AEW Dynamite 2-25-26 - What a Day

 

So I'm gonna do a little bit on the show, but it's been an insane week. I was laid off on Monday and today, 2/25, my housemate passed away and it was both a surprise and not entirely because things were just really off for a week or so. It was a crazy day, but a productive one with a GoFundMe being setup by me to help the family out as much as possible. I'm not really feeling in the wrestling zone right now, but I know watching the show will help me feel better about the present and future. Babes of Wrath vs. MegaBad on tap and we've got Gabe Kidd vs. OC and Brody vs. Davis with Mile High Madness on tap too. 

We get an FTR vs. Bucks video with the superkick in the wheelchair being shown this time. Mox vs. El Clon is up for an eliminator and wow that's a neat style match. Mox and Clon do some fun stuff off a headlock sequence with Mox flipping him off for one and Clon getting his revenge with a sole butt kick off of another run. Mox gets a crippler crossface briefly and turns it into that back-variant on the Rings of Saturn. Suplex by Clon lands and he goes for a run-up Lionsault but Mox avoids and eats a moonsault off the barricade! 

Mox lands a curb stomp ON THE APRON and nearly gets a countout win but he's in at 9.5 and eats a Cactus lariat and tope suicida! Mox eats a back kick into the rope sending it into his throat but gets a shotgun lariat! Mox gets a piledriver for 2! Forearm exchanges mid-ring and a MID-RING STOMP GETS THE CLON COUNTER AND VAULTS OUT at 15 minutes! DIVING FOOT STOMP BY CLON FOR 2.9! Portal Bomb is turned into the paradigm shift! DEATH RIDER HITS AND WINS IT! 

An epic Omega vs. Swerve video airs before Nana comes out to establish Swerve as the heel by running down Tony and Excalibur and calls them STUPID FOOLS and WITHOUT ANY MORE DELAY, IT'S THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AEW, SWERVE STRICKLAND! He asks if the sickos miss him and they don't like what he did - why is that only when it happens to their favorites. He says Hangman asked if he had regret for what he did - and he did at the time, but now...nah he doesn't. Brody King sets up a Swerve match one day.

OC vs. Kidd is up with Kidd getting a cool drum theme and he's part of The Dogs. Kidd yammers on about PUSHIN UP DAISES after beating up OC but OC HITS A PK! Revolution DDT by OC! OC punch meets a forearm and a kneeling powerbomb! DOOMSDAY SAITO BY KIDD! OC gets the lazy Wahoo chops AND THE POCKETS! BEACH BREAK OUTTA NOWHERE FOR 2.5! Eye rake and a stuffed piledriver win it for Kidd! Clark Conners jumps him before A SAVE BY DARBY! CODE RED BY DARBY TO CONNERS! 

Thekla vs. Stat is hyped up as something that was so dangerous that Kris just got cleared today. Rosa faces Thekla on Dynamite in Texas! Knight vs. Mansoor is up for a standby match. Cool inverted atomic into a spinebuster by Mansoor! Knight gets a pendulum DDT and the UFO wins it! Knight wants the world title! Hanger and MJF are out and MJF says he deserves respect AS YOUR CHAMPION! He says that Hanger should study history because he ended the AEW career of this last guy to do this stip and everyone in Denver is on weed - leading to a weed chant. MJF wants a ONE WAY NO DQ MATCH - so he can't be DQed, but Hangman can be. It's stip vs. stip via a coin flip! 

Hangman says that in Texas Death, Max's usual tricks mean nothing and he calls himself the Devil - but Texas Death is his Hell! He calls Max's stip dogshit to a "dogshit" chant and he wants finality and if he can't beat a piece of shit like Max, he doesn't deserve this title. The coin determines the ONE WAY NO DQ MATCH! Hanger wants the quarter BUT NAH HE AIN'T DOING THAT. JETSPEED STOPS HIM AS DOES BRODY KING! AND MAX TRIES TO RUN ANYWAY! AND IT'S A LOADED COIN! And now it's a TEXAS DEATH MATCH! 

Hayter and Windsah have WORDS FROM THE BIRDS! AND THEY DON'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK! Babes of Wrath vs. MegaBad is up with Willow and Megan forearm shivering back and forth before Willow gets a series of quick lariats to Ford in the corner. Double lariats send the heels out and THE BOOBS OF WRATH meet mid-ring. Ford hits a moonsault to the floor and goes down. Their new goon Lena Kross attacks for a DQ so Megan doesn't job - good finish there.  BRODY KING vs MEAT MADNESS MARK DAVIS! 

MEAT chant amid the hoss chops! Davis hits a slam and misses a senton leading to Brody hitting a senton. SLIDING D IN THE CORNER JESUS! FUCK DON CALLIS/FUCK ICE TOO! DVD by Brody! club to the head by Davis during a dive attempt. RNC by Davis but Brody escapes and eats a lariat. JAYSUS German suplex by Davis! DAVIS TRUCKS HIM WITH A LARIAT!  Davis EATS A CHOP ON THE BAD HAND and a king kong lariat wins it for Brody! Brody wants Swerve at Revolution and BANDIDO WANTS A FIGHT TOO! ANDRADE ANSWERS HIS CHALLENGE! 

Kyle Fletcher is back with hair and THE TITLE IS PINKY and PROTOKADA ARE ALWAYS CHAMPIONS and wow does the International Title look gorgeous. The Demand jumps Jungle Jack with FTR before Mile High Madness WITH HIS THEME PLAYING AND WE GET DIVES and fans singing! Rascalz attack FTR! Cash SHOVES STOKELY INTO A BUCK with his outstretched arms. Perry hits a crazy DDT on Ricochet on the floor!  

These party matches benefit from watching them after the show because there aren't ad breaks and MYRON SAVES DEZ WITH A FIRE EXTINGUISHER! RAMP RUN CUTTER BY REED! FTR CATCHES HIM ON A FLIP DIVE AND SMASHES HIM INTO THE STEPS! Jack Perry busts out a VACUUM CLEANER! DIVING DDT BY JACK FOR 2.5! Slingshot powerbomb by the Bucks to Ricochet and the swanton on the trash can! FTR SAVES RICOCHET FROM A BTE TRIGGER! Rascalz send FTR for a SUPERKICK PARTY and Rascalz one too. TOA SUPLEXES BOTH BUCKS MID-RING! AND EVERYONE SUPERKICKS TOA! 

JACK GETS BACKDROPED OFF TRYING TO PILEDRIVE TOA AGAINST THE ROPES. Wentz shotgun dropkick to Toa! WENTZ FLIPS INTO A HEADBUTT BY TOA! POWER AND GLORY AND A HEADBUTT AND A RICOCHET 450 GETS 2! Dax snaps off a feint DDT but eats a feint superkick! SPANISH FLY THROUGH A TABLE ON RICOCHET FROM THE RASCALZ! Bucks avoid a shatter machine and CASH GOES THROUGH ONE MORE TABLE as the fans demand. FIRE FLAME HITS AND THE BTE TRIGGER AND JACK'S KNEE WINS IT and that was a billion stars today. Wow I needed that match!

 

AEW Collision 2-21-26 - Jet Set Rodeo vs. The Demand for Trios Gold

 

There's a bit announced for this show, with the trios titles on the line and Julia Hart vs. Thunder Rosa in Rosa's return from ALL IN Texas. The Demand vs. Jet Set Rodeo starts the show off and the champs have new matching gear. Bailey and Ricochet are fantastic together and I want to do Ricochet vs. Liger in 2K later. DOUBLE SUPERKICKS FROM JETSPEED TO EVERYONE! SPIKED PEDIGREE BY KAUN! LEAPING DDT BY KNIGHT! TOMBSTONE BY HANGER TO RICOCHET! Perry distracts Ricochet and THE BUCKSHOT WINS! Good stuff and a finish that sets up a Perry win too.

Rascalz smoke em all and FTR absconds them for partaking IN THE DEVIL'S LETTUCE and we'll get FTR-Rascalz later in an eliminator.  Death Riders vs. DCF is up and Claudio vs. Josh is up later too. The Swirl faces the Bucks! Old, bald grey-haired Jay Lethal is now a manager for The Swirl...God it's weird to see him rise up from young rookie to old guy so rapidly. Lee is here to shine brightly on a global TV stage and Blake Christian is giving the Bucks their shine - always a wise move when you're in there with EVPs. Shotty Lee ranas them both Blake hits a deathdrop driven down with a Shotty frog splash! BTE Trigger on Blake wins it!

MJF-Zilla Fatu highlight reel. Alexander vs. Claudio is up and no MLP belt for Josh, which I guess makes sense since they're not a full partner with them and it would go against the story of this match being to showcase Claudio. Josh baseball slides under and Claudio just drops down INSTANTLY and gutwrenches him down! Apron world's strongest slam and apron crossbody by Josh! Lance and Marina square down, Claudio boots him down and the Neutralizer wins it. This was fun. 

Bayne squash time against Becca, who shines being ragdolled and in small gear. MEGABOMB time - okay that's a better name than just her powerbomb. Ciampa's run is recapped and he isn't overjoyed about losing the title, but 24 days into his AEW career, he's lamenting that it's been 10 days since he lost the title and he wants Silvie back. DCF vs. Death Riders time with Mox and Davis continuing on from Wednesday. BULLDOG CHOKE is on again, but Take saves! Clon and Davis eat a double DDT from MOX BUT CLON CLONS UP! Take KOs Yuta to win it. Mox and Take staredown afterwards. 

Rosa is back in a jersey against Julia Hart and her cool solo theme. Julia gets a tarantula to work on the injured back of Rosa. OCTOPUS IS ON FOR JULIA! Rosa chops and elbows the hell out of her before a standing STO and stomp but the moonsault meets knees and the fire thunder side slam thing wins. Thekla mocks her and says she's a dumb bitch. Julia goes to jump Rosa but Kris saves.  Private Party has a party with a bunch of midcarders and they want a challenge. 

Gabe and Conners threaten ORANGE BOY and Clark makes sure we know that GABE IS HIS DOG FOR REAL! Mark Davis vs. Brody King is set alongside Clon vs. Mox for Dynamite. FTR vs. Rascalz is up and Dax works so great with everyone while Dash sells a cool Wentz tornillo. Wentz avoids a Shatter Machine and gets a schoolboy for 2.9! HOT FIRE FLAME MEETS KNEES and a sheer drop braibuster gets 2! Cahs gets cocky with Myron and puts his shades on but eats a backdrop and the Bucks distract Dax who eats a kick and the hot fire flame for the win! RASCALZ GET A SHOT! BUT GOA ATTACKS THE RASCALZ! FTR beat up MALACHI JACKSON and Ricochet spirit guns Perry!

AEW Dynamite 2-18-26 - Omega vs. Swerve

They're in Sac-town looking cool. Dynamite starts off with the SNME-style intros that used to be on Collision and they focus on the TBS Title and Mina possibly winning it in the 4-way. Renee chats with OC and he has a replacement for Roddy - ISHII against the War Dogs! And we start off with Davis vs. Mox and Davis trucks him with a Vader-style bodyblock. Mox goes for a sunset flip and DUNKZILLA drops his ass on him. SLIDING D BY DAVIS! MONSTER CHOP ON THE BARRICADE BY DAVIS! Mox avoids a Davis post punch and hits a tope!

Davis gigs his hand and Mox works the fingers and Mox BOWS TO THE REF after stomping the hand on the steps. Davis misses but hits sorta a hip attack on the chair and barricade resulting in a killer Mox sell. Mox superplex hits but Davis hits a jumping enzuiguri BUT EATS A CUTTER! DOOMSDAY SAITO BY DAVIS and a lariat! DUNKZILLA DRIVER but Mox schoolboys for 2. GUTWRENCH DRIVER HITS FOR 2.9 FOR DAVIS! Davis enzuiguri misses BUT THE MOX STOMP HITS! Davis Omega driver is countered into the bulldog choke and the win for Mox! THIS RULED! 

 

Hanger vs. MJF is hyped up and FTR is out and credits the Bucks for creating the term FTR but now THEY ARE BEHIND THE BEST TEAM OF THE GENERATION! Stoke talks shit and the Bucks take out FTR and they superkick him in the wheelchair and Bucks vs. FTR is up for Revolution. Brody wants the biggest and baddest - 2/25 he's back! Marina is out for the TBS Title 4-way! 

Mina and Marina just stiff each other and no-sell before Marina and Megan fight it out! AVALANCHE GERMAN BY WILLOW TO MEGAN before a Mina missile dropkick and the uraken! THE FIGURE FOUR IS TURNED INTO A CRADLE TO WIN IT FOR WILLOW! This ruled too. Grand Slam recap, nothing on House Rules oddly, before MJF vs. Hanger mid-ring and MJF says the cowboy is out of bullets. Hanger says he hates MJF in so many ways, but he's also never met someone more like himself. Hanger says if he doesn't win the title from MJF, then he'll never challenge for the AEW men's world title again. Now that's a dangerous stip after it killed Cody's momentum but that does play into things. Hanger wants TEXAS DEATH and MJF wants a week to think it all through. 

Death Riders call out the DCF for not being family - unlike them. Mox WANTS Takeshita at Revolution! NO TIME LIMITS AND THEY GO TO A FINISH! OC and Ishii vs. Kidd and Connors and it's a great NJPW-style match with them and they jump Ishii so he's the ISHII IN PERIL. BIG TOM CHARGES THROUGH KIDD! Kidd and OC fight on the floor and DARBY JUMPS GABE! ORANGE PUNCH AND A BIG TOM BRAINBUSTER WIN IT! Don wants ANDRADE TO BE THE CMLL WORLD CHAMPION! Brawling Birds are up next! They face Becca and Viva Van and chop the daylights out of Viva in the corner. Backbreaker and lariat hit and a sandwich lariat and the HART ATTACK WINS IT. Rosa is coming back and Stat is out for a bit with an injury for 2 weeks. Mortos vs. Kevin Knight is up and THIS would be a riot live. MORTOS HITS HIS TORNILLO and picks his mask nose to put a gift on the camera. Pendulum DDT and the UFO win it for Knight!

Main event time! SNAP RANA BY KENNY! Corner dashing elbow by Omega misses! SNAPDRAGON FOR 2! RISING KNEE! Omega avoids an apron vertebreaker thank God. FLOATOVER SUPLEX BY SWERVE ON THE FLOOR! 450 TO THE BACK OF OMEGA FOR 2.5! SPINNING HEEL KICK TO THE BACK OF THE HEAD BY OMEGA! Rosa vs. Julia is up for Collision! Aubrey is out and OMEGA EATS TWO SWERVE STOMPS AND KICKS OUT! HOUSECALL MISSES AND THE SNAPDRAGON HITS! POISON RANA TO SWERVE! HOUSE CALL AFTER THE V TRIGGER! BIG PRESSURE HITS AND WINS IT!

Swerve wins, which adds a layer to the Hanger vs. MJF match result. SWERVE HANGS OMEGA WITH THE CHAIN! Bryan tells him he's better than this and he knocks stuff off the announce table and moves the steps. VERTEBREAKER OFF THE STEPS THROUGH THE ANNOUNCE TABLE! Well that seemingly is better than the one they teased on the apron. Well this was a hell of a show. 

AEW Grand Slam Australia 2-14-26 - Brody King vs. MJF For the World Title!

 

AEW has lucked into something special with Brody King - but they've already got MJF in the mix with a slew of challenges running the gauntlet, so it makes sense to not have Brody win this one BUT they could also have him win and just put it back on MJF at Revolution and keep people on his tail. Mox starts the show off against Takeshita for the Continental Title! We've got Excalibur and Tony on the call. They start with a long tieup attempt and flash Paradigm being avoided - very '80s-style start.

TOPE BY MOX and he overshoots that a ton and escaped doom there before landing some chops on the floor for a break. Takeshita goes up and almost eats a superplex before RAKING MOX'S BACK and HITTING A WALKING LAST RIDE OUT OF THE CORNER! Forearms aplenty before Mox sends him out and Takeshita avoids a countout but eats a stomp and a rear naked choke attempt before turning the RNC into a cross armbar. Back and forth boots at 15 minutes before exploders and a driving knee for 2.5. SPIKING DEATH RIDER HITS FOR 2.9! LARIAT TO TAKE GETS 1 AND THE DRIVING FOREARM GETS 1! SHOT TO THE BACK OF THE HEAD GETS 2.9 AND THE TIME EXPIRES AFTER THE KICKOUT! THAT RULED! Raging fire after the match! He did what Okada couldn't do - go the distance with Mox as Okada lost at Worlds End. 

Fletcher recap video hyping him up. Babes of Wrath vs MegaBad is next BUT FIRST a Stat vs. Thekla video. Harley eats a beating against Bayne before Willow tags in for a lariat and cannonball to the pile on the floor and a shotgun dropkick to the heels mid-ring. Destroyer and BACKSLIDE win it for Harley before Lena Kross joins MegaBad! Bayne holding gold works and we get TO THE BACK for a Ricochet-Perry video. Quick video for Hangman vs. Andrade before the match itself.

Tranquilo pose in the ropes backfires with a boot to the belly welly. Andrade goes outside to pad out his rat count BUT HANGMAN INTERVENES and chops him and gets 2 off a standing SSP. Hanger avoids a sunset flip powerbomb and hits a pop-up powerbomb for 2.5. FALLAWAY SLAM INTO THE BARRICADE BY HANGER! Buckshot countered with the snapping spinning elbow for 2.9! DEADEYE HITS! BUCKSHOT HITS AND WINS IT WHEN DON'S INTERFERENCE BACKFIRES!

Mixed tornado time! Walk and brawl with Toni eating a Wheeler piledriver on the floor! Mina puts Orange in Jeff's new spinal attack before ORANGE FORCES DANCING and Toni returns for SUPLEX CITY! WACKY DANCING with Toni works until Marina grabs Toni and kicks OC! Stundog and wheelbarrow DDT hit for OC! Standing kneebar by Marina as the TCM chickenwing is on Wheeler and THE WOMEN JUST WANT TO THROWDOWN! BUSAIKU KNEE BY YUTA TO TONI GETS 2! ORANGE PUNCH AND STORM ZERO WIN IT! 

Mina appears ALONGSIDE LUTHER IN AN OLD TYME OUTFIT but Yuta storms out! Mox tells him to man up and we get a NEW MOX MEME and Luther being incredible before they just give him a Heyman cut and the ladder match is up. Mark comes out to work heel against them since it's Fletcher's hometown and it will be interesting to see that dynamic. 

HALF AND HALF ON THE FLOOR BY FLETCHER! Top rope-style slam off the ladder to the apron by Fletcher! MOONSAULT OFF THE LADDER ON THE FLOOR! LAWNDART INTO THE FUCKING LADDER gashes Mark up badly. Jesus. FROGGY BOW ON A LADDER BRIDGE! JAY DRILLER THROUGH A CORNER LADDER BRIDGE! BRAINBUSTER OFF THE LADDER TO MARK BRISCOE! God, they've managed to do the impossible - have a memorable ladder match in 2026! Mark gets necked on the top rope and FLETCHER WINS IT! 

It is main event time! FUCK ICE to start before MJF stalls and comes in to a FUCK HIM UP BRODY FUCK HIM UP chant. Brody KILLS HIM WITH CORNER CHOPS! Press slam out of the corner to MJF gets a SHIT! from MJF! Cannonball misses and Brody tweaks the leg and MJF works it over. MJF preps a KANGAROO KICK IN AUSTRALIA before getting a kneebar. BARRICADE CROSSBODY BY BRODY! "BRODY-BRODY KING!" song breaks out! Brody wants an RNC but MJF counters and gets one of his own. Tope attempt by Brody is met with a shot and draping DDT on the apron! MJF goes for the ring but Bandido saves and the APRON RNC IS ON! GANSO BOMB GETS 2.9!

Outstanding nearfall there and MJF works the knee by biting the bare knee on the apron. Dangling RNC attempt on the buckle is met with punches to the knee and a TOMBSTONE SLAM ON THE APRON BY MJF! Heatseaker gets the pin!? Wow! This was a hell of an ascension in defeat for Brody King - he came off like he could really win it here. MJF survived this one and Hanger came out for a staredown.