AEW Dynamite Notes: Taz Makes Commentary Return, Alec Price & Jordan Oliver Make Official AEW In-Ring Debut, Thekla Accepts Kris Statlander’s Challenge, TNT Title Match Moved to 1/28 Show, AEW Women’s Title Match and More Set for 1/28 Show Card, 1/24 Collision Show Card

Jan 21, 2026

Taz Makes Commentary Return

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida featured Taz making his return to AEW’s Dynamite commentary team.

At the start of the show, Excalibur welcomed everyone to the show and Taz’s return to commentary.

Welcome back to the announce desk @OfficialTAZ!

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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) January 22, 2026

This was Taz’s first appearance in AEW since this past October due to total shoulder replacement surgery.

Alec Price & Jordan Oliver Make Official AEW In-Ring Debut

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured recently signed indies talents Alec Price and Jordan Oliver making their official in-ring debut for their AEW careers.

Price & Oliver competed in a tag team match against FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) on the show, which was won by FTR.

Just as @ThePrizeCityOG + @TheJordanOIiver were making their entrance, Big Stoke sends a message to Davis + Doyle!

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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) January 22, 2026

Thekla Accepts Kris Statlander’s AEW Women’s World Title Challenge

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured Triangle of Madness (Julia Hart, Skye Blue, & Thekla) responding to AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander’s match challenge.

During the show, Triangle of Madness were seen backstage. Thekla talked about their recent issues with Statlander and the Babes of Wrath. Thekla brought up how she pinned Statlander last week and accepted Statlander’s challenge and stated that she gets her shot at the AEW Women’s World Championship at next week’s show. Blue and Hart then talked about the Babes of Wrath and Hart issued a challenge to Willow Nightingale for her TBS Championship.

.@toxic_thekla responds to what the #AEW Women’s World Champion @callmekrisstat said last week, while @TheJuliaHart calls out TBS Champion @willowwrestles!

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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) January 22, 2026

In a follow-up segment, Statlander and Babes of Wrath were seen backstage and responded to Triangle of Madness’ comments earlier. Statlander accepted Thekla’s request to put her AEW Women’s World title on the line and Nightingale accepted Hart’s challenge for her TBS title. It was announced afterwards that these matches were made official for this week’s Collision and next week’s Dynamite shows.

#AEW Women’s World Champion @callmekrisstat responds to the “toxic” challenge from @toxic_thekla, while TBS Champion @willowwrestles answers @TheJuliaHart’s callout!

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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) January 22, 2026

Current Card For Next Week’s Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured three new matches announced for the card of next week’s show on January 28th at the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park in Cedar Park, Texas.

In regards to the new matches, the previously scheduled TNT Championship match of El Clon vs. Mark Briscoe (c) was moved from this Saturday’s AEW Collision show to next week’s Dynamite show due to weather related issues causing AEW to cancel their plans to hold this week’s Collision show live.

The new matches announced were:

AEW Women’s World Championship – Thekla vs. Kris Statlander (c)
AEW TNT Championship – El Clon vs. Mark Briscoe (c)

Current card for January 28th AEW Dynamite show:

AEW Women’s World Championship – Thekla vs. Kris Statlander (c)
AEW TNT Championship – El Clon vs. Mark Briscoe (c)
AEW World Tag Team Championship – Davis & Doyle (Mark Davis & Jake Doyle) vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (c)

Current Card for This Week’s AEW Collision Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured six new matches announced for the card of this week’s AEW Collision show on January 24th.

This upcoming show was taped on Wednesday, January 21st at the Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida as part of that night’s Dynamite show at the same venue.

The new matches announced were:

TBS Championship – Julia Hart vs. Willow Nightingale (c)
Protoshita (Kyle Fletcher & Konosuke Takeshita) vs. Austin & Billy Gunn
Davis & Doye (Mark Davis & Jake Doyle) vs. mystery opponents
Andrade El Idolo vs. Magnus
Hangman Adam Page vs. Katsuyori Shibata
Kris Statlander vs. Isla Dawn

Current card for January 24th AEW Collision show:

TBS Championship – Julia Hart vs. Willow Nightingale (c)
CMLL World Heavyweight Championship – Roderick Strong vs. Claudio Castagnoli (c)
Protoshita (Kyle Fletcher & Konosuke Takeshita) vs. Austin & Billy Gunn
Davis & Doye (Mark Davis & Jake Doyle) vs. mystery opponents
Andrade El Idolo vs. Magnus
Hangman Adam Page vs. Katsuyori Shibata
Kris Statlander vs. Isla Dawn