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Owen Hart Men’s Tournament Quarter Final
Will Ospreay versus Samoa Joe

The Owen Hart Men’s Tournament will begin with the heavy favourite taking on a former finalist.

Samoa Joe got to the final of the first Owen Hart Tournament back in 2022 only to lose to Adam Cole. He also lost to CM Punk in the semi-final of the tournament in 2023, back when it was a Collision only tournament and the winner was some guy we already forgot about.

Will Ospreay knows the feeling of being a finalist as that’s what he was last year, losing to the winner Hangman Adam Page in my favourite match of the year. Ospreay said the match was about Ascension versus Redemption. Well, redemption won.

Ospreay went away due to injury and since returning we’ve figured that it’s been his destiny to win the Owen Hart Tournament and face the AEW Men’s World Champion at All In London 2026. Crowning Will Ospreay in Wembley has felt like it has been in the works for years with people screaming for it to happen as early as 2024. In 2023, Ospreay was still in New Japan Pro Wrestling but beat Chris Jericho at All In London 2023. In 2024, he faced Maxwell Jacob Friedman for the AEW American Championship, which was just a rebrand name for the AEW International Championship. 2025, All In was in Texas and he teamed with Swerve Strickland to defeat the Young Bucks.

Now, looking at the seeding of the tournament? It feels like if Ospreay can get through Samoa Joe and the winner of Mark Davis versus Jungle Jack Perry? He will very likely face his former tag team partner in Swerve Strickland at Forbidden Door in San Jose to decide who gets the shot at All In London 2026.

AEW is trying their very best to add some intrigue to this inevitability, everything from playing up Will Ospreay’s bad neck to the involvement of The Death Riders. Is it okay if the results feel obvious? Only if the matches bang.

Samoa Joe and Will Ospreay have only once been in a ring and they were on the same team in Mexico against the Death Riders. I wonder how much of this match will feel like the TNA matches between AJ Styles and Samoa Joe. We know Ospreay was a huge fan of AJ Styles growing up watching TNA so I’m sure he’ll want to capture some of that magic.

It’s hard to speak that well right now about Samoa Joe but it’s not entirely his fault. The Opps went from a pretty good group with him, Katsuyori Shibata, and Powerhouse Hobbs, to a terrible group due to the return of Hook who was originally in The Opps when it was formed. When Joe disappeared for a few months and Hook was trying to recruit new members, it led to some atrocious segments of Hook backstage trying to recruit someone. There was only one real candidate in Anthony Bowens, who did end up joining the crew.

Since he has, Hook has disappeared again, and suddenly The Opps are a bit more interesting. Bowens might be a good fit, albeit not as good as Hobbs was. The less Hook the better, but I’m sure Hook returns. Until then, I’ll just enjoy some of the last good time of Samoa Joe until he gets back and ruins whatever power Joe brings. I almost wonder if Will Ospreay requested Hook be nowhere near for this match so it’d at least feel like a battle between the guy he used to watch and not the dorky uncle of the nepo baby of Taz.

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