10 New Directions For AEW After WrestleDream 2023

10. The Young Bucks Stealing More Gold

All four teams in that number one contendership bout challenging FTR would've worked. No, not in some five-way scrap (can you imagine AEW refs trying to tackle that?!), but as individual tag challengers. Hook and Orange Cassidy would've been an interesting change of pace, for example.

The Young Bucks got the nod instead, 'cause of course they did.

Look, the only way this Bucks vs. FTR shindig works out well is if Matt and Nick Jackson resort to dirty tactics and start getting nasty. The bloom is very-much off the rose for them as heroic babyface ringleaders for everything that's right with AEW, and it's time to mix things up a bit.

The Bucks are already ROH Six Man Champs, but now have a guaranteed tilt at the AEW Tag straps too. This writer can see the siblings going full blown rogue on Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood on TV, then possibly even taking the titles from them - their respect story always felt a little bogus anyway, being honest.