Top Title Match Set For AEW All Out 2022

Everybody loves these challengers, who get first title match since October 2021.

by Scott Carlson
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Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland might have a perpetual "Can they co-exist?" undertone to their pairing, but the AEW World Tag Team Champions continue to do champ things as a duo.

Swerve and Lee saved The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn from a beating by the Gunn Club Wednesday on Dynamite, then later offered the #3-ranked tag team a title match at All Out next weekend. Max Caster & Anthony Bowens accepted, but were less than thrilled with the way the champs declared they were "worthy" of a title shot.

Caster bluntly declared that The Acclaimed are the best homegrown tag team in AEW -- a shot across the bow against the champs, who joined AEW earlier this year after being released from WWE -- and that they're the winningest tag team in the company.

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Swerve in Our Glory won the tag titles last month from the Young Bucks in a three-way match at Fyter Fest. They defended them on last week's Rampage against Private Party.

The tag title match also continues a strange angle where FTR have been the #1-ranked tag team since April but have not had an AEW Tag Team Championship match since December 2021. Of course, FTR has been busy racking up tag title around the wrestling world and are currently slated for a trios match alongside Wardlow against Jay Lethal and the Motor City Machine Guns at All Out. But yet another lower-ranked tag team will get a title match before them.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.