AEW Dynamite Preview: February 18, 2026 – Omega vs. Swerve, MJF & Hangman Face-to-Face, TBS Title 4-Way, More

With plenty of fallout from AEW Grand Slam Australia, AEW Dynamite is LIVE TONIGHT at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on TBS and streaming on HBO Max! We are in Sacramento less than a month before we’ll be back in California for AEW Revolution on March 15 in Los Angeles!

A dream match becomes a reality tonight when Kenny Omega takes on Swerve Strickland. What started as two former AEW World Champions both trying to get back to the mountaintop has quickly gotten personal, leading to a brawl between the two last week. They go one-on-one for the first time in Sacramento!

AEW World Champion MJF is back from Sydney with his Triple B still in his possession and a new challenger determined. He’ll face AEW Trios Champion “Hangman” Adam Page for the AEW World Title at Revolution, but tonight, these two will come face-to-face.

Plus, TBS Champion and AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champion Willow Nightingale will battle “Megasus” Megan Bayne, “The Problem” Marina Shafir and Mina Shirakawa in a 4-Way TBS Championship match, and we’ll see the TV debut of The Brawling Birds, Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor!

That’s just some of what will go down tonight in Sacramento! Here’s your complete AEW Dynamite preview for February 18, 2026.

AEW Dynamite Matches, Preview for Sacramento

Kenny Omega vs. Swerve Strickland

The ecstasy of gold can bring out the best and worst in a wrestler. Omega and Swerve are both proud former AEW World Champions, and as you might expect, both men have confirmed they’ll stop at nothing to get back to that mountaintop. 

Ever since Omega declared his intentions to regain the AEW World Title from MJF, the tension has only grown between Omega and Swerve. Two weeks ago, Andrade El Ídolo and Omega were battling for a chance to move to the #1 contender match at Grand Slam Australia – just a week after Andrade used a low blow on Swerve en route to victory – when Swerve appeared to apparently try to stop Andrade from using a screwdriver on Omega. However, that distraction allowed Andrade to once again use a low blow on his way to beating Omega. And on last week’s Dynamite, Swerve and Omega got into a war of words that turned into a brawl and created tonight’s highly-anticipated showdown.

While both men are still after the AEW World Title, the animosity between them has added an extra layer to their first one-on-one meeting. We won’t have to wait much longer to see two of the best in the business throw down when Omega takes on Strickland tonight!

AEW World Champion MJF and “Hangman” Adam Page Face-to-Face

Thanks to their respective victories at Grand Slam Australia, MJF and Page are set to fight at AEW Revolution on March 15 in Los Angeles with the AEW World Championship on the line! This past Saturday at Grand Slam, Page beat Andrade to earn this opportunity and wasted no time signing the Revolution contract in the ring after MJF defeated Brody King. 

Page beat MJF at last year’s Revolution and then again at Forbidden Door last August in a successful AEW World Title defense – and while MJF regained the AEW World Championship in a 4-Way at Worlds End, Page was not involved in the fall. How will these two heated rivals handle being face-to-face tonight in Sacramento with their Revolution rematch less than a month away?

TBS Title 4-Way Match: TBS and AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champion Willow Nightingale (c) vs. “Megasus” Megan Bayne vs. “The Problem” Marina Shafir vs. Mina Shirakawa

The life of a double champion where the best wrestle is never easy, especially when you have to defend both championships within the span of four days! TBS Champion Willow Nightingale just returned from Grand Slam Australia after beating MegaBad to retain the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Titles alongside her Babes of Wrath partner, Harley Cameron. However, it was after the match that we saw “The Colossal” Lena Kross help lay out The Babes of Wrath and align with Bayne and Penelope Ford, who posed with the title belts of the laid-out championships.

Bayne had the TBS Title in her hands this past Saturday, and tonight is her chance to win her first AEW gold. Shafir and Shirakawa will also be hunting for their first AEW title, so Nightingale certainly has a hungry group of challengers. Can Nightingale turn away three opponents in her second defense of the TBS Title?

The TV Debut of The Brawling Birds

Over the last month, we’ve seen former AEW Women’s World Champion Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor find common ground and form a team. And after a little more bonding, they decided toewf call themselves The Brawling Birds. They’ll make their television debut tonight in the increasingly competitive AEW Women’s Tag Team division in Sacramento! 

How to Watch AEW Dynamite 

• Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2026

• Start Time: 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT

• Location: Sacramento Memorial Auditorium - Sacramento, California

• TV: TBS

• Streaming: HBO Max