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This week’s episodes of AEW have your girlies (gn) feeling ALIVE. Partly in an angry way, partly in a very over-excited way. Also, we discuss whether Hot Steve needs to wear a mask of his own face, and there’s some Chuck Taylor-related nonsense as always.

[00:00:00] Take your vitamin D and Hangman’s dream cake

[00:08:57] Let Marina Shafir kill men (in the ring)

[00:17:50] Untangling Blood and Guts from Anarchy in the Arena and other feuds

[00:21:25] The Last Outfit aka The Cut

[00:28:49] Anarchy in the Arena and Best Friends spiralling

[00:33:30] Can we get a crumb of time for setting up the women’s Blood and Guts?

[00:37:43] Aminata is the new TBS champion!

[00:43:33] Jack “dick biter” Perry and watching your guys lose

[00:47:36] Ilja Dragunov and the choreography of violence

[00:52:14] Everything’s very sexy over in the men’s trios title scene

[01:06:43] Still no Maxwell

[01:07:16] Happy things

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Sometimes we like to wait until after the Dynamite after a pay-per-view to give our reactions, and this week’s Dynamite has set our imagination alight! Also, WrestleDream was a banger so maybe we’ll stop advocating for cancelling it now.

[00:00:00] Kitten updates

[00:07:09] WrestleDream 2026’s Tailgate Brawl: Divine Dominion vs Sisters of Sin, a DCF squash, a big old 12 man tag, and FTR vs MCMG

[00:20:09] Mercedes Moné vs Thekla and her spider chariot

[00:30:09] Nick Wayne beat Chris Jericho!!!

[00:41:08] Young Bucks vs Kyle Fletcher and Kevin Knight (and Young Bucks vs Davis and Doyle)

[00:52:10] TBS Championship 4-way (and number one contender qualifier on Dynamite)

[01:04:05] Andrade El Idolo vs Tommaso Ciampa

[01:09:59] Trios 2-out-of-3 falls match: The Good, the Bad and El Guapo vs Swerve and the New Level

[01:26:10] Ilja Dragunov debuts! And we’re very proud of our beloved Speedy

[01:35:03] Mox vs the personification of crushing depression

[01:52:25] The mechanics of Clockwork Carnage and the upcoming Blood and Guts

[02:07:38] The promise of Toni Storm is a happy thing

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Listen, we don't know when the PPVs are. Constantly? Always. Every five minutes. But we decided to talk about the past week in AEW wrestling anyway.

[00:00:00] Extra long Dynallision, kitten updates, Dynasty ticket sales, and metronome mysteries

[00:08:34] WrestleDream is fast approaching

[00:10:49] The ongoing impact of Ben Satterley’s death

[00:31:07] Michael Oku fought Andrade in France!!

[00:39:01] Clockwork Carnage updates

[00:41:19] Punctured lungs and carriage clocks (plus a NJPW side quest)

[00:56:34] FTR’s shenanigans

[01:00:14] What the Elite doing? Feat. Hangman’s humiliation kink

[01:05:47] Nick Wayne is very good and he didn’t need to hurt us to make us say so

[01:07:43] Moving round the pieces in the women’s roster

[01:13:55] WrestleDream anticipation

[01:19:26] Happy things

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We took last week off podcasting because everything felt like a LOT, following the tragic death of PAC. And to be honest, we talk about that a lot this time. It’s big, you know? Grief is hard. We love you all. (And kittens.)

[00:00:00] Kitten updates

[00:04:07] RIP PAC, forever our Bastard

[00:18:09] Speedball’s best date night and MJF’s NJPW challenge

[00:28:41] Two weeks to WrestleDream and we’re seated for Thekla vs Mercedes

[00:34:42] Will Ospreay has put on some bangers then invented a new match format

[00:48:29] …and Orange Cassidy should be in it!

[00:53:44] Mox’s poignant final promo with PAC

[00:57:56] What the dog doing? (Get well soon, Jay White and Hot Steve!)

[01:02:36] Brawling Birds will defend their titles at WrestleDream

[01:04:16] Did these boys never get told off by PE teachers for wearing jewellery?

[01:10:28] The Good, The Bad, and El Guapo (and their clones)

[01:16:17] Paul Wight, genuine menace

[01:17:44] Happy things

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MJ had a special delivery of kittens this week! And also the wrestling got all psychosexual again and we were into it.

But mostly, kittens.

[00:00:00] A discovery of kittens (and other news)

[00:15:12] AEW’s trios title scene is SPICY

[00:28:40] Sheriff Garrison says bang bang bang

[00:30:11] United Speebo joins up with Will Ospreay’s new faction

[00:36:53] Mox proves romance isn’t dead

[00:39:15] Everyone’s swearing this week (including Nick Wayne)

[00:42:48] We’ll continue to hate Cope until he does better

[00:55:22] Miscellaneous things that happened this week

[01:04:24] Thekla and Mercedes Mone appreciation time

[01:10:02] The obligations billionaires have to improve the world

[01:15:27] Petition for Mox to change his entrance music to riot grrrl

[01:16:54] Happy things

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This might be the most ADHD episode we’ve ever done. Between crying over the Butcher tribute episode and taking a trip back to 2021 with AEW’s release of The House Always Wins, we’re in bits.

One coherent request, though? Please someone take a Hot Steve sign to an AEW show!

(00:00:00) News, updates, discourse

(00:11:43) Two minute hate (and fucking puka shell bullshit)

(00:18:39) All Out card preview

(00:26:08) All the tributes to the Butcher

(00:30:00) Can Mox start losing now? Plus other Butcher tribute matches

(00:38:36) We just want everyone to be okay

(00:47:01) The House Always Wins

(00:50:28) The difference between MLP and MLW (and some anti-AI ranting)

(00:59:23) Best Friends and everyone else we’ve lost along the way

(01:01:06) Listen this episode is a mess and these are guidelines at best

(01:08:39) The vibe shift between 2021 and 2026

(01:14:11) That time Cody Rhodes set himself on fire

(01:18:21) Inventing a Saturday morning AEW kids’ show

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This week's episode of Dynamite might have been the most heart-wrenching one they've ever done. Lots of love to the friends and family of Andy Williams and Rebel Tanea.

(00:00:00) General life updates (no more leaks!)

(00:04:00) Remembering Andy Williams aka The Butcher

(00:07:22) Rebel Heart

(00:16:58) Hot Steve

(00:22:44) The Swerve and Hangman of it all

(00:32:48) What the Young Bucks doing?

(00:39:26) How do you kill a Death Rider?

(00:49:29) Love for Mercedes Mone and Thekla

(00:55:18) Super into Vert Vixen and Janai Kai

(00:56:35) Someone save Andrade from this gimmick

(01:00:13) Odds and ends

(01:09:15) Happy things

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The sky might be falling, but your girlies (gn), like the wrestling, cannot be stopped! We watched All In plus loads of indie wrestling, and then we had a big ol yap about it. Get comfy, settle in...

(00:00:00) THE RAIN… is inside our homes and this episode is fully waterlogged

(00:05:53) Independent shows we watched on All In weekend, including Pursuit Pro Wrestling, Mystery Wrestling, and RevPro

(00:28:30) All In 2026: The Buy In

(00:43:22) Trios Roulette and the debut of the New Level

(00:54:46) Women’s tag team championship: Brawling Birds vs Divine Dominion

(00:57:48) Continental Challenge Cup Final: Mox vs Big Nige

(01:04:48) International Three Way: Kyle Fletcher vs Kazuchika Okada vs Konosuke Takeshita

(01:13:22) Men’s Casino gauntlet

(01:26:05) Men’s Team Team Championship match: Adam Copeland and Christian Cage vs Young Bucks

(01:35:17) TNT Falls Count Anywhere and Sting’s Large Adult Son

(01:39:39) Women’s World Championship: Willow Nightingale vs Mercedes Moné

(01:47:25) Men’s World Championship: Kenny Omega vs Will Ospreay

(02:10:45) Where next for Ospreay?

(02:28:09) Happy things

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We’re pretty sure we shouldn’t be feeling like this, a week out from the biggest AEW PPV of the year, which just happens to be happening in the UK, but… the heart wants what the heart wants, and what it wants is not what we’re being given.

(00:00:00) The importance of a “fuck that guy” filter

(00:15:21) The build to Willow Nightingale vs Mercedes Moné at All In

(00:20:18) The Omega vs Ospreay of it all

(00:35:47) C3 updates

(00:41:08) Wrestlers vs Chocolate Oranges

(00:45:11) Load-bearing Lio Rush

(00:47:56) Hangman and the incoming trios clusterfuck

(00:55:10) Christian Cage makes us do upsetting maths

(00:56:00) Jonathan Cruz eats a beating intended for MJF

(00:57:24) Who’s got the remote for the pyro?

(00:59:31) Vaguely Shakespearian ideas for Kris Statlander’s next storyline

(01:03:03) Happy things

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The wrestling discourse never stops, does it?

(00:00:00) Heatwave blues and t-shirt based obscenity laws

(00:06:46) Nepo babies don’t do chairs

(00:12:11) PRODUCE Wrestling latest allegations

(00:16:38) PAC is coming to RevPro!

(00:19:10) Kenny Omega is an anime villain

(00:24:36) Swerve Strickland is back!

(00:37:03) A tiny crumb of women’s title feud building

(00:39:47) A crumb of women’s tag titles feud building

(00:43:13) Where next for the TBS title?(00:47:24) Should Kevin Knight have been turned heel?

(00:50:39) A grab-bag of Don Callis and Ring of Honor type stuff

(00:59:21) CCC updates

(01:05:42) Plotting a big old crashout for MJF

(01:14:40) Happy times

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We’ve got two episodes of Dynamite - including Grand Slam Mexico - to catch up on, plus a Collision, and our two most load-bearing wrestlers made their returns, so let’s get into it!

(00:00:00) News and catching up

(00:15:52) Motor City Machine Guns (and other wrestlers from Detroit)

(00:20:53) Hangman’s back!

(00:33:05) Why does it always rain on Speedball?

(00:41:17) Death Riders and the new Continental Cup

(00:50:26) No dick pics thank you

(00:54:24) Welcome back MJF!

(00:59:28) Do we have to mash up the women’s world title and the women’s tag titles?

(01:04:01) More Persephone please

(01:07:15) Counting Will Ospreay’s enemies

(01:17:52) Missing: Kenny Omega?

(01:21:02) Happy times

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We watched so much wrestling this week, including the two shows of RevPro's inaugural Women's Grand Prix and then, of course, AEW Redemption. So we're in an uncharacteristically good mood!

(00:00:00) We went to the inaugural RevPro Women’s Grand Prix!

(00:12:46) AEW Redemption was fine, wasn’t it?

(00:21:17) Recapping the Buy In (and a bit of the shows from last week)

(00:30:21) 6-man ladder match for a shot at the International Title

(00:32:38) A whole room of Beast Mortos heads

(00:33:38) Big pop for Speedball and why ladder matches scare us

(00:44:31) Young Bucks vs Death Riders

(00:55:27) Kyle Fletcher’s new boot goofing

(01:02:40) A bloodless double chain match: the Dogs vs the Bang Bang Gang

(01:09:16) And new TBS Champion Maya World!

(01:16:22) Men’s Tag Team match: Cope and Christian vs Death Riders

(01:20:47) Obligatory Chris Jericho banter match

(01:27:35) Mick Foley bows down

(01:29:53) And new National Champion, Andrade el Idolo!

(01:39:30) And new Women’s World Champion, Willow Nightingale!

(01:51:18) And still Men’s World Champion, Kenny Omega!

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We’re in the midst of the third heatwave of the year and everything’s melting so what better time to invite round the Queen of Chaos herself, Aluna! We’ve seen her mixing it up in the ring at RevPro, EVE, Attack, Kamikaze, Friday Night Pursuit and many, many more, and now we’re on a mission to send her to Japan…

[00:00:00] Settling in (and being too hot!)

[00:04:50] Getting into wrestling through BritWres

[00:09:56] Fave places to wrestle and wrestling as a community

[00:14:47] What’s scarier, wrestling or horror movies?

[00:20:50] Choosing sleepover snacks

[00:21:42] Queen of Chaos, officially

[00:29:09] Favourite matches

[00:30:40] How do moonsaults work?

[00:39:23] Crowd work and sparkly pants

[00:42:48] What kind of pizza do you want?

[00:44:08] Dating your first wrestling crush

[00:45:48] Designing wrestling merch that stands out

[00:50:02] Dream wrestling scenarios

[00:55:29] Intergender wrestling and why we need women’s tag belts

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Feeling a bit underwhelmed this week, but at least Kenny Omega dropped some new weird pronunciations for us.

Also how is AEW Redemption NEXT WEEK?!

Chapters:

(00:00:00) News and RevPro Women’s Grand Prix updates

(00:11:18) Hangman returned!

(00:19:29) Not hyped for AEW Redemption

(00:21:20) Building to Thekla vs Willow Nightingale (while Thekla is in Japan)

(00:30:37) Are we getting any other women’s matches?

(00:35:25) Building to Kenny vs Kev

(00:49:58) Building to a men’s tag team defence

(00:52:41) PPV fatigue has set in

(00:56:55) Not streaming Orange Cassidy matches is a crime against Best Friends girlies

(00:59:06) Men’s National Championship business and Men’s International Championship business

(01:04:05) Why are we doing Jericho vs Ciampa again?

(01:11:58) Silly questions from Bluesky

(01:24:11) Happy things of the week

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We said we were gonna walk into the sea if Kenny didn’t win this week. And now it’s so hot in the UK we kind of want to walk into the sea anyway? But we made it to our recording sesh to break down AEW Beach Break…

(00:00:00) We’re too hot and we want to walk into the sea

(00:07:44) Loved that Beach Break set

(00:10:05) And new! Kenny Omega is our champion!

(00:36:41) And we’ve got our women’s title match for Redemption! Hi Willow!

(00:50:29) Andrade is wearing too many clothes now and other DCF problems

(01:02:50) We’ve had to stop ignoring Ciampa and Jericho

(01:06:03) That’s no pub!

(01:07:41) Not enough Lio Rush this week (except on Ring of Honor)

(01:11:31) Still no Hangman, huh?

(01:13:01) Happy times

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The Forbidden Door opened again and a surprising number of people popped in after all! Here's our rundown of AEW Forbidden Door 2026.

(00:00:00) Heatwaves and pub quizzes

(00:08:26) Overall Forbidden Door impressions

(00:10:27) Drilla Maloney vs Daniel Garcia

(00:12:29) Maika vs Skye Blue and Survival of the Fittest

(00:16:39) Divine Dominion vs Thunder Rosa and Olympia

(00:19:22) Bucks vs El Sky Team vs Unbound Company

(00:25:57) Kenny Omega vs Zack Sabre Jr

(00:35:50) Jon Moxley vs Bandido

(00:44:00) Shota Umino vs PAC

(00:49:28) Thekla vs Starlight Kid

(01:03:01) Cope and Christian vs The Dogs (and the return of Jay White)

(01:21:02) Mercedes Moné vs Maya World

(01:32:32) Death’s Door 12-man cage match

(01:58:49) Will Ospreay vs Swerve Strickland

(02:15:10) Happy things

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Vibe's way off this week, lads.

(00:00:00) News bits, including MyAEW nabbing some indie promotions, ROH Global Wars, Mark Davis coming to RevPro this weekend and ZSJ coming to Anniversary, and a garden update from Hangman

(00:10:49) Will Ospreay’s terrible promo and the even more terrible fan response that followed

(00:21:07) The steel cage match teams are confirmed… or are they?

(00:29:50) Never let them take Mercedes Moné away from us again

(00:34:22) Survival of the Fittest updates

(00:37:11) Thekla is keeping the door open

(00:39:00) Kenny has also opened the Forbidden Door, somehow in the wrong order

(00:43:26) Anyone know what Shota Umino’s deal is these days?(00:45:08) That Chicago Street Fight ruled

(00:51:13) Are the Bucks coming to Forbidden Door?

(00:54:34) Where next for Speedball?

(00:59:08) Which PPVs would you cancel?

(01:00:38) Fantasy booking the women’s world title

(01:02:46) Happy things

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We’re still missing a load-bearing Hangman, but you know what? Kenny Omega vs Zack Sabre Jr moves us. Forbidden Door promises to be fun… as long as Andrade keeps his pants on.

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(00:00:00) Newsy bits: three women announced for the RevPro Women’s Grand Prix; Eddie Kingston might be coming back to London for a tag match; David Francisco attacked JJ Gale but we’re on his side; Michael Oku beat Jay Joshua for the British Heavyweight title and did super sinister heel work; Progress’s ticket prices are wild; EVE needs a female commentator; we’re doing a Mick Foley livestream next week!

(00:25:04) Ciampa and Jericho could work a crowd in their sleep

(00:27:39) Women’s Owen Hart tournament updates

(00:34:55) Other things the AEW women’s roster are up to, including speculation on what Thekla might be doing at Forbidden Door

(00:39:00) Men’s Owen Hart tournament updates

(00:44:19) What’s going on with the Death Riders? Do we all remember that they broke Chuck Taylor’s neck and made Orange Cassidy drink bleach?

(00:50:59) MJF’s lack of friends makes us sad

(00:56:48) Andrade face turn when?

(01:06:08) Forbidden Door is two weeks away!!!!

(01:11:19) Make Orange Cassidy the men’s world champion please

(01:14:41) Forgotten why we were angry at Excalibur but we seem to have forgiven him

(01:15:19) Happy things!

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Basically just an hour and a half of Blackheart Lio Rush impressions.

(00:00:00) Newsy bits and pieces including the upcoming RevPro Women’s Grand Prix, Progress’s new owners, Beyond drama, and losing the Butcher and the Blade

(00:17:38) Mercedes Moné is back in AEW!

(00:23:22) Give us Persephone on commentary every week forever

(00:29:26) All hail the Toxic Spider, her live promos are everything

(00:32:57) We’re Best Friends girlies (gn) forever and you can’t stop us

(00:37:50) Lio Rush is a gremlin and we love him

(00:46:04) Bye bye now Rush, we don’t need any more from you

(00:54:35) Don Callis is taking over the show and his amorphous blob of men only grows

(01:07:17) TayJay survived five with the tallest women alive

(01:11:13) Happy times

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Bit of a different one today! After a bit of back and forth on social media about women's wrestling at RevPro, Andy Quildan offered to come and have a proper chat with us about his women's division, including the upcoming Women's Grand Prix shows, that unfortunate International Women's Day show, and much more.

(Also, we got into it a bit about Blackheart Lio Rush and David Francisco, because why not?)

The tweet that started it all: https://x.com/awfullywaffly/status/2057074718826483877

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