Kyle O'Reilly Debuts On AEW Dynamite, Reunites With Adam Cole And Bobby Fish
Kyle O'Reilly is officially ALL ELITE!
The former NXT star reunited with Undisputed Era stablemates Bobby Fish and Adam Cole on this week's special Holiday Bash edition of AEW Dynamite on TNT.
It all went down during the opening match at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Ada Cole and Orange Cassidy were going at it in a thoroughly enjoyable match when O'Reilly debuted. Cole's buddy Bobby Fish distracted the referee and O'Reilly took advantage of the referee's distraction to interfere on behalf of his old friend Adam Cole by attacking Cassidy. Cole then hit Cassidy with the Boom knee strike to score a pinfall victory.
After the match, Cole and Fish looked upon O'Reilly confusingly, as they didn't exactly part ways on good terms when they last shared a ring. The Young Bucks arrived and appeared to ask Cole what was going on. Cole eventually left the ring with Fish and O'Reilly by his side.
While this was all going on, AEW president Tony Khan took to social media to confirm that O'Reilly had indeed signed a contract with All Elite Wrestling.
O'Reilly signed for WWE in 2012 and debuted at the July 12, 2017, television tapings of NXT in a losing effort against Aleister Black. Over the next four years, O'Reilly would capture the NXT Tag Team Championship three times, win the Dusty Classic once, and win four NXT Year-End Awards.
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O'Reilly was defeated by NXT rookie Von Wagner in a Steel Cage Match on the December 7 edition of NXT 2.0 on USA Network. After the bell, Wagner continued to punish O'Reilly by slamming the cage door into O'Reilly over and over again. When the show went off the air, O'Reilly partook in a curtain call of sorts with interim NXT boss Shawn Michaels, NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa, and former NXT Champion Johnny Gargano, who recently left WWE.
Adam Cole debuted for All Elite Wrestling at the promotion's historic All Out pay-per-view on Sunday, September 5th in Chicago, Illinois.
Fish made hisAEW debut on the October 6 edition of Dynamite during which he went one-on-one with newly-crowned TNT Champion Sammy Guevara