AEW Dynamite Notes: Adam Copeland Challenges FTR to N.Y. Street Fight with Special Stip for AEW World Tag Titles for Double or Nothing, Death Riders Save Will Ospreay from Mark Davis Attack, Samoa Joe Returns, TNT Title & AEW World Title Matches Set for 4/29 Show Card, 4/25 Collision Playoff Palooza 2026 Card

Apr 22, 2026

Adam Copeland Challenges FTR to AEW World Tag Titles New York Street Fight with Special Stip for Double or Nothing 2026

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon featured one new potential match for the card of Double or Nothing 2026, which takes place on May 24th at the Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York.

This new potential match was an AEW World Tag Team Championship New York Street Fight match of Cope & Cage (Adam Copeland & Christian Cage) vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (c).

This new potential match was setup following a backstage promo segment involving Copeland talking about how FTR claims they are the best tag team in the world and stated that is not true, they are only one of the best teams. Copeland then talked about FTR’s recent actions towards him and issued a challenge to FTR for their AEW World Tag Team titles in a New York Street Fight match. Copeland continued stating that to make the offer more enticing for FTR to accept, if him and Cage loses, then they will retire as a tag team.

.@RatedRCope issues a challenge for the #AEW World Tag Team Championships at Double or Nothing… but the stakes just got higher!

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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) April 23, 2026

Death Riders Save Will Ospreay from Mark Davis Attack

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured the Death Riders saving Will Ospreay from a post-match attack by Mark Davis.

Following Davis’ victory over Ospreay by referee stoppage after Davis damaged Ospreay’s neck to not allow him to be able to continue, Davis went after Ospreay and continued his attack. Davis then hoisted up Ospreay for a hanging piledriver only to be stopped by Marina Shafir and Jon Moxley who showed up and confronted him. This led to the rest of the Death Riders showing up causing Davis to let go of Ospreay and got of the ring. The Death Riders then grabbed Ospreay and dragged him out of the ring and through the crowd.

The Death Riders are … protecting @WillOspreay?!

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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) April 23, 2026

Samoa Joe Makes Return to AEW

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured Samoa Joe making his return to AEW.

Joe competed in a singles match against Cody Chhun, which was won by Joe. Following the match, HOOK came out to the stage to celebrate Joe’s victory and him being back.

Muscle Buster gets @SamoaJoe the win in his return match!

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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) April 23, 2026

This was Joe’s first appearance in AEW since this past January due to a non-contact injury.

Current Card for Next Week’s AEW Dynamite Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured two new matches announced for the card of next week’s AEW Dynamite show on April 29th at the EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia.

Current card for April 29th AEW Dynamite show:

AEW World Championship – Brody King vs. Darby Allin (c)
TNT Championship – MJF vs. Kevin Knight (c)

Current Card for This Week’s AEW Collision Playoff Palooza 2026 Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured six new matches announced for the card of this week’s AEW Collision Playoff Palooza 2026 show on April 25th.

This upcoming show will be taped on Wednesday, April 22nd at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon as part of that night’s AEW Dynamite show.

Current card for April 25th AEW Collision Playoff Palooza 2026 show:

AEW National Championship – El Clon vs. Jungle Jack Perry (c)
AEW World Trios Championship – Don Callis Family (Lance Archer, Hechicero, & Andrade El Idolo) vs. The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong, & Kyle O’Reilly) (c)
10-Man Tag Team match – The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) & The Rascalz (Zachary Wentz, Myron Reed, & Dezmond Xavier) vs. The Dogs (Clark Connors & David Finlay) & Death Riders (Daniel Garcia, Wheeler Yuta, & Claudio Castagnoli)
Trios match – The Demand (Ricochet & GOA (Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun)) vs. Jericho & The Hurt Syndicate (Shelton Benjamin & Bobby Lashley)
Alex Windsor & Persephone vs. Triangle of Madness (Skye Blue & Thekla)
Kris Statlander vs. mystery opponent