Tonight’s Blue League matches are Orange Cassidy (6 points) vs. Konosuke Takeshita (7) and Mascara Dorada (3) vs. Roderick Strong (0). The latter match features the two men at the bottom of the Blue League standings, who are already mathematically eliminated from advancing to the next round at Worlds End. The one Gold League match scheduled for Dynamite on 34th Street is Jack Perry (3) vs. PAC (6). There is currently a 5-way tie atop the Gold League at 6 points each. With a win, Perry can make it a 6-way tie between all 6 competitors, where everyone has a record of 2-2.

After these tournament matches wrap up on Dynamite, that still leaves 6 more Continental Classic matches on Christmas Collision tomorrow (start time 9 pm ET on TNT and MAX,. Tony Khan needs more time to finish these C2 matches, so Collision has been expanded to 2.5 hours on Christmas night, according to TNT’s TV schedule. That’s where the mad scramble for the top two spots in each league takes place, as most of the wrestlers in the tournament still have a chance to advance to Worlds End.The three Gold League tournament matches scheduled for Christmas Collision are Speedball Bailey (6 points) vs. Kazuchika Okada (6), Kevin Knight (6) vs. PAC, and Jack Perry vs. Kyle Fletcher (6). The three Blue League bouts on Christmas Collision are Orange Cassidy vs. Jon Moxley (6), Roderick Strong vs. Claudio Castagnoli (7), and Mascara Dorada vs. Konosuke Takeshita.

The wrestlers who don’t advance to the semifinal round at Worlds End may get stuck in some kind of 8+ man tag team match on the pre-show, because there isn’t enough time to come up with a new creative direction for them. For example, is Jon Moxley a pre-show wrestler in AEW? The answer to that question is clearly no, which means I won’t be surprised if this week’s C2 matches work out in his favor. So go ahead and write out the names of the two men in each league who you think Tony Khan considers to be most indispensable on AEW PPV, and you may have just figured out who will win this week in the C2 on Dynamite and Collision. MJF returned to AEW last week and he didn’t waste any time forcing his way into the AEW world championship match at Worlds End. MJF is actually “in action” tonight, which makes it sound like he’ll shake off some ring rust against a jobber.