Jon Moxley punched his ticket to the Continental Cup final on August 26, 2026, beating Claudio Castagnoli with the Bulldog Choke on the final AEW Dynamite before All In. The win at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland, put Moxley one step away from Sunday’s Wembley Stadium match.
The show opened with Will Ospreay setting the tone for the weekend ahead. He talked about his world title bout against Kenny Omega on Sunday and said nobody respects Omega more than he does, but that changed when Omega mentioned Ospreay’s son in their exchanges.
That made the night more than a routine stop on the way to All In. Ospreay said he had gone from needing neck surgery to fighting for the most important title in AEW at Wembley Stadium, a leap that gives Sunday’s match its weight and its urgency. For him, the stage is not just large; it is the place where the career arc and the body that carried it there meet at the same time.
Moxley’s semifinal also carried its own logic. Castagnoli won the opening test of strength by bringing Moxley to the mat, but Moxley recovered and finished the match in 10 minutes with the Bulldog Choke. The structure of the Continental Cup Challenge now leaves one obvious question in place: who Moxley will face in the final, after the semifinal winners were set to meet at Wembley Stadium in London on Sunday.
That uncertainty sits beside a card that was already getting tighter by the hour. On August 19, Moxley had beaten Jay White on Dynamite, and on August 22, Castagnoli had defeated Daniel Garcia on Collision, which is how both men arrived at this semifinal in Glasgow. Elsewhere on the same episode, Adam Copeland teamed with Nick Jackson and Matt Jackson against Brian Cage, Rocky Romero and Jake Doyle, but the night belonged to the two matches that changed the weekend picture. Moxley now goes into Sunday with a place in the final secured, while Ospreay carries a grudge into his title bout after the line about his son.
By the end of the night, the path to Wembley was clearer than it was when the show opened. Moxley is in the final, Ospreay is in the title match, and AEW has one last unanswered piece before Sunday: who steps across the ring from Moxley when the Continental Cup final arrives.
