AEW Sets Continental Cup Semifinals, MJF-Andrade Face-Off for Dynamite

AEW heads across the pond for the first stop of All In week, with Dynamite airing live from OVO Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland on Wednesday, August 26, on TBS and HBO Max. The show doubles as the final tune-up before All In: London, which takes place four days later at Wembley Stadium, and the Glasgow card is stacked with stakes that bleed directly into that show.

The headline attraction is the Continental Challenge Cup semifinals, which will crown both finalists for the C3 championship match at Wembley. AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley squares off with fellow Death Rider Claudio Castagnoli in a rematch of last year’s Continental Classic, which Castagnoli won. Moxley has been dominant in one-on-one competition throughout 2026, with only Castagnoli and Konosuke Takeshita managing singles victories over him since last December. Wheeler Yuta has groused that the blind draw was bad luck for the Death Riders, pitting two allies against each other, but both men have shrugged off the narrative heading into the match.

In the other semifinal, Kyle O’Reilly of The Conglomeration takes on Nigel McGuinness, who advanced despite a lingering ankle injury by upsetting Hechicero. O’Reilly, a noted submission specialist, has already worked through two of his own stablemates on the way to this point, tapping out Orange Cassidy this past Saturday on Collision after previously getting past Roderick Strong. McGuinness also has extra motivation following an emotional conversation with Will Ospreay after last week’s Dynamite, with his countryman urging him to see this run through.

Elsewhere on the card, the Casino Gauntlet Match storyline heats up ahead of All In: London. MJF, who drew the #2 entry spot, is scheduled to appear in Glasgow just days after his translator Jonathan Cruz was sent to confront the #1 entrant, AEW National Champion Andrade El Ídolo, only to be blindsided and finished off with Día de los Muertos and The DM. MJF later needled Andrade from home, needling him about staring up at the lights of Wembley. Andrade, tired of MJF hiding behind translators and pre-recorded jabs, is also set to speak in Glasgow before the two open the Gauntlet Match on Sunday.

The show also features the first-ever singles meeting between Swerve Strickland and “Jungle” Jack Perry. The two have been at odds since Swerve told Perry, following his loss to Moxley in the Continental Classic, that he wasn’t ready to run with AEW World Title-level competition. Perry mulled it over for a week before firing back with a challenge to face Swerve directly, noting he has ties to Scotland heading into the bout.

With the Continental Cup finalists being decided and the Casino Gauntlet rivalry boiling over just days before Wembley, this Dynamite functions as a pressure valve for multiple storylines converging on All In: London. Whoever survives Moxley-Castagnoli and O’Reilly-McGuinness inherits a direct path to championship gold on wrestling’s biggest international stage, while the verbal exchange between MJF and Andrade could shape the tone of their looming showdown to open the Gauntlet. Strickland and Perry, meanwhile, get a chance to settle a credibility argument with the AEW World Title picture watching closely.