Fresh off the Stadium Stampede match they were each involved in at Double or Nothing, National Champion Mark Davis defeated “Jungle” Jack Perry to advance within the Owen Hart Foundation tournament on Wednesday’s edition of “AEW Dynamite.” Davis will face Will Ospreay within the semi-finals next Wednesday.
Perry had something to prove against Davis, who defeated him for the National title, and when taking his opponent out together with his bus in a kayfabe vehicular homicide attempt during Stadium Stampede didn’t work, Perry had to begin off this match hot. He got Davis off his feet with two suicide dives to the skin.
Davis wasn’t down for long, nevertheless; he threw Perry over the barricade and the pair brawled through the gang until they were back at ringside. They weren’t within the ring for long before Davis sent Perry flying off the ring apron, crashing into the ring barricade. The champion perched himself on the ropes, waiting for the count out victory.
Perry searched for a piledriver on the apron, then hit a hurricanrana to send Davis to the ground. He hit a moonsault, but Davis kicked out. Davis countered one other piledriver attempt, then dropped Perry onto the sting of the ring apron back-first with a suplex, knocking Perry right out of his shoes.
The previous champion finally hit the piledriver, but Davis kicked out, and Perry quickly locked in his snare trap submission. Davis almost had his opponent with an enormous lariat, but won with the twisting avalanche piledriver ultimately.