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Randy Orton steals main event win over Cody Rhodes in Atlanta
Orton low blows both Rhodes and the referee, then lands the RKO for the pin at State Farm Arena. Quavo opens the show with a live performance.
Sep 6WWE.com
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The Week in WrestlingWeek of August 31, 2026
Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026Every result, title change, signing and passing, dated and sourced.35 filed
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The week of Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026 logged 35 dispatches across professional wrestling. Championships moved: Trick Williams beats Baron Corbin to capture the United States Championship; Andrade El Idolo turns back Gabe Kidd to keep the AEW National Championship; Snyder, Dake and Blades all retain RAF titles on Moscow card; Swerve Strickland and The New Level retain AEW World Trios Titles over The Rascalz; Raquel Rodriguez retains the Womens Intercontinental Title against Sol Ruca. On the roster front: New Level say their AEW contracts became official less than 24 hours before All In. Departures and farewells: Carmella confirms she is retired from pro wrestling on her own podcast. Off screen, the business desk tracked: Brent Council data shows 41,102 turnstile attendance for AEW All In at Wembley; AEW Dynamite viewership ticks up to 796,000 viewers for post All In episode; RAF Moscow swaps venues two days out as Fox Nation declines to stream card; John Cena says WWE has finalized plans for the John Cena Classic.
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Trick Williams beats Baron Corbin to capture the United States Championship
Lil Yachty survives a five minute Survive and Advance match to trigger the instant title shot. Williams counters End of Days and hits the Trick Shot to win.
Sep 6WWE.com
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Bronson Reed returns and mauls Oba Femi to force disqualification finish
Femi wins by DQ over Bron Breakker when Reed hits the ring with a steel chair. Reed follows with multiple Tsunamis as Breakker adds Super Spears.
Sep 6WWE.com
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Nagata and Most Violent Players win Blue Justice XIX main event in Togane
Yuji Nagata teamed with Togi Makabe and Toru Yano to beat Unbound Company in 15:24 before 1,258 fans at Togane Arena. Jeff Cobb pinned Zane Jay with the Tour of the Islands and House of Torture took the six-man tag.
Sep 6PWMania
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Andy The Butcher Williams, Every Time I Die guitarist and AEW alum, dies at 48
Williams suffered a medical emergency and collapsed after a Butcher and Blade tag match with Braxton Sutter at an Enjoy Wrestling event in Millvale, Pennsylvania; he received CPR at ringside and the show was canceled. He co-founded Every Time I Die in 1998 and debuted in AEW in 2019.
Sep 6Wrestling Inc
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Andrade El Idolo turns back Gabe Kidd to keep the AEW National Championship
Andrade retains on Collision and vows weekly defenses; Wrestling Inc calls the finisher the Destination Madrid while PWMania calls it The Message.
Sep 5Wrestling Inc
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Motor City Machine Guns take their first AEW in-ring win on Saturday Collision
Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley finish with Skull and Bones in their AEW in-ring debut; Wrestling Inc lists the opponents as Jay Lethal's Lethal Swirl while PWMania lists The Swirl's Blake Christian and Lee Johnson.
Sep 5Wrestling Inc
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AEW Dynamite viewership ticks up to 796,000 viewers for post All In episode
The September 2 Dynamite drew 796,000 viewers with a 0.21 in P18-49, up from 792,000 and 0.18 the prior week per Ringside News.
Sep 5Ringside News
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Chimaev pins Woodley in 94 seconds as RAF Moscow card goes ahead
Khamzat Chimaev scored push-out points, reversed a single-leg and pinned Tyron Woodley at 1:34 of the catchweight main event. Abdulrashid Sadulaev edged Zac Braunagel 8-6 and Jordan Burroughs teched Magomed Kurbanaliev 10-0.
Sep 5MiddleEasy
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Snyder, Dake and Blades all retain RAF titles on Moscow card
Kyle Snyder beat Akhmed Tazhudinov 11-5 to keep the light heavyweight title, his second win over Tazhudinov. Kyle Dake edged Mahamedkhabib Kadzimahamedau 7-6 in his cruiserweight defense and Kennedy Blades teched Vusala Parfianovich 10-0.
Sep 5USA Wrestling
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Takagi and Cobb topple United Empire as Road to Destruction opens in Tochigi
Shingo Takagi and Jeff Cobb beat United Empire with the Burning Dragon at Light Cube Utsunomiya before 903 fans. NEVER Openweight champion Aaron Wolf tapped Hartley Jackson in six-man action and Chaos took the eight-man main event.
Sep 5PWMania
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CM Punk survives Gargano and Zayn chaos to retain Undisputed WWE Title
Punk pins Johnny Gargano with the GTS amid interference from Zayn, Owens, Gunther, Balor and LeRae. He then challenges Sami Zayn for Mexico City.
Sep 4WWE.com
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Chelsea Green cleared to return but must wear protective facemask
Green is cleared from the orbital fracture suffered August 7, with a mandatory mask per WWE medical. She defends the Women's Title against Nia Jax next week in Mexico City.
Sep 4WrestleZone
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Kyoki makes SmackDown debut teaming with Shinsuke Nakamura as Bakusai
The new duo beats The Miz and Kit Wilson in their first outing. Kyoki finishes with a Reverse Stunner.
Sep 4WWE.com
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RAF Moscow swaps venues two days out as Fox Nation declines to stream card
RAF moved the card from VTB Arena, run by a subsidiary of sanctioned VTB Bank, to Arena Mytishchi to sidestep U.S. sanctions exposure. Fox Nation had declined to stream the event, and it ultimately aired with no U.S. streaming option.
Sep 3Yahoo Sports
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Agent Zero wrecks Miguel vs Hotch as Hardy and Nemeth war escalates on iMPACT
Trey Miguel vs Jason Hotch ended in a 19-minute no contest when Agent Zero attacked both men in Brampton. Matt Hardy blamed the Nemeths for the attack on Jeff, and Santino booked Hardy vs Nic Nemeth in a no-DQ match. Dutch beat BDE and KC Navarro won an X Division scramble qualifier.
Sep 3PWTorch
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Swerve Strickland and The New Level retain AEW World Trios Titles over The Rascalz
Swerve hits the House Call on Dezmond Xavier and Kofi scores the pin at about 13 minutes on Dynamite in Allen, Texas.
Sep 2Fightful
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Thekla interrupts Mercedes Mone championship celebration and calls for a title match
Mone, showing facial damage from the Willow Nightingale match, touts a fourth major title across different companies before Thekla crashes the party from the upper deck with a challenge.
Sep 2PWTorch
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Jon Moxley challenges Will Ospreay for the AEW World Championship at All Out
Moxley chokes out AR Fox with the Death Rider submission in a Continental eliminator, and the Ospreay title match is set for All Out on September 26 in Chicago.
Sep 2PWTorch
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John Cena says WWE has finalized plans for the John Cena Classic
Speaking at FanExpo Canada, Cena said all details of the NXT versus main roster tournament announced at Backlash are set but staying secret for now.
Sep 1Blog of Doom
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New Level say their AEW contracts became official less than 24 hours before All In
Kofi and Austin Creed told the Ariel Helwani Show their deals only solidified less than a day before the Wembley debut where they won the World Trios Titles.
Sep 1Fightful
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NXT runs its Heatwave fallout show with new champion Kelani Jordan set to appear
The live Performance Center episode features Nikkita Lyons vs Thea Hail and fallout from Heatwave's five title changes.
Sep 1Pro Wrestling Dot Net
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TNA announces back to back September shows at San Antonio's Boeing Center
Thursday Night iMPACT airs live from San Antonio September 24 and 25, with the Hardys, Nic Nemeth, Mustafa Ali and Leon Slater advertised.
Sep 1TNA Wrestling
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Chimaev calls out four UFC middleweights days before the RAF Moscow match with Woodley
Posting I'm ready, the Moscow headliner named Strickland, Du Plessis, Imavov and Borralho on X, and Borralho answered. Chimaev wrestles Tyron Woodley September 5.
Sep 1Sherdog
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Brent Council data shows 41,102 turnstile attendance for AEW All In at Wembley
Local government figures show 46,987 distributed tickets against Tony Khan's claim of close to 50,000. The count trails All In London 2023's 72,265 and 2024's 46,476 but tops All In Texas 2025's 21,973.
Sep 1POST Wrestling
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Raw's August 24 Netflix episode draws 2.5 million global views, seventh on the weekly chart
The show slipped from the prior week's 2.7 million views and sixth place finish on Netflix's most viewed weekly shows list.
Sep 1Pro Wrestling Dot Net
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Carmella confirms she is retired from pro wrestling on her own podcast
Leah Van Dale said I can't wrestle anymore, I'm retired. She has not wrestled since 2023 after the birth of her first child and drop foot complications.
Sep 1POST Wrestling
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Penta defeats Rey Fenix to win the World Title number one contender tournament
Penta pinned his brother with a Mexican Destroyer and challenges Roman Reigns for the World Heavyweight Championship September 14 in Mexico City.
Aug 31PWTorch
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Roman Reigns flattens LA Knight as Royce Keys and OTM ambush The Usos
Keys, Bronco Nima and Lucien Price destroyed The Usos in the parking garage and Solo Sikoa was attacked. Reigns closed the night by Superman Punching Knight.
Aug 31WrestleView
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Raquel Rodriguez retains the Womens Intercontinental Title against Sol Ruca
Rodriguez hit the Tejana Bomb for the pin after Lyra Valkyria's interference cost Ruca the match in Cleveland.
Aug 31WrestleView
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Dragon Lee beats Ethan Page to earn an Intercontinental Title shot at Chad Gable
Lee hit Operation Dragon to win and challenges Gable on the September 14 Raw in Mexico City.
Aug 31PWTorch
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Quavo confirmed on Raw to open Sunday Nights Main Event in hometown Atlanta
The rapper debuts an unreleased song September 6 at the special headlined by Oba Femi vs Bron Breakker and Cody Rhodes vs Randy Orton.
Aug 31Wrestling Inc.
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Britt Baker's All In return reportedly came together hours before the show
Fightful Select reports Baker did not travel with the roster and arrived in London Sunday morning, after multiple return overtures during her nearly two-year absence.
Aug 31Fightful
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Mercedes Mone reveals a broken nose suffered early in her All In title win
The new AEW Womens World Champion says she broke her nose early in the Willow Nightingale match and needed stitches, posting a bloodied photo captioned Heavy is the crown.
Aug 31WrestleTalk
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Ospreay keeps one of Kenny Omega's side plates on the AEW World Title
AEW footage of the new champion's side plate installation shows Ospreay retaining one of Omega's plates as a tribute to his predecessor.
Aug 31411Mania
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