AEW Dynamite Notes: Billie Starkz & Momo Watanabe Appears, The Outrunners Debut New Entrance Song, Ricochet vs. Swerve Strickland in AEW World Title #1 Contender & Omega vs. Takeshita for International Title Matches Set for Revolution, 3/1 Collision Card

AEW
Feb 26, 2025

Billie Starkz & Momo Watanabe Make Appearance on Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the Frontwave Arena in San Diego, California featured Ring of Honor talent Billie Starkz and Stardom talent Momo Watanabe making an appearance.

During the show, a video aired hyping up Watanabe and her upcoming match against Mercedes Mone for the TBS Championship at Revolution 2025.

In a follow-up segment, Mone was seen walking backstage and proceeded to bad mouth Watanabe. This led to Starkz showing up to interrupt and after some banter, Starkz told Mone to watch her back as Watanbe showed up with a baseball bat in her hand. This led to Mone running away after she realized what was happening and Starkz and Watanabe laughed together.

The Outrunners Debut New Entrance Theme Song on Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured The Outrunners debuting a new entrance theme song for their tag team match against the Murder Machines on the show.

Ricochet vs. Swerve Strickland in AEW World Title #1 Contender Match Announced for Revolution 2025

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured one new match announced for the card of AEW Revolution 2025.

This new match announced was an AEW World Championship #1 Contender match of Ricochet vs. Swerve Strickland.

This match was initially setup over recent weeks shows over Ricochet and Strickland’s bad blood issues with each other. During tonight’s show, Strickland and Prince Nana came out to the ring. Strickland talked about this being Swerve’s House and everything he’s done in AEW including becoming the first black man to win the AEW World Championship. After some more words, Swerve stated that he still the best wrestler here and to prove that, he needs some gold around his waist. Strickland then turned his attention towards Ricochet stating that he still has some business to deal with first and Ricochet took something from him and they are not done until he says they are done.

This led to Ricochet’s music playing and him coming out to the stage wearing Nana’s Embassy robe. Ricochet proceeded to give a series of insults towards Strickland, San Diego folk, and San Diego sports as the crowd responded with a chorus of boos and foul mouth chants at him. Ricochet continued stating that he is chasing gold and claimed it is something Strickland won’t do anytime soon. Ricochet then turned down Strickland’s offer for a rematch. This led to Nana responding stating that he had talked to Tony Khan and he’s in agreement that the fans deserve a rematch. Ricochet responded not being interested until Nana continued stating that the winner of this match would also become the number one contender for the AEW World title. Ricochet responded accepting the match but stated they are not doing this here but instead they’ll do it in a “real California city” and at Revolution.

After Ricochet walked off to the back, Strickland attempted to leave the ring only to be stopped by Nana who stated that he still has some business to attend with Strickland. Nana told Strickland that he wants Swerve to be the man he’s said he is, the most dangerous man there is, but after all the bullets he’s taken for him, he needs Swerve to beat Ricochet and get back him that robe for the sake of his legacy. Nana stated that “or else he’s not sure he can be here for him much longer.” Nana then left the ring as Strickland gave a concerned reaction over Nana’s words.

Kenny Omega vs. Konosuke Takeshita for AEW International Title Set for AEW Revolution 2025

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured one newly updated match for the card AEW Revolution 2025, which takes place on March 9th at the Cyrpto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California.

This newly updated match is an AEW International Championship match of Kenny Omega vs. Konosuke Takeshita (c).

This newly updated match was setup following Takeshita defeating Orange Cassidy to retain his AEW International title for the final match in the Revolution International Championship Series.

Current card for AEW Revolution 2025:

  • AEW World Championship – Cope vs. Jon Moxley (c)
  • AEW Women’s Championship – “The Glamour” Mariah May vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm (c)
  • AEW World Championship #1 Contender match – Ricochet vs. Swerve Strickland
  • AEW International Championship – Kenny Omega vs. Konosuke Takeshita (c)
  • TBS Championship – Momo Watanabe vs. Mercedes Mone (c)
  • Steel Cage match – Will Ospreay vs. Kyle Fletcher
  • MJF vs. Hangman Adam Page

Current Card for This Week’s AEW Collision Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured two new matches announced for the card of this week’s AEW Collision show on March 1st at the Oakland Arena in Oakland, California.

These matches were setup following promos, storyline angles, and match card graphics throughout the show.

In regards to notable matches, one new match announced was a TNT Championship match of Adam Cole vs. Daniel Garcia (c).

Current card for March 1st AEW Collision show:

  • TNT Championship – Adam Cole vs. Daniel Garcia (c)
  • FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) vs. Undisputed Kingdom (Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong)
  • Kenny Omega to speak
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