AEW Dynamite Notes: Samoa Joe Not Cleared To Compete, AEW World Title Match Set for Revolution 2026, Tommaso Ciampa Surprise AEW Debut & Answers TNT Title Challenge, 1/31 Collision Show Card, AEW World Title Contender Series Match & More Set for 2/4 Show Card

Jan 28, 2026

Samoa Joe Not Cleared To Compete Due To Injury

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park in Cedar Park, Texas featured the announcement of Samoa Joe not being medically cleared to compete due to him suffering a non-contact injury while training recently.

No other details were given regarding Joe’s injury situation.

Excalibur says Samoa Joe got injured while training.

We wish Joe a speedy recovery.#AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/CAAIdBNWWD
— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) January 29, 2026

AEW World Title Match Set for Revolution 2026

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured one new match announced for the card of Revolution 2026, which takes place on March 15th at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California.

This new match announced was an AEW World Championship match of winner of Contenders Series vs. MJF (c).

This new match was setup following Tony Schiavone holding a post-match interview with Omega and announced that the winner of Swerve Strickland vs. Andrade El Idolo will face off against Omega at next week’s show as part of a Contenders Series for the AEW World Championship. This Contenders Series was also announced to feature Hangman Page. It was announced that the winner of that match will advance to the #1 Contender’s match at Grand Slam Australia and the winner of that match will face off against MJF for the title at Revolution 2026.

JUST ANNOUNCED! The winner of @SwerveConfident and @AndradeElIdolo will face @KennyOmegamanX NEXT WEEK and the winner of that match will get one step closer to facing @The_MJF at #AEWRevolution!

Watch #AEWDynamite LIVE on TBS & HBO Max pic.twitter.com/sIoD6Z6VsB
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) January 29, 2026

Current card for AEW Revolution 2026:

AEW World Championship match – winner of Contenders Series vs. MJF (c)

Tommaso Ciampa Makes Surprise AEW Debut & Answers TNT Title Challenge

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured former WWE talent Tommaso Ciampa making his surprise official debut in AEW.

Following Mark Briscoe’s victory over El Clon to retain his TNT Championship, Briscoe grabbed the microphone and talked about his open challenge for his TNT title and how much he likes the idea for his title defenses going forward. Briscoe continued stating that it will have a small asterisk since nobody from the Don Callis Family can accept it because he is tired of dealing with them.

This led to the lights going out and a heartbeat visual that slowly stopped beating showing on the big screen. This then led to the words “Psycho Killer” being shown. Ciampa then came out to a roaring reaction from the crowd and made his way to the ring to answer Briscoe’s challenge, which Briscoe accepted. It was announced that this match was made official for this week’s Collision show.

The “Psycho Killer” Tommaso Ciampa has answered @SussexCoChicken‘s challenge #AEWCollision for THIS SATURDAY NIGHT!

Watch #AEWDynamite LIVE on TBS & HBO Max pic.twitter.com/YPnzLL2hZo
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) January 29, 2026

Did Tommaso Ciampa just give @SussexCoChicken‘s TNT Championship reign the kiss of death?!

Watch #AEWDynamite LIVE on TBS & HBO Max pic.twitter.com/5ZhyiHxDpd
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) January 29, 2026

Current Card for This Week’s AEW Collision Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured three new matches and one newly updated match announced for the card of this week’s AEW Collision show on January 31st at the Esports Stadium Arlington in Arlington, Texas.

The new matches announced were:

AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship – Sisters of Sin (Julia Hart & Skye Blue) vs. Babes of Wrath (Willow Nightingale & Harley Cameron) (c)
TNT Championship Open Challenge match – “Psycho Killer” Tommaso Ciampa vs. Mark Briscoe (c)
Darby Allin vs. Clark Connors
The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz) vs. CRU (Action Andretti & Lio Rush)

Current card for January 31st AEW Collision show:

AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship – Sisters of Sin (Julia Hart & Skye Blue) vs. Babes of Wrath (Willow Nightingale & Harley Cameron) (c)
TNT Championship Open Challenge match – “Psycho Killer” Tommaso Ciampa vs. Mark Briscoe (c)
The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz) vs. CRU (Action Andretti & Lio Rush)
Darby Allin vs. Clark Connors

Current Card for Next Week’s AEW Dynamite Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured four new matches announced for the card of next week’s show on February 4th at the Pearl Theater At Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Current card for February 4th AEW Dynamite show:

AEW World Championship Eliminator match – Brody King vs. MJF (c)
AEW World Championship Contenders Series match – Kenny Omega vs. Andrade El Idolo
AEW National Championship – Jungle Jack Perry vs. Ricochet (c)
The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) vs. mystery opponents