Swerve Strickland, Kyle Fletcher, Real Winners and Losers of AEW Full Gear Match Card
All Elite Wrestling returned to the Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix, Arizona for Full Gear 2026.
It was a special night that included the latest chapters in the rivalries of Hangman Adam Page vs. Swerve Strickland and Will Ospreay vs. Kyle Fletcher.
In the biggest match of her career, Marina Shafir challenged Mercedes Monรฉ while The Death Riders and Conglomeration aligned to battle The Cut in Anarchy in the Arena.
Who would won big on this night? Who fell short as the end of 2026 rapidly approaches?
Winner: Queen Aminata
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Queen Aminata officially signed with AEW for the first time in 2024. Full Gear was the first time she walked into a pay-per-view as champion.
It was also the first time she walked out as champion.
While it was a last-minute adjustment to a 4-Way battle for the gold, The Queen remains strong as TBS champion.
Hopefully, she will make more than just the Tailgate Brawl next time around, but Aminata should have plenty of chances in what should be a lengthy run.
The former champion Persephone remains the most obvious threat to Aminata, but it is hard to imagine the title will bounce right back to the former champion.
Instead, it will take time to create a fresh threat to The Queen that has not held the title before.
Loser: Adam Copeland
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Adam Copeland knows that his time is rapidly approaching to end a legendary career, but Kazuchika Okada may have just made The Rated-R Superstar question if he can even make it to 2027.
This was a physical battle to start the show that favored Okada early and often. No matter how many times Cope countered The Rainmaker, he was quickly shut down.
Despite the International Championship on the line, it never truly looked like a fair PPV bout.
Cope will want revenge on Okada at some point after this contest, but it is hard to imagine that he could ever beat The Rainmaker after this.
This is certainly not the end yet for The Rated-R Superstar, but it is the biggest loss he has suffered since arriving in AEW.
Winners: Mark Davis and Jake Doyle
3 of 11While it was not Mark Davis and Joke Doyle's night, they delivered by far the best match of their career as a team.
This was a spectacular performance from the big men against The Young Bucks, once again showing the way that Matt and Nick Jackson elevate their opponents.
By the end of this, it was clear that as good as other teams in The Don Callis Family have been, this is the best team that The Family has.
Both men can be dominant forces in singles and tag action going forward, and it would be a shock and disappointment if they do not win gold together in 2027.
Winner: The Kasper Brothers (Formerly The Creed Brothers)
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When word came out that Julius and Brutus Creed had mutually agreed to not re-sign in WWE, it was hard to completely call where they would land next.
It probably should have been an easy call though to expect they would join an AEW that has planted the flag as the tag team wrestling company in the world.
Even so, no one could have called The Kasper Brothers going from losing in NXT to debuting in direct conflict with the AEW world tag team champions.
This was a rousing endorsement for The Kasper Brothers, who were immediately compared to The Steiner Brothers while working with FTR.
As AEW establishes itself all the more as the place for tag team wrestling, The Kasper Brothers look poised to quickly challenge for the top prize, hoping to prove themselves next to The Young Bucks and Motor City Machine Guns.
Clearly based on Brutus' first comments directly to the camera at Full Gear, they have high hopes for their future.
Winner: Swerve Strickland
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The World Trios Championships were on the line in an absolutely brutal Texas Death Match that lived up to its role as a sequel to the Hangman Adam Page vs. Swerve Strickland Texas Death Match.
By the end, it was clear that New Level belonged in AEW, taking scary and gory spots to sell the intensity of this rivalry.
However, even more so, The Mogul completed his most heinous plan to date, taking down The Cowboy in the center of the ring to win this contest.
He defeated all of his most dangerous recent enemies and dragged Kofi and Austin Creed down to his violent level to get back the World Trios Championships.
It was a rousing success and finally allows Swerve to fully embrace his role once more as AEW's Most Dangerous Man.
Winner: Wrathlander
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On paper, Kris Statlander and Harley Cameron were not supposed to be the team to take down the undefeated Brawling Birds.
However, as AEW continues to build up a fresh women's tag division, it is important to clearly establish the teams that will be fighting for those titles for years to come.
Wrathlander is now one of those teams after becoming the first team in AEW to pin The Brawling Birds, capturing the Women's World Tag Team Championships.
Based on the pre-entrance video package, Tony Khan is a big fan of Wrathlander, and this could be a more dominant team going forward than anyone could have expected.
Hopefully it will be a more substantial run for Harley than her first reign with Willow Nightingale that was cut short to push Willow into singles action.
Losers: The Brawling Birds
7 of 11Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor took down Divine Dominion not once but twice to definitively crown themselves the best women's tag team in AEW.
The Brawling Birds were supposed to dominate as Women's tag team champions into the new year.
Instead, after a shocking ending, Hayter and Windsor could find themselves on the outside looking into title pictures in AEW.
The next goal for The Brawling Birds will be prove they did not only win the gold at All In because it was in their home country.
Hayter and Windsor should remain central players in this tag division, but it would not be immediately effective for them to regain the gold. They need to work their way back.
Loser: Tommaso Ciampa
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It was good to see Ilja Dragunov win big in his first PPV match in AEW, an expected big statement by the company to back Unbesiegbar immediately.
However, it is a shame that it came at the expense of The Psycho Killer, who has played transitional champion twice in his first year in AEW.
This could be an intentional character journey for Ciampa, but it does look disrespectful for now of a man that has consistently over-delivered in his AEW transition.
Ciampa not only deserves a lengthy title reign but also has shown fans why they should want to see The Psycho Killer as a long-term champion.
Winner: Marina Shafir
9 of 11Marina Shafir has never looked better than on this night.
Helped both by working with Mercedes Monรฉ and fueled by the need to prove herself as a true Death Rider, The Problem looked unstoppable at times.
The win in the ring did not come, but Shafir absolutely showed she could hang with the best in AEW, selling herself as a future champion.
Everyone in attendance believed in Shafir down the stretch, and The CEO had to steal the pin to survive.
It would not be surprising to see AEW book a rematch between these two, and it would even not be surprising if Shafir beats Monรฉ in that rematch.
Winner: The Cut
10 of 11At the end of an utterly absurd Anarchy in the Arena that included Go the Gorilla, DMX and KeMalito, The Cut somehow stoked the momentum of The Death Riders and won.
In particular, "Switchblade" Jay White pinned the Continental champion and his biggest rival in AEW, Jon Moxley.
The Cut was formed to combat The Death Riders, and despite the full crew appearing for this fight, they accomplished their mission in the first fight.
Switchblade has built momentum into the Continental Classic. The Dogs, The Gunns and Ace Austin all gained serious credibility as well.
No matter what comes next, The Cut already looks like a real threat for the long haul thanks to this victory in Anarchy in the Arena.
Loser: Kyle Fletcher
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Kyle Fletcher promised this was the match that would prove he is better than Will Ospreay, yet at the end of the night, The Aerial Assassin stood tall.
This was a personal loss for The Protostar that he cannot easily recover from.
There is no one Fletcher has defined himself more by than Ospreay, yet once again, The Aerial Assassin beat him.
Ospreay did not come into this match with a question for himself. It was a question to Fletcher if he was ready to step up to the next level.
Arguably, The Protostar did just that, competing at a main event level with the top man in AEW right now, but that was not what Fletcher needed.
He needed to beat Ospreay, and this was not his night.
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