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 Redemption arrived at Montreal’s Bell Centre last night with ten main-card matches, seven championships at stake and 35 days remaining before All In: London, but the inaugural pay-per-view will be remembered less for its overloaded lineup than for the consequences left behind. Kenny Omega successfully defended the AEW World Championship against Kevin Knight, Willow … Read more
All Elite Wrestling introduces another pay-per-view to its expanding calendar tonight as AEW Redemption emanates from the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Kenny Omega will make the first defense of his second AEW World Championship reign against TNT Champion Kevin Knight. Thekla puts the AEW Women’s World Championship on the line against a returning … 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
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
AEW Dynamite rolls into Rio Rancho, New Mexico tonight with one final chance to make AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door feel like a true destination instead of just another stacked AEW pay-per-view wearing an international coat of paint. On paper, tonight’s card is loaded. Konosuke Takeshita defends the AEW International Championship against Ricochet, Swerve Strickland … 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
