AEW All In: London 2026

AEW All In: London

London, England - September 2026

CHAMPIONSHIP RUNDOWN: Coming into the show, the AEW World Champion was Kenny Omega, the TNT Champion was Kevin Knight, the TBS Champion was Maya World, Brodido and Hangman Page held the Trios Championship, the AEW World Tag Team Champions were Adam Copeland and Christian Cage, the Women's World Tag Team Champions were Divine Dominion (Lena Kross and Megan Bayne), the International Champion was Kyle Fletcher, the National Champion was Andrade El Idolo, the Continental Champion was Jon Moxley, and the Women's World Champion was Willow Nightingale. 

The show kicked off with the Trios Gauntlet Match for Bandido, "Hangman" Adam Page, and Brody King's Trios Championships. The match started during the pre-show "Buy In," which itself was a loaded 2-hour card. This felt a bit perfunctory as most fans (rightfully) expected the AEW debut of Kofi and Austin Creed, who were the not-so-secret 7th entrants in the match alongside Swerve Strickland. The Dogs were made to look strong. Brody King got eliminated relatively early by pretty much everyone else in the match teaming up to dump him over the top. Hangman's elimination didn't look too good and it seems to me, based on this match and some of his recent TV performances, that he's working through some ring rust. Kofi got to have a cool near-elimination spot, which was a bit "babyface-ish" for a team debuting with Swerve, who has been presented as a heel for several months now. I don't rate matches on their booking necessarily, but it was smart to have Swerve and The New Level take the W here as debuting them in a high-profile loss would've really defeated the purpose of bringing them in. Still, the chemistry Kofi and Creed had with Big E is hard to recreate and Swerve doesn't have a goofy bone in his body. As a match, this was fine but it was really all about the debut (which occurred during the first minute of the actual show and not on the Buy In). (3/5)

The Brawling Birds - Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor - challenged The Divine Dominion (Megan Bayne and Lena Kross) for the AEW Women's Tag Team Championships in the next match. On the plus side, Tony Khan gave them plenty of time to deliver a good match worthy of the months-long feud between the two teams. On the negative side, the 12-minutes of back-and-forth action, while certainly physical, lacked an engaging story and felt like a lot of "your turn/our turn" wrestling with the usual lack of consistent refereeing. I know I just wrote that I don't rate matches on the booking, but I was also not a fan of taking the titles of Bayne and Kross just for the sake of giving Hayter and Kross a "feel good" hometown win on a show that had already seen two title changes up to this point (Maya World dropped her TBS Championship to Persephone on the Buy In) and to a team that hadn't exactly been setting the world on fire with their work. (2/5)

The Finals of the Continental Challenge Cup was next - Jon Moxley vs. Nigel McGuinness with Moxley's Continental Championship on the line. As one would expect, the crowd was very pro-Nigel, but not necessarily anti-Mox. Lots of "graps" as the kids say with Mox and Nigel both pulling out lots of painful submissions and counters and Nigel selling an injured ankle throughout the contest. I'm not a huge fan of Mox's more technical-based/BJJ-style matches and that's what this was. I'm not sure if this will be Nigel's last bout - it seemed like it could've been, but its not like he left his boots in the ring - but I'm not sure this match has me all that interested in another run from him (or at least this version of him). Another solid match, but, had this match not happened in front of a crowd that was as invested as they were, I don't think it would've stood out as particularly special. (2.5/5)

Kazuchika Okada and Konosuke Takeshita challenged Kyle Fletcher for his International Championship in the next match. This was a bit of a surprise and not necessarily in a good way. Okada controlled much of the early going and, because of that, the match started at a pace that seemed "lesser" than what Takeshita and Fletcher are capable of. They also only got 13 minutes, which made the ending seem fairly abrupt, like the match was missing its big final stretch. During the match, Excalibur hyped a new AEW special known as "The Last Match," which made me think it could have to do with Okada's eventual retirement (though, 38 seems a bit young these days to call it quits) but further research does not seem to point to that being the case. This was a "funner" match than fans may have expected with more storytelling and character work than elaborate, never-before-seen sequences. (3/5)

The mutlti-man Casino Gauntlet Match to determine the number one contender for the AEW World Championship was next. The match began with Andrade and MJF, who were both the heavy favorites. The rules of the match seemed a little loose this time around - though maybe I'm misremembering other editions - as wrestlers could either come out when their number came up in a random interval or simply join the match anytime they wanted (which happened early on with Nick Wayne). There were some good moments sprinkled throughout - Kommander's rope-running is always terrific but was extra good here (maybe because he was trying to erase the fact that the announcer called him "Mistico"), I loved Mark Davis going on a piledriver spree, Mike Bailey got to shine a bit, and Jack Perry got a bigger response here than I've heard him receive on most recent Dynamites. Still, a lack of genuine surprise entrants kept this from being as memorable as past editions. (3/5)

The AEW World Tag Team Championships were on the line next as Adam Copeland and Christian defended their titles against The Young Bucks. I was really, really hoping that they would've busted out the tables, ladders, and chairs for this as I've always found Copeland to be at his best when he has access to furniture to destroy or leap off of. As much of a Christian fan as I am, it's not like he's at his physical peak either. So while this wasn't as great a match as these teams would have had 10 years ago (let alone 25 years ago), but it was fun for what it was and the Bucks worked a bit against type by doing "less" and making it mean more. The Bucks didn't do anything too cutesy, which one would think would be a positive, but because they worked a bit of a slower contest without the usual number of elaborate, never-before-seen sequences that they built their name on, the match never really "wowed" me. (2.5/5)

Darby Allin challenged Kevin Knight in a Falls Count Anywhere match for the TBS Championship in the next match. Finally, some weapons! For a company that was once known for going a bit overboard with their hardcore matches and bloody violence, this show had been pretty tame up until this match, helping this match - with its use of boards, ladders, and eventually the scaffolding on the entrance stage - really stand out. It also helped that we got a surprise appearance by Allin's retired mentor Sting after Sting's son, Steve Borden Jr., and an insane chair spot when Brian Cage back-flipped Allin onto a row of chairs (which he landed on balls-first). Because the Allin/Knight feud has been so personal, Allin winning his 3rd TBS Championship didn't really add much, but then again, Allin spending the next several months defending the title with frequent TV matches should make for some very good TV. (3.5/5)

From here we got Mercedes Mone vs. Willow Nightingale for the AEW Women's World Championship. Mercedes got her nose either broken or just busted open early on and it set the tone for the rest of the match and really helped this one stand out. Really smart work from Mone as she went after Willow's legitimately (?) injured hand, which was wrapped up in medical tape. Willow's offense looked tremendous at points, full of fire. This was the best match of the night up till this point, heated and passionate and very deserving of its placement on the card. Loved this match from beginning to end and while I'm not necessarily sure I'd call it the best match Mone has had in AEW, it was probably Willow's career match up to this point and an instant Women's Match of the Year candidate. Terrific match. (4/5)

Main event time - Will Ospreay vs Kenny Omega for Omega's AEW World Championship. Like the previous match but even better, this was an absolute masterpiece and, when you include the pre-match entrances, the best-produced match in AEW's history, surpassing last year's All In: Texas main event and Sting's retirement match. Loved Omega working as a heel. Loved the fact that, while this match certainly delivered the expected "fireworks" of an Ospreay or Omega match - intricate, crazy athletics, multiple super-finishers and finisher "thefts" and dramatic kickouts (at 1!), even some furniture wreckage and blood - it was all paced so well and there was so much quality character work and execution that it did not feel like anything was rushed to get to the next spot. Some recent AEW "spotfest" matches have been rightfully criticized for featuring moments where guys - most famously the Bucks and Moxley - essentially run around the ring or no-sell a move just to position themselves for the next big move, but Ospreay and Omega did not let the strings show here and really sold the gravity and impact of all the offense they delivered. It was just an absolute masterpiece of a match. (5/5)

All In: Wembley 2026 was a different type show for AEW. I was a bit underwhelmed by the first 2/3rds of the night, expecting a bit more of the blood and violence and state-of-the-art action that AEW is so well known for. I don't think anyone has ever used the word "restraint" in describing an AEW PPV, but Tony Khan seemed to have that word in mind with the way this show was produced. The opener was built around the debut of The New Level and they let that moment anchor it (even if it did mean the preceding 20 minutes during the Buy In were sorta pointless). McGuiness and Moxley built their match about intense grappling rather than the delivering the kind of bloody brawl they may have 20 years ago. Okada, Fletcher, and Takeshita going under 15 minutes was a legit shocker, and seemed like another intentional decision not to tire out the crowd. It wasn't until the final 3 matches that we got "swing for the fences" performances and, unsurprisingly, they came from Darby Allin, Mercedes Mone, and Will Ospreay. These three, in 2026, do not know how to not try to steal the show and all three of their matches were well above-average (with the main event being especially terrific). Earning a strong score of 3.17-out-of-5 despite a somewhat shaky start, All In: London wasn't quite as strong overall as Double or Nothing a few months back, but it was another winner from AEW.

FINAL RATING - Watch It...With Remote in Hand