SCU are no more after Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels lost their shot at the AEW Tag Team Titles on this week’s Dynamite. Tonight’s show saw Kazarian and Daniels lose their match to the Young Bucks in a bloody affair after Daniels was busted open early in the bout.
Daniels and Kazarian announced a while back that their next loss would be their last as a team. The two have been teaming together since 2011, when they teamed up in TNA as Fortune. Kazarian and fellow SCU member Scorpio Sky were the inaugural AEW Tag Team Championships, winning the tournament to crown the initial champions.
This week s AEW Dynamite saw a scary scene where, during their No. 1 Contender s match for the AEW World Championship, Orange Cassidy landed right on the back of his neck after taking a Liger Bomb from PAC. Multiple reports have since dropped stating that the pair were originally supposed to [.]
Moxley came out to Wild Thing by The Troggs.
IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship: Jon Moxley (c) (w/ Eddie Kingston) defeated Yuji Nagata (w/ Ren Narita)
This was, of course, Nagata s AEW debut. He hadn t appeared on TNT in 23 years.
They immediately exchanged forearms in the center of the ring. Nagata was forced into the corner but landed a knee lift and a boot, sending Moxley to the floor. Rocky Romero was shown in the crowd. Out on the floor, Moxley landed a diving knee and sent Nagata into the barricade.
Back in the ring, Moxley hit a soccer kick and an elbow drop for two. Former IWGP US Champion Lance Archer was shown in the crowd accompanied by Jake Roberts. Moxley hit mid kicks for another two count. He went to the top rope, but Nagata caught Moxley s dive and laid in kicks to the midsection. He caught Moxley with an exploder suplex for a near fall.
Tonight
All Elite Wrestling comes our way from Jacksonville, Florida. Last week, Nakazawa was sacrificed to Jon Moxley & Eddie Kingston by his “friend” Kenny Omega, Cody Rhodes bladed in his match with QT Marshall even though a match literally called
Blood & Guts was scheduled for later in the show, Anthony Ogogo satisfyingly punched Cody in the gut, Ethan Page and Scorpio Sky threw Darby Allin down the stairs, Britt Baker made quick work of Julia Hart, SCU earned a tag team title shot, Orange Cassidy dominated a promo with Kenny Omega without saying a word, Miro challenged Darby Allin, and The Pinnacle won
BOOM! Studios’ latest WWE comic book will tell the origin story of the New Day. The company announced on Monday that
WWE The New Day: Power of Positivity #1 will release in July and will be written by Evan Narcisse and Austin Walker, with art by Daniel Bayliss.
The announcement reads as follows:
BOOM! Studios, in partnership with WWE, today revealed the brand new two-issue limited series WWE THE NEW DAY: POWER OF POSITIVITY, available in July 2021 featuring WWE Superstars Kofi Kingston, Big E and Xavier Woods, by writers Evan Narcisse (Rise of the Black Panther) and Austin Walker (Friends At The Table), and artist Daniel Bayliss (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers).