AEW Dynamite 2/18/2026

AEW Dynamite 2/18/2026

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/aew-dynamite-2112026.html

We are in Sacramento, CA. Excalibur, Bryan Danielson and Tony Schiavone are on commentary.

Mina wants the title tonight. Willow says she can lose a title without losing a fall tonight and says may the best woman win. Swerve Strickland says he needs this tonight. Kenny Omega says Swerve has gotten in his way. He says he will keep getting in his way until he's not.

Orange Cassidy is interviewed. He is asked if he has a replacement partner tonight. He brings in Tomohiro Ishii. 

AEW Continental Title Eliminator Match - Jon Moxley vs Mark Davis

Mark shoves him off the lock up. They wristlock each other. Mox side headlocks him and takes shoulderblocks. Mark bodyblocks him. Mark hits chops and forearms in the corner. Mox hits chops and forearms. Mark blocks a sunset flip with a butt drop. Mark hits forearms. 

Mark chops him outside. Mark punches the post when Mox moves. Mox topes him. Mox stomps Mark's hand on the steps and Mark's hand is busted open. We go to PiP break and return.

Mark maybe running hip attacks him against the rails. Mox bites Mark's bloody hand then superplexes him. Mox hits shots to the gut. Mark misses a butt drop and Mox PK's him for 1. Mark forearms him down. Mark enzugiri's him. Mox cutters him.

Mark backdrops him. Mox hits lariats. Mark lariats him down. Mark misses a corner charge and is rolled up for 2. Mark gutwrench piledrivers him for 2. Mox slaps him then Mark lariats him. Mox curstomps him. They lariat battle. Mox rolls him into a bulldog choke and wins.

Thoughts: I liked it. It was the usual strike heavy Mox math. Mark bled from the hand which is a rarity in wrestling. They stiffed each other good here and I thought it helped Mark out a little. Mox won as expected.

Adam Page does a promo after Grand Slam. He says Idolo is one of the best but it wasn't good enough. He says if MJF kicks him in the balls again, he will ruin any idea of his of a happy future. He says MJF better pray he doesn't win as he is coming for him at Revolution for the title. He says he will end him to take it.

FTR and Big Stoke come out to the ring to talk. Dax says he's trying to understand why The Bucks cheapshotted them. He says The Bucks were the best tag team in 2016. He says they are sitting in second place in 2026. Stoke says the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results. He says The Bucks do it and it p!ssed him off. He says The Bucks shook hands with The Rascalz and Private Party last week and says The Bucks tried to run Private Party out of the company. He says that's the fakeness he hates about FTR and this company.

He says Matt and Nick Jackson are on the top of his hate list along with his kids, who he says walks around like domestic terrorists. The Bucks appear in the ring and superkick FTR. Stoke keeps talking and sees The Bucks. My feed cuts out but somehow Stoke ends out of the wheelchair. The Bucks say they are #1 contenders to the tag titles and say they want to challenge FTR at Revolution.

Brody King and Bandido talk after Grand Slam. King says he was close to winning the title. He says he can taste it and says MJF weaseled his way into another win. King says he will get himself in the world title hunt and is looking for a fight.

AEW TBS Title - Willow Nightingale (c) vs Mina Shirakawa vs Marina Shafir vs Megan Bayne

Mina is thrown out. Willow is hit in the gut. The heels chop her. Shafir hits gut shots on Willow and Meg lariats Willow. Willow lariats Meg over the top. Willow cannonballs the heels off the apron. Mina top rope plancha's the other 3 outside.

Mina slingshot tornillos Shafir. Shafir hits chops. Willow hits a double codebreaker on the heels. She hits a corner splash on both of the heels. Shafir hits Willow in the gut. Meg hurricanrana's Willow off the buckles. Shafir 619 headscissors spikes Willow into the apron. Meg throws Mina onto Shafir and Willow outside.

We go to PiP break and return. Mina kicks Shafir off the buckles. Min rolls over Meg's back onto Shafir. Meg sentons Shafir on accident. Mina slingblades Meg for 2. Willow spinebusters Shafir then Meg and Mina. Marina chops Mina and takes a uraken. Meg lariats Mina. Willow and Meg lariat each other down. 

Willow AA's Meg. Shafir uranage's Willow. Mina implant ddt's Shafir and Meg lariats Mina. Meg topes the others outside. Shafir and Meg trade shots. Meg powerbombs Shafir on the timekeepers table. Willow nearly kills Meg with a top rope release german. Mina top rope dropkicks Willow and buzzsaw kicks her. Mina uraken's her. Willow then cradles Mina and wins.

Thoughts: Meg nearly ended up on her head twice here and got so close to breaking her neck on the top rope german spot. Trusting Willow to do a top rope move on you is basically suicide. The match worked better than I expected but we were so close to disaster here.

The commentators talk about a WWE TV director who passed away this week.

Adam Page and MJF come out to talk to each other. MJF says he hates everything about him. He talks about all the stuff he hates about him. He says it makes him want to puke that he beat him twice. He says Page is a lucky shot. 

He says something is off about Page. He says Page might think people will think he is a fraud if he wins the title for a 3rd time and crumbles. He says Page is a lucky shot but is all out of bullets.

Page questions being called the lucky shot. He says he beat the dog sh!t out of him twice. He says the lucky shot is MJF, who had a shot, waiting for it, got new hair, put himself in a 4-way and won the title off a nut shot. Page says he hates MJF more. He says when he sees him, he has never met someone more like him. 

He says MJF is desperate for love and acceptance and is loyal to AEW. He says he is like him. Pge says others want the title but they need it. Page says he wants to end this forever at Revolution. Page says they should have a stipulation for their match and let the fans decide. MJF says he wants a normal match. Page says he won't challenge for the AEW Title again if he loses. MJF says he needs a week or two to think about it and says he doesn't shoot first and ask later like him. Page says he wants a Texas Death Match.

The Death Riders do a promo. Mox says they are like coyotes or survivors. Pac says Don Callis' crew are not like them. He challenges them for a tag match. Garcia says family is a title for them and they aren't winning to live or die for it. Mox says he's not done with Takeshita. He says no time limits next time and says there must be a winner.

The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy and Tomohiro Ishii) vs Gabe Kidd and Clark Connors

Gabe and OC duck attacks. CC hits Ishii from behind then Gabe chop Ishii. CC chops Ishii. Ishii no sells it and chops back. OC then does his stupid weak chops on CC. CC is double chopped down for 2.

OC top rope diving lariats CC. OC's tope is caught by Gabe. Gabe chops him down outside then exploders him on the floor. CC pounces OC on the floor and Gabe runs Ishii over on the floor. We go to PiP break and return.

CC runs at OC and OC dropkicks him. Gabe and Ishii chop each other. Ishii shoulders Gabe over. They slap each other. Gabe lariats him. Ishii is down and is holding his hip. CC lariats him for 2. Ishii backdrops CC. Ishii lariats Gabe then CC powerslams IShii. OC spinning ddt's CC then topes Gabe. CC eye rakes Ishii. Darby Allins comes out and attacks Gabe then takes him away from the match. CC takes an orange punch and Ishii brainbusters CC to win.

Thoughts: Ishii definitely hurt his hip here and they should have gotten him out of here. Ishii also busted his nose open. OC did his usual screwing around here. The match was stiff and like the opener, was filled with lots of strikes.

The Don Callis Family is beating up people in the back. Josh Alexander accepts The Death Riders' challenge. Don Callis says he accepts the challenge on Takeshita's behalf. Okada says he was here unlike Takeshita. Andrade says his eyes are on the AEW Title. Don says Claudio's CMLL Heavyweight Title would look incredible on their mantle. The Family then all gets hyped up.

Hook does a promo. He says The Opps are recruiting. He says he sent Shibata to Japan for international recruiting. Hook says he handles domestic recruiting. He says he's the greatest 2nd gen wrestler of all time and the boss of The Opps. 

The Brawling Birds (Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor) vs Viva Van and B3CCA

Alex hits gut shots on Van. She side headlocks her then forearms and clubs her. Van hits shots on her. Van takes an atomic drop into a sunset flip and running boot. Jamie pounds on Van and suplexes her. Van is chopped by her opponents in the corner. Van escapes a double suplex.

Becca comes in and hits shots on her opponents. Becca takes a double forearm then hits a double springboard stunner. Becca is catapulted into a uranage backbreaker. Becca is lariated. Becca takes a sandwich lariat then a spinebuster + flying lariat combo. Becca is pinned.

Thoughts: It was mostly all squash as expected. I don't expect The Birds to be around that long but at least they won here in their debut as a team.

Thunder Rosa and Kris Statlander are interviewed. Kris says she wants to fight Thekla if she's not too busy fighting for her. Rosa says she doesn't like what Thekla did to Kris then says says something in Spanish. Kris tells Rosa that Thekla is dangerous and to watch her back.  

Jetspeed does an inset promo. Kevin says if Mortos can beat him, he will give LFI a title shot.

Kevin Knight vs The Beast Mortos

They go out to start. KK step up diving lariats him on the apron. Mort flying forearms him. Mort misses a flying knee in the corner and goes out. KK slingshot plancha's Mort outside over the top buckle. We go to PiP break and return.

Mort eye rakes him. KK is thrown over the top and he lands face first on the apron. Mort tornillo topes him through the ropes. Mort pop-up samoan drops him. Mort headbutts KK. KK dropkicks him. 

KK jumping lariats Mort. KK slams him then jumping frogsplashes him for 2. Mort is seated up top and KK jumping hurricanrana's him. KK pendulum ddt's him. KK hits a 180 frogsplash off the top and wins.

Thoughts: It was a random but okay bout here. The result was kind of dumb as Mort was supposed to get a title shot for winning this, but he lost. This was all flying as you would expect.

The Demand do a promo. Ric says he put Jack Perry in the dirt and can move onto other issues - getting his boys gold. They complain about the tag titles not being defended and challenge them for the titles on Saturday. Ric says they will take the titles Saturday. They then see that someone has put a knife on their name tag on their locker room door. 

Kenny Omega vs Swerve Strickland

They lock up and SS shoulders him over. They shove each other and KO slaps him. KO side headlocks him then shoulders him over. SS slaps him. They trade forearms. KO hurricanrana's him. SS lariats him then headscissors him down. SS fosbury flops him outside. 

KO is sent into the rails. KO sends SS over the rails. KO moonsaults him off the rail. We go to PiP break and return. They trade punches. KO boots him out of the corner. SS hiptosses him and KO suplexes him. KO hits polish hammer shots. 

KO dropkicks him in the knee then over the back fameassers him. KO punts him then headbusters him for 2. KO finlay rolls him into an asai moonsault for 2. SS spin kicks him in the face. SS is dropped face first on the rope connector/post. KO dragon suplexes him then running knees him for 2.

KO hits knees to the face. SS backbreakers him then dropkicks him to the apron. KO's head is banged off the buckles. KO dragon suplexes him on the apron. They fight on the apron. SS flips off a german suplex from the apron and lands on his feet. SS brainbusters him on the floor. SS top rope 450's KO's back for 2. KO pumping knees him from behind in the corner. KO hits a top rope release dragon suplex for 2. SS pulls the ref into his way and KO pumping knees the ref. SS rolls him and hits a house call kick. The ref is down and can't count.

SS top rope double stomps KO on the apron. SS catapults KO's throat into the exposed bottom rope connector. SS top rope double stomps KO for 2. KO dragon suplexes him. KO pumping knees him from behind then KO dragonrana's him. SS pump kicks him. KO flying pumping knees him. SS flying kicks him. SS hits a JML driver and wins.

Thoughts: They did too much as usual here with them taking suplexes on the apron, floor and off the top and them not meaning much. It was all action without much of a story or heels vs faces. Some people will love this, but it wasn't the smartest match.

Swerve pounds on Kenny after and throws the ref out. Swerve chokes Kenny with a chain then hangs him over the top rope with it. They get on the steps and Swerve vertebreakers Kenny through the commentary table. Swerve says he needed this.

Overall thoughts: It was a wrestling heavy show as usual. It was a stiff and dangerous night here as Ishii got hurt and Megan Bayne nearly got dropped on her head twice. Mark Davis also got his hand busted open pretty good. I liked the opener. The women's match went better than I thought it would but Bayne almost got hurt twice. OC hurt Ishii's match as he had to do his usual goofing around. Knight/Mortos was okay. They did a bit too much in the main for me. I'd give this a 6 out of 10 as it was an okay show overall.