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The 2020 Wrestling Wars between WWE and AEW have left wrestling fandom bitterly divided, with nary a social media post or comment section about one company free from attack by marks from the other one WWEbronies and AEWbronies may never see eye-to-eye, but now the conflict may have claimed its first relationship as the tag[...]

AEW Dynamite handily defeated WWE NXT in the ratings with their Winter is Coming episode Showbuzz Daily still doesn't have their charts up yet, so we don't know where Dynamite and NXT ranked amongst the rest of cable's offerings last night, but F4WOnline does have the numbers so that we can compare them head-to-head, and[...]

In a stunning display of the power of the "AEW bump," Impact Wrestling broke into the top 150 cable shows for the first time in recent memory Amazingly, Impact aired on Tuesday night; nobody had any idea that AEW would run a crossover with Impact starting the following day, Wednesday, on Dynamite at Winter is[...]

AEW really pulled out all the stops last night for their special Winter is Coming episode of Dynamite Sting made his surprise in AEW to save Cody Rhodes, Dustin Rhodes, and Darby Allin from a beatdown by Team Taz, and that wasn't even the most shocking thing to go down last night That honor belongs[...]

AEW doesn't have another PPV until 2021, so this episode of Dynamite is looking like the biggest show until then, at least on paper A year in the making, Kenny Omega is facing Jon Moxley for the AEW Championship Unlike most television title matches, I kinda sorta maybe believe it might change hands tonight. I'm Jude[...]

AEW doesn't have another PPV until 2021, so this episode of Dynamite is looking like the biggest show until then, at least on paper A year in the making, Kenny Omega is facing Jon Moxley for the AEW Championship Unlike most television title matches, I kinda sorta maybe believe it might change hands tonight. I'm Jude[...]

In a shocking ending to Winter is Coming, tonight's special episode of AEW Dynamite, Kenny Omega defeated Jon Moxley in the main event to win the AEW Championship But the victory wasn't without controversy After a hard-fought, roughly half-hour match, Omega seemingly feigned an injury as Don Callis, visiting from Impact Wrestling to do guest[...]

After speculation earlier this year following his contract expiring with WWE, Sting has finally made good on that rumor he'll show up in AEW Sting appeared to end a beatdown by Team Taz against Cody Rhodes, Darby Allin, Dustin Rhodes, and Arn Anderson following a match between Rhodes and Allin vs Ricky Starks and Powerhouse[...]

Bad news for wrestling journalists who can only perform sexually when NXT defeats AEW in the ratings: last week's big viewership win for NXT over AEW Dynamite has been changed to a tie Updated numbers now put Dynamite and NXT both at 712,000 overall viewers, which means that, since Dynamite did significantly better with viewers[...]

In a stunning upset victory that will be spoken of throughout the ages, WWE NXT narrowly eeked out a win over AEW Dynamite in overall viewership for the episodes airing on Thanksgiving Eve last week The ratings were delayed due to the holiday weekend, but it turned out to be worth the wait when they[...]

The card for next week's special episode of AEW Dynamite, dubbed Winter is Coming, is beginning to shape up Following last night's episode of Dynamite, there are now five big matches booked for the show, including an AEW World Championship match and a second Dynamite Diamond battle royale The special card will take place on[...]

On AEW Dynamite this week, Lance Archer makes a long-awaited face turn?! Plus: Anna Jay gets another shot Read all about it here. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel: Wednesday Night Wars edition, covering AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT It's the day before Thanksgiving, but the struggle for ratings dominance doesn't take a holiday,[...]

Completing his transformation into Triple H, Cody Rhodes came out as an on-screen authority figure on AEW Dynamite this week. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel: Wednesday Night Wars edition, covering AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT It's the day before Thanksgiving, but the struggle for ratings dominance doesn't take a holiday, and neither does[...]

In conjunction with TNT and TBS's plans to air the classic (but overrated) Christmas film, A Christmas Story, for 24 straight hours on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, an annual holiday tradition, AEW will have its own pro wrestling stars perform a table reading of the movie's script. TNT is casting AEW starts for a table[...]

The cinematic match wasn't invented in 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic forced companies to experiment with it more, and the result has been largely pleasing to the wrestling fanbase. Competition in Wrestling Again It was 2020 when AEW launched, and Dynamite murdered NXT in the ratings for the first few episodes, but as WWE said in a[...]

She also talked to WWE HOF Diamond Dallas Page about his return tag match in AEW Some of her non-WWE past guests include MMA legend Randy Couture, musician Lindsey Stirling, and the women of PFL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCSYhiSSy5g&t=575sVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Diamond Dallas Page – DDP Yoga, AEW Match, WWE, & 6 Decades of[...]

AEW Champion Jon Moxley shocked the world on Wednesday when he casually revealed during a promo that his wife, former WWE Tv personality Renee Paquette, is pregnant The decision to announce it that way, it seems, happened at the last minute In an interview with People, Paquette discussed how the "no-frills couple" came to make[...]

Dynamite, on the other hand, topped 800,000 viewers and rebounded from an election-related slump that's affected both shows over the past several weeks. The official logo for AEW Dynamite on TNT AEW Dynamite Ratings and Viewership Back Up AEW Dynamite scored a .37 in the 18-49 demographic with 850,000 total viewers, enough to place the show in 7th[...]

AEW's newest signee, Jade Cargill, appeared on this week's episode of the AEW Unrestricted podcast During the show, Cargill was asked about her white hair color, which is reminiscent of the X-Men character, Storm Wait a minute… an article about wrestling and the X-Men at the same time?! For me?! That's right; worlds collide right[...]

On AEW Dynamite this week, Pac makes his return, Britt Baker makes a new enemy, and Will Hobbs makes a shocking decision! Read all about it here! I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel: Wednesday Night Wars Edition I used to write about comics, but comics basically imploded, so now I'm doing this They're not[...]

On AEW Dynamite this week, Jon Moxley drops a bombshell, Top Flight debut on Dynamite, The Inner Circle does Vegas, and more! Read all about it here. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel: Wednesday Night Wars Edition I used to write about comics, but comics basically imploded, so now I'm doing this They're not[...]

Jon Moxley dropped a major bombshell during AEW Dynamite tonight Moxley cut a promo on the show and casually dropped the news that he has "a pregnant wife at home." Moxley is married to Renee Paquette, who was known as Renee Young in WWE This is, to my knowledge, the first thing anyone has heard[...]

AEW has teamed up with Director X to produce a 2-minute ad spot celebrating the company's history Featuring AEW stars and talking about the company's ethos of being by wrestlers for wrestling fans, the documentary-style ad was teased earlier this week and announced today with an official press release: Today, TNT announced a new ad campaign[...]

When it comes to memoirs that will stand the test of time as important records of a historical era, two names immediately spring to mind: former President Barack Obama and AEW Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks So it's no surprise that these two titans of their respective worlds are facing off head-to-head in a[...]

AEW's Full Gear PPV is over, but the media conference call held by Cody Rhodes before it lives on in the form of an endless supply of clickbait articles fashioned from his various juicy quotes One of the topics Cody discussed on the call was how and why AEW handles bringing in old school aspects[...]

AEW's second Full Gear PPV may be done and over, but the clickbait article material provided by a media conference call hosted by EVP Cody Rhodes could last for weeks to come! Cody answered many important questions on the call, but one question was more important than all the others Why? Because it was asked[...]

AEW's Full Gear PPV is in the record books, and a fine show it was, but even finer is the wealth of clickbait article material left over from the conference call Cody Rhodes did ahead of the show During that call, Cody was asked about the potential for a third match with NWA Champion Nick[...]

Following her appearance on Dynamite last night as a herald of Shaq, AEW has announced they've signed Jade Cargill to a contract Unusually for the company, which usually makes these sorts of announcements via a Twitter post with a graphic that says "[INSERT WRESTLER HERE] is All Elite," AEW made this announcement via press release[...]

AEW Dynamite blew away NXT in the Wednesday night ratings this week, coming in at seventeenth place in the rankings while NXT landed outside the top fifty cable shows The television landscape still hasn't returned to normal post-election, with cable news continuing to draw big ratings thanks as anxiety over whether WWE Hall-of-Famer President Donald[...]

Prior to yesterday's episode of AEW Dynamite, AEW President Tony Khan promised that there would be a shift in the balance of power of wrestling And Dynamite certainly delivered on some major moments, such as MJF and Wardlow joining the Inner Circle, the destruction of the Lucha Bros at the encouragement of Eddie Kingston, a[...]