AEW Dynamite announcement July 23 2025: Copying WWE without mistakes

AEW Dynamite Announcement (July 23, 2025): AEW tries to transcript WWE's fashionable gimmick, but this clip without the mistakes

Tonight, July 23rd, it's AEW Dynamite, unrecorded from the Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom successful Chicago. This is the 2nd occurrence successful the six-week play until the large Forbidden Door show, scheduled for August 24.

AEW tries to usage the fashionable conception of WWE without mistakes

According to Tony Khan's announcements, tonight's programme volition beryllium focused connected non-title matches. First up is simply a lucifer betwixt AEW Women's Champion known arsenic "Timeless" Toni Storm and Athena's adjunct Billie Starkz. This lucifer was created arsenic portion of Athena's strategy to weaken the champion earlier perchance utilizing her declaration to combat for the title. 

Athena showed AEW's mentation of the Money successful the Bank declaration connected the Collision amusement and told Tona that she would beryllium "circling the ringing similar a shark" during the Dynamite match, a notation to Shark Week.

Toni responded successful her ain unsocial way, threatening to "wipe her shoes connected Athena's sphincter". She past reversed the program and turned the lucifer into a rubric eliminator, meaning Billie Starkz would get a changeable astatine the satellite rubric if she could decision the champion.

Athena seemed amazed and displeased astatine the crook of events. The question remains whether this volition impact its strategy regarding "cash-in" contracts.

Honestly, I'm a small amazed that AEW is trying to transcript WWE's Money successful the Bank conception again, particularly aft the archetypal effort with Christian Cago earlier this twelvemonth failed. But possibly Tony Khan has learned his acquisition and has a amended program to propulsion it disconnected now. It's worthy pursuing Dynamite to spot if Athena volition conscionable "circle the ring" oregon if she volition bash thing much important during Shark Week.

Other matches of the evening

Another non-title lucifer is betwixt satellite champion Hangman Page and Wheeler Yuta. The Death Riders proceed to origin problems, arsenic Colt Cabana felt past week astatine Collision. We'll spot if Jon Moxley has immoderate bigger revenge planned for the Hangman aft helium rapidly takes down 1 of the Death Riders' henchmen. My conjecture is that Darby Allin volition marque an quality during Shark Week, possibly to physically intervene alternatively than conscionable endanger from a distance.

What other to follow?

In AEW, everyone is present having amusive teasing the Young Bucks, who person mislaid their EVP powers. Matthew and Nick Jackson responded by allying with Don Callis and his crew. Will that beryllium capable for them to halt the ridicule?

AEW Unified Champion Kazuchika Okada has a caller euphony intro, which isn't astir arsenic bully arsenic his aged one. Last week, helium called Swerve Strickland a "bitch," which sparked a combat betwixt them successful the ring. Will Swerve assertion Okada's rubric astatine Forbidden Door, oregon volition the combat hap earlier then?