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Darby Allin is the best showman in AEW. When he’s the champ, fans know he’s going to defend the strap week-in and week-out on television for cheering fans in whatever town the promotion happens to be running that night, and even if his “all challenges are welcomed” philosophy often limits the length of his reigns, […]

Some AEW fans don’t like Jade Cargill. They don’t like that she was given a featured spot on AEW television without any experience on the indies, didn’t like her limited move set, and still give her a hard time for her work-in-progress ability to sell for opposing wrestlers, almost all of whom are much smaller […]

After a few weeks away from AEW television, The Elite are back but not in the wrestling ring. No, Kenny Omega, the Young Bucks, and the rest of their crew, Don Callis, Brandon Cutler, and Michael Nakazawa, are taking a page out of their hero Michael Jordan’s book and playing basketball. “Ladies and Gentlemen, check […]

The Gunns, Austin, and Colton, really don’t like The Acclaimed, and based on how their family therapy went down, it’s safe to say Billy Gunn’s adoptive sons don’t like his real ones either. So naturally, when The Acclaimed secured a win over enhancement talents The Outrunners (Truth Magnum and Turbo Floyd) it was only a […]

Jon Moxley and “Hangman” Adam Page don’t like each other. Two of the first four AEW World Champions, an exclusive fraternity years in the making that was ultimately sullied by the back-and-forth booking of CM Punk and Mox in 2022, the duo have been feuding ever since the Blackpool Combat Club veteran knocked Page so […]

On the one-week anniversary of his Dynamite debut and what would have been his brother’s 39th birthday, Mark Briscoe took to social media to issue his first official public statement on the passing of Jay Briscoe in a touching memorial video posted on AEW and Ring of Honor’s social media accounts. “Life is gonna be […]

When AEW announced that Samoa Joe’s rematch with Darby Allin for the TNT Championship was going to be a No Holds Barred match instead of a traditional one-on-one contest, it rubbed the “King of Television” the wrong way. Now sure, Joe’s one of the most dominant performers in the pro wrestling game, and he can […]

Folks, it’s official: Kota Ibushi, the former multi-time IWGP Champion inside New Japan Pro Wrestling and long-time tag team partner of AEW World Trios Champion Kenny Omega, is a free agent. After years of negative back-and-forth banter between the “Golden Star” and NJPW management, and a string of injuries that kept him out of the […]

Though he’s currently down one of his two television titles, Samoa Joe, the “Contested King of Television” finds himself in a very interesting spot heading in the first AEW Dynamite of the month of February. After being unseated by Darby on the first Dynamite after New Year’s Day, Joe has another shot at the TNT […]

Though the ultimate announcement shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise, as he’s been on the outs with the company for years now, it still feels weird to write that Kota Ibushi, one of the most decorated Japanese wrestlers of the last decade, is no longer employed by New Japan Pro Wrestling. Initially signed […]

Kofi Kingston and New Day have wrestled just about everyone there is to wrestle in the WWE Universe. The current NXT Tag Team Champions have worked matches against The Usos, wrestled The Bar, worked against the Wyatt Family, and even have a match against The Shield at Survivor Series 2017 that is incredibly interesting in […]

WWE currently has the most stacked roster it has ever had in the company’s history. From the top guys to the superstars who barely get any TV time, the WWE locker room is filled with talent that can make an impact and win over the crowd on any given night. The unfortunate part of having […]

With the Royal Rumble Premium Live Event done and dusted, with both Rhea Ripley and Cody Rhodes given the keys to WrestleMania, we ended the Main Event with Roman Reigns still your WWE Universal World Heavyweight Champion. The brutal main event saw the Head of the Table ravage not only Kevin Owens but also the […]

Despite entering WWE as a brash young gun with his eyes on the prize, Seth Rollins has matured into a locker room leader in WWE, using his decade’s worth of experience in Vince McMahon’s company to help young stars find their positioning within the company. So naturally, when Rollins calls out a superstar, current or […]

AEW Megastar Kenny Omega and Netflix actor Rahul Kohli are now both officially part of the Like a Dragon universe as they appear in Ishin. Upcoming action-adventure game Like A Dragon: Ishin will be getting cameos from two superstars who are also big video game nerds: AEW Executive Vice President and former AEW World Champion […]

Chris Jericho is as savvy a wrestling mind as anyone in the industry today. He constantly tried to re-invent himself, even if it doesn’t always work, and as a result, he’s become one of AEW’s top guys, with a unique ability to work up and down the card with ease. Still, game recognizes game, and […]

After having his arm Pillman-ized by Brian Cage and MJF after securing his latest win on AEW Dynamite, Bryan Danielson’s shoulder was in bad shape. Posted up in Doc Sampson’s office, Renee Paquette made her way to the back to get a status update on Danielson, and after hearing that he has a “partially subluxated […]

While Tony Khan went out of his way to fill out the final Dynamite episode in the month of January with an absolute ton of interesting angles and meaningful matches, every fan watching both in the arena and from the confines of their home waited with bated breath to see the match folks will be […]

After leaving Jon Moxley in an altered state of consciousness after their Los Angeles-based rematch, Renee Paquette tried to catch up with the former AEW World Champion to find out what his plans are moving forward on the following edition of Dynamite. *Spoiler alert* Page didn’t feel like sharing. While Paquette did get the “Hangman” […]

After securing a hard-fought win over Buddy Matthews with a little help from Ortiz and Sting, a clearly beaten-down Darby Allin had an interview scheduled with Tony Schiavone to discuss how it felt to secure four-straight title defense wins of the TNT Championship. Unfortunately for fans in the arena and watching from home, Allin didn’t […]

When Darby Allin has a strap in AEW, you just know he’s going to defend it like a proper fighting champion should. Currently in his second reign with the TNT Championship, Allin has defended the title three times since he won it in his home state of Washington before the final Dynamite of January, with […]

While Ric Flair has officially ended his feud with Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins, he isn’t going to completely avoid criticism of professional wrestling if he sees something he doesn’t like. On his To Be The Man podcast, Flair was discussing in-ring work that he feels doesn’t cut the mustard and explicitly called out Konosuke […]

With the tag team career of The Briscoes unfortunately over, fans have begun to look back at the tag team’s career, including their final three matches in Ring of Honor against FTR that were booked by Tony Khan. Initially working a match as champions following a tag team win at the final Pay-Per-View of the […]

For a year, Kip Sabian got more television time than any other member of AEW. Now sure, technically, Sabian didn’t use that television time wrestling matches, managing his wife, Penelope Ford, or even cutting promos, but it was almost impossible to tune into Dynamite, Rampage, or either of the YouTube Dark shows without seeing Sabian’s […]

On the Monday night edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Bryan Alvarez asked if Mark Briscoe would be allowed on AEW television or if, despite his brother’s passing, Warners Bros. Discovery would prevent one-half of The Briscoes from appearing on Dynamite or Rampage because of his brother Jay Briscoe’s past homophobic comments from nearly a decade […]

Of all of the teams who wrestled The Briscoes over their 20-plus year run in professional wrestling, few have as much history with the Ring of Honor legends than the Young Bucks, AEW’s EVP duo who currently hold the World Trios Championship belt alongside Kenny Omega. Since first taking part in an Honor Rumble for […]

Over the past week, the wrestling community has come together to celebrate the life and memory of Jay Briscoe, who passed away tragically in a car accident. Ring of Honor released a tribute shirt with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Briscoe family, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been donated to his […]

“Switchblade” Jay White is one of the pillars of New Japan Pro Wrestling. He’s a five-time world champion with the promotion, with his most recent title reign, with the IWGP World Championship, coming to an end at Wrestle Kingdom 17, the leader of Bullet Club, and the self-proclaimed “Catalyst of Professional Wrestling” for having his […]

After over six months away following a brutal combination concussion/head injury suffered at Forbidden Door, Adam Cole is officially back in AEW, and fans of the promotion couldn’t be more excited. Gone are the days of comparing his initial AEW run to his NXT prime, or worse, folks throwing around the “Fatam Cole” nickname, and […]

Heading into his match against Action Andretti on AEW Rampage, Daniel Garcia was confident as all heck. He was awarded new black leather pants from Sammy Guevara, had the whole JAS hyping him up, and was even given a chance to form a tag team with Chris Jericho on Dynamite in a match against Andretti […]

Dax Harwood has an issue he’d like to address. Now granted, this isn’t a new or particularly rare thing, as, since the FTR member launched his FTR Podcast in place of William Regal’s The Gentleman Villian when he left for WWE, the 10-time champion has made it his mission to discuss seemingly everything he has […]

Though The Briscoes never actually wrestled in any capacity for WWE, not even as local job guys when the promotion rolled through Delaware, that didn’t stop multiple wrestlers – and Michael Cole – from paying their respects to Jay, who passed away in a car accident earlier in the week. The Viking Raiders wore “Dem […]

Ah, Willie Mack vs. Brian Cage: a match so nice AEW opted to run it twice. That’s right, after drawing rave reviews on the Los Angeles edition of Dark Elevation for a big hoss bout between Ring of Honor Six Man Champion “The Machine” and Mack, a local fan favorite billed from the City of […]

Jade Cargill has never lost a singles, tag team, or trios match in AEW or otherwise. Sure, technically, she isn’t truly undefeated, as AEW strangely decided to place “Girlberg” in the Women’s Casino Battle Royal at All Out 2021, which was ultimately won by Ruby Soho, marking the lone blemish on her otherwise perfect resume, […]

Though he never wrestled a match for the promotion – not even a local jobber squash – WWE SmackDown did not go off the air without multiple shoutouts to former Ring of Honor Triple Crown Champion Jay Briscoe, who tragically passed away on Tuesday in a car accident. Much like on NXT and AEW before […]

Though he’s only worked 13 matches in an AEW ring since debuting for the company at Winter is Coming 2020, there are few wrestlers in either of Tony Khan’s companies who have as much inert star power as “The Icon” Sting. A big, bruising performer who has been working professionally for every mainstream wrestling company […]

Though Vince McMahon hasn’t technically taken back the book from his son-in-law, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, just yet, his return to the Board of Directors has already shaken things up to a degree within the WWE Universe, with fans worried about the future, wrestlers worried that the company will sell to the Saudi Arabia Public […]

Though it’s only been two days since news broke that Jamin Pugh, known to fans as Jay Briscoe of the Ring of Honor Tag Team Championship-holding The Briscoes tag team, had passed away in a car accident in his native Delaware, the entire professional wrestling community is still reeling with the loss of one of […]

Professional wrestling star Jay Briscoe tragically passed away in a car accident at the age of 38 this week, and Warner Bros. Discovery has reportedly not allowed AEW to do a full tribute show for the late wrestler. On Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer reported that the company did not allow a tribute show to […]