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After making the vague announcement that Sting would be addressing the AEW audience on Dynamite, fans waited with bated breath to see what the 63-year-old had to say. Would he be announcing some new venture? Addressing his part in the situation between Adam Copeland and Christian Cage? Or would he be delivering his dreaded retirement […]

As crazy as it may sound, it has officially been over five years since fans saw The Bella Twins, now known as Brie and Nikki Garcia, share the ring together. True pioneers of female professional wrestling within the WWE and beyond, the Bellas were innovators, using their offscreen efforts to fuel on-screen interest and working […]

When AEW and WWE ran Dynamite and NXT head-on on October 10th, it rekindled a war between the two promotions that has been ever present since the challenger brand launched on television in 2019 but has been in a bit of a lull since Shawn Michaels’ show was moved to Tuesday nights. … or did […]

Though he may be forever remembered by a segment of the professional wrestling world as the leader of the “Yes! Movement” – not to be confused with the “Yeah! Movement” of 2023 – Bryan Danielson is also widely regarded as one of the greatest technical wrestlers of his or any generation, with the Wrestling Observer […]

AEW has been able to foster relationships with multiple promotions in its relatively young lifespan, and it appears another one could be forming with the world’s oldest active promotion, CMLL, based on a new statement from the company. The original impetus for this was the announcement that CMLL star Mistico would be wrestling New Japan’s […]

After taking a big loss to NXT in the ratings battle, 921,000 to 609,000, fans wondered how Tony Khan would handle the situation. Would the AEW CEO, who talked a lot of smack heading into the show, address the situation with grace, thanking fans for watching and vowing to get ’em next time? Or would […]

After weeks and weeks of anticipation, hype, and rumors, Dave Meltzer threw cold water on the idea of CM Punk returning to WWE for another run following his firing from AEW. Discussing the matter on Wrestling Observer Radio, Meltzer noted that, while Punk wanted to come to WWE and reportedly did before he was even […]

After having to split their time, their screens, and their attention between a loaded NXT show featuring a half-dozen main roster WWE stars and a strong AEW card featuring a commercial-free match between Bryan Danielson and Swerve Strickland, a promo segment with MJF, and the in-ring debut of the “Rated-R Superstar” Adam Copeland, fans waited […]

After spending 25 years in the WWE Universe, it’s understandable that Adam Copeland views the professional wrestling business through the lens of Sports Entertainment. Sure, Copeland clearly keeps up with professional wrestling as a whole, as he knew plenty of names on the AEW roster and has even suggested that he would love to wrestle […]

As fans in Kansas City eagerly waited to see Adam Copeland work his first-ever match as a member of AEW, his former tag team partner, Christian Cage, decided to hold up the proceedings ever so slightly with a promo of his own, addressing the claims the “Rated-R Superstar” made six days before during his Dynamite […]

Despite delivering a blistering, nearly 3-hour-long episode of AEW Dynamite if you factor in the 15-minute overrun and a 30-minute digital preshow that featured Eddie Kingston defending his Ring of Honor World Championship and New Japan Strong Openweight Championship against Minoru Suzuki, the one lasting segment that will keep fans talking for a very long […]

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, […]