Rampage: An emotional homecoming for Spears and lots (and lots) of wrestling
A lively crowd, many still buzzing from last night's Dynamite, showed up for the taping of Rampage and many, many Dark matches. From the listed showtime of 7:00 until just minutes before 9:00, it was all Dark matches -- but nobody seemed to care. Even when QT Marshall...
AEW Rampage Spoilers from Toronto
Here are your spoilers for this week's Rampage broadcast filmed on Thursday night but airing Friday night. Tony Khan greeted the crowd and thanked them for supporting AEW in Canada. Claudio Castagnoli & Jon Moxley defeated The Butcher & The Blade The hometown...
AEW’s Dynamite debut in the north: A night of scissoring, patriotism, and overall good fun
TORONTO — Since its debut in 2019, All Elite Wrestling has only run live events across the United States. However, earlier this summer, AEW announced its first wave of international events as Dynamite and Rampage shows became set for October at the Coca-Cola Coliseum...
AEW Rampage Spoilers
Here are your spoilers for this week's Rampage broadcast. The Butcher and Blade vs. Private Party vs. The Acclaimed w/Billy Gunn - AEW World Tag Team Title Match Anthony Bowens pins the Butcher to retain the AEW tag team titles. Feugo del Sol vs. Lee Moriarty w/ W...
Buffalo crowd experiences the fall out from All Out
BUFFALO -- The "Dynamite after All Out" might have gone in any number of directions. With the in-ring events of the 2022 edition of AEW's spectacle being shoved aside in the news cycle to make room for coverage of new champion CM Punk using his post-event media scrum...
Rampage Taping Spoilers
Here are your spoilers for this Friday's edition of Rampage, taped on Wednesday, September 7, 2022 at the Key Bank Center in Buffalo: In a qualification match for the AEW World Championship tournament, Sammy Guevara beat Darby Allin with a GTH and with a little help...
Mat Matters: Blood and Guts becomes a family affair
The first time I took my son, Jack, to watch professional wrestling was on December 15, 2014, for Monday Night Raw at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. He was ten years old, the perfect age for the spectacle of a live professional wrestling event. It was a...
Blood and Guts violence appreciated at AEW in Detroit
DETROIT - The Midwest has habitually harbored All Elite Wrestling (AEW) shows throughout the promotion’s young three-year tenure - particularly Chicago at an almost upsetting frequency. But following yet another Chicago date, ironically, AEW at last came to Detroit,...
George Tahinos’ AEW Forbidden Door photo gallery
SlamWrestling.net's George Tahinos was at the Allstate Arena, in Chicago, Sunday, June 26 2022, as AEW presented the Forbidden Door pay-per-view with stars from New Japan Pro Wrestling. Here's his photo gallery from the event. For more of George's photos, visit his...
Rampage fans were pulling for Statlander, not Soho
LAS VEGAS - The final of the Owen Hart Foundation women’s tournament is now set for Sunday’s Double or Nothing pay-per-view show, but for many fans in attendance at Friday’s Rampage show the wrong person will be taking on Britt Baker. All Elite Wrestling took over the...
Crowd in Vegas red-hot for Wardlow-MJF
LAS VEGAS - On a night when All Elite Wrestling celebrated its third anniversary, the biggest news coming out of Wednesday’s Dynamite show was the promotion’s future plans for Double or Nothing and the west coast. AEW president and CEO Tony Khan spoke to fans in...
Pittsburgh crowd turns on Guevara & Conti, Britt Baker is Teflon
PITTSBURGH - Before Wednesday night's Rampage from the Peterson Event Center in Pittsburgh Wednesday night, Virgil walked amongst the crowd. He was spotted near the line in which Sammy Guevara and real-life gal pal Tay Conti were happily taking pictures with fans who...
A wrestling veteran hits first AEW show
RALEIGH, NC -- I attended my first live wrestling show in February 1970 at the War Memorial Arena in Johnstown, PA. This was the old Pittsburgh territory and featured a main event of Bruno Sammartino and The Battman versus Ivan Koloff and Professor Toru Tanaka. There...
Live Full Gear had an ‘electric atmosphere’
MINNEAPOLIS - There’s no debating All Elite Wrestling has set a high bar with its pay-per-view events. Each one seems to have just the right mix of matches, which almost are, at worst, good, and at best, all-time classics. Saturday’s Full Gear certainly fit right in....
All Out live was a major grand slam
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — The forbidden door has firmly been kicked open. If it wasn’t clear before, it is now: All Elite Wrestling has the professional wrestling world feeling some type of way. All Out on Sunday saw the roof blow off the building with the promotional...
Live Punk’s return a ‘special moment in time’
CHICAGO — In our sport, there are moments that transcend time. Friday at the United Center was one of those moments as the worst-kept secret in professional wrestling was revealed. CM Punk made his long-awaited return to the sport after a seven-plus year absence in...
Live, Pittsburgh Rampage show just flies by
EDITOR'S NOTE: This report may contain spoilers for upcoming AEW shows. PITTSBURGH -- AEW Ring Announcer Dasha Gonzalez introduced promotion owner Tony Khan as “The Man Who Saved Wrestling” prior to the launch of “Rampage” Friday Night at the Peterson...
Full Gear in person: Great action, too many COVID concerns
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Nobody said putting on live wrestling shows in the middle of a global pandemic was going to be easy. All told, All Elite Wrestling has handled things very well. No COVID-19 outbreaks among its roster, producing a compelling television show most...
Baker brings Brittsburgh to AEW, Jericho, Cody and Dustin Rhodes highlight Steel City debut
PITTSBURGH - All Elite Wrestling Dynamite made a historic showing at Pittsburgh's Petersen Events Center on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The AEW show (the fourth since its TNT debut) was the first professional wrestling event in the venue's 17-year history and...
Thoughts from the crowd at All Out
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. - As I sat in the stands during All Elite Wrestling's sophomore pay-per-view effort, All Out, on Saturday night at Sears Centre Arena, I couldn't help but be almost stunned. North American wrestling is fun again. This isn't an indictment against...
All In will be long remembered
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. - A dream became reality Saturday night. A year ago, All In was a pipe dream. But the brain child of Cody Rhodes and the Young Bucks blew past expectations in front of one of the most raucous crowds in recent memory. The 10,000-plus fans at Sears...
