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AEW Men’s World Tag Team Championship
FTR versus Brodido (c)
There are two different kinds of great tag teams. The first is the team that’s strictly about tag team wrestling. This is two wrestlers who have developed a similar look and aesthetic and work as a brand together. They might work the occasional singles match but they usually do it in service to a tag team story. This is the Young Bucks. This is Jurassic Express. This is FTR.
Then you have the other team. This is two great singles competitors who end up having great chemistry together and bring what they did well in singles competition to tag team competition. They often feel like a cheat code to be so good so fast. This is your Adam Page and Kenny Omega. Your Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland. Your Sting and Darby Allin. And now it’s Bandido and Brody King.
Brody King was a man without a country after the departure of Malakai Black and the injury to Buddy Matthews. There were a lot of directions they could have went with him (I personally wanted them to push him as essentially their Bam Bam Bigelow and make him a monster heel) but they decided to keep him a babyface. It turned out he had a private friendship with Bandido, and a common enemy with the Don Callis Family.
The two first teamed together in AEW on July 5, 2025 against Konosuke Takeshita and Kyle Fletcher in a losing effort. They were then decided to be entered in the AEW Men’s World Tag Team Eliminator Tournament for a shot at Hurt Syndicate at Forbidden Door. They defeated established teams in the Gates of Agony and the Young Bucks to move into the final. In the final they faced FTR and the match ended in a 30 minute draw.
That draw led to a three way match at Forbidden Door where Brodido captured the tag team championship. Since then they’ve proved themselves worthy of the tag team crown with wins against the Death Riders, Galeon Fantasma in CMLL, a four way ladder match at All Out Toronto, a rematch against Gates of Agony, and defeating the Don Callis Family once again at WrestleDream.
It’s been a long time coming for FTR to finally get their shot. FTR has been doing some of their best work as a heel tag team in 2025 and it almost feels inevitable for them to eventually win the straps for the third time. We all thought it would happen when Adam Copeland and Christian Cage were still around to basically do a title change and give it to Cope and Cage for their final run. That never happened, though I’m sure those two will be returning to feud with them should they win the tag championship.
It’s too bad because I’ve liked the matchup and would love to see it go beyond a single pay per view cycle. The problem with the two great singles competitors is the moment they drop the tag titles in AEW? They usually break up. Omega and Page did. Keith and Swerve did. Sting retired. Once Brodido is no longer AEW Men’s World Tag Team Champions? I doubt they stay together much longer as a team. At best they maybe find a third and go after the Trios championship, but that’s the thing about these teams. Enjoy them while you got them. And for now? They walk into Full Gear as AEW Men’s World Tag Team Champions.
