AEW had to make a real-time course correction Wednesday night, and this time it was not storyline chaos driving the change. It was injury. After Kyle Fletcher was hurt late last month and the early concern around it kept growing, Tony Khan confirmed that Fletcher is expected to be out for months. That led AEW … Read more
AEW has a pretty clear job tonight in Edmonton: take a Dynasty card that already has real intrigue at the top and make it feel urgent heading into Sunday. Last week’s Dynamite and Collision did a lot of the table-setting. Jericho came back. MJF and Kenny Omega finally got face-to-face and made their title match … Read more
There is a real conversation to be had right now about tournament fatigue in professional wrestling, and it is not some made-up complaint from fans looking for a new thing to be mad about. It is a legitimate issue, especially in WWE’s current ecosystem, where brackets, qualifying matches, contender eliminators and “win this so you … Read more
Thunder Rosa becoming officially dual-contracted with AEW and CMLL is big news on its own, but the bigger story is what it says about where AEW is right now. This is not just another crossover appearance and it is not one of those situations where a wrestler pops up elsewhere for a match or two … Read more
Spoiler Warning: This article contains full spoilers from last night’s AEW Collision taping ahead of tonight’s broadcast. AEW taped this week’s Collision on Wednesday night, April 1, in Winnipeg following Dynamite, and the show was built less around major shocks and more around strengthening the stories already heading into Dynasty on April 12. That approach … Read more
Last night AEW went into Winnipeg needing a strong build for Dynasty, and Dynamite delivered a show that was far more notable for movement than for shock value. Chris Jericho’s return gave the night its headline, but the real substance came from the way AEW stacked layers onto the Dynasty build all at once: MJF … Read more
AEW Dynamite rolls into Winnipeg tonight with the kind of card that should tell us exactly what Dynasty is going to feel like. Last week’s Dynamite gave AEW its marquee direction when Kenny Omega beat Swerve Strickland to become MJF’s next challenger, and it gave the Dynasty build a second major pillar when Will Ospreay … Read more
March is Women’s History Month, and the biggest lie wrestling ever told was that women’s wrestling “arrived” when a major promotion finally decided it was convenient. Women’s wrestling didn’t arrive. It endured. It innovated. It drew money. It got watered down. It got revived. It got re-invented — again and again — across countries, styles, … Read more
March is Women’s History Month, and Awesome Kong is the kind of name that instantly rewrites the tone of the room. Not because she was “big for a Knockout.” Because she wrestled like a final boss before that phrase became normal in women’s wrestling. Kong didn’t just win titles — she made entire divisions feel … Read more
AEW Dynamite felt important tonight, and that has not always been the case for this company in the weeks between a major pay-per-view and the next one. Coming out of Revolution, AEW needed a show that did more than just keep the board moving. It needed a Dynamite that clarified the world title picture, sharpened … Read more
