If AEW were to end as a promotion tonight what legacy would it leave behind? What matches and feuds would wrestling fans 20 years from now want to seek out, watch and remember.
My answer would be not very many. I will always recall that Dustin Rhodes and Cody Rhodes match at AEW Double or Nothing 2019 and Kenny Omega battling Chris Jericho for the AEW World Championship at AEW Double or Nothing in 2020. Feuds? Maybe Swerve and Hangman, just because of how mental it was. Same with The Inner Circle battling The Elite but I jumped off the train, stopped being a full-timer years ago when the wheels came off. I stopped buying the t-shirts. I stopped buying the DVDs. I still watch the PPVs but check in with TV here and there.
Why? AEW has no follow-through and no focus, unlike the first few years. To make a long-lasting feud in pro-wrestling you need good matches and good angles. All AEW has is good matches. Their angles often have no satisfactory pay-off, no resolution at all, are very weak or non-existent.
What ever happened to The Elite taking over AEW?
Why is Jon Moxley a face now but still associated with Death Riders?
Did Bryan Danielson ever get his revenge on The Death Riders for attempted murder with a plastic bag?
Why are The Dark Order and Adam Page not pals anymore?
How about Edge and Christian seeking vengeance on FTR?
What about Andrade’s Family Office?
I could go on and on about the issues with AEW’s inconsistent booking that has no continuity, no matter what transparent and lame excuse “Uncle Dave” makes.
As of now, AEW legacy is underwhelming and forgettable. AEW has had very little lasting impact on the industry and wrestling history since they lost their way years ago and perhaps that is why they cannot increase their fanbase, why since its debut AEW Dynamite’s TV viewership has dropped roughly 60–65% and the average live attendance for AEW shows has declined about 55–65%, from 7,000–9,000 fans down to around 2,500–4,000 per event.
Sure, they make small gains here and there but they never rachet back up to the numbers they used to have across the board. You can have some of the best talent in the world, and AEW does, but if you don’t use them, promote them properly, AEW and current day TNA is what happens.
Nothing would make me happier than for AEW to return to the enthusiasm and the fun it was in the first few years. As the years drag on though, that is looking less and less likely as the problems with the product remain unaddressed.
I will get off my soap box now. Here’s your AEW Revolution 2026 report…
AEW Revolution 2026 Results
A note, the crowd is really quiet except for the moments when they are supposed to pop. Not much cheering for this person or that, just here and there. Also, so many of the matches end the same way, with a run-in or special appearance.
Boom & Doom vs. The Infantry
It is awesome to see this bitter, long-standing rivalry settled on PPV.
Hasn’t “Big Boom” AJ used up his 15 minutes of fame yet?
The Infantry jaw with Wayne Brady at ringside. Remember Wayne Brady? Whose Line Is It Anyway? The Wayne Brady Show? It sucks when two social media goofs are more famous than you are.
This Rizzler kid’s only gimmick is to rub his chin? He needs to be home studying a trade.
Shane Taylor knocks Wayne Brady’s hat off as he sits at ringside. Brady slaps him. Taylor pulls him over the barricade.
Taylor shoves that Rizzler kid to the floor. Hilarious.
Justice spears Taylor and knocks him down? WTF? Poor Taylor, made to look like such a chump.
The Boom Day Device wins the match for this mismatch of morons.
Winners: Boom & Doom
Rating: 2 / 10
Willow Nightingale (c) vs. Lena Kross – TBS Championship Match
Another match that is totally illogical.
Firstly, why is Willow defending this title when she has to defend the tag titles later in the evening? If I were her partner I would be pissed.
Secondly, the announcers mention that Kross is an “unknown quantity” as a singles wrestler. After only having TWO matches TOTAL in AEW she gets a shot at the TBS Championship on PPV? What the hell?
Willow does a cartwheel and Kross just clotheslines her to the mat even though Kross moves so incredibly slow, even just walking. Willow clotheslines Kross over and over in a corner. Kross no sells them. Kross picks up Willow slamming her face-first in a corner for a two count. She is making Willow look very weak.
Kross gets a two count after a German Suplex. Willow slams Kross into the ringside barricade. Kross catches Willow slamming her on the barricade. Willow makes a comeback with a missile drop kick off the ropes and a series of forearms. Kross kicks out of a spinebuster. Willow and Kross trade thunderous chops. Willow barely kicks out of TKO.
Willow reverses the Jackhammer into a backslide for the victory.
Megan Bayne arrives putting the boots to Willow. Harley chases them off with a cane.
Winner: …and still TBS Champion, Willow Nightingale.
Rating: 4 / 10
21-Man Blackjack Battle Royal for the AEW National Championship
Scorpio Sky? Why the hell isn’t AEW using, pushing him? He’s a phenomenal talent.
How many people are in the Don Callis Family nowadays? 423?
Why is Ace Austin, a great singles wrestler buried as part of the Bang Bang Gang? For that matter, why is Juice Robinson being wasted like this? AEW’s roster is never manageable.
A really ugly and beyond cheesy Jurassic Express school bus enters the arena with Luchasaurus driving. Jack Perry steps out as if he is late for school or summer camp. Good Lord.
Ricochet comes out with The Gates of Agony but they are ordered to the back. Ricochet has a belt? How? Why?
It is a Battle Royal…but everyone is just fighting on the floor? I thought you had to START the match in the ring in a Battle Royal. More nonsense. Some leap off the ropes, through the ropes onto those on the floor for cheap pops. Even back in the ring everyone is just chaotically leaping all over the place.
It comes down to LFI dominating the ring against AR Fox and Lio Rush. How does Komander still have a job and why isn’t Johnny TV and Dalton Castle not regulars on AEW TV? Imagine having them on your roster and not using them to their fullest potential?
Tommaso gives a now bald Lio Rush a running knee to send him packing. Garcia delivers some of the weakest punches ever. He pulls Komander’s mask off which forces him to fall to the floor to protect his identity. Tommaso knees Garcia out of the match too.
The PPV is three minutes away and this match is STILL going on?!?!?
“Something tells me you might not see the conclusion of this match,” says Excalibur as the pre-show is about to end. Hilarious.
Juice and Austin ditch Rush. Tommaso knees Austin out. Robinson and Tommaso battle on the apron. Robinson knocks Tommaso to the floor with a punch…
…and that is where the preshow ends.
When the show starts there is no intro, just fireworks as the battle royal is still going on.
Perry dumps out El Clon. Perry reverses Ricochet’s attempt at perhaps a Death Valley Driver on the apron into a Poisonrana to win the match and the title. As Ricochet throws a temper tantrum, Perry celebrates with his mom and sister.
Winner: …and new AEW National Champion, Jack Perry.
Rating: 7 / 10
FTR (c) vs. The Young Bucks – AEW World Tag Team Championship
A match where everyone kicks out of everything all the time. FTR are the heels with Stokely Hathaway as their manager and The Bucks are the faces? Who booked that s–t? Speaking of…
We see a promo for The Young Bucks narrated by their kids? Ugh. That is soooo cheesy the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service should be grading it. That isn’t it though. The kids come out dressed like them and accompany them to the ring. The kids take seats in the front row.
The fight quickly spills to the floor. The Bucks combine forces to suplex Dax. FTR catches Nick as he flies over the top rope to the floor slamming him on the announce table, pitching him into the time keeper’s area. Matt splashes them though from the top rope.
Stokely is funny as he frantically wheels out of the way in the background. FTR spike piledrives Matt on the ring apron. Nick emerges stumbling. He has been busted open. Dax has been as well, it seems. Wearing a “crimson mask” Nick tries to tag Matt but he is pulled off the apron by Cash and slammed into it.
Matt is finally hot tagged in but is favouring the right arm, shoulder after the piledriver. Matt stunners Dax off the apron onto the floor. Matt’s kids encourage him on at rinside. Dax brings Matt over to the family mocking them. Matt’s brother throws a drink in Dax’s face.
The Bucks put FTR in stereo Sharpshooters. Matt leaps through the ropes knocking Stokely out of his wheelchair. Dax gets spike piledriven in that spike piledriver that never, ever looks realistic or decent.
Matt gets spike piledrived and Nick is Avalanche Shattermachined.
The lights go out. The big screen lights up with the word REVENGE…the ‘R’ referencing Adam Copeland. Copeland comes out to big cheers as FTR waits in the middle of the ring. Christian Cage music plays. He sneaks up from behind. He sprays something in Dash’s eyes and hits the Killswitch on Dax. Copeland spears Dash. Stokely is caught in the middle. He extends his hand. Christian gives him a Killswitch too. Copeland and Christian hold up the tag titles as The Bucks slide back into the ring. They have a staredown.
Winners: …and still – AEW World Tag Team Champions, FTR.
Rating: 8 / 10
“Timeless” Toni Storm vs. Marina Shafir
Very slow, deliberate and boring match. Shafir attacks Storm from behind as she poses. Shafir whips Storm off the ropes for roundhouse kick after roundhouse kick, strike after strike. Storm suffers a series of Judo throws. Storm offers very little offence. Storm suplexes Shafir only to be kicked right in the face. Shafir gives Storm a back suplex off the apron to the floor. Shafir kicks Storm over and over as she leans against the barricade. She misses once and Storm…bites her foot?!?!? Ooookay.
Storm DDTs her back in the ring but cannot capitalize because she has had the crap…literally…kicked out of her. Storm nails two hip attacks. Shafir demands a third and gets it. Storm Zero for a two count.
Storm’s head butt is caught into…Mother’s Milk submission move?!?! What the hell is that? Seriously? Storm bites Sharif’s breast? Head butt, small package and Storm wins.
They need to call The Department of Public Works as that match was a pile of trash.
Ronda Rousey comes down to the ring.She takes off her jacket. She demands Storm return to the ring. Officials flood the ring before any punches can be thrown.
The camera doesn’t catch it but Safir kicks Storm off the top rope where she is sitting. Rousey laughs.
What is with that though? Do they not have production meetings? AEW seems to miss many of these key moments. We couldn’t really see Christian spraying that mist when he attacked earlier either. They really need to work on their production and timing issues.
Winner: Toni Storm
Rating: 3 / 10
Jon Moxley (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita – No Time Limit, AEW Continental Championship Match
Another match where everyone unrealistically kicks out of everything.
So, who is the face in this match? Is it Moxley even though he is with the Death Riders because Takeshita is with the Callis Family? Don’t get the booking.
Moxley backs Takeshita into a corner throwing some really weak body punches before he rakes his eyes across the ropes. Like the eye, ropes gag. We don’t see that very often. Takeshita sends Moxley reeling with a flying clothesline.
Moxley dives through the ropes sending Takeshita into the barricade. Moxley sits Takeshita on a chair so he can kick him in the face. Back in the ring, Moxley bites Takeshita forehead. With Takeshita’s ankle’s hurt, Moxley slooooows the match dooown and his figure four emphasizes that.
Moxley no-sells a German Suplex from Takeshita and fires back with a shotgun drop kick. Takeshita no-sells that with a running knee strike. Moxley awkwardly misses a stomp on the apron so they have to rewind things. Moxley does it right that time.
Moxley piledrives Takeshita and he kicks out. Remember when that move would put people away. Takeshita is busted open. Takeshita goes for his running knee strike but his leg gives out. Death Rider but Takeshita kicks out. Death Rider from the second rope…and Takeshita kicks out. Takeshita gives Moxley the finger before he fades to the Bulldog Choke.
Winner: …and still AEW Continental Champion, Jon Moxley.
Rating: 7.5 / 10
We get a weird promo of Will Ospreay in some mad scientist’s lab which is obviously riffing off Wolverine when he was part of the Weapon X program. Osperey busts out of the tank and howls? Why? What?
Ospreay’s music hits and he appears on stage. He meets Moxley in the ring. He beats the snot out of him. The Death Riders swarm Ospreay. Ospreay bounces off the ropes clearly missing with kicks but Pac and Yuta fly out of the ring. He then splashes them on the floor. Moxley escapes before Ospreay can get his hands on him.
Why did we need that Wolverine promo then if he was just going to come out anyways?
We get a report on Willow’s situation. She has been cleared to defend the tag titles even though Bayne and Kross injured her shoulder.
Willow, some advice to you and others. There is no scientific evidence that Kinesio tape helps or heals in any major way, makes any measurable difference to any injury. The effectiveness is generally no better than a placebo. True story. Look it up.
Babes of Wrath (c) vs. Megan Bayne & Lena Kross – AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship
Bayne and Kross attack the champs from behind. With Willow not at 100% they focus on Harley. Willow gets tagged in but has to fight with one arm. Perhaps she shouldn’t have had that previous match, eh? Bayne hits a flying clothesline. Kross and Bayne double chokeslam Willow for a 1,23.
Winners: …and new AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions, Megan Bayne & Lena Kross.
Rating: 4 / 10
Swerve Strickland vs. Brody King
King takes down Swerve with haymaker after haymaker. A spin kick catches him in the head though. Swerve leaps over the ropes stomping him on the apron. Swerve rams King into the steel post but he barely touches it at all. Swerve rips up mats covering the floor. Brody rips off the top of the security barricade and slams Swerve on it. King whips Swerve into barricade after barricade. Swerve rips off the turnbuckle pad and uses the steel to bend and maul Brody’s hand.
Brody bends Swerve over steel post. Swerve taps out but the referee doesn’t recognize that tap because it was an “illegal hold” say the announcers. Brody gives Swerve a backbreaker on the ring apron. Brody slams Swerve on the exposed floor with a Blackhole Slam. Swerve pulls off a turnbuckle.
The official does nothing as Swerve sets up Brody for a stomp in the exposed corner. Brody whips Swerve into it instead. Brody puts Swerve in a sleeper. Swerve falls to the floor. Swerve gives Brody the Vertabreaker on the exposed floor. Brody makes it back in by nine. Brody kicks out of a stomp. He absorbs two super kicks after taking a move that injured Kenny Omega? Makes no sense. A House Call finally ends the match. Prince Nana brings a concrete block into the ring. Kenny Omega’s music hits. Swerve abandons his plans.
Winner: Swerve Strickland
Rating: 7.5 / 10
Thekla (c) vs. Kris Statlander – 2 Out of 3 Falls for the AEW Women’s World Championship
Another very slow match that runs out of momentum as the wrestlers take so much time to set up moves. Did this match really need to be 2 out of 3 falls on a loaded card like this? Just like Stardom, someone needs to tell Thekla to pull it back a couple of notches and stop being so campy. An awesome talent ruined by overacting. She also looks ridiculous in stature compared to Statlander. Statlander throws Thekla from corner to corner. Statlander drops Thekla in a superplex from the second rope. Thekla wins the first fall with a bridging pin and a little help from the ropes. The official apparently couldn’t see anything although he was looking in that direction. Thekla decides to dance and dance on the floor, looking back over her shoulder after the pinfall as if waiting for Statlander to do something.
Statlander drop kicks and slams her on the arena floor. Statlander runs and crashes into the steel ring steps. Thekla hits the Spider Superplex. Statlander slams Thekla into the barricade again and again. She is then driven jaw-first into the steel steps. Statlander scores the second fall with Sunday Night Fever.
Thekla shoves off Statlander who crashes into the official knocking him out of the ring. Thekla grabs a leather belt but Statlander stops her. Why grab a belt when you can grab a steel chair? Makes no sense. Statlander gains possession of the belt whipping and spiking Thekla with Sunday Night Fever again but no official to make the count. Julia Hart, and Skye Blue run interference but Statlander takes them out.
The official wakes up just in time to pull the belt away from Statlander and chastise her. Thekla spears, stomps Statlander twice.
Rating: 7 / 10
Winner: …and still AEW Women’s World Champion, Thekla.
The Don Callis Family (Kazuchika Okada, Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) (c) vs. Mistico and JetSpeed (Kevin Knight & “Speedball” Mike Bailey) – AEW World Trios Championship Match
Okada saves Davis from being pinned by Knight. Mistico sends Okada for a ride then jumps on him on the floor. Mistico locks Fletcher in a submission as Knight leaps over them to splash Davis.
Winners: …and new AEW World Trios Champions, Mistico and JetSpeed.
Rating: 6 / 10
Andrade El Ídolo vs. Bandido
The crowd chants…
Take your pants off. Take your pants off.
Andrade clotheslines Bandido but he keeps popping back up. Both men bounce off the ropes and flip into the air. Bandido takes his pants off but has trouble even getting them off. Hilarious. Andrade knees him in the face. A kick to the face sends Andrade to the floor. Bandido springboard off the top rope. Andrade powerbombs him.
Andrade removes his pants now. He wastes time taking a selfie with a woman at ringside. Andrade catches Bandido in a corner but misses a stomp. Bandido suplexes Andrade into a turnbuckle. Bandido leaps onto Andrade on the floor and almost ends up in the front row. Andrade leaps over the ring post backwards onto Bandido then takes another selfie with a woman.
Bandido lifts Andrade up and as he is falling nails him with a back kick to the head. Andrade flips out of Bandido’s boomerang suplex and smashes him with the elbow smash. Andrade pins Bandido with the D.M.
Winner: Andrade El Ídolo
Rating: 8 / 10
Roderick Strong, Orange Cassidy & Darby Allin vs. The Dogs – Tornado Trios Match
It is a shame that Drilla Maloney couldn’t come with The Dogs but they are entering a very, very full roster where people are already not being used effectively. I wonder if in a few months they will disappear like others. AEW should strap a rocket to Gabe Kidd. He is a future star. No tags are necessary so a lot of mish-mash spots and people just sitting on the floor waiting to jump in. Weird. Allin is zip-tied out of the match for quite some time.
Allin stops Kidd from attacking him with his own skateboard. Kidd is head butt off the entrance way. Allin rides his board onto Kidd’s back. We cut back to Kidd and his hand has been tied to the steel of the entrance way. Cassidy and Strong double team Connors, pin him.
So, the Dogs lose their first big match in AEW? What a great debut. Wah. Wah. Waaah.
Darby taunts Kidd as he walks by him.
Winners: Roderick Strong, Orange Cassidy & Darby Allin
Rating: 6 / 10
MJF (c) vs. Hangman Adam Page – Texas Death Match for the AEW Men’s World Championship
After all the bloody matches they are going to end the show with a bloody match? How can such a main event gimmick stand out like that on such a card? Man, someone please use some common sense in future.
A live trumpet player plays Hangman to the ring. I get it. Spaghetti Western theme. The trumpet seems off though. Page has barbed wire wrapped around his arm.
We get a video of MJF playing cowboy and pissing on Page’s grave, for like a long time. Wah. Wah. Waaaah.
MJF comes to the ring in a cowboy hat and poncho, sorta like Terry Funk, MJF makes sure he is announced…”Not from this s–t town.”
MJF has Funk-like red and black striped tights on.
Page stomps MJF in a corner. MJF bails to the floor. Page follows him into the crowd. They brawl though the audience. Page sits MJF in a seat and rains punches down on him. MJF is already bleeding from the mouth.
A fan yells at MJF:
You aren’t Terry Funk!
Page goes to whack MJF with a trash can lid. MJF literally runs away until he circles the ring and runs into Page who bashes him. Yuk. Yuk. Ugh.
Page pulls a staple gun out from under the ring. He uses a birthday card to slash MJF’s hand. He then staples it to his chest and rips it off.
The crowd chants…
Happy birthday!
Page brings a window into the ring, like the window of a house. He sets it up in a corner. MJF rakes Page’s eyes and smashes the window in the middle of the ring leaving broken glass everywhere. He heaves the wooden frame out of the ring.
MJF says to the camera:
You won’t catch me doing that indie bullshit!
Page slams MJF onto the broken glass. I am guessing it is stage glass made out of sugar as there is no blood on MJF at all. Page drags MJF through the glass. Still, no blood.
Page punches MJF with the barbed wire. MJF is bleeding from the forehead. Page puts the wire into MJF’s mouth and pulls back on it. A rolling elbow with the barbed wire knocks MJF to the floor.
MJF drop toe-holds Page onto a chair. MJF rakes Page’s head with a piece of glass and stabs him with it. He slams Page onto the glass. MJF gets a broom and brushes all the glass out of the ring.
Why the hell would you do that when you have the advantage?
Makes. No. Sense.
Page takes away the broom breaking it over his knee. MJF hits Page in the head with the jagged, broken broom handle. MJF bashes Page over the back with a steel chair and then relaxes on it before hitting him again.
MJF pulls out a syringe. He pushes it through Page’s cheek and fires water through it.
I thought MJF wasn’t going to do “indie s–t”?
It is Page’s turn to pummel MJF with a chair but is MJF who slams Page onto a barbed wire chair. Page misses his senton on the floor. MJF throws the barbed wire chair into his face. Page gives MJF a Dead Eye through a table.
MJF bites Page’s forehead and Tombstone Piledrives him through a table off the apron.
The crowd chants:
Cowboy s–t! Cowboy s–t!
Do they not teach history in US high schools. Excalibur hilariously claims that human beings have gotten more violent as time has went on. I guess he has never read about what went on during the Medieval days, the Old West and what not. How violent it was eons ago, people shot dead and left to die in the streets, public executions, etc. What an absolute clown.
Page breaks a light tube over MJF’s back. He then smashes one over his head.
Page pulls wooden skewers out from under the ring. They fight over them in the middle of the ring. Page hammers them into MJF’s head. Buckshot Lariat. MJF beats the 10 count back up. Page pulls out a black bag from under the ring. Page pulls out a steel chain with dog collars attached to it. He attaches it around his own neck and MJF’s.
Why would you do that to yourself? Makes. No. Sense.
MJF screams:
Not again! Not again!
Page pulls a table out from under the ring.
For real, the bonehead fans chant:
We want fire!
Hey, I like hardcore matches. ECW still burns bright in my mind, but actual fire in which people can get seriously hurt? Anyone who have seen the Funk and Foley Japanese Death Matches would never ask for wrestlers to go that far for our entertainment. Idiot fans.
Page asks the fans for a lighter. He doesn’t get one. Instead, he places a barbed wire board on a table. MJF uses the chain to pull Page off the top rope and he falls through the table below.
They battle up the entrance way using the chain. Page gives MJF a belly to belly suplex, so they can both obviously leap off the ramp together through a table below that explodes and smokes. They still beat the count.
Page drags MJF back to the ring with the chain.
The fans start chanting;
He’s a good boy!
Page tries for a Buckshot but MJF kicks him in the “lower abdomen”. MJF retrieves the title belt. MJF brains Page with it. Page pops back up as if nothing happened. He does the exact same to MJF but then gets hung off the top rope with the steel chain and is choked out. Page cannot answer the count.
Page is loaded onto a stretcher. MJF poses with the belt on top of it.
Winner: …and still AEW World Heavyweight Champion, MJF.
Rating: 7 / 10
Event Rating: 7.5 / 10
