Tonight’s AEW Dynamite airing August 20, 2025, promises an action-packed night live from the OVO Hydro Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. The AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door go-home show sees The Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta) take on Hiroshi Tanahashi and JetSpeed (“The Jet” Kevin Knight and “Speedball” Mike Bailey) in a Trios Match. Plus, we’ll hear from AEW World Champion “Hangman” Adam Page.
The show kicks off at 8:00 PM ET on TBS and is available for international fans on streaming platforms like Max. Ringside News will provide live, match-by-match updates and highlights throughout the night. Stay tuned to this page, refresh for the latest results as the action unfolds, and join the conversation in the comments below!
AEW Dynamite Results (8/20/2025): Live Match Updates and Highlights
The show opens up with Excalibur and Tony Schiavone welcoming us as “The American Dragon” Bryan Danielson makes his way down to the ring to join commentary.
Will Ospreay’s music then hits and he makes his way down to the ring. Ospreay starts off by thanking the fans for their warm welcome, then says he can always count on Glasgow and recalls the first time he wrestled there. Ospreay then says he hates to let the fans down because he has grown up in front of all of them, then thanks them for supporting him over the years.
Ospreay then says he thought he was invincible until he was told last week that he wasn’t cleared for action at Forbidden Door because of what The Death Riders have done to him. Ospreay then says he knows he is going to be walking down a road that other wrestlers have not come back from, but he is still competing in the Lights Out Steel Cage Match on Sunday since it’s an unsanctioned match by nature. Ospreay then says he is aware of the risks, but the United Kingdom means a lot to him and he is going to be the standard for AEW. Ospreay then says even if there’s a small chance he can’t be Will Ospreay after Sunday, he is going to leave it all in the ring. Ospreay then says he’ll enter the cage with four good friends of his to tear apart The Death Riders. Ospreay then says he’ll take a pound of flesh before Moxley can even scalpel him.
Jon Moxley and Marina Shafir then make their way down to the ring. Moxley then stares down Ospreay as Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta join Moxley. Ospreay then tells Moxley that he is coming for him on Sunday and if he wants to come for him tonight, then he should send his boys after him. “Speedball” Mike Bailey, Kevin Knight and Hiroshi Tanahashi then come to Ospreay’s aid and the bell rings for the first match of the night.
Trios Match: The Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi and JetSpeed (“The Jet” Kevin Knight and “Speedball” Mike Bailey)
The match starts off with Tanahashi clearing out Yuta and Claudio. Moxley and Tanahashi then exchange strikes. Moxley then grabs the left arm of Tanahashi and tags in Castagnoli, who hits Tanahashi with uppercuts. Yuta is then tagged in as he sends Tanahashi to the mat. Tanahashi then recovers and takes Yuta down. Bailey is then tagged in. He then nails Yuta with a big ax kick. Bailey then hits a shooting star press and covers Yuta for only a two count. Castagnoli is then tagged in and he takes Bailey down and scoops him up and slams him down. Castagnoli then hits Bailey in the left ear. Shafir then pulls Knight off the apron and is caught by the referee and sent to the back. Castagnoli then picks up Bailey and swings Bailey around. Ospreay then comes out from the back and picks up Shafir and takes her to the backstage area.
Castagnoli then kicks Knight in the head, who is trying to fight back. Knight then nails Castagnoli with a thrust kick. Moxley then comes in and is kicked by Knight, who then tags in Tanahashi. Tanahashi then sends Moxley and Castagnoli down with elbow strikes. Tanahashi then comes off the top landing on Yuta. He then covers Yuta for only a two count. Moxley is then tagged back, but is sent to the floor. Bailey then leaps off the ropes with a big moonsault, landing on Moxley on the floor. Knight then hits a moonsault on Castagnoli. Tanahashi then hits Yuta with a slingblade.
Gabe Kidd and the Bullet Club War Dogs then hit the apron, taking out JetSpeed. Yuta and Tanahashi are on the top rope. Ospreay then comes out with a body bag with someone in it. Tanahashi then hits a moonsault on a distracted Yuta and covers him for the win.
The winners of the Trios Match, Hiroshi Tanahashi and JetSpeed (“The Jet” Kevin Knight and “Speedball” Mike Bailey)!
After the match, The Death Riders and War Dogs beat down JetSpeed and Tanahashi in the ring. Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson then blindside Ospreay from behind, but Roderick Strong and Kyle O’Reilly come to Ospreay’s aid and brawl with him to the back. Assuming Shafir is in the body bag, The Death Riders unzip it only to find that it’s actually Darby Allin inside. The Opps then run down to the ring as everyone continues brawling with one another. Allin then delivers one of the entrance tunnels with a Coffin Drop to nail The Death Riders and War Dogs in the crowd as they brawl there with The Opps.
Commentary then highlights the AEW World Title Match coming up this Sunday and Forbidden Door and that leads us to a video package.
Tony Schiavone then introduces Adam Copeland and Christian Cage and they make their way down to the ring. Cage starts off by telling Glasgow to sit down and shut their mouths as he conducts his business, but Copeland grabs the microphone from him and questions what he’s doing. Cage then says he’s still being the same bad guy that he was, but the thing he’s learned over the years is that sometimes you need that bad guy.
Cage then says at AEW All In: Texas, Copeland told him to go find himself. Cage then says he’s taken some time to do that and he’s found himself. Cage then says he’s found that he doesn’t need to change a thing because he’s perfect just the way that he is. Cage then says people might be wondering if he and Copeland are on the same page. Cage then says they aren’t, but they’re at least writing in the same book at this point in time. Cage then says he knew people were hoping for a happy, bubbly reunion between himself and Copeland, but it’s a reunion out of necessity. Cage then says Copeland has agreed to help him with Nick Wayne and Kip Sabian as long as he helps him deal with FTR and while he knows that his word hasn’t meant much to Copeland lately, the current version of him will be the best tag team partner he’s ever had.
Cage then extends his hand to Copeland and Copeland shakes it. Sabian’s voice then cuts off the two men and he appears alongside Mother Wayne. Sabian says Copeland and Cage are pathetic and Mother Wayne asks the people who they are to boo herself and Sabian. Nick then appears on the big screen and says he wasn’t too far behind Cage last Wednesday. Nick then says Cage hit the ring with Spike The Bat and while he didn’t take his head off, he broke his foot. Nick then says if he showed up at Forbidden Door, he’ll turn a reunion into a quick farewell. Nick then tells Cage that he’s always one step ahead of him.
A video then begins playing, showing Killswitch being brought back from the dead on a medical table. He then makes his down way to the ring, but Cage sees Sabian sneak up on him as Killswitch nails Copeland. He then stares down Cage in the ring and looks to leave, but turns back around and chokeslams both Copeland and Christian. Killswitch is then confirmed as the replacement partner for Forbidden Door.
Mark Briscoe is then shown in the backstage area and he is looking for MJF and promises to kill him.
We then head to the back, where Ricochet and the Gates of Agony are cutting a promo. MJF then shows up and says his enemy is looking for him. MJF then says he is looking for help. Ricochet then says he has a deal and they tell the camera man to get out.
FTR then make their way down to the ring for the next match of the night and Brodido follows.
AEW World Tag Team Title Eliminator Tournament Finals Match: FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax “The Axe” Harwood) vs. Brodido (Hounds of Hell’s Brody King and ROH World Champion Bandido)
The match starts off with Bandido and Dax locking up. Dax then sends Bandido to the corner and trash talks him. Both men then circle the ring as Dax grabs the arm of Bandido. Bandido then sends Dax down. Both men then lock up again. Dax then takes down Bandido and both men run the ropes as Dax hits Bandido with a shoulder block, sending him to the mat. Dax then calls for Bandido to bring it. We then get a standing switch from Dax. Bandido then tries for a pinfall. Dax then tags in Cash Wheeler. Bandido and Cash then lock up. Cash then grabs the arm of Bandido and twists it. Bandido then leg trips Cash. Bandido then takes Cash down and sends Dax to the floor. Cash then goes to the floor. The Hurt Syndicate are then shown watching in the back. Dax then grabs a chair, but the referee grabs the chair and tosses it. Brody King is then tagged in. He then sends Wheeler down with a push and chops as he gets up. Cash then tags in Dax.
Dax then attempts to hit King, but it has no effect. King then chops Dax, sending him down. As Dax gets up, King chops him down again. Dax then fires back and piledrives King, who gets up and takes down Cash and Dax. King then picks up Bandido who comes in and sends him to Dax. FTR then double teams Kings and sends him through the ropes and is hit by a loaded sling. Dax then goes to the floor and grabs a mic. He then tells the fans to respect Big Stoke as King is bleeding from the forehead and down by the announce desk.
King is back in the ring and he tags in Bandido, who takes down Wheeler with a head scissors. Bandido then nails Dax. Cash is back in, but is sent out to floor as is Dax. Bandido then leaps over the top, but is caught by FTR and sent head first into the apron. Dax then chops Bandido. King is up on the apron. Dax then hits a brainbuster on Bandido and covers him for a two count. FTR then double team Bandido. Cash is then tagged in and he covers Bandido for only a two count. Cash then has Bandido in a headlock. Bandido then tries to make a tag, but Cash prevents it. Dax is then tagged in. He then sets up Bandido on the top rope. Dax then chops Bandido, who comes back with chops on Dax. Bandido then continues the chops as Dax falls on his back. Bandido then comes off the top with a big cross body and covers Dax for only a two count.
Wheeler then sends King crashing into the ring post and hits a Tornado DDT on him off the ring post. Dax then hits a back suplex on King off the ropes and Wheeler hits a Frog Splash from across the other side of the ring. The ring announcer then declares that twenty five minutes have already passed in the match. Both teams then continue brawling with one another. The ring announcer then declares that there are only two minutes left in the match as Bandido looks to hit the 21 Plex on Dax. Wheeler then comes to Dax’s aid with one minute to go in the match. Wheeler and Dax then set up a table on one of the barricades with only 30 seconds left to go. King then sends Wheeler and Dax crashing into opposite barricades, then sends Wheeler crashing through the table as the time limit on the match expires.
The AEW World Tag Team Title Eliminator Tournament Finals Match ends in a No Contest due to a 30-minute time limit draw!
After the match, not realizing that the time limit had expired Bandido hits the 21 Plex on Dax and pins him as the ring announcer declares that the match is a draw and declares that per Tony Khan, The Hurt Syndicate will be defending the AEW World Tag Team Championship against both FTR and Bandido and King at Forbidden Door. Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin then make their down way to the ring, staring down FTR, King and Bandido.
We then go to a video package hyping up the AEW Unified Title Match with Kazuchika Okada defending against Swerve Strickland at Forbidden Door.
AEW World Champion “Hangman” Adam Page then makes his way down to the ring. Page starts off by saying last week he was jumped from behind in the parking lot by MJF. Page then says it is a waste of time to call out MJF as he is an insecure and a gutless coward. Page then says there will be nothing underhanded and he will shove his size twelves up his checked ass. The music of MJF then hits. but MJF does not come out and the fans boo. Tony Schiavone then grabs a mic and has a camera backstage. MJF says he wants to speak to Page, but if he doesn’t leave the ring something bad will happen. We then go to MJF on the big screen. Mark Briscoe is shown tied up with GOA and Ricochet. MJF then says he has three requests for Forbidden Door. MJF then dumps gas on Mark Briscoe and says he will be Kentucky Fried. MJF then says the tile can change hands by DQ, can change hands by count out and he doesn’t have to use his contract at Forbidden Door. MJF then asks for a lighter. MJF then tells Page he has until the count of five. Page then tells MJF to put it down and agrees to MJF’s stipulation. MJF then tells Page he is still a hero. Page then grabs a chair and heads to the back. Page then finds Ricochet and hits him with the chair, then demands to know where MJF is at. Security then pulls Page off Ricochet, but Page hits one of the security guards as The Gates Of Agony check on Ricochet.
Mercedes Moné then makes her way down to the ring for the main event of the night and Athena, Alex Windsor and “Timeless” Toni Storm follow.
Tag Team Match: ROH Women’s World Champion “The Fallen Goddess” Athena and AEW TBS Champion “The CEO” Mercedes Moné vs. AEW Women’s World Champion “Timeless” Toni Storm and Alex Windsor
The match starts off with Windsor and Moné and Windsor picks up Moné and puts her in a side headlock. Moné then tries to fight out of the hold. Windsor then takes down Moné with the head loc. Windsor then takes Moné down with a shoulder tackle. Moné then comes back and locks in a submission hold. Moné then hits Windsor with an elbow strike. Windsor then picks up Moné and Moné escapes and comes off the second rope, landing on Windsor and covering her for only a two count. Windsor then makes her way to the corner to tag in Storm.
Moné then backs up and tags in Athena. Storm then grabs Athena from behind. Athena and Storm then run the ropes. Storm then gets Athena in a headlock and sends her to the mat back first. Storm then hits a backbreaker on Athena and covers her for only a one count. Windsor is then tagged in and we get a couple of headbutts from Storm and Windsor on Athena and Moné. Athena then pulls the hair of Storm, sending her down. Athena then barks orders at Moné. Storm is then sent down to the floor. Athena then powerbombs Storm on the floor. Windsor then takes down Moné and Athena from behind.
Athena accidentally nails Moné. Windsor then tags Storm and drop kicks Athena. Storm then hits Athena with big right hands and suplexes her and covers her, but Athena kicks out at two. Windsor then sends Moné to the floor. Windsor then drops Athena with a lariat. Storm is then tagged back in. Windsor is then sent to the floor. Storm then chops Athena as she comes off the ropes, Moné then drops Storm from behind. Athena and Moné then double team Storm in the corner. Athena then grabs Storm, but Storm counters with a DDT and both women are down. Athena then crawls to the corner and makes the tag to Moné. Windsor is then tagged in. Windsor then takes Moné down with a shoulder block. Windsor then hits a lariat on Moné and covers her for only a two count. Windsor then hits a blue thunder bomb on Moné, but Moné kicks out at two. Athena then drops Storm head first on the steel steps.
Windsor then nails Athena, but Moné grabs Windsor. Windsor then counters and hits Moné with a Samoan drop. Windsor then applies a scorpion death lock on Moné, but she is not legal. Athena then comes in and nails Windsor from behind. Athena then covers Windsor for the win.
The winners of the Tag Team Match, ROH Women’s World Champion “The Fallen Goddess” Athena and AEW TBS Champion “The CEO” Mercedes Moné!
After the match, Moné gets in Persephone’s face on the outside as the show comes to a close.
Matches & Key Moments Scheduled for AEW Dynamite on August 20, 2025
- Trios Match: The Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi and JetSpeed (“The Jet” Kevin Knight and “Speedball” Mike Bailey)
- AEW World Tag Team Title Eliminator Tournament Finals Match: FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax “The Axe” Harwood) vs. Brodido (Hounds of Hell’s Brody King and ROH World Champion Bandido)
- Tag Team Match: ROH Women’s World Champion “The Fallen Goddess” Athena and AEW TBS Champion “The CEO” Mercedes Moné vs. AEW Women’s World Champion “Timeless” Toni Storm and Alex Windsor
- We’ll hear from AEW World Champion “Hangman” Adam Page
- Tony Schiavone interviews “The Rated R Superstar” Adam Copeland and Christian Cage
- “The Aerial Assassin” Will Ospreay and The Death Riders’ Jon Moxley will have a face-to-face
- “The American Dragon” Bryan Danielson will be a special guest commentator