The 2025 Winter Is Coming edition of “AEW Dynamite” aired live from Atlanta, Georgia on December 10, and as is tradition with the show over the past two years, it featured motion within the Continental Classic tournament. It was strictly Gold League motion on “Dynamite” this week, and it proved to be a mixed night for The Don Callis Family.
Kicking things off was a battle of former stablemates in The Elite as Kazuchika Okada went one-on-one with “Jungle” Jack Perry. Okada got here in to the match on three points after picking up his first win of the tournament against PAC seven days earlier, while Perry, who was wrestling his first singles match since January, entered at a severe drawback as he was replacing the injured Darby Allin, meaning he inherited Allin’s point total of zero. Perry looked to have injured his ankle early on after being kicked to the skin and landing awkwardly on a cameraman at ringside, but he fought back with some inventive offense, including biting Okada within the crotch so as to escape a Tombstone Piledriver. Nonetheless, he was no match for Okada who finished Perry off by hitting The Rainmaker to select up his second consecutive win, moving himself as much as six points with two matches left to go.
After the bout, Don Callis did try to recruit Perry to his family as a approach to get back at The Young Bucks but Perry refused. The Family then beat down Perry which prompted Luchasaurus and The Young Bucks to scrub house, even hitting a BTE Trigger on Okada before standing tall within the ring, while also recapturing their share of the $1 Million they won at Full Gear.
The opposite match for the night was between “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher and “Speedball” Mike Bailey. Fletcher got here in to the match because the only man within the Gold League with a 100% record having won his first two matches, while Bailey was still trying to get some points on the board after losing his first match against PAC. The most important turning point within the match got here when Bailey went to drop his knees into Fletcher on the barricade, but Fletcher escaped and hit a Powerslam on the barricade, causing Bailey’s back to be a goal for a lot of the match.
Nonetheless, it was “Speedball” who unleashed all the things he had in the ultimate five minutes, including the Ultima Weapon which caused a near fall, but after attempting to hit it on the skin, Fletcher moved out the best way and hit a Powerbomb on the apron and looked to have the match won after hitting his patented Brainbuster. Ultimately, with lower than one minute on the clock, “Speedball” countered a roll-up attempt by Fletcher into certainly one of his own and secured a surprise victory. With the win, Fletcher stays top of the Gold League with six points due to his victory over Okada who also has six, while Bailey is off the mark with three points.