All feelings aside about how the storyline between AEW World Tag Team Champions Brodido and their Full Gear challengers Full Gear in general has played out (and trust me when I say that I’ve definitely not been a big fan of it), AEW have still put in a lot of time and effort over the course of the past few weeks to create major tensions between Brodido and FTR. The AEW World Tag Team Championship match feels like it’s one of the more notable matches on the Full Gear card due to the fact that there’s actually been proper build-up to the match, so to do nothing else other than brief videos from both teams as a means of sending messages to one another is incredibly disappointing.

With the three-hour run time plus five minutes of overrun on this show, there was plenty of time to fit in a face-to-face verbal exchange or even just a ringside brawl so that Brody King, Bandio, Dax Harwood, and Cash Wheeler could at least have some sort of interactions with one another ahead of Full Gear. It was a missed opportunity to do one last thing to generate some additional last-minute hype for the match, which is a mistake that AEW has proved to make in the past and surely will again at some point in the future.

Written by Olivia Quinlan