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When Adam Cole made his AEW debut at the end of All Out 2021, his arrival was met with near-universal acclaim. Fresh off a fantastic NXT run capstone-d by a best two-out-of-three-falls match at NXT TakeOver: 36 against long-time Undisputed Era friend/foe Kyle O’Riley, Cole emerged alongside his former Bullet Club friends as a galavanting […]

Not even a month after Paige announced her incoming departure from WWE, her first post-federation booking has already been announced for this fall, and it’s at a promotion that should hold plenty of sentimental value for the star. On October 15th, the soon-to-be once again known as Saraya will be at World Association of Wrestling’s […]

They say absence makes the heart grow founder, but does that old adage really apply to MJF, the uber-mega heel performer who hasn’t been on AEW television since June 1st, when Dynamite was broadcast live from the “Fabulous” Kia Forum? Since going on an expletive-ladened tirade about his booking in the company, his contract, and […]

In case you haven’t heard, “Hangman” Adam Page still doesn’t have a match at AEW‘s Forbidden Door. After weeks of openly pining for a spot on the Pay-Per-View in a match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship – a belt he has yet to hold in his career up to this point – Page was […]

In case you haven’t noticed, Forbidden Door is right around the corner, and one of the hottest acts in AEW, nay, all of professional wrestling, The Young Bucks, do not yet have a match booked for the Pay-Per-View. Call it an understandable byproduct of their feud with the Hardy Boys, or the logical conclusion considering […]

Earl Hebner has been a professional referee since 1977. He’s had stints in WWF/WWE, TNA/Impact, and even in AEW, though that final run wasn’t particularly long. He’s officiated thousand of matches, called almost as many victories, and become one of the most well-known wrestling personalities in the sport’s history without ever hitting a foe with […]

Despite the event officially being one week away, the entire AEW x NJPW card for Forbidden Door still hasn’t been fully released. The Young Bucks, fresh off of their tag team championship win over Jurassic Express, still don’t have an opponent, neither does Bryan Danielson and after spurning both Adam Page and Adam Cole in […]

Ace Austin is not an announced performer for the AEW/New Japan Pro Wrestling co-promotional event Forbidden Door. He isn’t officially a member of either promotion, and unless he signs a deal in the next dozen or so days, it’s generally assumed that he won’t be wrestling on what could be one of the biggest independent […]

Before he was a member of the AEW roster, Darby Allin’s tag team partner, or even had a proper WWE match on his resume, the Man called Sting was a fixture of Impact Wrestling, or as it was called then, TNA, where he wrestled from 2006 through 2014. Over his time in the promotion, Sting […]

After what seemed like a bridge-burning betrayal, Swerve in our Glory is back on AEW programming. Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland as a team actually has somewhat of a history. The two teamed up years ago before AEW was even a thought – though Swerve was known as Shane Strickland at the time – working […]

For the last month, The United Empire of NJPW has been running rampant on AEW television. Fans have watched Will Ospreay interrupt segments between FTR and Trent Beretta, watched Aussie Open throw down against FTR and Beretta alongside Ospreay, and even watched Ospreay take care of business against Dax Harwood in a segment that ended […]

As AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Forbidden Door approaches, the first step in finding out who will represent NJPW in the All-Atlantic Championship four-way match will take place at Korakuen Hall tomorrow. That’s right; while the final AEW competitor will not be decided until this Wednesday when Malakai Black takes on Penta Oscuro in […]

Fans of WWE know John Morrison by a number of different names in the promotion. He was Johnny Superstar in OVW, Johnny Blaze on his first appearance on Raw, and, after earning a single week as Johnny Spade, he embraced the name Johnny Nitro, which was a reference to the WCW Nitro, the premier show […]

After being announced as a participant in the Ultimate X Match at Impact’s Slammiversary Pay-Per-View, Jack Evans, one half of the former AEW tag team The Hybrid2, has been removed from the contest “out of an abundance of caution” and will instead be replaced by Andrew “The Giant” Everett, who some fans might recall from […]

Will Ospreay has a lot going for himself heading into AEW‘s Forbidden Door. He won the IWGP USA Heavyweight Championship at NJPW Dominion, has been booked like an absolute star on AEW television, and, with his Forbidden Door opponent, Orange Cassidy, officially set, he can finally start to prepare for what should be one of […]

AEW‘s Hardy Brothers have had a difficult week. What started as anticipation for a three-way ladder match for the Tag Team Title on Dynamite turned into sad news as Jeff Hardy was arrested Monday morning for a DUI. The Hardys were taken off the ladder match – a match The Young Bucks ended up winning […]

That’s one heck of a consolation prize, AEW fans. After being held out of Forbidden Door due to the poor relationship between CMLL and NJPW, Rey Fenix took to the Lucha Libre AAA ring for Triplemanía XXX – the premier event of the AAA calendar that is weirdly enough split over three individual nights in […]

The AEW mid-card is absolutely loaded. It has former champions, promising young upstarts, and a performer by the name of Wardlow who has openly declared his desire to run through whoever gets in his way in the relentless pursuit of the TNT Championship. And yet, just because AEW has more performers than spots doesn’t mean […]

Who will Jay White, the current IWGP World Champion, wrestle at the AEW/New Japan Pro Wrestling co-promoted Pay-Per-View Forbidden Door? Well, we know who it won’t be, as after being called out on Dynamite, White declared that neither “Hangman” Adam Page nor Adam Cole will be afforded a chance at his championship belt, suggesting that […]

Ah, Lio Rush; does any other wrestler in AEW or otherwise draw such passionate reactions when their name is invoked? … oh yeah, a lot of them do. … When Rush made his debut in AEW, it was a big deal. He initially debuted as the Joker in the Casino Battle Royale at Double or […]

On May 29th, 2022, Matt and Jeff Hardy took the ring for their first major Pay-Per-View match together since 2017, where they took on The Young Bucks at AEW’s Double or Nothing. While the match wasn’t perfect, and Jeff was reportedly knockdown out early in the match, leading to a performance that some considered strange, […]

Still riding high off his Double or Nothing win over “Smart” Mark Sterling and Tony Neese alongside fellow Hookhausen member Danhausen, Hook has yet to face another opponent on either AEW Dynamite or Rampage. Now granted, it’s not like Hook has been skirting opponents or anything; he’s been on Rampage consistently ever since and even […]

Contrary to popular belief, Willow Nightingale is not a member of AEW, at least not on a full-time basis. No, despite having wrestled in 14 matches for the promotion dating all the way back to April of 2021, including three wins on AEW Dark Elevation, a spot in the Owen Hart Foundation Women’s Tournament qualifying […]

When news broke that Andrade El Idolo, Rush, and the Lucha Brothers were unable to perform at AEW‘s Forbidden Door due to tensions between AAA and NJPW, it put a minor damper on what is expected to be one of the most entertaining cross-promotional events, nay, Pay-Per-Views of the year. Gone were the Los Ingobernables […]

The AEW roster is stacked right now. With more than 100 wrestlers under contract right now, plus plenty more like Bear Country who perform in the company regularly but aren’t listed on the official roster page, Tony Khan could conceivably roll with his current roster for the foreseeable future without changing a thing and continue […]

AEW star and pro wrestling icon Sting made his return to AEW television on Friday’s edition of Rampage. The 63-year-old made his return following the main event match of Darby Allin vs. Bobby Fish. Allin defeated Fish in the match. In the aftermath, Fish’s tag team partner Kyle O’Reilly came out to attack Allin. The […]

Well, with Forbidden Door ever approaching, and now that New Japan Pro Wrestling Dominion has concluded, there has been plenty of new match announcements on AEW programming, with the most recent bringing on an interesting stipulation. If you’ve been keeping up as of late, Best Friends/Roppongi Vice has been in a pretty violent feud with […]

When Excaliber hurried through the AEW Rampage card at lightning speed while calling the Tag Team Championship ladder match featuring his PWG buddies, the Young Bucks and Jurassic Express, one bout stood out for an unknown name featured in the copy. A talking segment from Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee? Considering how the Casion Battle […]

When news broke that the Hardy Brothers had been removed from the AEW Tag Team Championship ladder match due to Jeff’s DUI arrest-influenced suspension, it sent the entire match into flux, at least in the minds of fans who were deeply looking forward to seeing what could have ushered in the final major title run […]

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, Tony Khan did it; after hinting at beef between the Best Friends/CHAOS collective and the United Empire in both AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, the booking tandem of Gedo and TK have officially pulled the trigger one what might just be the most exciting match of […]

Two new matches have been made official for the AEW and NJPW pay-per-view Forbidden Door. According to Fightful, New Japan’s Will Ospreay will take on returning AEW star Orange Cassidy at the show. Ospreay recently defeated SANADA at NJPW Dominion at Osaka Jo Hall to win the vacated IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship. Cassidy, meanwhile, […]

It happened; it finally happened: After months and months of anticipation, Christian Cage has finally turned on his now-former mentee Jungle Boy after his Jurassic Express tag team lost their titles to The Young Bucks in the main event of AEW Dynamite. The match, which was initially booked to be a three-way but worked just […]

By Adam Page’s own admission, he didn’t take into account that Kazuchika Okada, the then-IWGP World Champion he called out on the previous week’s episode of AEW Dynamite, could have lost the belt before Forbidden Door. He’s been out of New Japan Pro Wrestling for quite some time now, and, despite being very online, he […]

As the All-Atlantic Championship tournament plots along towards its inevitable conclusion, a four-way bout at Forbidden Door to decide the inaugural winner of AEW‘s newest championship, one of the more intriguing contests in Round 1 made its way onto Dynamite for the fans in attendance both in the arena and watching from home, Miro versus […]

When it was announced that Jon Moxley and Hiroshi Tanahashi would take the ring together for a non-wrestling segment on AEW Dynamite, fans had to know that Tony Khan had something up his sleeve. Oh boy oh boy, as it turns out, “something up his sleeve” was a serious understatement. The segment started off relatively […]

Well, as it turns out, not even 20 men, albeit security professionals, can top AEW‘s “The Wardog” himself, Wardlow. That’s right, in one of the weirdest stipulation matches you’ll ever see, “Smart” Mark Sterling lined up twenty security guards that Wardlow had reportedly injured in one way or another and had them attempt to pin […]

As Chris Jericho’s match versus former Inner Circle member Ortz started to divulge into an utterly chaotic bout between the Jericho Appreciation Society, the Blackpool Combat Club, and Eddie Kington in the open match of AEW Dynamite, it looked like the match could be anyone’s game and thus, could have resulted in either competitor losing […]

Who will Will Ospreay wrestle at Forbidden Door? This has been a question plaguing wrestling fans since the leader of the United Empire made his debut on AEW television on Dynamite and will likely continue to do so until Tony Khan, Excalibur, or an on-roster talent officially makes an announcement one way or another. Though […]

Jurassic Express have been the AEW Tag Team Champions since January 5th, 2022, when they defeated the Lucha Brothers on an episode of Dynamite from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, to end their 122-day run. Though the decision to put the straps on a boy and his dinosaur were largely met with positive […]