Kyle Fletcher on AEW Worlds End loss: ‘Where was the screwdriver?’
AEW posted a video featuring post-match comments from Kyle Fletcher following AEW Worlds End on Saturday.
For the second year in a row, Fletcher was eliminated from the Continental Classic in the semifinals, this year losing to eventual tournament winner Jon Moxley.
During the match, Fletcher went looking for a screwdriver that had been placed in the turnbuckle. However, Kazuchika Okada had used the foreign object in the previous match to defeat Konosuke Takeshita. In his post-match comments, Fletcher said the screwdriver not being where it was supposed to be will lead to some “hard conversations.”
Fletcher said:
“I really didn’t think that I would end up here again. One year later, Worlds End, same place, same tournament, same result. Last year, I won the Blue League, this year I won the Gold League and lost in the semis. And losing to a former four-time AEW World Champion, former International Champion, former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, he’s one of the literal best of all time. But I don’t care.”
“I keep saying that I’m going to go down as the greatest wrestler of all time but if I can’t get the job done when it matters, who cares?”
“That’s not even mentioning the screwdriver. Where was the screwdriver? That’s a lot of hard conversations I’m going to have to have.”
“And now 2025 ends exactly where 2024 did. I am aimless. No championship, what’s next? What’s next for the Protostar Kyle Fletcher? I sincerely, truly do not know.”
In 2024, Fletcher won the Blue League with a 4-1 record before being eliminated in the semifinals by Will Ospreay. This year, he finished atop the Gold League with a 3-2 record, earning the top spot via tiebreaker over Kazuchika Okada.
Fletcher’s post-match comments are available below:
Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez praised the Fletcher vs. Moxley match at AEW Worlds End during the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Radio. A clip of the show is available below:
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