AEW Dynamite Results - October 29, 2025 (Fright Night): FTR Earns Tag Shot, “Blood & Guts” Challenge Drops, Callis Family Teases Civil War
Bert Ogden Arena — Edinburg, TX—
Darby Allin & Orange Cassidy def. Death Riders (Daniel Garcia & Wheeler Yuta) — Tornado Match
Total Halloween chaos from the bell. Garcia choked Orange with his jacket while Yuta mauled Darby on the floor. Allin rocketed through Yuta and a ringside chair with a tope, then hit a Coffin Drop off a balcony to wipe out both Death Riders.
Back inside, Garcia planted Cassidy on a table and Yuta splashed off the top through the wood. Down the stretch: Orange Punch sent Danny outside, Cassidy dove, and Darby cinched a Scorpion Deathlock on Yuta for the tap.
Winner: Darby Allin & Orange Cassidy via submission (Allin’s Scorpion Deathlock on Yuta)
Backstage: HOOK Talks Tough
HOOK promised to do “everything possible” to make sure Samoa Joe doesn’t advance later tonight. Calm, cold, and ready.
Don Callis Family Summit (In-Ring Segment)
Don Callis seated his “Family” at two tables, unveiled a tongue-in-cheek oil-painting of the crew, and trotted out Rocky Romero, Josh Alexander, and Kyle Fletcher to sermonize about “who/what/why” the Family is.
Konosuke Takeshita interrupted, going face-to-face with Kazuchika Okada. Callis begged for unity and a handshake. Takeshita reluctantly offered… Okada flipped him the bird. The room nearly exploded before Callis booked a tag match on Collision to “prove they can work like family.”
FTR def. Young Bucks vs. Jurassic Express vs. JetSpeed — #1 Contenders, AEW World Tag Titles
Frenetic four-way with bodies everywhere. Highlights: Luchasaurus chokeslammed both Bucks, Perry spiked Nick with a flipping piledriver (near fall), and JetSpeed’s Kevin Knight ate a BTE Trigger and still kicked out to a huge pop.
When Knight springboarded again, FTR snatched him mid-flight into Shatter Machine for the three.
Winners: FTR via pinfall (Shatter Machine on Kevin Knight) — FTR earns the Full Gear title shot at Brodido.
Jon Moxley vs. Kyle O’Reilly — Double Count-Out
A nasty, technical fistfight. KOR hunted limbs (ankle lock, triangle, armbar), Moxley answered with a piledriver and a Rings of Saturn. They brawled to the floor, KOR wrenched a dragon screw into the barricade, then grabbed a guillotine outside… both counted out.
Post-match mayhem: Marina Shafir decked ref Aubrey Edwards, Claudio leveled KOR, Roderick Strong hit an Olympic Slam on Claudio, then Yuta & Garcia swarmed. Darby, Orange, and Mark Briscoe made the save.
Darby called Moxley a coward, Briscoe called the Death Riders “fake-tough,” and a grumpy Orange finally muttered the two words… “Blood and Guts.”
Backstage Assault: Mercedes Moné & Athena Jump Kris Statlander
Moné attacked Statlander on the stage; Athena cut off Stat’s rally with a lungblower into the O-Face. Willow Nightingale & Harley Cameron ran in for the save.
Sisters of Sin (Julia Hart & Skye Blue) def. Jamie Hayter & Queen Aminata — Women’s World Tag Title Tournament QF
Aminata and Hart traded early; the babyfaces stacked offense with stereo Germans before an all-four-down lariat flurry. Outside swerve: Thekla emerged from under the ring to wipe out Hayter, letting the Sisters double Aminata with an assisted spinebuster for the pin.
Winners: Sisters of Sin via pinfall (assisted spinebuster on Aminata) — Advance to the semifinals.
Quick Hits
- Bandido aired a wholesome travelogue bringing his grandmother to see him wrestle.
- Penelope Ford (torn elbow) vowed revenge by proxy; Megan Bayne sought a partner. Marina Shafir stepped up. Mox wandered in, chuckled, “These two? Look out.”
Samoa Joe def. Bobby Lashley vs. Ricochet vs. HOOK — #1 Contender, AEW Men’s World Championship
Brutal, creative, and fast. Lashley launched bodies (apron chokeslam on HOOK; Dominator on Ricochet). Joe and Bob slugged; HOOK suplexed Joe; Ricochet hit a Sasuke Special then a Shooting Star (near fall).
Wild finishing train: HOOK locked Redrum, Joe crushed it with a senton, Lashley speared through a Muscle Buster stack, and Ricochet crashed a 450 over the pile. In the scramble, Joe cinched the Coquina Clutch on HOOK for the tap.
Winner: Samoa Joe via submission (Coquina Clutch on HOOK) — Joe is #1 Contender for Hangman Page at Full Gear.
Contract “Signing” & Cowboy Swerve:
Joe demanded a “safe” signing; Shibata & Hobbs beat up random costumed “opponents” first. Joe signed, cut a cocky promo… then “Tony Schiavone” toasted Hangman — and ripped off the disguise: it was Hangman Page.
Buckshot Lariat to Joe, mounted punches, pull-apart brawl to close the show.
Wrestling.news | Backstage Take
Fright Night balanced Halloween mayhem with real stakes. Samoa Joe felt inevitable tonight — the kind of decisive #1 contender that instantly frames Hangman Page’s Full Gear defense as must-see. FTR reclaiming a tag title shot is money; the division’s best dance partners are converging at the right time.
The Callis Family segment was top-tier character work — Okada flipping Takeshita instead of shaking him was the perfect “we’re not okay” beat — and booking a Collision tag lets AEW slow-burn a civil war.
The “Blood and Guts” challenge is the right escalation for the Death Riders feud, and the women’s tournament got heat with a clean, simple heel assist. If AEW keeps marrying spectacle to forward motion like this, Full Gear could peak at just the right moment.
