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Notebook: AEW teases wild-card team in #1 contenders’ match on ‘Dynamite’

Chris Graham

aew logo Who ya got as the wild-card team in the #1 contenders’ match on this week’s AEW “Dynamite”?

I’m not thinking it’s something like Christian Cage & Adam Copeland, with Copeland returning from filming a TV series, or The Hurt Syndicate, with Bobby Lashley coming back from injury.

I could see it being The Bang-Bang GangJuice Robinson & “Switchblade” Jay White – with White coming back from injury.

Maybe Private Party, which has been on the shelf after a brief run with the tag belts.

Either of the latter two fits with the theme of the match considering the other two teams already in the three-way – The Rascalz and The Young Bucks.

We’re already two-thirds of the way toward this being a spot-fest.

Problem here being, add in either The Bang-Bang Gang or Private Party, and you have three babyface teams.

The wild card among the wild cards, Bishop Dyer and Donovan Dijak, the current MLW tag champs, would make sense as heels facing off with the two other face teams.

The Dyer/Dijak team worked a recent dark match at an AEW show, and they also work in CMLL, AEW’s partner in Mexico.

Wildest of wild cards: Chris Jericho and a partner?

Not going to happen, but …

The rest of Wednesday’s ‘Dynamite’ lineup


  • AEW TNT Title: Tommaso Ciampa vs. Kyle Fletcher. Ciampa isn’t going to lose the belt in Week 2 as the new TNT champ.
  • AEW Women’s World Championship (Strap Match): Kris Statlander vs. Thekla. Tony Khan already botched this feud when he had Statlander beat Thekla straight-up two weeks ago. Does he dare botch it more by having Thekla win the rematch?
  • Kenny Omega and Swerve Strickland face-to-face dueling promos. Are they going to wallow in their misery of losing recent matches to Andrade El Idolo?

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