It is time for Anarchy in the Arena as we preview AEW Full Gear 2026!
AEW Full Gear is finally here! The eighth annual event is certainly one of the biggest nights on the AEW calendar. We have seven title matches on this Sunday’s card.
That is in addition to another chaotic Anarchy in the Arena. It has the makings of another special night. Let us look closer at the main card in Phoenix.
AEW Full Gear 2026
The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) vs. Davis and Doyle (Mark Davis and Jake Doyle)
(AEW World Tag Team Championship)
On the October 21st edition of Dynamite, Davis and Doyle defeated The Young Bucks in a AEW World Tag Team Eliminator match. They did so in under three minutes. It was a dominant win over the Tag Team Champions.
The Young Bucks seem to be quite wounded heading into AEW Full Gear. It didn’t help that Davis and Doyle attacked them again at AEW Blood and Guts. C
an the Young Bucks possibly be 100 percent heading into Saturday night? If not, the fourth title reign of the Young Bucks will be a short one.
AEW Full Gear 2026
The Brawling Birds (Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor) (c) vs. Wrathlander (Harley Cameron and Kris Statlander)
(AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship)
At AEW All In, The Brawling Birds finally dethroned Divine Dominion, ending their 168-day title reign. They even defended the title against Divine Dominion at AEW All Out in a Street Fight. It is time for a new challenger.
Enter Wrathlander. Harley Cameron and Kris Statlander are a relatively new tag team. But they did win a huge AEW Women’s World Tag Team Title #1 Contendership Three-Way against Divine Dominion and Sisters of Sin at Grand Slam France. Wrathlander even helped The Brawling Birds win at Blood and Guts.
Can Wrathlander win? Both Cameron and Statlander have won gold in All Elite Wrestling. The key might be that The Brawling Birds have more team experience. Will it make the difference in Phoenix?
AEW Full Gear 2026
Tommaso Ciampa (c) vs. Ilja Dragunov
(AEW National Championship)
Tommaso Ciampa has been trying to win the AEW National Championship for months now. He was unsuccessful in winning the title in the 21 Man Blackjack Battle Royal at AEW Revolution. He failed to win the title against Andrade El Idolo at WrestleDream.
Finally, on the Chris Jericho’s Rock N’ Wrestling Rager episode of AEW Collision, Ciampa won the gold he had sought for months.
He defended it on this week’s AEW Dynamite, defeating Mike Bailey. His joy of winning in his first defence was short-lived.
The lights went out, and the metronome started ticking. IIja Dragunov came out to challenge Ciampa for the AEW National Championship at Full Gear.
Dragunov is undefeated since joining All Elite Wrestling. Can Ciampa possibly survive one of the best wrestlers in the world?
AEW Full Gear 2026
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Adam Copeland
(AEW International Championship)
Adam Copeland announced that 2027 will be his final year in professional wrestling. An incredible career that began in 1992 will come to an end next year. But Copeland has one goal before his legendary career ends: he wants more gold.
At AEW Full Gear, Copeland will get a chance. He will fight Kazuchika Okada for the AEW International Championship. It will be a first-ever meeting between the two legends.
Okada has had the upper hand in this feud heading into Saturday night. He cost Adam a match, interfered in tag team action and even choked Copeland with a chain at Blood and Guts.
Can Copeland finally get some revenge in Phoenix? If he does, he will leave with the AEW International Championship.
AEW Full Gear 2026
Mercedes Moné (c) vs. Marina Shafir
(AEW Women’s World Championship)
Mercedes Moné was feeling pretty confident. She had just defeated Thekla at WrestleDream. She felt no one could defeat her and wanted to know who was next to face her.
Enter Marina Shafir. Moné has tried to stay away from the Death Riders’ enforcer for weeks now. On last week’s AEW Collision, Shafir made Mercedes tap out in a mixed tag team match.
If Shafir can make Moné tap out at Full Gear, she will become the AEW Women’s World Champion for the very first time.
AEW Full Gear 2026
“Hangman” Adam Page and Brodido (Brody King and Bandido) (c) vs. Swerve Strickland and The New Level (Austin Creed and Kofi)
(AEW World Trios Championship)
At AEW All In, The New Level debuted and joined Swerve Strickland to win the AEW World Trios Championship. They won the seven-team Trios Roulette Royale to claim the title. But they didn’t have to eliminate “Hangman” Adam Page and Brodido to do so.
But this was just the beginning of this personal feud. Strickland’s team defeated Page’s at AEW All Out. The very next month at WrestleDream, Hangman Adam Page and Brodido won the AEW World Trios Championship back in a Best Two-out-of-Three Falls match. But even that wasn’t the end of this feud.
Strickland wanted another rematch for the AEW World Trios Championship. Page agreed, but under one condition: it would be a Texas Deathmatch. Strickland agreed to this brutal match.
The New Level doesn’t seem thrilled by the stipulation. The violence of Texas Death is unmatched. Can Swerve Strickland and The New Level be truly ready for Saturday night?
AEW Full Gear 2026
Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Daniel Garcia, and Gabe Kidd) and The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy, Kyle O’Reilly, and Roderick Strong) vs. The Cut (Jay White, Ace Austin, Austin Gunn, Clark Connors, Colten Gunn, and David Finlay)
(Anarchy in the Arena Match)
On the recent episode of AEW Dynamite, Jon Moxley defeated Roderick Strong. After the match, Moxley and Strong were attacked by the Dogs (David Finlay and Clark Connors).
The Dogs’ ally, Gabe Kidd, tried to stop the attack, but he was attacked as well. The Conglomeration and the Death Riders ran out to make the save, but they were also attacked by a newly allied Bang Bang Gang and the Dogs. A new group, The Cut, was formed.
After other attacks, Jon Moxley had enough. He demanded Anarchy in the Arena. It is truly one of the most chaotic matches in all of All Elite Wrestling.
While The Cut seems to be on the same page, can the same be said for the Death Riders and The Conglomeration? They have fought each other for months now. Can they put their differences aside and pull out the victory? It will be fun to find out.
AEW Full Gear 2026
Will Ospreay (c) vs. Kyle Fletcher
(AEW World Championship)
This match is truly personal.
Will Ospreay and Kyle Fletcher had been the closest of friends for years. That is until Fletcher betrayed Ospreay and joined the Don Callis Family.
It has led to some of the best matches in All Elite Wrestling history over the last two years. But Will Ospreay had gotten the upper hand on numerous occasions in the long-lasting feud.
On the October 21st edition of AEW Dynamite, Fletcher and Kevin Knight defeated Adam Copeland and Will Ospreay in tag team action.
After the match, Fletcher hit Ospreay with the title and posed with the AEW World Championship. The next week, he demanded an AEW World Championship match at Full Gear.
At Blood and Guts, the match ended when Fletcher vowed to attack Ospreay with a screwdriver. Copeland quit to save his friend on the fateful night.
Kyle Fletcher keeps saying he defeated Ospreay once before at Full Gear in 2024. If he does it again on Saturday night, he will become the AEW World Champion.
