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The latest AEW news, rumors, results, and recaps from AEW Dynamite, Rampage, Collision, and AEW Pay-Per-Views.

  • Swerve Strickland Praises Oba Femi, Says He Belongs In Main Events

    Swerve Strickland Praises Oba Femi, Says He Belongs In Main Events

    Swerve Strickland would love to see Oba Femi continue to conquer big things in his career.

    Oba Femi’s rise in the WWE from NXT to Monday Night Raw has been everything he has dreamed of. From dominating the scene with the best up-and-coming wrestlers in NXT to opening up WrestleMania against Brock Lesnar, Femi is truly becoming the Ruler of the WWE.

    During an appearance on The Bootleg Kev Podcast, Swerve Strickland, a former All Elite Wrestling Men’s World Champion discussed meeting Femi once at the gym and how he praised the big man, telling him he would be booked to win championships in his debut if Strickland had the pen to make it happen in a different world.

    “I met Oba [Femi] at the gym and I said, ‘If I had the pen, your debut would be winning that belt.’ Put him in main events. Perception is everything. People will buy it, but they got to see it.”

    Femi has been rag dolling and destroying talent all over Monday Night Raw, proclaiming himself as the new Ruler of the brand.

    Strickland is set to battle Bandido in the First Round of the 2026 Owen Hart Tournament at AEW Double Or Nothing.

    h/t to WrestlePurists for the transcription.

  • AEW Talent Reportedly Pushing For New Day Arrival

    AEW Talent Reportedly Pushing For New Day Arrival

    The future of New Day may become one of the biggest stories in professional wrestling once the duo officially hits free agency.

    According to a new report from Fightful Select via WrestleVotes Radio, there is reportedly a significant push within All Elite Wrestling from talent who want to see Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods brought into the company once they become available.

    WrestleVotes Radio noted that a source within AEW was optimistic about the possibility of the duo at least appearing for a match in the promotion. In addition, several AEW talents have reportedly expressed interest in working with the former WWE tag team stars.

    The report also mentioned that the team would likely need to compete under a different name if they leave WWE, as “New Day” remains intellectual property tied to the company.

    As for individual ring names, Kofi Kingston is reportedly expected to keep using “Kofi,” while Xavier Woods would likely return to using the name “Austin Creed.”

    At this time, there is no confirmation regarding whether the duo has officially signed anywhere or when free agency would begin. However, speculation surrounding their future is already generating strong interest across the wrestling industry.

  • AEW Double or Nothing Ticket Sales Update

    AEW Double or Nothing Ticket Sales Update

    AEW’s upcoming Double or Nothing pay-per-view has now distributed 13,736 tickets, according to updated data from WrestleTix.

    This years show will take place live from Queens, NY – Louis Armstrong Stadium on Sunday May 24.

    The event is one of AEW’s biggest annual shows and continues to show strong momentum at the box office as the pay-per-view draws closer. Ticket sales are expected to continue increasing in the final days leading up to the event. We are officially on sell out alert.

    Double or Nothing has served as a cornerstone event for AEW since the company’s launch in 2019 and regularly features major championship matches.

    Stay tuned to BodySlam for a complete card update soon.

  • Stadium Stampede Officially Set For AEW Double Or Nothing

    Stadium Stampede Officially Set For AEW Double Or Nothing

    The Stadium Stampede will be making its return for another massive experience between a ton of vengeful wrestlers.

    Andrade, David Finlay, and Clark Connors pushed the intensity on the latest episode of AEW Dynamite which saw them being added to Team Ricochet / The Demand as they look to get rid of Chris Jericho, The Hurt Syndicate’s Lashley And Shelton Benjamin, and the Elite who have banded together to take out their enemies once and for all.

    https://x.com/AEW/status/2054773698372993528?s=20

    A feud that all began when Jericho made his return and was shifted into a feud with the former AEW National Champion, Ricochet, alongside the Demand has now turned into a Stadium Stampede on an even bigger stage like the Louis Armstrong Stadium.

  • Willow Nightingale vs. Alex Windsor Set For AEW Double Or Nothing

    Willow Nightingale vs. Alex Windsor Set For AEW Double Or Nothing

    This women’s Owen Hart Cup quarterfinal matchup is expected to take place at Double Or Nothing.

    The Owen Hart Cup is officially underway and one of the biggest matches so far is between the current AEW TBS Champion, Willow Nightingale taking on one-half of the Brawling Birds and the NJPW Strong Women’s Champion, Alex Windsor.

    Nightingale won the Owen Cup in 2023, this will be Windsor’s first time competing in the tournament.

     

  • AEW Dynamite Results – May 13, 2026

    AEW Dynamite Results – May 13, 2026

    On May 13th, 2026 AEW aired the 345th episode of Dynamite live in Asheville North Carolina inside Harra’s Cherokee Center & can watch it on TBS & HBO MAX (United States), TSN (Canada) & MyAEW (International).

    -Kicking off this week’s Dynamite with MJF walking around backstage.

    -Renee Paquette approaches MJF to ask for his thoughts about Allin challenging him to a Title vs. Hair Match at Double Or Nothing and MJF says nothing.

    -He continues to walk around backstage with several members of the backstage crew members and wrestlers giving him glances as he passes by.

    10 Man Tag Team Match
    Trios Champion Orange Cassidy, Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson), Adam Copeland & Christian Cage defeated AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler), The Dogs (Clark Connors & David Finlay) & Tommaso Ciampa via Spear on Connors (15:53)

    -We then head over to a video of Will Ospreay’s next training session with Death Riders where Continental Champion Jon Moxley has Ospreay in a neck bend.

    Mike Bailey defeated Westbrook via Ultima Weapon (1:07)

    TNT Title Match
    Kevin Knight (c) defeated Brian Cage via UFO Splash (10:49) (STILL CHAMPION!!!!)

    -After the match Bailey grabs a microphone and congratulates Knight on retaining the TNT Title against Cage.

    -Kevin Knight thanks Bailey and says he’s still standing, but admits he couldn’t get the job done last week while challenging Darby Allin for the AEW World Title.

    -Bailey tells Knight not to worry and says he’ll be a future AEW World Champion and Knight returns the sentiment before Bailey says he wants the next shot at the AEW World Title.

    Will Ospreay defeated Ace Austin via Fujiwara Armbar (15:40)

    After the match The Opps make their way out.

    -Samoa Joe says fate has put them on a Collision course and says he’s come to the ring to talk to Ospreay about choices and consequences.

    -He says he has his date with destiny in their 2026 Owen Hart Cup match at Double or Nothing then says Katsuyori Shibata & Anthony Bowens feel slighted.

    -Shibata & Bowens look to go after Ospreay but Death Riders make their way to the ring to provide Ospreay with back up.

    -Outnumbered by Death Riders and Ospreay, The Opps decide to back down.

    -We then head backstage where Renee Paquette catches up with Konosuke Takeshita & Don Callis.

    -MJF approaches and tells Takeshita that he hopes he wins the AEW World Title tonight then hands the Dynamite Diamond Ring to Callis after Takeshita has left.

    -He explains to Callis that he can’t risk going bald but backs down when Andrade El Idolo joins Callis.

    6 Woman Tag Team Match
    The Brawling Birds (Jamie Hayter & Alex Windsor) & Hikaru Shida defeated Triangle Of Madness (Women’s Champion Thekla, Skye Blue & Julia Hart) via DQ (11:00)

    After the match Triangle Of Madness continue beating down The Brawling Birds.

    -Referees try breaking things up but Hart sprays black mist into one of their faces.

    -With Shida having disappeared from the ringside area, Willow Nightingale, Mina Shirakawa & Thunder Rosa run out to the ring to come to The Brawling Birds’ aid.

    AEW World Title Match
    Darby Allin (c) defeated Konosuke Takeshita via Coffin Drop (15:31) (STILL CHAMPION!!!!)

    -After the match Allin demands that MJF come to the ring for their Double Or Nothing AEW World Title vs. Hair Match contract signing. MJF obliges but hesitates to sign the contract.

    MJF says he’s happy for Allin and hopes he’s had fun holding the AEW World Title that belongs to him but says there’s a small part of him that knows this will be Allin’s last time holding the AEW World Title.

    -He says Allin is a stuntman and says nothing matters anymore than a legacy.

    -He says Allin’s legacy will be a kid who had 15 minutes of fame and has had no impact as AEW World Champion then says the fans will know deep down that Allin just got lucky and was too reckless to stay on top.

    -He says his legacy will be the guy who became an AEW World Champion at 30 years old then says he’ll go down as the greatest of all time.

    Allin says only someone like MJF who’s vain would think the #1 thing in life is legacy.

    -He says he doesn’t care about legacy but rather the present moment and demands that MJF sign the contract so that he can make him a bald headed bitch at Double or Nothing.

    -MJF gives in and signs the contract then rains down right hands on Allin using his Dynamite Diamond Ring.

    -He hits Allin with the Dynamite Diamond Ring to level him and grabs the AEW World Title then holds it over his head and stands tall.

    -He drags Allin up the ropes looking to land a Tombstone on him but Kevin Knight comes to Allin’s aid.

    -MJF retreats up the entrance ramp and to the back as Knight helps Allin up.

    Owen Hart Cup Brackets

    Men’s

    Samoa Joe vs. Will Ospreay (Double Or Nothing May 24th)

    National Champion Mark Davis vs. Jack Perry

    Swerve Strickland vs. ROH World Champion Bandido (Double Or Nothing May 24th)

    Claudio Castagnoli vs. Brody King

    Women’s

    Persephone vs. Hazuki

    Willow Nightingale vs. Alex Windsor (Double Or Nothing May 24th)

    Mina Shirakawa vs. ROH Women’s Champion Athena

    Skye Blue vs. Sareee

  • Jack Perry: People Thought I Tried To Be Raven With The Scapegoat, I Was Trying To Be Jesus

    Jack Perry: People Thought I Tried To Be Raven With The Scapegoat, I Was Trying To Be Jesus

    Jack Perry opened up about the idea that he was presented with when he became the Scapegoat of AEW.

    At AEW’s big All In show in 2023, Jack Perry competed in the pre-show where he defeated Darby Allin in a Coffin Match to retain the AEW TNT Championship.

    However, a spot during the match angered CM Punk backstage and eventually led to Punk attacking Perry backstage, leading to him being fired from AEW days later.

    Because of how things went, Perry was immediately labeled as the bad guy, and after a text exchange with Chris Jericho, who said he was the Scapegoat of the situation, it sparked a big idea for Perry when he was already in the middle of a growing heel run.

    “During the time, it was not nice. It was uncomfortable and scary. That’s why I think I ended up growing a lot because it forced me out of my (comfort zone). I was out for a long time. At that time, it was not something I ever anticipated happening, obviously. I always just imagined what my road would look like. ‘Work hard, do this.’ I never saw something like this. Now, I’m kind of grateful for it because a huge portion of the wrestling world turned on me, and I had always been wanting to make everybody like me. It was kind of holding me back as well because it’s not possible for everyone to like you. I was kind of playing it safe in a lot of ways. I realized, at a certain point, ‘Okay, now it’s done.’ There are people now where, they’re never going to like me. When I came to terms with that and realized that it kind of frees me because I don’t have to worry about trying to get this guy to like me, it’s like the shackles were off. I just dove into the deep end at that point. It’s not going to get worse,” he said.

    He continued, “I was at the gym, I remember texting you [Jericho], and you asked how it was going. ‘Really, not good,’ and you said, ‘Yeah, you’re the scapegoat.’ As soon as I saw the word, I was like, ‘That’s interesting.’ I didn’t actually know what it was or where it came from. I looked it up, and it’s an ancient religious thing where once a year, people used to sacrifice a goat to the devil, ‘please forgive us for our sins. Here is a goat.’ I thought it was cool because I was thinking I was the goat, and now I’m sacrificed to pay for the sins of other people. I put the word and imagery and made it this thing. It says the main archetype of the goat is Jesus, and I thought it was cool. People thought I was trying to be Raven. I was trying to be Jesus. I think a lot of that is what Raven was doing as well. ‘Let me be Jesus in this form of wrestling with this dark thing around.’ I really got into this thing I was creating. This allowed me to be me, but also get into this thematic stuff that was going on that felt like it could relate to my real life. I got to go to Japan and they don’t say anything, you come back from the match and there is a camera rolling. I watched Gabe Kidd, who is one of my favorite promo guys, he’d come back and be going insane. ‘You can do that?’ It allowed me to come back and not be so in my head about what I was going to say. I just said what I felt. That started the whole thing of ‘What do I want to do?’” – Perry said on Talk is Jericho.

    When he did return, Perry aligned himself in the new Elite with Kazuchika Okada and the Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson.)

    Perry recently lost the AEW National Championship to Mark Davis on the May 9 edition of AEW Collision.

    h/t to Fightful for the transcription.

  • Nigel McGuinness: I Would Go Quietly Into The Night If I Can’t Defeat Lee Moriarty For ROH Pure Championship

    Nigel McGuinness: I Would Go Quietly Into The Night If I Can’t Defeat Lee Moriarty For ROH Pure Championship

    Nigel McGuinness wants to raise the stakes as high as possible when it comes to his potentially last matches in the world of professional wrestling.

    It was last December in 2025 where Lee Moriarty had to prepare for the legendary Nigel McGuinness in an Iron Man, which would be won with Moriarty picking up one of the biggest wins of his career to continue his dominant reign as champion in a big rematch.

    Coming up on May 15, McGuinness has the opportunity to battle Josh Woods at ROH Supercard Of Honor, another former opponent of Moriarty and the chance to fight the champion is on the other side of a huge win, one that McGuiness spoke with Justin Dhillon of The Wrestling Classic about and how it could lead to a Title vs. Career against Moriarty in a last chance situation.

    “He (Josh Woods) was going on a run. He’s put a lot of big names down. He’s faced Lee Moriarty a couple of times, and I just felt like I was probably the missing piece to his puzzle. If he’s gonna challenge Lee for that Pure Title again, then he probably needs to beat me to be able to do it because if he can’t beat me, I don’t think he’s got a chance against Lee for that matter and then if he can’t beat Lee, as I said in the interview, I would (be) more than willing to take one more, one last shot at Lee for the Pure Title and if I don’t win it this time, I will go quietly into the night.”

    McGuiness last match he competed in was last December on an episode of ROH on HonorClub when he defeated Wheeler Yuta of the Death Riders.

    h/t to Fightful for the transcription.

  • Swerve Strickland: Kofi Is A Role Model To A Whole Generation of Kids

    Swerve Strickland: Kofi Is A Role Model To A Whole Generation of Kids

    Swerve Strickland knows a lot of wrestlers want to see the New Day make their arrival at All Elite Wrestling.

    On May 2, the news broke that Kofi Kingston (Kofi) and Xavier Woods (Austin Creed) of the New Day would be requesting their release from the WWE following a situation where they were asked to take a pay cut by TKO on their current contracts but ultimately decided on leaving after over a decade with the company.

    Former AEW Men’s World Champion Swerve Strickland was asked about the duo and spoke about the impact they have made on the sport, plus how inspirational they are to a whole generation of kids who aspire to become professional wrestlers in the future.

    “There’s a lot of wrestlers that want to see them end up in AEW. I talked to them the same day. Kofi took another day to get back to me, but they’re in high spirits, they’re motivated, they’re happy. I feel like they have the ball in their court which is what they always wanted. They have the ball in their court and they honestly feel like they can control their own narrative, and Xavier is really good at that. Kofi is walking [as a] free agent for the first time in his whole career. He was a Hall of Famer like five, six years ago. He was a Hall of Famer then, and to add the World Title match on top of that. He’s the only black wrestler to ever win the World Title at Mania. He’s the only one. That’s something you can’t take away from him. Never had any negative press on him, never had any issues, suspensions, fines, never any of this. So he’s walking out a role model to a whole generation of kids.” – Swerve Strickland said on Bootleg Kev.

    Strickland has not been on AEW TV in quite some time, he recently said on social media that it was because the company is afraid of what he will do to Bandido, the current ROH Men’s World Champion.

    h/t to Fightful for the transcription.

  • Kevin Knight Responds to Criticism of His Open Challenge

    Kevin Knight Responds to Criticism of His Open Challenge

    AEW has announced that Kevin Knight will defend his TNT Championship in an open challenge on Dynamite, which will be live from Asheville, NC.

    Of course, everyone’s least favorite IWC troll has to give his “hot take” in poorly veiled sarcasm.

    JDfromNY wrote on twitter, “Hey guys. This is such an ingenious idea. I’ve never seen it before!! I’m so excited about this brand new concept that could shape the landscape of pro wrestling television for months and years to come!!”

    It’s almost like he has never seen a TV based title defended before in a promotion in his life.

    Luckily, the Jet had a classy response for him, which was simply, “I agree. We appreciate the love.”

    In reality, it’s probably best not to respond to sarcastic comments like this but everyone knows that even though JD says he hates AEW (let’s be real he hates everything), he will still be watching.

    Whoever steps up to this open challenge, it should be a banger. I’m all for more Kevin Knight on TV anyways.