Welcome to the #AEWeekly review discussion where PWM contributors reflect on the highlights of the last week in AEW. The eligibility week always includes the most recent episode of Dynamite and Collision, plus any social-media exclusives up until publication. This week’s contributors are Abel [@loza3.bsky.social] covering Match of the Week and the week's MVP, Larissa [@actual-swamp-hag.bsky.social] expanding on the Moment of the Week, and Sergei [@sergeialderman.bsky.social]

Our brilliant contributor from the lovely (and wrestling-obsessed) subcontinent of India, Arul Kannan recently brought to our site a brand-new concept that is now ready to launch: an app that allows our readers to select a wrestler's name and automatically generate a "Wrestler Card" – an algorithmically generated scouting report based on stats on match quality, card position, attendance, and wins & losses scraped from CAGEMATCH. Go here for a step-by-step how-to with pictures

Welcome to the #AEWeekly review discussion where PWM contributors reflect on the highlights of the last week in AEW. The eligibility week always includes the most recent episode of Dynamite and Collision, plus any social-media exclusives up until publication. This week’s contributors are Abel [@loza3.bsky.social] covering Match of the Week and the week's MVP, Lauren [@sithwitch.bsky.social] exploring a key Story Beat, Larissa [@actual-swamp-hag.bsky.social] expanding on the M

Welcome to the #AEWeekly review discussion where PWM contributors reflect on the highlights of the last week in AEW. The eligibility week always includes the most recent episode of Dynamite and Collision, plus any social-media exclusives up until publication. This week’s contributors are Abel [@loza3.bsky.social] covering Match of the Week and the week's MVP, Lauren [@sithwitch.bsky.social] exploring a key Story Beat, Larissa [@actual-swamp-hag.bsky.social] expanding on the M

Welcome to the #AEWeekly review discussion where PWM contributors reflect on the highlights of the last week in AEW. The eligibility week always includes the most recent episode of Dynamite and Collision, plus any social-media exclusives up until publication. This week’s contributors are Abel [@loza3.bsky.social] covering Match of the Week and the week's MVP, Lauren [@sithwitch.bsky.social] exploring mentioning a key Story Beat, Larissa [@actual-swamp-hag.bsky.social] expandi

Welcome to the #AEWeekly review discussion where PWM contributors reflect on the highlights of the last week in AEW. The eligibility week always includes the most recent episode of Dynamite and Collision, plus any social-media exclusives up until publication. This week’s contributors are Abel [@loza3.bsky.social] covering Match of the Week and the week's MVP, Lauren [@sithwitch.bsky.social] exploring a key Story Beat, and Sergei [@sergeialderman.bsky.social] talking about the

AEW are here to stay by Peter Edge "Once you're profitable, the term 'money mark' goes out of the window So, the worst kept secret in wrestling since who the main attraction of the First Dance was has been revealed. Wednesday 2nd October saw Warner Brothers Discovery and AEW reveal that they extended their r

After an explosive and shocking night at AEW All Out, we are left with many questions. One of which comes after 'Hangman' Adam Page defeated Swerve Strickland in the Lights Out Steel Cage main event. With Page completing a year-long story arc, what does 'Hangman' do next? The Core of The Character Since day one of AEW’s existence Adam Page has been on a carefully plotted journey as a character. On day one at the press conference where AEW was officially announced, Hangman pro

For the second time AEW hit the UK and Wembley Stadium and because I enjoyed myself so much last year I thought “why not go again” and because so many enjoyed my travel log of that weekend, why not do another. Well, I wasn’t planning to do a travel log this year, instead talking about the state of AEW and comparing the company from this year to last because Rev Pro really wasn’t in my plans this time round but FOMO happened but more on that later. If I was to have one regre

As 2023 turned to 2024, the most frequent words spoken by the human race were the usual “New Year, New Me”, “I will stick to my resolution" and “I swear, this the last time I'm out for New Years” but a new phrase entered the lexicon. It was “restore the feeling” After 2023 and the Year of MJFism, talk of AEW losing its identity was mounting. Talk of needing to restore the feeling was escalating. The Continental Classic helped the narrative of feeling being restored. So did th

It's Sunday 27 August, I'm standing in the lower bowl section of Wembley Stadium and I see a wrestling ring in the middle of the pitch where Harry Kane scored that goal vs Germany in Euro 2020, where Arjen Robben won the Champions League with Bayern Munich and where Carl Edwards beat Michael Schumacher in the Race of Champions (seriously, as a NASCAR fan you don't realise what that moment meant to me) and I just burst out with laughter. It was a moment of marking out and just

It's nearly 3am on a Friday Night and I have work the next morning. I have just been speaking to a woman who I met on tinder the previous week on video call for three hours. The previous sentence tells you how well it's going in my love life. This feels great. Without wanting to bore you about my love life, the fact that I've met someone on tinder, been on a date and I'm now having conversations that last longer than a Bryan Danielson ROH match in 2005 is a bigger overachieve

March 11, 2020 is one of those days where you put it on the “where were you” moments column. Where were you when the NBA announced they were shutting down for the foreseeable future? I was asleep. I live in the UK, it was around 3 in the morning, I'm not mad you know. But upon reading the BBC news site on the Thursday morning just as I'm pressing play on Dynamite on Fite/Triller that not only that the positive COVID test from Rudy Gobert had caused the suspension of play in

When AEW put on Double or Nothing this Memorial Day Weekend, it will mean that we will have seen AEW put on shows for 5 years. Had DoN been on Saturday instead of the Sunday it would have been on the exact anniversary of that night in 2019 but we aren't getting Saturday night AEW PPV’s because we can't have nice things anymore. Regardless, the 5 years of AEW has seen many changes socially, in the way we live and many changes in the way we watch television. In those 5 years, t

Photo credit: AEW Music In times of difficulty, the idealism of social and cultural movements often collides with the realities of a capitalist society, which can cause leaders to abandon their values while fighting for the future of the movements they built. The story of Matthew and Nicholas Jackson can be seen as a case study in this phenomenon. These articles are an analysis of social issues through the lens of kayfabe. Read the prior installment of Keeping It Elite here.

As very difficult times have arisen for The Elite, including a hiatus for The Young Bucks and the end of Being The Elite being reported by Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer, it’s crucial to reflect on The Elite Way, a valuable and unique set of principles that led to the historic success of AEW. The goal of this series, Keeping It Elite, is to foster discussion that keeps these ideas at the forefront. Photo Credit: Being The Elite This episode of Being The Elite came at a di

Tony Khan's announcement of the inaugural Continental Classic on Collision caused the international wrestling community to explode. AEW fans have been asking for this since the company's inception. A round robin tournament similar to New Japan's G1 Climax. So much of the fun with the G1 comes in the anticipation. Speculating over who will be included, what dream matches we might see and ultimately who will win. So why don't we do the same with the Continental Classic? *The pu

It's been a week since All In weekend and you all are missing the wonderment of that weekend aren't you? You're missing the expensive prices that only London can bring (£4 for an apple juice in a bar in Westfield!), the London tube map that made you thankful you weren't colour blind, the queues, the walking and the hanging out with folk from Notting Hill Carnival or Carnival as its known locally at the hotel bar.... actually I don't need to tell that story on a public platfor

The Dark Order contributes to a thriving AEW ecosystem. Likewise, groups like it following a mutual aid model are critical to thriving communities. Both should not be forgotten, even as we “return to normal.” Photo Credit: Lee Smith/AEW The Dark Order has perhaps experienced the most pain and disappointment of any faction in AEW as of late. It has lost the majority of its members, most recently Stu Grayson, became primarily a Ring of Honor attraction after a good streak of b

AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy has proven he was never lazy; he was prioritizing what he valued, saving his energy, and having fun being himself until he found something worth fighting for. In doing so, he points to a new path to success that eschews the norms of wrestling, and even of work itself. Photo Credit: Carter Sterling Orange Cassidy is perhaps the most unlikely champion in the history of the sport of professional wrestling. He walks to the ring in jeans,