AEW Dynasty 2025 Notes: Anthony Bowens Makes Surprise Return, Will Ospreay, Kyle Fletcher, & Mercedes Mone Advances in 2025 Men’s & Women’s Owen Hart Cup, FTR Turns Heel on Cope, Bandido Wins ROH World Title, Adam Cole Wins TNT Title

AEW
Apr 6, 2025

Anthony Bowens Makes Surprise Return as Max Caster’s Open Challenge Opponent at Dynasty 2025

Sunday’s AEW Dynasty 2025 event at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania featured Anthony Bowens making his surprise return.

During the Zero Hour Pre-show, Max Caster came out to the ring for his newest Max Caster Open Challenge Series match and after some insults filled banter with the Philly crowd, the lights went out and Bowens’ name showed on the big screen and he came out to a roaring cheer by the crowd. Bowens came out to the ring with Billy Gunn alongside him.

Bowens quickly dispatched Caster for the victory and celebrated with Gunn in the ring.

This was Bowens’ first appearance since this past January’s AEW Collision Maximum Carnage show.

Will Ospreay & Kyle Fletcher Advances in 2025 Men’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament

Sunday’s AEW Dynasty 2025 event also featured two First Round matches for this year’s Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament.

The first match was Will Ospreay defeating Kevin Knight.

The second match was Kyle Fletcher defeating Mark Briscoe.

As a result of their victories, Ospreay will be facing off against the winner of Brody King/Konosuke Takeshita and Fletcher will be facing off against the winner of Hangman Adam Page/Wild Card in the Semifinal Round of this year’s tournament

Mercedes Mone Advances in 2025 Women’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament

Sunday’s AEW Dynasty 2025 event also featured one First Round match for this year’s Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament.

This match was Mercedes Mone defeating Julia Hart.

As a result of her victory, Mone will be facing off against the winner of Harley Cameron/Athena in the Semifinal Round of this year’s tournament.

FTR Turns Heel on Cope at Dynasty 2025

Sunday’s AEW Dynasty 2025 event also featured FTR turning heel on Cope and breaking up Rated FTR.

Near the end of the AEW World Trios Championship match between Rated FTR and champions Death Riders, Cope attemped to hit a spear to Wheeler Yuta only for Yuta to leap frog over him and Cope having to stop in his tracks to avoid hitting Dax Harwood in the corner. This led to Yuta shoving Cope into Harwood and hit a Busaiku Knee to Harwood for the victory for the Death Riders.

Following the match, Cope and Cash Wheeler helped Harwood up to his feet and all three hugged. As Wheeler was walking away to leave the ring, Harwood grabbed Cope and laid him out with a piledriver. Harwood then got out of the ring and grabbed a set of chairs and got back into the ring to setup a conchairto. Harwood handed one chair to Wheeler who tossed it away and then shoved Harwood. This led to Harwood picking up Cope and hoisted him up in the air for the Shatter Machine which Wheeler did revealing him being upset was just a ruse. FTR then proceeded to bash Cope’s head with a chair and left but not before mocking Cope’s neck injury as AEW officials and medics rushed out to attend to Cope. After FTR left, Cope was stretcher out of the ring and to the back.

Bandido Wins ROH World Title at Dynasty 2025

Sunday’s AEW Revolution 2025 event also featured Bandido defeating Chris Jericho to become the new ROH World Champion.

This match also featured Bandido putting his mask on the line as well and successfully kept his mask as a result.

Near the end of the match, “Bad Apple” Bryan Keith came out to the ring trying to interfere only for Gravity to show up leading to a brawl breaking out between the two. As the referee was distracted with what was going on the outside, Jericho grabbed his bat and struck Bandido in the head. Jericho then proceeded to struggle hiding the bat in between the post and steel steps but eventually managed to cover Bandido for the pinfall victory. As Jericho was celebrating, Bandido’s family at ringside managed to get referee Aubrey Edwards attention and told her that there was something hidden in the steel steps. This led to Bandido’s family and Edwards walking to the steel steps and Edwards pulling out the bat. This led to the match referee telling Justin Roberts that the result was voided and the match is restarted.

As Bandido’s family celebrated the announcement, Jericho grabbed Bandido’s sister by the hair only for her to slap Jericho in return to daze him. This led to Bandido striking Jericho and hit the 21 Plex for the pinfall victory to become the new ROH World Champion.

Adam Cole Wins AEW TNT Title at Dynasty 2025

Sunday’s AEW Dynasty 2025 event also featured Adam Cole defeating Daniel Garcia to become the new AEW TNT Champion.

This was Cole’s first ever singles championship victory in his AEW career.

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