{"id":133047,"date":"2025-03-31T05:16:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=133047"},"modified":"2025-03-31T05:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:16:35","slug":"aew-dynamite-preview-4-2-25-aew-dynasty-go-home-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/03\/31\/aew-dynamite-preview-4-2-25-aew-dynasty-go-home-show\/","title":{"rendered":"AEW Dynamite Preview (4\/2\/25) &#8211; AEW Dynasty Go-Home Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025 so far, AEW has made each Dynamite count. The card for Sunday\u2019s Dynasty PPV is shaping up nicely, and no doubt more contests, including perhaps at least one kick-off match for this year\u2019s Owen Hart Foundation Tournaments. Each AEW Dynamite episode proves <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/03\/05\/5-signs-that-aew-creative-is-turning-the-corner\/\" target=\"_self\">AEW\u2019s creative has turned the corner<\/a>, offering huge contests with big consequences and the promise of more great stuff to come beyond banger matches.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we get two meaningful contests with women\u2019s wrestlers, which hopefully hints that the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/02\/14\/the-spotlight-issue-timeless-toni-storm-vs-mariah-may\/\" target=\"_self\">women\u2019s spotlighting issue<\/a> might become history. A potential hard-hitting showcase as Cope takes on Claudio Castagnoli, a Will Ospreay exhibition, and a violent intergender main event.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s excluding the unannounced but likely next instalment in the MJF\/Hurt Syndicate story and more. Elsewhere, I\u2019ve listed the known competitors for The Owen and speculated on possibilities (<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/03\/30\/aew-to-reveal-owen-hart-cup-tournament-brackets-on-april-2\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Pop!<\/p>\n<h2>AEW Dynamite Matches Announced<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cTimeless\u201d Toni Storm vs. Penelope Ford W\/ Megan Bayne.<\/li>\n<li>Cope vs. Claudio Castagnoli<\/li>\n<li>Mixed Tag Tornado Rules: Jon Moxley and Marina Shafir vs. Swerve Strickland and Willow Nightingale<\/li>\n<li>Will Ospreay returns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>AEW Dynamite Segments Announced<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Men\u2019s and women\u2019s brackets for The Owen Hart Foundation Tournaments will be announced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u201cTimeless\u201d Toni Storm vs. Penelope Ford<\/h2>\n<p>After a jump scare attack on the AEW Women\u2019s World champion on Collision, Penelope Ford seeks to soften up \u201cTimeless\u201d Toni Storm for her ally Megan Bayne ahead of Dynasty. Last week\u2019s loss to Ford and Bayne, where Bayne pinned Storm, did not dent the leading lady\u2019s confidence. On Collision, with wrists taped up and calling out Bayne\u2019s oiled, feathered ass, Storm seems ready to take Bayne\u2019s ti*s home in her purse.<\/p>\n<p>Penelope Ford offers Storm a tune-up, a chance to make a point to her challenger. Ford\u2019s form since returning from injury has improved in the last few weeks after a few underwhelming contests. Against Storm, this could be her best singles match since her comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the match, expect another moment, another glorious encounter where both women might get their hands on the other. AEW\u2019s building of Bayne is making some consider what would happen if the Megasus defeated Storm in her first attempt. Well, I\u2019ve got a what if article on the subject for you, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/03\/21\/megan-bayne-toni-storm-aew-womens-world-championship\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Mixed Tag Tornado Violence<\/h2>\n<p>With both champion and challenger for the AEW Men\u2019s World Championship ruptured and still injured, this likely violent contest is going to do neither man any favors. Swerve Strickland has a ruptured eardrum, and Moxley has holes still healing in his back from the street fight with Cope. With Strickland\u2019s determination to become a two-time world champion at Dynasty, a year after his first world title victory, there\u2019s no telling how far the Mogul will go to break Moxley down.<\/p>\n<p>However, after being called a character last week by Swerve Strickland, Moxley, disregard of his respect for Strickland and past admiration, is going to measure twice and cut once. Learn from his own mistakes with Cope.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the wildcards in this match are the women. This is Marina Shafir\u2019s first match in AEW since she became Moxley\u2019s enforcer and keeper of the briefcase. Shafir and Willow Nightingale have been attacking and interjecting in each other\u2019s business for months.<\/p>\n<p>The Babe with the Power is a hardcore specialist who wears knitwear and smiles. Shafir\u2019s bullied and manhandled everyone who gets in The Death Riders&#8217; way.<\/p>\n<p>What has Shafir got? How has she improved since her last outing? Also, given both men\u2019s desire for violence, if Shafir or Nightingale gets in the way, could there be some intergender combat?<\/p>\n<p>Prepare for blood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Header photo \u2013 AEW \u2013 Stay tun<\/em><em>ed to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for more on AEW Dynamite, AEW Dynasty, 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 on Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TBS. AEW Collision airs Saturday at 8pm Eastern on TNT. More AEW content available on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AEW\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025 so far, AEW has made each Dynamite count. The card for Sunday\u2019s Dynasty PPV is shaping up nicely, and no doubt more contests, including perhaps at least one kick-off match for this year\u2019s Owen Hart Foundation Tournaments. Each AEW Dynamite episode proves AEW\u2019s creative has turned the corner, offering huge contests with big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4960,"featured_media":133076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[4133,5730,8864,4395,1184,8155,2034,8520,8984,3625],"class_list":["post-133047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-aew","tag-aew-dynamite","tag-aew-dynasty","tag-jon-moxley","tag-marina-shafir","tag-megan-bayne","tag-penelope-ford","tag-swerve-strickland","tag-timeless-toni-storm","tag-willow-nightingale"],"modified_by":"Chinyere Okafor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133047","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\/4960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133047"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133078,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133047\/revisions\/133078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}