Swerve Strickland managed to get Samoa Joe to cave and accept his AEW World Championship challenge, but Don Callis threw a wrench into those plans by putting up Konosuke Takeshita as the real next contender. That put one more hurdle in front of Swerve to attain that shot at the Title and tonight he would look to clear it and move one major step closer to Championship gold. Takeshita threw everything he had at Swerve, especially early on, but Swerve stayed in the fight and put Takeshita on his heels before ultimately taking the win, and now the match at AEW Dynasty is official, bringing Swerve's Championship dream closer to reality.