AEW Star Set For First Dynamite Match Since 2023; June 5th Wrestling News Round-Up

AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland dawns the cover of Inside The Ropes Magazine Issue 45 available now.

Featuring:

WHOSE TITLE? SWERVE’S TITLE
Swerve Strickland finally captures the AEW World crown at Dynasty, and discusses his victory in an exclusive interview with ITR

BACKLASH FRANCE
How hot was that crowd in Lyon?

THE WINNING STREAK GIMMICK
It worked wonders for Goldberg, The Undertaker and others

CODY RHODES
We chronicle the American Nightmare’s astonishing climb to the top of the mountain

FOREIGN AFFAIRS
With Jon Moxley capturing the IWGP World Crown, Liam Wyatt looks at the rich history of international stars capturing New Japan’s top prize.

PLUS…
TNA Rebellion
Jon Moxley
The Blue Meanie
Drew McIntyre
King Of The Ring ’94
Letters Page

. . . and more news, reviews, analysis and retro goodness than you can shake a kendo stick at.

AEW Star Adam Copeland has undergone surgery after suffering a serious injury at AEW Double or Nothing last month.

Copeland, FKA Edge, fractured his tibia after a botched cell dive in his Barbed Wire Steel Cage match against House of Black’s Malakai Black.

Copeland would confirm his injury status in the days following the PPV and now the WWE Hall of Famer has confirmed his surgery status.

Taking to Instagram, Copeland wrote:

“First day, first morning post-surgery, and I wanted to see what I can pull off,” Copeland said.

“So right now I’m about to walk through the Forbidden Door. Since I can’t walk through the Forbidden Door of the pay-per-view and face someone from New Japan Pro-Wrestling

, I can walk through [the Forbidden Door of the gym].” [h/t f4wonline]

Ahead of tonight’s episode of AEW Dynamite let’s take a look at who sits top of the AEW wins list in 2024 so far!

Orange Cassidy sits above the rest with 21 wins, the former International Champion finished 2023 as AEW’s most dominant name with 53 wins.

AEW World Champion sits second with 18 wins and he will be looking to extend that to 19 win a successful title defence over Roderick Strong on tonight’s show.

Blackpool Combat Club has third place on lock as both Bryan Danielson and Claudio Castagnoli sit third with 17 wins.

Fourth place gets messy as Adam Copeland, Daniel Garcia, Deonna Purrazzo, Jon Moxley, Roderick Strong and Trent Barretta all share 13 wins.

and our top five is rounded off by Toni Storm and Will Ospreay who both sit on 12 wins.

AEW – Most wins in 2024 so far:

1 – Orange Cassidy (21)
2 – Swerve Strickland (18)
3 – Bryan Danielson & Claudio Castagnoli (17)
4 – Adam Copeland, Daniel Garcia, Deonna Purrazzo, Jon Moxley, Roderick Strong and Trent Barretta (13)
5 – Toni Storm and Will Ospreay (12) pic.twitter.com/Kc0mVGQi4l

— Inside The Ropes (@Inside_TheRopes) June 5, 2024

WWE’s ratings for Monday Night Raw have seen a slight dip following the companies King of the Ring PLE in Saudi Arabia.

This week’s episode of Raw featured a clash of generations as Rey Mysterio took on World Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest, but, despite this the show saw a slight dip in numbers.

This week’s episode recorded an average of 1.679 million viewers which is down 0.7% week on week.

This represents the lowest number in three weeks and featured a 3.6% drop in the key 18-49 demographic.

WWE will not be worried about these numbers as they continue to tout record breaking crowds almost weekly in 2024 at this point.

WWE Raw Results – June 3rd 2024

• Match #1: Ludwig Kaiser defeated Sheamus by pinfall.
• Match #2: Finn Balor (w/JD McDonagh) defeated Dragon Lee by pinfall.
• Match #3: Bron Breakker defeated Ricochet by pinfall.
• Match #4: Kiana James defeated Natalya by pinfall. James won her Raw debut with a 401 k slam which is like a flatliner.
• Match #5: Braun Strowman defeated Carlito by pinfall.
• Match #6:Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill defeated Zoey Stark & Shayna Baszler by disqualification in a match for the Women’s Tag Team Titles. After Belair hit Stark with KOD, the team of Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn attacked the champions. That led to the DQ. The foursome of Fyre, Dawn, Baszler & Stark beat up the champions some more after the match.
• Match #7: Authors of Pain – Akam & Rezar (w/Karrion Kross, Scarlett & Paul Ellering) defeated The New Day
• Match #8: Damian Priest defeated Rey Mysterio by pinfall.

Now that we have taken a look back at last night’s episode of NXT, let’s take a look at everything announced for tonight’s episode of AEW Dynamite.

AEW Dynamite Preview – June 5th 2024

Tonight’s episode of AEW Dynamite is set to air live from Loveland, Colorado, and features the following announced matches:

• Swerve Strickland vs Roderick Strong – AEW World Championship match.
• Blackpool Combat Club vs Team CMLL – Eight Man Tag Team match.
• Saraya vs Mariah May – Singles match.
• MJF returns.
• Chris Jericho presents TV Time with ‘The Learning Tree.’

Jordynne Grace made her NXT debut last night and did so in dominant fashion.

The TNA Knockouts Champion easily disposed of Stevie Turner all while keeping one eye on NXT Women’s Champion Roxanne Perez.

Check out the highlights below!

Before we look ahead at everything announced for tonight’s episode of AEW Dynamite, let’s take a look at everything that went down during last night’s episode of WWE NXT.

NXT Results – June 4th 2024

• Jordynne Grace defeated Stevie Turner via pinfall.
• Jaxmyn Nyx defeated Thea Hail via pinfall.
• Tony D’Angelo defeated Damon Kemp to retain the NXT Heritage Cup.
• Natalya defeated Izzi Dame via pinfall.
• Jaida Parker, Michin & Sol Ruca defeated Fallon Henley, Kelani Jordan & Lash Legend – Lash Legend broke up with Trick Williams to focus on her NXT Women’s Championship pursuit.
• Eddy Thorpe’s return to NXT is hyped up in a pre recorded video package.
• Trick Williams vs Ethan Page made official for NXT Battleground.

Kevin Kelly, who was the English voice of NJPW from 2015 to 2023, has put the company under fire for their failings to improve streaming service NJPW World.

Responding to quotes from NJPW President Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kevin Kelly would blast the service for being poor for users and only having on update during the past decade…that made the service worse.

Additionally, Kelly would respond to Tanahashi’s criticism of several titles in NJPW stating that at least two titles should be scrapped.

Taking to Twitter, Kelly wrote:

“Head of NJPW World should be held accountable for app failures. Always was terrible for viewers now it’s worse. 10 year site has had one redesign and has gotten worse.

CHAOS and Hontai should merge.

Six man titles should go bye bye. KOPW too. World TV Title and NEVER combine?”

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Wheeler Yuta is back.

The Blackpool Combat Club member, and former ROH Pure Champion, has not bee seen since suffering a concussion back in January.

However, as first announced by Tony Khan, Yuta will be making his in-ring return on tonight’s episode of Dynamite as the Blackpool Combat Club take on the CMLL foursome of Magnus, Volador Jr, Rudigo and Esfinge.

The match represents the Blackpool Combat Club’s first time teaming as a four on Dynamite but also Yuta’s first appearance on Dynamite since November 2023.

Taking to Twitter to address Yuta’s medical status, Tony Khan would write:

“Yes, the medical staff just officially cleared Wheeler Yuta today after a 4 month absence + now the entire BCC are ready to jump right into it;

Teaming together as a 4 man team for the first time in AEW TV history vs their rivals from CMLL live on TBS tomorrow! LFG”

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Good Afternoon!

I hope everyone is doing well and is having a good week so far.

I will be with you from 2pm to 6pm BST (10am – 1pm ET) covering all the biggest stories from WWE, AEW, NJPW, TNA and more.

We will be kicking things off today with the biggest stories from the last 24 hours including:

• An AEW star is set to compete on Dynamite for the first time since 2023.
• Jordynne Grace victorious in her NXT debut.
• Raw ratings drop following King of the Ring PLE.
• Adam Copeland undergoes surgery.