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When Cody Rhodes made his triumphant return to WWE at WrestleMania 38, it was truly a magical moment. Sure, basically everyone knew “The American Nightmare” was going to be Seth Rollins’ mystery opponent, as the reports of his signing were almost as prominent as those of his exit from AEW, but when “The American Nightmare” […]

Kurt Angle is a wrestling legend for more reasons than one; he’s an Olympic gold medalist, a WWE Hall of Famer, and a nine-time champion in TNA/Impact Wrestling with more than 1,500 matches to his name. But could Angle have added the phrase “AEW star” to that list of accolades? Once upon a time, that […]

Though William Regal’s time in AEW is all but officially over, with his lordship headed back to WWE to work alongside his son, Charlie Dempsey, he still does have a legacy in the promotion in the form of Bryan Danielson, the “American Dragon” who worked closely with the two-time Intercontinental Championship during their shared time […]

In professional wrestling, continuing a family legacy is everything – AEW has Brian Pillman Jr., the Gunns, Brock Anderson, and Hook, to just name a few, WWE has so many multi-generational performers that they literally had a legacy stable headlined by Randy Orton, and both promotions employ one of Dusty Rhodes’ sons, with Cody set […]

Though it’s still 2022 for a few days more, Kenny Omega is already turning his attention to 2023 and one of the biggest matches of his career, when AEW’s “Best Bout Machine” goes toe-to-toe against “The Commonwealth Kingpin,” Will Ospreay at New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Wrestle Kingdom 17. That’s right, after three years away and […]

There was a time when the Dark Order was one of the biggest factions in AEW. They had a TNT Champion as their leader, three different tag teams within their ranks, and even a female tag team thanks to the loose affiliation of Anna Jay to Tay Conti. Since the height of their success in […]

What makes some former WWE performers work in AEW while others don’t has to be one of the biggest questions Tony Khan asks himself any time a new round of releases comes down from Titan Towers. Would a performer like Andrade, who traveled the world and worked everywhere from Lucha Libre AAA to New Japan […]

Serena Deeb hasn’t worked a professional wrestling match since all the way back in October, when she secured a win over Haley J on Dark Elevation. While there’s been no public acknowledgment of why Deeb has been missing, be it via injury, via other commitments, or simply a lack of creative ideas, her absence has […]

The winter of 2022 was all about Ricky Starks and elevating his game to the main event level in AEW. After a relatively light workload in the fall, with just five matches booked between August and October after losing the FTW belt to Hook at Fight for the Fallen, Starks re-emerged onto the AEW landscape […]

Wrestle Kingdom is New Japan Pro Wrestling’s equivalent to WrestleMania, and much like WWE’s marquee event, Gedo, Rockey Romero, and company pull out all of the stops to make sure the event is as special as possible. With matches already on the books that felt impossible a few years back, from AEW’s Kenny Omega’s triumphant […]

Dax Harwood is a lot of things; he’s an AEW superstar, a tag team specialist with two different championship belts around his waist, and as of December of 2022, he can add podcaster to his list of descriptors, as, with William Regal heading back to WWE, the man nicknamed “The Ax” is set to take […]

Rudy Soho has been a member of AEW since all the way back in September of 2021, when she appeared in and ultimately won the Casino Battle Royale at All Out 2021 as the Joker entrant. Since then, Soho has competed for championships, feuded with Britt Baker, tagged with everyone from Toni Storm to Thunder […]

Though it may come as a bit of a surprise to AEW fans who are only familiar with “The Murderhawk Monster’s” work in Tony Khan’s company, for over a decade, Lance Archer has been a fixture of the Suzuki-Gun faction in New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he’s served as a heater for the baddest dude […]

Kenny Omega is one of the most well-traveled performers in professional wrestling today. He’s worked for New Japan, worked for Ring of Honor, and worked in dozens of other promotions across the professional wrestling world, from Pro Wrestling Guerrilla to Top Rope Championship Wrestling, before helping to found the first legitimate challenger to WWE since […]

Folks, it’s official, Rick Ross is a member of an AEW faction. Is he a member of AEW proper? It’s unclear – typically, promoters don’t introduce a new faction with a member who isn’t going to be a regular part of the team, but hey, when you can nab a name like Rick Ross for […]

In the ring, Samoa Joe is a killer; dubbed the “Samoan Submission Machine” for a reason, Joe has won 23 different titles over his 23-year professional wrestling career, with runs as one of the top dudes in Ring of Honor, Impact, and now AEW, where he currently reigns as the “King of Television,” thanks to […]

The first time Rick Ross appeared on AEW television in a backstage segment with the team then known as Swerve in our Glory, he went just a little bit viral for declaring that Keith Lee’s words towards Swerve Strickland were nothing but “Accusations! False Accusations!” The segment, which rapidly became a meme, GIF, and standalone […]

Action Andretti is on a roll in AEW; since scoring a huge morale victory over QT Marshall back in October, Andretti has defeated Chris Jericho, signed an AEW contract, and been the talk of the town ever since. He’s been featured in stories across the internet, appeared on Busted Open Radio, and even *spoiler alert* […]

When Athena, then known as Ember Moon, returned to NXT after suffering an ankle injury on the main roster, it looked like she was going to be in-store for a serious in-ring relaunch. Though her main-roster run wasn’t without its highlights, Athena’s best in-ring run in the greater WWE Universe came under the watchful eye […]

Jim Cornette isn’t the biggest fans of AEW as a whole. Sure, he has his guys, his MJFs, his FTRs, but his hatred for The Elite runs deep, with roots that extend even deeper than AEW’s inception on New Year’s Day 2019. And yet, sometimes Cornette makes comments on the promotion that aren’t so much […]

Does any professional wrestler trend more often on Twitter than Enzo Amore? Though the nickname hasn’t been used in the ring by a WWE performer since all the way back in January of 2018, it seems like a month doesn’t go by where the performer who now goes by either nZo or Real1 – or […]

Since officially making his debut in AEW at Double or Nothing and then his in-ring debut roughly a month later as part of the Royal Rampage match to decide on a new #1 contender for Jon Moxley’s then-interim AEW World Championship, Rush has appeared in 16 singles, doubles, or trios matches on Dynamite, Rampage, Dark, […]

Every couple of months, AEW descends on sunny Orlando, Florida, to film a chunk of content at Universal Studios for their original YouTube wrestling program, AEW Dark. Filmed in the same sound stage that TNA used to record in back in the day – as the Young Bucks pointed out when they appeared on the […]

Bobby Fish hasn’t been a member of AEW since August 31st, 2022, when his contract wasn’t renewed by Tony Khan. Since then, he’s worked some matches for Impact, tried his hand at boxing in a bizarre bout with commentary from Sammy Guevara, and just generally tried to keep busy with his podcast, The Undisputed Podcast, […]

While WWE has made a point out of re-signing a number of the wrestlers they fired during the pandemic and beyond, with Paul “Triple H” Levesque’s Infinity Gauntlet now looking like a suit of armor, there were a few notable names who either weren’t rehired – like Wesley Blake or EC3 – or can’t be […]

Mandy Rose hasn’t even been a former employee of WWE for a week, and yet, she’s already drawing incredible interest from around the professional wrestling world, from fans, to fellow wrestlers, and even those in the backstage area who could sway her hiring decisions. Case and point, the fine folks over at Busted Open Radio, […]

Ring of Honor 2.0 is the house The Briscoes and FTR built. Since returning with Supercard of Honor in April of 2022, Ring of Honor has fielded some pretty impressive matches, from Claudio Castagnoli’s matches with Chris Jericho to Wheeler Yuta’s matches with Daniel Garcia, and even the RUSH versus Dragon Lee match – which […]

Back in September, Saraya was the hottest name in female professional wrestling, maybe professional wrestling, period. After suffering a broken neck that was initially classified as career-ending and then spending the next half-decade on the shelf as a result, the performer formerly known as Paige was back, in an AEW ring no less, and was […]

After dropping a stunner – and his eighth World Championship belt – to Claudio Castagnoli at Ring of Honor Final Battle, Chris Jericho was asked by Tony Schiavone had he had planned next on AEW Dynamite. Would he turn his attention to MJF’s AEW World Championship? Or maybe one of the two belts held by […]

When Mandy Rose lost her NXT Women’s Championship to Iron Survivor Challange winner Roxanne Perez on the fallout edition of NXT, it felt like a real changing of the guard atop the proverbial card. After 413 days with the strap – the third-longest run in the title’s history behind only Asuka’s and Shayna Baszler’s – […]

Though William Regal is technically still an employee of AEW, and will be at least until “the end of the month,” when Tony Khan officially terminates his contract and opens the door for a return to WWE, according to a report from PWInsider, the deal has already been struck, with the “Gentleman Villian” set to […]

MJF hasn’t even been the AEW World Champion for a month, and he’s already begun to elevate the title… just not in the ring. That’s right, unlike Jon Moxley, who was a certified fighting champion, or Kenny Omega, who took the show on the road to Impact and Lucha Libre AAA in addition to his […]

Samoa Joe is one bad, bad dude. The self-proclaimed “King of Television” after winning the Ring of Honor Television Title on the April 13th edition of Dynamite and the AEW TNT Championship at Full Gear, Joe defended his straps twice last week, first against Darby Allin on Dynamite and then against Juice Robinson at ROH […]

At this point, CM Punk is sort of “persona non grata” in AEW. Yes, the man known as “The Best in the World” did provide one of the biggest pops in the promotion’s history when he debuted on Rampage at the United Center in Chicago, worked some great matches, was the promotion’s fifth World Champion, […]

While Wheeler Yuta recorded arguably the biggest win of his professional wrestling career at Ring of Honor Final Battle, defeating his career-spanning rival, Daniel Garcia, in a match to become a two-time ROH Pure Champion, fans, pundits, and everyone in between still had one question for the 26-year-old star that rose above all others: what […]

Sasha Banks’ status in WWE has been one of the biggest stories in professional wrestling since, well, since she and Naomi – real name Trinity Fatu – walked out of the company back in June when Vince McMahon was in charge. It’s been reported numerous times that she’s done, just as many times that she’s […]

Samoa Joe is a bad, bad dude; since making his way to AEW and eventually Ring of Honor after a long and very up-and-down run in WWE, Joe has won almost all of his matches, had made friends with Wardlow – even if that only lasted a few weeks – and ultimately won a pair […]

It’s here, it’s finally here; Ring of Honor Final Battle. Soon fans of the promotions will see how Tony Khan’s first calendar year as the head booker of the legendary promotion shakes out, which, if any, belts exchange hands on the show, and if the clever booker has any other surprises in store, maybe even […]

After effectively being banned from television due to deeply troubling homophobic comments from a decade prior, The Briscoes were inferred to on both AEW Dynamite and Rampage ahead of their big bout with FTR at Ring of Honor Final Battle. They enlisted The Gunns, Colton and Austin, to read off their Christmas cards to Dax […]