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AEW Dynasty 2025
AEW World Tag Team Championship
Big Bill and Bryan Keith versus The Hurt Syndicate (c)
This one will be tough to write about.
What do I say? For starters, it’s a replacement match. It was supposed to be the Murder Machines but Brian Cage went down to injury. So here we have Bryan Keith and Big Bill getting the title shot. Learning Tree have wins against Top Flight and a jobber team at Dynamite but aside from that? They’ve done nothing but lose.
Their last win prior to March? It was a trios match with Chris Jericho on Collision on September 28, 2024. Are you ready for this?
Those two wins by Keith and Bill in March and April? That’s the only wins Big Bill and Bryan Keith have *ever* had as a tag team. But here they are. Title shot. Okay.
Back in August I suggested for AEW to revitalize their tag division. I talked about the ways they could give it some life. My big idea was a push for The Outrunners since at least they were a team that tried and successfully got themselves over.
AEW instead went with The Young Bucks dropping the AEW World Tag Team Championship to Private Party. Hey, great. So what does AEW do with them? Not much! Then they get run over by Shelton Benjamin and the Hurt Syndicate.
Since winning the tag titles in January, the Hurt Syndicate have only defended the titles twice. Once against the returning Gunn’s (who’ve once again disappeared) and once against The Outrunners at Revolution which was unfortunately one of the worst matches on the show. Nobody took the Outrunners seriously, especially the Hurt Syndicate, and it was essentially an eight minute inevitability.
So what have Hurt Syndicate done to really build their feud up against Big Bill and Bryan Keith? Well, you had MVP as their manager essentially bury Big Bill on the microphone. Big Bill did his best to hold his own, but it was clear that Hurt Syndicate have no interest making their opponents look good. They are here to come in, wear nice suits, beat their opponents, and leave.
Honestly, they’ve put more time into Maxwell Jacob Friedman wanting to join Hurt Syndicate than they have their feud for the AEW World Tag Team Championship. MJF isn’t even booked on the pay per view but I have more thoughts in my head as to that program than the World Tag Championship.
This all sucks because I love Big Bill and I love the energy of Bryan Keith, but this is not a credible tag team going for the tag titles. It just isn’t. They are a placeholder. My hope is that Big Bill squaring off with Bobby Lashley ends up being some exciting big man wrestling and we see some real vulgar displays of power between the two. If we get sleepy Bobby then we can just go pick up some pizza during this match.
If AEW isn’t going to take the World Tag Team Championship serious, and Hurt Syndicate isn’t going to take any of their opponents serious, why should I take the match serious?
