And the women’s, we know:

Athena, Thunder Rosa, Kris, willow

I’m adding:

AZM, Jamie Hayter, Mina Shirakawa, riho, thekla, Hikaru Shida, Alex Windsor, Billie Starkz, Nyla Rose, Queen Aminata, Red velvet, Emi Sakura and Harley Cameron

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men’s gauntlet, we’ve got confirmed:

bandido, Takeshita, Roderick strong, mark briscoe

Optimistically throwing in:

ishii, Gabe Kidd, AR fox, Eddie Kingston, Kyle O’Reilly, Lee moriarty, Anthony Bowens, Brody king, jay white, Jeff Jarrett, max caster, orange Cassidy, Darby Allin

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On the men’s side, briscoe v Kidd is OFF. And I’m making the big zero-hour multi man into:

Beast mortos, rush, dralistico, Josh Alexander, Trent, Rocky and hechicero

VS

templario, atlantis Jr, komander, hologram, titan and the outrunners

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First of all, now there’s something for Harley to do if we give her a good spot in the gauntlet, we’ll swap her out for Tay in the women’s tag.

We know Athena is in the gauntlet and I’m hoping Billie is too so they’re out as well.

And obviously the willow/kris reunion is off the table too.

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Now, there are a few multi-person matches that need a bit of shuffling bc of the confirmed men’s and women’s casino gauntlets and our first look at the participants

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Speaking of adding people to matches, the way the Cole/garcia feud ended never really sat right with me, and I’ve picked up on a real in-ring chemistry between DG and Kyle Fletcher recently so,

TNT TITLE TRIPLE THREAT:

Cole v Garcia v Fletcher

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All the reports coming out seem to imply we’re not getting that Christian/cope reunion here, so let’s beef up the tag title match a little more and go for:

The Hurt Syndicate v JetSpeed v FTR v The Patriarchy

Gotta put these guys somewhere

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ANOTHER BIG EDIT:

As the directions are starting to become a little clearer, time to shuffle this card around a bit (a lot)

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He’ll be teaming up with his newfound mentor for,

MJF and MVP v Mistico and Mascara Dorada

Setting up maybe for Mistico v MJF at forbidden door? Mask v hair maybe?

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But if he’s out of the tag title match, I’m putting Brody King in the gauntlet match, taking the place of MJF because…

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then we need to take them out of the zero hour match, I’m adding Hechicero to the heel team too, so let’s say:

Beast mortos, rush, dralistico, Lance archer, Josh Alexander, hechicero and Konosuke takeshita v bandido, templario, atlantis Jr, komander, hologram, Roderick strong and Kyle O’Reilly

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First of all, my instincts are telling me Buddy Matthews won’t be back in time, but this is surely the direction right?

AEW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS:

The Hurt Syndicate v Jet Speed

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EDIT:

After Grand Slam Mexico I am INSPIRED, and I have IDEAS…

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That’s a good point, could just call it a normal cage match and accomplish the same goal!

FINALLY,

LIGHTS OUT STEEL CAGE:

Swerve Strickland and Will Ospreay v the Young Bucks

If swerve and Ospreay want to help Hangman bring home the gold, eliminating the bucks is something they need to do, and this is the best way they can do it.

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DOUBLE DOG COLLAR MATCH:

FTR V Cope and Christian Cage

Feels like another one that’d be a natural choice, but idk I’m starting to get suspicious about whether Cope is coming back in time to set this up or not…

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