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WrestleDream 2025
TNT Championship
Mark Briscoe versus Kyle Fletcher (c)
Did AEW kind of forget about this match happening?
I feel like the build up was pretty much nonexistant over the past month. Maybe I just so happened to miss all of the segments over the past two weeks but it really feels like Kyle Fletcher has taken a backseat to Konosuke Takeshita and Kazuchika Okada’s drama in the Don Callis Family while Mark Briscoe has allowed Orange Cassidy to take his spot as the leader of the Conglomeration.
One could wonder if this would be a follow up to Maxwell Jacob Friedman’s words that Mark Briscoe couldn’t win the big one, if Mark Briscoe can take down Kyle Fletcher and become the new TNT Champion. Maybe AEW didn’t want to go down that route and erase the big victory against MJF so they are more just making this a reliable great match to have on the show.
I’m not as over it on this as I am Demand versus Hurt Syndicate but I don’t know if there’s much, if any, fire to this. We know what it’s going to be. A great match on a great pay per view and not talked about much after that. Almost an embarrassment of riches. Which is too bad because I wonder if it could be more.
The problem is, ultimately, that TNT Champions are less about their feuds and more about if they can survive the gauntlet that is being a fighting champion. TNT Champions usually get into a feud when they are about to drop the title or they just won it. The in-between is just mowing down opponent after opponent. Fletcher has been running through the Conglomeration since losing to Hangman Page at All Out Toronto. Komander was affiliated. Orange Cassidy is essentially the leader. Kyle O’Reilly in the Battle of Kyle’s two weeks ago. Now it’s time for Mark Briscoe.
I guess I’m more curious to see what both men do following this than I am about the match itself. Which is too bad because I understand why Tony Khan loves to go back to these two men. They are an interesting conflict. Both men at very different points of their career, very different styles, very different backgrounds, but both can relate to being in a tag team and dealing with the complications of what to do when you just can’t go back to it. Both men have thrived reinventing themselves as single stars in AEW. Both men are never quit motor engines who work until the bell rings.
I just wish they had a little more TV time to sell that story.
