MJF retains AEW World Title, Kenny Omega sets up Beach Break challenge

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On the July 1 episode of AEW Dynamite, MJF retained the AEW World Championship against Mark Briscoe in a violent, back-and-forth match that grew out of Briscoe earning a title shot at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door on June 28. Briscoe hit multiple Froggy Bows, two Tope Con Hilo dives, a Cutthroat Driver and an attempted Jay Driller on exposed concrete and through a table, but MJF ultimately countered a Jay Driller attempt, hit an Alabama Slam and finished with the Heatseeker to score the pin. After the match MJF attacked Briscoe with the Dynamite Diamond Ring before Kenny Omega ran in to make the save. Omega challenged MJF to a match later that night, which MJF declined, then offered Omega a title shot next week with one condition: if Omega loses he can never challenge for the AEW World Championship again. AEW advertised that MJF vs Kenny Omega for the AEW World Title will be held at the Beach Break episode next Wednesday under that lose-and-never-challenge stipulation.

All Elite Wrestling

@allelitewrestling.com

#AEWDynamite Beach Break 8/7c, TBS & HBO Max Next Wednesday, 7/8 AEW World Title MJF vs Kenny Omega Omega made a deal with the Devil. If he can't defeat MJF for the AEW World Championship, he can never challenge for the title again. Omega vs MJF, NEXT WEDNESDAY!

9045d ago

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David Bixenspan14

IN A TENT ON THE WATERFRONT

Steve Kasan4

"It is Time now, Arthur. The Dragons Breath has called you to be Man who you once where. For Hope, For Dreams, For Love. The Land calls on the Return of their King." #AEWDynamite

Farad Thee Sexy Stallion4

Okay. Title is on the line. Sooo...Kenny wins next week, right? Right? 😳

Seluina3

I'm so thinking of calling off work to go see this

Holt2

If MJF somehow wins here I assume it's through some bullshit and Redemption is Title vs Career or something like that

Amy Nemmity

@amy.wrestlejoy.com

Me watching Will Ospreay, Kenny Omega, AND MJF all circling around each other and the AEW Men's World Championship with allllll kinds of storyline development #AEWDynamite

5745d ago

Tabitha 585

Ya know it !! We ARE getting a PPV match for FREE AND… starting off #AEWDynamite i am in heaven 😊

Sidney Hickenbottom4

They've managed to make a scenario that could have been utterly predictable--the assumption that Ospreay would win the belt at Wembley--into a months-long journey full of genuinely compelling twists and turns.

Mathieu Fauchon2

With MAJOR developments at Redemption, where I'll be at! 🕺

shintigercurl2

I can honestly say that the main event scene has never been this stacked or this interesting.

AEW On TV

@aewontv.bsky.social

MJF is willing to defend his AEW World Championship against Kenny Omega at #AEWDynamite Beach Break... but with a a big caveat #AEWDynamite is LIVE on TBS and HBO Max

3045d ago

Andy

@andy.wrestlejoy.com

Kenny Omega with his decision. This is some Raw 99 where there’s a story looping through the whole episode. AEW very very rarely does that in its whole history, but I don’t mind it as long as the story is good and this is

3545d ago

JCP⭐Designs 👺

@jcpxdesigns.bsky.social

One day, Kenny Omega won't be wrestling anymore. Every moment we've had with him has been a blessing as a wrestling fan.

2845d ago

Carowo

@carotar0.bsky.social

kenny omega is speaking like 2010 Shawn Michaels out there which makes me very very scared of The Inevitable being closer than I thought 😔

2045d ago

Fightful Wrestling

@fightful.com

Matt Jackson is concerned for Kenny Omega because two Elite comrades have fallen to the stipulation. #AEWDynamite

2345d ago

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Hangman Page Apologist Jen32

I legit had a moment of "wait, what did Jack Perry do?" because I memory hole Cody.

Reganelite 💙

@reganelite.bsky.social

The entire Elite has now gone through this stipulation of “Lose and you can never challenge for the World title ever again”. Cody Rhodes at Full Gear 2019: LOST Young Bucks at Full Gear 2020: WON Hangman Page at Revolution 2026: LOST Kenny Omega at Beach Break 2026: ? Credit x.com/thedrainmake...

1544d ago

gal dente 🍝

@katbridges.bsky.social

belated kabooming Mox, you should give me one of those patches. I'm somehow less messy #AEWDynamite 🤼

2344d ago

Milwaukee's DrAwkward

@hotshotrobot.bsky.social

Something to consider as Kenny Omega tells the Bucks that he needs to do this on his own: Kenny has never won a world title on his own. In fact, a big piece of Kenny's story is that he has always felt that he needed his friends with him to win the big one. #AEW 🤼 (cont.)

2045d ago

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Amy Nemmity 22

Okay, disregard my breathless rambling for a minute, because this is also a fantastic point, and goes deep into the lore of Kenny Omega and The Elite. I love this too.

Jake2

Fantastic thread explaining the significance behind Kenny's plea to The Bucks that they not assist him in winning the title next week. #AEW

Richard

@sirlariato.northsky.social

"Kenny Omega is literally gutless" - Maxwell Jacob Friedman #AEWDynamite

1345d ago

November Jane

@extremelystable.bsky.social

(it is very hot here and I feel violent) MJF wins vs Kenny at beach break and “Redemption” is Kenny vs Hangman where he’ll release the winner from their stip, because he doesn’t just want to fuck with their careers but also their relationship #aewdynamite

1844d ago

gal dente 🍝7

this is evil and brilliant, I love it