All Elite Wrestling returns to pay-per-view on Sunday afternoon (Aug. 30) with All In 2026. The show comes our way from Wembley Stadium in London, England.
The event begins at 11 am ET with the Buy In pre-show on YouTube. That leads right into the PPV main card at 1 pm ET. Fans in the USA can purchase it from PPV.com, HBO Max, Amazon, DAZN, and YouTube, or their cable or satellite provider. The show is also available on MyAEW for fans in Canada, the UK, and international markets.
It’s too bad that Tony Khan rushed through AEW’s most important story of the year
Last year’s All In
event took place in Texas. When Will Ospreay didn’t win the Owen Hart tournament that year, plenty of fans thought AEW was delaying his eventual world title win to 2026 when All In was returning to Wembley Stadium in his home country. That plan appeared to fall apart when Ospreay underwent major neck surgery in September. Would he be back in the ring in time for All In 2026?
It didn’t seem possible when Bruv rushed his return to AEW and was somehow back in the ring by March, only six months later. Even though he had a very competitive return match against low card guy Blake Christian, you knew that Tony Khan’s plan had to be for Ospreay to win the AEW world title at Wembley Stadium. But what would the story to get him there look like?
Ospreay lost against the man who injured his neck in kayfabe, Jon Moxley, and then curiously joined up with Jon’s Death Riders to help develop the killer instinct that’s required to win the AEW world title. That partnership toughened Will’s body up and helped him kick out of a million finishing moves to defeat Swerve Strickland and win the Owen Hart tournament. The victory locked Ospreay in for a world title match at All In.
It looked like Ospreay was headed towards a main event match in Wembley Stadium against MJF, but Big Hebrew suddenly lost the AEW world title to Kenny Omega on July 8. That gave Tony Khan less than two months to properly build to a title match between two babyfaces, Ospreay and Omega.
To make it clear that Ospreay was not going heel, he abandoned the Death Riders and saved Omega from their attempt to injure him at Redemption. But Omega ended the night by giving Will a One-Winged Angel after he took issue with a comment Ospreay made doubting his current abilities in the ring.
Omega went full cartoon villain heel, which included the evil cackling laugh, with just a couple weeks to go before All In. He talked trash about Will’s family and put Ospreay through a table with a One-Winged Angel. I guess it wasn’t all that devastating of a move since Ospreay was back in the ring one week later with no injury and fully ready to go.
Omega was a sympathetic babyface as recently as late July, and his heel turn is where the rushed nature of the story really stands out as a weakness. It didn’t feel like a turn that was earned through a well built story, and instead only happened because the title match is theoretically better if there is a heel for Ospreay to beat in his home country. Ideally, AEW would have put the world title on Omega months earlier and had a more organic heel turn play out. Instead, Tony Khan is banking on fans not really caring about this problem once the bell rings and a six star match potentially unfolds. And perhaps that’s exactly what will happen.
My criticism of this story is not a call for MJF to have been Ospreay’s opponent instead of Omega. Khan already booked Ospreay winning a title from MJF at Wembley Stadium in 2024, so doing it again isn’t a great idea. The story between Omega and Ospreay simply needed more time to breathe between the major beats, and it didn’t get it. That’s disappointing given this is the main event of AEW’s biggest show of the year.
There is almost no doubt that Will Ospreay is winning the AEW world title today at All In. But can the match itself live up to the dream match hype and blow away the underwhelming story going into it? Tune into All In to watch the current best wrestler in the world and former best wrestler in the world do their thing and have the best wrestling match of the year.
The rest of the card
These remaining eight matches and segments are also currently advertised for All In:
Willow Nightingale (c) vs. Mercedes Mone for the AEW women’s world championship
Willow Nightingale pulled off a crazy trick when she vacated the TBS title in late May due to injury, only to return to AEW one week after a new champ was crowned. She immediately leveled up to the AEW women’s world title scene, where she defeated Thekla to win the gold in July at Redemption. Meanwhile, Mercedes Mone was on hiatus from AEW for much of the year until she returned in June to win the Owen Hart tournament and earn this title match at All In for the second straight year.
With Toni Storm out of the picture, this is The CEO’s best chance to finally win the one championship that has eluded her since signing with AEW. But Willow has beaten Mercedes for championship gold before, so Mone decided to give herself an advantage this time by attacking the champ and breaking her hand. After taking her hand, can Mercedes also now take Willow’s smile and title away at Wembley Stadium?
Jon Moxley (c) vs. Nigel McGuinness in the final match of the Continental Challenge Cup
When the Continental Cup was announced earlier this month, many fans assumed that current champion Jon Moxley would meet up with England’s Nigel McGuinness in the final match at Wembley Stadium. Fast forward a few weeks and that’s exactly where we are, with the added wrinkle that Nigel suffered an ankle/foot injury that put him in a walking boot at one point. Even so, the injured commentator found a way to endure the pain and pull off upset tournament wins over Kyle O’Reilly and CMLL World Heavyweight Champion Hechicero.
Can he do it one more time with a miracle win in his home country against a man who has been practically unbeatable as the Continental champion for all of 2026?
Christian Cage & Adam Copeland (c) vs. Young Bucks for the AEW world tag team titles
Ever since they reformed as a team in AEW, Adam Copeland and Christian Cage say they aren’t doing a greatest hits nostalgia tour. Cope and Cage are instead here to prove they still the best tag team in the world today, and they made that statement by beating FTR for the AEW world tag team championship in May at Double or Nothing. There will be no doubt left about it if they can also take out the Young Bucks, who are trying to become the first ever 4-time AEW world tag team champions at All In.
The two babyface teams joined forces this month in matches against the Callis Family and Death Riders, where an errant superkick or two undermined their ability to co-exist. There won’t be any accidental superkicks this time as the influential Bucks and the legendary old guys wage war in Wembley Stadium.
Kevin Knight (c) vs. Darby Allin in Falls Count Anywhere for the TNT championship
Knight abruptly turned heel on Darby Allin at Double or Nothing after Darby lost the AEW world championship to MJF. The Jet joined the Don Callis Family, while Allin made it his mission to torment Knight with explosions and booby traps. The TNT champion cheated to retained his belt against Darby on Dynamite in July, so now they’re running it back with Falls Count Anywhere. Wembley Stadium is a huge venue, so you know Darby will do an absolutely insane spot in this match given that they can fight all over the building.
It’s worth noting that Sting’s son is now also part of the angle, as he confronted Kevin after the champ burned Darby’s face with a booby trapped pyro explosion of his own. Don Callis didn’t waste any time trying to recruit Sting Jr. Will Steven Borden’s actions determine which man walks out of Wembley Stadium with the TNT title?
Kyle Fletcher (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita vs. Kazuchika Okada for the AEW International championship
Takeshita beat Okada’s ass for this championship in May at Double or Nothing, which led to Kyle Fletcher and the rest of the Callis family betraying The Alpha. Takeshita then dropped the belt to Fletcher in July so he could go to Japan for a month and compete in the G1 tournament. This 3-way title match for All In was announced during his absence. Don Callis seems to really want Okada to win back the belt while publicly stressing the importance of keeping it in the Callis family. Konosuke returned to AEW a couple weeks ago and kicked the shit out of Fletcher, while Okada didn’t bother to show up and save his family member.
The stage is set to see if Fletcher will prioritize his own championship ambition over the family, and if Konosuike can take advantage of the situation when the two Callis guys inevitably stop each other from winning.
Andrade El Idolo vs. MJF vs. Chris Jericho vs. Tommaso Ciampa vs. Mark Davis vs. Komander vs. Nick Wayne vs. Speedball Bailey (and maybe 13 others) in a Casino Gauntlet match
MJF missed out on the main event of All In when he lost the AEW world championship to Kenny Omega in July. The scumbag took a few weeks off and returned to AEW in Mexico with his old world title in hand, attacking Andrade and proclaiming himself to be the One True Champion.
Even though the OTC says Omega isn’t the real world champ, for some reason he is still preoccupied with winning that title back. The most obvious way to do it is via this Casino Gauntlet match, where the winner gets a guaranteed future shot at the AEW world title. Andrade and MJF are the first two entrants, so in theory this match could come to an end before any of the other stars listed above even get a chance to enter the fray. That’s never happened, so you don’t have to worry about missing out on seeing Jericho, Ciampa, and probably a surprise entrant or two. Could that include former WWE star Ilja Dragunov?
Divine Dominion (c) vs. Brawling Birds for the AEW women’s world tag team titles
Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor are both from England; it feels like the AEW women’s worlds tag team championship has been earmarked for them to win in Wembley Stadium ever since they created The Brawling Birds in February. AEW has mostly built up Megan Bayne and Lena Kross as dominant killers of the women’s tag team division during that time, giving the home country heroes very formidable foes to take down with the gold on the line at All In.
Hangman Page & Brodido (c) vs. Bang Bang Gang vs. Death Riders vs. The Conglomeration vs. The Demand vs. The Dogs vs. WILD CARD in a Trios Royal Roulette for the AEW world trios championship [pre-show]
Hangman Page can never challenge for the AEW world championship again for the rest of his career, so he took a few months off and won the AEW world trios championship in his return match, along with partners Bandido and Brody King.
In order to get on the card at Wembley Stadium, Hangman issued an open challenge to anyone and everyone for the gold. The end result is this Trios Royal Roulette, which features seven total teams and begins on the pre-show. Swerve Strickland has teased that he will bring two mystery partners to AEW to be part of this match, which suggests he’ll be part of the Wild Card team. If the format of this one is like a Gauntlet match, then perhaps New Day will be ready to arrive in AEW as his partners just after the main card of the PPV begins.
What will you be looking for at All In?
