It was just another cozy Wednesday in Omaha, Nebraska—except for the blizzard, a bloody back full of nails, and Jon Moxley casually redefining “hardcore” while the airport shut down. Welcome to the March 19 edition of “AEW Dynamite,” a show so intense it made Mother Nature tap out.
The buzz? Oh, it’s not dying down anytime soon.
Let’s start with the most important detail: Jon Moxley got Suplexed onto a nail-covered bat. Yes, an actual bat, with actual nails, and no, it was not a metaphor. Then, in the kind of moment that makes OSHA inspectors cry, the bat stuck to his back like a horror movie prop gone rogue. According to Fightful Select, people backstage were reacting like they’d just seen someone moonsault off the Empire State Building.
“He couldn’t detach it from his back.”
AEW medical: “You good?”
Moxley: “Yep.”
Then he wrestled on it again. Of course he did.
Backstage sources were reportedly “stunned” that the two lunatics—I mean, professionals—went through with the spot, especially since it’s been teased in deathmatch circles for decades but almost never actually done. Moxley, naturally, shrugged it off like a man whose pain threshold is somewhere between “Wolverine” and “whatever lives in Tony Khan’s brain at 3 a.m.”
Meanwhile, travel logistics for the episode turned into a 1990s video game side quest. Moxley drove 11 hours just to get to the show, probably chugging gas station coffee and plotting revenge on whoever invented air travel. Many AEW stars couldn’t make it at all thanks to the Omaha blizzard that apparently decided to run in unannounced like a heel in a lumberjack match.
Swerve Strickland? Not there—eardrum injury, still healing from Revolution. But even if he was booked, there’s no guarantee his plane would’ve landed and not, say, turned into a snowplow.
Despite the chaos, AEW President Tony “Everything Is Fine” Khan was reportedly thrilled with how the show went. Most of the roster was just happy the fans showed up after trudging through a literal snowstorm, possibly fighting polar bears and Spirit Airlines to get to the arena.