Dynamite airs tonight (Apr. 23) with a live show from Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. This is the third episode of Dynamite during the seven week build towards Double or Nothing, which takes place on May 25. Matthew and Nicholas Jackson returned to AEW programming earlier this month to screw over Swerve Strickland in the main event of Dynasty. Now they are back in the ring on Dynamite tonight for their first AEW match in nearly six months. It’s the Young Bucks vs. “The Jet” Kevin Knight and “Speedball” Mike Bailey in a tag team match. Bailey and Knight both officially became All Elite last month when they made their AEW debuts, but the company’s hot new stars will have their work cut out for them going up against arguably the greatest tag team of all time. As far as the Bucks go, Jon Moxley recently threatened to make them disappear forever if they get involved in his business again. The second round of the women’s Owen Hart tournament wraps up tonight when Kris Statlander goes one-on-one with former world champion Jamie Hayter. The winner advances to the final to lose fight against undefeated TBS Champion Mercedes Mone. Does AEW plan to revisit Mercedes vs. Statlander after running the match on the final two PPVs of 2024. FTR is scheduled to return from suspension this week after recently attacking a referee and trying to give Tony Schiavone a spike piledriver. Wrestling commentators getting attacked is all the rage this week, so maybe this time Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler will actually get the job done when they return to Dynamite. Probably not, though, because I’d bet that The Paragon and/or Daniel Garcia are ready to run in and beat the shit out of Dax and Cash.

AEW World Champion Jon Moxley is pissed off after Samoa Joe choked him out to help The Opps win the AEW world trios championship. Mox responded by issuing a world title challenge to Joe, which Samoa will certainly accept. MJF channeled his inner Godfather last week when he tried to bribe the Hurt Syndicate with sex workers as well as the fancy watch off his wrist. It didn’t result in Shelton Benjamin or Bobby Lashley changing their minds about keeping him out of the faction, at least for now, but he seems to be growing on Shelton. The Don Callis Family is growing in numbers after Josh Alexander joined up last week and Trent Beretta returned from injury as part of Rocky Romero’s heel turn.  It sounds like Big Bill takes offense at Chris Jericho’s decision to abandon The Learning Tree for a while, whereas Bryan Keith wants to make things right with Chris. This week’s episode of Collision is also being taped tonight, and AEW is going with a “Playoff Palooza” theme for the show since it’s start time on Saturday will be affected by the NBA playoffs.