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Add FightsATW on GoogleAEW All Out 2026 is three days away, but nobody in Fishers, Indiana, could afford to look past Wednesday night. Inside the Fishers Event Center, Swerve Strickland and The New Level had to defend the World Trios Championship against The Demand just to keep their place on Saturday’s card. Across the same canvas, AEW World Champion Will Ospreay stood across the ring from Jon Moxley one last time before the match of all matches, a man who made their title fight painfully personal. That is what gave this Dynamite its importance: the biggest show of the week was still ahead, yet the road to it could change beneath their feet. The final chance to make an impact before All Out arrives is now! The AEW roster did not disappoint.
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TRIOS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH: (C) THE NEW LEVEL (KOFI & “AWESOME” AUSTIN CREED) & SWERVE STRICKLAND VS. THE DEMAND (BISHOP KAUN, RICOCHET & TOA LIONA)
Winners: And Still AEW Trios Champs, The New Level & Swerve
AEW opened with All Out approaching and a title match that couldn’t wait until Saturday. Backstage, Ricochet called Swerve Strickland and The New Level a convenience superteam and promised The Demand would take the World Trios Titles. Prince Nana said his champions wanted revenge. Austin Creed agreed, pressing Swerve on his history with Ricochet, the Gates of Agony, Bandido, Brody King, and Hangman Page. Did Swerve have friends before Kofi and Creed? Swerve held an innocent look until his music saved him from answering.
The Demand battered Creed, drove him into the steps, and nearly won when Ricochet hit a 630 senton on Kofi. Swerve broke the cover at the last second. The champions traded finishers until Swerve’s House Call sent Toa Liona into Kofi’s SOS. The New Level retained and set a date with Hangman and Brodido at All Out.
Hangman congratulated the champions, then turned to Swerve. He told Kofi and Creed he was glad they were in AEW and asked if they knew the man beside them. Swerve had returned after nearly five months, won the titles, and found partners who trusted him; Hangman doubted how long that would last. Creed said Swerve had changed.
Kofi said he had been good to them. Brody noted they had known him three weeks. Swerve named the teams Hangman had left and refused to let his rival define him. The argument stretched back two years; neither had clean hands. Brody pointed to Chicago, where six of AEW’s best would decide the trios division. Bandido wanted the titles. As Kofi, Creed, Brody, and Bandido traded words, Hangman and Swerve stared across the ring. Saturday’s match now carried more than gold.
UNITED EMPIRE U.S. ADDING TO ITS RANKS?
Backstage with Renee Paquette, Will Ospreay recruited one more ally before his war with the Death Riders at All Out. He told “Speedball” Mike Bailey that few men would step into the line of fire for someone else, but Bailey had done so for Ospreay’s crew. Their worldwide battles earned Will’s respect, and he wanted Bailey in the UNITED EMPIRE.
Speedball admitted he had chosen allies poorly in AEW, but he trusted what he saw in Ospreay and was in. Francesco Akira erupted in Italian; Will asked for English, then cut him off when Akira started yelling, joking he would only pay the fine once. The United Empire U.S. has its first official member.
DEZMOND XAVIER VS. JON MOXLEY
Winner: Jon Moxley
Dezmond Xavier walked into the ring with a clear prize: beat Jon Moxley and earn a shot at Moxley’s AEW Continental Championship. Moxley treated the eliminator like a tune-up for All Out. Xavier kept finding openings; he sent Moxley to the floor with a headscissors, caught him with a suicide dive, and hit a beautiful Ace Crusher.
A handspring kick left the champion reeling, and the upset was within reach until Moxley exploded off the ropes with a lariat. Xavier answered a shotgun dropkick with running double knees and went for the cover, but Moxley turned the kickout into a trap, locking in a sleeper with Xavier’s arm pinned and his body caught between the champion’s legs. Xavier made him fight for every inch; Moxley made sure he could not fight anymore. Jon Moxley won by submission, and the Continental Championship stayed out of Xavier’s reach.
WHAT IS NEXT IN THE AEW TAG DIVISION?
Renee Paquette’s interview with Darby Allin and Steven Borden had barely begun when Adam Copeland arrived with a warning. He appreciated their help last week, but after hearing them talk about chasing the tag titles, he wanted them to know whose path they might cross. Darby had climbed Everest; Copeland said he and Christian Cage were two Everests. Allin gave him two words: “Challenge accepted.” Copeland told him to be careful what he wished for, then carried that edge into the ring, where Cage & Cope, the Young Bucks, and FTR were set to face one another before their Chicago title fight. Stokely Hathaway claimed FTR had nothing to say.
The Bucks had plenty: Nick admitted this could be their last chance to reclaim the gold and promised they would fight like hell to become AEW’s first four-time World Tag Team Champions. Christian swore it would be their last chance, while Copeland reminded both teams that the legends across from them had survived decades of ladder matches. Matt Jackson’s reply cut deep: those stories sounded great in 1999, but Copeland’s last big leap had put him out for nearly a year. Dax Harwood stepped in before fists started flying. The Bucks dropped the champions with a Superkick Party, security flooded the ring, and Nick dove from a ladder into the crowd trying to stop him. Amid the wreckage, Christian set a guard’s head against a chair, and Copeland delivered the Con-Chair-To. Chicago’s tag title fight no longer sounded like a contest of resumes. It looked like a contest of who would still be standing last with the gold.
JAKE DOYLE VS. TOMMASO CIAMPA
Winner: Ciampa
Tommaso Ciampa had to get through Jake Doyle before he could get his hands on Kazuchika Okada, and Don Callis watched from commentary as Doyle tried to make sure that day never came. Ciampa struck first with a flying lariat and drove a knee into Doyle at the barricade, but every time he built momentum, the big man found a brutal way to stop it: from slamming Ciampa into a chair, to grinding his head against the barricade, and catching a charging knee with a Liger Bomb that nearly ended the match.
Ciampa survived. He slipped free, landed a rising knee, pulled off his shirt, and drove the Knee Trembler home for the pin. Then he turned toward Callis and Okada. Ciampa recalled 2018, when the two men worked on different sides of the wrestling world, and fans could only ask what if. Eight years later they were finally on the same stage, and Ciampa wanted Okada in the ring right then. The Rainmaker came out to mock him but refused to fight until All Out, promising to expose a man he said was beneath him. Ciampa promised the opposite: on Saturday, Okada would meet a version of the Psycho Killer he had never seen, and the International Championship would leave with Ciampa. The match that fans once had to imagine was three days away, and neither man intended to let the other forget it.
AEW TBS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH: PERSEPHONE (C) VS. HYAN
Winner: And Still Champ Persephone
With Dr. Britt Baker, DMD on commentary, Hyan gave AEW TBS Champion Persephone no time to settle. She traded holds, sent her to the floor with an Arabian press arm drag, and hit a suicide dive that put the title in danger. Persephone answered with a snap powerslam and quebrada, but Hyan escaped; when the champion bridged a northern lights suplex and tried a crucifix powerbomb, Hyan slipped free and landed a near-fall spear. Persephone survived, caught her in a rana pin, and used the ropes for leverage out of the referee’s sight. The three-count kept the TBS Championship on Persephone, but Hyan forced her to steal the win.
TAG TEAM MATCH: THE DEATH RIDERS (GABE KIDD & CLAUDIO CASTAGNOLI) VS. UNITED EMPIRE (WILL OSPREAY & “SPEEDBALL” MIKE BAILEY)
Winners: The United Empire
With Jon Moxley watching from commentary, Will Ospreay and Mike Bailey made their new UNITED EMPIRE alliance count against Claudio Castagnoli and Gabe Kidd. Bailey met Kidd’s chops head-on, Ospreay flew from the barricade to catch Claudio with an elbow, and the pair sent both Death Riders sprawling with stereo planchas. Moxley’s men answered with the punishment they know best. Claudio hauled both opponents up for a suplex, pulled Ospreay off the apron when Bailey needed a tag, and later deadlifted Speedball out of an armbar to powerbomb him into Will.
Kidd bit Bailey’s bare foot on the ropes and fought like he wanted Moxley to notice every blow. Each time the Riders cut one man off, the other fought his way back. Bailey survived long enough to bring Ospreay in; Ospreay weathered Kidd’s headbutt and Claudio’s power, escaped the Giant Swing into a DDT, and planted Castagnoli with a Styles Clash for the win. The Empire had beaten the Death Riders in the ring. Ospreay still had something to say to the man at ringside.
Will took the microphone and spoke first about AEW itself: the wrestlers who built it, the fans who kept showing up, and the pride he felt carrying its World Championship. Then he turned to Moxley. He thanked Jon for the guidance, for setting the standard, and even for breaking him, because it all taught him what the title demanded. Ospreay had risked his life for the leather and gold and for the generation coming after him; at All Out, Moxley would be the one trying to take it away.
Jon stepped into the ring and asked a question sharp enough to cut through the speech: standing across from him, did Will feel like the champion? Kidd charged before Ospreay could answer. Will sidestepped him, caught him with a Hidden Blade, and told Moxley he damn well did. Moxley offered no reply. He left through the crowd with Marina Shafir while Ospreay stood in the ring, his answer still hanging in the air.
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