If you’re an AEW fan outside the US, MyAEW is good value, but it’s still annoyingly restrictive in some odd ways.
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Substantially cheaper than alternative options | Library selection at launch is somewhat limited |
| Supports Chromecast and AirPlay… | But it could really use some actual apps, not just casting support |
| Upper tiers include ROH content as well | PPV tier isn’t great value in the months when there’s no PPV! |
Score: 3.5/5
Ethical disclaimer:
I paid for a MyAEW subscription with my own money. The photos here are from AEW’s recent Australian tour, and yes, I paid for my ticket to that out of my own pocket too. I am indeed a fan of professional wrestling, we’ll get to that shortly, but in terms of this review, AEW has no influence in my opinions at all.
For more on ART’s Ethics position, see here.
I’m going to blame my pro wrestling fandom on a man I shall simply call “Al”.
Not the guy mentioned here. At least, I don’t think so.
The guilty parties know who they are, basically, but, honestly (and as any classical listener to Vertical Hold might recall) I’m not a big sports fan generally.
Sport is fine if that’s what you like, but it’s never gripped me and I do find the hero worship side of the whole sports thing in the Australian psyche truly weird and sometimes disturbing… but I digress.
Pro Wrestling is my exception sport, and my passion for it is partly due to the gymnastics involved and mostly down to the theatre of the absurd side of the equation (which is why I’m also a big fan of promotions such as Mystery Wrestling).
If you’re a Pro Wrestling fan in Australia, the way you’ve been able to watch the “sport” in Australia has varied a lot over the years.
We’ve gone from it being a staple of Foxtel’s offerings (via FOX8, and going back even further, WCW via Turner Classic Movies, no, really…) to the birth of streaming services that has seen us through services such as the WWE Network and these days, if you’re a WWE fan, Netflix.
WWE isn’t the only game in town however, and I’ve been a fan of the challenger promotion in this space, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since its inception.
AEW has held events in Australia. I like that it’s done so, but it’s weird given its minimal TV presence Down Under over the years.
At first in Australia the only legit way to watch it was via a service that was called FiteTV, since rebranded to Triller, though it also eventually also ended up on ESPN, up until the end of last year when it completely vanished from their broadcast lineup.
Honestly, ESPN in Australia treated AEW like their least favourite cousin, bumping its timeslot all over the schedule in favour of anything else, including repeats of already concluded events and endless people-talking-about-sports panel shows… but again, I digress.
ESPN’s “live” showing of AEW events concluded at the end of 2025 with seemingly no notice; one day it was on the schedule, the next day it was… gone.
The Outrunner’s Turbo Floyd is precisely my kind of pro wrestling ridiculousness.
You might think that with AEW’s deal with HBO Max in the US that it would likewise be on HBO Max in Australia, but this isn’t so.
While ESPN in Australia dropped AEW, corporate parent Disney has some AEW programming available via Disney+.
You’d really not know this without digging, it’s never really been pushed that much, but existing Disney+ subscribers can access the weekly Dynamite and Collision shows, though again the timing of when they go on can be a little weird some weeks.
It very much feels like AEW is content that Disney+ just “happens” to have, not something that’s likely to remain available once whatever deal ESPN signed back in the day expires.
At the same time, Triller is reportedly not in the best financial shape.
What’s an AEW fan down under to do?
The answer?
It emerged this week, with AEW launching its “own” streaming service, MyAEW.
How much does MyAEW cost in Australia?
Outside the “free” tier – which is just an IP stream of old AEW content, at the moment just seemingly episodes of Dynamite with ad breaks inserted – MyAEW offers three pricing tiers.
Here’s the rundown of pricing as per the MyAEW website at the time of writing:
There’s some interesting points to make here around pricing.
It’s kind of weird that pricing is in US dollars; while AEW is a US-based company, the only two places that MyAEW isn’t available at all is in the US and Canada.
That means you’ve got to do a little currency conversion every time you do subscribe, so pricing will be a little variable.
To give some rough context, right now online currency conversions suggest to me that you’re looking at around $11.20 AUD for the monthly shows only tier, around $28 for the monthly PPV tier or about $168 for the annual version of that subscription… but you’re not done yet.
MyAEW does collect tax in the relevant location you’re in – rather infamously, US RRPs almost always omit it because state based taxes there are downright weird — which means in Australia you’ve also got to factor in GST. That brings pricing to around $12.50, $31 and $185 respectively.
Back massages cost extra.
It’s not the priciest streamer out there, but they’re equally not giving it away. How does that compare to the existing streaming options for AEW content?
Triller currently offers “AEW Plus” at $US7.99/month – the same essentially as the base level monthly MyAEW tier – while the cheapest Disney+ subscription runs $15.99/month, but that’s in Australian dollars of course and has a lot of other content to watch.
What’s interesting here is the different levels of content available to you from each of your three choices.
Disney+ is the weakest here (just for AEW content, though I’ve not forgiven them either for that abhorrent live-action Aladdin from a couple of years back), with just Dynamite and Collision weekly, not always “live” and only a couple of episodes available for archival watching. That’s your lot, but like I said, Disney+ has AEW essentially on a “well, we somehow ended up with this” rights basis.
Triller’s AEW Plus offers the live shows but also a nearly complete archive of AEW’s history in terms of TV shows; Pay Per Views are a different beast, though it has at some times offered older PPVs as part of the AEW Plus product. What it doesn’t offer that MyAEW does at all paid tiers is any Ring Of Honor (ROH) content; Triller’s sold ROH PPVs on an individual basis over the years but that’s all.
So… an easy win for MyAEW then in value terms?
Maybe.
Reminder: Don’t try this at home, kids. Or indeed anywhere without proper training.
The big value play here is arguably the PPV tier in the months when AEW has a PPV, because those alone can run $US19.99 through Triller if you’ve already got an AEW Plus subscription, or more if you don’t.
The catch there is that Triller’s deal allows you to go back and watch purchased PPVs at any time (as long as Triller stays afloat, at least), while MyAEW is only offering access up to 90 days after the event.
Orange Cassidy, purveyor of the most BRUTAL kicks in all of combat sports. No, really…
MyAEW does have an archive of events, but right now it’s kind of limited.
AEW TV show episodes only run back to the start of 2025, Ring Of Honor content is even more limited and as for archival pay per views, that section currently comprises all the AEW Revolution events spanning back to 2020 as well as AEW Dynasty 2024 and 2025.
8 PPVs in the archive isn’t a whole lot to be going on, so it’ll be interesting to see how they manage that in the future.
What’s the MyAEW streaming experience like?
This is the other oddity about MyAEW, because while it’s competing in the wider streaming video space, it’s doing so in a rather “lite” way.
At launch, there are apparently apps for the Amazon FireTV and maybe (from what I read) Roku devices, but the only Roku box that ever landed down under was the Telstra TV, and that thing was 100% controlled at an app level by Telstra, who now owns FetchTV instead; the Telstra TV is one dead, dead streaming box.
It does have support for AirPlay to an Apple TV unit or Casting to a Google Chromecast or Google TV streamer. I’ve tested that both with archive content and a live broadcast, and both worked… mostly. Within a browser window you can select stream quality up to 1080p, depending on the strength of your broadband connection.
The web site version does play video, but there’s only rudimentary search and the user interface isn’t particularly quick if you do want to scroll through what’s available for each given program.
I did hit an issue using the mobile Firefox browser, because it didn’t want to play the live event, and of course using any ‘casting’ approach does limit your overall level of playback control.
I’m a little surprised this launched without at least dedicated iOS and Android apps ready to run.
MyAEW: Alex’s Verdict
This might just be the most niche product review I’ve ever done, because if you’re not into the kind of pro wrestling that AEW offers, there’s zero value here at all.
If you are… then it is probably good value.
There’s some catches with pricing, and I do wish it had a proper array of at least mobile apps and preferably smart TV ones ready to roll as well.
The PPV tier is good value in the months when AEW has a PPV to offer up – typically it runs around 9 events in a given calendar year – but not so much in the months where it doesn’t.
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