AEW Dynasty delivered a lucha-laced soap opera with chair shots and family drama as Bandido put his mask on the line against Chris Jericho’s ROH World Championship. What followed was a match so bizarre, so delightfully petty, that even telenovela villains would say, “That’s a bit much.”
From the start, Jericho treated the match like a personal vendetta against Bandido’s entire family tree. He hit a Codebreaker, a Lionsault, and immediately began taunting Bandido’s mom and sister at ringside — which is either great heel work or grounds for a holiday dinner boycott.
Bandido fired back with two dives, a minute-long vertical suplex, and instructions to his family that basically amounted to: “Chill, I got this.” But the tone changed when Jericho countered a big boot with a powerbomb off the apron to the floor — because nothing says “family entertainment” like spine trauma.
Jericho, apparently applying for a side gig as a cameraman, stole the broadcast camera to taunt Bandido’s family mid-match. But Bandido refused to go quietly. The two traded counters like a glitchy wrestling video game until Jericho hit another Codebreaker from the top and tried to win with rope-aided shenanigans and full heel tactics.
Then it got weird.
Jericho went full outlaw and whacked Bandido with his bat while the ref was distracted by outside chaos — namely, Bryan Keith interfering, only to be neutralized by the surprise return of Gravity, Bandido’s masked brother and part-time physics violation. Jericho “won” via dirty pin, and the bell rang… but then Aubrey Edwards showed up like a righteous sitcom neighbor and restarted the match after being tattled on by Bandido’s mom and sister. No, seriously.
Jericho, upset his cheating was caught by someone’s mom, tried to grab Bandido’s sister — which might’ve worked in the 1997 rulebook, but here it earned him a knee to the face, a clean 21-Plex, and a very real three-count.
Bandido wins. Jericho loses. Moms everywhere rejoice.
And with that, Bandido becomes just the eighth man ever to hold the ROH World Championship twice, celebrates with his family, and cuts a victory promo in Spanish for his fans — while Jericho likely files a protest with Human Resources and The Learning Tree.