Show Report

Mike leads off with his thoughts on AEW and wrestling lately before getting into AEW's eighth tentpole Double or Nothing with Title vs Hair Darby Allin vs MJF, Stadium Stampede, the start of the 2026 Owen, returns and turns and more!

It's the end of an era with the retirement of Hiroshi Tanahashi, and Mike's got his full show review of Wrestle Kingdom 20 including the debut of Aaron Wolf and an IWGP Double Title match between Konosuke Takeshita and Yota Tsuji!

Mike's figured out why AEW feels weird exiting their final PPV of the year but gives praise to his favorite stuff from a return to the NOW Arena including the knockouts of the 2025 Continental Classic, good cribbing of lucharesu and more!

AEW might have perfected "Death Jitsu" but Mike has some thoughts about 11/22's Full Gear PPV including the AEW World Title Cage Match, show layout, forks, and a whole lot more!

Mike's back to talk about AEW's WrestleDream 2025, a surprisingly Antonio Inoki free edition, including the Night of The Tag Teams, an insane I Quit Match, interesting direction in the Men's and Women's World Title pictures and more!

AEW returns to PPV and brings All Out to Toronto, and Mike returns to make sense of it. He finds some peace in what AEW is in 2025, profit maximization, a bunch of really strong wrestling and some of the worst wrestling Tony Khan has put on PPV on HBO Max.

Mike is back after Forbidden Door in London with thoughts about the unintentional hilarity of an injury angle, AEW showing some of its worst tendencies, and a moment on contract execution.

Mike returns to talk about AEW's biggest show of the year, how he felt Globe Life Field came off, "Landing the Plane", Hangman vs Moxley, and everything else on All In Texas before some last thoughts before Kobe World!

Mike returns to discuss one of AEW's strongest pay per views in recent memory, Double or Nothing, the issue with AEW PPV events now 7 Double or Nothings In, How AEW looks going into All In, The Owen Cup finals and World Title situations, Anarchy in the Arena and more!

Mike discusses AEW Dynasty, AEW and the B PPV, The World Title Match, doing comedy spots in a semi main event and a lot more!