Non-public Celebration is able to make good on their promise of ‘new 12 months, new champs.’
The duo will problem the Younger Bucks for the AEW World Tag Staff titles at AEW’s WrestleDream pay-per-view on Saturday evening. Non-public Celebration’s Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen spoke with WrestleZone Managing Editor Invoice Pritchard about how they’re feeling going into the match, why it’s a full circle second, and the way they’ve progressed over time.
Non-public Celebration’s Isiah Kassidy famous the truth that their first win over the Bucks got here in October (2019), and the following match is sort of 5 years to the day.
Isiah Kassidy: “The primary time it was excessive stakes, that is for larger stakes. First time was to advance within the event, this time it’s to be AEW World Tag Staff Champions. So I feel it’s fairly insane.”
Marq Quen: “We’ve superior as wrestlers, we’ve superior as performers. Like Zay stated, the primary time was to advance within the event however this one is larger stakes. Due to this fact, I really feel like again then, the Younger Bucks underestimated us. Now, they know what we’re able to. [I don’t think it’s a] full-circle second so far as what we will do within the ring, however it’s one so far as what the result goes to be.”
This match may carry Non-public Celebration into the brand new 12 months
Kassidy went so far as calling this the most important match of their careers, laying out the gravity of the state of affairs they’re in.
Kassidy: “Not solely can we face the Younger Bucks for the AEW World Tag Staff Championship, however that is our first time in 5 years to really be in a [traditional] 2-on-2 tag group match on a pay-per-view. We don’t take that calmly. We’re uninterested in being missed, we’re uninterested in being handed on and I really feel like we’ve lots to show.
“Now we have the most important chip on our shoulder — you possibly can see it right here. [Points to his left shoulder] It’s a giant Pringles chip there, this one [points to the right] too. I feel this match goes to imply lots once we beat the Younger Bucks and grow to be the following AEW Tag Staff Champions.”
Marq Quen: “I’d say profitable this match is momentum for not simply this 12 months, however [it could carry us] all the way in which into subsequent 12 months. Look who the tag champions are, that to me, is the very best tag group there’s. They beat FTR, they beat just about everybody. They began an organization off of tag group wrestling, so to ensure that us to determine second — earlier this 12 months, we stated, ‘New 12 months, new champs.’ And that is the second the place we show that.”
Non-public Celebration stated they are going to have the entire momentum by beating the Bucks on Saturday. They’d it again in 2019, too, however admit that they misplaced focus. They pledge to not let that occur once more.
Marq Quen: “We had all of the momentum once we beat them [in 2019], however we partied too exhausting. That was the distinction. After 2019 — we did say the occasion by no means stops and it didn’t. It didn’t cease, however once we beat the Bucks, we stated who’s messing with us? After which we began getting sloppy and we caught some L’s.”
Isiah Kassidy: “We took that W without any consideration, we took it as the tip all, be all,” Kassidy stated. “We misplaced focus.”
Jon Moxley was the catalyst
Partial credit score for Non-public Celebration’s new perspective will be linked to Jon Moxley, who broke Zay’s hand with a hammer on the September 18 episode of AEW Dynamite. Moxley identified that Non-public Celebration was in the identical spot they had been 5 years in the past, and used the hammer to “give them some friction and an impediment to beat.”
Non-public Celebration has rebounded since then and discover themselves because the primary contenders. Nevertheless, they know that Moxley put them on discover, and now they’re able to battle in any respect prices.
Marq Quen: “We’re just about essentially the most laid-back individuals within the locker room. Moxley awakened a beast inside us, as a result of nobody would attempt to cross that line with us. As a result of who’s going to mess with Non-public Celebration like that? Who’s going to try this to them? Some dickhead did, and guess what? He obtained tousled. Now we’re going to grow to be Tag Staff Champions, who’s messing with us then?”
Isiah Kassidy: “I agree. Preach.”
Marq Quen: “I don’t plan on out-moving the Bucks. I don’t plan on out-flipping the Bucks, I don’t plan on having match of the evening. I do plan on profitable although. And as Matt Hardy stated, by any means vital. I’m simply going to beat their asses.”
Isiah Kassidy: “Quote that.”
AEW WrestleDream takes place on Saturday, October 12.
Watch our full interview with Non-public Celebration beneath:
