Gorilla Position — Week of September 28, 2026

There are weeks in wrestling where the results feel secondary to everything surrounding them, and this was one of those weeks in the most profound sense. AEW lost one of the most gifted performers it ever had, WWE chose the same city and the same night to flex its muscle, and somehow the show went on — because in this business, it always does. What we learned this weekend says something important about where professional wrestling stands in 2026.