A masked luchador carrying two championships into the building will headline AEW Dynamite live from the Watsco Center at the University of Miami on Wednesday, with the show airing on TBS and streaming on HBO Max. Bandido, the current Ring of Honor World Champion, arrives in Coral Gables as one of the promotion's most decorated active stars, known for blending high-flying lucha libre with hard-hitting power moves.
According to the Miami Herald, Bandido also recently teamed with Brody King and Adam “Hangman” Page to capture the AEW Trios Titles, defeating Swerve Strickland and New Level, Austin Creed and Kofi, in a best-two-of-three-falls match. That victory makes him a double champion heading into Wednesday's taping, pairing his individual Ring of Honor reign with group gold won alongside two of AEW's biggest names.
The Watsco Center itself carries history with All Elite Wrestling. The 7,972-seat arena, which opened in 2003 as the UM Convocation Center before Miami-based HVAC distributor Watsco Inc. secured naming rights in 2016, according to University of Miami News, last hosted AEW on January 15, 2020, for the Bash at the Beach television special, which drew roughly 3,900 fans per Wikipedia. The venue sits on the Coral Gables campus with direct access via Miami-Dade Transit's Metrorail at University Station, per the same reference.
A Title Reign for the Record Books
Bandido's path back to the top of Ring of Honor has been anything but simple. He first won the ROH World Championship on July 11, 2021, defeating Rush at Best in the World, only to vacate the title five months later in December 2021 after testing positive for COVID-19, according to Fightful. He recaptured the title in April 2025 by defeating veteran Chris Jericho in a Title vs. Mask match at AEW Dynasty, a notable reversal since Jericho had beaten Bandido during the luchador's AEW debut back in September 2022.
That current reign has now stretched more than 560 days, the second longest in the title's history, and the Herald notes that Bandido has held the ROH World Championship across his two reigns for more combined days than anyone else. Outside of Ring of Honor and AEW, Bandido has also wrestled for CMLL and New Japan Pro Wrestling, and he has been recognized by ESPN as one of the 30 best pro wrestlers under 30 and ranked No. 11 among the top 500 wrestlers in the world by Pro Wrestling Illustrated.
In accordance with Mexican lucha libre tradition, Bandido's real identity has never been revealed; he is a fourth-generation luchador whose younger brother competes professionally under the ring name Gravity, according to Wikipedia.
Trios Gold Changes Hands on a Global Stage
Bandido's run with Brody King didn't start with trios. The pair formed the tag team Brodido in the summer of 2025 and won the AEW World Tag Team Championship before losing the titles that November. The trio expanded over the summer of 2026, when Bandido, King and Page won the AEW World Trios Championship at Arena Mexico in Mexico City, only to drop the titles to Swerve Strickland and the New Level at AEW All In: London, held at Wembley Stadium.
Wednesday's Coral Gables taping comes just four days after AEW's 2026 WrestleDream pay-per-view at the Addition Financial Arena at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, underscoring how aggressively the promotion has toured Florida this autumn.
A Television Operation Built for Scale
The Coral Gables show functions as much as a television production as a live event. AEW produces four hours of programming across two weekly shows, with Dynamite airing on TBS and Collision airing Saturdays at 8 p.m. on TNT, both streaming on HBO Max. The promotion holds events 52 weeks a year with no off-season, touring year-round across the United States, Mexico, Canada, Europe, Australia and other locations, and its roster includes names like Will Ospreay, MJF, Jon Moxley, Mercedes Mone and Swerve Strickland.
That reach extends well beyond Coral Gables. AEW programming is distributed in more than 180 countries in seven different languages and reaches over 600 million households weekly, figures that trace back to the promotion's launch on January 1, 2019, under the vision of CEO Tony Khan. The current distribution deal stems from a multi-year media rights renewal AEW signed with Warner Bros. Discovery in October 2024, a deal reportedly worth upward of $150 million annually that added live simulcast streaming on Max starting in January 2025.
That corporate backdrop has only grown more complicated in recent weeks. Following the 2026 merger that established Skydance Media, Khan confirmed this month that he had held discussions with Skydance CEO David Ellison regarding AEW's future positioning across Warner Bros. Discovery platforms, according to Fightful.
Fans heading to the Watsco Center should note the venue operates as a cashless facility, accepting only major credit cards and mobile digital payments for tickets, concessions and merchandise, per Event Tickets Center.
The Herald's coverage of Wednesday's show comes from longtime pro wrestling writer James Varsallone, who also pens a high school sports column twice a week and has covered pro wrestling since his college days in the late 1980s, putting him in his fifth decade on the beat.
