The results of Dynasty left the future murky for some of the biggest stars and champions of All Elite Wrestling. With much of the slate wiped clean, what should we expect for Double or Nothing and beyond?
Here’s a look at what might be next for wrestlers like MJF, Will Ospreay, and Darby Allin. The following is based purely on speculation and conjecture, and not on any backstage rumors or reports.
Let’s start by looking at the long-term destination: All In London will occur at Wembley Stadium on August 30. This will be AEW’s third show at the giant building, and with the novelty perhaps having worn off, they’ll need a big draw. The biggest draw they could book would be Will Ospreay challenging for the world championship in front of his hometown crowd.
The problem there is that Ospreay just lost his challenge to Jon Moxley for the Continental Championship. So to get to Wembley, Ospreay would likely need to win the Owen Hart Cup and the title shot that comes with it. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the same blueprint AEW used for Bryan Danielson in 2024: injuries, a losing streak, a last-chance tournament win, and climactic victory in London. (Hopefully Ospreay’s postscript will last longer than Danielson’s did.)
So who will Ospreay be challenging? AEW has already booked MJF to defend his World Championship against Darby Allin at Spring BreakThru, only three days after his victory against Kenny Omega. And Omega is likely to hang around the championship scene as well, having visually pinned MJF for over a dozen seconds at Dynasty. We can probably expect the three of them to battle for the belt from now through the summer, perhaps with Andrade El Idolo and Swerve Strickland getting involved as well.
It’s worth pointing out that AEW’s next pay per view is Double or Nothing in Queens, New York, not far from MJF’s backyard. He’s almost certain to main event that show, but will he be going in as champion or challenger?
One name not in the world title mix: Hangman Page. Page has not been seen since losing to MJF at Revolution and thus, allegedly, will never challenge for the world championship again as per the stipulation. So Page needs a new goal. Jon Moxley, meanwhile, needs a new challenger for his Continental Championship after beating Ospreay. Putting the two together would be rematch of the main event of All In: Texas, AEW’s biggest show of 2025. (They have had one singles rematch since then, with Page beating Moxley on Dynamite last July.)
One more match seems certain for Double or Nothing: it seems like Kazuchika Okada and Konosuke Takeshita have finally, finally split, and the two will likely face off for Okada’s International Championship.
Elsewhere:
- Surprisingly, FTR defeated Adam Copeland & Christian Cage at Dynasty to retain the World Tag Team Championships. In the days leading up to that match, Cage & Copeland had a staredown wth the Young Bucks, who would then beat Okada & Takeshita at Dynasty. Booking Cope & Cage against the Bucks for a title shot, only for FTR to interfere and set up a three-way instead, sounds like a very WWE thing to do. In this instance, it might also make the most sense.
- Kevin Knight is your new TNT Champion and has a bevy of Death Riders, Don Callis Family members, and La Faccion Ingobernable luchadors set to challenge him. He will be defending against Claudio Castagnoli on Wednesday at Spring BreakThru. It also seems inevitable that he’ll be defending against Speedball Bailey in a teacher-vs.-student matchup somewhere down the road.
- In the women’s division, Willow Nightingale will obviously be defending the TBS Championship against Kamille, who laid her out twice on Sunday night. As for Thekla, after defeating Jamie Hayter at Dynasty, her next challenger for the AEW Women’s World Championship might be Hayter’s tag team partner, Alex Windsor, who defeated Marina Shafir at Zero Hour.
- I wouldn’t spend too much time thinking about the Conglomeration and the World Trios Championships. Those titles have already changed hands five times in three and half months this year. They seem to be AEW’s answer to New Japan’s Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships: an excuse to put a lot of bangers on shows without a lot of dominant champions or long-term story developments.
