[5.0] "This did not feel like a go home show before the biggest show of the year for AEW. That main event was a choice, good match but it didn't add to a single feud."
[4.0] "[4] It was really a disappointing show...the very Dynamite before ALL IN must be way better than this...I can't even imagine how ridiculous it's when your world champion doesn't appear there, if it wasn't for Mox and Claudio I'd give this show below 4..whyy whyyyy Kenny Omega didn't appear! ..whyyyyyyyyy"
[6.0] "For the final Dynamite before ALL IN, the show was ultimately quite disappointing. First of all, it was very short. Without the commercials, we were probably looking at around an hour and a half. And for a large part of the show, I mostly felt like AEW was just trying to make its presence felt rather than actually building a big final night before ALL IN. The UK crowd was definitely there, though, and honestly, we love them. But despite the atmosphere, something was missing. It took nearly 50 minutes, and especially Christian's arrival, for me to finally feel like things were getting serious. With the Scottish crowd singing, "Hey Christian, I wanna know if you'll be my DAD, " you could really feel like the atmosphere was about to go up a notch. But ultimately, no. The show quickly fell back into this atmosphere where things were being taken pretty lightly. So this Dynamite felt more like an exhibition than a true final Dynamite before ALL IN. Besides, last week's episode had already served that purpose. The Main Event, on the other hand, was absolutely beautiful. In the end, I get the feeling that AEW had already decided that the real final show before ALL IN would be the one in the United States. And you could clearly feel that throughout this Dynamite."
[7.0] "Decent opening promo segment by Ospreay. Great C3 matches. Disappointed there wasn't an interaction between Moxley and Ospreay when they had back to back segments. Good exciting main event, despite both men not being on the All In card. Very good hype package for the AEW World title match at the end."
[7.0] "It was a good episode of Dynamite, where wrestling itself was in the foreground, and I have no questions about it. But it seems to me that the final segment between Kenny Omega and Will Osprey would be very appropriate here. We were prepared for Casino Gauntlet by intensifying the hatred between Andrade and MJF. Well, the wrestling on this show was good. I thought the main event would last longer, but even so, Swerve and Jack showed a good match. Well, I think the main decoration of this show is the opener. It was just incredible, I advise everyone to watch it. Well, I, in turn, am waiting for All In."
[5.0] "Mixed bag show. Didn't care of Ospreay's opening promo, I didn't think it was very strong and the crowd reaction didn't seem overly strong to me, but there's no changing course now. Claudio vs. Mox was a great TV match, best thing on the show. Rest of the show was a bit weak as well, not really invested in Bucks/E&C, Nigel, or a heatless Jack Perry in the main event, but the women had a nice showing and I can't ever speak against my man Swerve."
[6.0] "Well i think this was a fairly odd episode right as in a bubble it's not that bad but with added context of it being the go home show before the biggest event of the year it is a bit worse. I liked the promo from Will but surely Kenny could of been there but again another stellar video package at the end of the show. The match order was a bit wonky as well i feel like they could of swapped the opener and main for a better show. I feel like to much of the final show was focused on the C3 and we could of spent more time with the other matches on the card. Also the Bucks and CnC should of just been a segment the match was a bit unneeded. But i still thought it was solid and on most other weeks it a 7/10 but the go home show it needs a little more so a 6 is fair."
[6.0] "Not a bad episode but perhaps a little underwhelming. I expected more from the two Continental Cup semifinals, and I was also disappointed not to see Kenny Omega on the show. Ospreay's promo was really good and heartfelt, and I enjoyed the segment between MJF and Andrade. But, again, considering this was the go-home show for a PPV, I was expecting a bit more"
[5.0] "Kinda shocked by the way this episode went. I would've thought going to Glasgow, Scotland, this would've delivered, but this was one of the weakest AEW Dynamite episodes of the year 2026. There were two solid matches, but a lot of the other material really didn't work or stick for me. I really went into this episode excited because the international crowds are the best, and seeing the card beforehand, I thought this would've been a really good watch of AEW Dynamite. I do think that AEW ALL IN London will deliver with how the card is put together, but they should have had a stronger go-home show for AEW Dynamite because this was pretty mediocre for their standards of how they do weekly television."
[6.0] "I don't know, I expected a lot more from this show like many others, but a go-home show should not be an average episode of television. I guess they did all of the buildup beforehand, but that does not justify the filler feeling I get from here. Sure, the C3 semifinals happened. What else? Overall, ok episode."
[6.0] "Still a decent show, but a pretty flat go-home episode for All In. Swerve Strickland versus. Jack Perry was the clear highlight, while Nigel McGuinness versus. Kyle O'Reilly was disappointing, and the rest of the card never really created the urgency you would expect before AEW's biggest show of the year. The Ospreay promo and final package were effective, but overall the build to All In has lacked the sense of momentum and importance that last year's road to Wembley had."
[5.0] "This has gotta be the worst Dynamite episode of the year when you factor in the fact that it's the go-home Dynamite before their biggest show of the year. There was probably a lot of casual fans checking out the episode this week just to know the stories going into All In, and they'll likely assume that Dynamite is this bad every week. Where was Kenny Omega? You know, the World Champion! Last week he had a sit down interview, a match and then a post-match segment where he drove Ospreay through a table. This week he's nowhere to be seen! Days before defending the World Championship at Wembley Stadium. This is the match that fans have been waiting over 3 years for, and it's been thoroughly lacking in the kind of intensity and fire that we saw in the run up to their matches at Wrestle Kingdom 17 and Forbidden Door 2023. Willow Nightingale's first title run as World Champion has been a damp squib. It feels more like she's a transitional champion yet again, much akin to her first TBS title reign. Based on their history over the past few years, Willow vs. Moné should be a PPV main event match, but this entire program has just been a bit meh. Willow deserves better than being a transitional champion. Thekla has been the MVP of the women's division this year and she's nowhere to be seen on the biggest show of the year. It should have been Thekla vs. Moné at All In, imo. The Continental Challenge Cup has been farcical. It was announced as being an FA Cup style tournament, which I was excited for. In reality it turned out to be a patronizing "trust me bro, I definitely drew the names out of the Jacksonville Jaguars helmet in that order. No, you can't see the footage of the draw" way of booking Moxley vs. McGuiness for a title match at All In. If you do the C3 again, please just do a proper shoot draw and stop treating us like we're idiots. Make it interesting and unpredictable. MJF vs Andrade is probably the hottest and best booked feud on the show, and they're not even having a singles match at the PPV They're just competitors in a Casino Gauntlet match. Mind boggling. We're gonna get a long, drawn-out story that we'll be bored of before they go one-on-one again. Swerve vs. Jack Perry in the main event of the Dynamite before All In? Seriously, why? Sure, it was a good match but neither man is booked for All In yet. I'm sure All In will be another great PPV, but this episode of Dynamite was weaker than a can of Carling. Thoroughly disappointed with it."
[3.0] "A terribly disappointing "go-home" show. The match quality wasn't terrible, but so many bouts tonight lacked build-up and stakes. The crowd struggled to get fired up--and I don't blame them. It's mind-boggling to have such lousy segments just four days out from your biggest PPV, not to mention the absence of Omega. As for the writing of the women's storylines, it has truly hit rock bottom. It's a good thing MJF is somewhat funny, but that's nowhere near enough. Match quality: 2.5/6.5. Angles and non-match segments: 0.25/3.5. Bonus/penalty: none. Total: 2.75/10. Show watched on MyAEW."
[6.0] "Still a good show but for the go home of All In this was pretty flat. Most of the wrestling was good with Swerve vs Jack Perry being great and McGuinness vs O'Reilly being a let down. The show was bookended by a pretty good Will Ospreay promo and a hype package for the main event of All In which was well done but really made for an odd closer to the show but with Swerve's match not having an angle attached made the decision understandable but then I don't know have one of the C3 matches go last. To be frank I think the build to All In has been pretty limp as a whole especially with a lot of big stars not being in big stories or personal rivalries. All In will almost definitely deliver but last years build felt like everything was falling into place where this year doesn't have the same magic and I think a lackluster go home show is an indication of that"
[2.0] "This unfortunately was just bad. All the momentum after Mexico just slowly dwindled away. Nothing going into All In feels BIG. HOW WAS KENNY NOT EVEN ON THE SHOW! ? Guys just feel forgotten and matches don't feel like end all be all. Things were going so good too. It's one thing when it's another show but not your go home leading into your biggest show. I get you don't want guys to get injured but man have more face to face at least. I dont know I just feel underwhelmed going into Sunday. Like how does MJF pretending to be the champion feel more like a champion than the actual champion?"
[3.0] "Normally I would give this like a 5 or a 6 but for the Go Home show for your biggest event of the year this gets a 3. Not having your world champion present for the go home show is ridiculous and there was hardly any build toward any of the other matches except for the Casino Gauntlet Match. Why have MJF and Andrade in the gauntlet match when they could just have a one on one match? Then you have the main event consisting of two people who ARENT EVEN BOOKED AT ALL IN."
[5.0] "On the plus side, it was only 2 hours - kudos to AEW for not going way over. Although they were forced to this because of taping Collision I guess. And plus side, the Swerve/Perry match was really good and entertaining. But this show didn't do well as the go home show for the biggest event of the year. Nothing felt special. Nothing new happened to hype up for the show. How could they have ended the show with a video package for Omega/Ospreay when for weeks they've had in ring segments? Last week's ending should have happened this week. For the rest of the show - there were some OK matches with Moxley and Nigel winning to move on to set up Wembley - but that was entirely predictable. And while I liked Swerve/Perry, it was more suited for the middle of a normal Dynamite, not the last match of the go home show for All In when neither of them are on the card."
[4.0] "This would be a middling show if it was just on a random Wednesday on the calendar, but this was THE GO-HOME SHOW FOR THEIR BIGGEST SHOW OF THE YEAR. It had no feeling of that at all. Why are Swerve and Jack Perry main eventing this? Neither of them even have an announced match on the show. And they really couldn't get their world champion Kenny Omega to come over? ! Tony Khan is fortunate to have the most stacked roster in wrestling history to be able to get away with having such a lazy build and knowing that All In itself will still be incredible because of the talent alone."
[7.0] "Clearly not a bad show but also clearly not what was required. I don't need any further hyping up personally and said last week basically felt like the go-home but this was a weirdly rushed, phoned in go-home in front of an absolutely atrocious crowd that won't have done anything to convince someone to buy or go to All In if they weren't already planning to. Opener and main event were both excellent, the Ospreay/Kenny video package was excellent, women's tag was pretty good and there was plenty of decent stuff elsewhere but nothing felt like it truly had time to breathe. Kenny not being there so soon after not being in Mexico either was very disappointing, that's twice they've had a fire segment between Ospreay and Omega only for Kenny to not be there the next week. Still hyped for All In and think this misstep was probably largely down to so much focus being on that show and so little on this, but a weird show nonetheless albeit not a bad one."
[7.0] "Good dynamite but underwhelming for a final dynamite before ALL-IN. I know they want to make sure nobody gets hurt, but the show needed more oomph."
[9.0] "I was there for the live taping, and I have yet to watch the broadcast but everything came across great in the arena. A very lively crowd and all the wrestlers really responded to it. Mox & Claudio put on a great match and the trios match was loads of fun. Main event with Swerve & Jack Perry was fantastic."
[1.0] "Man this was easily the most uninspired All In build in the company's history. 2023 one was also very messy but at least it had the first time ever novelty to it but this one just doesn't have any juice whatsoever. Both world title matches are ice cold with repetitive angles, nonsense promos, lack of any compelling storytelling and the only saving grace for them is the potential of their in ring quality otherwise what a massive fumble these ones turned out to be. The rest of the card is just so bland and underwhelming. This boring go home show isn't just an unexpected misstep out of nowhere at the last stop but things have been building up to be this way for weeks as they have done nothing to bring some hype to their biggest card of the year. It seems to me like there was a massive lack of effort and care put into this All In card. Ospreay-Omega didn't make sense in the first place anyway and was filled with way too much cringe anime like confrontations and unless you're a Brit, you've been given no reason to support Ospreay who has done himself no favors with terrible promos. Omega as a champion is also skipping bunch of shows for some inexplicable reason and not around to do literally anthing. Great job establishing a big time match for your main event. Women's world title match had a good start but became very repetitive with samey angles and at this point feels very ice cold for a match that needed more substance. Also I'm tired of both Mone-Willow hogging the title scenes constantly, just introduce some fresh faces after this shit ends. It's boring and tired now. The undercard matches have had terrible barely existing builds. Ospreay's wife also is getting a hometown wrestler challenging for the belt shtick in a feud that don't have anything else going on. Casino Gauntlet is a useless annual tradition. Darby-Knight is not really a compelling feud, just a bog standart Darby feud against a generic heel. Cope/Cage vs Bucks is just a novelty match that pit two tag teams against each other from different generations but beyond that why does anybody should care? Another international title match with more lame ass don callis family drama, it's a never ending vortex I swear. They've also ran this unnecessary continental tournament which they already do for an entire month already at the end of every year so why on earth we went through it again just so Mox can be featured prominently because he can't be out of the spotlight at least for a short while? And the payoff for that is for yet another hometown wrestler to get his mandatory hometown match at your biggest show of the year? I struggle to see some much tv time being wasted on this useless as tournament and it sucks because that tv time could have been used for so many of these weak and boring undercard matches that desperately needed a solid build. What a waste of time this PPV cycle was honestly, I'm sure it'll turn out to be fine but don't really have much interest in this All In card."
"[7.0] I was there in person, and it was a pretty good dynamite tbh. Grado appeared in a dark match, which was fun. Mox vs Claudio was good, but it should have been more. Copebucks vs DCF was just another bucks match, with all the spots you'd expect. NMG vs KOR was acutally not that good tbh, should have been more. The womens trios is underrated, huge pop for the Brawling Birds, as expected. Swerve vs JJP was my MOTN. Jack and Swerve were really good here, and it feels like a JJP push is coming soon. Overall, Highlights, Lowlights, an average show."
[3.0] "An average episode of Dynamite, but considering this is the GO HOME SHOW for All In this was bad. The issue with AEW is they do not tell stories on a week to week basis, almost every match (apart from Will Kenny) is not a story told on weekly episodic television, they are matches based on 1-2 instances over a 2 month span which is not good television. For example the trios tag, a single Hangman promo is the entire feud, Darby Kevin Knight, the Pyro spot and the heel turn is the entire feud, Divine Dominion and the Brawling birds, haven't even had a promo segment together, Mercedes Willow has been nothing but backstage attacks for the past 3 weeks, Cope and Cage vs the Bucks have been multi man tags and no real layering of storytelling, not much has happened with Takeshita Okada Fletcher because the match sells itself. AEW sacrifices storytelling for meaningless matches and this is the issue people have with their Dynamites. When there isn't a big promo segment or match people care about their show suffers. Sure it's nice to see Will cut a pro UK promo, but does it really add anything to the feud? Do people really want to see Moxley vs McGuiness outside of the UK, do we care to see Jack Perry vs Swerve in the main event, do we care to see Copeland tag WITH the young bucks days before their match? I personally do not. Most of these Dynamites leading up to All in have been pretty good but it's because they focus on telling the story of their main event, if that isn't the focus the show suffers, and you saw it here tonight. AEW All In is almost destined to be an excellent show, it simply can't be anything but that because of how stacked the card is, but think about how much better it would be if AEW properly layered it's stories week to week on BOTH DYNAMITE AND COLLISION, instead of having random 15 minute matches nobody cares about. Tonight was supposed to make me more excited about All In, it did not, it failed a s a go-home show as AEW usually does - 3/10"
[9.0] "Very good go home show highlighted by an excellent Will Ospreay promo to open and the show and bookended with a great video package for the Omega vs Ospreay main event. Moxley and Castagnoli told a good story of teammates who know each other well so had to look for different ways to beat each other. McGuinness and O'Reilly had a nice technical bout which featured Nigel being inventive in his counter attacks and ultimately served his story of the tournament thus far. Swerve and Jack Perry had a nice fast paced battle in the main which I thought would lead to an angle to set up the trios title match for All In but did not"
[5.0] "It felt like everyone was moving in slow motion and taking it easy. That feeling wasn't helped by Nigel walking out in a shirt which read, "No bumps required". The last two matches picked up the pace a little and there was some action there, but it's hard to care about any of this. The highlight was probably another Ospreay and Omega video package. A surprisingly subdued and uninteresting episode considering this was the go-home for All In, and in front of usually vocal fans who don't get to see AEW often."
[10.0] "An incredibly biased review as I was there live, what an absolutely fantastic show, electric crowd all night, awesome in ring action, an absolutely fantastic live experience for my first ever AEW event, loved the show."
[4.0] "I'd give this show a 5 of a 6 if it had been a random dynamite, but this is supposed to be the final dynamite before the biggest show of the year, and it did not feel that way."
[8.0] "Not the good dynamite but wasn't that bad there were so many good Matches claudio vs mox was tge the best of the night for sure , Kenny absence is a question and there should be some angle for the trios title or maybe there's saving it to collision"
[5.0] "Skiiiiip. Unfortunately, this felt like a house show, even though anyone who paid for a ticket deserved a better show than a bunch of random tag team matches. All In is only a few days away, sure, but you simply can't have a weekly this bad right before the biggest PPV of the year. Come on. The Continental tournament has had zero interest for me ever since it became clear where they were going with Nigel, which unfortunately has resulted in a tournament final that feels very uninteresting. I understand that he's British, but I don't know... even in the UK, how many people were actually hoping for Nigel to get a title shot in 2026? Come on. Really disappointing at least we good some good wrestling in there but it's not enough in my opinion."
[5.0] "[4.9] This was certainly one of the Dynamites of all time. Mox/Claudio is the best match of the night, everything else is unfortunately extremely skippable. No omega, still can't come up with anything better for the womens world championship than backstage assaults. Maya seemingly has something set up finally but it has yet to be announced. Jericho wasn't told to pack his shit after being the first man in AEW to get a bad match out of Kevin Knight. Below average show."
[5.0] "This was probably the least satisfying episode of Dynamite this year. The matches were fairly mediocre, the promos and backstage segments were mediocre. The biggest disappointment was the lack of Omega. It was the go home show for the biggest PPV of the year and he didn't show. I know that there is likely non wrestling related issues for that, but I'm still disappointed. 5/10"
[8.0] "Pretty good. A little too low key for me for the last Dynamite before the biggest show of the year but I enjoyed the matches. The two Cup matches were really good and I loved the Swerve/Perry main event. The Ospreay promo was good and the video to end the show was fantastic."
[7.0] "A very entertaining show in the building, three excellent matches with two other fun ones, an entertaining MJF/Andrade segment. Wasn't into the Ospreay promo. Very disappointed that there was no progress towards another women's match on the main card, and no Thekla return has really disappointed me. Hate that she's had no presence in the build to All In and might not even be there after the job she did leading the women's division this year. It ultimately feels a bit stagnant in terms of building hype for the PPV or creating matches for it, even though I was entertained constantly throughout."
[3.0] "Main eventing a PPV go-home show with two guys who aren't booked to wrestle at the PPV is certainly a decision. No stories or All In matches got furthered tonight, unless they add Maya defending her title against Persephone on the Buy In because of the result of the women's match. Speaking of that, after the women's match ended they started the next segment in less than 30 seconds. The bell rang to end the match, the winner was announced, and they immediately moved on without the commentators even saying anything about it. That made the women's match seem meaningless. As for the matches, the action ranged from decent to good, with none bad but also none that great. Overall this might have been the weakest PPV go-home Dynamite ever."
[7.0] "On it's own it was a fun two hours of wrestling with some fun matches. As a go home show for the biggest show of the year? Kind of weak. The crowd also wasn't all that great."
[6.0] "A very strange episode. This is the final AEW Dynamite before the company's biggest show of the year, yet the World Champion simply didn't show up at the arena. The program involving Knight and Darby Allin gets a brief promo, there isn't a word about the Trios Championship storyline, and the Women's World Championship gets just a couple of minutes backstage. Meanwhile, the broadcast is cluttered with an unnecessary men's six-man tag team match and a main event that made absolutely no sense, given that neither wrestler is even on the All In card. Sadly, it didn't feel like the final episode before the biggest show of the year."
[7.0] "6.5/10. The post Mexico dynamites have felt neutered in service of the ppv and this weak continental tournament. Ospreay's promo was decent. I didn't care for the Continental cup matches but the death riders one was at least good. Christian cut a solid but pedestrian promo (while the crowd were distracting) and Matt responded without conviction. MJF segment was probably the best, and that was relatively basic stuff. The wrestling quality has dipped recently (it's not bad, just mid). Main event was cool at least and that final video pack was pretty good. I just hope this C3 is not a thing moving forward cause it's really uninspired."
[2.0] "One of the worst Dynamite's all year. The highlight is a 30 second pre tape with Willow and Mercedes. The show is 2 hours long btw, that's how little was actually good. Not just below average, but so, so boring. Maya World (the TBS champion) got pinned and it was immediately moved on from like it didn't matter. No match at All In got more hype towards it. When you consider the fact it's the go-home to the biggest show of the year, that's nearly disastrous. Not to mention the rather poor crowd."
[6.0] "Last week felt like the go home. This was a weaker episode that felt more like filler. It's fine, but I could've skipped this show and maybe been even more hyped lol. Ospreay has a promo that's serviceable but Kenny isn't there so it doesn't do much but get him out in front of the crowd. The CC matches were predictable and the booking for this tournament has been ass. If Mox wins this whole fucking thing then that's actually CRIMINAL levels of uninspired booking, but if Nigel wins then great, we gave a 50 year old commentator with a kayfabe broken ankle a big win. Mercedes and Willow seemed to just have a pretape of more of the same. The women and Perry/Swerve had the best matches. The video package at the end was awesome, but felt oddly out of place at the tail end of the episode."
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