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00:00Zobaczmy, że nikt nie może zbierać, Rene jest najlepszy w tym, więc myślałem, że tak, że nie mogę zbierać Rene,
00:08ale bym się odbyć zimno i przyjeżdżałoby się z tym razem.
00:11Wszystko Rene w bardzo dobrej.
00:15I przedmiotem odpowiedziałem na pytania,
00:18jestem przyjątkowy z nową AEW Women's World Tag Team Champions.
00:27Let's see Wrathlander, Holly Cameron and Chris Dattlander, Wrathlander.
00:34Thank you, thank you guys.
00:36Ladies and gentlemen, the wrath has landed.
00:39Very good, very good.
00:42She told me to say it.
00:43I didn't, she came up with it herself.
00:45Well, I'm glad I was able to get you two to stop thinking so much about the entrance and focus
00:51on the wrestling match.
00:52Come out and wrestle and you two did a great job, congratulations.
00:56Chris Dattlander, only the second woman in AEW history to hold the World Championship, the TBS Championship,
01:02and the Women's World Tag Team Championship, and the first ever two-time World Tag Team Champion, Harley Cameron.
01:10Thank you, we're creating history.
01:11With two different partners.
01:12Yeah, look at us.
01:13Yes, yes.
01:13Before we say anything, I think we need to address, obviously, the elephant in the room.
01:19Yes, I know a lot of people are probably shocked, and I feel like we feel the same way.
01:24Yeah, yeah.
01:24But we do want to say that it really was, in fact, Billy Gunn in the video.
01:33Yes.
01:34He was there.
01:35It wasn't AI, it was him, he's been begging us for a long time.
01:39He won't stop asking us to be a part of something with us.
01:41You know what, with Wrathlander, I love Wrathlander.
01:43We're like, calm down, really.
01:44Hey, we know you're looking for kids right now.
01:46Right, exactly.
01:47I know, his kids are assholes.
01:49But he has taken us under his wing.
01:52Actually, we've taken him under AI.
01:53Yeah, we've really.
01:54We're giving him a test run.
01:55Yeah, yeah, we're giving him a test run.
01:57You know, he can make an appearance here and there.
01:59What do you guys think?
01:59You're right?
02:00Yeah.
02:01He's been a great tag team wrestler himself.
02:03That is true.
02:03He's captured multiple tag team championships all over the world.
02:06He's been a former AEW World Trios champion.
02:09He knows tag team wrestling very well.
02:11So, that's a great mentor to go to.
02:13Actually, fun fact.
02:14My first day in wrestling school, Billy Gunn was one of my coaches.
02:19Yeah, I don't know if you guys know that.
02:21Yes, he beat the crap out of me.
02:25But that's why I like to think I'm a tough cookie today, you know?
02:28Yeah, so tough.
02:29I know.
02:30And now, look how the tables have turned.
02:32I know, he's coming to us for advice.
02:34Yeah.
02:35Begging.
02:35Yeah, sunrise, sunset, as they say.
02:38Well, we'll get to the great questions from the media.
02:42And I really appreciate all of you being here.
02:44And I'm very excited to be joined by the new Women's World Tag Team Champions.
02:48And we'll take questions from the media.
02:52Yes, gorgeous in the pink, beautiful hat.
02:56Thank you so much.
02:57Amy Nemedy with WrestleJoy.
02:58First, congratulations.
03:01You both have incredible chemistry together in and out of the ring.
03:06And obviously, you have accolades and decorations with Triple Crown Champion and two-time Women's World Tag Team Champion.
03:13Congratulations for that as well.
03:15Thank you.
03:15How did it feel hearing that massive pop from the crowd when you guys won?
03:22And what are you setting your sights on next?
03:25I think we were just both very surprised.
03:29Not with the fact that we won, but just the circumstances of everything.
03:34I think sometimes wrestling gets so tough and frustrating.
03:39And we're tired, we're performers, we're traveling all the time.
03:42We have real lives outside of this.
03:44And it's really hard to find that balance.
03:47And honestly, getting to work together with the genuine friendship that we have,
03:50we go into every day being like, let's have fun today.
03:54And we hope that people are able to have fun with us as well as, you know, I've been with
04:02AEW for,
04:03I think it's legit like my exact seven-year anniversary yesterday, I think it was.
04:09Happy anniversary!
04:10Thank you!
04:12And then you being a newer, more recent, but still have done so many incredible things.
04:19Not that I feel like I need to take you under my wing.
04:22Yeah, but you have, you have.
04:23And I honestly will say, I get to work with, I think Stat is not only one of the best
04:30women's wrestlers in the world,
04:32I think she's one of the best wrestlers, period, in the world.
04:35And how lucky am I not only to work with my best friend,
04:39but when you get to work in such a close capacity and learn from somebody who is so exceptional in
04:44the ring,
04:45I 100% credit a lot of my progress, my confidence, everything to you and the time and effort.
04:52Like, you guys have no idea.
04:53Since day one when I started here, Stat has like gone out of her way.
04:57She's always in the ring with me before work.
04:58She was always going out of her way to help me develop.
05:01You know, I'm one of the newest people to wrestling in this company.
05:05And how amazing is it that I get to work for the best wrestling company in the world at All
05:10Elite Wrestling.
05:11And how amazing is it that I get to do it now with my best friend, tag team women champions.
05:18Like, guys, I think the world is our oyster.
05:20Yeah.
05:22Because I didn't get to finish what I was saying.
05:23Sorry, I cut you off.
05:24Should we kiss and make her?
05:26No.
05:27Gosh.
05:28She won't shut up about this.
05:29I'm trying to kiss her, but she doesn't want me to.
05:31Anyway, what I was saying is I think we bring a balance of she helps me not be so serious
05:40all the time,
05:41even though I do take wrestling very seriously and she does as well.
05:48But I think just finding the joy in it with each other, getting to do that together,
05:52may not be everybody's cup of tea, but it's working for us obviously right now.
05:56And we just hope that people are along for the ride with us in this moment.
06:01Mm-hmm.
06:01Thank you.
06:02Thank you.
06:06Another pink hat.
06:07Pink hat.
06:08Yes.
06:09That's the magic.
06:10Yes.
06:10Love to see it.
06:12Roger with TMZ.
06:13I actually did have a question about the kissing.
06:18Come on.
06:19Bring it up.
06:19Finally.
06:20I've been dying to talk about it.
06:22I noticed that Harley went for a kiss after you won the titles.
06:25And you were denied the kiss.
06:27All right.
06:27There's a big backstory to this.
06:29Oh.
06:29Oh, okay.
06:30Wait, can I start first?
06:31Yes.
06:31Okay.
06:32So, a long time ago I saw online that this man broke the world record for the most kisses
06:38in a minute, okay?
06:39But it was on the cheek and it was like this.
06:40And I was watching it and I thought, I can do that.
06:43I can do that.
06:44And then I was like, I just need a face.
06:46And then I was like, makes sense that I do it with my tag team partner.
06:50So, I said, can we break the world record for kisses?
06:52Just on the cheek.
06:53Nothing weird.
06:54And she's like, I'm thinking about coming around to it.
06:56I'm thinking about coming around to it.
06:57And then I always text her and I'm like, kiss, kiss.
07:00You know, she always blows me off.
07:02She likes to keep me on the run.
07:04But she said, you know what?
07:06Tonight if we win, we'll do the kiss.
07:09And I got nervous.
07:10And she got nervous.
07:11I went in for the kiss.
07:12And then she shunned me.
07:14So, I'm going on public record that we will eventually break the world record for the most
07:19kisses in a minute.
07:20And that you owe me.
07:22Wow.
07:22So, thank you.
07:23Stay tuned for AEW Dynamite and Collision for when that could possibly be.
07:26You never know which episode it could happen in.
07:28It's a potential possibility.
07:30Yes.
07:31There you go.
07:32So, thank you.
07:33Thank you.
07:33Yeah.
07:34Yeah.
07:34Thanks a lot.
07:35Thank you for bringing that up.
07:38Anybody else with a pink hat in here?
07:40Right.
07:42Anybody else with a question?
07:44Don't be shy.
07:45We don't bite.
07:45Hard.
07:46Very hard.
07:48Come on.
07:49Yes.
07:50Well, I would like to, if I may, given the two of you have been champions separately before,
07:59you've never been champions together.
08:01I would have to ask now, now that you are a tag team, now that you have the championship,
08:06and now that you've had a little bit of time, a couple hours to gather yourselves and look forward.
08:13And as you two hold these championships together for the first time, I guess I would ask you, what's the
08:19outlook for the two of you going forward?
08:21What, you know, now that you have these belts, tell me a little bit about the wrestling outlook.
08:27You guys have talked a lot about the personal side, a lot about the characters, but you're both great wrestlers.
08:35Tell me about being a team and about wrestling together.
08:39I think, as a team, we have come up with a lot of stuff together.
08:44And I think we just really, this is one of our first biggest tests together as a team.
08:50And I think, you know, wrestling is something we just want to continue to grow with.
08:55And I think we want to get our reps in as a tag team, as tag team champions, show that
09:01we deserve these belts,
09:02which I fully believe that we do.
09:06And, you know, just keep getting better with it and, you know, adding to the prestige of these new tag
09:15team champions.
09:16Yeah, 100%.
09:17Well, that's great.
09:18The two of you are very entertaining outside of the ring, and you're both great wrestlers in the ring.
09:23And this is a big milestone for both of you and a great night.
09:26So congratulations, congratulations on seven years.
09:29Thank you.
09:29And the Triple Crown.
09:31Yes.
09:31Yes.
09:32Thank you, everyone.
09:32That is very kind.
09:33Congratulations on the two-time World Tag Team Championship.
09:36Thank you.
09:37I feel honored to be making history.
09:38Yeah.
09:39Very cool.
09:39Yeah, thank you so much.
09:40Very cool.
09:41Well, I look forward to it.
09:42And I also have to give it up to the Brawling Birds, who I think have been great world tag
09:48team champions
09:49since they captured the belts at Wembley.
09:51I've been looking forward to this match for a long time.
09:53And congratulations to the two of you.
09:55Thank you.
09:56Thank you so much, Tony.
09:56Thank you guys for being here tonight.
09:58Appreciate it.
09:59Appreciate both of you.
09:59Thank you.
10:00And with that, ladies and gentlemen, Rathlander.
10:04Thank you.
10:05Very kind of you.
10:06And let's go.
10:07Yes.
10:07That was great.
10:08All right.
10:09Thank you for your time, Tony.
10:11Congratulations.
10:11Congratulations.
10:12Thank you.
10:12Thank you, Tony.
10:14And with Renee not here, normally we would go into Renee and I together.
10:19But since Renee is not here, I'll step into the solo tone zone like the old days and we're back.
10:29So what an exciting and crazy couple of days.
10:32And I know it's been crazy for a lot of people and I can only imagine that for thousands and
10:39thousands of people here in America and presumably affected people all over the world, people traveling to and from America.
10:48This last couple of days and all the flight interruptions, it's been absolutely wild.
10:54And thanks to everybody in AEW, everybody who worked with us backstage to make this very, very ambitious flight plan
11:04come off.
11:05It was really something very incredible.
11:09You know, we worked really hard to make sure that every single wrestler we announced for this pay-per-view
11:14and everyone we planned for the pay-per-view would be here.
11:16We did have to make some changes on the tailgate brawl, but the whole pay-per-view came off great.
11:21And I really appreciate everybody who pulled a lot of strings to make it happen.
11:27For anybody who didn't hear, I announced earlier today we utilized private aviation.
11:33Yesterday all flights were shut down, private and public, and that meant that we're playing by the same rules as
11:39everyone.
11:39And nobody from AEW was flying yesterday, but I did start lining things up if and when the travel block
11:48did get changed, which happened last night.
11:50And at that point we thought about it, and I'm really glad we did.
11:54It turned out that the commercial flights, a lot of the wrestlers on the pay-per-view did end up
12:00getting canceled.
12:00And had I not sent the private planes, a lot of people on this pay-per-view would not have
12:06made it here tonight.
12:07So that was great.
12:09Some people would have been able to make it with their commercial flights, but sending the three private planes worked
12:15really, really well.
12:16All right, chat. Let's come check out this behind this curtain.
12:21Oh, shit.
12:22Oh, okay.
12:23Oh, look at this. Tony, what up?
12:27Great to see you, Nick.
12:28Oh, my God, is this the after party?
12:29Yeah.
12:30Holy shit, what's going on, y'all?
12:32Oh, my God. Yo, chat.
12:33Hey.
12:34Yo, hey, say what up to the chat.
12:36Yeah, say yo. Yo, what up, Tony?
12:39Hey, Nick.
12:39You doing all right?
12:40Very well, Nick.
12:41What a pay-per-view, eh?
12:41It was a great pay-per-view.
12:42Yeah, you want some champagne?
12:43Uh, yeah, sure.
12:44Yeah, come on, though.
12:45Thanks. This is what's left.
12:46Yeah.
12:46That's all that's left.
12:47It's my second one, but, like, do your thing.
12:50What's going on?
12:51You guys enjoy the show?
12:53Yeah.
12:53What was your favorite part?
12:55When I came out, right?
12:56Yeah.
12:57Yeah.
12:57Of course.
12:58Of course.
12:59I killed it.
12:59Are you serious?
13:00Well, you gave me, like, one sip, buddy.
13:02Come on, dude.
13:02That was my last sip.
13:03You grabbed me.
13:04Oh, my God.
13:06Chat saying, this is the best part of the media scrum.
13:08Yeah, I know.
13:09I know.
13:09It just started already the best part.
13:11But, hey, I just came here to ask you guys.
13:13Let me lock in.
13:16Did y'all hear the news?
13:18Did you hear the news, Tony?
13:19Yeah, I did.
13:21That Nick Wayne has mugged Phoenix, Arizona.
13:27Thank you, guys.
13:28Thank you, guys.
13:29No questions, please.
13:30No questions, but thank you, guys.
13:31Have a good night.
13:32Thank you, Tony.
13:32Thank you, Nick.
13:33Thank you for a great pay-per-view.
13:34Where is the after party?
13:36Well, I have to head to Nashville because I've got to be at a National Football League
13:41game hours from now.
13:42I do feel like I've never been so brutally frame-mogged in my entire life as to right
13:47now.
13:47What can I say?
13:48Says you and the rest of the locker room.
13:49I'll see you guys.
13:50See you, Phoenix.
13:51Let's get lit.
13:53Nick Wayne, what a prodigy.
13:57That is an incredible, incredible wrestler, incredible professional wrestler.
14:01And so it has been an incredibly, incredibly rewarding 24 hours.
14:08I just am so proud of all the wrestlers.
14:09I thought they did a great job.
14:11A lot of people who wrestled on this pay-per-view got here hours, minutes before the show started.
14:16We sent three planes out.
14:17We had a few hub locations.
14:20And it reminded me a lot of the spirit of the lockdown, AEW, where we were doing all
14:26kinds of things, trying to obviously play by all the same rules as everybody else, but
14:30trying to find ways to be creative and get everybody there and make the show come off.
14:39And normally this is where Renee and I would start fielding your questions.
14:43There's a lot of wrestlers in the back after such a hard-hitting physical pay-per-view
14:47getting checked out right now.
14:49So the status of a lot of these wrestlers is in question.
14:53A lot of the women and men just got the heck beaten out of them tonight.
14:57And I'm really, really proud.
14:59I thought this was an incredible pay-per-view.
15:01This has been a great year for AEW.
15:03And I imagine knowing and looking around the faces in the room, there'll be some talk on the business side
15:09of wrestling.
15:10In the ring, I thought this was an awesome wrestling show.
15:13And there's lots of great business stories to talk about too as we approach the end of the year of
15:19what I think has been a tremendous 2026 for AEW and our media partners.
15:24I think it's been a really important year.
15:26And we can look back at how much progress we've all made here in the past year.
15:31And sending out a lot of love before the questions to Renee at home.
15:38Renee and Jon Moxley, they lost a great friend this week.
15:42If you don't know, their dog, Blue, passed away.
15:45And even though Blue is not a household name in the world of professional wrestling, Blue is clearly a dog
15:52that had watched thousands of hours of professional wrestling on television.
15:56And in fact, from my experience, thought that he himself, Blue, was a professional wrestler.
16:02And he was pretty much convinced that he and Jon Moxley were the show.
16:06And whenever he was around Jon, he would try to wrestle Jon to the ground.
16:09And I think he thought he and Jon were the wrestlers.
16:15And so I just wanted to give a shout out to Blue, who's one of the best dogs I ever
16:19met in my life.
16:20And may he rest in peace.
16:22And sending a lot of love to Renee and Nora.
16:25Renee unable to be here with the travel.
16:27Normally she would be a huge part of this.
16:29And if she can't be here, then I'll just do it by myself because nobody can take Renee's place.
16:34And with that, let's take the questions.
16:40Hey Tony, this is Nick Reschke with Arizona PBS.
16:43First of all, I love the cup.
16:45You know, happy holiday season.
16:47Merry Christmas.
16:48Let's go.
16:48You too.
16:49Second of all, so with Double or Nothing here last year, you had full gear this year.
16:53And you mentioned briefly after the show that there are some sort of plans to come back here next year.
17:00What is it about Phoenix that you see as such a wrestling destination for you guys?
17:03Whether it's TV or pay-per-view, this is always a great home to us.
17:07We had an incredible Double or Nothing last year around Phoenix area.
17:10And we've had great TV shows.
17:12One of my favorite moments ever was when Sting and Darby won the World Tag Team Championships in Phoenix.
17:17So we've had great TV here, great pay-per-views.
17:20And Phoenix is going to be a home to AEW TV and pay-per-view for a long time to
17:25come.
17:25We don't have all the dates for next year figured out, but Phoenix is always going to figure into our
17:29plans.
17:30I want to come back here every year and bring big TVs whenever I can and big pay-per-views
17:35like Double or Nothing 2025 and Full Gear 2026,
17:38which are two of my personal favorite shows, two really great nights for the company in completely different ways.
17:43And frankly, the company's in a completely different place than it was in a year and a half ago.
17:48And I would honestly say I believe Double or Nothing 2025 here in Phoenix a year and a half ago
17:53was one of those shows that really helped slingshot us
17:55and help us grow and get to the position we're in now, which is a much, much stronger position as
18:01a company than we were in a year and a half ago.
18:03Thank you.
18:05Anyone else?
18:06Oh, yeah.
18:09Hi, it's Tony.
18:10Amy and Emily with WrestleJoy.
18:12Congratulations on another stellar pay-per-view in 2026.
18:16So I actually wanted to talk to you about the women's division, because as you've said, AEW is on an
18:22incredible trajectory.
18:23But one of the things that's also been noted with that is the women's division and their trajectory.
18:28So tonight we had three championship matches for the division on the card with the TBS championship match.
18:34We had, of course, our new world tag team champions.
18:37And we had the women's world championship match where we saw Mercedes Manet go out there and put on a
18:42stellar performance.
18:43But we also saw the crowd really embrace Marina Shafir, which is something that's been a long time coming.
18:50We also just had the critically acclaimed blood and guts that the women just absolutely crushed it.
18:56So I wanted to ask you about the general state of the women's division for 2026, how you see it
19:03heading into next year.
19:04And if you can sort of reflect on some of the successes that you've seen with it going on this
19:09incredible rise this year.
19:10Thank you. I really, really appreciate you asking.
19:12And I agree with everything you said.
19:14I thought that was very well said.
19:16I think that in all three of the championship matches tonight, the women absolutely delivered and under challenging circumstances,
19:24because we were hoping Maya world was one of the flights that would take off.
19:29There were only a few people that did not geographically live in these hub areas that didn't make it here.
19:38And Maya was one of the only ones.
19:40In fact, that was the only person advertised in a match at all that did not make it.
19:44And that was thankfully not part of the pay-per-view yet.
19:47At the same time, that was a very important part of the show.
19:50And I would also say, in addition to everything you said, the very good matches tonight on the pay-per
19:55-view in the great blood and guts match.
19:57The past two collisions, there have been great TBS championship matches in the main events Wednesday night,
20:04which was a big success for the company, the ratings of dynamite and collision.
20:07And it's also the second time this week where three of those women delivered in a very challenging position,
20:12because we also had travel challenges earlier.
20:14It's been a crazy travel week on a national level, but also on a local level it was challenging on
20:21Wednesday.
20:21This was obviously for people all over the country feeling it.
20:25And I hope that people outside of AEW were able to get home and see their friends and family for
20:33people traveling.
20:34And I can only imagine how many people were affected by this.
20:37I know it was very crazy for AEW.
20:39So I was glad that for the pay-per-view card, everything on the poster came off exactly as advertised.
20:44And that includes all the great women.
20:46And several of the women on the pay-per-view and the tailgate brawl went through incredibly challenging travel times
20:52to make this happen.
20:53There's been great wrestling throughout this year.
20:55The blood and guts match I thought was phenomenal.
20:57As you said, for the second year in a row, the women's blood and guts match was off the charts
21:01excellent.
21:02And again, for the second year in a row, a really tremendous rating for the company.
21:09And speaks to what I said about the business case.
21:11Because again, we've built and look where we were a year ago in November last year for the blood and
21:16guts.
21:17That show did a great rating for where we were in 2025.
21:20And this year was even bigger.
21:21The biggest AEW rating we've done for the 18 to 49 viewership since we launched on HBO Max.
21:27In the time, it was actually the 2024 blood and guts was the last viewership this high.
21:33The show was in July of 2024.
21:35So it had been about two and a half years since we had seen that much 18 to 49 viewership
21:41as we did for the men's and women's both blood and guts matches on TBS this year.
21:48And of the simulcast era, it was the biggest one we've had.
21:51And I think the women were a huge, huge part of that.
21:53Again, this past Wednesday, the viewership of the show was tremendous for Dynamite and Collision to be able to sustain.
22:02And I believe 94% of the viewership for total viewership of blood and guts.
22:08And still hold up very strong in the demos.
22:11And be the number two show behind NBA on ESPN on cable across the hours for Collision to still have
22:19half a million people in a time slot.
22:22And is far, far above the average for that time of the night.
22:27Just really, really strong.
22:28And they ended up being great shows.
22:32And it was two collisions in a row where Queen Aminata, Sky Blue, and Haiyan had been a part of
22:38delivering a great main event.
22:41Although that was not the intention originally.
22:43Maya World, I was hoping to have her participate.
22:45I can't wait to get Maya back in the mix.
22:49And I really am very appreciative to both Haiyan and Sky Blue who were here.
22:53And it's a great lesson as Haiyan in her career and Sky Blue both have demonstrated.
22:58Sky Blue going back many, many years to when she first arrived here.
23:02And Haiyan time after time in her shorter time with us.
23:07We've seen time after time in AEW when you're in the right place at the right time.
23:11If you keep showing up, there will be opportunities.
23:14I really believe that.
23:16Persephone was a great, great TBS champion.
23:19And is a great champion for CMLL.
23:21And I'm happy to say Persephone is somebody that signed with AEW for years to come.
23:26And I believe Persephone is going to be a big part of AEW and CMLL both for years to come.
23:33And Queen Aminata has been an outstanding TBS champion.
23:37She's been a great wrestler for AEW for years.
23:39Also, she really wanted to be in the blood and guts match last year.
23:42And this is a true story.
23:43Queen Aminata was in tears in North Carolina last year.
23:48The day of the show when we told her we just can't risk putting you in this match.
23:51It was the right call because it turned out with her injury she was out for many months.
23:56And it would not have been good for her to go in with serious injuries.
23:59And it was a tough conversation, but in the long run it's worked out.
24:03A year later she's become the TBS champion.
24:06And she did get to participate in a fantastic blood and guts match.
24:10And now has come in, defended the title twice in one week under just really challenging circumstances.
24:17And also proven herself on live TV time after time.
24:22She's a great part of the roster.
24:24And Queen Aminata is one of those great success stories.
24:26And it's been a year where a lot of the great wrestlers have really stepped up.
24:30Maya World, not here tonight, but she also really stepped up time after time.
24:36And that's a great example, whether it's the way she made it onto the roster in the first place,
24:40or then in the Owen Hart Foundation tournament, stepping up under really challenging circumstances
24:47when she didn't even have to be at work.
24:49And I actually had made it clear that there was no expectation for Maya World to even come to Cincinnati.
24:55And she wasn't even expecting to wrestle. She just wanted to be there.
24:58She ended up making a run all the way to the Owen Hart Foundation finals,
25:01and then became the TBS champion.
25:06And there's a lot of great success stories.
25:11And Mercedes Monet, what a great wrestler.
25:15Marina Shafir, what a great challenger.
25:17As you said, the crowd really responded to her.
25:19And I was really, really very, very happy for both of them.
25:23I thought the match was excellent.
25:24And of course, as you mentioned, there were great championship matches tonight.
25:28And also then in the anarchy in the arena, there was some good women's wrestling there too.
25:33And great to see not only Mercedes Monet and Marina Shafir, but also Willow Nightingale
25:42to get the conglomeration and the Death Riders out there fighting with the cut.
25:49And Mercedes, time after time, over the past few years, she always delivers.
25:53And again, she delivered a great match tonight and came out with a win against somebody who
25:59really has proven themselves and I think just keeps getting better and better, Marina Shafir.
26:04And Marina Shafir trains under and works with and has improved herself so much
26:11under the tutelage of the Death Riders and a great world champion with Jon Moxley.
26:16And tonight Marina Shafir stepped under the lights and tested herself against
26:21against one of the greatest world champions with Mercedes Monet and really delivered on live pay-per-view.
26:27That was tremendous.
26:28The tag team match, it was great.
26:30Wrathlander, they stepped in there with two incredible wrestlers who have become an incredible team,
26:38undefeated to this point as a team in tag matches, the Brawling Birds.
26:43And I think the world of Alex and Jamie and would love to see a rematch at some point between
26:48those two teams.
26:52Also, all four of them worked really well together in the blood and guts to get to this point where
26:57they could fight it out for the titles at the pay-per-view.
26:59And they were a big part of that blood and guts match as well as the triangle of madness.
27:03Sky was a huge part of tonight's show and the triangle, whether it's Tekla, Julia, Sky individually,
27:12the tag team of the sisters, Tekla as a singles, any of them as singles, and of course, as a
27:19trio and representing stardom as champions.
27:22I think they're all fantastic. There's so many great women wrestlers in AEW right now.
27:27And one of the greatest women wrestlers we've ever had in AEW and one of the greatest champions we've ever
27:32had in AEW
27:33someday will return, and that's Timeless Toni Storm.
27:36And I think it says so much that the women have stepped up and delivered time after time after time,
27:43and Timeless Toni Storm's return is still looming someday.
27:47And speaking of which, I think Mina Shurikawa in her absence has done very, very well in AEW and ROH,
27:55and we've got so many great wrestlers in ROH, including Athena.
28:02High-end I spoke about. It's been some really interesting things happening in ROH for anyone who follows.
28:07There's some great rivalries and intrigue developing.
28:11Athena versus High-end I am very much looking forward to, but Athena wants High-end to join her,
28:17and she wants to mentor High-end and take High-end to the next level under her wing.
28:22But we've seen Athena is often very selfish with these things, and Athena is somebody who, whether it's ROH
28:27or any time she's in AEW, is always very effective and a dominant champion herself.
28:33So there are so many great women here in AEW right now and for the future, and that's only the
28:39tip of the iceberg.
28:40Thank you for asking about them, and I thought they did excellent tonight and throughout this week.
28:46Thank you. And throughout this year. Appreciate it.
28:51Hey, Tony. Will Pruitt from ProWrestling.net here.
28:55I have a question about merchandising. I look out at the merch booth here and I see a lot of
29:00wrestlers who are on the card and heavily featured in AEW,
29:04not featured at the merch stands, like a lot of wrestlers who are key in the company not having merch
29:11on sale at the stands.
29:11And I also noticed like the AEW action figures disappearing from stores and things.
29:16Are there plans to improve the merchandise options at stores and do you have any update on your action figure
29:21situation?
29:22There are some new action figure lines coming out ahead of the holidays. We are making a transition in action
29:28figure partners.
29:29Now for the merch, what was, so I wasn't in the, obviously with the show and this being one of
29:36the most logistically challenging and successful endeavors as far as pulling off,
29:43landing a lot of planes literally in one day. So what, who were some of the people who you didn't
29:48see with the merch that were on the show that you'd want to see merch for?
29:50I noticed like the conglomerate. Oh, sorry. Sure.
29:54I noticed folks like the conglomeration didn't have merch out at the merch tables.
29:58I may have missed it, but I didn't see any like Mercedes Monet merch either at the table tonight.
30:03And those were wrestlers that I have seen at the merch tables at AEW shows before and also would just
30:10assume, I mean, also just very family friendly wrestlers.
30:13Wrestlers, you would think people would want to pick up a t-shirt or a figure for their kids.
30:17And we have had the t-shirts to your point from what I have seen of those at many of
30:23the pay-per-views.
30:24So that, that's interesting. I'll look at that because normally there would be those at one of our shows.
30:28Thank you. But with the action figures, we're doing a transition in the toy partners.
30:32There are some new, and we have announced some new toy partnerships and there's more to come on those.
30:36Thanks. Thank you.
30:42Hi, Tony. Jack O'Hara, O'Hara and Friends Wrestling.
30:45Congrats on a great show tonight all around.
30:47Thank you.
30:47Like we could talk about any match that happened tonight.
30:50I kind of want to get into the Texas death match.
30:53Specifically about two guys that were involved in that match and that being Austin Creed and Kofi.
30:58They've been around for a couple of months now.
31:02How has it been collaborating with them?
31:05How have they fit into the culture in AEW?
31:08And how specifically involved were they in collaborating with this match tonight?
31:12Because I don't believe we've ever seen them in an environment in which they were in tonight in a 40
31:16-minute just all-out brawl.
31:20The fans have known them around the world for years and tonight was definitely a different side of them.
31:25Yeah, no, absolutely it was. I really enjoyed the match. It was very hard-hitting.
31:30It was certainly a team effort and they were very involved in it.
31:35I think they were, you know, two of six, so they were one-third of the participants.
31:43So I think physically they had about a third of the physical input roughly, give or take.
31:48And in terms of the ideas, they were very active and they have great ideas.
31:53I've been very, very involved with them since they came and it was a big change.
31:57I really couldn't say far in advance whether we were going to be doing at Wembley what we did.
32:03And it was something I came up with under unexpected circumstances.
32:07And I think AEW always thrives under those.
32:10And then over the last few months, I've really enjoyed getting to know Austin and Kofi.
32:14I think NewLevel and Swerve have now been an incredibly effective trio.
32:21And they've done some really exciting things in that time.
32:24And I've really enjoyed collaborating with them.
32:26I've worked with Swerve for years.
32:28And it's the first time I've worked with Austin and Kofi, but I really enjoy it.
32:32And they have completely different experiences than I do.
32:38And I love talking to them.
32:41And I think it's great for everybody to be able to contribute and brainstorm.
32:45And so far, they've been a great fit in AEW.
32:47I think we're really fortunate to have NewLevel here.
32:49And great to have Swerve and NewLevel as the world trio's champions again,
32:53after what I thought was an incredible Texas death match at Full Gear tonight.
32:57Thanks.
32:58Thank you.
33:02How you doing, Mr. Khan?
33:04I'm great.
33:04Congratulations on another amazing show.
33:07And when I say amazing, I mean amazing.
33:09Thank you.
33:09Every time I come to AEW, it's so much fun.
33:12I can say, with no hesitation, that is definitely the most fun out-of-the-box wrestling company in the
33:20world.
33:20And I mean that in a great way.
33:22Thank you.
33:22So my question is, how do you keep it evolving?
33:26How do you make it so much fun for us to come back and watch these wrestlers do this crazy
33:32stuff?
33:33Like every time I come, it's just out of this world.
33:36How do you keep evolving and keep the workplace so fun?
33:40I think that because wrestling has no off-season and because there are so many great wrestlers in AEW,
33:46and I love working on it every week, there's always great matches and rivalries brewing in AEW.
33:53And with so many great wrestlers, it's sustainable to have great rivalries and great matches on television every week.
34:03And when I was growing up, you would see great matches on television sometimes, but we have rivalries that allow
34:10us to develop great matches with, often with a lot of build towards why they would want to wrestle.
34:17And what's great is doing this 52 weeks a year, I think we've really hit a great stride in 2026
34:25delivering TV that's very strong every week and pay-per-views that are very strong.
34:30And I'm very happy to say that Full Gear is up significantly year over year, which has been the trend
34:39for AEW pay-per-views this year.
34:41We're having a tremendous year on pay-per-view.
34:44All of our record pay-per-view numbers, the highest ones so far have been in 2026.
34:49We debuted with a lot of fanfare on HBO Max last year.
34:53And so far, all the pay-per-views have been up year over year.
34:57And it's really, really exciting to be able to continue delivering great shows because we set a very, very high
35:08standard.
35:08So I give all the credit to the great wrestlers and fans because we have fans that watch the wrestling
35:1552 weeks a year,
35:16and we have wrestlers that deliver and fight 52 weeks a year.
35:20And just like tonight, we'll sometimes go through challenging circumstances to get there and make it happen.
35:27So I believe AEW is where the best wrestle.
35:31And because we are always keeping our eye on the prize, trying to deliver big matches on TV and pay
35:36-per-view and try to be forward thinking,
35:40but also try to put myself in the shoes of the fans and think what I would want to see
35:45if I were the fans and not make it just about what I want and what I think,
35:49but try to pay attention to what our fans say and really caring and valuing the fan feedback and wanting
35:59to make the fans happy.
36:00And I think that we have such, such great fans with AEW and also they're very engaged with the show.
36:11And to have such passionate fans, they deliver great ideas, great insights all the time.
36:17And our wrestlers are so, so insightful.
36:20They have great ideas and I really enjoy connecting with them and trying to find ways to utilize their creativity
36:28and their brains
36:29and make it work within what I think is a really good wrestling show.
36:34Thank you for asking.
36:39Hey Tony Khan, Sully Khan, Slam Wrestling.
36:42We've got a bunch of different questions about basically every match, but I'll narrow it down to this one.
36:49Obviously enough has been said and enough, not enough can be said about the Young Bucks and how instrumental they
36:56are in AEW.
36:58After watching their match tonight, the rivalry that's developed with the Davis and Doyle,
37:03how have they been able to manage off of that squash match a few weeks ago to coming to now
37:10and being able to pull through another victory?
37:13Is that rivalry something that you think will continue or maybe the Young Bucks have their sights set on some
37:20of the other teams that are lining up to face them and want a shot at those titles?
37:24I thought Davis and Doyle were incredible in both those tag matches and in the blood and guts match.
37:29And the Young Bucks have a real track record delivering pay-per-view matches going back over seven years in
37:37AEW and before AEW ever launched.
37:40Davis and Doyle are not as experienced as a tag team.
37:44They both have had great wrestling careers and wrestled all over the world.
37:48I think that they have been phenomenal as a team.
37:52And to your point, they were great against the Young Bucks.
37:55The TV match, the blood and guts and this pay-per-view match tonight.
37:58Young Bucks have had so many great matches this year.
38:01What a year the Young Bucks are having on pay-per-view.
38:03And that's coming from a team that has delivered so many of the greatest matches in AEW history.
38:09And this is arguably their best year on pay-per-view yet, just in my opinion.
38:12I think the Bucks have been incredible this year.
38:15They were awesome last year and pretty much every year.
38:20So I think Davis and Doyle were awesome and it was a very different kind of match.
38:31We've never seen the Young Bucks thrown around quite like that by a tag team that I can recall.
38:39But I think the Young Bucks have had so many great matches with so many great teams.
38:44Davis and Doyle individually and collectively with the Don Callis family,
38:48I think they have a very, very bright future.
38:51And Young Bucks in their legendary career, this was another awesome pay-per-view match.
38:56I think Davis and Doyle have a lot of great matches in front of them with the Young Bucks and
39:00with a lot of other people.
39:02And Young Bucks, another awesome match.
39:04I thought certainly as former associates of Don Callis, they've had some great matches against the Don Callis family just
39:14this year.
39:15And what a match they had with Kyle Fletcher and Kevin Knight.
39:20And now what a match they had with Davis and Doyle.
39:23And I'm sure a lot of great matches to come for both teams and possibly against each other too.
39:28Thanks, man.
39:29Anybody else?
39:31Hi, Tony.
39:32Roger TMZ.
39:33One of the things I look forward to every year is this T2 tournament.
39:36I know it's being promoted already.
39:38I'm not sure when we could expect the bracket, but I was wondering.
39:41Monday.
39:42We said in the show, but to be fair, just, you know, it's a Monday.
39:45It will be halftime on Monday day football.
39:47Oh, nice.
39:48Nice.
39:49I had a question about the presentation of it as it grows.
39:51And again, it's becoming a favorite part of people's lives.
39:56Do you see potentially getting more pageantry involved, more celebration, potentially expanding into a tag team C2 tournament or a
40:06women's C2 tournament?
40:07Where do you see this going?
40:09Well, I do think that there are potential for other tournaments too.
40:12They don't necessarily have to have the same branding as C2, but there's potential for a lot of great tournaments
40:17we can do.
40:19I think the C2 has been hugely, hugely successful and it's a round robin format.
40:28There have been other round robin tournaments.
40:29There are some things about it that are unique to its identity that I think are very strong.
40:34The complete lack of outside interference and the fact that everybody's banned from ringside and it really surprises people outside
40:43wrestling.
40:44You know, when you tell people who maybe have never worked in AEW or even people that are wrestling legends
40:52that have never wrestled in AEW.
40:55And you'll talk to somebody and say, there's no outside interference.
41:00Everybody's banned from ringside.
41:02And they'll say, oh, sure.
41:03And it's like, no, no, I'm serious.
41:06Nobody's ever come out and nobody's ever tested it.
41:09And it would be the end of that person if nobody will ever do it.
41:13And there will never be outside interference in it.
41:16And that's part of, I think, what makes it so unique.
41:20Because I can't think of another circumstance where it's a stipulation that's been tested this many times.
41:26Because there have been now, I believe, 99 Continental Classic matches across the three tournaments.
41:3633 matches a year and 99 matches.
41:39And there have been zero outside interference.
41:41Nobody's even thought to test the rule.
41:43And I think that's very unique.
41:48Also, in other round robin tournaments, there's been two points for a win, one point for a draw.
41:53But I think that our format with three points for a win, one point for a draw, I've never seen
41:58that in wrestling anywhere else.
41:59It is similar to what you see in the Premier League.
42:02And it's an exciting scoring format.
42:04And it really does put the emphasis on the urgency of getting the win.
42:07And particularly in the late stages of a match with a 20 minute time limit like the C2, it can
42:14make for really exciting situations.
42:17So I do really love the C2 for a lot of reasons.
42:21And I think we've had a lot of success for it.
42:23So potentially some of these things could be applied to other formats for sure.
42:27And not necessarily with this C2 name, but under other names and different ways to use the round robin tournament.
42:33And to prevent outside interference and things of that nature.
42:36The scoring format, there's a lot to learn from it.
42:38Thank you.
42:40And again, just so you know, so we have said, it'll be Monday night.
42:43And that gives me some time because as we speak, a lot of the wrestlers are getting checked on.
42:47And by the time I get out of here, that'll give some time for the doctors to follow up tomorrow.
42:52I'll be able to huddle up with them and see how everyone is recovering.
42:56And then Monday night, we'll have all those announcements.
43:00And that's the selection special co-hosted by myself and Tony Schiavone.
43:04Thank you.
43:05Anyone else that didn't ask Tony a question?
43:08Yeah.
43:08If anybody hasn't, anybody who has not had a chance to ask a question, I'll stay and make sure everyone
43:14gets to ask one.
43:15Hey.
43:16Hi, Tony.
43:16I'm Cody Burlett.
43:17I'm representing WhatCulture Wrestling today.
43:20First, I just want to say thank you for just every show I've ever been to from Dynamite, Collision, Rampage,
43:27any pay-per-view.
43:28Always is great top to bottom.
43:31Thank you.
43:33Thank you.
43:33I have a question for my colleague, Andy.
43:35He wanted to know if you have any potential plans for mid-April for doing a stadium show possibly?
43:44Well, who's your friend Andy?
43:46No.
43:46Andy Murray from WhatCulture.
43:48Oh, okay.
43:49So for Andy.
43:49Got it.
43:50Oh, Andy Murray from WhatCulture.
43:51Got it.
43:51Well, sending our best to Andy, first of all.
43:54I'm very familiar with him.
43:55He does a great job and you do a great job.
44:00And that's pretty far away from now, April.
44:03I know we'll be going to Minneapolis for AEW World's End.
44:07We've just had a great full gear here in Phoenix.
44:10I'm looking forward to returning to Minneapolis for World's End.
44:13And, of course, we'll be going to Liverpool for Dynasty.
44:16And then we haven't made any announcements yet for the pay-per-view calendar after that.
44:20So I can't speak to that tonight, but I appreciate you asking.
44:24Do you have any other questions that I could do a better job answering for you?
44:28No, thank you.
44:29Great.
44:30Well, I appreciate it.
44:30Thank you.
44:31And I appreciate your kind words and thank you for being here.
44:34Thank you.
44:34Is there anybody who hasn't asked me anything or has any follow-ups before I take off?
44:39I really appreciate you being here.
44:40Hey.
44:42Got a follow-up?
44:44I got a follow-up.
44:45The show ends tonight with the big return.
44:47MJF reveals himself.
44:50He's back.
44:51What is your perception or idea moving forward of a potential Will Ospreay-Maxwell-Jacob-Friedman feud
44:59and how that looks for the long-term legacy of AEW?
45:04Well, first of all, it was a shocking end.
45:07It was a great main event match.
45:09I thought Kyle Fletcher and Will Ospreay was a tremendous match.
45:14And you just named two great world champions in AEW's history.
45:19Of course, the world champion Will Ospreay and the former world champion MJF.
45:24We saw the former world champion MJF make a shocking return at the end of full gear tonight.
45:30And I thought tonight was an awesome full gear.
45:34The match was awesome.
45:37It's incredible how far AEW's come in two years.
45:42and since their match two years ago that Kyle Fletcher and Will Ospreay have both been such a huge part
45:50of that.
45:51I think both of them have come so far in their own ways, but the company has come so far
45:55with them,
45:55and they've been a huge part of pulling the company in that direction.
45:58And I thought that Fletcher versus Ospreay was an incredible main event.
46:02And after that incredible main event, MJF took advantage of the opportunity, jumped Will Ospreay from behind.
46:10I know that the aerial assassin is none too pleased and is being checked out by the doctors right now.
46:17It is a crazy situation.
46:19We will hear from MJF on Wednesday on Dynamite.
46:23I'm glad you asked.
46:25And I'm hoping that Will Ospreay is okay right now.
46:29And after a great match, the last thing he deserved is to be attacked and jumped by the former champion
46:36MJF like that.
46:38Thank you for asking.
46:39You know, that's a great world champion who's done a lot for us and a great former world champion who's
46:44also done a lot for us.
46:46And a crazy ending to the pay-per-view.
46:48And so to your point, we will hear from Max this Wednesday night.
46:53Thank you for asking about that.
46:55It's been an incredible 2026.
46:58There is one pay-per-view left on the calendar, but I feel like this year to this point, and
47:04you still got to close the year out strong with a great continental classic.
47:08Great winter is coming, coming to Mexico.
47:11And then what I expect will be a great world's end.
47:15And I'm really grateful to you all being here tonight.
47:18A lot of you I have seen here before numerous times, and some of you have been covering AEW since
47:25the very beginning.
47:26I'm very grateful to that.
47:29I am very, very cognizant that from the ground up, your coverage is very beneficial to us.
47:36And I appreciate your opinions, and I understand whether you agree with everything or not.
47:44I appreciate all of you covering AEW, and the fact that so much of the feedback has been very positive,
47:50and it sounds like people really did like and enjoy the show.
47:53That makes me feel even better, too.
47:56And I appreciate your honest feedback, and I'm just glad it feels like people really like the show tonight.
48:02Thank you.
48:03Let's go.
48:03Thank you.
48:05And I just, if I don't see, I feel like it's unlikely I'll see many of you in person before
48:10then,
48:10but I just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving.
48:13And if I don't see you at World's End, Merry Christmas.
48:15Thank you all for being here.
48:16Thank you.
48:17Thank you.
48:19Thank you.
48:19Thank you.