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Isiah Kassidy shares what he did during AEW absence

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Isaiah Kassidy is shedding some light on what he’s been doing in the last year.

Prior to their return on last Wednesday’s Dynamite, he and Marq Quen hadn’t been on AEW television since losing the Tag Team titles to the Hurt Syndicate thirteen months prior. While Kassidy didn’t go into details regarding their long absence from AEW television, he did shed some light on what he has been doing outside of his AEW career on his vlog.

“I’ve been really consistent in the gym and consistent with training too, that’s why I said I think I’m ready,” he explained. “I’ve been picking up books, I’ve been traveling the world, getting to see family, getting closer to God…just creating moments and memories.”

“Despite everything that was going on in my career, I had a great time, man,” he added. “I didn’t let what was going on determine what I’m going to do outside of it. I still live my life. I still have a great time, I’m going to be honest.”

Kassidy also revealed that he got the news about Private Party’s return on February 5.

Private Party returned on Wednesday as the mystery wild card team in a match also featuring The Young Bucks and The Rascalz. Matt & Nick Jackson won the match, earning themselves a future title match against AEW Tag Team Champions FTR.

New number one contenders set for AEW World Tag Team Titles

Posted on by Shounak Chakrabarti

The Young Bucks are back on top, chasing AEW titles.

On the February 11th, 2026 edition of AEW Dynamite, The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) defeated The Rascalz (Dezmond Xaviers & Myron Reed) and the recently returned Private Party (Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy) to become the new number one contenders for the FTR’s tag team titles.

Away from the promotion for almost a year, Private Party made their return tonight to a roaring Ontario crowd. Following a closely fought battle, the Young Bucks emerged victorious after dropping Reed with a double superkick and a TK Driver, before securing the pinfall victory.

With the win tonight, the Young Bucks have earned their new title shot, although it is currently unknown when the former EVPs will challenge Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood of FTR for their AEW World Tag Team Championship.

The segment finished with the two highly celebrated teams coming face-to-face with each other in the ring.

Private Party makes surprise return on AEW Dynamite

Posted on by Josh Nason

The mystery wild card team in Wednesday’s three-way AEW Tag Team title eliminator wasn’t Adam Copeland and Christian Cage after all.

Rather, it was former AEW World Tag Team Champions Private Party who made their surprise return to Dynamite after a 13-month absence.

Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy were part of the aforementioned three-way on Dynamite that also included the Young Bucks and Myron Reed & Dezmond Xavier of The Rascalz. They didn’t factor into the finish as the Bucks pinned Reed after a Meltzer Driver to earn a future shot at current champions FTR.

Quen and Kassidy haven’t been seen on TV since losing the titles in less than ten minutes to The Hurt Syndicate on January 22, 2025. They competed for House of Glory two months afterward, but haven’t wrestled anywhere since for unknown reasons.

It was speculated last June that the AEW originals were soon to be done and had drawn interest from WWE. Earlier on Wednesday, a report emerged to expect to see them in AEW again before WWE.


Report: Private Party’s status with AEW

Posted on by Ian Carey

Private Party could reportedly return to AEW television.

Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen have not appeared for the company since losing the AEW World Tag Team titles to Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin on the January 22, 2025 edition of AEW Dynamite.

In June 2025, it was reported that the team’s AEW contracts were expected to be up “very soon,” and that WWE had “preliminary” interest in them.

According to a report from Fightful Select, both members of Private Party remain under contract with AEW, although the expiration dates of their deals are said to not line up exactly. When asking around about the team, Fightful was told, “we could expect to see them in AEW before we would WWE.”

Following their loss of the AEW World Tag Team titles to The Hurt Syndicate, Private Party has wrestled only one match. The team appeared on the House of Glory pay-per-view HOG City of Dreamz at NYC Arena on March 15, 2025.

Trained by The Amazing Red, Private Party debuted in AEW on the promotion’s second-ever event, AEW Fyter Fest, on June 29, 2019. They defeated The Young Bucks to win the AEW World Tag Team titles on the October 30, 2024 Fright Night edition of Dynamite.

Fight Game: Gunther vs. Goldberg is set, AEW Grand Slam Mexico recap

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John LaRocca and I, Garrett Gonzales, are back to talk about the major topics in the world of wrestling on this week’s Fight Game Podcast.

We kicked off the show by giving out our Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down winners and losers of the week before hitting the major AEW and WWE topics of the week.

Here are some of the things we talked about:

  • A fun AEW Grand Slam Mexico
  • Private Party and whether WWE would be interested in them
  • Goldberg vs. Gunther
  • WWE King & Queen of the Ring brackets
  • Blake Monroe

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Private Party’s AEW contracts expiring soon

Posted on by Josh Nason

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Former AEW World Tag Team Champions Private Party may be taking their VIP velvet ropes elsewhere in the immediate future.

First reported by Dave Meltzer in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the AEW contracts of Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy are “up very soon.” No other details were given like if AEW is interested in keeping them.

Since losing the titles to The Hurt Syndicate in under ten minutes on a late-January 2025 edition of Dynamite, they haven’t been seen or heard from on either AEW or ROH TV. After winning the titles from the Young Bucks on the Fright Night Dynamite last October, the title loss to Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin ended an lackluster first championship run that resulted in just two successful title defenses.

The duo did appear for House of Glory in mid-March, but that’s been their only action since that title loss.

Quen and Kassidy are AEW originals, appearing on the company’s first-ever Fyter Fest, first-ever All Out, first-ever Dark, and the second-ever Dynamite where they upset the Bucks in the inaugural Tag Team title tournament.

If they do depart, they will join other talents whose contracts have or will expire soon like Mariah May, Abadon, Danhausen, Bear Bronson, Leyla Hirsch and Zak Knight.

Ospreay & Omega face-to-face, Tag Team title match added to AEW Dynamite

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Kenny Omega and WIll Ospreay will meet face-to-face this Wednesday.

During an interview that took place after Dynamite, Will Ospreay said that his battles with Omega were legendary, and were linked through one man, Don Callis. He said it was time he has a chat with Omega, and wanted to do it on the next AEW Dynamite in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Since returning from injury, Omega has been targeted by the Don Callis family, who are not done with him. Despite defeating Brian Cage on Dynamite, Omega was jumped by the rest of the Callis family until Ospreay made the save, helping clear the ring.

Also on Wednesday we will see Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin go for the AEW Tag Team titles against current champions Private Party. After Lashley, Benjamin, and MVP defeated Private Party & Mark Briscoe on Wednesday, MVP considered themselves the new number one contenders to the titles and issued the challenge.

Also announced is Samoa Joe taking on Nick Wayne after Joe made his return on the last Dynamite, taking out members of The Patriarchy. Jamie Hayter will also look to score a measure of revenge by facing Julia Hart following her loss in their last match on January 1.

Here’s the current lineup for next Wednesday in Knoxville, Tennessee:

  • Will Ospreay & Kenny Omega meet face-to-face
  • Cope vs. PAC
  • AEW Tag Team titles: Private Party defend against The Hurt Business (Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin)
  • Samoa Joe vs. Nick Wayne
  • Julia Hart vs. Jamie Hayter

Young Bucks: Creative changed ‘4-5 different times’ before dropping AEW tag titles

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Before ultimately dropping the titles to Private Party, plans for The Young Bucks’ most recent AEW Tag Team Championship reign changed a few different times.

Matt & Nick Jackson’s third reign with the belts ended when they lost to Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) on the October 30 episode of Dynamite. While appearing on the Tunnel Talk podcast, Nick Jackson said he and his brother were originally supposed to lose the titles to a different team months before that. The creative direction changed 4-5 times before The Young Bucks faced Private Party at WrestleDream. After that, it was clear to everyone that Kassidy & Quen should be the next champions.

Both Young Bucks said they’re happy things worked out the way they did because Private Party are deserving of the spotlight and were ready for a big push. Private Party have been with AEW since 2019, and this is their first title reign in the promotion.

“This last run we just had, we were supposed to drop those titles months and months before we actually dropped them, but creative changed I would say 4-5 different times in the last like six months,” Nick said. “At one point, we were going to lose the belts to a certain team. And then a month later it changed to another team. And then, I remember Private Party came up to us actually and they mentioned about wanting to do like a long-term program with us. And we were like, ‘Well, sorry man, Tony [Khan] just gave us the layout of what we’re doing and that’s not in the cards.’

“And something changed and we ended up wrestling them in a match [at WrestleDream]… but we tore the house down. As soon as we got backstage, we knew, ‘Oh alright.’ It’s in Tony’s eyes. He was like, ‘I think we have something, I think we have something.’ And Matt and I thought the same exact thing. We were like, ‘We’ve got to pivot. We’ve got to change our plans again.’ And that was like the fourth time changing plans for those titles to be dropped. We were happy though because we wanted to put those guys over. They deserved the spotlight. It’s been five years now, so they were ready for a big push. And I’m just glad Matt and I got to give them that last shove before we left.”

There’s an angle where The Young Bucks have been away from AEW television since their loss to Private Party, but Matt & Nick are expected to feud with Jon Moxley’s Death Riders faction once they return.

For the first time since 2019, The Young Bucks will wrestle for NJPW when they compete for the vacant IWGP Tag Team titles at Wrestle Dynasty on January 5.

Chris Jericho vs. Anthony Bowens set for final AEW Rampage

Posted on by Josh Nason

The final edition of AEW Rampage will feature Ring of Honor World Champion Chris Jericho in action.

Jericho will take on Anthony Bowens of The Acclaimed in non-title action after the two had a confrontation on last Saturday’s Collision. Jericho and the Learning Tree were verbally running down Big Boom AJ and Big Justice when Bowens came out to defend them and call out Jericho.

Hook will look to continue to avenge The Patriachy’s October attack on Taz as he goes one-on-one with Nick Wayne.

AEW Tag Team Champions Private Party will also be on the show in non-title action, taking on Alec Price & Leo Sparrow. The champions are awaiting a date when they will defend against Lio Rush & Action Andretti.

The card is rounded out by Thunder Rosa vs. Leila Grey ahead of Rosa’s challenge of AEW Women’s World Champion Mariah May at Saturday’s Worlds End.

Rampage was not part of the AEW/WBD TV rights renewal which begins in January 2025.

Here’s the full lineup that was taped this past Sunday at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City:

  • ROH World Champion Chris Jericho vs. Anthony Bowens in a non-title match
  • AEW Tag Team Champions Private Party vs. Leo Sparrow & Alec Price in a non-title match
  • Hook vs. Nick Wayne
  • Thunder Rosa vs. Leila Grey

Private Party: Young Bucks don’t get the credit they deserve

Posted on by Denise Salcedo

AEW World Tag Team Champions Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) feel former champions The Young Bucks don’t get the credit they deserve for what they have done in the wrestling business.

Ahead of their four-way title defense at this Saturday’s Full Gear against The Outrunners, Kings of the Black Throne, and The Acclaimed, the new champions spoke with me about several topics including the Jackson brothers.

At last month’s Fright Night edition of Dynamite, Private Party defeated the Bucks to capture the title for the first time ever. Kassidy and Quen have been with AEW since its inception in 2019, but had never captured gold of any kind in AEW or Ring of Honor.

“The Young Bucks changed our lives. I will forever be in debt to them because of how much we owe them. Also, the Young Bucks don’t get the credit they deserve. If you really think about it, AEW would not be here without the Young Bucks. The Young Bucks literally changed hundreds of people’s lives. They made everybody’s lives better by providing them a job and safety,” Kassidy said. “You’ve got to really think about what the Young Bucks did to impact this business. And when I really think about it, I could be wrong, but I don’t know if there’s any other wrestlers that impacted the way we look at professional wrestling today. The Young Bucks provided multiple jobs, and It’s not only the Young Bucks.”

The title win was preceded by last month’s WrestleDream where they failed to defeat the Bucks for the titles, prompting them to put their future as a team on the line in order to gain a rematch.

It was the latest chapter in their history that dates back to the second-ever Dynamite when Private Party defeated the Bucks in the first round of the inaugural Tag Team title tournament.

“They changed my life and they always went to bat for us. They always looked out for us. The Young Bucks do not get the flowers they they deserve. People need to start really giving them their flowers because they’re going to realize it when it’s too late.”

Watch our full 20-minute conversation below:

Mercedes Mone on Private Party AEW Tag Title win: I’m really proud of them

Posted on by Ian Carey

Watching Private Party win the AEW World Tag Team Championships made Mercedes Mone feel like “a proud sister.”

In the latest edition of her Mone Mag, the TBS Champion recalled meeting Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen in 2015 while they were training with Amazing Red at House of Glory.

She wrote:

“Being reunited with the Boys in Private Party last week was so great. While there is nothing currently in the works as far as a faction or collaboration, I have been watching those boys come up since they were young fans training with Amazing Red at the House of Glory Wrestling School. I first met them back in 2015 when they were in their late teens. I remember about five years ago when Isaiah and Quen came up to ask me for my advice. They were curious about what it would be like and how to go about signing up with a big Promotion company.”

Quen and Kassidy started teaming together in the summer of 2015 for House of Glory. Before signing with AEW in 2019, they wrestled for various promotions around the New York area, including GCW, winning the promotion’s tag titles in 2017. They made their AEW debut at Fyter Fest in June 2019.

Mone continued:

“When they told me they signed with AEW, I was so proud! I just felt like a proud sister. Seeing them win the AEW tag team titles five years later has been amazing! Again, I feel like their little big sister and am really proud of them. All of the wrestlers backstage are so happy for them. They worked so hard for a long time to get where they are now. It’s great to stand by and support them as a proud sister.”

Mone also addressed Kamille’s loss on Dynamite to Kris Statlander, stating that she is “embarrassed” her associate couldn’t get the job done. Statlander challenges Mone for the TBS title later this month at Full Gear.

“Kamille couldn’t get the job done. I’m super embarrassed by her performance last week. I recruited The Brickhouse to the Moné Corp because I thought that she was one of the most dominant women in all professional wrestling. But in her match last week, Kris Statlander proved that wrong. So, Kamille is in the doghouse. We will have to have a big talk before I can have her perform on TV again. Last week was just such an embarrassment. I will not tolerate such poor performance. So, we will have to wait and see if she steps it up. Other than that, Kamille is awesome – just sayin’….”

Mone appeared at Fighting Spirit Unleased on Friday night after a new number-one contender for her NJPW Strong Women’s Championship was determined in a four-way match. Hazuki defeated Trish Adora, Koguma, and Anna Jay. Mone confronted Hazuki after the match, and the two brawled, with Mone getting the upper hand. Hazkuki will challenge Mone at Fighting Spirit Unleashed on December 15 at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach.

Private Party avoid breakup, win Tag Team titles on AEW Fright Night Dynamite

Posted on by Josh Nason

Private Party unseated the Young Bucks on Wednesday’s AEW Fright Night Dynamite to both win the AEW Tag Team titles and avoid splitting up as a team.

The match ended when Marq Quen & Isiah Kassidy hit the Gin and Juice on Nicholas Jackson, getting the pin and their first reign as champions after starting with the company in 2019.

The Bucks defeated Private Party at this month’s WrestleDream to retain the titles. The stipulation going into the title rematch was that if Quen and Kassidy lost, they would need to split up forever.

It was a wild match that saw Kassidy bloodied up and Quen get hit with a tombstone piledriver from Kazuchika Okada near the entranceway. As Kassidy got beat up by the Jacksons for several minutes, he kept kicking out of move after move after move. Quen eventually got back and broke up a pin attempt at the last second.

The loss ends the Bucks’ third reign as champions, one that began 192 days ago at April’s Dynasty when they defeated FTR in a ladder match for the then-vacant titles. They had five title defenses in this most recent run.

Two new matches set for AEW WrestleDream

Posted on by Josh Nason

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After calling out the Young Bucks on this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite, Private Party will get their shot to defeat the Jackson brothers for the AEW Tag Team titles at this month’s WrestleDream.

Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy earned their shot by defeating both House of Black and Top Flight in a three-way main event on Saturday’s Collision.

Quen and Kassidy have never held the titles while the Bucks will be looking for the fifth defense of the titles they won at April’s Dynasty.

The two teams have shared a history since the creation of AEW in 2019 that began in the inaugural Tag Team title tournament when Private Party defeated the Bucks on the second-ever episode of Dynamite. Since they, they have faced each other twice in traditional tag team action with the Bucks winning both of them.

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In another new bout confirmed for the show, Darby Allin will take on rival Brody King.

After Allin defeated Johnny TV to open the show, Allin took to the microphone to reiterate his open challenge for WrestleDream and how no one had answered it. As he walked to the back, the House of Black member emerged from the back and attacked Allin, choking him against the ring post while saying he accepted.

The two also have an extensive AEW history that includes a 2022 coffin match Allin won and key interactions to close out both the 2022 and 2024 Royal Rampage matches.

Here’s the updated lineup for next Saturday’s pay-per-view from Tacoma, Washington:

  • AEW World Champion Bryan Danielson defends against Jon Moxley
  • AEW Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson) defend against Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen)
  • TNT Champion Jack Perry defends against Katsuyori Shibata
  • AEW International Champion Will Ospreay defends against Ricochet & Konosuke Takeshita in a three-way
  • ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe defends against Chris Jericho
  • Darby Allin vs. Brody King
  • Zero Hour: ROH men’s TV Champion Atlantis Jr. defends against Brian Cage

AEW Collision live results: Tag Team title number one contender’s match

Posted on by Suit Williams

A three-way match on tonight’s AEW Collision will determine who faces the Young Bucks at WrestleDream.

Top Flight, Malakai Black & Buddy Matthews of the House of Black, and Private Party will duke it out in a three-way with the winners getting a shot at the AEW Tag Team titles at this month’s pay-per-view.

Private Party made it clear they want the next shot following their Wednesday win over the Iron Savages.

Darby Allin, who is looking for someone to face at WrestleDream, will take on Johnny TV. The Conglomeration’s Orange Cassidy & Kyle O’Reilly, who have been busy with The Learning Tree, will take on the Premier Athletes. Former CMLL Women’s Champion Willow Nightingale will challenge Trish Adora.

Other matches will see Wheeler Yuta take on BEEF, the Grizzled Young Veterans vs. The Outrunners, and a four-way match between Nick Wayne, Komander, Hologram, and Action Andretti.

Kris Statlander will also be in action.

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Collision came to us live (to tape) from Toledo, Ohio. Darby Allin made his way to the ring for the opening match. Tony Schiavone & Nigel McGuinness were on the call.

Darby Allin defeated Johnny TV

Johnny has had some rough showings lately but came together with Allin to have a fun opener here. Darby is one of the best television wrestlers in the world, finding a way to have cool, unique matches with anybody. Darby’s WrestleDream match is an enticing one, revisiting one of his best rivalries.

Allin controlled the early stage of the match until Johnny caught him with a poke to the eye. Johnny tied Allin in the ropes and hit a sliding German suplex for a nearfall. Johnny held control until Allin caught a climbing Johnny with a slap to the face. Allin brought Johnny down with a superplex, but Johnny followed up with a Side Russian Leg Sweep off the apron to the floor.

Johnny hit a rising knee to Allin on the steps, sending him to the floor. Johnny tried to hit a corkscrew splash off the steps to the floor, but Allin evaded it and hit a Coffin Splash to the floor. Johnny swept Allin’s legs from under him on a Coffin Drop attempt and hit a corkscrew kick to Allin in the ropes.

Allin evaded the Starship Pain, but Johnny caught him on a Coffin Splash attempt and hit a uranage out of the Razor’s Edge position. Johnny went for Starship Pain, but Allin evaded it and hit a Code Red for a nearfall. Allin hit the Coffin Drop to a standing Johnny to score the win.

After the match, Allin took the mic and challenged anybody to answer his open challenge. No one did, even after Allin challenged them to not let an opportunity to make their name pass them by. The challenge seemed to go unanswered, so Allin went to leave until Brody King bumrushed him down the ramp. King powerbombed Allin on the apron before pinning him to the post. He accepted his challenge and promised violence at WrestleDream.

We got an Outrunners video, this time with FTR training with them. Dax Harwood bleached his mustache, and they donned the Outrunners shades to complete the training.

The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd) defeated Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake & Zack Gibson)

Look, I get that the Outrunners are hot right now. They’re selling merch, people are into the act, alright. Is there ANY other team they could’ve fed them other than the new guys who are actually a really good team? I don’t get why they even bothered bringing the Vets in if they’re never going to give Gibson time to talk and get them over, especially if they’re just going to do jobs all the time. It’s a confusing use of a really good team when the tag division is dry as a bone right now, but I guess I can’t kill them if they run with the Outrunners.

Magnum and Drake started, with Magnum scoring with an armdrag. Floyd tagged in and worked his way up from the mat on a lock-up and posed to a pop. The Veterans got control on an Irish Whip block, but another attempt got reversed by Floyd. The Outrunners ran wild with double team moves as we went to a commercial break. There was a commercial for something called a TrumpyTrout, a singing fish that impersonates the former president. Not sure who that’s for, but alrighty then.

The Veterans were working on Magnum after the break, with Magnum fighting for the tag and getting it. Floyd ran wild, pinballing the Veterans with bodyslams. They hit the Predator double elbow drop, but Gibson shoved Magnum off the top and isolated him. Floyd shoved Drake off the top rope on a Doomsday Device attempt, and Magnum caught Gibson in a victory roll for the win.

We got a video package for Britt Baker. Baker noted that she hadn’t had a one-on-one World Title match since she lost the title back in 2022. Baker challenged Mariah May to a Women’s World Title match at the Title Tuesday Dynamite.

The Conglomeration was in the back with Lexy Nair. Willow Nightingale said that Britt Baker needed to wait in line because she wanted Mariah May first. Mark Briscoe cut his wacky promo. The word of the day is diversification, and also sophistication.

Willow Nightingale defeated Trish Adora

Nightingale losing up to the Women’s Title is odd, as Mariah May noted on Dynamite. But if AEW feels the need to pull the plug on May’s lukewarm reign, Willow is a great hand to have up their sleeve. We’ll see how Britt Baker plays into all of this.

Mariah May was at ringside. Code of Honor adhered to before Nightingale hit her low crossbody for a quick nearfall. Adora scored with a kick, then split on top of Nightingale in an arm lock. Nightingale pounced Adora into a commercial break.

Adora had Nightingale twisted into a pretzel coming back from the break, before dropping her with a neckbreaker. Nightingale made her comeback, but Adora cut her off with a crossbody. Adora got a nearfall with a pair of suplexes, standard and German, for respective nearfalls. Nightingale booted away a clothesline and snatched Adora up in the Babe With The Powerbomb for the win.

After the match, May shoved the belt in Nightingale’s face and went to slap her, but Nightingale blocked the slap and bounced her around ringside. May escaped the powerbomb and bailed up the ramp.

Wheeler Yuta was backstage with Alicia Atout. PAC, Claudio Castagnoli, & Marina Shafir entered the frame, with PAC growling that he wasn’t Yuta’s partner. Castagnoli cleared the room and allowed Yuta to get his anger out. Yuta was upset about being left in the dark and the group turning on Bryan, asking how he could trust Castagnoli again. Castagnoli cooly responded by asking if he had ever steered Yuta wrong. He handed Yuta his Trios Title and said that he would always have Yuta’s best interests in mind.

(The Yuta substory of the Moxley/Danielson story is incredibly interesting, and more of the type of storytelling that I want out of this promotion. Yuta is Danielson’s protégé, but he and Claudio ended up being the tag team of the group, with Claudio getting Yuta his first AEW Title. It’s a logical dilemma, especially with Castagnoli and Moxley playing mind games.)

Mariah May was backstage with Lexy Nair. She was upset at everyone for coming after her and her title. Vice Principal Christopher Daniels entered the frame and booked Britt Baker vs. Willow Nightingale for Title Tuesday, with a title shot on the line against May at WrestleDream. I guess it’s title adjacent.

(This was May’s best promo since she turned on Toni Storm. There was actual emotion behind her words, instead of the cold femme fatale deal that just wasn’t working.)

Wheeler Yuta defeated Beef (w/Anthony Henry)

For the uninitiated, Beef is Workhorsemen Anthony Henry’s second cousin, tagging with Henry during JD Drake’s recovery period. Yuta came out hot, scoring with a Right Angle Slam as Jon Moxley & the Blackpool Combat Club watched from the crowd. Yuta dropkicked Henry off the apron, then laid in the hammer and anvil elbows before locking on the Cattle Mutilation for the quick win.

The Conglomeration (Kyle O’Reilly & Orange Cassidy) (w/ Rocky Romero) defeated The Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese) (w/ Mark Sterling & Josh Woods)

While this combination has been pretty repetitive, this was a very fun tag match. When the Conglomeration began teaming up, I wanted O’Reilly and Cassidy to end up being the regular team of the group. This match has only made me want that more, as they work very well together. I can see them as a highly useful team in the tag division.

The Athletes got off to a jump start, but O’Reilly & Cassidy quickly got on the good foot and ran wild. We got a dive train before we went to a commercial. After the break, Cassidy crawled through the legs of Daivari to get the hot tag to O’Reilly. O’Reilly ran wild until he got necked on the ropes by Nese, leading to a quick flurry from the Athletes before a 450 splash scored a nearfall.

Cassidy got the tag back in, taking both Athletes down until Daivari caught him with a lariat. O’Reilly got caught with Greetings From Asbury Park from Nese, but Cassidy countered it with a DDT. Sterling distracted the ref for Woods to pull Cassidy out of the ring.

Romero and Woods got into it before Sterling caught Romero with a low blow. Mark Briscoe came out to clear Woods out, and Cassidy punched Sterling out. Cassidy caught Nese with the Orange Punch, and as O’Reilly choked out Daivari, Cassidy got the win with the Beach Break.

Lance Archer was killing geeks again when Don Callis walked up to him. He asked if Archer was still being managed by Jake Roberts, and after killing another geek, Archer said yes.

(At least Archer in the Callis Family keeps him on TV regularly.)

Mercedes Mone & Kamille were with Lexy Nair. She put herself and Kamille over, calling Kamille “more than a woman.” Kris Statlander walked in, taking umbrage with them using her nickname. She said that “born-again Kristen” had a match tonight and told them to watch.

Hologram defeated Komander, Nick Wayne, Action Andretti

Hologram continues to win in this showcase of the depth of AEW’s roster. This was an incredibly fun four-way match with these great young athletes. Komander in particular was phenomenal in this match, but all four accounted for themselves very well here.

Oh boy. Wayne and Andretti cleared the ring before Andretti caught Wayne with a dropkick and a springboard tornillo press for a nearfall. Hologram sent Andretti to the floor, leading to Hologram and Komander doing good lucha things. Wayne cut off a Hologram dive before Andretti hit a handspring to Komander. Andretti hit a Rolling Thunder off the apron and a 619 to Wayne before a split-legged moonsault to the floor sent us to a commercial break.

Hologram was running wild as we came back, dropping Wayne and Andretti with a dual suplex/DDT combination. After a massive dive to Komander, a 450 splash to Wayne scored a nearfall. Komander hit a springboard headscissors to both Hologram and Wayne before sending Hologram to the floor. Andretti caught Komander with a Spanish Fly for a nearfall. Hologram caught Wayne with a powerslam before Komander caught Hologram with a Canadian Destroyer to reset everything.

Komander hit a sick twisting poisonrana off the ropes, then hit the ropewalk shooting star press. Wayne cut Komander off and hit Wayne’s World on him. Andretti took Wayne out before Hologram cut off a handspring with an enzuigiri. Hologram hit a Blue Thunder Bomb on Andretti for the win.

The Beast Mortos was backstage with Lexy Nair. The Undisputed Kingdom walked in, upset that Mortos seemed to be lined up with La Faccion Ingobernable instead of them. They told him to reconsider, as Mortos growled.

Kris Statlander defeated Zoey Lynn

(Statlander is a babyface now, I guess. Mone vs. Statlander will be a good match, but it’s just a sudden switch. I think someone thought of the “born again Kristen” line and worked backward from there.)

Lynn jumped Statlander to no avail, as Statlander beat her quickly with Saturday Night Fever. Staturday Night Fever? After the match, Mercedes Mone & Kamille came out. Mone said that while she was impressed, Statlander needed to show her respect. She sicced Kamille on Statlander, who booted her down and dropped her with the Road To Damascus.

Darby Allin was in the back, where he challenged Brody King to meet him face-to-face on Dynamite. He noted that while he had beaten King in the past, he had never pinned him. He only beat him in a coffin match, but that wasn’t enough. He noted that he went to Tony Khan to get King a job, but if King wanted what Allin had, he’d have to work a lot harder.

We got a video package on Emi Sakura scoring a win in Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling. It was announced that Sakura would get a title match against Mercedes Mone, for both Mone’s TBS and NJPW STRONG Women’s Championships. Hey, a title match on Title Tuesday!

AEW World Tag Team Title #1 Contendership Three Way Match – Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) defeated Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) & House Of Black (Buddy Matthews & Malakai Black)

(The crowd was pretty light for this one. I don’t know if it was because they were tired, or if it’s because they didn’t really buy any of these teams beating the Young Bucks. If Private Party were going to get this title shot, I wouldn’t have spent the last month having Jon Moxley and his crew murder them. It’s about now or never for those guys, so we’ll see if they can recapture the magic against the Bucks next week.)

Dante & Kassidy started off, matching evenly before tagging in their partners for a stand-off. Private Party scored with double dropkicks before scoring with dives, but the House of Black followed them out with forearms. Quen went for a dive but got kneed out of the air. Kassidy followed and took a double powerbomb on the apron.

Dante Martin was running wild as we came back from the break, scoring a nearfall with a frog splash. Quen took Dante down with a Pele Kick before they respectively tagged their partners. Darius and Kassidy evaded each other until Kassidy scored with a stunner over the ropes. Darius came back with a flatliner, but Private Party caught him with Silly String.

Black and Matthews tagged in and ran wild with strikes until Dante took them both down. All aboard the move train! The final stop was a Gin & Juice attempt foiled by Black holding onto his partner’s foot. Matthews hit Kassidy with a Jackhammer before Black followed with a double stomp for a nearfall.

Action Andretti came out and threw another bottle of water at the House of Black, with Dante getting a tag in the process. Kassidy hit a step-up dive to the crowd on the floor, then followed up with Gin & Juice to score the win and the title shot at WrestleDream.

Three-way Tag Team title eliminator match set for AEW Collision

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The next challengers for the AEW Tag Team titles at this month’s WrestleDream will be determined on this Saturday’s edition of Collision.

Private Party, Top Flight and House of Black will vie for the opportunity to challenge the Young Bucks (pictured above) at the Saturday, October 12th pay-per-view. None of the teams have held the Tag Team titles before.

Private Party issued a challenge on this past Wednesday’s fifth anniversary edition of Dynamite and the Bucks feigned as if they were going to accept but then decided not to. That led to Jack Perry attacking Private Party from behind and the three heels beating them up until Katsuyori Shibata made the save.

Friday’s Rampage will feature the Bucks and Perry against Private Party and Shibata.

Top Flight have battled the Bucks several times in the past while House of Black feuded with The Elite over the AEW Trios titles in early-2023.

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Darby Allin will be in action against Johnny TV as the former is still looking for an opponent for WrestleDream after issuing an open challenge.

After getting into a scrap with AEW Women’s World Champion Mariah May, Willow Nightingale will take on Trish Adora while Nightingale’s rival Kris Statlander will return to action for the first time since their All Out street fight against an opponent to be named.

Ahead of his tag team match alongside Bryan Danielson against PAC & Claudio Castagnoli on Tuesday, Wheeler Yuta will go one-on-one with Beef.

In what should be a high-flying four-way, Hologram will battle Komander, Nick Wayne and Action Andretti.

Two tag team matches are set as the surging Outrunners will take on the Grizzled Young Veterans while The Conglomeration’s Orange Cassidy & Kyle O’Reilly battle Tony Nese & Ari Daivari of the Premier Athletes.

Here’s the full lineup, taped Thursday night in Toledo, Ohio:

  • House of Black (Malakai Black & Buddy Matthews) vs. Top Flight (Darius & Dante Martin) vs. Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) in a three-way AEW Tag Team title eliminator match for WrestleDream
  • Darby Allin vs. Johnny TV
  • The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd & Truth Magnum) vs. Grizzled Young Veterans (Zack Gibson & James Drake)
  • Willow Nightingale vs. Trish Adora
  • Beef vs. Wheeler Yuta
  • The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy & Kyle O’Reilly) vs. Premier Athletes (Tony Nese & Ari Daivari)
  • Komander vs. Hologram vs. Nick Wayne vs. Action Andretti
  • Kris Statlander vs. TBA