PREDICTIONS: AEW REVOLUTION 2024
This Sunday, March 3rd, Greensboro Coliseum will be packed with over 16,000 fans in attendance to watch AEW Revolution and most notably the final match in the career of “The Icon” Sting. While one of the biggest stories at Revolution involves the end of a chapter, the show also seems set up to begin a new chapter for AEW. The young promotion seems to be going full 2021 and is set to bring in some new big-time stars.
Three years ago, Tony Khan inked and debuted Adam Cole, Bryan Danielson, and The Best in the World CM Punk all within the span of two weeks. Just like Punk’s debut at The First Dance edition of Rampage, Tony Khan has once again announced the debut of a huge signing without announcing it. The word on the street is that Mercedes Mone has inked a deal to become All Elite. Interestingly enough, earlier this month Khan announced a special edition of Dynamite would take place on March 13th, entitled Big Business which will be held at TD Garden in Boston. Wait a minute! Mercedes Mone is from Boston and Mone’s gimmick is mostly about money. No need to read the tea leaves when TK splashes a boiling hot pot of tea in your face. This Sunday’s card will also feature Will Ospreay’s first match under an AEW contract after finishing out his commitments to NJPW. On top of that, the scoop scoops say the biggest NJPW star of the past decade is on his way in. Maybe Tony will announce a special edition of Collision called Make it Rain.
I for sure will be watching this weekend. Not just because Pro Wrestling is the greatest sport on the planet, but because I desperately need to make up ground in the predictions competition Adam and I have been competing in over this past year. Last week’s Elimination Chamber didn’t give me many opportunities to close the gap with its small four-match card. I took a shot on an underdog in one match, which of course I missed. Another point lost and I’m now down 68-60. Luckily for me, this is an AEW pay-per-view and TK never shies away from loading his shows up with plenty of matches. With nine contests set to take place, a big performance here and I’m back in this baby. If not, hopefully, Adam intentionally bombs so he only gets one point to make his total score 69. That would be…nice.
Tornado Tag Match for the AEW Tag Team Championships
Sting & Darby Allin(c) vs The Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson)
ADAM: Ah the argument of two warring philosophies in one match here. First, you have the classic wrestling adage that you go out on your back. Second, the classic wrestling adage that Sting and Darby don’t lose matches. I think this could be a good reset for the tag belts that have felt a little lost for a while now and Sting gets his big retirement loss.
THE YOUNG BUCKS
MIKE: I won’t lie, I popped big time for Sting coming down from the rafters one more time. Now we just have to see if he’ll show up to the PPV with a blonde crew cut, pop the tarp off, and go surfer sting. The decision to announce this would be his final match months ahead of time worked. It built it up well and has made it feel like the main event of the show. Seems pretty obvious he’ll go out on his back and give the now heavy-handed EVP heel Bucks something to gloat about. Also, was it just me, or did Matthew telling Sting he “has a real nice severance package” for him sound dirty?
THE YOUNG BUCKS
Triple Threat Match for The AEW World Championship
Samoa Joe(c) vs Adam “Hangman” Page vs Swerve Strickland
MIKE: “What you need to realize is that the reason you’re hungry is because I’m starving your ass!” Samoa Joe is a god damn national treasure. Swerves hot and will be world champ at some point this year, just won’t happen here. I expect Joe will catch someone from behind in the Coquina Clutch and get the dub. Props to Hangman, dude put on an Oscar-worthy performance selling the ankle/foot injury. It’s a bummer that the world got out it was a work or else the angle they did this Wednesday would’ve really been something else.
JOE! JOE! JOE! JOE!
ADAM: Joe deserves an award for being the guy to make Championships badass in the most promotions. He’s a walking tank and despite having a theme song with no lyrics, it has an iconic sing-along. I say all that to say, it’s time for some Swerve Strickland and Cowboy Shit at the top of the card. No offense to Joe but there is nothing on the level of what these two guys have.
SWERVE STRICKLAND
AEW International Championship
Orange Cassidy(c) vs Roderick Strong
ADAM: You have to hand it to a guy when he understands his place on the card. With the unveiling of Adam Cole’s Dastardly (half) Dozen, Rodrick Strong came out to challenge for a belt. Did he set his sights too high? No sir he said, “I would like the belt that is somewhere between lower mid-card to true mid-card.” I must have said the following sentence at some point in the past year but let me do it again, I think it’s time for Orange to really get into the upper-card picture and the only way to do that is to drop this belt.
RODERICK STRONG
MIKE: We are in agreement here. They probably should really start putting some steam behind Cole and his group so they’re hot when MJF returns. Orange would also be a good challenger for Joe at some point too. Feels like a good time to make a switch.
RODERICK STRONG
AEW TNT Championship
Christian Cage(c) vs Daniel Garcia
MIKE: Wooooo! The hometown boy Daniel Garcia representing the 716! Unfortunately, I don’t think he’ll win. Just doesn’t feel quite like the spot for Cage to drop the belt. My heart says Garcia but my brain says Christian.
CHRISTIAN CAGE
ADAM: Alright I’m ready to officially put my stamp on something. For the historical record, I was never in on Jericho, I’ve been a big Swerve guy for a minute and I told everyone John Cena would speak Mandarin one day. With that context, I’m ready to say Daniel Garcia is not now nor will he ever be more than “just a guy.” Congrats on making it to the show but buddy, you’re Derek Carr.
CHRISTIAN CAGE
AEW Continental Crown Championship
Eddie Kingston(c) vs Bryan Danielson
ADAM: Do you think at some point TK saw someone tweet that, “AEW Doesn’t Have Enough Belts” at the start of the company and has been on a personal quest to show that one guy? I love Eddie but at some point, we need to tell a story with him besides “This guy doesn’t respect me!” Or wait… can I get a match if I start cracking jokes? Hey Eddie, you look like if Jason Mantzoukas stopped trying.
EDDIE KINGSTON
MIKE: So it’s a match for three titles that are under the banner of one title? I would start shitting on this a lot more if I didn’t like the men involved so much. Kingston got the win over Mox and this would be another big level-up style win for him. Buuuuuut I really like the idea of Bryan winning and being a total dick. You can just flip the bundle of belts back later. Make people wait a bit longer for Eddie finally beating Danielson.
BRYAN DANIELSON
AEW Women’s Championship
“Timeless” Toni Storm(c) vs Deonna Purazzo
MIKE: It would be cool if Tony decided to go heavy pushing a new female signing instead of letting them cool off before putting the belt on him. If you need an example, she’s literally in this match. The timeless stuff has run its course with me. I only like serious wrestlers, like the inflatable sex doll Akihiro from DDT and that 8-year-old girl who jobbed out Kenny Omega.
DEONNA PURAZZO
ADAM: I feel like TK knows what he has here and is going to milk it for a minute. When was the last time that a wrestler in the Women’s division has gotten over like Toni Storm has? That’s like prime Britt Baker, maybe. I think we see this run continue through the debut of the mystery wrestler at Sasha in the Banks in Boston later this year.
“TIMELESS” TONI STORM
All-Star Scramble (winner receives a future AEW World Title Match)
Chris Jericho vs Wardlow vs Powerhouse Hobbs vs Lance Archer vs Hook vs Brian Cage vs Dante Martin vs Magnus
ADAM: This kind of feels like the match of trying to get someone hot. I don’t know if it really matters who wins this, I think they’re hoping something happens in this match that will resonate with the crowd and then they can ride that wave right to a trios tag title. My prediction? Lance Archer tosses Dante Martin like a lawn dart and he gets embedded in Brian Cage’s pecs.
CHRIS JERICHO
MIKE: Is it just me or does Lance Archer just come back every four months, destroy some Jabroni and then lose on PPV? Everybody dies? More like full of lies. It’s either Hook or Jericho, and I don’t think they’re going to run back Hook vs Joe so soon.
CHRIS JERICHO
ADAM: Whenever I see them not use Lance Archer as much as I would like, it feels more like Everybody Cries.
MIKE: Well played sir.
Will Ospreay vs Konosuke Takeshita
MIKE: Ospreay was on his way in and TK said, “Oh shit he’s gonna be crazy over we gotta get him out of the Callis family.” The explanation of why this match is happening is weak and makes little sense but it’s there to serve the purpose I just mentioned. It’ll be a banger as far as the action in the ring goes. Ospreay can be a big-time top face for this company if booked right and it starts with a win here. Also, did you see him in that tracksuit on Wednesday? I was waiting for Collin Farrel to come out as Ospreay’s boxing instructor telling him to give Matthew McConaughey his weed back…That reference landed right? If not, go watch The Gentleman and have better taste in movies.
WILL OSPREAY
ADAM: Way to reference Guy Ritchie’s least-known movie. The reason for this match could have been that Takeshita caught Will Ospreay picking his nose and told all the women about it, I don’t care, this match is going to be a #CertifiedBanger and even if you are shot in the gut, and limping towards the hospital, don’t miss a second of it.
WILL OSPREAY
FTR (Dax Hardwood & Cash Wheeler) vs The Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli)
ADAM: Have they announced a stipulation to this? Like shouldn’t it be a no-time-limit match at the very least? Also since when do either of these teams work a non-stipulation match on a pay-per-view? I went to google it and my computer caught on fire trying to process the last time either team worked a standard PPV Match. This match will probably bring the mathfuckin heat and I’m looking forward to it.
THE BLACKPOOL COMBAT CLUB
MIKE: This feels like TK isn’t sure what to do with some of his top teams so he stuck them together. Can’t really complain though. You know the wrestlers involved will put on great matches and sell the match as important. I was expecting a Cash Wheeler gun joke out of Adam, but I guess he didn’t have one in the chamber. I’m not going to take a low shot like that either. The rest of the internet already has Cash in their crosshairs, firing off memes and jokes. Oh yeah, FTR wins. Top Guys, OUT!
FTR
