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After securing a massive win over “Hangman” Adam Page at WrestleDream, Swerve Strickland is gearing up for his biggest match yet, facing off against the “American Dragon” Bryan Danielson on one of the biggest television shows of the year, when Dynamite runs opposite NXT for a special edition of Title Tuesday. Discussing the forthcoming ratings […]

When Adam Copeland left WWE and his time as Edge behind to go out on his own as a member of AEW, one of the biggest factors in his decision-making process was the opportunity to try new things. From a new name, to new match opportunities, a new role, and even a new, old rivalry […]

When Tony Khan announced that the 10/11 edition of Dynamite would actually be coming to fans on 10/10 in order to celebrate his 40th birthday – plus, you know, sports – it created the rare revival of the “Tuesday Night Wars,” aka an offshoot of the “Wednesday Night Wars,” when AEW and NXT ran head-to-head […]

AEW and NXT won’t just be relying on star-power and loaded cards to try and win the first ratings battle between the two shows in well over two years. Due to the MLB playoff’s preempting AEW Dynamite’s usual Wednesday time-slot, the show will air head-to-head against NXT on Tuesday, October 10, prompting both AEW and […]

By signing with AEW following a 25-year career in WWE, Adam Copeland made it known that, while his time as Edge on RAW and SmackDown may be over, his professional wrestling career wasn’t, at least not yet. While some have questioned this decision, as there are WWE lifers who wanted nothing more than to see […]

After leaving his time as Edge in the rearview mirror to go it alone as the “Rated-R Superstar,” Adam Copeland, in AEW, folks from all over the professional wrestling fandom, from casual fans to two-time WWE Hall of Famers, have commented on the decision and how it could affect the industry moving forward. Some view […]

While AEW has continued to expand its pay-per-view schedule during 2023 and is allegedly going monthly in 2024, a known insider suggests the 2024 schedule would include Ring of Honor pay-per-views. The statement comes from Mat Men podcast host Andrew Zarian, who previously said he expected to see AEW on Max in 2024 and for […]

For the first time since the man formerly known as Edge made his debut in AEW under his given name, Adam Copeland, Paul “Triple H” Levesque was asked about the exit of the “Rated-R Superstar” and how it affects the WWE universe. Now, to his credit, Levesque actually did answer the question and gave a […]

When Adam Copeland took the ring in the main event of the first AEW Dynamite of the month of October, it served as an inflection point in modern professional wrestling history. Afforded extra time to address the crowd from TBS, the “Rated-R Superstar” explained why he decided to leave WWE – shouting out his daughters, […]

When new broke that Adam Copeland was going to make his way down to the ring on AEW Dynamite to address his fans new and old regarding his past, present, and hopefully future, it got fans hyped. Finally, after officially jumping ship in a WrestleDream main event segment worth the price of admission alone, fans […]

When news broke that the October 11th edition of AEW Dynamite would be moved up a day to October 10th in order to correspond with the MLB Playoffs at WrestleDream, everyone was going to be totally normal about it, right? Things weren’t going to develop into the old Wednesday Night Wars that Cody Rhodes liked […]

After announcing at the WrestleDream media scrum and again on Twitter that Adam Copeland would address the AEW audience with a big interview with Tony Schiavone on Dynamite, Renee Paquette decided to open up the show with an interview featuring Kenny Omega and Chris Jericho, a pair of Canadians who came up short in Seattle. […]

When news broke that Adam Copeland‘s contract with WWE was coming to an end, fans from around the world started to imagine all sorts of different matches for the man formerly known as Edge, with the 31-time champion already having a list of his own with 14 wrestlers he’d like to throw down with in […]

When Swerve Strickland jumped ship from WWE to AEW following his and the rest of Hit Row’s release from the SmackDown roster in 2021, excitement was intense. After turning himself into a legitimate star in NXT both as a singles star and with his band of buddies under the watchful eye of Paul “Triple H: […]

After spending the better part of three decades as a professional wrestler, it’s safe to say Edge has pretty much done everything a performer could hope to do in the sport, right? Sure, the man born and now wrestling under the name Adam Copeland has exclusively wrestled for WWE during the duration of his mainstream […]

When Adam “Edge” Copeland made his debut in AEW during the final moments of WrestleDream, it got the entire wrestling industry buzzing. Suddenly, after spending 25 years – literally – in WWE, the “Rated-R Superstar” was free to flex the creative juices fans have known were hiding right under the surface for years now in […]

When news broke that Jade Cargill was heading to WWE after establishing herself as one of the more interesting performers in professional wrestling as a member of AEW, fans wondered how Paul “Triple H” Levesque would debut his newest Superstar. Would she go to NXT, having to have her character and gimmick altered ever so […]

When Adam Copeland, aka Edge of WWE, made his debut in AEW at the end of WrestleDream, fans effectively watched in real time as he filled the spot abdicated by CM Punk following his firing after All In. Now sure, technically, Punk and Copeland are kind of like apples and oranges, as the former is […]

Whether Grayson Waller wrestles one more match or 1,000 in the WWE Universe, he will forever get to tell his friends and family that his first match on the main roster came against Edge, the “Rated-R Superstar,” in the main event of SmackDown at Maddison Square Garden. Working a program that was short but sweet, […]

When Edge was kicked out of the Judgment Day by Finn Balor, Rhea Ripley, Damian Priest, and, eventually, “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio, it began the slow but steady transition from a full-time heel manager to a part-timer with no viable path to the main event picture, let alone the mid-card titles. Discussing his addition to the […]

When news broke that the Bellas, Nikki and Brie, were finishing up their contracts with WWE sans any sort of an extension in favor of hitting it independently under their given names, Nikkie and Brie Garcia, it felt like only a matter of time before the duo joined the latter’s husband, Bryan Danielson, in AEW. […]

When CM Punk debuted the “Real” AEW World Championship – aka the AXW Championship – it was meant to ruffle a few feathers. Sure, the idea behind the belt was sound, or at least sound-ish, as Collision was being positioned as the SmackDown to Dynamite‘s RAW, with a “main” title needed to give the Saturday-only […]

After booking a blistering four-hour Pay-Per-View filled to the gills with technical spectacles, high-flying heroics, and one of the most hotly anticipated debuts of the year in the form of WWE Hall of Famer Edge, Tony Khan decided to keep the AEW fun going with a media scrum for the ages, with the exact runtime […]

After weeks and weeks of anticipation, plus a pretty sweet sendoff match with Sheamus, it finally happened: Edge, or, should I say, the man formerly known as Edge, Adam Copeland, made his long-awaited debut in AEW. That’s right, taking the ring at the end of WrestleDream with a Darby Allin-produced vignette to announce his arrival, […]

After waiting through four hours of pulse-pounding, hard-hitting, and occasionally head-scratching wrestling, thousands of fans in Seattle, Washington, and hundreds of thousands more watching from all corners of the globe watch on the edge of their seats at Christian Cage and Darby Allin beat the absolute you-know-what out of each other in the main event […]

There are 10 matches on the WrestleDream card, 14 if you count the four bouts on Zero Hour, and yet, maybe the most interesting aspect of the show isn’t who will come out on top in each of these matches, but instead which outside stars could debut on the show, as, according to Tony Khan, […]

When Tony Khan announced that, after booking All In for the last weekend in August and All Out for the first weekend in September, that he had booked a brand new AEW Pay-Per-View, WrestleDream, planned for the first Sunday in October, this time coming to fans from the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington, it […]

Ever since MJF and Adam Cole started cutting video packages like they were working for Paul “Triple H” Levesque in prime-era NXT, a small but passionate subset of the AEW audience have been begun to compare their work to that of Roman Reigns, The Usos, Solo Sikoa, and Paul Heyman, aka The Bloodline. Now granted, […]

On a day where Shawn Michaels created plenty of news on his NXT No Mercy media call, talking about recently released stars like Mustafa Ali and Dana Brooke, explaining the absence of Gable Steveson, and even discussing the demographic preferences of WWE’s Tuesday night show, the “Heartbreak Kid” was in the news for another reason: […]

Though Booker T has only wrestled six matches since his final run in WWE came to an end back in 2012, there are still plenty of performers the two-time Hall of Famer has history with in the ring, both from WWE, TNA, and even his own promotion, Reality of Wrestling. Running through AEW Grand Slam […]

Dolph Ziggler has accomplished darn near everything someone could want to as a member of the WWE Universe. Sure, he never became a Grand Slam Champion, coming one Universal Championship win short of the prestigious honor, but when you consider his WWE career in totality, from his developmental days, to his Money in the Bank […]

When the House of Black lost their AEW World Trios Championship belts to The Acclaimed at Wembley Stadium as part of AEW All In, it felt like a minor setback before a major future comeback for Malakai Black. Sure, the faction hasn’t been seen on AEW television since, as it’s not too often a dominant […]

When Rob Van Dam‘s run in Impact wrestling came to an end following a, shall we say, weird run as part of the “Cancel Culture” stable led by disgraced Pro Wrestling Guerrilla founder Joey Ryan, it seemed like the long-time WWE stalwart’s career was winding down. Sure, he still wrestled from time to time, working […]

Long before Dolph Ziggler was released from WWE, fans heavily expected to see the IRL brother of Ryan Nemeth jump ship to AEW. From running special comedy nights featuring AEW talents to appearing in the Young Bucks’ Being the Elite Youtube show, something that few, if any, WWE Superstars have done in the past, it […]

When Paul Wight announced that he was leaving the BS – aka Big Show – behind in WWE for AEW, it left more than a few fans wondering what the promotion had planned for the supersized Kayfabe son of Andre The Giant. Would Wight continue his wrestling career, working matches against multiple jobbers on the […]

On a recent edition of the Jim Cornette Drive Thru podcast, a fan wrote into the show to ask Bryan Last and his Camp-y co-host what he thought of a recent statement made by The Undertaker on his WWE’s sponsored 1 deadMAN Show in Glasgow, Scottland, where the “American Bada**” put over the AEW World […]

When news broke that about a dozen WWE Superstars, ranging from OG future Hall of Famers like Dolph Ziggler and Shelton Benjamin, to often overlooked “niche” acts like Mustafa Ali and the Maximum Male Models, were released from WWE in the fallout of the company’s merger with UFC under the TKO banner, it turned heads […]

Folks, it’s officially official: Jade Cargill has left Tony Khan and AEW behind to try her hand at becoming the next great WWE Superstar. In an announcement officially made by ESPN but known far and wide due to reporting by Sean Ross Sapp, Dave Meltzer, and others, “That B**ch” has been leaning towards a deal […]

After turning in what will ultimately go down as the signature match of his professional wrestling career, defeating Claudio Castagnoli in the opening match of Grand Slam to become the new Ring of Honor World Champion, Eddie Kingston surprised the professional wrestling world by announcing that he recently signed a four-year extension with AEW to […]