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Tailgate Brawl Pre-Show Singles Match: Jack Perry vs. Katsuyori Shibata

Jack Perry called out Samoa Joe. Of course he beats Shibata on the way toward fighting Joe at a later date.

PREDICTION: Jack Perry wins.

Tailgate Brawl Pre-Show Eight-Man Tornado Tailgate Brawl: Bang Bang Gang (Jay White, Ace Austin, Austin Gunn & Colten Gunn) vs. The Dogs (David Finlay & Clark Connors) & Death Riders (Daniel Garcia & Wheeler Yuta)

Let's give The Death Riders and The Dogs a win to build them up for Blood & Guts. Who can we sacrifice? Sounds about right.

PREDICTION: The Dogs and The Death Riders win.

AEW World Tag Team Championship Three-Way Ladder Match: Cage & Cope (Adam Copeland & Christian Cage) (c) vs. FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) vs. The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson)

I'm so glad Tony Khan isn't calling this some dumb TLC name like WWE did. TLC matches are just ladder matches!!

This was the match I thought we were going to get at All In, so I'm glad it's happening. I'm sure it'll be great. As far as the winners go, I'd lean toward The Young Bucks, but it actually could go in any direction.

PREDICTION: 51% in favor of The Young Bucks.

AEW World Championship Match: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Jon Moxley

There are a handful of people who Will Ospreay needs to feud with during this title reign. Moxley was arguably #1 on the list. While yes, they could have gone in a number of other directions like Ricochet, Gabe Kidd, Swerve Strickland, MJF, Andrade, a rematch with Kenny Omega, and so on and so forth, those are all still options on the table and will have their time. For now, let's go with the guy who helped get Ospreay to the title. It's a logical next step for Ospreay to overcome. I dig it.

PREDICTION: Will Ospreay obviously retains.

AEW National Championship Match: Andrade El Idolo (c) vs. PAC

Andrade holding the national title and having the world title shot is exactly the type of stuff I hate when it comes to how AEW has FOUR midcard titles. Not only are the names bad (international, national, continental? Huh?) but it makes redundancies like this. Tony Khan frequently doubles up on people, and I never see the point in almost perpetually having at least one person on the roster who is holding multiple championships at the same time.

With that in mind, PAC beating Andrade to take the title off him isn't going to happen. Andrade will retain. If it ended up being Gabe Kidd against Andrade, then maybe I could see the belt changing hands. But PAC strikes me as TK wants to see the match, thinks it will be good (which it will be), and it's just one of the many matches that will happen within this Ospreay/UE vs. Moxley/DR faction stuff.

PREDICTION: Andrade retains.

AEW International Championship Match: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Tommaso Ciampa

So this just came out of nowhere, right? Yeah, yeah, I know, it'll be a good match. But man...this event is really feeling like it's just a random In Your House show in some ways.

PREDICTION: Kazuchika Okada retains.

AEW Women's World Tag Team Championship Chicago Street Fight: The Brawling Birds (Jamie Hayter & Alex Windsor) (c) vs. Divine Dominion (Megan Bayne & Lena Kross)

Let's get one last match out of this feud and let The Brawling Birds do their thing. I'm down.

PREDICTION: The Brawling Birds retain.

AEW World Trios Championship Match: Swerve Strickland & The New Level (Kofi & Austin Creed) (c) vs. "Hangman" Adam Page & Brodido (Bandido & Brody King)

Here's the thing. I don't think the titles should change hands this quickly, because The New Level should keep them for a bit. But these titles HAVE changed hands twice, quicker, so they've shown that they're willing to do that. I'm not 100% confident, but I'm at least 60% sticking with the champions.

PREDICTION: Swerve Strickland and The New Level retain.

AEW World Tag Team Championship No. 1 Contenders' Match: Darby Allin & Steven Borden vs. Kyle Fletcher & Kevin Knight

Since I'm expecting The Young Bucks to win the titles, I'm going with the heels here. Fletcher and Knight continuing to not get along feels like something they'd play around with and the reason why the champs will retain. Of course, Allin and Borden winning could happen just for the sake of doing the match, too.

PREDICTION: Kyle Fletcher and Kevin Knight win.

AEW Women's World Championship No. 1 Contenders' Match: Willow Nightingale vs. Thekla - Winner challenges Mercedes Mone at WrestleDream

Why do I feel like this is going to end in a way that it turns into a Triple Threat anyway?

PREDICTION: Non-finish with a time limit draw or whatever.

TBS Championship Open Challenge: Persephone (c) vs. TBD

Oh my god, it's BLANK!!! And then, Persephone retains.

PREDICTION: Persephone wins.