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When news broke that Charlotte Flair suffered a series of injuries that would leave her out of action for the foreseeable future, it left fans wondering how WWE would address the loss of one of the brand’s top stars regardless of age, brand, or gender. Would WWE opt to elevate a younger star to a […]

Ah Christmas, a day to second with friends and family, enjoy some professional sports, and, if you’re Chris Jericho, go to war with Jim Cornette and his lawyer buddy Stephen P New over CM Punk’s involvement in the “Brawl Out” after AEW All Out in 2022. What? You didn’t have an all-out smackdown between two […]

When Adam Copeland took the ring for what very well might be his final match in the WWE Universe, a main event bout against Sheamus on SmackDown in his home-ish town of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, fans from across the professional wrestling world wondered what was next for the “Rated-R Superstar.” Would he work out a […]

Like him or hate him, it’s impossible to argue that Christian Cage doesn’t have a certain way about him that is all his own. A master of hyperbole who has never found a line he wouldn’t cross to get a cheap pop from an audience, with his current favorite centering around making fun of wrestlers […]

When Adam Copeland signed with AEW in October, he effectively let it be known that this run isn’t simply about himself. Granted, the “Rated-R Superstar” still has plenty he wants to accomplish in his professional wrestling career, as he has a list of roughly a dozen wrestlers he wants to work alongside in AEW and […]

AEW Fight Forever Update Patch 1.08 just went live today, bringing more customization options to CAW (Create-A-Wrestler). Additionally, the update brought new match types for Stadium Stampede, and multiple bug fixes. The update also launched for all platforms, adding and fixing content for each one. Overall, this update comes at a great time, right before […]

MJF is a bit of a Renaissance man in professional wrestling. Sure, he can work a match against about anyone, even if he prefers to wrestle as little as possible, but the “People’s Scumbag” is quick to borrow from the world of single-digit WrestleManias, where fans would pop like crazy over a single bodyslam, or, […]

Though they hadn’t shared the ring since March of 2022, it felt like it was only a matter of time before CM Punk and MJF would share the ring once more in order to see who was the real AEW World Champion. Sure, MJF held the title, and rightfully so, as he won the belt […]

While AEW has added quite a few new performers to their ranks from WWE, New Japan Pro Wrestling, the indies, and beyond, with over a dozen new performers signing with the promotion over the calendar year, 2023 will widely be regarded as a year of loss for AEW, as two of the promotion’s most notable […]

When Cody Rhodes noted in an interview on The Michael Kay Show that he would love for his former second, current AEW World Champion MJF, to come over to WWE in order to “swing a bat with the big boys” of professional wrestling, it turned heads around the industry. Sure, maybe Rhodes was just shooting […]

When news, or at least rumors, broke that Warner Brothers Discovery was interested in negotiating with WWE about the media rights for RAW, a decision potentially related to CEO David Zaslav’s relationship with former AEW favorite CM Punk, it set the internet wrestling community on fire. Was Nick Khan and company looking to run their […]

As the release of The Iron Claw rapidly approaches, fans of the first family of Texas wrestling were treated to not one, not two, but three appearances by The Von Erichs, Marshall, Ross, and their father Kevin – played in the movie by Zac Efron – on AEW television, with the trio debuting on Dynamite […]

It has officially been three months, give or take a few days, since Matt Riddle was released from WWE. While his period away from the promotion hasn’t been completely silent, as he did comment on the return of CM Punk on social media and earned a pretty massive shoutout from Randy Orton for effectively keeping […]

When Kenny Omega announced to the professional wrestling community that he was going to be out of action indefinitely in AEW after suffering a medical emergency that was later reported to be diverticulitis, it called the very future of the Golden Jets, his tag team with Chris Jericho, into question. Sure, Tony Khan could simply […]

When news broke that A24 was producing a movie based on the Von Erich family, fittingly named after the family’s famous finishing maneuver, The Iron Claw, fans eagerly waited to see how filmmaker Sean Durkin would tackle the stories of Fritz, Kerry, Chris, David, and Kevin Von Erich on the silver screen. While early reviews […]

After nearly a year of anticipation, Athena and Billy Starkz will finally take the ring against each other as foes with the Ring of Honor Woman’s Championship on the line at Final Battle, a show going up against SmackDown and Rampage exclusively on Honor Club. Will the hardest-hitting performer in professional wrestling keep her title […]

Two days removed from setting up a huge angle with AEW Tag Team Champions Ricky Starks and Big Bill, one-half of the number one contending team of the Golden Jets, Kenny Omega, has been placed on ice indefinitely, as “The Best Bout Machine” has suffered a medical emergency that will place him on the shelf […]

When news broke that Mariah May was signing with AEW over WWE after an extended run in Stardom, it felt like a major win for Tony Khan’s company. Sure, May wasn’t the biggest name on the international scene, as Giulia remains the apple of WWE’s and, to a lesser extent, AEW’s eyes, but at 25, […]

When The Von Erichs, Marshall and Ross, the sons of The Iron Claw subject Kevin Von Erich, exited MLW at the end of their contracts in the spring of 2022, it felt like only a matter of time before the third-generation wrestlers would be off to bigger and better things in the business. And yet, […]

When Tony Khan announced the field for the 2023 Continental Classic, there was one match above all others that fans circled on the golden bracket: Swerve Strickland versus Jon Moxley. Suddenly, the hottest performer in AEW, fresh off one of the most incredible death matches you will see at Full Gear, was destined for a […]

AEW Fight Forever launched the 2nd DLC of the Season 2 Pass, Beat The Elite. This single player mode pins you against 10 AEW wrestlers, with the final fight against a member of the Elite. Completing the event earns players in-game rewards, dependent on the difficulty they played on. Overall, the new mode aims to […]

Chris Jericho has wrestled hundreds and hundreds of different wrestlers over his professional wrestling career. From Ultimo Dragon in CMLL, to Rob Van Dam in ECW, Hiroshi Tanahashi in New Japan, Cody Rhodes in AEW, and about a dozen major names from Shawn Michaels to Kevin Owens in WWE, “The Ocho” has worked against some […]

Before Ruby Soho was Ruby Soho, the apple of Angelo Parker’s eyes and a member of Saraya’s Outcasts faction, she was Ruby Riott, the leader of WWE’s The Riott Squad and factionmate of Sarah Logan and Liv Morgan. While the faction never quite rose to the level some fans were hoping to see, as none […]

When AEW does something wrong, weird, or questionable, you can bet your bottom dollar that WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff will have something to say about it. CM Punk’s firing? He hated it. The promotion’s declining viewership numbers? He has a million fixes for that, too. And the acquisition of Ring of Honor? Well, […]

After watching SmackDown and NXT secure expensive, expansive media rights deals with the USA Network and The CW, respectively, with a new deal for the CM Punk-headlined RAW soon to follow, all eyes are on AEW and just how much money Tony Khan can secure for a portfolio that includes Dynamite, Rampage, Collision, and Ring […]

Over the past month and change, all but one of Ring of Honor‘s championship belts, from the Television to the Pure, the World Championship, the Six-Man Championship, and the Tag Team Titles, have been defended on AEW programming, with belts being wrestled for on television, on Pay-Per-View, and as part of the Continental Classic, where […]

When CM Punk made his trumphant return to professional wrestling a few months removed from being fired from AEW, it got fans excited. Sure, WWE fans were more pumped up than the AEW faithful, as their preferred company landed a shiny new toy, but even fans who poke fun at the “Best in the World” […]

While his on-screen persona can seem pompous and sometimes borderline evil, AEW World Champion MJF is actually a nice guy. Sean Durkin, director of The Iron Claw, confirmed that to ClutchPoints. “I don’t want to burst the bubble” During a conversation with ClutchPoints about his new film The Iron Claw, Durkin discussed MJF, who stars […]

CM Punk hasn’t even been a member of the WWE Universe for a month, and yet he’s already become the point of conversation among wrestling fans of all ages, opinions, and interest levels. From debating over which brand he should “sign” with when his free agency comes to an end, RAW, SmackDown, or even NXT, […]

AEW Fight Forever Bring The Boom Edition is a digital-only edition of the game that offers players all DLC currently in the game. This includes both Season Passes, which amounts to 10 new wrestlers, a new arena, a new mode, and more tracks. Overall, this edition of the game came out at the perfect time […]

When Swerve Strickland took the ring against “Hangman” Adam Page for his instant classic Texas Death by way of Inglewood, California match at Full Gear, fans noticed a very specific striped pattern on his gear that looked eerily similar to the one previously worn by Bray Wyatt during his time in WWE as The Fiend. […]

Chris Jericho has pretty much seen and done everything one can do in professional wrestling. He’s wrestled for ECW, WCW, internationally for promotions in Canada, Japan, Mexico, and beyond, and even made the jump from WWE to NJPW and then AEW in the pursuit of a new new challenges and exciting new opportunities. And yet, […]

After meeting each other in the ring at WrestleDream and then wrestling their first match together in over a decadein a six man tag at Full Gear, Adam Copeland, and Christian Cage are gearing up for their first singles match since all the way back in 2010, before both performers were forced to retire due […]

When CM Punk officially made his debut in WWE after being fired from AEW following his actions at All In, it made waves around the professional wrestling community. Some fans, wrestlers, and pundits alike loved it, others hated it – looking at you, Seth Rollins – and others still sat somewhere in between, opting against […]

Saraya Bevis is reportedly coming to AEW Fight Forever, with the former AEW Women’s Champion supposedly being scanned into the game. While we received no further details, we do know that the developer plans to add more wrestlers to the game with its latest Season Pass. Who is Saraya? And when will she possibly release […]

What will happen to Ric Flair when Sting officially hangs up his boots in the spring at the end of Revolution? Will he take a step back from his relatively regular bookings in AEW, appearing for “mainstream” media matters and on sporadic shows but nothing else? Or will he instead take on a new client, […]

When Claudio Castagnoli revealed himself as the secret fifth member of the Blackpool Combat Club for a special match against Zack Sabre Jr. at Forbidden Door, it got folks talking across the online wrestling community. Sure, Castagnoli had largely made a name for himself as a member of WWE, where he worked as a singles […]

Before WCW went on to beat WWE for 83 straight weeks in the ratings on Monday Nitro, Eric Bischoff and the promotion was running not one, not two, but three different shows on syndicated television while attempting to establish their foothold in the market. And where, you may ask, did they film these shows? Well […]

After cutting a fun promo with his good buddy Sting after Tony Schiavone announced the location of Revolution 2024, the Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina, Ric Flair found himself in hot water when, while filming a segment for Rampage, he delivered a line that needless to say, didn’t go over too well with fans at […]