Last night’s AEW Dynamite was the kind of episode AEW needed with All In London rapidly approaching because, for once, the biggest takeaway was not simply that the company has a ridiculous amount of wrestling talent capable of producing great matches. Everybody already knows that. The more important development was that several of those matches … Read more
AEW Dynamite, August 12, 2026 saw AEW move another step closer to All In without pretending every step was equally important. Last night’s Dynamite from Las Vegas had a very good main event, the overdue return of Swerve Strickland, MJF continuing to force himself into the World Championship conversation and several meaningful Wembley developments, but … Read more
Last night’s AEW Dynamite Grand Slam Mexico delivered strong wrestling, a major return and several important developments on the road to AEW All In London. Inside Arena México, MJF returned to attack Andrade and reinsert himself into the AEW World Championship picture, “Hangman” Adam Page won the AEW World Trios Championship in his first match … Read more
Tonight’s AEW Dynamite arrives at an important point on the road to All In London with eight advertised matches, two championship defenses and several stories that need real movement. Will Ospreay will face former United Empire partner Mark Davis in a Mexico City Street Fight less than four weeks before challenging Kenny Omega for the … Read more
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
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
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
Tonight’s three-hour AEW Dynamite and Collision special from North Charleston felt like the kind of show that showed both sides of AEW at the same time: the company’s greatest strength and its biggest ongoing problem. In the ring, this was a loaded, fast-moving night built around strong wrestling, title stakes, faction chaos and a major … 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
