AEW Dynamite: Grand Slam Mexico emanates from one of the cathedrals of pro wrestling, Mexico City’s Arena México, with a packed show featuring two title matches and Will Ospreay meeting Mark Davis in a street fight. You can catch AEW Dynamite LIVE on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT on TSN2, the TSN App, and TSN.ca.
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Mexico City Street Fight: “The Aerial Assassin” Will Ospreay vs. “Dunkzilla” Mark Davis
Will Ospreay is a man alone right now. The No. 1 contender to the AEW World Championship renounced his membership in the Death Riders after their brutal attack of Kenny Omega at Redemption. But that doesn’t mean he and the champion are on good terms because Omega took umbrage with Ospreay’s association with Jon Moxley to begin with and let him know in no uncertain terms that he made a mistake that will cost him.
On last week’s Collision, Ospreay was offered support by “Hangman” Adam Page, but he rejected that, noting that he can’t trust anybody right now. Later in the evening, he defeated former Death Riders stablemate Daniel Garcia. Before he could even catch his breath after the match, he was jumped by friend-turned-rival, Mark Davis. The Don Callis Family briefly had the upper hand until Ospreay managed to fight back. Reinforcements for Davis came in the form of Roppongi Vice (Trent Beretta and Rocky Romero) for a three-on-one beating. But an incensed Ospreay managed to grab a chair and fight everybody off.
Ospreay then challenged Davis to a Mexico City Street Fight with a catch: no outside interference. These two men with history will now meet in a violent brawl at Arena México on Wednesday night. With Ospreay’s title match with Omega at All In at Wembley Stadium coming in only 25 days, his wisdom in taking this match with Davis can certainly be questioned.
Davis, whose default setting is foul, has been in an even fouler mood recently. At Redemption, Davis lost his AEW National Championship to former Family stablemate Andrade El Idolo. The anger from that defeat will fuel him on Wednesday night.
As members of New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s United Empire, Ospreay and Davis were once allies in the same faction and close friends. In fact, it was alongside one another that the two made their AEW debuts back in 2022. But their friendship is long gone and what’s left is enmity. On the Apr. 22 edition of Dynamite, Davis absolutely decimated Ospreay. Hitting a Close Your Eyes and Count to F--- on the apron, Davis left Ospreay for dead, winning their match via ref stoppage. Ospreay gained a measure of revenge in the Owen Hart Cup Tournament in early June with a victory over Davis, but it’s clear the embers of hatred are still burning.
Which of these two men will survive a brutal battle on Wednesday night?
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AEW World Trios Championship match: The Demand (Ricochet, Toa Liona and Bishop Kaun) (c) vs. “Hangman” Adam Page and Brodido (“Big, Bad” Brody King and ROH World Champion Bandido)
The Demand got what they wanted on last Wednesday night’s Dynamite, but they might not like what else came with the AEW World Trios Championships. Ricochet, Toa Liona and Bishop Kaun defeated The Conglomeration’s Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong and Kyle O’Reilly to claim the titles, thanks to a helping hand from potential new members of The Demand in The Lethal Twist (Jay Lethal, Blake Christian and Lee Johnson). After Christian decked Cassidy with a title belt, Ricochet nailed him with the Spirit Gun for the win.
After the match, all six men wanted to get in a few extra shots at the former champions. This brought out Brody King in their defence. With the numbers game still not in their favour, “Hangman” Adam Page made his way down to the ring (with a barbed wire chair) as the crowd went wild seeing the former AEW World Champion on Dynamite for the first time in over three months. King and Page dispatched everybody from the ring with Lethal eating a Buckshot Lariat for his troubles.
Now on Wednesday night, The Demand will put up their titles against a team with a ton of championship pedigree in Page, King and Bandido. Both Page and King are former trios champions (alongside Mike Bailey and Kevin Knight and Malakai Black and Buddy Matthews, respectively), while Bandido previously held the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championships with Rey Horus and Flamita. Of course, King and Bandido are former AEW World Tag Team Champions and Page has held both the tag and world titles. Magnets to gold, this new trio could give the new champions a long night in Mexico City.
Can The Demand extend their reign or will Page and Brodido give us two sets of new champions in two weeks?
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AEW International Championship match: “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher (c) (w/ Don Callis and Jake Doyle) vs. “Speedball” Mike Bailey
At Redemption, only 40 minutes away from his hometown of Laval, Que., “Speedball” Mike Bailey gave the fans inside Montreal’s Bell Centre exactly what they wanted to see. Bailey outlasted five other competitors to scale a ladder and secure an AEW International Championship shot. On Wednesday, he’s cashing in that shot against a familiar foe.
Kyle Fletcher became the AEW International Champion back on the July 8 edition of Dynamite, defeating former partner Konosuke Takeshita, planting the former IWGP World Champion with his patented brainbuster. Since winning the title, the cocky Aussie has defended it successfully on two occasions. But Wednesday night’s match with Bailey could be his toughest test yet.
Bailey and Fletcher first met nearly a decade ago, but have renewed unpleasantries in AEW in recent years. In a late 2025 Match of the Year candidate on the Dec. 10 edition of Dynamite, Bailey defeated Fletcher in Continental Classic action in a nearly 20-minute spectacle. As Fletcher set up the brainbuster, Bailey blocked it and rolled Fletcher up in a cradle to win the match.
Their next singles match would end differently, though, when Fletcher retained the TNT Championship over Bailey on the Mar. 11 Dynamite. Sandwiching that match was a pair of AEW World Trios Championships title changes involving the two. On the Mar. 4 Dynamite, the Don Callis Family team of Fletcher, Mark Davis and Kazuchika Okada captured the straps from Bailey, Kevin Knight and Adam Page. But then at the Revolution pay-per-view on Mar. 15, Bailey, alongside Knight and Mistico, got the titles back from the Family.
With Fletcher and Bailey well acquainted with one another, there will be no surprises in Mexico City. Each man knows what the other has to offer. As always, Bailey will have to be cognizant of potential Family shenanigans, but he knows what it takes to beat Fletcher. With both men riding waves of momentum right now, picking a winner between Bailey and Fletcher is too close to call?
Can Fletcher keep his title or will Bailey become just the second-ever Canadian AEW International Champion?
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AEW Women’s World Champion Willow Nightingale and The Brawling Birds (Jamie Hayter and NJPW Strong Women’s Champion Alex Windsor) vs. “The CEO” Mercedes Mone and the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions Divine Dominion (“Megasus” Megan Bayne and Lena Kross)
A prevailing theme throughout Wednesday night’s card in Mexico City is bad blood and that is certainly the case when it comes to this women’s trios match. The match will offer a preview of one bout at All In and, maybe, a second. What is certain, though, is that the teams of Willow Nightingale, Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor and Mercedes Mone, Megan Bayne and Lena Kross don’t like each other very much.
At Redemption, Nightingale finally scaled the mountain. The Conglomeration member defeated Thekla to claim the AEW Women’s World Championship. In winning the match, Nightingale became AEW’s first-ever Triple Crown Champion, having held all of the world title, TBS Championship and AEW World Tag Team Championships.
In a celebratory mood on last Wednesday night’s Dynamite, Nightingale was confronted by her past and her future. Mercedes Mone, the woman who will vie for Nightingale’s championship at All In, made her presence known in interrupting Nightingale’s impassioned promo to the fans. Mone noted something very interesting about many of the big moments in Nightingale’s career: they came at her expense.
It was Mone who Nightingale defeated to become the first NJPW Strong Women’s Champion in 2023. It was Mone who Nightingale defeated to become TBS Champion at the end of 2025. Nightingale has her number.
But Mone wanted more than just to remind Nightingale of their history. It was a ruse. Nightingale was blindsided by Bayne and Kross, who laid out the champion with Divine Intervention. As Mone celebrated her successful deception, the three women were run off by the arrival of Hayter and Windsor.
The Brawling Birds have made no secret of their desire for the Divine Dominion’s titles, but they believe that Bayne and Kross are ducking them. They won’t be able to do that on Wednesday night when they share the same ring. And if Hayter and Windsor were to pick up a victory on Dynamite, would they be in line for a title shot at All In?
Which of these two trios will pick up a victory in a high-stakes encounter?
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AEW World Tag Team Champions Cage & Cope (Christian Cage and “The Rated-R Superstar” Adam Copeland) and The Young Bucks (Nick Jackson and Matt Jackson) vs. The Death Riders (AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley, “The Bastard” PAC, Daniel Garcia and Wheeler YUTA)
Before two of the greatest tag teams of all-time meet for the first time ever at All In, they will be on the same side on Wednesday night. Christian Cage and Adam Copeland, the AEW World Tag Team Champions, team up with their opponents in the title match at Wembley Stadium, Nick Jackson and Matt Jackson, in eight-man action against the Death Riders crew of Jon Moxley, PAC, Daniel Garcia and Wheeler YUTA. Whether or not taking a match like this so close to the PPV was a mistake will become evident quickly.
On last Wednesday night’s Dynamite, the two teams who will vie for the titles had a very civil sit-down with Renee Paquette. There is clearly a lot of respect between Cage & Cope and The Young Bucks, even if Cage doesn’t want to admit it. The London dream match will be based on trying to prove who is best and nothing more than that.
Wednesday night’s match will be a big one for Copeland. On social media this week, he posted a picture of some bucket-list items and one of them was wrestling at Arena México for the first time. Also on the list were matches at Wembley (set for Aug. 30) and Maple Leaf Gardens (set for MLP’s show on Oct. 3) and one at the Tokyo Dome, three historical venues for pro wrestling. He will be able to scratch one off the list after Dynamite.
As for the Death Riders, the match marks a second-straight eight-man tag and their hope is it will go better than their last on Collision did. On the special Thursday night edition of the show, the Death Riders fell to the Bang Bang Gang team of Juice Robinson, Ace Austin, Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn when Robinson pinned YUTA with a roll-up. Mox will be loath to let another loss happen in quick succession.
Which of these quartets claim a win in this star-studded bout?
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CMLL World Light Heavyweight Champion, CMLL World Welterweight Champion and CMLL World Trios Champion Místico, JERICHO and Darby Allin vs. The Don Callis Family (TNT Champion “The Jet” Kevin Knight, CMLL World Heavyweight Champion Hechicero and “The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada) (w/ Don Callis and Jake Doyle)
It wouldn’t be a night at Arena México without Místico. CMLL’s signature superstar teams up with Chris Jericho and Darby Allin to take on the Don Callis Family trio of Kevin Knight, Hechicero and Kazuchika Okada. While the action will be fast-paced, there will be no shortage of drama going on in the background.
One of the most heated feuds in AEW right now is the one between Darby Allin and Kevin Knight. Both former students of the Buddy Wayne Academy, Knight turned his back on Allin and viciously attacked him after his AEW World Championship loss to MJF at Double or Nothing back in May. Since then, Knight has joined the Family in an attempt to get himself closer to the world title. He had his change at Redemption, but fell in defeat to Kenny Omega. Still the TNT Champion, Knight currently has the last laugh on Allin, having beaten him on the July 22 Dynamite.
Jericho’s history with Callis is well-documented. The two Winnipeg natives go way back, but their relationship has been complicated. In 2023, Callis offered Jericho a spot in the Family. The rejection of that offer resulted in some lingering enmity. Jericho would relish the opportunity to hand Callis some embarrassment on Wednesday night.
As for Místico and Hechicero, neither man needs an excuse to face off with one another. With a rivalry that has spanned over a decade, the two men have shared a ring nearly 150 times. On Dynamite, AEW fans will get a taste of what fans in Arena México have seen frequently over the years.
Fans in Mexico City will be thrilled with a rare appearance from Okada. At Grand Slam: Mexico 2025, the Japanese icon defeated Mark Briscoe. Prior to that match, it had been nearly seven years since Okada had competed in Mexico City.
In a match with multiple combustible elements, who will come out on top?
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CMLL World Women’s Champion Persephone vs. Kris Statlander
As mentioned previously, there will be a lot of ill will up and down the card on Wednesday night. Perhaps the most rancor will be present when Persephone and Kris Statlander finally meet one-on-one. While this is the first-ever singles match between the two, we’ve already arrived at grudge match territory.
How did we get here this quickly? Let’s go back to the July 1 edition of Dynamite. On that show, AEW was set to crown a new TBS Champion with a Survival of the Fittest Match. Persephone and Statlander were two of the six competitors alongside Hikaru Shida, Harley Cameron, Queen Aminata and Stardom’s Maika. Persephone, Statlander and Shida were the final three entrants in the match.
Statlander looked to hit Staturday Night Fever on Persephone, but the CMLL World Women’s Champion blocked it. After a pinning attempt by Persephone, Statlander reversed it into a cradle to get the pinfall. Persephone was eliminated, but her impact on the match wasn’t over.
With the match down to Shida and Statlander, the latter looked for the win with an ankle lock. Shida desperately tried to make the ropes, but that wouldn’t matter in a match with no rope-breaks. As the match shifted to the ropes, Persephone took advantage of a distracted ref to crack Statlander in the head with the title allowing Shida to win the match.
Needless to say, Statlander has her mind on payback and that started last week on Dynamite. Persephone had another opportunity to win the TBS Championship in a title match against new champion Maya World. As Persephone and referee Aubrey Edwards were getting into it, Shida, still steaming from her title loss to World, made her way to the ring with her kendo stick, intending to slide it in for Persephone. Before she could use it, Statlander arrived on the scene to take it away. A distracted Persephone then fell prey to World and lost the match.
With both women intent on violence, what will happen when Persephone meets Statlander?
