Okay, let’s try this again, shall we?
For loyal readers of the Draws and Duds columns, you’ll know that The Brawling Birds vs. in our AEW WrestleDream 2026 piece. The reason for this was that the card was pretty stacked, and of all the matches on that show, it was the one that seemed to have the least build. However, Jamie Hayter not being medically cleared to compete that night meant the match had to be postponed until AEW Full Gear 2026, and well, here we are again.
Once again, when you look at the matchups on the Full Gear card, this is the matchup that seems to have the least amount of meat on the bones. That said, what makes this debacle feel even more justified is that we’re a month removed from WrestleDream, Full Gear is this weekend, and there hasn’t been enough progress in this story to make it any more enticing than it was last month.
Granted, some of that has to do with Hayter’s rehab, but let’s look at what happened after WrestleDream. Wrathlander wrestled Divine Reign at AEW Collision, leading to a Blood and Guts match where Chris Statlander, Harley Cameron, Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor all had to co-exist on the same team. Then there was Blood and Guts, and outside of a brief moment where Statlander and Hayter butted heads, there was nothing else to do when it came to pushing the structure of this match forward, and now the match is here.
This once again feels like a single match on the card better suited to main event AEW Dynamite than a pay-per-view. I’m all for more women’s matches on AEW’s biggest shows, but you just know that with the lack of structure around it, it’s going to be sandwiched between two matches that will absolutely steal the show and inevitably be a bathroom break match. It seems disrespectful, especially considering the level of talent in the match, but that’s the reality we live in.
The women’s tag team division is already paper thin, and it’s only been around for less than a year. It’s all well and good to have more zones for the ladies, but when almost no effort is put into their stories, matchups, and builds, what’s the point of having them?
Written by Sam Palmer
