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Add FightsATW on GoogleAEW Dynamite hits the Credit Union of Texas Event Center in Allen, Texas, tonight with Wembley still fresh in everybody’s mind, but this isn’t a victory lap. This is the pacing lap to something bigger for professional wrestling. All In changed the company’s temperature, crowned new champions, created new alliances, and shifted the balance of power in ways AEW can’t simply celebrate and move past. Will Ospreay now carries the responsibility that comes with standing atop the mountain as AEW World Champion after finally defeating Kenny Omega, while Mercedes Moné has the Women’s World Championship around her waist and an entire division suddenly looking at her differently.
Can Swerve Strickland, Austin Creed and Kofi Kingston truly Level Up the World Trios Champions? The first chapter of AEW started tonight. The confetti has been swept up, the lights at Wembley have gone dark, and everybody who walked out of London with momentum now has to prove they can keep it. Tonight, Dynamite begins the battle over who controls what comes next.
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UNITED EMPIRE MAKING THEIR WAY TO THE STATES?
AEW Dynamite opened with Excalibur welcoming the crowd, then looking back at All In London before Will Ospreay, the new AEW World Champion, stepped through the curtain to a thunderous ovation. Worn down after what he joked was a week-long celebration, he paused as “You deserve it” chants and fans singing his name filled the building. He thanked those who had been with him from the start and those who joined after he arrived in AEW, then turned to Kenny Omega. Ospreay called Omega the best wrestler in the world for most of the last decade and admitted Kenny might still be better on almost any other night. Sunday required only one performance, and that was enough. With their rivalry at two wins apiece, Ospreay said Omega knew where to find him if he wanted another chapter.
He then looked at the championship, and the legends who had carried it, recalling searching for Bryan Danielson matches as a kid before standing beside his heroes. Reluctant for years to call himself “The Guy,” he no longer had room for false modesty. The Standard. The Billy Goat. The Best in the World. The AEW World Champion.
The celebration did not last. After thanking HENARE, Francesco Akira and Callum Newman, Ospreay said United Empire would not stay overseas. He had missed that brotherhood and planned to build a new chapter in AEW. The Demand came out, and Ricochet offered congratulations wrapped in a challenge, claiming their long rivalry helped Ospreay reach the All In main event and entitling him to the first title shot. Gabe Kidd and Clark Connors followed. Kidd made it personal, accusing Ospreay of taking milestones that should have been his: first English IWGP Heavyweight Champion, now first English AEW World Champion. He wanted to hurt the champion more than he wanted the belt.
Facing a five-on-one, United Empire evened the numbers. Ospreay called the opposition “slap-heads” and challenged them to fight now, in street clothes or in dress, and settle it in the main event. Ospreay left Wembley with the throne, but on his first night as champion the message was clear: everybody wants a piece of the king, and he will have to fight to keep the crown.
TRIOS CHAMPION MATCH: SWERVE STRICKLAND & THE NEW LEVEL (“AWESOME” AUSTIN CREED & KOFI) VS. THE RASCALZ (DEZMOND XAVIER, MYRON REED & ZACHARY WENTZ)
Winners: And Still Trios Champs Swerve and The New Level
Swerve Strickland and New Level entered their first AEW World Trios Championship defense with chaos on their minds, and The Rascalz made them live that dream. The opening stretch was speed, timing, and swagger as Austin Creed, Kofi Kingston, and Swerve matched The Rascalz through rapid tags, counters, and tandem offense before the match broke open. Dezmond Xavier, Zachary Wentz, and Myron Reed turned the pace chaotic with fast combinations, nearly catching the champions slipping more than once, but New Level answered with the chemistry that made their Wembley title win feel like the start of something special. Creed dropped Wentz with a Liger Bomb; Kofi hit a diving lariat, Boom Drop, and floor-side SOS; Swerve cut off momentum with counters and timed strikes, including a House Call that swung the match back.
The Rascalz nearly scored a W after a double-team shooting star press left Swerve staring at the lights, but he kicked out. New Level weathered one last storm before Swerve crushed Dezmond with another House Call and Kofi pinned him. They retained the titles, but the real moment came after the bell when The Young Bucks stepped onstage and stared them down. Two of the most decorated tag teams of their generation stood face to face in silence, planting a seed fans have never fully seen bloom: New Level versus The Young Bucks. That stare-down felt like history finally checking the schedule.
TABLES …. LADDERS …… AND CHAIRS ……
The Young Bucks hit the ring in street clothes with microphones and leftover frustration from All In. But we didn’t get casual conversation. Matt Jackson refused to cry foul over the Wembley loss, especially since the Bucks have built a career bending the rules, but he couldn’t ignore the irony that Adam Copeland and Christian Cage needed questionable means to win a billed generational tag-team showdown. Matt wanted the champions to say, to their faces, that they were satisfied with that win. Instead, FTR and Stokely Hathaway crashed the party. Stokely mocked the Bucks for chasing another title shot after falling short at Revolution and Wembley. Dax Harwood reminded everyone FTR had beaten both the Bucks and the champions and believed they deserved the chance to become the first four-time AEW World Tag Team Champions. Matt fired back that while the teams’ wins and losses may be even, the Bucks had never stood in the ring crying before saying “I quit.”
Cash and Dax went nose-to-nose with Matt and Nick before Copeland and Christian arrived with the gold. Christian wasted no time noting that history rarely asks how you won; it remembers who won, and that the two veterans supposedly past their prime had already beaten both teams in front of them. Copeland admitted he wasn’t satisfied with how Wembley ended and believed the Bucks had earned another shot.
FTR wouldn’t step aside either, so he offered the only solution big enough for the egos, history, and unfinished business among all six men: All Out. Three teams. AEW World Tag Team Championships. Tables. Ladders. Chairs. The Bucks need to prove Wembley wasn’t the start of their decline. FTR want to become the first four-time champions and erase doubt about their place in AEW history. Copeland and Christian aim to show the legends everyone keeps trying to replace can still stand above the generations that followed. There will be no count-outs to hide behind, no traditional rules to restore order, and no easy way out once the ladders rise and the tables start breaking. Three teams have spent years arguing over who belongs among the greatest of their era.
TNT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH: DARBY ALLIN (c) VS. “DUNKZILLA” MARK DAVIS
Winner: And Still TNT Champ Darby Allin
Darby Allin barely made his entrance before “Dunkzilla” Mark Davis turned the TNT Championship match into a street fight before the bell, shoving him off the stage, mauling him at ringside and throwing him over the barricade. Chaos spilled into the crowd, where Darby hit a Coffin Drop from an exit walkway, a Cactus Crossbody over the barricade and a skateboard shot, but Davis shut him down with raw power, including a vicious elbow that nearly folded Allin in half. Once the bell rang, Davis treated the champion like a crash-test dummy while Don Callis barked from commentary. Darby refused to stay buried. He tied Davis to the turnbuckles, unloaded strikes, survived a one-armed powerbomb and turned punishment into opportunity.
The finish was pure Darby chaos: a suicide dive, a missile dropkick, both men barely beating the referee’s nine-count, then back-to-back Coffin Drops for the pin as Allin retained the TNT Championship. There was no celebration. Roppongi Vice jumped Darby until Steven Borden made the save with punches and a dropkick before the numbers caught up. Then Josh Alexander returned, blindsided Borden, and joined Davis in dismantling both men. Alexander trapped Darby in an ankle lock while Dunkzilla hit Close Your Eyes and Count on Borden, leaving the champion and Sting’s son wrecked in the ring. Darby survived Davis and kept the title, but the target on his back just got a lot bigger.
MJF COMING FOR OSPREAY
AEW rolled Sunday-night footage of Maxwell Jacob Friedman simmering after All In, furious over losing the Casino Gauntlet and talking to his championship belt as if the running as champ isn’t over. In MJF’s mind, none of this was his fault; Will Ospreay derailed his plans at Beach Break, and the wrestling world would rather cheer Ospreay than admit MJF might have a point, leaving him to carry that resentment alone. Friedman leaned into the bitterness, calling himself the cold dose of reality fans refuse to swallow because accepting his greatness means admitting he may be better than the wrestlers they idolize and more important to AEW than anyone else, including Ospreay.
The promo then turned darker. MJF stopped complaining about the past and started promising what comes next. Payback is coming, he said, and nobody knows when. Every Dynamite, Collision or pay-per-view now carries the chance he finally makes his move. MJF isn’t chasing closure; he’s waiting for the perfect moment to make Ospreay pay, and when it comes, he wants the company to realize it never saw him coming.
ALEX WINDSOR VS. MEGAN BAYNE
Winner: Alex Windsor
Alex Windsor and Megan Bayne turned their singles clash into a fight from the opening lockup. Bayne used her size and power to bully Windsor around the ring before Alex answered with physicality. Windsor chopped away, fired lariats, sent Bayne to the floor with a low bridge, and hit a cannonball senton, but Megasus absorbed the punishment and answered with German suplexes, a vicious lariat, and a Falcon Arrow that nearly ended it. Windsor survived with a DDT and short powerbomb, refusing to stay down as the match grew more brutal. Ringside chaos changed everything. Lena Kross grabbed a tag title, Jamie Hayter rushed to stop her, and while referee Mike Posey tried to restore order, Bayne blasted Windsor with the discarded championship belt. Bayne dragged her back inside, hit the MegaBomb and stole the victory. Divine Dominion’s post-bell beating was cut short when Hayter charged in and ran them off. Bayne got her hand raised, but the finish poured gasoline on the rivalry. With Windsor and Hayter refusing to back down, Divine Dominion won the battle, but the war is far from finished.
THE CEO’S REIGN HAS BEGAN
Mercedes Moné turned Dynamite into her personal coronation, entering a ring decorated with balloons, oversized photos, flowers and celebration to show she finally holds the AEW Women’s World Championship. She hadn’t stopped smiling since All In, calling AEW the only place the women’s revolution could become truly global. The title proved what happens when you stop asking permission to be great. After collecting titles worldwide as “13 Belts Moné,” she now has held world championship gold across four major promotions on her own terms.
She still had to bury Willow Nightingale, blaming her for the bruised face, black eyes, and bandaged nose under her oversized red hat and calling her selfish and narcissistic as the crowd chanted both “You deserve it!” and “No you don’t!” Mercedes conceded Willow had led her toward destiny, leaving the smile, the title and the women’s division inside the Kingdom of the CEO. She promised a vision for the belt AEW had not yet created.
Before she could explain, Thekla arrived from the crowd with a drink and no love for the new champ. She toasted Mercedes as legendary and iconic, thanked her for humiliating Willow, then roasted her for swinging the championship between her legs and declared nobody swings it bigger than Thekla. After weeks of Mercedes calling people “dumb bitch,” Thekla said she hated nothing more than another dumb bitch calling other dumb bitches a dumb bitch. The crowd loved it as Thekla took her shot as a final toast and told Mercedes to say when she was ready to give the championship back. Mercedes came to celebrate; Thekla left her staring at the first woman bold enough to challenge the throne.
AEW CONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP ELIMINATOR MATCH: JON MOXLEY (c) VS. AR FOX
Winner: Jon Moxley
AR Fox entered his eliminator match with Jon Moxley knowing an upset could put him in the AEW Continental Championship picture. He used speed, creativity and the crowd’s energy to keep Moxley uncomfortable early, reversing wrist control, scoring a crucifix nearfall, popping to his feet and sending the champion to the floor before a kickflip moonsault.
Moxley never stayed rattled for long. He slowed Fox with a shotgun dropkick, dragged the match into deeper water and turned exchanges into the ugly, grinding fight he prefers. Fox refused to fold, hitting a Rolling Thunder Ace Crusher, then kicks, a basement Ace Crusher and a corkscrew suplex before a 450 splash for a dramatic near-fall. The upset felt real. Moxley absorbed the storm, countered Fox’s next attack into a sleeper, transitioned to under-hooks and hit the Death Rider for the 1-2-3.
10 MAN TAG MATCH: UNITED EMPIRE (WILL OSPREAY, ANDRADE EL IDOLO, HENARE, CALLUM NEWMAN & FRANCESCO AKIRA) VS. THE DEMAND (BISHOP KAUN, TOA LIONA & RICOCHET) & THE DOGS (CLARK CONNORS & GABE KIDD)
Winners: The United Empire
The main event quickly turned into controlled chaos. Ricochet and Will Ospreay teased the rivalry fans wanted before Ricochet tagged out, letting Toa Liona clash with HENARE. They traded heavy shots until both fell outside. Andrade El Idolo added flair with a springboard tornillo that wiped everyone out, then took a quick crowd selfie, only to have it ruined by The Demand and The Dogs. The Gates of Agony imposed their power, but Akira kept escaping. Newman launched into the chaos, and Ospreay and Ricochet finally connected in an electric sequence of sharp strikes, counters and near falls before the ring filled. Andrade blasted Connors with an elbow and set up Ospreay’s Hidden Blade for the pin and United Empire’s win.
The victory lasted five seconds. Gabe Kidd pulled Andrade to the floor and reignited their fight as both teams followed. Security got in the way. Kidd threw Andrade over the announce desk, then dragged World Champion Ospreay into an uglier fight. Kidd grabbed a chair before the Death Riders arrived. Jon Moxley slid in, took the chair and created a tense standoff. When Kidd tried to reclaim it, Mox stood between him and Ospreay. Andrade blasted Kidd from the ring, leaving Mox over the champion. Moxley picked up the AEW World Championship, placed it on Ospreay’s shoulder and stared him down. The graphic hit: Will Ospreay defends the AEW World Championship against Jon Moxley at All Out. Ospreay survived Wembley and Dynamite’s chaos. At All Out, he faces a man who does not care about eras, coronations, or destiny. The celebration is over.
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