AEW TV 2026 discussion

[JGPuk84]

I want to second the love for Bandido. He definitely should be getting at least an International title run by the end of next year. 

The other thing the Trios segment made me think. As with the intrigue of seeing New Level in a AEW style death match. When they get to Willow vs Mercedes again, I would love to see them go All Out with it and make it Texas Death. It's been talked about Womens matches which could Main Event a PPV, and that's one which I think really would be worth doing. 

I guess Mercedes has never bladed? 

[Kamran]

After a successful Blood and Guts (792K viewers compared with 552K for NXT) AEW Collision changes it up this week, airing live from Chris Jericho's Rock N Wrestling Rager:

[Supremo]

Nick Wayne winmaxxing on the, “Nick Wayne Mogs Chris Jericho at Sea,” cruise, even setting off the boat’s horn rather than his usual pyro.

I can’t say enough good things about this gimmick. Complete home run. Crazy how quickly he’s gone from doing fuck all in ROH to becoming one of my favourite acts in the business.

No wonder they trounced NXT in the Wednesday Night Wars. Did you not hear the news? Nick Wayne BEAT John Cena, CM Punk and Cody Rhodes. Spam some W’s in the chat.

[RedTwoster]

1 minute ago, Supremo said:

Nick Wayne winmaxxing on the, “Nick Wayne Mogs Chris Jericho at Sea,” cruise, even setting off the boat’s horn rather than his usual pyro.

Exactly what I was about to say, whoever suggested the streamer gimmick is an absolute genius, and Wayne plays it brilliantly. The line about ‘winmaxxing’ made me laugh out loud. I’d honestly consider having him win the Continental Classic. 

That was probably the best episode of Collision of 2026, and highlights just how mad they were to have waited so long to do another episode at sea. It was so much fun.

Getting the National Title off Andrade was a good move, although the right move would have been giving the belt a sea burial. It was nice to see Ciampa celebrate with his daughter though.

FTR/MCMG predictably went to a deciding match. I really want to see a best of series at some point that doesn’t make it to a decider. Has that ever happened in any major company?

Mercedes confronting Moxley was good, it’s a bot of a shame The Cut were involved, but what can you do? Mercedes being great in ring is no surprise, but her consistency in out-of-ring segments has to be the surprise of 2026 for me given how terrible she was. A shoe-in for female wrestler of the year, surely? This is her best ever year in any company, she’s been outstanding. I hope she retires in AEW, I don’t ever want to see her leave.

I don’t have any negatives to the point I was even entertained by a Blake Christian match. A great show.

[LaGoosh]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dfe7BB2hRu8/?exln=OHFtZG9zeDl4NXls

Okada doing a tiny US indie on his 2006 excursion. Apparently when he arrived as a rib someone told him that Mongolian chops were really over in the States so he would fill his matches with them - to the utter confusion of crowds every where. 

[tiger_rick]

Really fun episode of Collision. Obviously love whenever they do something a bit creative with their shows and I actually remembered about Collision on a Sunday morning and watched it when I got up so that's a novelty. The show for the most part looked a bit shit and dingy and gave early Shotgun Saturday Night vibes. I bloody love that it makes TV in 2026 after years of everything being so polished and perfect. 

Loved most of the shots and angles where they used the ship. The Death Riders entrance and the Cut promo particularly. 

Enjoyed the Mercedes interaction. Clever to do it when Marina wasn't around. That whole heat segment was completely necessary but that's quite a few on The Cut now and it'll heat up this match, mainly because the Death Riders are great but I think their long-term prospects don't exist.

On 11/8/2026 at 8:22 AM, Supremo said:

Nick Wayne winmaxxing on the, “Nick Wayne Mogs Chris Jericho at Sea,” cruise, even setting off the boat’s horn rather than his usual pyro.

I can’t say enough good things about this gimmick. Complete home run. Crazy how quickly he’s gone from doing fuck all in ROH to becoming one of my favourite acts in the business.

Yes, it's so good. I really don't like Nick Wayne and two weeks ago would happily have never seen him again and in those couple of weeks of TV, they've absolutely smashed it out of the park. Did Chris Jericho get someone over?

On 11/8/2026 at 8:35 AM, RedTwoster said:

Getting the National Title off Andrade was a good move, although the right move would have been giving the belt a sea burial. It was nice to see Ciampa celebrate with his daughter though.

Broken record territory but I just don't agree. This roster is huge, there are so many great wrestlers who need stuff to get their teeth into and not having this and the other belts would rob us of a match like this that felt big enough to headline a TV show and gave Ciampa a great moment. Agree on getting the belt of Andrade. He needs to tell Renee on Wednesday that he has bigger fish to fry.

[RedTwoster]

45 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

Broken record territory but I just don't agree. This roster is huge, there are so many great wrestlers who need stuff to get their teeth into and not having this and the other belts would rob us of a match like this that felt big enough to headline a TV show and gave Ciampa a great moment. Agree on getting the belt of Andrade. He needs to tell Renee on Wednesday that he has bigger fish to fry.

I think we're polar opposites on this - but for me, everything about the National Title is weak - even the way it looks makes it feel lesser. I don't necessarily mind there being more titles, I'm kind of used to it now, but this particular belt has been rubbish from day one in my opinion. If they'd given Mark Davis a longer run with it, maybe that would have helped both him and the title, but for the most part I think it defines the people who are holding it down. 

45 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

Yes, it's so good. I really don't like Nick Wayne and two weeks ago would happily have never seen him again and in those couple of weeks of TV, they've absolutely smashed it out of the park. Did Chris Jericho get someone over?

It seems that he did, and I'm all for Nick Wayne winning a title sooner rather than later. Given that Darby is the TNT Champion and given that there's history between both men, I do suspect that's the plan. 

[BomberPat]

15 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dfe7BB2hRu8/?exln=OHFtZG9zeDl4NXls

Okada doing a tiny US indie on his 2006 excursion. Apparently when he arrived as a rib someone told him that Mongolian chops were really over in the States so he would fill his matches with them - to the utter confusion of crowds every where. 

So it's not just Mongolian chops; this is from a CHIKARA show, and the story I was told is that Bryce Remsburg told Okada that Barnesville, the tiny village the show was held in, loved Giant Baba, so that any Japanese wrestler who worked there should do a ton of Baba's moves and wrestle as much like him as possible to win the crowd over.

That's why he's really trying to play to the crowd while just doing big overhand head chops.

Edited yesterday at 10:23 AM by BomberPat

[Sheffbag]

loved the womens match but i dont know if I fell asleep at one point, went to break on ITV and next thing Megan is gushing a bucket with no explanation why? the cuts in the broadcast were awful, could have not had the bits inbetween and shown the full match

[The King of Old School]

I think Ciampa has deserved a championship of some kind again after losing the TNT one, I think he's been a fantastic signing for AEW.

I presume this is leading to a National title match with Druganov  at Full Gear?

I'm not sure I like that for a few reasons, I can't see Druganov not winning and I would have wanted him to be in the CC rather than holding this belt, and also I think I'd like Ciampa have a run with to see if he can elevate it at all, but I also wanted him in the CC again and probably think it's unlikely if he holds this belt.

[textonly]

Nick Wayne needs a new finish for this revitalised gimmick. In a world of a thousand cutters and a hundred springboard variations - and bearing in mind his slight build - it just doesn't feel like a finish. Permanently stealing the Killswitch while Christian's out with a punctured lung feels like nice, easy heat, but looking at this list of moves he does (or he's done), there are a ton of decent options. Needs a themed name too.