Scorpio Sky's AEW TNT Title Win Planned Months In Advance
New TNT Champ's win laid out last year, part of long-term planning for company.
In what might surprise some but make perfect sense to others, it appears that Scorpio Sky's TNT Championship win Wednesday night was in the works for a few months.
Sky captured the title by defeating Sammy Guevara in the main event of AEW Dynamite in a match billed as "title versus streak," with Scorpio not having lost a singles match in 52 weeks.
Now, Fightful Select reports that the title win "had been planned as far back as late 2021." Cody Rhodes' departure from the company last month caused a "minimal" disruption in the planned flow of the title, but it appears that things have progressed generally as it was laid out well in advance.
Fightful notes that while Miro was still TNT champ (he lost the title way back in September 2021), the outlets had learned that Guevara would win the title, lose it to Cody and then regain the strap.
This mirrors how AEW head honcho Tony Khan said in November after Full Gear that he had planned from the start who the first four AEW World Champions would be. That kind of long-term planning sounds almost foreign in today's wrestling landscape, but it's refreshing to know that there hasn't been a ton of knee-jerk moves, hot-shotting or dropped major plans.
How long Scorpio holds the TNT Championship is up for question though. He's scheduled to defend the title next week against Wardlow, who won the Face of the Revolution ladder match at AEW Revolution.