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AEW Full Gear Adds Dragunov vs. Ciampa and a TBS 3-Way Pre-Show

Summary: AEW added Ilja Dragunov vs. Tommaso Ciampa for the National Title and a TBS Title three-way to Full Gear on Saturday, Nov. 14, in Phoenix, after Wednesday's Dynamite and Collision. F4W says the Anarchy in the Arena teams are now official.

WrestlingNews.com Staff · 4 min read

The quick version

  • Ilja Dragunov will challenge Tommaso Ciampa for the AEW National Championship at Full Gear on Saturday, Nov. 14, in Phoenix. AEW posted the match as official on Wednesday, Nov. 11, per Fightful.
  • Queen Aminata defends the TBS Championship against Maya World and Persephone in a three-way on the Tailgate Brawl pre-show, per AEW's recap.
  • F4W Online lists six wrestlers a side for Anarchy in the Arena. Our Nov. 9 story, from ProWrestling.net, listed seven a side.

AEW added two matches to Full Gear on Wednesday, Nov. 11, during its three-hour Dynamite and Collision special from the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah. Ilja Dragunov will challenge Tommaso Ciampa for the AEW National Championship, and Queen Aminata will defend the TBS Championship against Maya World and Persephone on the Tailgate Brawl pre-show. Full Gear is Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix, live on HBO Max pay-per-view at 8 PM ET, per AEW.

How the two matches were made

Ciampa beat Mike Bailey to keep the National Title for the first time. Dragunov's entrance music played, he walked to the ring in a suit and Ciampa pulled him off the second rope. Dragunov then pointed to the video board, where the Full Gear match was shown. Ciampa offered a handshake, flipped Dragunov off and left, per AEW's recap. AEW posted "IT'S OFFICIAL" on X, as embedded by Fightful.

Aminata kept the TBS Title in a three-way over Hyan and Skye Blue. Britt Baker then distracted her from the floor and Persephone attacked from behind. World ran in to make the save, and the three-way was announced right after, per AEW and F4W Online (Josh Nason). Aminata beat Persephone for the title on Oct. 28. World lost it to Persephone at All In, per F4W.

The card as it stands

By our count, eight matches are on the pay-per-view and one is on the pre-show.

  • AEW World Championship: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Kyle Fletcher
  • AEW Women's World Championship: Mercedes Moné (c) vs. Marina Shafir
  • AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Young Bucks (c) vs. Mark Davis and Jake Doyle
  • AEW Women's World Tag Team Championship: The Brawling Birds (c) vs. Wrathlander
  • AEW World Trios Championship, Texas Death match: Hangman Page, Brody King and Bandido (c) vs. Swerve Strickland, Kofi and Austin Creed
  • AEW International Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Adam Copeland
  • AEW National Championship: Tommaso Ciampa (c) vs. Ilja Dragunov
  • Anarchy in the Arena: the Death Riders and The Conglomeration vs. The Cut
  • Tailgate Brawl pre-show, TBS Championship three-way: Queen Aminata (c) vs. Maya World vs. Persephone

PWInsider's lineup, posted early Thursday, lists the TBS match with the pay-per-view matches. AEW's own recap puts it on the Tailgate Brawl. F4W says that show streams on TNT, HBO Max and MyAEW. We have not seen AEW state the pre-show's start time.

Anarchy in the Arena: the names differ

F4W says the teams are now official. For the Death Riders and The Conglomeration: Jon Moxley, Gabe Kidd, Daniel Garcia, Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong and Kyle O'Reilly. For The Cut: Jay White, Austin Gunn, Colten Gunn, Ace Austin, David Finlay and Clark Connors. That is six a side.

Our Nov. 9 story cited ProWrestling.net for seven a side. It also named Wheeler Yuta for the Death Riders and Juice Robinson for The Cut. F4W's list does not include either. AEW's recap does not name anyone, and we found nothing that says why the lists differ or whether Yuta and Robinson were removed. AEW's headline for its Nov. 7 Collision recap says The Cut and Moné attacked the Death Riders. On Wednesday, AEW says, The Conglomeration came out to help the Death Riders when The Cut attacked after the mixed tag.

What the new title match carries

F4W says Dragunov and Ciampa have met twice before in singles: in wXw in 2015, and on SmackDown. F4W says Dragunov won both. It calls the Full Gear match their third and their first in nearly a year. Dragunov debuted in AEW at WrestleDream in October, then beat Bailey on the next Dynamite and Beast Mortos after that, per F4W. Ciampa won the National Title from Andrade El Idolo on Collision on Saturday, Nov. 7. Our earlier story on Ciampa: Ciampa names his title Ruby.

What is not decided

The Motor City Machine Guns won their best-of-five series with FTR 3-2 on Wednesday. They are the next challengers for the tag titles, and they face the winners of Young Bucks vs. Davis and Doyle after Full Gear, per AEW. No date is set for that match. See our results from the show.

How we know

Source: AEW's official recap of the Nov. 11 show, read in full. F4W Online's two Full Gear stories (Josh Nason) were read in full. Fightful's two stories (Skylar Russell) were read in full. PWInsider's lineup was read in full. We did not watch the show. We did not open AEW's X post and relied on Fightful's embed. We did not contact AEW. Nothing in this story is a rumor. The difference in the Anarchy in the Arena lists is between two outlets and is not explained in anything we read.

AEW Full GearIlja DragunovTommaso CiampaQueen AminataMaya WorldPersephoneAnarchy in the ArenaTailgate Brawl

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