Recap of AEW Dynamite, 18 March 2026

===AEW Dynamite 18 March 2026===

Save Mart Center, Fresno, CA

RESULTS

• WILL OSPREAY def. "Vanilla Baby" BLAKE CHRISTIAN via pinfall
• Tag Team: DEATH RIDERS (AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta) def. BANG BANG GANG (Juice Robinson & Ace Austin) (with Austin Gunn) via pinfall, Jon Moxley over Ace Austin
• Distraction against Juice Robinson by DANIEL GARCIA
• Coffin Match: DARBY ALLIN def. "War Ready" GABE KIDD
• AEW World Trios Champion SPEEDBALL MIKE BAILEY def. "Dunkzilla" MARK DAVIS via pinfall
• No Holds Barred: MINA SHIRAKAWA def. MARINA SHAFIR via pinfall
• Trios: AEW National Champion JUNGLE JACK PERRY & THE YOUNG BUCKS (Matt & Nick Jackson) def. DON CALLIS FAMILY (AEW International Champion Kazuchika Okada, Rocky Romero, Trent Beretta) via pinfall, Matt Jackson over Rocky Romero

DEVELOPMENTS

• Comms tell us at the start of the show that Toni Storm is not cleared to compete after a gruesome attack backstage. Mina Shirakawa will take her place in the no holds barred match; Marina Shafir maintains that she was not involved in the attack.
• WILL OSPREAY townhall after the opener. He calls out Jon Moxley and says that the biggest difference between him and Mox is that he doesn't need a weapon to snap someone's neck; he can do it with his bare hands. JON MOXLEY now on his way out with WHEELER YUTA; this quickly devolves into a crowd brawl. They make their way into the ring where Ospreay goes for a Tiger Driver but PAC boots Ospreay in the head and locks in the Brutalizer. Security breaks this up.
• Security are trying to usher PAC out as the BANG BANG GANG come out for their tag match. Ospreay charges up the ramp and jumps him and they brawl out the back. Mox and Yuta hot start on Juice and Ace.
• Juice is doing his jab spot to Yuta in the ring when DANIEL GARCIA gets on the apron. Austin Gunn pulls him down.
• GABE KIDD backstage after his awesome video package. He tells Darby to meet him in the parking lot. I guess this match is unsanctioned in the sense that it isn't happening in the arena? Don't know why we'd need coffins or caskets or what have you then man just kill each other
• After Revolution, KENNY OMEGA backstage says that Swerve still isn't truly dangerous because he might be a danger to those around him, but he's not willing to take risks. He challenges Swerve, who we later find out is at the top of the contendership ranks, to put that spot in the rankings on the line in a match against him.
• This brawl between Gabe and Darby has started I guess in the parking lot of the arena? I don't see the arena anywhere and the coffin is at ringside. Darby is Kind of chloroforming Gabe before he puts him in the trunk and just drives into a pile of shit and flips the fucking car over. Darby is able to emerge, the trunk eventually pops open, and Darby loads Gabe onto a roadie box.
• After a minute we cut to the back and Darby is pushing Gabe, who is dead, to the ring. The bell rings; Darby retrieves a straitjacket and skateboard from inside the roadie box. Gabe is still dead. He sits him on a chair; Gabe is kind of coming to a little bit but Darby puts the straitjacket on him and tries to brain him with the skateboard but Gabe low blows him and throws him into the ring steps. Gabe fights back as Darby's got a crimson mask. This is like a solid 6 on the Muta scale as we go to break
• Darby wins off a tope and then calls out MJF. Okay.
• We get a very campy video package of JACK PERRY and LUCHASAURUS taking the Jurassic Express from LA to Fresno before we finally see it pulling up to the arena. Perry teams with the Bucks in the main event tonight. Luchasaurus calls Okada a bitch.
• PRINCE NANA is in the ring. He wants everyone to stand up for SWERVE STRICKLAND. Swerve says the only true winners of war are the ones with power, and the best way to acquire power is through championships. Swerve won't accept Kenny's challenge unless Kenny stakes his EVP status on their match.
• Renee Paquette backstage with SPEEDBALL MIKE BAILEY. Speedball tells her that he was never someone who was a natural-born star; he had to scratch and claw for 20 years to get people to believe in him. He says it's that kind of mental toughness that you need to have to be a star and a winner.
• MJF cut a promo backstage following his title match
• KAZUCHIKA OKADA backstage with RPG VICE takes more shots at Takeshita and Rocky tries to refocus their goals on the desires of Don Callis
• Mina Shirakawa beats Marina Shafir by smashing a champagne bottle across her head and hitting a really bad Storm Zero lol that was not a good match but it was fun
• Renee Paquette backstage with ANDRADE EL ÍDOLO who's still focused on the AEW Men's World Championship. JON CRUZ is delivering a suitcase full of cash from MJF, and he pulls up a FaceTime with DON CALLIS who tells him to accept it. He says that Darby Allin has become a thorn in MJF's side, and the Family is taking care of it. Andrade reluctantly accepts the briefcase. He's not pleased.
• NICK JACKSON townhall after the match who says that on Sunday, they blew it. They're disappointed that they lost, but they admit that on Sunday, FTR were the better men. MATT JACKSON tells us that his dad hyped them up and told them he was proud of them. The Bucks are still determined to reclaim the tag titles. ADAM COPELAND and CHRISTIAN CAGE are now here; they individually make their full entrances. Cope says they respect the hell out of the Bucks and tells them not to hang their heads. He says he hasn't been able to look his wife in the eye in the months since she was attacked by FTR, and that the only way to rectify the situation is to take the tag titles off them.
• From here I kinda stopped writing and don't feel like picking back up. C&C have a tag title match at Dynasty, FTR come out, Stokely gets shut down on the mic, FTR charge the ring, try to attack them but get laid out, there's a tug of war over the tag titles but the Bucks let go. That was ten minutes I'm never getting back

STILL TO COME 

Collision Slam Dunk Saturday, 21 March

• TNT Championship: KYLE FLETCHER (c) vs. ROBBIE EAGLES
• Tag Team: BRAWLING BIRDS (Jamie Hayter & Alex Windsor) vs. SISTERS OF SIN (Skye Blue & Julia Hart)
• Tag Team: DEATH RIDERS (Daniel Garcia & CMLL World Heavyweight Champion Claudio Castagnoli) vs. KOMANDER & CMLL World Historic Welterweight & Trios Champion MÁSCARA DORADA
• Trios: LA FACCIÓN INGOBERNABLE (Rush, Dralístico, ROH World Tag Team Champion The Beast Mortos) in action 

Collision Slam Dunk Sunday, 22 March

• TOMMASO CIAMPA vs. LIO RUSH
• AEW World Trios Championships: CMLL World Light Heavyweight & Trios Champion MÍSTICO & JETSPEED (Speedball Mike Bailey & "The Jet" Kevin Knight) (c) vs. DON CALLIS FAMILY (NJPW World Television Champion Konosuke Takeshita, Josh Alexander, El Clon)
• Tag Team: "Freshly Squeezed" ORANGE CASSIDY & RODERICK STRONG vs. JAY LETHAL & "Big Shotty" LEE JOHNSON
• Tag Team: AEW Women's World Tag Team Champions DIVINE DOMINION ("Megasus" Megan Bayne & "Colossal" Lena Kross) in action  

Dynamite, 25 March

• No. 1 Contendership vs. EVP Status: SWERVE STRICKLAND vs. KENNY OMEGA

Dynasty, 12 April

• AEW Men's World Tag Team Championships: FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (c) vs. ADAM COPELAND & CHRISTIAN CAGE