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AEW Revolution 2025
Steel Cage Match
Will Ospreay versus Kyle Fletcher
I thought World’s End would be the, well, end of the program between Will Ospreay and Kyle Fletcher.
After a fantastic showing in the Continental Classic, I was hoping Fletcher turned his attention to a man he defeated in the C2 and held a championship in the company. That being Daniel Garcia and the TNT Championship. Two of AEW’s fasting rising stars in their mid 20s wrestling for the TNT Championship.
Instead, Daniel Garcia has had some TNT Championship defences on Collision but he’s mostly spent time in trios matches, either with 2.0 or recently with FTR. I haven’t really got the feeling AEW knows what to do with Daniel Garcia right now, and they probably won’t until they know who they want him to lose the TNT Championship to. Kind of like what happened with Private Party. Remember Private Party? Anyway.
Fletcher hasn’t even tried going after Kazuchika Okada, who he also beat in the Continental Classic. He holds victories over two singles title holders in AEW from the Continental Classic and he isn’t trying to cash in either win for a title shot. Instead he’s still focused on ruining Will Ospreay’s life.
It does make sense that he’d want to avenge the loss at World’s End, especially with how vindictive Don Callis is. I was really hoping we’d get Fletcher facing Kenny Omega at some point but maybe that’s being held back for later.
As for Will Ospreay, going back to the Don Callis Family program makes it feel like Will just can’t ever get out of that world. He tried to quit and Callis has made it harder for him to leave than be a member. The strangest point of the program was Mark Davis, who had been trying to assist Ospreay in the feud against Don Callis Family along with Powerhouse Hobbs, ended up one day turning and facing Ospreay in a match as a part of the DCF. It was explained that Don Callis realized he held control of Davis’ AEW career and he could kill it if he wanted to.
I have never been a big fan of these situations. It’s similar to MJF saying he held a contract for Wardlow. If you kill the contract, wouldn’t AEW President Tony Khan then just sign the guy? It doesn’t make much sense in today’s world.
But now Davis is a reluctant indentured servant of Don Callis, but not teaming with Aussie Open partner Kyle Fletcher much? It’s almost like they are in two different worlds but the same program. Ospreay has at least found a friend in Kenny Omega, another man who knows the pain of a never ending rivalry with a former mentor in Don Callis.
All of this is to say I’m not looking forward to this match since I feel this program is very much in well done/overcooked territory, but that doesn’t mean not looking forward to it makes it a bad watch. I expect this to be an absolutely phenomenal match, and likely to be one of the best steel cage matches in AEW history.
AEW has had less than 10 steel cage matches, with the Swerve Strickland versus Adam Page cage match at All Out 2024 the easy number one. Luchasaurus versus Jack Perry was also really good, and you can’t forget Jon Moxley versus Kenny Omega in Detroit (I was there for that one, we thought Kenny Omega split himself in half on the cage wall break) and of course Young Bucks versus Lucha Bros. The Britt Baker vs Thunder Rosa cage match is good albeit a bit overrated, while the first cage match in AEW history was Cody Rhodes vs Wardlow on the road to Revolution, one of the best episodes of Dynamite of all time.
Did you know Shawn Spears had a steel cage match with Wardlow in 2022? MJF was the referee. I have absolutely no… oh that’s the “worker rights” promo night between Hangman Adam Page and CM Punk. That’s why I don’t remember. Well, I’m sure this one will be much more memorable than that.
It doesn’t really matter who takes this. I think we’re all thinking about what Will Ospreay and Kyle Fletcher do next.
