Mark Briscoe Makes AEW Debut in Tribute Match

There are some huge adjustments for tonight’s episode of AEW Dynamite. First and foremost, Mark Briscoe will wrestle Jay Lethal in a tribute match for the late Jay Briscoe, who died tragically in a automotive accident final week. The match will mark the primary time a Briscoe has appeared on AEW Dynamite (not together with the memorial graphic for Jay Briscoe that appeared in the beginning of final week’s present), a results of a coverage long-rumored by a number of sources however by no means really confirmed on the report, to return from AEW’s TV associate, Warner Bros. Discovery, in response to homophobic tweets made by Jay Briscoe a decade in the past.

In the years since, Briscoe apologized for and denounced the tweets, modifying his stance in a method broadly perceived as honest. However, although the Briscoes have been employed by AEW Owner Tony Khan to wrestle in sister-brand ROH, featured prominently on ROH PPVs, and have been the reigning ROH Tag Team Champions till the time of Jay Briscoe’s demise, the group was nonetheless successfully banned from AEW tv, wherever that directive got here from, till tonight. AEW did movie matches for a Jay Briscoe tribute present final week, however it’ll air on ROH’s Honor Club streaming service. On a podcast just lately, Khan mentioned he “fought hard” to make the match occur. All of that’s to say will probably be an emotional evening for followers and wrestlers alike.

Additionally, AEW has made a change to the marketed girls’s triple risk match. Due to an harm, Britt Baker is out, so Toni Storm will tackle Ruby Soho one-on-one on AEW Dynamite tonight.

Other matches and segments deliberate for tonight’s AEW Dynamite are as follows:

AEW Dynamite will air at 8/7C on TBS.