Full Gear Early Results: Okada Beats Copeland, Bucks Retain
Summary: Kazuchika Okada beat Adam Copeland to keep the AEW International Title, and The Young Bucks kept the tag titles, at Full Gear on Saturday, Nov. 14, in Phoenix. The show was still under way at about 9:20 PM ET.
- Not listedInternational ChampionshipKazuchika Okada (c) (with Don Callis)def.Adam Copeland
Rainmaker, after an Impaler DDT onto exposed concrete.
- Not listedWorld Tag Team ChampionshipThe Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) (c)def.Mark Davis and Jake Doyle
Champions retain by pinfall. Accounts of the finish differ.
- Not listedSingles match (Tailgate Brawl)Jack Perrydef.The Beast Mortos
Muscle Buster.
- Not listedTrios match (Tailgate Brawl)Don Callis Family (Wardlow, El Clon and Kevin Knight)def.Jaden Monroe, RJ Wylde and Jordan Cruz
Knight pinned Cruz with the UFO Splash.
- Not listedEight-man tag (Tailgate Brawl)Big Boom A.J., QT Marshall, Darius Martin and Matt Sydaldef.Don Callis Family (Lance Archer, Josh Alexander, Rocky Romero and Trent Beretta)
Martin pinned Romero.
- Not listedTBS Championship, four-way (Tailgate Brawl)Queen Aminata (c)def.Persephone, Skye Blue and Hyan
Aminata pinned Hyan with Off With Her Head.
The quick version
- Okada beat Copeland with the Rainmaker in the first match on the main card, after dropping him onto exposed concrete with an Impaler DDT off the apron, per Post Wrestling and Wrestling Inc.
- The Young Bucks retained the AEW World Tag Team Championship over Mark Davis and Jake Doyle. The Kasper Brothers, formerly the Creed Brothers, debuted after the match.
- On the Tailgate Brawl pre-show, Queen Aminata kept the TBS Championship in a four-way. Maya World could not reach Phoenix, so Skye Blue and Hyan were added.
- This is a partial report. The show was still going when we wrote, and the last six matches are not covered here.
Kazuchika Okada beat Adam Copeland to retain the AEW International Championship in the opening match of AEW Full Gear on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, at the Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix. The Young Bucks kept the AEW World Tag Team Championship in the second match. We wrote this at about 9:20 PM ET, with the show still on. We did not watch it. This report comes from live accounts and will be replaced by a full results story when the show ends.
Event
AEW Full Gear, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, Mortgage Matchup Center, Phoenix, Arizona. The Tailgate Brawl pre-show aired from 7 PM ET on TNT and HBO Max. The pay-per-view started at 8 PM ET on HBO Max PPV. Attendance and match times were not listed in the reports we read.
Results so far
Main card
Okada over Copeland. Post Wrestling says Okada controlled much of the match, with Callis getting involved from ringside. Okada pulled up part of the floor padding early to expose the concrete. Late on, he took the title belt and the referee, Bryce Remsburg, stopped him from using it. Callis then grabbed Copeland's ankle, and Copeland ran into the belt Okada held out on the apron. Okada followed with the Impaler DDT onto the concrete. Rather than take a count-out, he put Copeland back in the ring, lifted Copeland's shoulder up twice on his own pin attempts, then hit the Rainmaker.
Okada hit a second Rainmaker after the bell, per Wrestling Inc. It was their first singles match. See our match announcement story. Cageside Seats says the commentators wondered whether Copeland might retire before 2027. Copeland has said 2027 will be his last year. That is Cageside's account of the commentary, not a statement from AEW.
The Young Bucks over Davis and Doyle. Wrestling Inc. says Nick Jackson rolled up Doyle after Matt Jackson took Davis out on the floor. Cageside Seats describes an assisted hurricanrana on Doyle. Both say the Bucks won by pinfall and kept the titles. The Motor City Machine Guns, the next challengers, came out after the bell. The Kasper Brothers then attacked and FTR turned on the Bucks and the Machine Guns. See our debut story.
Tailgate Brawl
Perry used a Muscle Buster, Samoa Joe's move, to beat Mortos and said on camera he was calling Joe out, per Post Wrestling and Cageside Seats. Joe beat Perry in October with the same move, per Post Wrestling.
Boom & Doom and SkyFlight beat four members of the Don Callis Family after a brawl that began when Rocky Romero and Trent Beretta spoke from the ring. See our Boom & Doom story for the build.
The TBS Championship match was changed because of travel. AEW had advertised Aminata against Persephone and Maya World. Post Wrestling and Wrestling Inc. both say World could not get to Phoenix after the nationwide FAA ground stop, and Blue and Hyan took her place. Britt Baker joined commentary and handed Persephone the belt, per Wrestling Inc. Our earlier story on the travel problems is here.
Still to come
At the time of writing, a Texas Death Match for the World Trios Championship had started, per Wrestling Inc. The card also lists the Women's World Tag Team Championship, the National Championship (Tommaso Ciampa vs. Ilja Dragunov), the Women's World Championship (Mercedes Moné vs. Marina Shafir), Anarchy in the Arena, and the AEW World Championship (Will Ospreay vs. Kyle Fletcher). We have no results for those.
Source: Post Wrestling's Okada story and Tailgate Brawl story (Neal Flanagan), Wrestling Inc.'s live blog (Olivia Quinlan and Miles Schneiderman) and Cageside Seats' live blog (Claire Elizabeth), plus Cageside's Okada reaction piece (Cain A. Knight). The three agree on every winner listed. The Bucks' finish is described differently by two of them, and we say so. We did not watch the show, and we did not contact AEW.
Sources
- Post Wrestling (Neal Flanagan), "Kazuchika Okada retains AEW International Championship against Adam Copeland at Full Gear", Nov. 14, 2026 (the Okada match). https://www.postwrestling.com/2026/11/14/kazuchika-okada-retains-aew-international-championship-against-adam-copeland-at-full-gear/
- Post Wrestling (Neal Flanagan), "Queen Aminata retains TBS Championship to close out AEW Full Gear Tailgate Brawl", Nov. 14, 2026 (the pre-show results and the TBS change). https://www.postwrestling.com/2026/11/14/queen-aminata-retains-tbs-championship-to-close-out-aew-full-gear-tailgate-brawl/
- Wrestling Inc. (Olivia Quinlan, Miles Schneiderman), "AEW Full Gear Results 11/14/26 W/ Live Updates", updated Nov. 14, 2026, 9:16 PM EST (the Bucks match, the second Rainmaker, the Texas Death start). https://wrestlinginc.com/2316784/aew-full-gear-november-14-2026-results
- Cageside Seats (Claire Elizabeth), "AEW Full Gear 2026 results, live match coverage", Nov. 14, 2026 (quick results list, the Bucks finish, the post-match). https://www.cagesideseats.com/aew/486676/aew-full-gear-2026-results-live-match-coverage
- Cageside Seats (Cain A. Knight), "It looks like Copeland needs to retire right now after Okada beat his ass at Full Gear", Nov. 14, 2026 (the commentary on Copeland). https://www.cagesideseats.com/aew/486803/aew-full-gear-2026-results-okada-defeats-adam-copeland-neck-injury-early-retirement-tease
- WrestlingNews.com, "Okada Defends International Title Against Copeland at Full Gear", Nov. 8, 2026. https://wrestlingnews.com/story/okada-defends-international-title-against-copeland-at-full-gear/
- WrestlingNews.com, "Creed Brothers Debut in AEW as the Kasper Brothers at Full Gear", Nov. 14, 2026. https://wrestlingnews.com/story/creed-brothers-debut-in-aew-as-kasper-brothers-at-full-gear/
- WrestlingNews.com, "Boom & Doom Challenge RPG Vice for AEW Full Gear", Nov. 13, 2026. https://wrestlingnews.com/story/boom-and-doom-challenge-rpg-vice-aew-full-gear-big-justice-rizzler/
- WrestlingNews.com, "Ground Stop Lifted; AEW and TNA Travel Still in Question", Nov. 13, 2026. https://wrestlingnews.com/story/ground-stop-lifted-aew-full-gear-and-tna-destination-x-travel-in-question/
- WrestlingNews.com staff reporting: compared four live accounts of the first two main card matches and the pre-show, and checked our own site for the build. We did not watch the show.
How we credit sources: Editorial standards.