Fright Night Dynamite

{{Infobox professional wrestling event

|name = Fright Night Dynamite

|image = Fright_Night_Dynamite_promotional_poster.webp

|caption = Promotional poster featuring various AEW wrestlers

|promotion = All Elite Wrestling

|liveevent = Y

|date = October 30, 2024

|city = Cleveland, Ohio

|venue = Wolstein Center

|attendance = 3,487

|tagline =

|event = AEW Dynamite special episodes

|lastevent2 = Title Tuesday

|nextevent2 = Thanksgiving Eve

}}

Fright Night Dynamite was a professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It took place on October 30, 2024, at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio and aired live as a special Halloween episode of Wednesday Night Dynamite on TBS in the United States. The event notably featured Adam Cole's first match in over a year, having last wrestled at All Out in September 2023, the return of Mark Davis after having a wrist injury for over a year, and the AEW debut of Bobby Lashley, who had left WWE in August after the expiration of his contract.

Six matches were contested at the event, including two dark matches which took place before the televised broadcast. In the main event, Swerve Strickland defeated Shelton Benjamin. After the match, Bobby Lashley debuted and attacked Strickland, reuniting with Benjamin and MVP as The Hurt Syndicate, previously known as The Hurt Business in WWE. In other prominent matches, Kris Statlander defeated Kamille which was her first pinfall loss and first loss in AEW overall, Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) defeated The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) to win the AEW World Tag Team Championship where if Private Party had lost, they would have had to disband as a team, and in the opening bout, Adam Cole defeated Buddy Matthews.

Production

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|+ Other on-screen personnel

!Role

!Name

rowspan=3|Commentators

|Excalibur

Tony Schiavone

Matt Menard

rowspan=1|Ring announcer

rowspan=4|Referees

rowspan=2|Interviewers

|Renee Paquette

Alex Marvez

=Background=

AEW Dynamite is the flagship weekly television program of the American professional wrestling company All Elite Wrestling (AEW). On October 15, 2024, it was reported that AEW had filed to trademark "Fright Night Dynamite" and "AEW: Fright Night Dynamite".{{cite web|url=https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/aew-files-trademark-fright-night-dynamite|title=AEW Files To Trademark 'Fright Night Dynamite'|date=October 15, 2024|last=Lambert|first=Jeremy|work=Fightful|access-date=October 31, 2024}} During the October 16 episode of Dynamite, the company announced that the October 30 episode would be a special Halloween-themed show entitled Fright Night Dynamite. The television special took place at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio and aired live on TBS in the United States.{{cite web|url=https://411mania.com/wrestling/swerve-strickland-shelton-benjamin-aew-fright-night-dynamite-10-30-24/|title=Swerve Strickland vs. Shelton Benjamin Announced For AEW Fright Night Dynamite|date=October 16, 2024|last=Thomas|first=Jeremy|work=411Mania|access-date=October 31, 2024}}

=Storylines=

Fright Night Dynamite featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines.{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/pro-wrestling.htm|title=How Pro Wrestling Works|last=Grabianowski|first=Ed|date=January 13, 2006|access-date=February 8, 2019|work=HowStuffWorks, Inc.|publisher=Discovery Communications|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131129050844/http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/pro-wrestling.htm|archive-date=November 29, 2013|url-status=live}} Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision.

Results

{{Professional wrestling results table

| times = {{Cite web |last=Powell |first=Jason |date=October 30, 2024 |title=AEW Dynamite results (10/30): Powell's live review of The Young Bucks vs. Private Party for the AEW Tag Titles, Swerve Strickland vs. Shelton Benjamin, Kamille vs. Kris Statlander, Adam Cole vs. Buddy Matthews |url=https://prowrestling.net/site/2024/10/30/aew-dynamite-results-10-30-powells-live-review-of-the-young-bucks-vs-private-party-for-the-aew-tag-titles-swerve-strickland-vs-shelton-benjamin-kamille-vs-kris-statlander-adam-col/ | access-date=October 30, 2024|website=Pro Wrestling Dot Net |language=en}}

| match1 = Nyla Rose defeated Ella Elizabeth

| stip1 = Singles match{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=AEW Dynamite #265 - Fright Night Dynamite|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=404486| access-date=October 26, 2024|website=Cagematch.net|language=en}}

| time1 =

| note1 = dark

| match2 = Satnam Singh defeated Colt Cabana

| stip2 = Singles match

| time2 =

| note2 = dark

| match3 = Adam Cole defeated Buddy Matthews by pinfall

| stip3 = Singles match{{Cite web |last=Boone |first=Matt |date=October 24, 2024 |title=Another High Stakes Match Announced For AEW Fright Night Dynamite On October 30|url=https://cultaholic.com/posts/update-on-jay-white-s-injury | access-date=October 26, 2024|website=Wrestling Headlines|language=en}}

| time3 = 15:30

| match4 = Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) defeated The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) (c) by pinfall

| stip4 = Tag team match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship
{{small|Had Private Party lost, they would have had to disband.}}

| time4 = 18:10

| match5 = Kris Statlander defeated Kamille (with Mercedes Moné) by pinfall

| stip5 = Singles match

| time5 = 6:30

| match6 = Swerve Strickland (with Prince Nana) defeated Shelton Benjamin (with MVP) by pinfall

| stip6 = Singles match

| time6 = 15:00

| caption =

}}