Halloween is coming up later this week, so tonight’s show is being called “Fright Night Dynamite.” The main event is Bobby Lashley vs. Samoa Joe vs. HOOK vs. Ricochet in a 4-way match with the winner moving on to challenge AEW World Champion Hangman Page at Full Gear. When this match was announced, plenty of wrestling fans were spooked out by the idea of HOOK actually contending for an AEW world title shot. His presence here certainly does stand out and forces one to think about why he deserves this spot in kayfabe over the likes of Okada, Darby Allin, Kyle Fletcher, and Konosuke Takeshita, among others.

Tony Khan probably booked HOOK in this match due to his history with former stablemate Joe, who defeated HOOK in a world title match in 2024. They will rekindle their issues tonight in this match, even if in kayfabe it doesn’t make much sense for HOOK to be here. The timing of this match feels like it’s a week late considering there’s already been an angle to set up Joe for another world title match against Page, and the two guys are cutting promos on each other about it. With that in mind, Joe is the clear favorite to win, even though Lashley has never been pinned in AEW. The only matches Bob has lost are ones where he doesn’t have to take the fall, just like this one. Ricochet and Lashley will likely cancel each other out as the feud between The Hurt Syndicate and The Demand rages on.

Fright Night Dynamite features a Trick or Treat Tornado Tag tag match pitting Orange Cassidy & Darby Allin against Wheeler Yuta & Daniel Garcia. This sounds like one of those holiday theme fights, so don’t be surprised if there are various Halloween related plunder and decorations around the ring for the wrestlers to smash each other over the head with. Let’s just hope they keep the Halloween-themed Molotov cocktails away from Darby. That’s not the only match tonight between the Death Riders and The Conglomeration. Jon Moxley took the coward’s way out last week by attacking the referee when he was on the verge of tapping out to Kyle O’Reilly, so they are having a rematch tonight.