All Elite Wrestling is in Coral Gables at the Watsco Center at the University of Miami on Wednesday, Oct. 21 for “AEW Dynamite” live on TBS and streaming on HBO Max.
Masked luchador Bandido will be there, and he’s bringing gold, lots of it.
He is the Ring of Honor world champion and recently teamed with Brody King and Adam “Hangman” Page to win the AEW Trios titles. They defeated Swerve Strickland & New Level (Austin Creed & Kofi) best 2-of-3 falls at “AEW WrestleDream” at Addition Financial Arena at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
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Here is my video interview with the double champ Bandido, an AEW and ROH star.
Bandido has wrestled all over the world for various international wrestling promotions, including CMLL and New Japan Pro Wrestling.
He is the current ROH World Champion, a title he won for the second time in April 2025 when he defeated Chris Jericho at “AEW Dynasty.”
His current reign has lasted more than 560 days, the second longest in the title’s history; Across his two reigns, he has held the title for the most combined days.
Bandido is known for his high-flying lucha-libre style of wrestling, mixed with power moves.
During the summer of 2025, Bandido formed a tag team with Brody King, known as “Brodido”; the duo would go on to win the AEW World Tag Team Championship and hold the titles until November 2025.
In August 2026, at Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Bandido teamed with Brody King & “Hangman” Adam Page to win the AEW World Trios Championship; they held the titles until later that month when they lost them to Swerve Strickland & The New Level at AEW All In: London in Wembley Stadium.
ESPN named Bandido one of the 30 best pro wrestlers Under 30, and recently Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked him No.11 of the top 500 wrestlers in the world.
X for Bandido: https://x.com/bandidowrestler
Facebook for Bandido: https://www.facebook.com/bandidolucha/
AEW tickets: https://www.allelitewrestling.com/aew-events and TicketMaster.
Under the vision of CEO Tony Khan, All Elite Wrestling was launched on January 1, 2019, and has since had a meteoric rise as the first true mainstream wrestling alternative in more than two decades.
AEW produces 4 hours of programming across 2 weekly TV shows, airing on TBS & TNT, and streaming on HBO Max. “AEW Collision” is 8 p.m. Saturdays on TNT.
AEW shows run 52 weeks a year, with no off-season.
AEW travels the world year-round, putting on live events across the US, Mexico, Canada, Europe, Australia, and more.
AEW features the top names in professional wrestling from all over the world, including: Will Ospreay, MJF, Jon Moxley, Mercedes Mone, Swerve Strickland, and more.
AEW is distributed in over 180 countries and in 7 different languages, reaching over 600,000,000 households weekly.
Website: https://www.allelitewrestling.com/.
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Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He also covers pro wrestling, something he’s done since his college days in the late 1980s. Now in his fifth decade of coverage, he currently follows WWE (Raw, SmackDown and NXT), AEW, Ring of Honor, TNA Impact Wrestling, MLW, WOW, NWA, and the South Florida indies, mainly CCW. He writes MMA, too — mostly profile stories and video interviews with American Top Team and Sanford MMA fighters in South Florida. As for pro wrestling, he writes feature stories and profile pieces, updates upcoming show schedules in South Florida, photographs the action and interviews talent (audio and video) — sharing the content here and via social media on his Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel: jim varsallone (jimmyv3 channel).
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