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One of the best things about AEW is that most of their wrestlers can feely wrestle in other promotions without many restrictions. FTR can take on Brian Pillman Jr. and Brock Anderson with Bret Hart in their corner despite the latter team not tagging together in AEW, Brody King can continue to work NJPW Strong […]

In case you somehow haven’t heard, the biggest show of the summer, Forbidden Door, is scheduled for later this month, with the biggest stars in AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling set to face off in all sorts of dream matches. We’ll probably see “Hangman” Adam Page and Adam Cole will be going against Kazuchika […]

If there’s one thing the AEW tag team partnership of Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood, known professionally as FTR, love more than anything else, it’s wrestling history. Their gimmick back in NXT/WWE, at least before Vince McMahon tried to rebrand them as literal clowns, was “no flips, just hits,” and their throwback style of wrestling […]

When Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland formed an impromptu tag team on Rampage, it made more than a few AEW fans scratch their heads. Since being signed away from WWE after their “budget cut”-influenced releases, Lee and Strickland have floated around the mid-card in AEW during the second quarter of 2022, securing wins matches against […]

The Forbidden Door is opening once again. After years of one-offs and short stints of visiting wrestlers, AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling will have their joint, very appropriately-named June Pay-Per-View in Chicago. Despite a string of injuries on AEW’s side of the card, this event should have plenty of dream matches and opportunities to […]

Theoretically, Hook and Danhausen are on opposite ends of the AEW spectrum. One is a second-generation wrestler who played lacrosse at the D-1 level in college and, after months of training as a contracted talent, made his in-ring debut positioned as an unbeatable star right from the jump. Hook was given a near-weekly segment on […]

Fresh off an impressive showing in a trios loss to Trent Beretta and FTR on AEW Rampage alongside his fellow United Empire stablemates Aussie Open, Will Ospreay is set to compete with Sanada for the now-vacant New Japan Pro Wrestling US Title at NJPW Dominion this weekend. Vacant, you say? Didn’t Juice Robinson win that […]

When Cesaro opted to walk away from WWE when his contract expired back in February, it left more than a few fans wondering what the future would hold for the man born and formerly known professionally as Claudio Castagnoli. Would he jump ship to AEW and rekindle his long-dormant feud with Eddie Kingston from back […]

After literal days of anticipation, Will Ospreay and his United Empire stablemates, Aussie Open, officially made their debut in a fully sanctioned wrestling match on AEW television. That’s right, after charging the ring to attack the unlikely trio of Trent Beretta and FTR on Wednesday’s edition of Dynamite, Rampage viewers were treated to an awesome […]

After weeks of anticipation, AEW has officially unleashed Satnam Singh onto the wrestling world in a real-life wrestling match. Taking the ring in a tag team match with Jay Lethal versus enhancement talent Davey Vega and Matt Fitchett, Singh turned in a classic big man performance that drew on all-time legends like Andre the Giant, […]

The warpath of Eddie Kingston continues and has claimed another victim, Jericho Appreciation Society’s Jake Hager, on AEW Rampage. After causing “The Mad King” to be eliminated at Dynamite’s Interim Title Battle Royal, Kingston demanded that he fight Hager on Rampage to get his receipt. And just like that, the contract was signed, and while […]

After playing Roman Reigns’ music to distract Riddle in a tag team bout versus the Usos that also featured Shinsuke Nakamura, Sami Zayn was named an honorary Uso and given a task that’s much easier said than done: Beat Riddle and banish him from SmackDown forever. Earning the main event bout in a contest that […]

When Walter changed his name to Gunther on an episode of NXT 2.0 back in January, it left many a fan confused about his future in WWE. Fast forward to June of 2022, and Gunther is the new WWE Intercontinental Championship, having dethroned Ricochet after a 99-day run. In hindsight, that decision worked out pretty […]

When Ronda Rousey took to the wring to discuss her upcoming bout at Money in the Bank versus Natalya, it was only a matter of time before one of the many challengers for her belt, be that her aforementioned future foe or someone else, hit the ring to interrupt the “Rowdy One.” On this particular […]

When news broke that Cody Rhodes suffered a serious pec injury that could keep him out of action for the foreseeable future, it put a damper on a surprisingly compelling return to WWE by the well-traveled former AEW EVP. When Rhodes opted to still wrestle his match with Seth Rollins at Hell in the Cell […]

Qualifying matches in WWE and in any wrestling promotion are easy; win the match, and you qualify for whatever is up for grabs, lose the match and you don’t. It’s black and white, day, and night, and really shouldn’t have much ambiguity one way or another. But what happens when two wrestlers are disqualified at […]

When 2point0 arrived in AEW, it was met with very little fanfare. Known nationally as Ever-Rise during their time in NXT, where they most notably feuded – albeit sort of one-way – with Hit Row, the French Canadian tag team came made their way to All Elite Wrestling thanks to a call between Chris Jericho […]

Welp, it’s officially official: Will Ospreay has arrived in AEW. That’s right, after wrestling around the United States for much of the last year, delivering big-time bouts at Warrior Wrestling, West Coast Pro, and NJPW Strong, Ospreay has finally made his way to All Elite Wrestling, where a whole new world of matches suddenly come […]

Every now and again, a wrestler captures the hearts and attention of fans watching AEW Dark or AEW Dark Elevation either at home or in the arena in a very special way. They get cheered, the crowd backs them instead of their typically contracted foes, and with every near-fall, the hopes of a shock-the-world underdog […]

Roman Reigns hasn’t publically been in a WWE ring since mid-may, when the “Head of the Table” took on Drew McIntyre for a live event in Iowa. Since that match, Reigns has missed Hell in a Cell, missed every episode of Raw and Smackdown, and now, will reportedly miss WWE’s next marquee event, Money in […]

As the biggest Pay-Per-View of the summer, Forbidden Door, rapidly approaches, fans of AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling are frantically fantasy booking their dream matches. Could we finally see FTR versus Aussie Open? Or how about Will Ospreay wrestle someone like Miro, Wardlow, or Orange Cassidy? Will G.OD. make their AEW debut versus the […]

Konosuke Takeshita is the new kid on the block at AEW. After initially appearing in the company in 2021, primarily working with fellow DDT alum Kenny Omega, Takeshita is now in the states for a long excursion and should be a mainstay of Dynamite, Rampage, Dark, and Elevation programming for the rest of the year. […]

If you’re mostly just a fan of mainstream American professional wrestling, you probably haven’t heard of AEW‘s newest addition, Rush. When Andrade El Idolo and his assistant Jose sat around a table waiting for another member to join their meeting in a pre-taped segment on Double or Nothing, and a large man in a white […]

And just like that, fans of AEW finally know who will represent the promotion at Forbidden Door in the main event bout to decide the promotion’s Interim World Championship: Jon Moxley. Yes, as if there was ever any doubt, the former World Champion, who won the belt against Chris Jerico in February of 2020 at […]

After turning in a fantastic win over David Finlay, Adam Page was handed a microphone to address his adoring AEW fans. “Hanger,” in his first in-ring appearance since losing the AEW World Championship, addressed the elephant in the room, his chances of earning a rematch, and the fact that there is, in fact, more than […]

When Trent Beretta took the ring at AEW Dynamite to lament his inability to celebrate Best Friends Day and to ask for another shot at the ROH Tag Team Championship, fans had to know it was just a matter of time before something was going to happen. First, it was the arrival of FTR, who […]

In the leadup to a seemingly inconsequential Dynamite match between Buddy Matthews and Pac, Tony Schiavone made an announcement few fans saw coming: AEW is debuting another new championship. Alright, cool, the promotion has been hinting at a trios title for years now; it’s good to see that it will finally be introduced. … except […]

Well, the AEW Interim World Championship Battle Royal has concluded, and we know who will be facing off against Jon Moxley in the main event of Dynamite. After a fun yet chaotic match, complete with Swerve Strickland’s betrayal of Keith Lee, the admittedly disappointing Joker entrant reveal of Andrade El Idolo, and the possibly more […]

After nearly winning the AEW tag team championship at Double or Nothing at the end of May, there already appears to be tension between Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee, the duo who just christened themselves “Swerve in our Glory” on the previous edition week’s Dynamite. Taking part in the Battle Royal for the interim AEW […]

For fans of independent wrestling, there’s nothing more exciting than seeing their favorite plucky upstart appear on an episode of AEW Dark or AEW Dark Elevation. Sure, the matches are never particularly long, and the indie star, even prominent ones, often take the L to middle-of-the-card AEW talents, but the pop in bedrooms, basements, and […]

When Stokley Hathaway, the wrestling manager formerly known as Malcolm Bevins, made his debut at AEW‘s Double or Nothing, it put “Smart” Mark Sterling in a very awkward spot. Though Sterling was technically still employed by Jade Cargill as her lawyer-turned-manager, the duo had been squabbling more as the months went on, most notably in […]

When Ember Moon was released by WWE/NXT in November of 2021, many a fan expected to see her arrive in AEW as soon as her non-compete clause came to an end. That didn’t happen. No, instead, Moon became Athena, the “Fallen Goddess” who once took the Indies by storm before taking her talents to The […]

Trent Beretta is a member of two pretty prominent groups in AEW; Roppongi Vice, a New Japan import tag team alongside the notoriously underrated Rocky Romero, and Best Freinds, the tag team that was initially composed of Beretta and Chuck Taylor before ballooning out to also feature Orange Cassidy, Kris Statlander, Wheeler Yuta, and maybe […]

After setting off his version of a pipebomb at AEW‘s Los Angeles debut at the “Fabulous” Kia Forum, MJF has reportedly taken a liking to the City of Angels and has begun to peruse opportunities outside of the squared circle in Tinseltown. That’s right, according to Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp, MJF opted to stay a […]

When WWE signed the wrestler then known as Rok-C to a developmental contract with NXT, it was a pretty big deal in the world of professional wrestling. Though far from a household name, Rok-C made waves in the indies where, after training at Booker T’s wrestling school during her teenage years, she beat out the […]

It’s been roughly seven months since Kenny Omega graced an AEW ring. That’s a long time. He’s missed the entirety of his former tag team partner, “Hangman” Adam Page’s World Championship run, the TNT Championship seesaw of Sammy Guevara and Scorpio Sky, and the exit of “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes, who was once a […]

Though they’d yet to perform in the city over the first three years of the promotion’s history, AEW has a very big profile in Los Angeles. Their original tag team champions, SCU, were so LA they put Southern California in their name – what does the U stand for? Well, that would be “Uncensored”- as […]

WWE‘s Ezekiel isn’t Elias… right? Sure, they do look alike, as family members often do, and they just so happen to work for the same company, World Wrestling Entertainment, but the duo each have their own profiles on the WWE roster page, their own interests – does Ezekiel play drums? – and have different facial […]

On Monday’s episode of WWE Raw, budding heel group Judgment Day gained, and then immediately lost, a member. Judgment Day is one of the more recent examples of a spooky-flavored faction in wrestling that was formed by Edge, a Superstar unafraid to tap into his Brood-roots. Complete with a black and purple color scheme and […]