AEW Dynamite, August 12, 2026 saw AEW move another step closer to All In without pretending every step was equally important. Last night’s Dynamite from Las Vegas had a very good main event, the overdue return of Swerve Strickland, MJF continuing to force himself into the World Championship conversation and several meaningful Wembley developments, but … Read more
The AEW Continental Challenge Cup bracket is officially set, and AEW has assembled a legitimately deep 16-man field featuring Jon Moxley, Eddie Kingston, Jay White, Nigel McGuinness, Claudio Castagnoli, Orange Cassidy, Kyle O’Reilly, Katsuyori Shibata and several wrestlers from outside the company. Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone revealed the complete lineup, tournament rules and all … Read more
AEW Collision delivered one of its strongest Thursday-night episodes from the Masonic Temple Theatre in Detroit, using the hometown arrival of the Motor City Machine Guns, an excellent Will Ospreay versus Daniel Garcia main event and several meaningful All In developments to maintain the momentum created by Dynamite. The show was not perfect. There were … 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 enters Nashville tonight with one final opportunity to make Redemption feel like an important pay-per-view instead of another stop on the road to All In. Last week’s Dynamite and Collision assembled nearly the entire card for Sunday, but building matches quickly and making people genuinely care about them are two different things. Kenny Omega … 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
AEW came out of Double or Nothing with a lot to answer for, and last night’s three-hour Dynamite and Collision special did exactly what a fallout show is supposed to do: it reset the board, followed through on the biggest pay-per-view turns, and started building the road to Forbidden Door without pretending Sunday’s chaos did … Read more
AEW Dynamite tonight was one of those shows where the company clearly tried to cram three weeks of direction into two hours. Some of it worked. Some of it felt rushed. Some of it exposed AEW’s biggest issue on the road to Double or Nothing: the matches are delivering better than the stories. Darby Allin … Read more
AEW Dynamite comes into tonight with the company officially two weeks away from Double or Nothing on Sunday, May 24th, and this is the kind of show that needs to do more than just give fans good wrestling. AEW has the matches, the names, the chaos and the moving pieces, but now it needs focus. … Read more
Tonight’s three-hour AEW Dynamite and Collision special from North Charleston felt like the kind of show that showed both sides of AEW at the same time: the company’s greatest strength and its biggest ongoing problem. In the ring, this was a loaded, fast-moving night built around strong wrestling, title stakes, faction chaos and a major … Read more
