Two challenges issued for AEW Worlds End
This Saturday’s AEW Worlds End pay-per-view may grow by two matches imminently.
During Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite on 34th Street, Gabe Kidd issued a challenge to Darby Allin for the Chicago PPV with Allin later shrugging it off after revealing he’s been medically cleared, saying he had other things to focus on.
Kidd then snuck up from behind Allin and took issue with his comments, attacking him and then tossing him down the same stairwell behind the Manhattan Center that Moxley and the Death Riders threw him down last year.
Later in a vignette, the Bang Bang Gang issued a challenge to AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR for a Chicago street fight. FTR has been feuding with Juice Robinson and Austin Gunn for several weeks and recently picked up a tainted win in a title defense, leading to the challenge.
Neither match has been made official as of this writing.
Current AEW Worlds End lineup | Saturday, December 27 | Chicago:
- AEW World Champion Samoa Joe defends against Swerve Strickland, Hangman Adam Page and MJF in a four-way
- AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander defends against Jamie Hayter
- AEW Women’s Tag Team Champions Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron defend against Mercedes Mone and Athena
- Continental Classic Semifinal: Blue league winner vs. Gold league runner-up
- Continental Classic Semifinal: Gold league winner vs. Blue league runner-up
- Continental Classic Finals: Semifinal winner vs. semifinal winner
- *AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) defend against Bang Bang Gang (Juice Robinson & Austin Gunn) in a street fight
- *Darby Allin vs. Gabe Kidd
*Unofficial, but likely
Since 2011, Josh has been a contributing editor to Wrestling Observer/F4WOnline.com and also hosts the Punch-Out podcast. He has also written for Fight Magazine, Bloody Elbow, Bleacher Report, and other websites. He's a 2000 graduate of the University of Maine, worked in pro sports, and once was an indie ring announcer.