Forbidden Door now includes two new matches. Hiroshi Takanahashi will be teaming up with The Acclaimed (The Young Bucks and Kazuchika Okada) to take on The Elite. Billy Gunn, after The Elite challenged The Acclaimed in a trios match said that he would like to team up The Acclaimed but he knew a president. Tanahashi • Read More »
The final Collision prior to Forbidden Doors will feature stars from NJPW. The Saturday, June 29, AEW Collision, was taped on Wednesday, June 26, in Buffalo, New York, and featured talent from AEW, NJPW, and CMLL’s Stephanie Vaquer & Hechicero. NJPW TMDK (Robbie Eagles & Shane Haste), AEW Orange Cassidy & Tomohiro Ishii, and NJPW • Read More »
Minoru Suzuki wants Chris Jericho. Jericho showed on Dynamite a video in which he expected Minoru Suzuki to agree to team up with him and Big Bill to play at Forbidden Doors after Bryan Keith was injured. Suzuki revealed, however, that he did not want to team up with Jericho and smashed his Learning Tree • Read More »
Tony Schiavone missed a part of AEW Dynamite. Schiavone was not on the show when it began, despite the fact that he started with Taz and Excalibur. Schiavone explained that he lost his voice after struggling with it since the weekend when asked about his whereabouts. Schiavone announces all three AEW shows and was on-call • Read More »
On July 3, AEW Dynamite Beach Break will feature an International title match plus three Owen Hart Foundation Tournament bouts. Will Ospreay and Daniel Garcia will defend the AEW International Championship at Beach Break. The match was agreed upon during the Dynamite segment this week. The bout will also be for the AEW World Title • Read More »
Jay White has advanced to the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament. White defeated Rey Fenix Wednesday to advance to semifinals of the tourney. He won after catching Fenix using the bladerunner. He will face the winner of Jeff Jarrett versus a ‘wildcard’ entrant, which the Elite will choose at next week’s AEW dynamite beach break event. • Read More »
Tony Khan thinks AEW is the best women’s wrestler in the world at the moment. The AEW president recently appeared on WGN Radio and praised the efforts of Toni Storm and Mercedes Mone as well as other wrestlers from his women’s division. He said that this was the best ever. Khan said, “I think that • Read More »
AEW Dynamite will air a special episode of “Beach Break”, presented by Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. Three Owen Hart Cup games have been announced. Jeff Jarrett will face a wildcard entrant in the quarterfinal match of the men’s tourney. In the men’s semifinals, PAC will wrestle against the winner of Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Taagi • Read More »
This week, the ROH World Championship is being defended by Honorclub. Mark Briscoe defends his title on Thursday’s ROH TV episode against ROHT TV champion Kyle Fletcher. Fletcher earned the title shot by pinning Briscoe during a six-man match on AEW Dynamite, June 12. He has also defended his ROH TV title seven times since • Read More »
According to new data, the live gate number of May’s AEW double or nothing from Las Vegas has seen a sharp drop from last year. According to Pollstar (via Wrestlenomics), the MGM Grand Garden Arena’s May 26th pay per view drew $582.204 at the gate with 9099 tickets paid. The same show at the T-Mobile • Read More »