AEW: Darby Allin Makes Surprise Return at 7/10 Dynamite Show, New Matches Set for 7/12 Rampage, 7/13 Collision, & 7/17 Dynamite Shows, New Mystery Masked Wrestler Identity Revealed

Darby Allin Makes Surprise Return at Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Calgary, Alberta, Canada featured Darby Allin making his surprise return.

During the show, The Elite’s Brandon Cutler was seen backstage on the ground in pain and talking to someone off-screen pleading for no more beatings. This mystery attacker revealed himself to be Allin making his surprise return. Allin proceeded to attack Cutler again and then called out Jack Perry asking what he said about they all need to make sacrifices. Allin stated that Brandon just made his and asked The Elite if they really thoughts this was over. Allin issued a challenge to Perry for a match at next week’s Dynamite 250th show in Little Rock, Arkansas.

This was Allin’s first appearance in AEW since this past May’s Double or Nothing 2024 event.


Current Cards for July 12th AEW Rampage, July 13th Collision, & July 17th AEW Dynamite Shows

AEW announced several new matches for the card of this Friday’s AEW Rampage show and this Saturday’s AEW Collision show, the latter being taped on Wednesday at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary. Alberta, Canada. AEW also announced two new matches for the card of next week’s AEW Dynamite show on July 17th at the Simmons Bank Arena in Little Rock, Arkansas.

All of these matches were setup following promo segments and match card graphics throughout Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show.

Current card for July 12th AEW Rampage show:

  • Trios match – Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor, Lee Moriarty, & Anthony Ogogo) vs. Top Flight (Darius & Dante Martin) & Action Andretti)
  • Kings of the Black Throne (Malakai Black & Brody King) vs. Premier Athletes (Tony Nese & Ari Daivari)
  • Thunder Rosa vs. Rachael Ellering
  • Roderick Strong vs. Ben Bishop

Current card for July 13th AEW Collision show:

  • Konosuke Takeshita vs. “Dynamite Kid” Tommy Billington

Current card for July 17th AEW Dynamite 250th Show:

  • AEW International Championship – MJF vs. Will Ospreay
  • Champion vs. Champion match – AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland vs. AEW Continental Champion Kazuchika Okada

Update on Identity of AEW’s New Masked Wrestler “Hologram” Vignette

As noted before, this past Saturday’s AEW Collision show in Southaven, Mississippi featured a “hologram” vignette teasing the upcoming debut of a new mystery masked person in AEW.

Bodyslam.net’s Cassidy Haynes reported that his sources stated that the identity of this new mystery masked person is former Lucha Libre AAA and Major League Wrestling talent Aramis.

Haynes reported that those spoken to stated that Aramis will not be using his former ring name in AAA and instead will be debuting under a new persona. Haynes also reported that Aramis’ deal with AEW came together over the last few weeks after AAA was unable to re-sign him to a new deal.

Haynes also reported that AEW officials plans for Aramis’s debut and a potential debut date are currently not known beyond him having a “hacker” type gimmick for his new character.

LuchaBlog reported that his sources confirmed Haynes’ report about the identity of this new masked wrestler being Aramis.