AEW enters Boston tonight with more momentum than it has carried into an ordinary episode of Dynamite in quite some time. Last week’s Beach Break did not feel like a placeholder television special designed merely to kill time between pay-per-views. Kenny Omega ended MJF’s latest reign and became AEW World Champion for the second time, … 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 x NJPW x CMLL x STARDOM Forbidden Door last night was a strong pay-per-view that gave AEW a clear road to All In: London, even if the “Forbidden Door” concept itself does not feel as fresh or untouchable as it once did. The wrestling delivered, the final stretch gave the show real weight, Will … Read more
AEW x NJPW x CMLL x STARDOM Forbidden Door arrives tonight from the SAP Center in San Jose, California with one of the most talented cards AEW will put in front of fans all year, but also one of the most uneven roads the Forbidden Door brand has had to navigate. On paper, this is … 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
Welcome back to the LNC Wrestling Mid-Afternoon News Roundup, the third installment of the series where we cut through the noise, scroll past the recycled headlines, and get straight to what actually matters in wrestling while everyone is easing through a Sunday afternoon, catching up on the weekend, grabbing something to eat, or checking their … 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
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 Double or Nothing last night felt like a true reset point for the company’s summer direction. From the Buy In to the main event, the show was loaded with title changes, major angles, chaotic match layouts, predictable but still important creative decisions, and one of the biggest legend signings AEW could make for the … Read more
