11 Huge AEW Full Gear 2021 Predictions You Need To Know

9. The Inner Circle vs. Men of the Year and American Top Team

The Inner Circle American Top Team Men of the Year
AEW

It's a shame that the build for this match has been so riddled with regressive verbiage detrimental to AEW's image as a progressive promotion, as its payoff should be the sweetest thing.

Dan Lambert is going to eat sh*t here. The whiny, entitled American Top Team leader, who throws a minor temper tantrum any time the crowd chants "Fat-Faced Dipsh*t" at him, is going to get what's going to him. Live audiences are hot for it, too. He is regularly drowned out on the microphone, barely able to raise his voice over the jeers, and after Cheshire Cat grinning his way through this week's beatdown segment (which ended with him putting Chris Jericho in the walls), his comeuppance is due and earned.

This will likely end in Lambert eating a series of finishers from The Inner Circle. Lance Archer's Blackout a few months ago shows he knows how to take a bump, so it should end up being a good slab of pop-worthy pantomime, regardless of whether or not Andrei Arlovski and Junior dos Santos can actually wrestle.

But hordes of fans will have already checked out of this feud thanks to the protagonists' insistence on resorting to homophobic jokes and general misogyny. Nobody can blame for that, giving AEW something to think about when it comes to future "babyface" Jericho programs.

Winners: The Inner Circle

Advertisement
Channel Manager
Channel Manager

Andy has been with WhatCulture for eight years and is currently WhatCulture's Wrestling Channel Manager. A writer, presenter, and editor with 10+ years of experience in online media, he has been a sponge for all wrestling knowledge since playing an old Royal Rumble 1992 VHS to ruin in his childhood. Having previously worked for Bleacher Report, Andy specialises in short and long-form writing, video presenting, voiceover acting, and editing, all characterised by expert wrestling knowledge and commentary. Andy is as much a fan of 1985 Jim Crockett Promotions as he is present-day AEW and WWE - just don't make him choose between the two.