Fright Night Dynamite

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Fright Night Dynamite
Fright Night Dynamite promotional poster.webp
Promotional poster featuring various AEW wrestlers
Promotion All Elite Wrestling
DateOctober 30, 2024
City Cleveland, Ohio
Venue Wolstein Center
Attendance3,487 [1]
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Fright Night Dynamite was a professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It took place on October 30, 2024, at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio and aired live as a special Halloween episode of Wednesday Night Dynamite on TBS in the United States. The event notably featured Adam Cole's first match in over a year, having last wrestled at All Out in September 2023, the return of Mark Davis after having a wrist injury for over a year, and the AEW debut of Bobby Lashley, who had left WWE in August after the expiration of his contract.

Contents

Six matches were contested at the event, including two dark matches which took place before the televised broadcast. In the main event, Swerve Strickland defeated Shelton Benjamin. After the match, Bobby Lashley debuted and attacked Strickland, reuniting with Benjamin and MVP as The Hurt Syndicate, previously known as The Hurt Business in WWE. In other prominent matches, Kris Statlander defeated Kamille which was her first pinfall loss and first loss in AEW overall, Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) defeated The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) to win the AEW World Tag Team Championship where if Private Party had lost, they would have had to disband as a team, and in the opening bout, Adam Cole defeated Buddy Matthews.

Production

Other on-screen personnel
RoleName
Commentators Excalibur
Tony Schiavone
Matt Menard
Ring announcer Justin Roberts
Referees Aubrey Edwards
Bryce Remsburg
Paul Turner
Rick Knox
Interviewers Renee Paquette
Alex Marvez

Background

AEW Dynamite is the flagship weekly television program of the American professional wrestling company All Elite Wrestling (AEW). On October 15, 2024, it was reported that AEW had filed to trademark "Fright Night Dynamite" and "AEW: Fright Night Dynamite". [2] During the October 16 episode of Dynamite, the company announced that the October 30 episode would be a special Halloween-themed show entitled Fright Night Dynamite. The television special took place at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio and aired live on TBS in the United States. [3]

Storylines

Fright Night Dynamite featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. [4] Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite, Rampage , and Collision.

Results

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes [5]
1D Nyla Rose defeated Ella Elizabeth Singles match [1]
2D Satnam Singh defeated Colt Cabana Singles match [1]
3 Adam Cole defeated Buddy Matthews by pinfall Singles match [6] 15:30
4 Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) defeated The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) (c) by pinfall Tag team match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship [6]
Had Private Party lost, they would have had to disband.
18:10
5 Kris Statlander defeated Kamille (with Mercedes Moné) by pinfall Singles match [6] 6:30
6 Swerve Strickland (with Prince Nana) defeated Shelton Benjamin (with MVP) by pinfall Singles match [6] 15:00
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
D – this was a dark match

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