AEW Dynamite Notes: “Speedball” Mike Bailey Makes AEW Debut, Bailey & Orange Cassidy Advances in International Title Eliminator Tourn., Nick Wayne Teases Split with Christian Cage, Will Ospreay Declares for Men’s Owen Hart Cup, AEW World Title Street Fight & TBS Title Matches Set for 3/19 Show

AEW
Mar 12, 2025

“Speedball” Mike Bailey & Orange Cassidy Advances in AEW International Title Eliminator Tournament

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the Save Mart Center at Fresno State in Fresno, California featured two First Round matches for the AEW International Championship Eliminator tournament.

The first match was “Speedball” Mike Bailey defeating The Beast Mortos.

The second match was Orange Cassidy defeating Hechicero.

As a result of their victories, Bailey and Cassidy advanced to the Finals Four-way match at next week’s show on March 19th in Omaha, Nebraska.

“Speedball” Mike Bailey Makes AEW Debut at Wednesday’s Dynamite Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured former TNA talent “Speedball” Mike Bailey making his official in-ring debut for AEW.

Bailey was revealed to be the mystery Wild Card opponent for The Beast Mortos’ match in the AEW International Championship Eliminator Tournament.

Nick Wayne Teases Split with Christian Cage & The Patriarchy

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured Nick Wayne teasing a future split from Christian Cage & The Patriarchy.

During the show, Renee Paquette attempted to interview Cage & The Patriarchy over his failed cash-in at AEW Revolution 2025. This led to Cage demanding Paquette to leave since she is associated with Moxley and wants nothing to do with her. After Paquette left, Cage responded stating that he specially had demanded a one-on-one title shot against Cope and claimed that his cash-in was invalid because Jon Moxley applied an “illegal chokehold.” Cage then demanded his title shot contract and after some more words, Wayne interrupted saying that all Cage was doing was giving excuses.

Wayne stated that had Cage stuck to the original plan, he would be World Champion. Wayne then stated that Cage owes them an explanation and an apology. This led to Cage responding by shoving Wayne and an angry Mother Wayne confronting Cage over what he did. Cage responded insulting Mother Wayne and then confronted Wayne face-to-face and proceeded to dish out a series of insults directed at Wayne’s deceased father and told him to fall in line or there will be consequences. Cage then walked away and Kip Sabian gave a disappointed look at Wayne before leaving as well.

Will Ospreay Declares for 2025 Men’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured Will Ospreay officially declaring himself for this year’s Men’s Owen Hart Cup Foundation tournament.

During the show, Ospreay came out to the ring for an interview with Tony Schiavone. After some words about him still feeling the effects from his steel cage match against Kyle Fletcher and a having to lie to his wife about him promosing to not do anything crazy from the top of the cage, Ospreay turned his attention towards the AEW World Championship. Ospreay talked about how Cope had his shot at Revolution and Swerve Strickland will have his shot at Dynasty, he asked when it will be his time and looked at the giant All In Texas sign in the rafters. Ospreay stated that there is no better chance to stake his claim for a shot than to declare himself for the Men’s Owen Hart Cup and win it and go on to All In and defeat either Swerve or Jon Moxley for the title.

Cope vs. Jon Moxley in AEW World Title Street Fight Match & More Set for 3/19 Dynamite Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured two new matches and one updated match announced for the card of next week’s show on March 19th at the Liberty First Credit Union Arena in Omaha, Nebraska.

In regards to the new matches, the first new match announced was an AEW World Championship Street Fight match of Cope vs. Jon Moxley (c).

The second new match announced was a TBS Championship match of Billie Starkz vs. Mercedes Mone (c). This match was initially setup over recent weeks shows over Mone and Starkz’s issues with each other. During tonight’s show Starkz officially challenged Mone for her title for next week’s show.

Current card for March 19th AEW Dynamite show:

  • AEW World Championship Street Fight match – Cope vs. Jon Moxley (c)
  • AEW TBS Championship – Billie Starkz vs. Mercedes Mone (c)
  • AEW International Championship Eliminator Tournament Finals Four-way match – “Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. Orange Cassidy vs. TBD vs. TBD
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