Jon Moxley Dupes Chris Jericho's Inner Circle, DDP vs. MJF and More AEW Fallout

All Elite Wrestling's Dynamite didn't hold much back on Wednesday's edition, a week removed from the new year celebration.

With a women's title match standing in a prominent slot, AEW used the two hours wisely in a multitude of ways. Besides the in-ring action, prominent storylines featuring Cody, MJF, Jon Moxley and The Inner Circle saw some notable developments.

As a whole, it once again didn't much feel like a two-hour broadcast, which is partially a testament to how well the company continues to weave so many different storylines into a single broadcast.

Here's a look at the top moments and takeaways.

We have seen the divide between "Hangman" Adam Page and The Elite brewing for a few weeks.

On New Year's Day, Page didn't join his friends in the ring after their victory, instead choosing to soak up some more brews and wave them off as the show ended. On Wednesday, though, he teamed with Kenny Omega to get a win over Private Party.

Then, as a good example of all the overlapping storylines, Omega got pulled backstage for a continuation of his beef with PAC. Page opted not to join and help, instead downing some beers with fans.

Page's status in limbo after formerly being a top contender is starting to fade. He didn't have much of a direction before, but incrementally inching him toward a heel turn through events like this is downright brilliant.

Wednesday was finally a chance to see Riho in action after her brief appearance on New Year's Day. Otherwise, she'd been missing in action and, in turn, so was AEW's top women's title.

That changed with her match against Kris Statlander. But AEW decided to weave some odd drama into what was a solid contest—one in which Statlander looked like a superstar.

The two had their bout interrupted by The Nightmare Collective, and after fending them off, Awesome Kong assisted Riho in picking up the win before all sorts of chaos broke out.

It was an unfortunate, if not sloppy-looking sequence of events that marred a good match. AEW feels like it needs to establish some factions like the ones on the men's side to help along this division, which is fine, but this was a speedbump that hopefully doesn't derail Statlander too much.

AEW is getting into the habit of having superstars hit the mic, only to reveal they will delay actually giving an answer to something for a week.

Cody was the latest culprit Wednesday after an odd, quick win over The Lucha Bros. that felt unfair to one of the best teams on the planet.

MJF came out right after and cut a promo of his own while attempting to lure Cody back out. No dice, so out came DDP, who was surprisingly great on the mic. After some back and forth, he got into it with The Butcher and the Blade, as well as MJF, before getting assistance.

This was quite a bit better than MJF coming out and talking trash and leaving again. He's arguably the best in the world at it, but this did some fun things like teasing a final DDP match and emphasized the fact that MJF still hasn't unveiled Wardlow as a fighter.

This just felt good, right?

Jon Moxley played up his respect for Chris Jericho the previous week given their longtime connection and the way the latter likely helped pull the former from WWE to AEW.

Then Moxley played it off well, pretending to join The Inner Circle and even securing an expensive, brand-new car for his deception—only to beat the tar out of Jericho and take off with the keys.

This was as close to old-school fun as it gets given the storyline, with the antihero taking advantage of the villain with the inflated ego. Moxley worked over fans a bit by pretending to join before a wink to the camera and getting back to his usual self. In the process, he also made it clear he's gunning for Jericho's title.

Now, after a strong diversion, we can get back to watching Moxley pick apart The Inner Circle one by one.