There are wrestling stories that feel planned, polished and carefully designed, and then there are stories that feel like they happened because life, tragedy, opportunity and talent all collided at the exact same time. Maya World’s rise in AEW has become the second kind of story. This is not just about a young wrestler getting … 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
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 Dynamite arrives tonight from Sugar Land, Texas with Forbidden Door now only two weeks away, and that is where the pressure starts to become impossible to ignore. Last week’s Summer Blockbuster episode of Dynamite did a lot of heavy lifting. Swerve Strickland survived Brody King to reach the Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament final … 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 has officially entered the road to Forbidden Door, but the company is not simply rushing toward another pay-per-view and throwing random crossover matches together for the sake of filling a card. The fallout from Double or Nothing has immediately created several compelling directions across Dynamite and Collision. MJF reclaimed the AEW World Championship from … 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
Last night’s three-hour AEW Dynamite and Collision special from Portland, Maine had one job: make Double or Nothing feel bigger, hotter and more urgent by the time the show went off the air. In some ways, AEW did exactly that. Darby Allin survived another World Championship defense against “Speedball” Mike Bailey, MJF tried to humiliate … Read more
AEW is putting a lot on the table tonight with a special three-hour Dynamite and Collision go-home show before Double or Nothing this Sunday. On paper, this is a loaded lineup. Darby Allin defends the AEW World Championship against “Speedball” Mike Bailey, FTR put the AEW World Tag Team Titles on the line against Orange … Read more
