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For one reason or another, fans have been debating which member of the WWE faction, The Shield, is the best wrestler. Some prefer Roman Reigns, the current Unsidputed WWE Universal Champion who has held the RAW belt for over 700 days and has genuinely dominated the wrestling world for about two years now. Reigns hasn’t […]

When Konosuke Takeshita announced that he’d be leaving America for a return to his home promotion DDT in Japan, it put a general ennui over the AEW Galaxy. Fans lamented the loss of the homegrown phenom, who went from an AEW Dark Elevation afterthought to the sort of performer who could headline Battle of the […]

When Adam Cole turned his back on the Young Bucks on the August third edition of AEW Dynamite, it served as an inflection point in the story of The Elite. After trying to hold strong with their fellow quasi-former Bullet Club member Cole and his Undisputed buddies, the Bucks found themselves bullied, beaten down, and […]

A little over three years ago, Kenny Omega decided to take his talents to a brand new professional wrestling company by the name of AEW and left his long-time, on-again, off-again tag team partner Kota Ibushi back in Japan. At the time, this break-up was sad but expected; Ibushi signed a very long-term contract to […]

As you may or may not know, in addition to being the AEW Interim World Champion, Jon Moxley is also the current GCW World Champion, having held the belt for 344 days and counting since he took it off of one-time AEW performer Matt Cardona on September 4th, 2021.  He’s defended the strap on five […]

As the AEW Galaxy prepares for the World Trios Championship Tournament, which will culminate in a bout at All Out, broadcast live from the Now Arena in Chicago, one of the teams with a first-round spot in the tournament just secured some massive momentum heading into the round of eight. That’s right, the team of […]

Kenny Omega has officially been a contracted member of the AEW Galaxy since February 7th, 2019. He’s wrestled 71 matches for the promotion, has been a part of some of the most exciting makes of the past three years regardless of promotion, and for 346 days, had one of the most consequential championship runs in […]

It’s here, it’s almost, finally here: AEW is about to crown the first ever World Trios Champions. That’s right, after spending literally years teasing the idea of expanding out the championship picture to give an end goal destination for the teams picking up otherwise fruitless wins in trios action, AEW has taken a page out […]

After months of anticipation – of dark matches, vignettes, and Ring of Honor appearances – Ari Daivari and the Trustbusters have officially landed on AEW television, first in a backstage segment with the Best Friends and again on the subsequent episode of Rampage in a pair of matches versus Sonny Kiss and Orange Cassidy. While […]

When the “OG3” of Hit Row made their triumphant return to the WWE Universe for a quick squash match on SmackDown, it garnered a pretty darn big pop. The fans assembled in the PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, were very excited to see Top Dolla, Ashante “Thee” Adonis, and most importantly of all, B-Fab, […]

Sonny Kiss is an AEW original. While the genderfluid superstar who uses she/her/he/they pronouns wrestled 193 matches before her AEW debut at the original Fight for the Fallen and technically wrestled on television before, going by the name XO Lishus in Lucha Underground, Kiss didn’t rise to national prominence until 2019, when she was a […]

As you almost certainly know, Hook is the new FTW Champion. He won the belt off of his fellow former member of Team Taz, Ricky Starks, at AEW’s Fight for the Fallen after the former got a bit too cocky after an in-ring win over Danhausen, took photos with the belt and his father to […]

As, well, basically every fan of professional wrestling surely knows, Friday nights at 8 pm is when WWE’s SmackDown airs on FOX… except during football season, which is when the process of preemption starts to rear their ugly heads and fans suddenly have to scramble for when and where to watch their favorite show. So […]

In the modern professional wrestling world, everyone sort of knows everyone. Sure, some performers are lifers in WWE, AEW, NJPW, or elsewhere, but there isn’t a performer on a major promotion who doesn’t know someone who is either signed to another company or wrestled for another company before their current landing spot. Because of this […]

Once upon a time – read: two months ago – Konosuke Takeshita was considered the best-kept secret in AEW. The pride of Osaka, Japan, Takeshita is one of the most decorated performers in the history of DDT Pro Wrestling – the promotion responsible for a guy you may have heard of by the name of […]

Welp, it’s official: The AEW World Trios Championship Tournament has been announced, and fans, as they say, are stoked. Ari Daivari’s Trustbusters will make their Dynamite debut, the Young Bucks will wrestle alongside a mystery opponent who, by his own admission, isn’t “Hangman” Adam Page, and Will Ospreay and his Aussie Open buddies are heading back to […]

When it comes to being a wrestling fan, of AEW, ROH, NJPW, or even WWE, name changes are just a part of the business. Wrestlers change companies, alliances, and gimmicks all the time, whether due to a change in employer or an attempt to get over with the crowd. Specifically, wrestlers entering WWE often get […]

Unlike in the WWE, where rematches come fast and lose on both television and house shows, AEW has been much more stingy with giving fans a second bite of a big-time bout. Sure, some matches get replayed over and over again, with Joey Janela and Sonny Kiss going to war for months on AEW Dark […]

When Chris Jericho, in his newly re-tailored Lionheart getup, took the ring against the Interim AEW World Champion Jon Moxley as the main event of Quake by the Lake, fans knew they were going to be treated to an exciting event they’d remember forever, but goodness, it’s hard to imagine anyone saw what was coming, […]

Theoretically, AEW has enough performers under contract that they could field an NCAA-style 64-team tournament to decide on the inaugural AEW World Trios Champions. They could field multiple teams from the same factions, call up performers from AEW Dark, and even bring over Ring of Honor performers like The Righteous and current ROH Six-Man Champions, […]

In the two years since leaving the WWE, Erick Redbeard, aka Erick Rowan, has wrestled 24 matches, including notable bouts for GCW, NEW, CYN, The Crash, IWR, and one very interesting bout for AEW, where he, alongside PAC and Penta Oscuro of Death Triangle, turned in an absolute barnburner in a Revolution Buy-In bout versus […]

Paul “Triple H” Levesque, as they say, is having himself a moment within the WWE Universe. His new booking philosophy has drawn rave reviews industry-wide, his tasteful decision to bring back some of his formerly released NXT standouts has made the company’s weekly television output must-watch, and his commitment to actually having long, entertaining wrestling […]

Tony Khan and the AEW Galaxy find themselves in a very interesting spot at the moment. On paper, the promotion is doing great, with three soldout Pay-Per-Views already on the books, an ever-expanding collection of some of the best wrestlers on the planet under contract, and a new brand, Ring of Honor, folded further into […]

It should go without saying at this point that the injury bug has hit AEW hard as of late. From losing their world champion, CM Punk, to a leg injury earlier this year – a situation that was saved from absolute disaster thanks to Jon Moxley’s incredible run as interim champion – to two-thirds of […]

Parker Boudreaux is officially a member of the AEW Galaxy. No, the company hasn’t issued a press release announcing the former member of NXT’s addition to the roster, delivered an “Is All Elite” graphic, or even added him to the official roster page on their website – Don’t believe me? Check for yourself here –  […]

Ever since Paul “Triple H” Levesque took up the reigns as the creative lead of the WWE Universe, the business, as they say, has changed forever. WWE has gone from the place where creative performers go to die, where high-flying big men get grounded, and where performers who commission Tom “Freakin” Savini of Friday the […]

There’s a long-standing tradition in professional wrestling of having a top guy feud with the booker. WWE drew money from the angle when “Stone Cold” Steve Austin went to war with Mr. McMahon, Vince Russo got into heated angles with, well, pretty much everyone really, to the point where Impact had to fire him when […]

It’s hard to look at Forbidden Door, the AEW x NJPW Pay-Per-View as anything other than a resounding success for all parties involved. AEW did another massive gate in Chicago, a city so good to the Khan company that some have even linked a potential Jaguars move from Jacksonville to the soon-to-be-vacant Soldier Field, NJPW […]

You’ve gotta give it to Tony Khan, he certainly tries his best in AEW. Sure, every idea he has doesn’t always hit the mark, and on occasion, the ideas he greenlights can get downright goofy – The Nightmare Collective, anyone? – but he doesn’t maliciously book people he doesn’t like in a way that embarrasses […]

“Wrestling is not a love story” these words, written by the man once known as Bray Wyatt to the WWE Universe, began one heck of a personal essay on the Twitter account of WYATT 6 – aka Mr. Windham Rotunda – and casually set the professional wrestling world ablaze on an otherwise unsuspecting Sunday evening. […]

Things have been going deceptively well for Q.T. Marshall and The Factory in AEW. He’s won his last three matches, one as a solo performer and twice in multi-man competition, had a match at Forbidden Door against the Bishamon team of Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI, and even added another wrestler to his stable in Cole […]

In wrestling, there are very few moral victories. Sure, occasionally, a long-standing feud will end in such a way that both parties are elevated at the end of it, but for the most part, one performer wins, one performer loses – barring a 60-minute time limit draw like the one between “Hangman” Adam Page and […]

In the world of wrestling, there’s nothing more exciting than the christening of a new championship belt; it presents the promise of exciting new matches, more performers featured on Pay-Per-Views, and even if the purpose of the belt is rather confusing, as was the initial rollout of the AEW All-Atlantic Championship ahead of Forbidden Door, […]

In 2022, the wrestling world is as open as it has ever been; AEW stars show up to wrestle at Ric Flair-branded matches, ROH Championships are defended on AEW television shows, and even AEW’s current Interim Champion, Jon Moxley, is pulling double-duty in GCW as that company’s top title holder too. And yet, some doors […]

The first Saturday of August has been a very good day indeed for fans of Ring of Honor. Not only did fans get to see Claudio Castagnoli, the current ROH World Champion, wrestle an absolute gem of a main event at Battle of the Belts III versus the brightest star in all of DDT Pro […]

You’ve got to give it to Tony Khan; while there isn’t currently a Ring of Honor television show, he certainly knows how to book the ROH World Championship to make it feel like something special. Initially booking Claudio Castagnoli to take the belt off of the promotion’s interim-turned-proper belt holder Jonathan Gresham following a heel […]

Thunder Rosa has had Jamie Hayter’s number over their shared time in the squared circle both inside of AEW and beyond. Though the duo have wrestled each other on eight previous occasions before Battle of the Belts III, once in singles action, four times in tag team action, three times as part of trios, and […]

Since arriving in AEW, Jay Lethal really wanted to win a championship. He’s tried his hands at the TNT Championship, the AAA Mega Championship, the ROH World Championship, the FTW Championship, and most recently, the Ring of Honor Television Championship at Death Before Dishonor. Granted, he’s lost every one of them, but he’s certainly trying […]

After AEW Dark Elevation, AEW Dark, AEW Dynamite, AEW Dark Elevation, again, and AEW Rampage, Tony Khan’s week-long tour de wrestling will officially culminate at Battle of the Belts III, an hour-long showcase of three of the promotion’s 60 six titles, 12 if you factor in the ROH World Heavyweight, Television, Pure, Women’s, 6 Man, […]