Vignette For New AEW Star (Presumed To Be Ilja Dragunov) Promises WrestleDream Debut - Wrestling Inc.

AEW may be only hours away from finally pulling the trigger on its latest major signing. After weeks of reports and a mysterious vignette on television, Ilja Dragunov is now reportedly expected to make his AEW debut at WrestleDream tonight. According to PWInsider on October 17, the former WWE star is expected to debut during AEW WrestleDream. The report comes just hours before the pay-per-view and after AEW started teasing his arrival on television.

Welcome to Bleacher Report's coverage of AEW WrestleDream 2026.

AEW WrestleDream takes place tonight at Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida. The main event of the show will see AEW World Champion Will Ospreay defend his title in a Clockwork Carnage match against Samoa Joe, Mike Bailey, Adam Copeland, Konosuke Takeshita, Kazuchika Okada, Ricochet, and Darby Allin. Also, Mercedes Moné will defend the AEW […]

It’s a new Wrestling Observer Newsletter from Dave Meltzer with plenty to talk about. There’s a preview of this Saturday’s AEW WrestleDream and all the possibilities for the Clockwork Carnage match for Will Ospreay’s World title. Dave also looks at the sizable AEW influence on NJPW’s King of Pro Wrestling card that now includes Kenny […]

The U. S. Coast Guard searches for a missing Latitude Air Ambulance aircraft off the coast of Nantucket. Niagara Health nurse Sarah Jane Paton was one of the six people aboard the jet that crashed Saturday. Sarah Jane Paton is being remembered as a kind, funny and trusted Niagara Health teammate who fiercely advocated for her patients. Paton, a local hospital system nurse, is among six people presumed dead after a Hamilton-based Latitude Air Ambulance jet crashed over the Atlantic Ocean en route to Boston from Bermuda.