AEW Dynamite Beach Break 2022 Crowns Undisputed TNT Champion!
The match saw TNT Champion Cody Rhodes face Interim TNT Champion Sammy Guevara among other hyped segments and matches.
AEW reports.
…TNT Title Unification Ladder Match!
TNT Champion “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes (with “The Enforcer” Arn Anderson) vs. Interim TNT Champion “Spanish God” Sammy Guevara!
“Cody and Sammy had the very first match on DYNAMITE in 2020 and Cody won that one,” noted Tony Schiavone.
Cody snatched a side headlock on Sammy. After a shoulder tackle, Cody flexed. Sammy backflipped over Cody and connected with a corkscrew dropkick on Cody!
Cody was looking for the Tiger Driver but Sammy countered and tried to hit the GTH but Cody escaped. Cody ducked a clothesline and used his momentum to push Sammy out of the ring. Cody walked up the ramp and grabbed a ladder. Cody propped up the ladder between the ring and the guardrail and as he was setting it up, Sammy pump kicked Cody.
Cody and Sammy brawled on the arena floor, amongst the fans. Cody charged at Sammy and clotheslined him over the barricade. Sammy had an answer and jumped back over the barricade with a cutter on Cody!
Sammy pushed a ladder into the ring but Cody cut him off. Sammy rammed a ladder into Cody’s face! Sammy climbed up the ladder but Cody pulled him down. Cody and Sammy’s heads collided.
Scorpio Sky and Dan Lambert were watching from up in the arena.
Cody and Sammy climbed to the top of the ladder and traded forearms. Cody walloped Sammy with a delayed vertical superplex from the top of the ladder!
“When you fall from those heights, both men are going to feel it,” said Tony Schiavone.
Cody dropped Sammy abdomen first across the hinges of the ladder! Cody pulled Sammy’s legs through the ladder rungs and then locked on the figure four!
“Cody is trying to neutralize the knees of Sammy to prevent him from climbing the ladder. This is an expert strategy by Cody,” said Excalibur.
Cody erected the ladder again beneath the two hanging title belts. Sammy fired out of the corner with two lariats! Sammy tried for a springboard but Cody threw the ladder at Sammy’s head!
“Hell of an opener,” said Jim Ross.
Both men climbed ladders. Sammy jumped off his ladder and grabbed Cody with a cutter! Sammy trapped Cody under the ladder. Sammy began to climb the ladder towards the belts but Cody bench pressed the ladder off him, and Sammy was sent crashing down onto the ring ropes!
Sammy and Cody climbed their ladders and this time, Cody nailed Sammy with a Cross Rhodes off the ladder!
“What a collision!” said Jim Ross.
Cody climbed back up but somehow Sammy was right on Cody’s back! Both men were hanging from the belts and they couldn’t keep their grip! Both men fell hard down to the canvas. Fuego Del Sol ran out to try and plead with Cody.
Cody spiked Fuego with a Tiger Driver! Sammy was there though and hit a tornillo on Cody. He followed up with a GTH on Cody on the arena floor!
“It’s ladder mania!” said Jim Ross.
Sammy positioned Cody on top of the bridged ladder that was set up earlier between the barricade and the edge of the ring. Sammy set up a second ladder and climbed it—and then Sammy hit a senton from the top of the ladder, down onto Cody!
“Cody can barely pull himself up,” said Schiavone.
Both men climbed up to the top of the ladder in the middle of the ring. They traded strikes with one another. Sammy rammed one of the belts into Cody’s head and then Sammy grabbed both belts to win!
“Sammy Guevara climbs the ladder and unifies the TNT Championship tonight,” said Excalibur…
An impressive win for the young talent.
Just stop sticking your tongue out all the time and you’ll be golden.
