All Elite Wrestling is live tonight with their AEW Revolution 2026 pay-per-view from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California.
As soon as the clock strikes 7/6c, the ‘Zero Hour’ pre-show gets underway, streaming live across AEW’s digital platforms and partner platforms. A video package for the pay-per-view as a whole starts things off. We then shoot inside Crypto.com Arena where Renee Paquette welcomes us to the show as the camera pans the venue.
The camera settles on the entrance ramp, where Paquette is joined by Jeff Jarrett and RJ City. All three are dressed to the nines. RJ City tells the Academy Awards to kick rocks, and tells the viewing audience that this is where the stars are tonight. He and Jarrett explain the many ways you can watch tonight’s event.
They run down the lineup, starting with the TBS title tilt, AEW National title Blackjack Battle Royal and tag-team tilt involving the Boom & Doom duo of “Big BOOM” AJ and QT Marshall. That takes us into the PPV card, which they run down as the official match graphics flash on the screen and the crowd reacts to each in the background.
Boom & Doom vs. The Infantry
Things are sent down to Excalibur, Tony Schiavone and Nigel McGuinness at ringside for our opening pre-show contest. The Infantry, Carlie Bravo and Sean Dean, two of the ROH Six-Man Tag-Team Champions, make their way to the ring.
Lexy Nair interviews actor, singer and comedian Wayne Brady at ringside. He likes Ricochet and Swerve Strickland. The fire pyro erupts and out comes Boom & Doom, Big BOOM! AJ and QT Marshall, along with Big Justice and The Rizzler.
They hug family members at ringside and clap hands with Wayne Brady as they settle in the ring. Once they get in the ring, AJ and Marshall are attacked by Bravo and Dean before the bell rings. They fight back and it is Dean and AJ who kick things off for their respective teams.
As The Infantry settle into a comfortable early offensive lead, Dean and Bravo jaw at Wayne Brady at ringside, before taking back over in the ring. They utilize frequent tags to keep Marshall isolated on their side of the ring. The Rizzler tries swooning the valet for The Infantry for a big pop.
The Infantry hit the old-school Bronco Buster on Marshall in the corner. After Dean slips up on the top-rope, Marshall takes over and tags in Big BOOM! AJ, who begins his fired up offensive comeback for his team as the crowd comes to life.
Dean and Bravo take over, and begin beating down AJ. They get a super close two-count and then go for a double-team spot, which AJ avoids. Marshall hits the ring for a pair of Cutters off the ropes. He goes for a dive, but Shane Taylor pulled the top-rope down and he crashed and burned on the floor.
Shane Taylor punks out Wayne Brady, who calmly stands up, takes his glasses off and b*tch-slaps him. Taylor yanks Brady up and slams him over the barricade. The Rizzler tries to get in his face and he shoves him down. Big Justice comes running around the corner and spears him.
Big BOOM! AJ climbs to the top-rope, meanwhile, and hits a big dive onto the pile of bodies on the floor. Back in the ring, he hoists up his opposition and he and Marshall hit their Booms-day Device double-team finisher for the pin fall victory.
Winners: Boom & Doom
TBS Championship
Willow Nightingale (c) vs. Lena Kross
Now we gear up for our second of three advertised matches on the pre-show, which is the first of two pre-show title tilts scheduled. The reigning and defending TBS Champion Willow Nightingale makes her way out, as does her challenge, a newcomer to the scene in AEW in Lena Kross.
The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with this one. Nightingale enjoys some early offensive control, but it isn’t long before she finds herself on the wrong end of a prolonged one-sided beatdown at the hands of Kross, who comes close on many occasions to getting a three-count.
Despite that fact, however, Nightingale manages to hang on throughout the first several minutes of the contest. The two trade vicious shots back-and-forth that echo throughout the Crypto.com Arena. Nightingale gets Kross down in the corner and stomps a mud-hole in here. She backs up and goes for the cannonball’, but Kross moves.
Kross looks to capitalize with a split-legged moonsault, but Nightingale moves. Kross scoops Nightingale up for a Jackhammer, but Nightingale escapes, hits a back-slide on Kross and holds her in position for the three-count to retain. Megan Bayne and Lena Kross immediately attack her. Harley Cameron chases them off with a pipe.
Winner and STILL TBS Champion: Willow Nightingale
21-Man BlackJack Battle Royal For AEW National Championship
The pre-match video package airs to set the stage for our third and final pre-show match here at AEW Revolution ‘Zero Hour.’ The match features Ricochet defending his AEW National Championship against several other competitors, including Tommaso Ciampa and many others.
We return live to several of the competitors already being shown at ringside. Getting their own ring entrances are Scorpio Sky, El Clon, Rocky Romero and Trent Beretta of The Don Callis Family. Daniel Garcia, representing The Death Riders, comes out next.
Coming out after that on the challengers side of things is former TNT Champion Tommaso Ciampa. “The Psycho Killer” gets a good reaction coming out, as the commentators sing his praises as one of the odds-on favorites in this high-stakes multi-man match. The Bang Bang Gang trio also come out.
Jurassic Express, in a special bus shown arriving into the parking garage of the Crypto.com Arena, get a big entrance. Jack Perry comes out of the bus by himself as Tarzan Boy plays and the crowd loudly sings along inside the building as L.A.’s own emerges.
Finally, the familiar sounds of Ricochet’s entrance tune hits and out comes The Demand leader accompanied by The Gates of Agony duo of Bishop Kaun and Toa Leona. Referees make Ricochet come to the ring alone. The 21-Man BlackJack Battle Royal is now officially off-and-running.
