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AEW DYNAMITE REPORT
NOVEMBER 11, 2026
WEST VALLEY CITY, UTAH AT MAVERIK CENTER
AIRED ON DELAY ON TBS & HBO MAX
REPORT BY WADE KELLER, PWTORCH EDITOR
Commentators: Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, Taz
Ring Announcer: Justin Roberts
Attendance: WrestleTix reported earlier this week that 2,019 tickets had been distributed; arena is set up for 2,456. The arena has a capacity of 12,600 spectators when configured for wrestling.
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[HOUR ONE]
-As the camera panned the crowd, Excalibur introduced the show. He, Tony Schiavone, and Nigel Guinness ran through the scheduled matches for this Dynamite and Collision extended Wednesday AEW episode. They hyped the Full Gear main event of Will Ospreay vs. Kyle Fletcher and said it was up next.
-Highlights aired of the especially bloody and violent Blood & Guts matches last week.
-A clip aired of Will Ospreay walking into the locker room where The Young Bucks, Steven Borden, and Adam Copeland were sitting and soaking up the disappointing loss. Will Ospreay walked in and kneeled in front of Copeland. He said he would break the silence. He said they quit on them, including the kids in Young Bucks shirts. Copeland sharply told Ospreay to “shut up!” He said he was getting tired of this. He said he had to retire for nine years because of choices he made. He said that’s on him. He told Ospreay that at age 33, he’s got a double fusion in his neck and he’ll end up with a third like he has, and it sucks waking up with that. He said if they can’t understand that, “then maybe this isn’t the place for me, maybe it’s passed me by.” The others called half-heartedly for Copeland to come back.
-They went to the announcers at ringside to react. Schiavone said the Ospreay that walked into that locker room ended up a different person because of what he heard. He said injuries are part of pro wrestling, but neck injuries are the worst kind.
(Keller’s Analysis: First, I give them credit that, as they threw to the video, they explained that the camera followed Ospreay into the locker room because Tony Schiavone was on his way to try to interview Ospreay. The weakness of this angle is that Copeland quit to prevent Ospreay from taking a screwdriver to his neck or eye or face. It wasn’t a typical dangerous wrestling move. Copeland was saying he could end up with a neck problem, when in reality, had he not quit on behalf of his team, the situation was presenting the possibility of a stabbing via screwdriver. So Ospreay being upset seems rather ludicrous given the context. Ospreay could have said something along these lines: “He wasn’t going to stab me and you should have known that. He was just threatening to in order to get you to quit because he knows you see yourself as some father-figure looking out for us and you’d cave in. You let us down.” It’s not perfect, but it better fits the circumstances and the follow-up they went with here. If they were going to go with the neck fusion being the key reason Copeland quit, Ospreay’s neck should have been in a precarious position to be twisted and landed on or snapped, rather than a stabbing by screwdriver being the threat when Copeland quit.)
-Fletcher made his way to the ring to his entrance theme, accompanied by Don Callis. Then Ospreay made his entrance.
Announced Matches & Other Notes
- Tommaso Ciampa vs. “Speedball” Mike Bailey – AEW National Championship match
- Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin) vs. FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) (w/Stokely) – Best-of-5 Series, match #5 (tied 2-2)
- Mercedes Moné & Jay White vs. Jon Moxley & Marina Shafir
- Brodido (Bandido & Brody King) vs. The New Level (Austin Creed & Kofi)
- Will Ospreay & Kyle Fletcher face-to-face
