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Add FightsATW on GoogleAEW ‘All Out’ 2026 was live from NOW Arena in Chicago, Illinois, featuring a nine-match card with a main event one year in the making as AEW World Champion Will Ospreay defends his title against the man who mentored him to the title after breaking his neck in August of 2025. The sellout Chicago crowd showed up early for the two pre-show matches an hour before showtime.
The card was filled with amazing matches, though there were hopes of seeing a couple of potential debuts from the hot free agents currently occupying the open market. However, Wardlow did return and cut a promo for the nearly 10,000 in attendance.
Will Ospreay(c) VS Jon Moxley: AEW World Wrestling Championship
Long-term storytelling is one of the more difficult things to pull off in this era of wrestling, and even if some fans were initially thrown by Will’s willingness to learn from the man that broke him. Still, AEW ended up pulling off one of the most enduring stories in all of wrestling in tonight’s main event.
Mox and his Death Riders existed to recreate AEW in their image while the company’s young guns attempted to rally behind a joint effort. Will ended up with a broken neck, so it surprised everyone when he decided to learn from Mox and his Death Riders. Will didn’t fit in at first, but we eventually saw an evolution that led to Ospreay claiming the title in Wembley against Omega.
Ospreay gave us one of the greatest entrances in wrestling history for ALL IN, and he utilized another strong video package behind a lone violinist. The match started with a technical style, but it quickly shifted to Will’s tempo as he dictated the match script at first.
Moxley was able to take over the match’s offense by getting gritty after busting Will open, grinding his knuckles against the champ’s open cut before rubbing that cut on the steel stairs. Mox slowed the match down, trying to break Will piece by piece and attacking every part of him he could, including his fingers.
Will had to resort to his own brand of violence and ended up trading forearms that turned into raw exchanges and hard slaps, with the Death Ridders offering instruction. Moxley got Will into that strong-style mode, exactly what the challenger wanted to lower his guard and sink in the chokehold with the body triangle.
The champ was hit with a piledriver early in the contest, and so the referee took a close look at Ospreay after getting hit with a ‘Gotch-Style Piledriver.’ Will’s surgically repaired neck was a constant target for Moxley, and Mox seemed poised to push Ospreay’s limit.
After a ref bump that saw Paul Turner take a big boot, the Death Riders and Will’s backup including Speedball Bailey, but PAC was able to shut everyone down with the briefcase as a weapon. Andrade eventually came out and took out PAC, giving Ospreay a show of respect that the champ appreciated.
Shafir hit Will with the briefcase, and the ref counted a slow pinfall attempt that left the crowd completely silent until Will kicked out. The Brawling Birds came out to help Will with Shafir. With the reinforcements going at it on the outside, Will was left in the ring with the briefcase in front of him.
When Will attempted to grab the case, Mox hit him with a curb stomp on top of it, and that is when he began screaming and crying in Will’s face, fighting with himself over whether or not to destroy the upstart he helped to build.
Mox finally hit Will with it as the crowd booed heavily, and just as it seemed that it was over, the champ kicked out again. Then, after a second paradigm shift, Mox went for a third on the man with neck-fusion surgery, and yet, somehow Will kicked out. With his eyes glassy and his will being choked out of him, Will broke the hold and hit ‘Stormbreaker for a near fall.
Will lined up Mox, who had teeth marks imprinted in his skin from Ospreay’s bite, and a final hidden blade was landed to retain the title in a brilliant match. We here at FightsATW rarely speak on stars or match ratings, but this one had both the physicality and emotion of a ‘Match of the Year’ contender.
Mox shook Will’s hand before collapsing out of the ring, and the Death Riders were forced to walk away with heavy emotions on their face.
Christian Cage & Adam Copeland(c) VS Young Bucks VS FTR—3-Way Ladder Match: AEW World Tag Team Titles
In what has been teased as the final ladder (and tables and chairs) match of their careers, Cage and Cope defended their tag titles in the match that put them on the map. They were 26 years old when the kayfabe brothers redefined not just tag team wrestling but the entire industry.
The Bucks had the advantage, with their experience potentially exceeding Cage and Cope’s while still maintaining the youth advantage over the legendary tag team. We knew it would be physical, but seeing Cage and Cope turn back the clocks one last time far outweighed the in-ring farewells from that of their contemporaries.
FTR’s Stokely played the role of ‘Spike Dudley’ when he took a huge table spot from the top of the ladder inside the ring onto the outside. With him out for the rest of the match, it would come down to which team would be left standing at the end.
The Young Bucks would end up snatching the titles for their 4th reign as AEW tag team champs, but FTR’s Cash took a big back-body drop from one end of the ladder onto the mat on the other side.
Swerve Strickland & New Level(c) VS “Hangman” Adam Page & Brodido—6-Man Tag Match: AEW Trios Titiles
It was one of the most anticipated matches on the card after Hangman and Brodido secured the #1 contender’s position to challenge the six-man tag team that won belts in their debut.
Kofi was electric in the early stages of the match, but seeing Austin Creed hype himself up to square off with Brody King. The crowd made it clear these two teams would have to work to be the ‘crowd favorites’ because both teams are so “over” at this point. There was a moment when The New Level had things under control, but the moment that Page shifted the offense, Swerve was right there to interfere.
That led to Page and Swerve going at it in a very physical exchange that necessitated both teams to break up these two rivals. When we got back to action, we saw The New Level performing as one of the best tag teams on the planet. In fact, we saw a lot of Swerve Strickland complaining to Prince Nana, maybe the (very) early indicators that led to an eventual split?
Bandido and Brody got in some offense, but things intensified when Hangman and Swerve became the legal men and all hell broke loose in the exchange. Later, Bandido pulled off a strong-man spot when he held both The New Level and Swerve on his back (close to 600lbs he held) before landing a triple ‘Samoan drop.’ His offensive sequence didn’t finish, as moments later he moonsaulted off the top of the post to the outside.
The climax came when Strickland pulled in Creed to take his place on the bad side of a Brody shot, and that allowed Bandido to go for the finish. Strickland was able to reverse and hit “Big Pressure” on Bandido for the win. This was a 5-star trios match, but the potential consequences of Swerve’s actions could cause dissent among the champs.
“The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada(c) VS Tommaso Ciampa: AEW International Championship
This was one of the more fun matches on the card as Okada’s heel tendencies managed to ‘out troll’ Ciampa in a way that made him feel like the face—having his family in attendance helped. Ciampa’s daughter played a role when Okada gave her the faux high-five and the middle finger, but she returned the favor by offering up a double barrel of birds.
The crowd popped hard when it looked like Ciampa would win, but Okada was able to retain when he hit the challenger with ‘The Rainmaker.’
Darby Allin & Steven Borden VS Don Callis Family (Fletcher & Knight)—Tag Team Match: Future AEW Tag Team Title Shot
This was a marquee match on the card that featured two of the best wrestlers on the planet, Kyle Fletcher and Kevin Knight, facing off against Darby Allin and his protégé Steven Borden. Borden is the son of wrestling legend Sting, and he has been one of the most over newcomers, with his razor-like jawline and freak-athleticism combo.
However, an unfortunate spot caused the ref to call the match early after Borden was knocked out when he attempted to go coast-to-coast against Knight. It was a scary scene, and as a decade-long journalist in combat sports, seeing arms stiffen with the fingers curled is the posture of a concussed competitor.
After the match was called off almost immediately, the outcome was awarded to Fletcher and Knight, who did their best to remain in character. Still, fans were clearly concerned, and Excalibur choked up for a moment as he attempted to narrate through the fears of fans watching live.
The camera never showed Borden again, but the crowd could be heard applauding, and FightsATW.com can confirm from sources in the building that he left on his feet. AEW provided details as they came in, first letting fans know he was conscious and on his feet while waiting to be checked by the doctor.
We received another update, this time on the mic, as Tony Schiavone confirmed that he is stable.
Andrade El Idolo(c) VS PAC: AEW National Championship
Andrade and Pac have been two of the most consistent performers in AEW, which is the same as saying in all of wrestling. The PWI 500 came out this week, and both men could be top 10 based on their work and momentum for next year. Despite Andrade successfully defending, both men got over in another banger.
PAC had the benefit of Marina Shafir ringside, who choked out a fan smitten with Andrade, but it did not end up benefiting the Death Ridders in the end. Both men hit big spots on one another; PAC managed to hit a shifting ‘hurricanrana’ from the top turnbuckle while also suplexing Andrade on the timekeeper’s barrier.
Shafir was on the apron to distract Andrade in the match’s finale, but it ended up allowing the champ to retain. Andrade is on perhaps the greatest run of his career, and we could be looking at a potential world champion in 2027.
The Brawling Birds(c) VS Divine Dominion—Tag Team Match: AEW Women’s World Tag Titles
It was a physical match that included just about every weapon you can imagine. There were stiff shots and big move spots, but the final third of the match raised the bar. We saw The Brawling Birds retain after throwing their opponents into a board wrapped in barbed wire and thumbtacks, then driving a steel chair into Lena Kross’s head.
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