Biggest Winners And Losers Of The Week — 4/6/2026

It has been quite the week in skilled wrestling. On Monday, the WrestleMania card began to return together as GUNTHER took out Seth Rollins on “WWE Raw.” Tuesday’s “WWE NXT” led directly into Stand & Deliver 2026 on Saturday, while “AEW Dynamite,” “AEW Collision” and “WWE SmackDown” saw a trifecta of massive returns in the shape of Chris Jericho, Hikaru Shida, and Pat McAfee. With a lot happening across the wrestling landscape, it’s the proper week for Wrestling Inc. to debut our brand recent feature, Winners and Losers of the Week!

For those who’ve been following us for some time, you’ve got seen this format applied to individual PLE and PPV cards, but now, for the primary time ever, we’re applying it to a full week, from Monday to Sunday! Anything in wrestling is eligible to be named a winner or loser, from individual wrestlers to entire promotions. Without further ado, listed below are your WINC winners and losers for the week of 4/6/2026!

Bron Breakker is already having an especially rough 2026, and it seems like the hits keep coming for the star even when he hasn’t been back on television following an injury he sustained in February that required surgery. He isn’t a loser by his own doing, nevertheless, though perhaps he could have lifted that commentary desk a bit of smarter and avoided the hernia. He’s a victim of WWE’s terrible booking on the “Road to WrestleMania” and it is a tragedy to witness.

Breakker sustained the injury on the February 2 edition of “Raw,” the show after he had been unceremoniously dumped excessive rope by Oba Femi within the Royal Rumble after being taken out by a masked man. The masked man was later revealed to be Seth Rollins, and reports indicated that Breakker and Rollins can be facing off at WrestleMania 42 in the event that they were each healthy. So when Rollins returned at Elimination Chamber at the top of February, it was looking like they might find yourself fighting at ‘Mania.

Things appeared to be moving in a fair more positive direction when it was reported that Breakker was backstage at “Raw” at Madison Square Garden on March 30. Nonetheless, that was the identical edition of the red brand where it was revealed GUNTHER can be taking up a now-medically cleared Rollins at “The Showcase of the Immortals,” leaving many fans scratching their heads.

In the times that followed, it was revealed that Breakker had indeed been cleared, but reports said that WWE had been planning GUNTHER vs. Rollins for “weeks,” as some in creative didn’t think there was enough time to inform a story between Rollins and Breakker, despite the months of construct behind the match. Breakker was the person who wrote Rollins off television back in October when the previous World Heavyweight Champion suffered a shoulder injury, so there was absolutely a greater story there than anything WWE can write for GUNTHER and Rollins.

Now, it looks as if Breakker won’t be returning to television anytime soon; there is not any place for him on the WrestleMania card without Rollins, as his tag team partner, Bronson Reed, can be on the shelf, and the opposite Vision members, Austin Theory and Logan Paul, hold the WWE Tag Team Championships. While the “Profession Killer” GUNTHER needed to be on the ‘Mania card to proceed his momentum, it got here on the expense of Breakker, who now looks as if he’s sitting within the “loser” corner until the “Raw” after WrestleMania, where he can hopefully make a giant comeback to decimate Rollins.

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Sure, this one is debatable with regards to fan opinions, but overall, for Chris Jericho himself, he had a fairly good week. The previous AEW World Champion who’s prone to soon be referred to as “The Cornerstone,” his latest trademark seemingly related to his ever-evolving character, made his return to AEW following a year-long hiatus on, of all days, April Idiot’s Day.

Fans had been left guessing on Jericho’s status after a report back in December stated that his contract can be up at the top of 2025. It was later revealed that Jericho’s contract can have been frozen following his departure from “Dynamite,” when he told his old stable, The Learning Tree, that he needed to go away for some time. Through all of it, Jericho remained on the AEW roster page, perhaps laughing about all of it behind-the-scenes.

Jericho is a winner this week, because as a star who seemingly loves the highlight, he’s back on AEW programming, set to handle his return on this week’s edition of “Dynamite.” He’s also capable of keep his outside projects, something he greater than likely would not have the ability to do in WWE. And if he did sign a brand new contract, as has been reported, it was likely for a ton of cash, especially if each major firms were fighting for him.

Jericho is back within the conversation, with wrestling fans either irate, excited, or simply overall confused about what direction he could possibly go in now in AEW. He looks as if an “any publicity is nice publicity” guy, and this news is not anywhere near bad publicity (some he’s even been the topic of previously) within the grand scale of stories within the wrestling world. Fans are talking, causing his name to trend throughout social media, possibly drawing in some recent eyes to AEW, whether that be people just watching to hate on it, or because they’re truly interested to see why the hell the previous WCW World Heavyweight Champion continues to be wrestling.

Jericho may not stay a winner for long, but his recent return following such an extended absence is actually a “W” for the star.

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It takes something quite miraculous to undermine the largest show on the largest company’s calendar coming off of the largest boom in recent history, but here we’re. 

Following weeks of middling TV hampered down by questionable and shallow booking, WWE went and completely screwed themselves by booking a celeb to return onto TV and tell the audience every part they think is unsuitable with the present product. “WCW 2000” was trending on social media afterwards as many identified the Vince Russo-ism of completely dumping on a product produced by the identical company that facilitated said dumping.

In case you continue to have the fortune of not knowing what this refers to, former NFL kicker, commentator, and occasional attraction wrestler Pat McAfee returned to WWE during “WWE SmackDown” on Friday, aligning with Randy Orton in his WWE Championship feud on the road to WrestleMania 42, thus being revealed as Orton’s mysterious caller. Why Orton, the “Legend Killer,” needed McAfee by his side for this feud may be a little bit of a mystery in itself to many, considering McAfee was last seen on the commentary booth yelling all manner of pleasantries at the highest of his voice and dancing on the table to the themes of his favorites. And the mystery only continues to be… mysterious, with what McAfee said in regards to the product when he did. He railed against the generation that Cody Rhodes is leading, a cluster of smaller wrestlers working what he called weekly Iron Man matches, and said that fans of the “Attitude Era” were being left behind. 

Over 26 years have passed since that era, which never once featured Orton, and eight years for the reason that last Iron Man match in WWE. Beyond it just not being a very good idea to bring an outsider in to discuss how things were higher a long time ago, none of what he said really rang true. As a substitute, it’s now seeming as if TKO made the choice to insert McAfee – someone Ari Emanuel seems to think could possibly be the subsequent Sylvester Stallone, for whatever reason – into its flagship feud for its flagship event purely to echo the feelings of lapsed fans who post hot takes on this attention economy. That does not exactly bode well for the corporate.

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AEW went through its own stage of telling fans that the product wasn’t entirely what they wanted it to be, and that was a torrid time to be a fan of the promotion. So it only seems fair to present them credit for being out of that rut, producing good-to-great TV every week, while WWE runs through its self-imposed identity crisis. 

There are those that take issue with the super-indie element of AEW, stripping back the sports-entertainment of its competitor in lieu of telling the story inside the ring and between the bells. Sometimes that will be bloody, sometimes it might be indulgent, and it almost actually all the time manages to be long and intensive. 

But there will be little question that AEW does what it might to place out one of the best product it might for those it knows will appreciate it. Fundamentally, AEW knows what it’s. It knows what it must be. And for the past few months it has successfully walked the road of enjoyable TV. One only has to hearken to the crowds this week, unaffected by the trauma of getting to take out one other mortgage to pay for tickets, and fully free to have a good time a few of the world’s best wrestlers doing what they do well. 

There’s a transparent eye on the longer term. There are familiar names within the likes of Adam Copeland, Christian Cage, and even Chris Jericho. AEW shares talent with NJPW and CMLL in addition to the occasional indie outfit, mixing the aware of the brand new and exciting, in addition to respiratory life into the overall wrestling ecosystem. To be honest, AEW does best by being exactly what WWE is not, and that’s a very good thing, especially after the week WWE just had.

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