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
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 walks into tonight’s three-hour Dynamite and Collision special with a rare kind of momentum because Double or Nothing did not just give the company a strong pay-per-view, it reset the entire top of the board. MJF is once again AEW World Champion. Darby Allin’s chaotic, gutsy and heavily worked title reign is over. Kevin … 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
AEW Double or Nothing arrives tonight with a card that feels stacked, chaotic, exciting, frustrating and important all at once. This is the kind of pay-per-view AEW loves to build around — major championship matches, tournament stakes, violent stipulations, international flavor and enough moving pieces to carry the company into the summer. But tonight is … 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
Last night’s AEW Dynamite was the type of show that explains both why AEW still has one of the strongest in-ring products in wrestling and why the company still frustrates people when it comes to week-to-week booking. Live from Fairfax, Virginia, AEW loaded the episode with four championship matches less than a month away from … Read more
