{"id":109811,"date":"2022-02-15T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=109811"},"modified":"2022-02-13T17:43:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T22:43:40","slug":"inner-circle-implodes-aew-dynamite-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/02\/15\/inner-circle-implodes-aew-dynamite-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: AEW Dynamite (2\/16\/22) &#8211; The Inner Circle Implodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>AEW Dynamite<\/i><\/b> emanates from the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee as\u00a0<strong>All Elite Wrestling<\/strong> stars battle it out once more on an action-packed edition of AEW&#8217;s premiere Wednesday night program. AEW&#8217;s biggest and best stable, <strong>The Inner Circle<\/strong>, looks like it&#8217;ll be coming to end as civil war commences on <em>AEW Dynamite<\/em>. &#8220;La Mera Mera&#8221; looks to brutalize &#8220;The OG Badass&#8221; and exact her revenge. Plus, the TNT Championships is on the line as &#8220;The Spanish God&#8221; defends against his fellow &#8220;Four Pillars of AEW.&#8221; Let&#8217;s preview this exciting card that goes down on <em>AEW <\/em><em>Dynamite<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This card is stacked from top to bottom and we don&#8217;t want to keep you waiting any further. It&#8217;s Wednesday night after all, and you know what that means. it&#8217;s time to run it down!<\/p>\n<h2>Full AEW Dynamite (2\/16\/22) Card<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Jericho &amp; Jake Hager vs. Santana &amp; Ortiz<\/li>\n<li>No Disqualification Match: Mercedes Martinez vs. Thunder Rosa<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Face of the Revolution&#8221; Ladder Match &#8211; Qualifier: Wardlow vs. Max Caster<\/li>\n<li>Bryan Danielson vs. Lee Moriarty<\/li>\n<li>TNT Championship: Sammy Guevara (c) vs. Darby Allin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/cEbItNN.jpg\" alt=\"Mercedes Martinez Thunder Rosa\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>No DQ, No Excuses<\/h3>\n<p>Two weeks ago on\u00a0<em><strong>AEW<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<em>Rampage<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Thunder Rosa<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Mercedes Martinez\u00a0<\/strong>were having a terrific match. Unfortunately, the match would abruptly end when Mercedes chose to use a lead pipe to batter Rosa, leading to a disqualification. After the match, it was revealed that Martinez was hired by the AEW Women&#8217;s World Champion <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/12\/18\/2021-was-britt-baker-dmd-year\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.<\/strong><\/a> to take out Thunder Rosa once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>The good doctor was livid at Mercedes for not getting the job done. However, the &#8220;OG Badass&#8221; went on to state that she\u00a0<em>did<\/em> get the job done by incapacitating &#8220;La Mera Mera.&#8221; Baker expects more and demands results. As long as Thunder Rosa is still standing, the job is not done. This leads to this Wednesday night on <em>Dynamite<\/em>, Rosa and Martinez will battle it once more, only this time, it&#8217;s going to be in a No Disqualification Match.<\/p>\n<p>Thunder Rosa is salivating at the thought of getting her hands on Mercedes after the brutal attack on\u00a0<em>Rampage<\/em>. Unfazed, Martinez says &#8220;bring it.&#8221; Sit tight, folks. It&#8217;s going to be one heck of a night this Wednesday. It&#8217;s Thunder Rosa versus Mercedes Martinez; no disqualification, no excuses. It all goes down Wednesday night only on TBS!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109972 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/02\/inner-circle-implodes-aew-dynamite.jpg\" alt=\"Inner Circle Implodes AEW Dynamite\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/02\/inner-circle-implodes-aew-dynamite.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/02\/inner-circle-implodes-aew-dynamite-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Attendance is Mandatory &#8211; Inner Circle Implodes on AEW Dynamite<\/h3>\n<p>Things got extremely heated between\u00a0<strong>Santana<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Ortiz<\/strong> and &#8220;Le Champion&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Chris Jericho<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/02\/08\/aew-dynamite-preview-aew-championship-match\/\" target=\"_self\">last week<\/a> on\u00a0<em>Dynamite<\/em>.\u00a0<strong>Jake Hager<\/strong> and TNT Champion\u00a0<strong>Sammy Guevara<\/strong> also got roped into this civil war within\u00a0The Inner Circle.\u00a0<strong>Proud<\/strong> <strong>and Powerful<\/strong> would air out their grievances and state that Jericho has been holding them back since day one, and they&#8217;re no longer going to take it.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Demo God&#8221; would fire back and say that if it weren&#8217;t for him and The Inner Circle, Santana and Ortiz wouldn&#8217;t have main evented pay-per-views, multiple <em>Dynamites<\/em>, and be the stars they are today. To put salt into the wounds, Jericho went further and said that the former <strong>LAX<\/strong> duo had the chance to be AEW World Tag Team Champions, but they blew it falling to <strong>The Young Bucks<\/strong> last February.<\/p>\n<p>The situation got even tenser when Guevara stated that he&#8217;s done with this whole fighting. Furthermore, if they don&#8217;t fix it, he&#8217;ll quit the group once more as he exited the ring. Guevara has bigger fish to fry anyway, as he will defend the TNT Championship against <strong>Darby Allin <\/strong>on this edition of <em>Dynamite<\/em>. Ortiz would step in and cut right to the chase, instead of talking they should just hash things out by getting in the ring next week, Santana and Ortiz versus Jericho and Hager mano-a-mano.<\/p>\n<p>[pickup_prop id=&#8221;17223&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Jericho accepted and stated that &#8220;attendance is mandatory.&#8221; It seems like fans will witness the implosion of one of the most dominant factions in AEW history next week. Don&#8217;t miss this civil war of epic proportions within The Inner Circle this week on <em>AEW Dynamite<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world. As well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 You can catch AEW Dynamite Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TNT and AEW Dark: Elevation (Monday nights) and AEW: Dark (Tuesday nights) at 7 PM ET on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>. AEW Rampage airs on TNT at 10 PM EST every Friday night.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AEW Dynamite emanates from the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee as\u00a0All Elite Wrestling stars battle it out once more on an action-packed edition of AEW&#8217;s premiere Wednesday night program. AEW&#8217;s biggest and best stable, The Inner Circle, looks like it&#8217;ll be coming to end as civil war commences on AEW Dynamite. &#8220;La Mera Mera&#8221; looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3735,"featured_media":109972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,6,2192],"tags":[5730,1634,491,6165,6897,612,1602,5747,2803,5304],"class_list":["post-109811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-aew-dynamite","tag-bryan-danielson","tag-darby-allin","tag-lee-moriarty","tag-max-caster","tag-mercedes-martinez","tag-sammy-guevara","tag-the-inner-circle","tag-thunder-rosa","tag-wardlow"],"modified_by":"Robbie Sutter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}