AEW Discusses Introducing New Tournament

A new tournament could be coming to All Elite Wrestling, with discussions over a new format having been held within the promotion.

AEW holds the annual Owen Hart Foundation tournaments and the Continental Classic, but Kenny Omega has suggested that talks over a potential mixed-tag tournament have taken place within AEW, with the ‘Cleaner’ saying the following during a Twitch livestream:

“I keep hearing every now and then that, you know, it gets tossed around… every now and then in AEW, the ramblings of having the mixed tag matches tournament - oh! Athena would be good (to face in a singles match). She really would be. Yeah, that’d be actually a real good match. But yeah, I keep hearing about the possibility of maybe doing this tournament.

“So I’ve put more thought into what a tag team would look like, rather than what a singles would look like, and then yeah, someone had said Mayu Iwatani and I’m thinking, ‘yeah, that’d be cool to have her and someone team up or Starlight Kid and somebody team up’. Those are two of my favourites from STARDOM for sure right now, and then of course, just countless others that have something special. Chihiro Hashimoto, yes. She’s incredible too. She would dump me on my head so terribly,” said Omega, laughing.

Whilst there have been some instances of inter-gender physical interaction on AEW TV, they have been few and far between. WWE previously ran mixed tag tournaments under the Mixed Match Challenge format in 2018.

H/T: POST Wrestling

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