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
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
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
This summer, there are no capes. No stunt doubles. No guaranteed happy endings. There is only Jon Moxley returning home to Cincinnati with the AEW Continental Championship around his waist and Shane Taylor standing in his path like the final boss of a street fight. There is Swerve Strickland stepping into the darkness against Brody … 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
