Tonight, All Elite Wrestling returns to pay-per-view with Full Gear 2026, coming to us live from the Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix, Arizona! The action gets underway at 7pm CT on pay-per-view, with the Tailgate Brawl pre-show beginning at 6pm on TNT and HBO Max.
AEW World Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay will defend his title against longtime friend turned rival Kyle Fletcher in the main event, while Mercedes Mone puts the AEW Women’s World Championship on the line against Marina Shafir.
We’ve also got Hangman Page and Brodido defending the World Trios Championship against Swerve Strickland and The New Level in a Texas Death Match, plus the return of Anarchy in the Arena as The Cut battles the Death Riders and The Conglomeration.
With seven championships on the line and eight matches advertised for the main card, it should be a busy night of wrestling.
Let’s take a look at the full card for AEW Full Gear 2026!
AEW Full Gear 2026 Preview at a Glance
- AEW World Championship: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Kyle Fletcher
- AEW Women’s World Championship: Mercedes Mone (c) vs. Marina Shafir
- AEW World Trios Championship — Texas Death Match: Hangman Adam Page & Brodido (Brody King and Bandido) (c) vs. Swerve Strickland & The New Level (Kofi Kingston and Austin Creed)
- AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) (c) vs. Mark Davis & Jake Doyle
- AEW International Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Adam Copeland
- AEW National Championship: Tommaso Ciampa (c) vs. Ilja Dragunov
- AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship: The Brawling Birds (Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor) (c) vs. Wrathlander (Kris Statlander and Harley Cameron)
- Anarchy in the Arena: The Cut (Jay White, David Finlay, Clark Connors, Ace Austin, Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn) vs. The Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Daniel Garcia and Gabe Kidd) & The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy, Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong)
Tailgate Brawl Pre-Show
- AEW TBS Championship — Three-Way Match: Queen Aminata (c) vs. Maya World vs. Persephone
AEW Full Gear Tailgate Brawl Pre-Show begins at 6pm CT on TNT, while the main PPV starts at 7pm.
Stinger’s View
Well Full Gear certainly looks like a great event on paper, and if the prior quality of AEW PPVs are anything to go by then it should be a fantastic event. But, as I’ve been saying for weeks, there’s just too much wrestling between all the TV shows and PPVs, and it gets to be a little ridiculous to keep up with all of it.
WWF has gotten in the habit of doing four matches on PPV, AEW always leans to the other extreme of 8, 9, 10 or more and with the majority of every title on the line. And that’s why I didn’t do individual match previews for this event. And because I won’t be watching the PPV live either, I won’t have full results or commentary up afterwards. I will try to get the quick results up, but that’s going to be it. I’m writing this quick little preview about 15 minutes or so away from the Alabama kickoff. And I will spend the rest of the day watching football, and not wrestling.
Now, having established that I won’t be watching live, I really like this card. Anarchy in the Arena should be extremely chaotic in the best way, the Texas Death Match should be great, and of course Ospreay/Fletcher and Ciampa/Dragunov should be excellent. There’s not a bad match on the card, so if you’re watching this one live, enjoy because it looks like a card that should deliver a phenomenal night of wrestling.
Until next time, this has been Stinger reporting from the rafters of Titanquisitor Hall, where management has graciously approved my request for a night off.
