There is a new top dog in All Elite Wrestling.
The AEW Dynamite: Winter Is Coming special episode on Wednesday night saw Kenny Omega, via an assist from longtime friend Don Callis, defeat Jon Moxley in the main event of the evening to capture the AEW World Heavyweight Championship.
Featured below is a detailed recap of the entire match and closing show post-match segment from the AEW Dynamite: Winter Is Coming special from Wednesday, December 2, 2020.
Don Callis Joins In On Special Guest Commentary
We’re back from the break and Don Callis is introduced as a special guest commentator for tonight’s main event. He is introduced and talks about being personally requested by his longtime friend Kenny Omega.
AEW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Kenny Omega vs. Jon Moxley (c)
On that note, J.R. sends things down to “The Dapper Yapper” Justin Roberts, who begins the pre-match ring introductions for the challenger in tonight’s Winter Is Coming main event for the AEW World Heavyweight Championship.
We are then officially introduced to the challenger, Kenny Omega. Omega makes his big over-the-top elaborate ring entrance for tonight’s big main event showdown.
Now, with Omega settled into the ring, we shift gears and “The Dapper Yapper” begins his pre-match ring introduction for the AEW World Heavyweight Champion himself, as Jon Moxley makes his trademark custom ring entrance while Justin Roberts does the “JON!” first name announcing the same way he used to do JOHN Cena in his WWE ring announcing days.
We are informed by Excalibur that this match has a one hour time limit and despite the ten o-clock hour coming in 30 minutes, TNT will stick with this match in its’ entirety, and if they run into the next hour, so be it, the coverage on TNT of this week’s AEW Dynamite: Winter Is Coming special will go long. On that note, we head to a pre-match commercial break.
We’re back from the break now and again are reminded that TNT will stick with their coverage of this match even if it dips past the ten o’clock hour on the east coast. Moxley and Omega go face-to-face as Don Callis is re-introduced again on special guest commentary for those joining the match in progress. The bell sounds and we’re off-and-running with this week’s main event.
Mox and Omega circle as the fan-chants begin spreading throughout an excited Daily’s Place amphitheater in Jacksonville, FL., which has been buzzing since the shocking AEW debut of “The Icon” Sting just a little bit ago. Mox gets the better of Omega on the first lock-up and exchange.
They break and circle a bit and now Omega slaps a side head lock and then a rear chin lock on Moxley. Mox trips Omega down to the mat to escape.
As the action finally picks up as the pace quickens and the intensity grows stronger now that we are a few minutes into the match, we see Moxley take over and turn the violence meter up a few notches, taking it to the challenger outside the ring, drilling him into the guard rail with authority as we head to a mid-match, picture-in-picture commercial break with the action still in progress.
We’re back from the break and we see Omega taking it to Moxley, focusing his attack on the leg of the champion, which we are informed was softened up with a wicked spot during the break. Back in the ring, Omega continues taking it to Mox, punishing the leg of Mox. He hits a nice diving dropkick on the leg of Mox. A dragon screw in the ropes by Omega tears at the ligaments of Mox. Omega blasts the champ with a loud chop in the corner.
He wraps Mox’s knee around the middle rope in the corner and pulls on it as the ref warns him. Omega backs up, builds a running head of steam and drills Mox right in the knee with a drop kick. Don Callis puts over his longtime friend and talks about the strategy Omega is implementing. As Omega takes a bit too long measuring Mox, he charges, but runs right into a lariat from Mox, who sprung to his feet just in the nick of time.
Mox is back up to his feet first, limping around now, however as he stumbles over to Omega, we see the challenger roll into a knee bar ala Frank Mir and Brock Lesnar 1. Omega yanks at the softened up knee of the champ as Mox screams in pain while the ref comes down to take a closer look at the situation. Mox finally makes it to the ropes forcing a break of the hold. Omega obliges and goes right back to work, chopping Mox down to the mat twice in a row.
Finally Mox hits a reversal into a release German suplex that shifts the offensive momentum in his favor. Mox now goes to work on Omega, as he limps in between moves and spots. Omega lands some back-elbows to Moxley to avoid an exploder from the champ. Mox ends up hitting a pump-handle exploder suplex anyways for a close near fall. Mox picks Omega up for a suplex and he dumps him on his head. He covers him but again only gets a count of two. He immediately clutches at his knee afterwards. On that note, J.R. talks us into another mid-match, picture-in-picture commercial break.
We return from the break just as Omega is sprinting from one end of the ring to the other, executing a crazy diving splash over the top-rope and onto Moxley on the floor. Omega goes for a springboard dive into the ring for a follow-up, however he springboard dives right into a waiting Paradigm Shift from Jon Moxley. Instead of finishing him off, however, Moxley smiles and heads to the outside of the ring. He goes under the ring and grabs two steel chairs, throwing them into the ring and heading back in after them.
Excalibur points out that Moxley blames Omega for being attacked backstage before the contract signing for tonight’s match. Meanwhile, Mox unfolds two steel chairs and sits down in one. He waits and invites Omega to sit down in the other. Omega does. Mox tells Omega to hit him. Omega obliges, b*tch-smacking the champ across the mouth. Mox answers back with one of his own. Now the two trade slaps. Now they graduate to punches back-and-forth. Now forearms. Omega has enough and hits a V-Trigger. Now a snap-dragon suplex. Now another. Omega goes for the V-Trigger, but Mox avoids it. Omega goes for it again but instead runs into a king kong lariat from Mox that turns him inside out.
The fans break out into a “This Is Awesome” chant as Mox picks Omega up and does the throat-slicing gesture. He hits a second inverted Paradigm Shift. He is slow to follow-up with a cover, and thus, Omega is able to kick out just before the count of three. Omega rolls to the floor. Moxley runs and dives through the ropes but right into a waiting V-Trigger from Omega on the way down. We see replays of that while Omega struggles to get a lifeless Mox back into the ring to finish him off.
Omega rolls Mox in the ring and goes up to the top rope. He hits Mox from behind with a missile drop kick off the top-rope. Omega hits a running knee to the back of the head of Mox who was face-first in the middle turnbuckle at the point of impact. A Tiger Driver ’98 from Omega gets a close near fall for the challenger. Omega blasts Mox with a big knee to the side of the dome of the champ. Omega with the double gun salute and he backs into the ropes, running off, but into a waiting Mox. Mox hits the ropes and runs right into a V-Trigger.
Omega hoists Mox up for the One-Winged Angel. Mox counters into a Paradigm Shift attempt. Omega counters but Mox counters into a Bulldog Choke attempt. Omega counters out of that and hits both feet square on the jaw of Mox with a Okada like drop kick. Omega hits the Rip-Cord V-Trigger. He goes to follow-up with the One Winged Angel. He instead hits the wrath finisher. Omega covers him but Mox kicks out.
The challenger goes to the top-rope but Mox recovers. He knocks Omega out on the apron outside the ropes. Mox from the floor gets up on the ring apron and hits a Paradigm Shift off the ring apron onto the floor on Omega. They land near some giant heaters set up at ringside. Before Mox can do anything else, the ref immediately throws the X-sign up and calls for help from the back. Omega is lifeless on the ground. Several refs come out to check on Omega. Don Callis leaves his spot on special guest commentary to check on his friend as well.
We hear Schiavone via ref Paul Turner tell us that Omega landed and hit the side of his head really bad. Mox has seen enough of this and runs over and pushes everyone away from Omega. He grabs Omega and throws him into the ring. He mounts him and ground-and-pounds away with free punches to the face of Omega. Excalibur again points out how enraged Mox is after being attacked viciously backstage weeks ago, apparently at the hands of Mox.
Don Callis complains and tries to get on the mic, but Mox grabs him. The mic falls into the ring and rolls to Omega. As Mox turns, he is blasted in the face by the mic from Omega while the ref was distracted. Mox is down and he is busted open and bleeding. Omega is recovered now and is pulling his knee pad down, exposing his knee. He runs and blasts Mox with the V-Trigger. He follows up with a second V-Trigger that he sprints into. And a third while Mox was on the ropes. A fourth while Mox is lifeless in the corner of the ring. Omega pulls a bloody champion to hist feet and he hoists him up. He goes for the One Winged Angel and hits it. 1-2-3. We have a new AEW World Heavyweight Champion, ladies and gentlemen.
Winner and NEW AEW World Heavyweight Champion: Kenny Omega
After The Match: Answers Coming This Tuesday
After the match, we hear the announcers talk about the supposed gentlemen’s agreement the two had going out the window before turning their attention to Don Callis, who they are convinced was in on that finish and helped Omega on purpose to ensure he would get the victory. The two run off to the backstage area and we see AEW President Tony Khan pissed off. As they exit through the parking lot and into a waiting car, they give a quick comment to Alex Marvez, who asks them what just happened. They say everyone will find out Tuesday. He says Dynamite is Wednesday. They say we’ll find out on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, back in the arena, we hear Eddie Kingston pick up a headset on commentary. He says screw next week, he wants Lance Archer now.
We see one more shot of a bloody Moxley in the ring looking confused as Jim Ross thanks us for joining them this week and the show goes off the air.
Watch video footage of Kenny Omega defeating Jon Moxley to capture the AEW World Championship, as well as the closing show segment with Omega and Don Callis below.
.@TheDonCallis said wait till Tuesday? But, #AEWDynamite is on Wednesday! pic.twitter.com/ybM0rrXcvm
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) December 3, 2020
