This week marked the one year anniversary of AEW Dynamite. The broadcast on TNT featured four title matches for the first time ever in the history of AEW. A pay- per-view caliber line up on cable television that should be enough to get any pro wrestling fan excited.
With wrestlers like FTR, Cody Rhodes, and Jon Moxley currently holding the gold in AEW, one has to wonder who will be holding those very titles a year from now?
Today we will try to predict who might be heading AEW Dynamite's secondanniversary show next October with gold around their waist.
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#5 Eddie Kingston will be the FTW Champion on AEW
We will kick off this list today with easily the most infamous championship title in AEW. A title that was created long before the company even existed. We are talking about the renegade title that the Human Suplex Machine Taz created over two decades ago, the FTW Championship.
While Brian Cage is an incredible athlete, we're not really sure he personifies what the FTW Championship is all about, the mindset behind it and why it was originally created all those years ago by Taz in the original ECW.
The fact of the matter is that Cage has never been overlooked his entire career. One look at the Machine and everyone can see the star that he is and has had opportunities for championships everywhere he's been. Taz, however, created the FTW Championship because he wasn't given the opportunities that he felt he was owed for a variety of reasons.
However, everything that Cage isn't, Kingston is. A grizzled veteran of this industry who absolutely has the "FTW" mindset. The Mad King wasn't even meant to be part of AEW to begin with. When AEW's roster was built, he was absolutely overlooked. Yet when given an opportunity, he made the most of it when he stepped into the ring Cody earlier this year for the TNT Championship, not only impressing in the match, but on the microphone as well.
What was supposed to be a one and done turned into a ground swell of support for Kingston until he was eventually signed by the company almost a month later. This wasn't an accident; Kingston is a star, and while some people argue that his best years are behind him, there are plenty who think he's just getting started.
A run with the FTW Championship in 2021 could be just the thing Kingston needs to find himself at the top of the mountain in professional wrestling.
#4 Kris Statlander as the AEW Women's World Champion
The AEW women's division went through some growing pains in 2020: from talents being stuck overseas to rising stars being sidelined with unfortunate injuries. But over the last few months, it has started to find its footing. With the way things are currently heading, 2021 could be a phenomenal year for women's wrestling in AEW.
While it would be easy to pick the recently returned Dr. Britt Baker to be the champion next October, we wouldn't be surprised if she held that title before the calendar year even hits 2021. So with that in mind, we look to the future to another woman who will obviously be returning from injury in 2021.
Kris Statlander was an absolute highlight of the first half of 2020 when it came to women's wrestling on Dynamite. Unfortunately, her momentum was halted when she suffered a torn ACL back in June.
When Statlander returns, expect her to pick off exactly where she left off in pursuit of the AEW Women's World Championship. With the fans behind her there's no reason why she wouldn't hold this title come next October.
#3 Jurassic Express as the AEW World Tag Team Champions
There isn't a more stacked tag team division anywhere in the world right now than there is currently in All Elite Wrestling. From top to bottom, this division is the standard-bearer for any company that would even want to attempt to compete with them when it comes to tag team wrestling.
While we believe it is a foregone conclusion that Matt and Nick Jackson, the Young Bucks, will win AEW Tag Team gold from FTR in 2020, we don't expect them to still be holding it by October of 2021 for the second year anniversary of Dynamite. Title reigns are long in All Elite Wrestling, but not that long.
Instead, we look to one of the young and upcoming tag teams that the fans have clearly been behind even before Dynamite started. Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus - the Jurrasic Express.
While both men arguably have singles runs in their future at AEW, it wouldn't make sense to split these two men away from one another before they have a nice successful run with the tag straps.
#2 PAC as the AEW TNT Champion
The newest championship title in All Elite Wrestling has absolutely been one of the company's highlights in the year 2020 and that is none other than the AEW TNT Championship.
The initial title run by "The American Nightmare" Cody saw exciting, unexpected challengers from the likes of Warhorse, to two other wrestlers who earned their contracts by tearing it up live on TNT in "Absolute" Ricky Starks and Eddie Kingston.
With Cody's second reign continuing on after a time limit draw against Orange Cassidy, we look to 2021 to see who will hold the red championship this time next year. For that, we look to a man who currently isn't even on television due to travel restrictions in the world right now - PAC.
PAC holds AEW victories over the likes of "Hangman" Adam Page and Kenny Omega and we have no doubt that the best is yet to come for him when he can return to the United States and continue his pro wrestling career in All Elite Wrestling.
There should be little argument that if not for the current worldwide pandemic PAC would've already worn gold around his waist in All Elite Wrestling. PAC is one of the best wrestlers on the planet and has been treated as such during his time in the company, and he could go after the AEW World Championship or the TNT title,
When he makes his triumphant return to AEW, the roster will immediately be put on notice. Wrestling fans already know what PAC is capable of and gold will be around his waist again soon enough.
#1 Miro as the AEW World Champion
As of this writing, only two men have had the honor to hold the AEW World Championship, both of whom are former WWE World Champions - Chris Jericho and Jon Moxley.
This title doesn't change hands very often. In fact, if you don't count the FTW Championship, the World Championship in All Elite Wrestling has changed hands less than every other title in the company. When a new champion is crowned, you best believe that they have earned the right to hold that beautiful title.
And while we think it's only a matter of time before Kenny Omega or Adam Page become the next World Champion in All Elite Wrestling, a year is a long time away. By the second anniversary of Dynamite, AEW fans may be celebrating Miro Day, as the brute from Bulgaria could be the champion.
While this man also comes from WWE, he never got a run with the World Championship there that many fans believed he absolutely deserved. Miro came to AEW to prove his previous employer wrong and all signs point towards him achieving it as it's only a matter of time.
There are some who would argue that Miro's AEW run thus far has been rather underwhelming, but Rome wasn't built in a day. Miro will likely be a fixture of the main event scene in All Elite Wrestling in 2021, as AEW may give in to the loud and passionate Miro fanbase. If he isn't treated correctly, Tony Khan and AEW management will absolutely hear about it.
They already capitalized on the massive fanbases of Moxley and Jericho. But some would argue that they dropped the ball earlier this year with Matt Cardona. It is extremely importatnt that they don't make the same mistake again.