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AEW FULL GEAR
NOVEMBER 14, 2026
PHOENIX, ARIZ. AT MORTGAGE MATCH-UP CENTER
STREAMED LIVE ON PPV (including PPV.com)
Attendance: WrestleTix reports 7,022 tickets distributed as of showtime, with a set-up of 7,476 setup. Last year’s Full Gear in Newark, N.J. at Prudential Center drew 10,485.
[PRE-SHOW]
Note: The pre-show aired exclusively on HBO Max and TNT.
Commentators: Excalibur, Tony Schiavone
(A) JACK PERRY vs. THE BEAST MORTOS
Excalibur noted that Perry is aspiring to win the AEW World Title, but he’s had some setbacks recently. After some early offense by Perry, Mortos took over at ringside. They cut to a break. [c]
Perry came back with a clothesline and played to the crowd. When he charged at Mortos, Mortos had recovered enough to avoid him with a side-step in the corner and then headbutt him. (Again, a babyface looks undisciplined and foolish playing to the crowd and not seizing the advantage to try to win.) Mortos scored a near fall. Schiavone noted a chant for Mortos from the fans. Excalibur said that has to be disconcerting for Perry. Mortos delivered a backbreaker and discus lariat for another two count.
Perry made a comeback and struggled to lift Mortos for a piledriver, but eventually did. He then landed a running knee. He stared into the camera. Schiavone said he was surprised Perry didn’t go for the cover. He set up Mortos in the corner and then leaned into the camera and said, “Samoa Joe, this is for you, bitch.” He then spit at the camera lens. He then hit a Muscle Buster for the win.
Perry took a sip of someone’s beer at ringside afterward, then lifted a girl around age 9 who was asking for a hug and stood her on the barricade as he celebrated. She smiled.
WINNER: Perry.
(Keller’s Analysis: Spitting like that is off-putting and tawdry and low-class. If I’m Mortos, I feel disrespected that I had to sit there an extra five or ten seconds as Perry played to the camera before he hit the finisher. The match was fine.)
-Excalibur threw to a video promoting the Tommaso Ciampa vs. Ilja Dragunov match on the PPV for the National Title.
-A vignette aired where Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong, and Kyle O’Reilly met Jon Moxley and Marina Shafir in the middle of the desert. A graphic on the screen stated: “Location: Utah Salt Flats. AEW Cameras Were Sent to Document a Private Meeting Between The Death Riders and The Conglomeration. The following footage was captured on location.”
(Keller’s Analysis: I love that Tony Khan included this to make it seem like they were filming something that was happening otherwise, rather than this being a coordinated scripted skit that everyone participated in to promote a match.)
Moxley tossed Cassidy a JanSport backpack. O’Reilly looked inside and then said, “This still doesn’t make us trust you.” Mox said, “I didn’t ask you to. Why would you? After all the ugliness between us. I have a rule. I don’t apologize.” He offered a handshake. Cassidy took off his sunglasses and said, “I didn’t ask you to.” Cassidy, O’Reilly, and Strong returned to their SUV.
(Keller’s Analysis: The camera circled them and then they went to a wide shot where there was no camera. This was “cinematic and cool,” but the overproduced, obviously post-produced nature of it took away the gritty sense of realism and felt like they were working together on a scripted movie, not having an authentic meet-up in the desert, which is what they were actually going for given the on-screen message before it aired. This came across as a clandestine private meeting between tenuous allies, and the only way to achieve this end-result was multiple takes or reenactments.)
(B) WARDLOW & EL CLON & KEVIN KNIGHT (w/Rocky Romero, Trent Beretta vs. JADEN MONROE & RJ WYLDE & JORDAN CRUZ
WINNERS: Wardlow & El Clon & Knight in 2:00.
-Rocky gloated afterward and proclaimed the night will end with Kyle Fletcher bringing the AEW World Title to the Don Callis Family. Beretta then called out “Costco Man” and QT Marshall and “your nerd friends” and said “You’re about to get squashed.”
(C) QT MARSHALL & MATT SYDAL & BIG BOOM AJ & DARIUS MARTIN (w/Christopher Daniels) vs. ROCKY ROMERO & TRENT BERETTA & JOSH ALEXANDER & LANCE ARCHER
WINNERS: Marshall & Sydal & Big Boom & Martin in 10:00. [c]
(D) QUEEN AMINATA vs. HYAN vs. SKYE BLUE vs. PERSEPHONE (w/Britt Baker) – TBS Title match
Baker sat in on commentary. She told Schiavone not to piss her off because she was dehydrated and bloated from travel complications.
WINNERS: Aminata in 12:00 to retain the TBS Title.
[MAIN PPV]
(1) KAZUCHIKA OKADA vs. ADAM COPELAND – AEW International Title match
Okada went for an early move on exposed concrete at ringside. Copeland blocked it and backdropped Okada, who landed on the padded mat. Copeland set up a chair and dropped Okada on it at ringside. Then he landed a running boot to his chin.
