AEW Dynamite Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights from December 29

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For the last time, AEW Dynamite hit the TNT airwaves Wednesday with a special New Year’s Bash episode headlined by a blockbuster six-man tag team match pitting the reunited Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish against Orange Cassidy and Best Friends.

The show also determined the second participant in the finals of the TBS Championship as the undefeated Jade Cargill battled Thunder Rosa.

Who emerged from those top-tier encounters, what else went down on the broadcast and what did all of it mean for AEW as it prepares for another year of pro wrestling excellence?

Find out with this recap of the December 29 show.

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Credit: All Elite Wrestling

Christian Cage, Jurassic Express and AEW tag team champions Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix battled Matt Hardy, Private Party and FTR in a huge 10-man tag team match to kick off the final Dynamite of 2021.

A hot start by the babyface team came to a screeching halt following a headscissors from Marq Quen into a Side Effect by Hardy on Jungle Boy. Lucha Bros exploded into the match off a hot tag but a tandem DDT by Quen and Isiah Kassidy flattened Fenix and allowed the heels to regain control of the bout. 

Fenix tagged Luchasaurus into the match and the big man took the fight to the opposition, even thwarting a cohesive tag team assault from Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler. A tag team to Harwood gave way to a forced tag from Penta.

The action broke down as the commentary team teased dissension between the babyfaces. Hardy sent Luchasaurus into the ring post while Fenix and Jungle Boy wiped out competition at ringside. Cage tagged himself in, creating further dissension between the babyfaces. A disagreement allowed FTR to deliver the Big Rig to Captain Charisma for the hard-fought victory.

     

Result

FTR, Private Party and Hardy defeated Lucha Bros, Jurassic Express and Cage

    

Grade

B

    

Analysis

This had action in spades, highlighting a tag team division that is among the best in all of wrestling.

Beyond the quality of the match, though, was the storyline development that occurred during it.

Jurassic Express and Christian Cage have made their intentions to challenge for the AEW tag titles abundantly clear. Lucha Bros are the reigning champions so it made sense from a narrative standpoint that there would be tension that, ultimately, manifested itself in ego and frustration late.

The developments in the match suggest that feud for the titles is going to happen sooner, rather than later, but FTR’s victory certainly keeps them involved in the title picture.

With the potential arrival of Ring of Honor stalwarts The Briscoe Brothers, and the reunited Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish, there is a ton of potential for this division to get even better moving forward.