8 AEW Nightmares That Could Come True In 2026

8. New Women’s Tag Titles Cause Fan Déjá Vu

These soon to arrive AEW Women's Tag-Team Titles were always coming, and it's actually a shock that it's taken the company so long to make doubles straps a reality for the division. WWE introduced their own Women’s Tag Titles back in 2018, then crowned their first champs in early-2019. Ever since, the division has ranged between really decent and utterly dreadful. Many teams have been thrown together just for one title challenge/reign, and they generally seem like an afterthought more often than not.

AEW could serve up more of the same, and they definitely won’t want that.

There are arguably too many belts on offer in the promotion (across the main AEW shows and ROH) as it is, and it’s difficult to care about some of them. Adding in even more and, in turn, cultivating credibility for them could prove challenging. Please don’t add Women’s Trios belts on AEW and ROH as well, Tony! You'd be stretching things to breaking point by doing that.

Currently, AEW's social streams are making a lot of noise about Anna Jay and Tay Melo as a top tier female duo who could do great things with the titles. Maybe they could, but it'll be consistency and storylines to go along with good matches that'll help the belts survive throughout 2026.

If fans start to get déjá vu about inconsistent horrors on the WWE side, then AEW's new championships will struggle. There's a real sense that these things are up against it before they've even really become a weekly concern on episodes of Dynamite and Collision.

They need to be more Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill than Carmella and Zelina Vega.