The start of 2026 has seen AEW enter the political spectrum, with anti-ICE chants becoming a commonplace at shows thanks to rising star Brody King and his anti-ICE activism. Though AEW owner Tony Khan has said AEW isn’t a political organization, he has done little to curtail the chants or suggest King be less outspoken, believing his wrestlers have the right to express themselves.

Fellow AEW wrestler Anthony Ogogo is now doing the same when it comes to not being a fan of the anti-ICE chants. Speaking with “Inside the Ropes,” Ogogo didn’t come out against King or anyone else for anti-ICE beliefs. Rather, he feels that wrestling is a place where politics should be left out of the equation, allowing wrestling to be a brief escape from reality.

“When you start bringing up political things into the show, it then brings real life into the show, which should be an escape,” Ogogo said. “That’s one perspective to have, like there’s lots of crazy crap going on in the world, I want to avoid that and watch wrestling for two hours. However, that being said, we have lots of fans, lots of passionate fans, and it’s one of those things where people want to voice their opinions. 

“Ricky Gervais says it very well. Ricky Gervais was hosting the Golden Globes. He’d be like come up here, say thank you and p**s off. Don’t start doing monologues and this and that. It’s almost like that. Come in, wrestle, p**s off. That being said, when I was doing promo, when I was with Cody, I did a promo, five years ago, I was obviously bashing America and I was talking about ICE, so all about leaving politics out and all that, I have done it. I did it five years ago before it was cool to talk about it. It is what it is at the end of the day. Wrestling is all about emotion.”

John Cena and AJ Styles had a memorable clash last year in Australia, which Cena has spoken glowingly about, and he has now detailed a magical moment he experienced thanks to the audience.

Cena and Styles pulled out all the stops in their match at Crown Jewel in Australia, landing moves of numerous of their past opponents, much to the delight of the crowd in Perth. Cena, while speaking at Megacon, lauded the crowd for playing a huge part in that magical match.

“I think like what makes moments is all of us. We all make things special, especially when it comes to live entertainment. The atmosphere in Perth was like something I’d never seen. Never seen that many, like, t-shirts. I know for a fact we didn’t give them away, but it’s like we gave them away,” he said. “So the atmosphere I think really swept everybody up and because the audience was smart enough to understand what we were doing as well, like you can do all this cool stuff that you think is cool but if you guys don’t get it, I’m kind of being selfish.” 

Cena said that he sensed a feeling of serendipity during the match, as the crowd was deeply invested and understood what they were trying to achieve.

“So I think we had a moment of like serendipity where you have these two performers — and AJ shared with me that he was going to retire in January — I really think the world of him that wanted to do something special and make it special, and then you had an audience that kind of understood that.”

The retired WWE star said that he seldom rewatches his matches, but he had to watch the match with Styles as it felt special to him, noting how the fans in Australia were calling the spots for him and Styles. 

Wrestlers travel all over the world and even the most seasoned travelers experience jetlag. One way to combat that is by drinking coffee. It seems many wrestlers have become connoisseurs of the caffeinated beverage. Several wrestlers and performers have their own lines or special batches, like Motor City Machine Guns, Danhausen, and Prince Nana.

A power couple is getting in on the coffee business. After teasing the announcement, it finally came out on Monday; Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch announced AMO Coffee. In a video on Instagram, Rollins said, “for the past seven years, we’ve been traveling together, trying different coffees in different countries, different continents, and different cities all over the world. And we’ve fallen in love with coffee and AMO is our way of bringing that love to you.”

Lynch teased some big events in the coming weeks. On AMO’s Instagram, there’s a black and white picture of Rollins and Lynch that has “a simple love for coffee” written in yellow. The caption reads, “From Colby + Rebecca, with love.” A splash page on their website has a countdown clock that would indicate a launch date of April 26. Fans who want early access can enter their email to be notified.

Rollins recently came back from a shoulder injury at Elimination Chamber and has been terrorizing The Vision. Lynch will be challenging for the women’s IC title at WrestleMania.