AEW All in, Fight Forever, WWE live events, Rosemary, Takahashi, Alex Windsor, Writers, Debunkathon (Patreon)

Regarding Mike Straw's report of AEW losing $30 million on AEW Fight Forever, we're told that AEW still does own the engine for the game. They could produce a game in the future for a significantly lower cost as a result.

Wrestling Observer's report about AEW limiting pyro for All In appears to be true. We're told there will still be some pyro.

There are numerous special entrances being worked on for AEW All In.

It was stressed to Fightful that WWE is looking to get some viral moments emerge from their live events, even if they're basic talent interactions.

WWE has internally touted Friday's Smackdown as the highest grossing they've ever had in Toronto.

Rosemary's injury happened at a recent Firestar show. She's expected to miss significant time.

Allie Katch and Tiara James were among the extras at ROH Death Before Dishonor, along with some additional Philadelphia based independent wrestlers.

Hiromu Takahashi has been under WWE contract for a number of months.

Alex Windsor

Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful spoke to Alex Windsor ahead of her World Tag Team Title match at AEW All In.

She told Fightful that she had actually never met Jamie Hayter before a match that they had in EVE in 2025. However, after their chemistry in the ring, she wondered if they would end up being paired together as a tag team, and was very happy that they were. She felt like the Brawling Birds and Divine Dominion have been on a collision course all year. Wrestling at Wembley means a ton to her and she's happy she can just drive to work for once. She said that being able to live at home in the UK was important to she and Will as she's very family oriented.

Windsor said she actually saw Will Ospreay backyarding over 15 years ago and heard all the negative connotations around it, but could tell that he was good immediately. She also said she's always flattered when the Brawling Birds are compared to men's tag teams like APA or the Brawling Brutes.

Raw/SD Writers

August 17th WWE Monday Night RAW Writers And Producers

Writers:

- Stephanie Vaquer, Becky Lynch and Judgment Day segment: Jason Jordan

- Rey Fenix and El Fiscal promos: James Curtin

- Stephanie Vaquer and Becky Lynch backstage segment: Kirsten Koedding

- Lyra Valkyria backstage promo: Kirsten Koedding

- The Usos and Jacob Fatu backstage segment: Michael Kirshenbaum

- The Vision backstage interview: Ben Saccoccio

- Dragon Lee and El Hijo De Dr. Wagner, Jr. promos: James Curtin

Producers:

- Je’Von Evans vs JD McDonagh: Jamie Noble

- Rey Fenix vs El Fiscal: Shane Helms

- Sol Ruca vs Lyra Valkyria: Jason Jordan and Molly Holly

- Bron Breakker, Oba Femi and Paul Heyman segment: Shane Helms

- Dragon Lee vs El Hijo De Dr. Wagner Jr: Petey Williams

- Chad Gables vs Rey Mysterio: Michael Hayes and Bobby Roode

- Solo Sikoa delivered to Roman Reigns: Michael Hayes and Bobby Roode

Other Notes:

- The show was internally titled ‘Delivered.’

August 14th WWE Friday Night SmackDown Writers And Producers

Writers:

- Charlotte Flair, Alexa Bliss and Tatum Paxley backstage segment: Sonda Lacey

- Cody Rhodes, Sami Zayn and Nick Aldis backstage segment: Chad Barbash

- Chelsea Green and Tiffany Stratton backstage segment: Devyn Prieto

- Nick Aldis, Finn Balor and Gunther backstage segment: Pat Lavin

- Jade Cargill interview: Eric Watts

Producers:

- Chelsea Green, Nick Aldis, Gunther and Matt Cardona segment: TJ Wilson

- Matt Cardona vs Gunther: TJ Wilson

- Carmelo Hayes vs Baron Corbin: Abyss

- Kevin Owens and CM Punk segment: Shawn Daivari

- Tag Title Triple Threat Match: Shawn Daivari 

- Tiffany Stratton vs Jacy Jayne: Jason Jordan

- Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton brawl: Michael Hayes and Bobby Roode

Other Notes:

- The show was internally titled ‘Boston Masscare.’ 

Debunkathon

There are a lot of pieces of misinformation and inaccuracies going around regarding notes about AEW letting contracts expire. That's always been their method, but we will go over some others. How that stuff gets aggregated is beyond us.

This one noted Wardlow hasn't wrestled in two and a half years. In that period, he was injured, in a car accident, filmed two seasons of American Gladiators, got injured and had surgery again, and had to get cleared. There was also a period where they could have used him, but all parties decided they shouldn't in order to not stop-start him before filming American Gladiators.

We have disclaimers on our contract articles that injury time has not been added. For some reason, once every few weeks, instead of actually linking to the article, people screenshot it for engagement and leave out all context, claiming a bunch of AEW deals are up next year.

Kind of weird that we have to debunk this. But after the passing of wrestling twitter user "Rovert" aka "SoDuTw," longstanding internet rumors emerged that he stalked Becky Lynch. That was not him. We send our condolences to his family.

The guys claiming credit for the Ilja contract story admitted to Fightful last week that he had no actual information, and called it "opinion" and "bait."