AEW Dynamite Notes: Jon Moxley Attacks Willow Nightingale, Jay White Pulled from Men’s Owen Hart Cup Due to Injury, AEW Tag Titles and Will Ospreay vs. Kevin Knight and Mercedes Mone vs. Julia Hart for Owen Hart Cup Matches Set for Dynasty 2025, 4/5 Collision Show Card

AEW
Apr 2, 2025

Jon Moxley Attacks Willow Nightingale & Swerve Strickland Promised Revenge on Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, Illinois featured Swerve Strickland & Willow Nightingale defeating the Death Riders (Jon Moxley & Marina Shafir) in a Mixed Tag Team Tornado match.

During the match, Nightingale shoved Moxley off the apron and through a table. Following the match, Moxley got back in the ring and started to walk towards Shafir only to grab Nightingale and hit her with a Paradigm Shift before leaving the ring before Strickland could get to him. This led to medics coming out to check on Nightingale as Strickland looked on in concern.

In a follow-up segment, Nightingale was seen being attended to by a medic in the trainers room as Strickland and Prince Nana were outside. Renee Paquette interviewed Strickland to get some words about Moxley’s heinous attack on Nightingale. Strickland responded stating that Nightingale is strong and brought up if Moxley had specifically attacked her neck due to her past neck issues. Strickland then promised that by the end of the night he will have his hands on Jon Moxley.

In another follow up segment, Paquette attempted to get another update on Nightingale from Strickland only for Strickland to be seen arguing with Nana backstage. Strickland responded stating that he is focused on finding Moxley instead only to get quickly interrupted by Hangman Adam Page. This led to Page and Strickland talking about their bad blood and Page burning down Strickland’s childhood home. Page stated that Strickland deserved it and Strickland responding back stating “I know.” This led to Page being caught off guard over Strickland’s admission and walked away. Strickland then continued his search for Moxley only to be ambushed by the Death Riders. This led to the Death Riders bringing Strickland to ringside and continued their attack. They then sent Strickland into the ring leading to Moxley telling Yuta to reveal what is inside the bucket, which was broken glass. Claudio Castagnoli then proceeded to powerbomb Strickland onto the glass and after some staring down, Moxley and the Death Riders left the ring and made their way through the crowd. This led to Strickland sitting up with broken glass stuck to his back and looked on angrily at the Death Riders while the Death Riders looked back in shock.

Jay White Pulled from Men’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured the announcement of Jay White being pulled from the field for this year’s Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament.

During the bracket reveal for the Men’s tournament, it was announced that White was pulled from the tournament due to a recent attack by the Death Riders and he is not medically cleared to compete.

Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp reported that his sources stated that White’s injury is legitimate and not a storyline one.

Will Ospreay vs. Kevin Knight Match for 2025 Men’s Owen Hart Cup Announced for AEW Dynasty 2025

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured the first of three new matches announced for the card of Dynasty 2025.

This new match announced was a 2025 Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament First Round match of Will Ospreay vs. Kevin Knight.

Mercedes Mone vs. Julia Hart for 2025 Women’s Owen Hart Cup Announced for AEW Dynasty 2025

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured the second of three new matches announced for the card of Dynasty 2025.

This new match announced was a 2025 Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament First Round match of Mercedes Mone vs. Julia Hart.

The Learning Tree vs. Hurt Syndicate for AEW Tag Titles Announced for AEW Dynasty 2025

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured the third of three new matches announced for the card of Dynasty 2025, which takes place on April 6th at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

This new match announced was an AEW World Tag Team Championship match of The Learning Tree (“Bad Apple” Bryan Keith & Big Bill) vs. The Hurt Syndicate (Shelton Benjamin & Bobby Lashley) (c).

This match was initially setup on last week’s show over The Learning Tree and Hurt Syndicate’s bad blood issues with each other and Bill issuing a challenge for Dynasty. During tonight’s show, Bill issued another challenge only to get a non-answer from MVP and Lashley. In a follow-up, it was announced that this match was made official for the show.

Current card for AEW Dynasty 2025:

  • AEW World Championship – Swerve Strickland vs. Jon Moxley (c)
  • AEW Women’s World Championship – Megan Bayne vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm (c)
  • AEW International Championship Three-way match – Ricochet vs. “Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. Kenny Omega (c)
  • AEW TNT Championship – Adam Cole vs. Daniel Garcia (c)
  • AEW World Tag Team Championship – The Learning Tree (“Bad Apple” Bryan Keith & Big Bill) vs. The Hurt Syndicate (Shelton Benjamin & Bobby Lashley) (c)
  • AEW World Trios Championship – Rated FTR (Cope & FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood)) vs. Death Riders (Wheeler Yuta, Claudio Castagnoli, & PAC) (c)
  • 2025 Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament First Round match – Will Ospreay vs. Kevin Knight
  • 2025 Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament First Round match – Mercedes Mone vs. Julia Hart

Current Card for This Week’s AEW Collision Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured three new matches announced for the card of this week’s AEW Collision show on April 5th.

This week’s show will be taped on Wednesday, April 2nd at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, Illinois as part of that night’s Dynamite taping.

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

Current card for April 5th AEW Collision show:

  • Mercedes Mone & Harley Cameron vs. Athena & Julia Hart
  • Don Callis Family (Konosuke Takeshita & Kyle Fletcher) vs. Powerhouse Hobbs & Tomohiro Ishii
  • Top Flight (Darius & Dante Martin) vs. CRU (Lio Rush & Action Andretti).
  • Cash Wheeler vs. PAC
  • “Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. Dralistico
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