AEW has finalized two significant title matches for this weekend’s Full Gear event, with the TBS Championship and the National Championship both set to change hands or be successfully defended. The announcements came out of Wednesday’s Dynamite and Collision combination show, filling out a card that already includes an Anarchy in the Arena match with its participants now official.
Queen Aminata will defend the TBS Championship in a three-way match against Maya World and Persephone on the AEW Saturday Night Tailgate Brawl pre-show ahead of Full Gear, according to Fightful. This will mark Aminata’s second defense of the title since she dethroned Persephone for the championship on the October 28 episode of AEW Dynamite. Her first defense came in a three-way against Hyan and Skye Blue, which Aminata successfully navigated to retain the belt, as noted by F4W Online. Facing both Persephone, the former champion looking to reclaim what she lost, and Maya World in this new three-way raises the stakes considerably for Aminata as she tries to establish herself atop the division across back-to-back multi-woman challenges.
On the main card side of the championship picture, Tommaso Ciampa will defend the AEW National Championship against Ilja Dragunov at Full Gear, as confirmed on Dynamite and reported by 411Mania. The match pits two of the promotion’s hard-hitting competitors against one another, with Ciampa looking to continue his reign as National Champion against a challenger in Dragunov who brings his own physical, high-impact style to the title picture.
Both matches add meaningful stakes to a Full Gear card that AEW has been building out across recent weeks of Dynamite and Collision programming. The TBS Championship picture in particular has moved quickly, with Aminata now facing her second title defense in a matter of weeks after winning the belt from Persephone, while Persephone herself gets an immediate opportunity to reclaim the championship she lost. The National Championship match between Ciampa and Dragunov gives Full Gear another high-profile singles title bout on a weekend that already features the previously announced Anarchy in the Arena match.
AEW has not yet detailed further specifics regarding the full Full Gear lineup beyond what has been confirmed through these announcements. Fans can expect additional card details to be finalized on upcoming editions of Dynamite and Collision as the promotion heads into the event.
