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All Elite Wrestling has been on TNT for two months now, largely to critical and fan acclaim. About a month removed from the company's first pay per view in its television era, Full Gear, AEW has settled in for the long haul.
With that, though, people have obviously begun to think about when the promotion's titles will change hands, and to who? The three inaugural champions, Chris Jericho, Riho, and SCU obviously won't be holding on to those titles forever. So who will be the ones that dethrone them?
Let's throw our hats into the fun and try to figure out the next set of AEW champions.
AEW World Tag Team Champions: Santana and Ortiz (Proud and Powerful)
With their victory at Full Gear over The Young Bucks, and with the Lucha Brothers' retreat from the title scene since then, Santana and Ortiz remain the most obvious contenders to dethrone current champions SCU, and their hand has strengthened in the past few weeks.
Surely, the prospect of gold won't be off their minds forever? SCU, meanwhile, won't be able to dodge them forever. At some point, the champions and the back alley brutes of The Inner Circle are going to have to collide with the titles on the line.
With the Inner Circle still going very strong, it only makes sense for the group to consolidate its power over AEW even more by crowning Santana and Ortiz the tag team champions.
No other team has real momentum at this time, so one can expect a showdown between SCU and these two sooner rather than later, even though we're still a ways yet away from AEW's next pay per view in February. By then at the latest, Santana and Ortiz should secure some gold around their waists.
AEW Women's World Champion: Awesome Kong
Riho is great, but unfortunately, her title reign hasn't been. She has too many commitments elsewhere, and one wonders whether AEW can continue to permit its women's champion to miss so many episodes of Dynamite. Riho has still not gotten a real feud or rival, which has dragged on her reign.
But also unfortunately, the women's division itself has had no momentum. No one has an interesting story, as we constantly see random tag team matches on TV. AEW might want to be an alternative, but it's been borrowing from the worst of WWE in that regard.
This leaves us with a process of elimination. The only member of the division that has any kind of story right now is Awesome Kong, who's partnership with Brandi Rhodes has seen her take locks of hair as trophies.
At this rate, one suspects that Riho is eventually going to be one of those scalps.
AEW World Champion: Jon Moxley
This confrontation was always going to come. It's been building in some ways since Double or Nothing. It quite surprising that AEW signalled last week that it could pull the trigger this soon. Let's hope that AEW doesn't rush the feud.
This should be a long, drawn out war, as Jon Moxley goes through the Inner Circle one by one all the way until he gets to Le Champion, who wants to avoid a confrontation at any cost.
Ideally, this saga would play out all the way until Double or Nothing II (or whatever the May pay per view is named), to complete the full circle on Moxley's voyage. When he gets the title, it should feel like a massive deal. The only way AEW can possibly ruin this feud and stop it from being the best of 2020 is to rush it, so let's hope that didn't happen last week.
But either way, Jon Moxley is going to dethrone Chris Jericho at some point. He's the hottest act in the company and AEW is going to have to put the title on him.
