Category: AEW Television Musings

There was a part of me that wanted to hold this musings off until Saturday. See, because Saturday is May 2nd, which is the Rock’s birthday, you stupid son of a bitch… so let’s celebrate by talking about an AEW show. Obviously, we’re not doing that… but I’ll probably play the Fight Forever game on Saturday instead… or do a quick match there. I don’t know…

Anyway, we’re continuing the Road To Double Or Nothing, which is nowhere near as poorly maintained as the Road To Wrestlemania was. Hey, if nothing else, these Dynamite shows have been entertaining enough to warrant continuing these musings for the short term, which will probably last until Double Or Nothing. Last night’s show wasn’t a big show, by any means, but still a fun one.

Continue reading “AEW Dynamite (April 29th, 2026) – Better Maintained Road To Double Or Nothing”

You know… I almost feel bad for posting this on a Friday midnight hour as opposed to a Thursday afternoon or evening… because twelve hours later, the Portrait Of Ruin video is going up and I feel that’s going to be the bigger deal than the second Dynamite I’ve watched in a row… which is quite an accomplishment, all things considered.

But yes, for those who missed it, Darby Allin’s defeat of MJF for the AEW championship, along with Double Or Nothing being a good chunk of time away, convinced me to give this AEW thing another shot until that show. And we’ll have to see if Tony Khan does a better job of filling his potholes than McSon-In-Law can. Right now, the odds are even.

Continue reading “AEW Dynamite (April 22nd, 2026) – Crash! Kapow! Crumble! slow clap…”

Right, you know what? I was gonna hold until Sunday, but then decided… nah, fuck it. I’ve already seen it last night and ramifications are too large to hold off, so let’s get it out of the way.

Continue reading “AEW Dynamite (April 15th, 2026) – Let’s Give This Another Shot…”

For the record, I didn’t watch the whole show. I saw bits and pieces here and there. I’ve heard that there was the usual good matches that you’ve come to expect from some of the featured talent. Someone suggested that I’d give the Kyle Fletcher/Speedball Bailey match a watch and I thought that was pretty fun. So if you’re expecting a full-blown musings on the show as a whole, I’m afraid I’ll have to let you down here.

However, I did watch the main event press conference between Hangman Page and AEW Champion MJF to hype up their Revolution main event because AEW uploaded the clip onto Youtube. And THAT’s the piece of business I want to touch on today.

Continue reading “AEW Dynamite (March 11th, 2026) – Main Event Press Conference”

Listen, I don’t feel like throwing up a banner on short notice, so you’re getting a picture of this here dog. Good enough for me, dammit.

So a buddy of mine forwarded this Grand Slam Collision show my way via DVD-R recording… along with a couple other things that he thought I might like. This was the Grand Slam show from Australia that took place on Valentine’s Day. Out of courtesy, I gave it a watch and…

Continue reading “Grand Slam Collision (Feb. 14th, 2026)”

Well, you have to give All Elite Wrestling credit… they live up to their moniker.

Continue reading “AEW Dynamite (Nov. 12th, 2025) – Blood And Guts”

Color yourself shocked; I actually sat down to watch the last episode of AEW Dynamite, which happened to be the 6th anniversary episode of the program. It is also the first bit of AEW programming that I’ve watched since whatever the last PPV was from the summer. All In? All Out? One of the two? I don’t recall. I’m sure it’ll pop up on the archives if I look it up, but it doesn’t matter.

Continue reading “AEW Dynamite (October 1st, 2025) – 6th Anniversary Show”

Hey, look… an AEW Dynamite musings.

No way in hell am I sitting through FOUR HOURS of wrestling programming in a row in the middle of the week no matter who’s booking this thing, so you’re just getting the Dynamite portion of this summer spectacular or whatever they called it… which is fine by me, because I’m told that the Collision portion of the program is where things fall off a cliff. I guess I’ll take their word for it, but anyway… a brief summation of what I’ve seen.

We open with a Will Ospreay/Swerve Strickland match that ends in a 30-minute time limit draw, which then brings out the Death Television Riders to beat up Swerve and Ospreay eats a tacked Superkick for good measure. The match was your usual Ospreay goodness/hackiness… whatever floats your boat. This is followed by MJF mocking the fomer Sin Cara before the Hurt Business come out to beat a bunch of guys in a six-man, which was a thing that happened. At this point, it’s just the Hurt Business beating the shit out of dudes, which is fine. But this thing with MJF? Doesn’t work for me, brother. I think we’re at the point where MJF feels like someone you add to an act that’s hot and you want to kill it.

And so this is followed by Hangman getting ambushed by the DT Riders or whoever and Moxley cutting a quick promo before some guys come out to run off the DTRs. After a forgettable women’s match – no, seriously, I know someone made a return and it’s their first match back, but considering how talent gets signed and showcased for a couple weeks before shoved into the back of the corner, it’s not worth getting back. And finally, the show ends with a contract signing between Kenny and Okada, with Okada seemingly associated with Don Callis because… sure, why not?

By the way, Kenny, Ken Shamrock called. He said he wants his fake blood capsules back.

Look, the one thing you can’t say is that they’re not building towards this All In show in Texas. I wouldn’t call it a great show because a lot of the stuff on here is just “meh”, but it’s putting in the work to get people interested in this show. Apparently, from what I’ve been told, the Collision portion of the program is where things supposedly fall off a cliff. I guess I’ll take their word for it.

So we’ve got ourselves a special episode of Dynamite last night… and you know what? This was worth getting out of the hospital to watch… I’ll need to update the banner one of these days, but I can safely say that for the first time in a long time, I enjoyed an episode of Dynamite from top to bottom without much cause for complaint.

Well… almost.

This episode is special, for it is the 289th episode of Dynamite, which surpasses the 288 episode run of WCW Monday Nitro on the Turner networks. Regardless of what you think of the show’s quality as of late – and I’ve had more than my fair share of issues – that is quite the accomplishment and AEW should be applauded for reaching this point. There’s a part of me that wishes AEW chose a better venue – possibly the Mall Of America if that still exists or Club La Vela – but that’s okay. The current arena set-up looks pretty sweet, too. And there’s always the breaking of WCW Saturday Night’s 1992-2000 run in about 198 episodes.

Continue reading “AEW Dynamite (April 16th, 2025) – Springin’ Breaking’”