AEW duo captures indie tag team gold
In Brooklyn, New York last night, AEW stars Eddie Kingston & Ortiz won gold for indie promotion Outlaw Wrestling.
Kingston & Ortiz became the new Outlaw Tag Team Champions by defeating The Audacity (Micah Cortez & Seth Cortez) on Friday. It’s already been announced that the two teams will meet again for Outlaw Wrestling on February 20, with Kingston & Ortiz facing off against The Audacity and Silk City Kings (Kenny Bengal & Ray Pittman) in a triple threat match.
Along with their AEW work, Kingston & Ortiz are taking indie dates and teaching seminars as they get ready to open their own wrestling school. Their goal with the seminars is to learn what works and what doesn’t work so they’re fully prepared when the school opens.
“That is the method behind why we’re doing seminars,” Ortiz said on AEW Unrestricted this month. “We need to start doing them so we can learn when we do something wrong or something right and be like, ‘Okay, we’ll keep this. Hey, this kind of dragged out at this part. That’s not that important.’ And just how to really utilize the time given to us, the three, four hours or however long it’s going to be. And what we can give the people attending the best bang for their buck…
“Our whole goal is to help change wrestling culture internally by producing and trying to have solid workers just go out there and they become who they become based on their experience. But just giving them a solid foundation and just passing on all the knowledge that we still have and then just bringing in a Jerry Lynn, bringing in a Homicide, bringing in a Billy Gunn to come and do weekend seminars so you learn from all different types of people.”
Kingston & Ortiz have an indie show and seminar coming up for Pro Wrestling Junkie in New Jersey on March 1. They’ve also been announced for a Beyond Wrestling event that’s taking place in Rhode Island on February 27. Kingston is planning to no longer take indie dates by November of this year.
A timeline for when their wrestling school will open has not been announced.
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