AEW Dynamite 4-22-26 - Darby vs. Ciampa

Gonna do what I can for this show as I'm under the weather and dealing with a nasty sinus infection. Luckily, I got to leave work early today alongside everyone else since no stores had decent traffic - so I got a visit in, prescription in and picked up by the time Dynamite started when I'd have still been in traffic at 7PM. Darby-MJF recap video leads to MJF out and Nigel is with Excalibur! MJF talks shit and wants Darby and GETS KEVIN KNIGHT!? MJF wants the title to make Knight miserable.  AND IT'S NOW!

Or not - MJF announces it for the Fairfax show. Demand calls out Jericho and Jericho gets a trios match with them. Brody King vs. Lio Rush is up and it's a fun David vs. Goliath match and Brody wins and wants the World champ soon. Ciampa cuts a pretty riveting promo about glass ceilings being imaginary. Cope wants a tag title shot in a street fight at Double or Nothing and if FTR wins, they retire as a team. Shida vs. Shirakawa is up! 

Good joshi action here and Mina gets a double stomp before a break as Nigel talks up Shida as a shit-stirrer. Mina gets a la mistica and a basement dropkick. Slicing knee and the falcon arrow win it for Shida when Mina goes for the kendo stick. Ospreay vs. Davis is up and should be awesome. Run up rana by Will off the steps. P1 Forearm gets 2 for Will. Superkick off the ramp by Will and the flip dive off the stage. Davis pounces out of a hidden blade Chop/lariat on the rope and an ALPAMARE WATERSLIDE GETS 2.5! DOOMSDAY SAITO BY DAVIS! HIDDEN BLADE MEETS A LARIAT! DAVIS LANDS A DELAYED PILEDRIVER ON THE APRON! MARK DAVIS WINS IT WITH DOCTOR STOPPAGE!

Davis goes for another driver but the DEATH RIDERS SAVE OSPREAY! Windsah will team with Persephone against 2/3 of the Triangle as fans won't shut up. Joe vs. Cody Chun is up and Joe snaps off a fireman's carry. Muscle buster wins it. Jericho chats with the Hurt Syndicate to face The Demand. Darby is out and talks about his history with Portland. MJF wants his belt back and a rematch and gets a stern NO both times. AIR RAID CRASH OFF THE TOP TO THE FLOOR BY CIAMPA! AND HE'S ALREADY GOT A BAD HIP! 2.9 WHEN DARBY GETS HIS FOOT ON THE ROPE! CODE RED GETS 2.9 FOR DARBY! Coffin drop into an RNC but the Bret cradle gets 2.9! RUNNING KNEE HITS FOR CIAMPA AND GETS 2.9! 

PROJECT CIAMPA AND ANOTHER KNEE AND DARBY ROLLS THROUGH! Ciampa goes for a scorpion deathlock but DARBY GETS IT ON AND DARBY GETS THE WIN after turning it into a kneebar and using the ropes! They embrace and BRODY IS OUT! Brody vs. Darby next week live in Fairfax...If I can make it work, i'm there!

WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 2 - 4-19-26 - BROCK VS OBA!

 

OBA! OBA! OBA! TIE-UP TO START! Oba eats 2 lariats without budging and OBA DOWNS HIM WITH ONE! Brock pulls him out and throws him into the LED posts - which do sound better than the steel ones. RELEASE GERMANS TO OBA!  Back elbow counters a fourth German and TWO CORNER UPPERCUTS! F5 HITS OBA! CHOKESLAM BY FEMI! FALL FROM GRACE WINS IT! The meat division is safe!

And Brock sells the powerbomb for minutes and leaves his gear in the ring - so wow, it looks like he's done. Holy shit - not doing Gunther!? He hugs Heyman and that is it. Wow - well that was the perfect final program for him.

Ads aplenty and we get JOBBER ENTRANCES FOR MANIA IN THE LADDER MATCH! Cole says that Havoc '97 was a ladder match. Penta gets an MK Shao Khan entrance! Not really much to the match until Rey hangs off the ladder by his legs which is like...not smart. Rey puts Rusev through a ladder bridge with a seated senton to the floor. JD hits a Spanish fly off the ladder to Lee. Penta hits a destroyer to JD to a ladder bridge! Rusev takes JeVon off the belt and he wants the belt. OG CUTTER TO RUSEV! Penta destroyer off the ladder to Je'Von! Penta retains.

Sami is out in green and black and Trick has a gigantic coat/robe train. Sami gets some shit ground and pound and beats up Yachty. Twirly kick hits thanks to Yachty and gets 2! Trick Shot is avoided and Sami gets a schoolboy for 2 and a corner exploder for the Helluva! TRICK SHOT HITS AND TRICK WINS IT! Dom vs. Balor is up in a street fight with pin/submission rules. Dom comes out on the cheapest-looking sedan in WWE history. Dom gets an entrance that um...resembles a Klan rally and Demon gets a weird stick with spikes on it. 619 with a chair by Dom and Dom chairs him a ton to the back. Balor wins it.

Rhea vs. Jade is up and Jade having her WWE presentation be the TNA Version of her AEW presentation is still hilarious. Rhea goes for the edge, but Jade's goons attack to set up Iyo saving I'm sure. ONE WINGED ANGEL HITS FOR 2! Iyo saves in Mania gear! Rhea gets a headbutt and Riptide misses AND THE PUMP KICK HITS. Rhea avoids Jaded and wins with Riptide! She celebrates with Iyo and Cena announces 55K for night two and THE MIZ INTERRUPTS! Danhausen and "THE MIDGETS!" as Cole calls them when Dwarfhausen is right there and they attack Kit's balls and smoke goes off and the lighting is still on so he just kinda has to hop under the apron so...oh well.

Roman gets ROMAN COLUMNS! Roman is fucking ripped. Jesus. Punk's out to his first ROH theme and then nothing. Side headlock city, bitch! Walk and brawl. Punk avoids the corner charge with a knee and a series of shortarm lariats. They walk and brawl and walk and walk and brawl. Roman beats him up in a tree of woe outside and powerbombs him through an announce table. Desperation GTS gets 2. 

Flash spear and quick cover gets 2 for Roman. Punk avoids a Roman GTS and Cro Cop kicks him for 2. Punk does a Superman punch about as quickly as Liddell would have before the final Tito fight for 2. SPEAR but Punk meets the front choke! Vise but Roman turns it into another front choke! Roman upkick sends Punk down into another front choke! Punk gets a headbutt and sends them both down! 

Punk with a ballshot an GTS for 2.9! Flying elbow through the other announce table for Punk. Punk falls into a GTS position and Punk collapses. They both sell death via exhaustion and Roman gets a DESPERATION SPEAR and wins the World Title - so he's headed to Raw! 

WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 1 4-18-26

 

Gonna do quick hits for a lot of this just due to work being tiring. Opening multi-tag was fine - Logan Paul turning on iShow was predictable but smart. Fatu vs. Drew was maybe the best WWE brawl since Drew-Punk and they each took some big bumps. Drew is all marked up. Paige returns to replace Nikki and won with the Rampaige after Nikki hits Charlotte with her crutch. AJ Lee and Becky had their best match yet and Becky won after sending AJ into JESSICA KARR THE CROOKED REF and the manhandle wins it.

Gunther vs. Seth is up with a strong brawl to start before Seth goes for a discus forearm and eats a lariat. Seth avoids a diving splash and gets an RNC! Running stomp on the announce table by Stomp! Bron's back and destroys Seth! Gunther RNC wins it! HOF runthrough and Steph main events of course. 

Stephanie Vaquer vs. Liv is up and Liv gets 2 off a sunset bomb. SVB gets 2 and Liv wins after goons interfere and the flatliner wins it. Cena announces fake attendance and BIANCA RETURNS! And she looks pregnant and hey she is and Cena undercuts it with his fake stuff. Main event time. 

Orton vs. Cody is up after 200 years and Orton is SO SLOW. Cody beats up Pat and Jelly Roll elbows him through the announce table. THEY SLOW IT DOWN WITH HOLDS! RKO TO RANDY GETS 2! RKO TO Cody gets 2. RKO TO ROBINSON AFTER he gets his eye poked. Cody punts him in the balls! RKO done shittily off a shitty Cody Cutter. Pat counts 2! RKO TO PAT AND CODY WINS WITH THE CROSS RHODES!? What!?

Orton holds the belt and PUNTS HIM and holds it again. Aight that was sure a match.

AEW Collision 4-16-26 - Spring Breakthru

 

Cope comes out all beat to shit and he says Christian's getting MRIs to see if his wrist is busted and they're full of piss and vinegar and they will end FTR! FTR is out and the Bucks save Cope and take out RPG Vice. Perry cuts a promo on DCF and he'll take on anyone in the goon squad in Portland. Bucks come out again to face Wentz and the Rascalz and it's a fun party match that the Bucks win with the Meltzer driver. Finlay and Connors attack the Bucks!

Cool Divine Dominion video airs before the Congoloration faces the Lethal Swirl in an eliminator. Ankle lock from KOR wins it! Shida and Kris win a squash. Mox faces Nick Wayne in a Continental Eliminator and Wayne is a great babyface for him in Everett and Tony runs downs ROH TV Champs before Mox ties him up. MOONSAULT TO THE FLOOR BY WAYNE! Wayne's world into an RNC INTO A JACKKNIFE PIN FOR 2.5 FOR WAYNE! Flying mare into the bulldog choke! 15 MINUTE CALL AND WAYNE FOREARM STRIKES HIM but eats a Death Rider - this ruled!

Pac vs. Lio Rush is up and Nigel says that Lio wasn't getting success and now he's been turned into this - which is well, accurate. Germans, big lariat and the Brutalizer win it with a smile on Lio's face. Rush is shining in defeat here. Brody, Dorada and Mistico win a quick trios match after a Bandido video in a bar. 

Mina tells Shida that she doesn't trust her and the kendo stick was there with Toni! Thekla vs WINDSAH is the main event. DARBY RECAP VIDEO! Tony hypes up the Darby win as the most exciting moment in company history. Nice physical brawl here with a big headbutt setting up a Windsor sharpshooter, but Thekla gets the rope before the Iron Octopus!  Thekla gets a knuck shot and the stomp wins it!

AEW Dynamite 4-15-26 - Darby vs. MJF for the World Title

 

Second full day on the floor and wow, I got three leads out and it felt great! Would've gotten more, but we can only setup appointments for homeowners, so that nixed 2 of them but DANG! Awesome day of feeling good, healing, and feeling hopeful. MJF chats with Renee about BEATING DARBY TWICE WITH A HEADLOCK TAKEOVER and he buries the OWA and Omega. Don and MJF chat and MJF loves Don but he keeps avoiding Renee and Renee tells him that DARBY GETS A SHOT TONIGHT! Right now! Darby says he's ready and he's taped up posters for this match and his career started 10 miles down the road at the Buddy Wayne Academy. Boy is it surreal to see that in 2026 on global TV.

Danielson says that MJF will have time to prepare FOR THE MAIN EVENT. AND IF MAX REFUSES, HE'LL BE STRIPPED OF THE TITLE! Cool post-Dynamite bit with Kenny and Ospreay helping lift each other's spirits and it feels like Omega will pass the torch to him.  Ciampa is out to face Dezmond Xavier. Good stuff outside the ring and Ciampa gets a long chinlock. Driving knee wins it and he wants it all and whoever wins the match tonight HE'S COMING FOR THEM!

A HEADLOCK TAKEOVER VIDEO PACKAGE! FTR is out and BIG STOKE brags about everyone they've beaten AND THEY GIVE US A 10 SECOND POSE! Also, Willow faces Kamille for the TBS and Knight faces Claudio for the TNT later! Claudio locks on THE BLACKTOP BULLY'S FINISH ON KEVIN KNIGHT! Avalanche neutralizer is turned into an uppercut into a rana and then the UFO wins it!

Jericho is out and Ricochet hypes up the RISE OF RICOCHET and it being time for Jericho to quit while he's ahead and since he loves reinvention, we'll turn him into the guy the Demand beats up every week. RICOSAULT after a brawl! DCF falls apart with Okada and Takeshita. Hechi destroys Will's neck and Doc Sampson wants to stop it, but they won't. Hechi is A COMPLETE DICKHEAD during the break kicking away at the neck. Hechi WARBLES AND WAVES and hits an elbow to the neck after the slicing neck snap. Styles Clash wins it and THEKLA RULES AND THE BUSINESS IS FULL OF DUMB BITCHES! Maybe Windsor vs. Thekla on Collision! 

Mox talks about NICK WAYNE since he's facing him in an eliminator! Willow vs. Kamille is up and Kamille gets a cross armbar but she gets stacked for 2. BACKSLIDE WINS IT THANK GOD AT 9:52! Kris and Shida team tomorrow and Shida is in the most ridiculous outfit in history. MJF vs. Darby is up NEXT AND IT'S COMMERCIAL-FREE! Darby meets Sting who tells him that it's not showtime - IT'S HIS TIME! 

MJF gives Aubrey the ring and kicks Darby in the balls and DARBY HITS HIM LOW! SCORPION DEATHDROP HITS! COFFIN DROP! ANOTHER ONE! A THIRD! FOUR IN A ROW! SIDE HEADLOCK TAKEOVER WINS THE TITLE! THIS WAS PERTECT!

 

AEW Dynasty 2026 - Omega vs. MJF

 

Zero Hour starts off with a rundown of the card. WINDSAH vs. Shafir starts the card off and Marina gets 2 off a triangle pin and a spiking uranage gets 2. PENTA DRIVER WINS IT! Thekla video package and KAMILLE WINS A SQUASH AND WILLOW BRAWLS! Perry vs. Davis is up and Jack avoids a ringpost powerslam with a shoulder charge. Nigel gets in a Jack be nimble reference after Davis bodies him. Suplex toss ON THE APRON FROM THE APRON from Davis! Enzuiguri hits for Davis, but a flash rana wins it for Perry!

Hyan and Maya World face off with Divine Dominion now and they shine before getting destroyed by Bayne. They switch things up by not having a match bleed into the PPV, which is good formatting-wise. Bucks vs. Takeshita and Okada starts and I think Varsity Club Okada will have more action than Mike Rotunda. Dropkick to Takeshita leads to a senton on Okada! Nick gets a diamond dust on the floor on Takeshita! A bunch of batshit insane stuff happens until Okada steals their gear and does goofy shit. THE OKADAPOWERS EXPLODE and the Bucks win after Takeshita allows a Metlzer driver!

Ricochet vs. JERICHO is up and Jericho looks good. They do basically a fun Memphis legends match with Jericho eating a DVD on the apron but getting MOUNTED PUNCHES IN THE CORNER up top. SPIRIT GUN AND THE LIONSAULT WINS IT! 

Andrade vs. Darby starts off with Andrade being a dick and putting him up top for a slap to the chest. THREE AMIGOS WITH THE THIRD SENDING DARBY INTO THE BUCKLE! Darby turns an avalanche Angle slam INTO A CROSSFACE! Goofy shit from Andrade and he eats a Coffin Drop but ANDRADE GRABS AUBRE'YS HAND TO STOP THE COUNT after stripping. DARBY GETS A FLASH CRADLE AND WINS IT!

FTR vs. Cope and Cage and THE FANS SING COPE'S SONG even with him in that babyshit green gear. Cage chops away at Cash before they double-boomerang Cope on the rope. Cage does his rope choke on both guys. Edgeucator before STEREO CROSSFACES! BIG STOKE FUCKS UP AND A SPEAR TO DAX GETS 2! FTR HITS SUPERKICKS MOCKING THE BUCKS! SHATTER MACHINE WINS IT FOR FTR! Wow!

TNT Title time and Rush and Ciampa stiff each other until Bandido is out! Bailey and Clon run amok too before TRUNKS PAC IS BACK! BANDIDO AND BAILEY DOUBLE SUPERKICK PAC! Jetspeed is out and hits some cool double team offense on Rush before Rush massacres Bowens in the corner. Clon double stomp to Bowens but he eats Project Ciampa! FROG SPLASH HITS FOR THE JET AND HE WINS IT! 

Thekla vs. Hayter is up and Thekla hits a big spear and the grounded octopus before the ropes. Thekla bullies her and says I SAAAAIIIDDGETTAOUTTAMYRING! Basement superkick and buzzsaw kick by Thekla gets 2! O'Connor roll with a Backlund bridge AND THE ROPES wins it for Thekla and WINDSAH is pissed.

Mox vs. Ospreay starts off with HIDDEN BLADES! Mox catches the Oscutter into a Paradigm BUT A FLASH HIDDEN BLADE HITS! SHIBATA CORNER ELBOWS BY OSPREAY! Mox gets a jackknife and EATS A CLASH FOR 2! BULLDOG CHOKE BY OSPREAY! PILEDRIVER ON THE STEPS FROM MOX GETS A 2.9 AFTER A NEAR COUNTOUT! DEATH RIDER WINS IT! The Dogs defend the Trios belts after Connors fucks a couch. Gabe's arm gets fucked up and KYLE WINS IT AND HE WINS IT IN HIS HOMETOWN! 

Main event time and Kenny gets the God of Pro Wrestling entrance! Mr Sinister entrance for MJF and he gets the rings out. Panama Sunrise gets an ADAM COLE BAYBAY! AVALANCHE DESTROYER TO KENNY but Omega gets a Kinshasa for 2! Moonsault off the top to the floor by Omega! AVALANCHE OWA but Max goes to the floor! V TRIGGER and a snapdragon! V TRIGGER TO THE DOME GETS 2.9! MJF AVOIDS AN OWA AND HITS A SPIKED CROSSRHODES AND STEEN PACKAGE PILEDRIVER FOR 2.9! Kenny runs wild with MURDER IBU UNLEASHED! BANG V TRIGGER! MJF pulls Bryce into the V TRIGGER! And he takes the ring out that the ref took away! OWA HITS EVEN WITH HIM AVOIDING THE RING BUT THERE'S NO REF! Turner counts 2.9! MJF hits the tombstone off the apron using the ring and the heat seeker wins it!