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Y’All In Texas
TNT Championship
Kyle Fletcher versus Adam Cole (c)
Adam Cole’s career in All Elite Wrestling probably hasn’t gone the way he expected.
Coming in with major momentum due to being one of the main stars of NXT with rumours of WWE only seeing him as a manager if he got called up to the main roster (despite the fact his major appearances in 2019 on the main roster were a win against Bryan Danielson, Undisputed ERA beating New Day and Heavy Machinery, and losing to Seth Rollins by DQ), Adam Cole was thought to be an instant main event guy for AEW to add.
There was a bit of a problem. Despite Cole being a main event guy in Ring of Honor, in PWG, and now NXT? He didn’t really fit as a main event guy in All Elite Wrestling. AEW doesn’t have a weight class and it doesn’t call their championship a heavyweight championship, but Cole just didn’t feel in place getting that top level push. Darby Allin is also small, probably smaller than Cole, and yet he doesn’t feel out of place. Cole did. He also wasn’t wrestling at the same speed he was in the past, which also hurt his credibility.
AEW still had him main event Revolution against Hangman Adam Page, worked the four way for the IWGP World Championship against Page, Jay White, and Kazuchika Okada, and later main evented All In 2023 against Maxwell Jacob Friedman. He was very popular during all of these matches, but he still didn’t feel like he was actually at that level.
Adam Cole was getting overpushed, and it caused him to not fit in the company. His heel turn with Undisputed Kingdom was a massive failure. His return going up against MJF to settle their score was also a flop. It felt like Cole, despite being a team player and very well liked (he’s one of the few friends of The Elite that CM Punk had nothing bad to say about) just wasn’t fitting into AEW.
AEW could have tried to do something new with him again but instead went for the familiar. He had already reunited with Roderick Strong, but they finally had him reunite with Kyle O’Reilly to form Paragon. Having him in that position of familiarity ended up the best place for him. The three started having trios matches at the start of 2025 which were some of the bright spots of an otherwise dark January.
The three would get a shot at the Trios Championship on Dynamite but lose to the Death Riders. It felt like it would just be a matter of time for them to get a rematch, or face whoever was next as Trios champions. Adam Cole was a renewed man in Paragon, and I think that caused AEW to decide he needs to go right back to being a champion.
Adam Cole got himself in the TNT Championship mix, and after two time limit draws against TNT Champion Daniel Garcia, Adam Cole would get a no time limit match at Dynasty and win the TNT Championship.
I wasn’t a fan of the decision because I knew it would cause Roddy and Kyle to essentially lose their purpose. But I was willing to let that go if Adam Cole brought a fighting champion spirit to the TNT Championship. I wanted to see him defend the title every other week on Collision. Truly be the champion the show needed.
Cole will have been champion for 100 days come Y’All In Texas and he’s defended the title three times. A fighting champion he has not been. Adam Copeland held the belt for 70 days last year and pulled in six defences before he went down to injury. Darby Allin once held the belt for less than a calendar month and still pulled out four defences before going down to Samoa Joe.
It’s frustrating to see Adam Cole creep back into the overrated/overpushed category because he honestly looks better than he’s ever looked in AEW and is becoming a steady hand for the product. There’s a good way to fix it though.
Enter the ProtoStar.
Kyle Fletcher should have won the title at Grand Slam Australia. That was the match I was hoping for and instead AEW went in the direction of the Adam Cole match for Dynasty. Maybe they promised Daniel Garcia a longer reign or wanted Fletcher and Ospreay to continue their feud a little longer. Either way I’ve considered Kyle the uncrowned TNT Champion for a while.
Winning the championship at Y’All In Texas feels like one of those obvious decisions I hope AEW doesn’t mess up. Fletcher is the perfect choice for TNT Champion, and would be a heel who could wrestle every other week and still be a fighting champion. It will help his development and continue his journey to one day becoming a main event player in the promotion.
Cole losing can put him back full time with KOR and Roddy and allow Paragon to be a top trios team, which the company needs. You can still be a star and still be important in a Trios, and we really need Paragon to be that.
As for Fletcher? It’s time for him to become TNT Champion and prove the ProtoStar shines brightest in this solar system. There’s so many wrestlers for him to face right now on the babyface side that I feel Kyle Fletcher as TNT Champion can be remembered the way Tully Blanchard is remembered as the NWA World Television Champion for his run almost 40 years ago.
I know this is supposed to be a preview and not a prediction but I’m putting the cards down now. Any result other than Kyle Fletcher becoming TNT Champion is a mistake.
