for this week's episode of Rampage by clicking here.

- Catch up on AEW Dynamite with our live coverage at this link. We will also have a review podcast after the show goes off the air on our YouTube channel.

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