King: This Week In AEW

Brandon gives us an update on the goings on in AEW! 

What’s happening everybody? It goes as no surprise that All Elite Wrestling is gaining more and more steam with each passing week. Most of its momentum is attributed to the ongoing weekly YouTube series, Road To Double Or Nothing, which is a spinoff of the highly acclaimed YouTube series, Being The Elite. BTE followed The Bullet Club’s “Elite” of Cody, Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, and “Hangman” Adam Page through a series of adventures that related with various storylines concerning them in ROH and NJPW.

Let’s now fast forward to this week’s news within AEW, which some of which was captured during the RTDON series. One particularly noteworthy item was Brandi’s signing of former SHIMMER and Impact Knockouts Champion, Allie. She’ll be going along with what is already quite a list of names within the Women’s Division which includes the likes of Bea Priestly, Dr. Britt Baker, Penelope Ford, and Aja Kong (not to mention Brandi herself). It’s also apparent that some sort of championship belt is in design and could almost certainly be ready by Double Or Nothing. According to a couple of sites, the belt could very much resemble the old Mid-South Championship, but right now it’s all speculation, but one would imagine it’ll get revealed May 25th.

Another big item that came this week actually started off the week, when The Young Bucks won the AAA Tag Team Championships from their Double Or Nothing opponents, Pentagon Jr and Rey Fenix, collectively The Lucha Bros. Cody and AEW went to Mexico, as they have a partnership with the globally known promotion. Cody, who’s still recovering from knee surgery, made his presence known but was attacked by Taurus, Konnan and Texano. However, later in the night, The Bucks challenged the champs, and to no surprise, the match was simply great. The brothers Jackson won with a Meltzer Driver/Indietaker to obtain the belts, but if that match was any small indication as to how their match will be at Double Or Nothing, folks, we’re in for something special.

While it’s under strong encouragement for everyone to peep BTE and Nightmare Family’s Road To Double Or Nothing every week, understand that All Elite is growing and growing on a weekly basis. The excitement is building towards it being easily the most anticipated PPV so far of 2019. With matches like Bucks/Lucha Bros, Omega/Jericho, and SCU/members of OWE, the stories going into this event remain intriguing and incredible signings help elevate the suspense of what’s to come. With rumors of the legendary Jim Ross being in discussions with AEW show this could likely be the next big thing of the sport and all that can be said is…stay tuned. Until next week folks!