10 Booking Steps For The AEW World Title Tournament

6. Banger Bracket Quarter Final Results:

Kenny Omega Orange Cassidy
AEW

Kenny Omega Vs. Jungle Boy:

The very first glimpse we saw of the Cleaner in AEW materialised in a six-man mini-banger with the Jurassic Express at Fight For The Fallen. After he was mugged off by FTR, Omega projected his humiliation, violently and hilariously, onto poor Marko Stunt. He killed him with a snap dragon and continued to batter him after the bell, blowing a kiss to a ringside camera in full, affected 2016 mode. It was thrilling, and this fixture creates scope to revisit it in order to pick that narrative thread back up.

Jungle Boy, prodigious babyface, is positioned here as an excuse to promote a superb match on Dynamite - but also to further get Omega over as the callous heel who will f*ck anybody up, even the most beloved and fairest (and tiniest) of babyfaces, to re-ascend.

Orange Cassidy Vs. Fénix:

Orange Cassidy and Fénix not long back worked a mini-banger undone by a contrived and cursed Double Or Nothing go-home angle. They showed exhilarating glimpses of their chemistry - Cassidy is very capable at working the lucha style - and this functions as a great match to further convince the audience of Cassidy's title credentials.

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