The Brits get Their Moments
AEW could learn from WWE’s failings and give the home country talent pride of place to make All In 2026 its greatest UK-based event. There are plenty of Brits on the roster who, keeping healthy, deserve their moment.
For the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championships, The Brawling Birds either win or retain titles against a very credible team. Like, say, the current champions, The Divine Dominion. Jamie Hayter, especially given several significant injuries, deserves to bask in some in-ring glory.
However, elsewhere, it’s perhaps time for a legend to go out in a blaze of glory. Nigel McGuinness returned to wrestling at All In 2024’s Casino Gauntlet. Sporadic matches have been joyful and nostalgic. Yet the story’s remained the same. Best exemplified at Forbidden Door 2025, McGuinness cannot keep up.
Facing his Forbidden Door cornerman, Daniel Garcia, McGuiness could put over Red Death as the future of technical wrestling. In front of a potential record-breaking crowd, this full circle could be a tear-jerker.
Speaking of Casino Gauntlets, let’s have just the one—a men’s version. Save the women for All Out. At All In Texas, the long-term problem of making the event annual risks this incredible gimmick, suffering the same issues of tropes and stagnation as the Royal Rumble. Booked like the 2024 All In version with thriller over filler, The Bastard PAC wins a guaranteed world title shot.
Don’t panic about the women because…
The First Women’s Anarchy in the Arena Match
If there are two Anarchy in the Arena matches at Double or Nothing, you risk desensitization of the violence, the gimmick and similar issues of parity that impacted the build of the women’s Blood and Guts match. Plus, there is precedent for this match at Wembley. The first All In London featured an incredible sleeper of a layered AEW violent splendour brawl.
Saving the AEW Women’s World Championship match for All Out, The Triangle of Madness team with Athena and a heel Thunder Rosa fight The Babes of Wrath, Kris Statlander, a returning Hikaru Shida and Billie Starkz. Yes, ROH finally pulled the trigger in this fictional universe with Starkz dethroning Athena!
A blood-soaked, innovative and crazed brawl that allows the women to stand on their own without comparison could be more classic.
