📋 Site Updates

A short explainer video introducing the EWR project — what it is, how ratings work at a high level, and why match quality (not wins, losses or TV ratings) drives everything.

What's covered:

• Why ratings are based purely on match quality, sourced from thousands of Cagematch.net fan votes
• How every wrestler starts at 100 and gains or loses points based on match quality, opponents and match position
• Real examples — Will Ospreay vs Mark Davis (a great match, both wrestlers rise) and Mark Briscoe vs PAC (a weaker match, both wrestlers drop)
• The rating tiers — Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum
• Rankings updated every Wednesday, tracking every wrestler since AEW began in 2019

Watch it on the About section of the homepage, or check out the Instagram Reel.

A dedicated search page for exploring the full EWR database across all five divisions — singles, tag and trios combined in one place.

What's included:

• Search by wrestler or team name, including individual member names for tag and trios teams
• Filter by division, status (active/inactive), year active, and previous ring names
• Faction display names shown throughout, with member names listed below each team card
• Sort by name, current rating, peak rating, or total weeks ranked — card stats update to match
• Previous ring names hidden by default to avoid duplicate entries, with a toggle to show them
• All filter settings preserved when navigating back from a wrestler's stats page

Tag and trios team names now reflect real-world factions where applicable. Instead of listing individual names, combinations of faction members display under their faction name — so Castagnoli, Moxley & Yuta becomes Death Riders, for example.

How it works:

• Any 2+ members of a faction competing together show the faction name
• Partial combos (a faction member teaming with an outsider) display as the faction name alongside the non-member's name
• Overrides preserved — teams with their own established identity (e.g. ProtoShita) keep their name even when members belong to a faction
• Historically accurate — faction membership is applied week-by-week, so archive weeks reflect the correct groupings for that period

Faction names appear across the main rankings, the statistics tab, recently dropped out sections, and individual wrestler pages.

A brand-new Championships page is now live, tracking the prestige of every AEW title through the same match-quality rating system used for the wrestler rankings.

Rather than tracking wins and losses, title prestige is measured by the quality of championship defenses — a title defended in a string of highly-rated matches climbs the rankings; one with forgettable defenses drifts back toward the baseline.

What's on the page:

• All active AEW championships ranked by current rating
• Belt icons colour-coded by title (gold for AEW titles, silver for non-AEW)
• Sortable columns — rank, rating, streak, change, and more
• Toggle between Current Reign and All-Time stats for each title
• Peak and floor ratings for both the current reign and historical all-time records
• Best and worst individual match ratings per reign
• Week archive navigation — browse any week back to June 2019
• "Recently Dropped Out" section for titles that have gone inactive
• Mobile-friendly horizontal scroll