AEW Dynamite Grand Slam France 10-5-26

 

Tony Nigel, and Excalibur are on the call with Ex hyping up the card and WrestleDream. Kofi vs. Bandido starts things off for the ROH Title and they have a solid affair with Kofi working harder in a singles match than he's done in a long time. AEW has given him the chance to get back into that swing and the double legdrop gets 2 for Kofi. Crossbody splash off the top gets 2 for Kofi! 21 PLEX OUT OF NOWHERE WINS IT! 

Renee narrates a Clockwork Carnage video package. It's basically a timed battle royal and then a scramble - so cool and Bailey will be in a qualifier for the match on Collision. Jack vs. Joe is up and Jack wants fists and well, that's bad and he gets a chop and boots him back before Joe eats more chops and chops him to death with one AND BOWS! Perry flips him off and eats a senton to the back before the RNC, but the cradle gets 2! Perry spits on him and eats a muscle buster for the win!

Okada hypes up that his French is even better than French and gets heat and he wants the Arc of Okada when he wins it. Death Riders time and Pac's chair is a permanent fixture for it. Mox and Kidd face off with Doyle and Davis, who eat some Kidd lariats before a Davis enzuiguri hits! DUNKZILLA DRIVER ON KIDD WINS IT! Jericho-Wayne video for Collision and Mox faces Davis at WrestleDream for the title. Fletcher vs. Darby is up for the TNT Title.

Darby has a mad dash to start, but Kyle avoids a front choke and slams him out of it. Kyle avoids a dive and hits the corner kick and sheer drop for 2.5! Turnbuckle brainbuster ON THE STEEL but Darby rolls to the floor! Deathdrop, deathlock and two coffin drops win it! Mercedes vs. Aminata is up and Aminata is OVER! Aminata is given a ton, but the mone maker wins it. Thekla lays out Mone with a spear! New Level and Swerve face Good, Bad and the Ugly 2/3 falls for the trios belts at the PPV. MAIN EVENT TIME! 

The crowd is MOLTEN and Okada gets heat and Don saves him but it backfires with a floor dive by Ospreay. Okada grinds away with a chinlock as the fans cheer Will on. Ospreay counters a dropkick attempt WITH A LIGERBOMB FOR 2! APRON OSCUTTER HITS! The count is given to Okada and it's a close call at 9.5! Okada eats a dropkick BUT HITS ONE OFF AN OSCUTTER AND THE RAINMAKER GETS 2.9! JOHN WOO DROPKICK BY OKADA! Ospreay ducks one and HITS HIS OWN RAINMAKER FOR 1! CLASH HITS FOR 2.9! OKADA RAINMAKER HITS FOR 2.5 AND A HIDDEN BLADE HITS FOR 2.9! STORMBREAKER HITS FOR 2.9! ELBOW PAD IS DOWN FOR ANOTHER HIDDEN BLADE! THAT'S BALLGAME! This was unreal!

WWE Raw 10-5-26

 

Raw starts with a long shot of Mick and Taker in the cell before Bloodline-946 video airs with the audio and video in sync. Reigns chats with the Usos before LA's theme hits and he yammers and Roman's out and you should acknowledge him. JeVon and Penta against the Vision is up and Logan throws knucks in and JeVon beats Theory. BUT BRONSON TNAS THEM and renders the win useless. Oba saves and runs wild before facing Reed at the PLE.

Sol and Lola face Raquel and Roxy. Sol surfs on Rox before a kneeling superkick. Roxy wins with a Backlund bridge on Lola. Fenix vs. Page and the cradle wins a nothing match. JD gets a Funkopop from Joe to mock him and takes an absurdly long time looking at it to realize it's a Funkopop while LACKLUSTER pops up on the screen from 2K26. JD and Dom against Rey and Lee and Cass attacks so great. Liv and Becky go at it for a non-finish to set up the three way at the PLE. Eh. Just a show.

AEW Collision 10-3-26

 

Well, it's been a remarkable healing week. I think Pac's passing and that tribute show really unlocked some good tears and man, trying to get more info from Best Buy on being rehired down the road affirmed that the whole company has shifted from treating people like people. This has Kofi vs. Lee Moriarty and Mox wrestling Doyle, so it should be solid progress towards Wrestle Dream. Lee and Kofi go back and forth on a promo backstage with Renee and hey they start the show off! I like Lee pointing out his high points too - smart move.

Kofi sends him outside on an armdrag but Kofi gets caught napping in a triangle that Kofi turns into 2. Trouble wins it and they shake. Pac tribute and I just...can't. Ospreay-Okada for FRANCE ON TUESDAY is hyped with Okada vs. Ospreay NJPW footage shown too. Tony says that TK asked Will what his dream match would be if he makes it through to Wrestle Dream and it's a random title match with a Clockwork Carnage match/battle royal thing. Oh God

Conglomeration is out in new tracksuits to win a squash but Solo does the macarena before a loss. Riders are out for the BANG BANG GANG! Ace gets the squat BUT CLAUDIO PREVENTS THE DVD! Silly goofy bullshit and then we get a Darby video about putting things into perspective about hindsight and Steven is good now and we're getting Darby vs. Kyle in Paris for the TNT Title! Myron vs. Dante Martin is up and a fulcrum codebreaker hits before a MyAEW break out of nowhere. Cutter wins it. Thekla bitches at Mone, who beats her up before Divine Dominion win a squash. Mone was fantastic with Thekla and Thekla mocking the BIG D MONE stuff was funny. Dovetailing with Julia interrupting DD and then THE SONIC RINGS KINSHASHA from Aminata wins it.

Joe vs. Perry is hyped up and they face off Tuesday to qualify for the Carnage match. Priest vs. Davis is up and it's a fun, stiff battle until the driver wins it. Queen vs. Mone is up for Paris and SHE WENT TO LAW SCHOOL THERE! Mox vs. Doyle is up and Doyle bullrushes him in the corner. King Kong lariat by Mox! Piledriver and the bulldog choke wins it. 

 

AEW Dynamite 9-30-26 - A Tribute to PAC

 

Thanks to MyAEW for having HQ images up because man Pac's passing feels like forever ago now and yet he was just on a PPV Saturday night in a fantastic match and boom, the next day he's just gone. AEW is paying tribute to his life with a card befitting the King of the Cruiserweights. Exalibur gives him a tribute going through the Neville run and King of the Cruiserweights because hey, WWE won't go after them for it and then Tony Schiavone runs down how belove Pac is.

We get exclusive footage after the PPV with the last footage of PAC with Mox saying that everyday is a gift and there are two kinds of funerals - this is what this guy did and this is who this guy was. OKAY WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THIS!? Jesus! Mox vs. OC starts and Mox dominates and gets a piledriver BUT OC ROLLS OUTSIDE! TOPE BY OC!

MOX WITH THE LAZY KICKS! MOX TEASES THE POCKETS but eats a shotgun dropkick! ORANGE PUNCH AND A PK HITS! THE BUILDUP LARIAT FROM PAC HITS FOR 2.5! Mox gets the stomp after they exchange Brutalizer attempts and the Death Rider wins it! Mox gets a Moxley chant until DANIELSON RETURNS! A heartbreaking, but beautiful Hangman tribute to Pac airs.

Elite vs. DCF is up and Rocky is out there and this should just be a fun time and it is. It's a night off and Omega is back for his first match since Wembley and works great with Knight. It's 4 on 1 CMON ROCKY YOU GOT THIS! Buckshot, V trigger and BTE TRIGGER and Trent eats the OWA! Cash pays tribute and he's just caked in tears from frame 1 and Jay White talks about how influential Ben was when he was coming up and he wants God to watch over his family. 

Swerve and New Level pays homage to him and lay the belts down for him and hug. Ricochet shows him so much love and the match with Will is up. Fast action to start until Ricochet slows it down on the floor. Ricochet does the Pac sell for a DDT and THE BLACK ARROW WINS IT! Ospreay talks about doing backyard wrestling and his friend being reminded of Pac. He first faced Pac in 2019 and the person behind the character was a great human being and he hopes he pays tribute to him. Well he did.

Women's trios is up and Mercedes is in her Jordan gear because hey she paid for it so why not. Hyan, Rosa, and Marina are out and Marina's jersey was a gift from Pac to suck up to her son with his name on it. Mox and Marina do tieups instead of slaps and it's just a good Persy match here with others in there too. Mone gets a backstabber and Persy gets a matrix kick. Britt curb stomps Marina! Marina wins with the Brutalizer and she hugs Mox. Swerve is glad he got to come to AEW and Darby says he loves him and he adored the golf course match and Ben wanting to do goofy shit.

Death Riders vs. the DCF is up and Wardlow is back with double knee braces. The Riders do the hop around the chair for him and DANIELSON IS HERE TO WRESTLE and hey, if he's going to wrestle, this is the match to do it. Nice brawl on the floor and Danielson looks good and this can hide him a ton. Yuta vs. ARCHER TIME! We need Danielson vs. Davis so Danielson has a big piece of meat to kick into. Yuta tags in Danileson and HE GETS HIS COMEBACK and it isn't perfect, but that's perfect. KICKS TO THE CHEST! LEBELL LOCK TO JOSH but Doyle breaks it up! Wardlow looks like he's from the Andore gang in Final Fight. WARDLOW POWERBOMB and Claudio clubs him with uppercuts!

SUPLEX CITY TO DANIELSON BY JOSH BUT HE TAGS IN DANNY! YUTA AND DANIELSON DO BUSAIKU KNEES! MARINA ARMBARS ARCHER ON THE APRON! CLAUDIO TORNILLO! Okay. Claudio distracting the ref so Marina could join the corner train ruled! Davis gets locked in the sharpshooter BUT CLAUDIO STOMPS DAVIS AND THEY WIN! Danielson does the hop!

They air a beautiful tribute with some of his promo work, gorgeous photos, clips, and Mox's promo from Saturday night and Marina's promo Sunday and goddamn just what a perfect thing. They put Pac's tribute to Andy in and I don't know, life may not be fire, but they're reunited and that's some solace in all this. The Riders gather around his chair as things fade to black and wrestling is the best. That's all.

WWE Raw 9-28-26

 

Well, it's been a crazy weekend with the loss of Pac yesterday - just one day after his match with Andrade that feels like it was forever ago. Raw starts with a tribute graphic to him before a 946-Bloodline video and Solo getting kidnapped and left out to dry. Usos and Jacob are out and they're babyfaces at least here. Jaida Parker arrives in an SUV and the Bloodline goes after it not knowing who's in there. 

Rey and Dragon Lee are here and Penta and JeVon are here and Lola is out to face Roxy for an MITB slot. Penta and JeVon face JD and Dom later and Lola dominates with knees to the stomach. RNC attempt is turned into Roxy slamming her back into the announce table and steps before getting a northern lights. Lola hits a few assalanches for 2. Roxy gets a double-jump moonsault for 2 after a draping uppercut to the neck.  Lola gets the spinning backfist for the win - good, she needed a definitive win here. This should have been her debut. Raquel and Sol brawl before a tejana bomb and pop rocks. Well okay that was...not great for Lola. 

946 video says no one is safe. Okay then. O-BA! O-BA! O-BA! His mic goes wonky recapping this feud and says Bronson missed Mania, KOTR, and Summerslam - BUT HE IS THE CAPTAIN NOW! He's got a contract ready to go for MITB and it's requiring Reed's signature. Reed says he isn't Brock - he's here to dethrone the ruler. Reed signs and then they just walk away. Dragon Lee vs. Cass is up BUT FIRST Iyo and Lyra bicker with Pearce. Dragon Lee gets his full intro, but Cass's is cut off for a WrestlePalooza ad. Cass gets a stinger splash with Lee draped over the top. 

Cass clubs away and gets a chokeslam on the apron after missing a boot against the post and Cass presses him into the ring. Cass gets a Corbinlock! Lee dropkicks him into the buckle off the knee and then a corner dropkick! Lee gets a weird sorta standing octopus and the hidden blade hits for 2! Cass wants a chokeslam but gets rolled up with a bridge and Lee wins it. WELP, Cass' ceiling is low and you can't teach that. Jacob says they gotta stick together...dun dun dun! 

Vaquer backstage bit and then LA Knight gets a hype video saying he's undeniable after the Bloodline cost him before and he challenges Roman to not have the family there. Iyo vs. Lyra is up with a tieup and Lyra gets a rocking horse before an...odd-looking inverted crab. Iyo gets caught on the ropes and kicked. Iyo gets a tope to the floor and DOES THE POINT! PAM helps Iyo get the moonsault and is wearing a BEN armband. 

Knight meets with the Bloodline and shit is going down. Fenix is hyped up with is win at Worlds Collide that hasn't aired yet and now he can go brand to brand. JD and Dom are out to face JeVon and Penta with Penta in a cool red jacket. Dom trips on Penta on the floor. Dom eats overhand chops on the ropes from both guys and JeVon accidentally hits Penta with the cutter and Joe comes in and sings and Evans hits JD before a Mexican destroyer wins. Joe's gimmick has jumped the shark. 

Breakker is out and charges through JeVon. Becky and Liv bicker. Sol and Vice team up next week and Fenix vs. Page is set up next week and Roman returns. Liv vs. Becky determines who faces Vaquer at MITB. 946 arrives and beats up goons before the Bloodline is out quickly. Usos brawl and the dive meats Bronco and he catches him into a toss into the post. Keys chairshots Fatu a few times but Fatu fights back and gets the hip attack! Loading dock brawl and Jacob beats the shit out of Keys with a chair and table toss. 

They fight in JAIDA'S SUV and Jaida runs over Fatu and IT'S A SWERVE BRO she's with 946! Okay, this needed a physical angle and this worked and added a new cast member to things with a show-long story that made sense in hindsight.