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All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: August 28, 2024 Season 5, Ep 48
After getting a much-anticipated second act at Wembley Stadium that saw five new champions (and nearly as many six-star ratings from Meltzer), AEW returns to Illinois to absorb the changes. [more inside]
Special Event: All Elite Wrestling presents ALL IN: London (2024)
Last year, the upstart wrestling promotion that started on a bet upped the ante by booking themselves into England's largest stadium, and wound up putting on the largest-attended show in three decades.. Now AEW returns to Wembley Stadium, with a main event pitting their current champion on a giant hot streak against literally one of the best wrestlers alive. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: August 21, 2024: Cardiff! Season 5, Ep 47
Not only is the first episode in five years to air from outside of North America, not only do we get two championship matches, but it's also this the go-home episode before All In: London. Ratchet up the tension, Tony! [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: August 14, 2024 Season 5, Ep 46
For the folks who can't make it to All In at Wembley, AEW is putting on a show with two title defenses tonight. Plus, a three way match between teammates, Hangman Page extends his massive grudge to include Jay Lethal, HOOK is back, Mariah May premieres a film, and Swerve Strickland will probably devour Wheeler Yuta. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: August 7, 2024 Season 5, Ep 45
MJF continues to taunt Will Ospreay (and defend America's... honor?) by challenging his buddy Kyle Fletcher, Kamille trucks through, Jim Ross is back for a sitdown interview with the champ Swerve, and Orange Cassidy and FTR temporarily align. Bryan Danielson and Jeff Jarrett express their mutual respect by beating the everloving mess out of each other. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: July 31, 2024 Season 5, Ep 44
The Willow Nightingale/Kris Statlander rivalry reaches a new level, Bryan Danielson discusses his future, the company's most reckless lunatics pound away at each other, and Will Ospreay fights The Murderhawk. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: July 24: BLOOD AND GUTS Season 5, Ep 43
I hope you have your Muta Scales properly calibrated. Tonight's the night when Team Elite -- the EVPs of the company and their favorite stooges -- take on Team AEW -- an alliance of two rappers, one suicidal punk, one redneck chicken and the AEW World Champion -- in a double-sized cage with no rules and a bunch of weapons. Before that, Britt Baker makes her return against newly-heelish Hikaru Shida, Chris Jericho defends his FTW championship against Crazy Japanese Murder Grandpa, and MJF and Mariah May will both make appearances to soak in the crowd's adoration. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: July 17, 2024: Dynamite 250 Season 5, Ep 42
It's the 250th episode of Dynamite, and so AEW is giving us all the wrestlers we love... and also Chris Jericho! (I kid, I kid, mostly.) [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: July 10, 2024 Season 5, Ep 41
Dynamite broadcasts live from Calgary, which is the perfect place for the final matches of both branches of the Owen Hart Tournament. Also, Samoa Joe gets in a street fight with The Learning Tree, a four-way match is on, and champs grab the mic as Swerve Strickland, Will Ospreay, and Mercedes Moné address the fans. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: July 3, 2024 Season 5, Ep 40
When the Lord (or Tony Khan) closes a Forbidden Door, he also opens the path towards All In at Wembley, which this week seems to paved with two great tournament matches, two welcome returns, and two dastardly heel turns. [more inside]
Special Event: AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door (2024)
Once is an event, twice is a coincidence, and the third time is a new institution in professional wrestling. Tonight, the talent rosters of All Elite Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling, which have already gotten comfortable with each others these past few years, will once again battle, this time sharing the stage with visitors from World Wonder Ring Stardom (NJPW's sister joshi promotion), and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Yours truly will have difficulty posting during the show because I'LL BE THERE LIVE. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: June 26, 2024 Season 5, Ep 39
The last Dynamite before Forbidden Door, and the foreign invaders keep on coming: one Zach Sabre Jr. to grapple with KOR, plus Los Ingobernables de Japón make their Dynamite debut. Plus, the two men's champs have to grit their teeth and tag together to avoid getting smooshed into paste by Gates of Agony. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: June 19, 2024 Season 5, Ep 38
MJF has his first match since losing the World Championship, opening tonight's Dynamite with a commercial-free donnybrook with El Toro Blanco, Rush. Some contracts for Forbidden Door will be signed, and the opening matches of the Owen Hart Tournament begin! [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: June 12, 2024 Season 5, Ep 37
Dynamite has a lot of heavy lifting to do tonight: not only do they need to compete in the ratings tonight with NBA finals, Tony Khan wants to put up good ratings numbers against NXT headed into TV rights negotiations. So let's do that with two title matches -- both featuring champs vs. luchadors, interestingly -- plus California vs Texas in a TNT qualifier! [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: June 5, 2024 Season 5, Ep 36
Tonight from Colorado, MJF kicks off the show in style, Wheeler Yuta returns from injury for a 4-on-4 with CMLL stars, Saraya and Mariah May get a make-good, and Swerve Strickland is a fighting champ. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: May 29, 2024 Season 5, Ep 35
With Double Or Nothing In the rear view, the show catches its breath and assesses damages, both real — TNT champ Adam Copeland apparently legit fractured his tibia during his title defense — and storyline, as new contenders for the top titles emerge. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Double Or Nothing (2024) Season 5, Ep 10000
If the original Double Or Nothing is considered the first actual event by All Elite Wrestling then welcome to the celebration of five full years of dream matches, indie booking and internet smarks! Tonight all titles are defended, a former WWE sensation goes straight into the main event, and the new heelish version of The Elite tries to maintain their dominance of the company against an alliance of babyface deathmatch lunatics. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: May 22, 2024 Season 5, Ep 34
It's the last Dynamite before Double Or Nothing... let's watch Bryan Danielson fight a giant! Saraya will work a match for the first time since February, tagging with her pet Harley to face Toni Storm and her protege Mariah May. Orange Cassidy and Will Ospreay team up against their current grudges, and AEW Champ Swerve faces Nick Wayne in a preview of this weekend's main event against Wayne's "dad". [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: May 15, 2024 Season 5, Ep 33
With two weeks before Double Or Nothing, Dynamite starts planting some "eliminator" matches to find title contenders, plus Okada will defend his Contintental Championship, Mercedes and Willow sign their contract, and HOOK IS BACK. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: May 8, 2024 Season 5, Ep 32
AEW's next stop in the Canadian tour is Edmonton, which causes a spot of trouble since the Oilers are also in the playoffs tonight. Anyone who forgoes hockey is going to see Adam Copeland continue to defend his TNT Championship against the House of Black, Orange Cassidy getting his grudge match with Trent Beretta, Mariah May looking to break a losing streak, and Swerve getting his face-to-face with Christian Cage. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: May 1, 2024 (& live Rampage) Season 5, Ep 31
Once again sports means that Rampage gets moved around, resulting in another three-hour block of AEW. Dynamite is live tonight from Winnipeg, Manitoba, so Kenny Omega returns in his home town to hopefully provide an update on his health, now that his former Elite friends have attacked Tony Khan and effectively seized control of the company. We’ll also find out who will challenge Swerve Strickland for the AEW World Championship at Double or Nothing, Adam Copeland faces one of the House of Black, and Serena Deeb gets her shot at Toni Storm's sycophant Mariah May. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: April 24, 2024 Season 5, Ep 30
We all need some cooldown time after some instant classic matches from Dynasty this past weekend. New championship title holders Jon Moxley, Swerve Strickland, Willow Nightingale, and Chris Jericho all put in appearance in segments or matches, and poor Chuckie Taylor is forced to make a doggy choice between his best friends. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: AEW Dynasty 2024 Season 5, Ep 10000
All Elite Wrestling travels to St. Louis and introduces a new premium live event to make space for every single one of their titles to be defended -- and a few titles from other companies too! But the real show-stealer might be the first ever match-up between The Greatest Professional Wrestler Ever Bryan Danielson vs. The New Hottest Signee Of Professional Wrestling Ever Will By-God Ospreay. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: April 17, 2024 Season 5, Ep 29
Hail the conquering hero, as Jon Moxley returns to AEW having been crowned new IWGP World Heavyweight Champion after defeating Naito at NJPW Windy City Riot. Tonight he gets to watch his Blackpool Combat Club teammate Claudio fight Will Ospreay, just days before his other BCC mate Bryan Danielson will do the same at the Dynasty PPV. Some fiery promos are also likely as Mercedes Moné, Samoa Joe and Swerve Strickland will all "address the fans." Oh, and at least four other matches too! [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: April 10, 2024 Season 5, Ep 28
Tonight, in response to CM Punk’s incendiary comments on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour last week, Tony Khan has decided to show the footage from backstage at All In that led to Punk’s firing. It’s a bizarre, ballsy move that has the wrestling world wondering what Tony is thinking. Besides that, we have Adam Copeland defending his title, The Rainmaker getting some TV time, Mariah May and Toni Storm throwing a champagne toast, and Dustin Rhodes trying to earn a title shot at Samoa Joe. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: April 3, 2024 Season 5, Ep 27
Is Will Ospreay still in the Callis Family? If yes, why is he fighting a fellow member for the third time? Tonight it's "A Battle Of Wills" as Ospreay fights "Powerhouse" Will Hobbs, Bryan Danielson fights a man twice his size, Thunder Rosa gets angry on Mariah May, plus Samoa Joe and Swerve Strickland sign on the dotted line. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: March 27, 2024 Season 5, Ep 26
Dynamite begins preparations for the next pay-per-view in four weeks, as tonight features two separate tag-team qualifying matches, a women's four-way for a title shot, and Swerve Strickland battling Konosuke Takeshita for the #1 spot against Samoa Joe. But the show-stealer might be Will Ospreay having a match against someone he hasn't faced in the ring since 2017. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: March 20, 2024 (+ live Rampage following) Season 5, Ep 25
March Madness means we get three hours live tonight, as Rampage gets added on here. Look at this poster. How friggin' sweet is that poster? Watch Eddie cut a promo honoring the Briscoes and barely sparing a thought for Okada. Kayfabe is alive and well in this man's heart. Tonight Eddie defends his title against The Rainmaker, Copeland & Christian will make each other suffer, plus TWO women's tag matches, Hook, Jericho, Shibata, Takeshita, Will Ospreay, Mercedes Moné... [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: March 13, 2024: Big Bu$iness Season 5, Ep 24
Just as when CM Punk made his debut in Chicago, Tony Khan has done everything possible to hint that Mercedes Moné is making her AEW debut tonight in "Boss-ton" without actually saying it. He's even booked a whole card full of great matches to distract us! [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: March 6, 2024 Season 5, Ep 23
It's the aftermath of Revolution, and the show celebrates with a new show logo and a brand new set with the heel and face tunnels returning! Will Ospreay takes on another Callis Family brother, Hook defends the FTW title against a man twice his size, and Riho faces Kris Statlander. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: AEW Revolution 2024 Season 5, Ep 10000
Tonight the wrestling world sends off an Icon, as Sting -- through a history that encompasses almost 40 years in the business, matches across the world, championships in three companies -- has his final match in the same venue where he faced Ric Flair in 1988. With nearly every title being defended, will the greatest match of the night be Sting and Darby defending their tag belts, Samoa Joe defending against the fire and ice of Hangman Page & Swerve Strickland, or the non-title AEW debut of Will By-God Ospreay? [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: February 28, 2024 Season 5, Ep 22
Immerse yourself and really feel the history of the moment, as Sting makes his final appearance on a weekly wrestling program before his final match at Revolution. Speaking of history, Chris Jericho will face CMLL's Atlantis Jr., closing a circle that began when "Corazon de Leon" Jericho faced his father the original Atlantis 30 years ago. Oh yeah and FTR, Eddie Kingston, BCC, Hangman Page, Orange Cassidy, Nick Wayne, Kris Statlander, Skye Blue, yada yada yada... [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: February 21, 2024 Season 5, Ep 21
Dynamite gets a little stochastic in the build to Revolution 10 days away, putting a lot of top names into a six-man main event, lighting the fuse on the FTR vs Blackpool Combat Club, and sending the melodrama into overdrive with a bevy of chilling promos. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: February 14, 2024 Season 5, Ep 20
Happy Valentine's Day! Which of the following matchups will find love? Newly-evil Skye Blue vs "Nothing Matters, Smile Anyway" Willow Nightingale? Even newly-er evil Young Bucks vs "Please stay healthy" Top Flight? Orange Cassidy defending his International title in a Texas Death Match vs. Matt Taven? Trick question: the answer is probably Toni Storm loving her own reflection when she debuts her new "fil-UM". [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: February 7, 2024 Season 5, Ep 19
Tonight, "Hangman" Adam Page and Swerve Strickland have their third (and maybe final?) match. Darby Allin and Sting will pit themselves against Absolute Ricky and Big Bill for the AEW World Tag Team Championship in a Tornado Tag Match. And Blackpool Combat Club's three killers will face CMLL's finest in their own trios match. Which match will be scarier to the audience and bloodier for the participants? Plus, Tony Khan has an announcement that really, really, really ought to be about Mercedes Moné. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: January 31, 2024 Season 5, Ep 18
Hangman Page and Swerve Strickland continue their toxic yaoi feud in two "dealer's choice" matches, where each of them choose each other's appointment. Moxley and Jeff Hardy have their first 1-on-1 match ever, Jericho deals with another member of the Don Callis Family and "Timeless" Toni Storm observes a match between the two biggest challengers to her title. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: January 24, 2024 Season 5, Ep 17
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a trio of beef boys having lost possession of a title, must be in want of a new title.” Tonight on Dynamite, the Gates Of Agony will try to soothe the pain of losing the ROH trios titles by challenging for the AEW set. Also Thunder Rosa and Wardlow will look to add some notches to their recent singles histories and Adam Copeland will be chopped to death by a Crazy Japanese Murder Grandpa. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: January 17, 2024 Season 5, Ep 16
The world championship is in contention as Hook puts his 29-1 reocrd up against Samoa Joe. Is tonight the night Tony Khan straps a rocket to the young fella? Plus Deonna Purrazzo faces Anna Jay, Best Friends vs. serious luchadors, and we actually have all four members of Private Party and Top Flight healthy at the same time! [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: January 10, 2024: Homecoming Season 5, Ep 15
Dynamite returns to its ancestral home -- Daily's Place in Jacksonville. A pair of multi-person matches honor the late Brodie Lee, Hangman Page goes on a tear, and Sting takes far too much risk for a 62-year-old man. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: January 3, 2024 Season 5, Ep 14
With some top names at the company set to take vacations or retire (or their contracts expire) in 2024, Dynamite begins introducing new faces and bringing together current talent in interesting new ways. This episode had several debuts, one title defense and intriguing matchups. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: December 27, 2023: New Year's Smash Season 5, Ep 13
Both sides of the Continental Classic Leagues had their winners decided tonight, with Eddie Kingston having the most to prove and the most to lose. Mariah May makes an announcement, and MJF finally makes a dumb babyface champion decision. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: December 20, 2023: Holiday Bash Season 5, Ep 12
As AEW comes to Oklahoma City we welcome back Good Ol' JR on commentary for the finals of the Continental Classic Gold League. The next challenger for Toni Storm's title will be revealed tonight, and MJF is gonna run his mouth at some very dangerous people. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: December 13, 2023: Winter Is Coming Season 5, Ep 11
Tonight is synergy-a-plenty, as Dynamite airs from Dallas and celebrates the Von Erichs, which also handily promotes The Iron Claw (coming soon to theaters featuring MJF in a teeny tiny role), while also finishing the remaining matches for the Continental Classic. Riho gets her return match, and Samoa Joe is super-pissed off. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: December 6, 2023 Season 5, Ep 10
Three more Continental Classic matches will attempt to thrill the audience, while MJF and Samoa Joe fight the Devil, Adam Copeland and Christian lock up for the first 1-v-1 match in AEW, and Toni Storm gets that Turner Classic Movies rub. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: November 29, 2023 Season 5, Ep 9
With a certain soda-pop-enthusiast deciding to overturn his principles at another company, what will AEW do this week? Why, continue it's G1-style Continental Classic tournament. Also, Julia Hart is a (spooky) fighting champion, and "The Patriarch" Christian Cage is very disappointed in you. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: November 22, 2023 Season 5, Ep 8
The Continental Classic kicks off in Chicago with three preliminary matches, Christian Cage goes ultra-heel with his bad dad tactics, Timeless Toni Storm accepts her award in style, plus DANHAUSEN! [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: All Elite Wrestling: FULL GEAR 2023 Season 5, Ep 10000
The Young Bucks face their friend Kenny Omega, both women's titles are in contention, Sting has his last ever (?) match in Los Angeles, and AEW World Champ -- and relatively new babyface -- Maxwell Jacob Friedman must reclaim his stolen belt from Bullet Club Gold's sleazy leader Jay White. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Dynamite 11/15/23 Season 5, Ep 7
It's the last Dynamite before Full Gear. (Rampage will be rolled into the Collision post, since Collision will run on Friday this week.) All the men's matches announced for tonight are tag matches -- because why shouldn't this promotion play to their strengths? -- and the women's segment has implications for Saturday's TBS title match. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Dynamite 11/8/23 and Rampage 11/10/23 Season 5, Ep 6
Dynamite from Portland needs to asks two big questions when we're two Saturdays from now at Full Gear: Who else is coming for MJF's title? And is anyone else going to steal the show on the way there? [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Dynamite 11/1/23 and Rampage 11/3/23 Season 5, Ep 5
MJF has assembled a brute squad to regain his actual Championship belt from Jay White... but who's bruting who? Two title matches, plus "an important announcement" from AEW owner Tony Khan will take place on tonight's Dynamite. [more inside]