Major AEW Championship Match Scrapped?

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Despite plans seeming locked in, a major AEW championship match looks likely to have been scrapped altogether.

At AEW WrestleDream on October 1, The Young Bucks defeated The Lucha Bros, The Gunns and Hook & Orange Cassidy to become the number one contenders to the then AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR.

While FTR vs The Bucks seemed likely for AEW Full Gear on November 18, plans were thrown into uncertainty when Ricky Starks & Big Bill shockingly dethroned the champions on the October 7 AEW Collision.

Although fans would have still perhaps expected AEW to find a way back to doing the fourth instalment of FTR vs The Young Bucks, that may not in fact be the case after all according to Dave Meltzer in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Meltzer writes of the apparent total change of creative plans:

On the tag title front, the plan was definitely FTR vs. Young Bucks 4, but it doesn’t appear that will happen.

FTR suggested the loss to Big Bill & Ricky Starks and the idea at that time was it would lead to a rematch and the winners would defend against the Young Bucks.

The belief right now is that everything has changed. The Young Bucks won the four-team match at WrestleDream to earn a tag title match, but when they returned to television this past week, the announcers never brought up them being in line for a tag title or winning that match.

In fact, as best I can tell, the four-way win hasn’t been talked about in weeks.

It also could be Big Bill & Ricky Starks in a rematch with FTR on the PPV rather than television.

That match was originally set for 10/28 television but there was nothing this week indicating it happening that soon, although they’ve been teasing the rematch for weeks.

The Bucks have yet to step up to the new AEW Tag Champions on TV, and coupled with the lack of mention of their status as number one contenders, it certainly seems as if plans have perhaps changed for now at least.

Stay tuned to WrestleTalk.com for any updates on the situation as we approach AEW Full Gear in three weeks time.

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