Last night’s AEW Dynamite Grand Slam Mexico delivered strong wrestling, a major return and several important developments on the road to AEW All In London. Inside Arena México, MJF returned to attack Andrade and reinsert himself into the AEW World Championship picture, “Hangman” Adam Page won the AEW World Trios Championship in his first match … Read more
AEW Dynamite entered tonight with a difficult assignment. Redemption ended with Will Ospreay refusing to help the Death Riders destroy Kenny Omega, only for Omega to repay him with a One-Winged Angel. It was an ending designed to create intrigue, but it also left the AEW World Championship story buried beneath conflicting motivations, shifting alliances … Read more
AEW entered Nashville for the final Dynamite before Redemption with one clear responsibility: make Sunday’s pay-per-view feel necessary. That was easier said than done. Kenny Omega’s AEW World Championship defense against Kevin Knight remains difficult to believe because Omega is already scheduled to face Will Ospreay at All In. Several Redemption matches were only confirmed … Read more
AEW arrived in Boston last night needing to accomplish several things at once. Redemption is less than two weeks away, All In is looming at Wembley Stadium next month, several championships suddenly have new challengers, and the growing relationship between Don Callis and Kevin Knight has begun dragging Kenny Omega, Will Ospreay, Jon Moxley and … Read more
AEW Dynamite Beach Break came into Clearwater, Florida with a loaded themed-show card and left with the entire summer picture shaken up. Two championships changed hands, Willow Nightingale made her return at the perfect time, the AEW Women’s World Championship scene got more complicated heading into Redemption and All In, and Kenny Omega closed the … Read more
AEW Dynamite last night had a very clear mission coming out of Forbidden Door: move past the chaos of the crossover pay-per-view without losing the damage, consequences and momentum that came with it. From San Diego, AEW built the episode around two championship situations, several immediate Forbidden Door follow-ups and a dangerous bridge toward next … Read more
Tonight’s AEW Dynamite came into Rio Rancho, New Mexico with the difficult job of being both a loaded television wrestling show and the final Dynamite before AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. On paper, AEW threw almost everything at the wall: Konosuke Takeshita defending the AEW International Championship against Ricochet, Will Ospreay and Swerve Strickland taking … Read more
Last night’s AEW Dynamite rolled into Sugar Land, Texas, with Forbidden Door only 11 days away and an increasingly complicated collection of stories to organize before the pay-per-view. AEW delivered strong tournament wrestling, one of its best talking segments in weeks and a frantic 12-man main event built around several overlapping rivalries. Last night’s show … Read more
AEW Dynamite: Summer Blockbuster felt less like an ordinary episode of weekly television and more like the first act of a summer action movie with multiple explosions waiting to go off at once. The opening scene gave us Chris Jericho returning to confront Tommaso Ciampa. Jon Moxley and Shane Taylor turned the AEW Continental Championship … Read more
AEW entered last night’s episode of Dynamite with several moving pieces and left Richmond, Virginia with a much clearer road to Forbidden Door. MJF’s third AEW World Championship reign survived its first major test, but RUSH made sure the champion had to bleed, suffer and fight for every inch of the victory. Mercedes Moné returned … Read more
