Wrestling Inc. Picks The Winners

AEW WrestleDream is upon is, and while Tony Khan’s promotion could have temporarily abandoned the Pacific Northwest and the memory of Antonio Inoki for St. Louis and the memory of Lou Thesz, we’re nonetheless getting the identical sort of stacked PPV card All Elite Wrestling has turn out to be known for. Along with 4 championship matches, the fundamental portion of the event will feature a pair of non-title tag team contests, an “I Quit” match that may need to be impossibly bonkers to live as much as the expectations set by the construct, and for some reason, Jamie Hayter vs Thekla!

Sadly, the Wrestling Inc. staff wasn’t capable of make picks for any of the 4 (up to now) announced Zero Hour/Tailgate matches, but we absolutely did for the fundamental card! It is a mixed bag by way of the chances, with several matches we view as mostly locks and others which can be principally a coin toss. Who do the WINC crew see emerging victorious from the third annual WrestleDream? Let’s get to the picks!

Once more The Hurt Syndicate want to resolve their issues with The Demand in trios motion this weekend, with each of Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, and MVP attributable to tackle Ricochet, Bishop Kaun, and Toa Liona in a Tornado Trios Tag match at WrestleDream. 

There have been quite a few contests between the groups over recent months, initially with the Gates of Agony difficult Lashley and Benjamin for the AEW World Tag Team Championship in April, after which Ricochet and the Gates of Agony costing Lashley and Benjamin the World Tag Team Championship at Forbidden Door. The Demand scored victory of their initial trios match at All Out in Toronto, with the Hurt Syndicate pulling back the victory of their rematch during “AEW Dynamite: Title Tuesday,” and the Gates of Agony picking up an additional win over Lashley and Benjamin in tag team motion this past Wednesday. 

That leaves their rubber match this weekend, and the query of who will go over and presumably win the feud altogether. On that front, Wrestling Inc.’s staff poll reflects a belief that the Hurt Syndicate might be those getting the win, with 89% of the votes, whereas only 14% have backed The Demand to have their point heard.

Written by Max Everett

AEW’s multi-women feud involving the Triangle of Madness, Queen Aminata, and Jamie Hayter has culminated in a one-on-one match between Thekla and Hayter at WrestleDream, and with loads of vitriol between these two women, Saturday’s lock-up is predicted to be nothing in need of spectacular. What Wrestling Inc. can not seem to predict, nevertheless, is which woman will come out of WrestleDream on top. The Hayter/Thekla lines have split our crew down the center, but when the numbers were crunched, Thekla edged out a marginal lead, with 56% of our staff members betting on a “Toxic Spider” victory in St. Louis.

Hayter made a shocking return to AEW at Forbidden Door 2024 to even the percentages between the Triangle of Madness and Queen Aminata, but Hayter and Thekla’s bad blood goes far beyond August. Thekla’s arrival to AEW saw her put Hayter on the shelf with injury, with Hayter’s disappearance marking the start of Thekla’s meteoric rise throughout the AEW women’s division. With three months of her profession now wasted, Hayter has come to make Thekla pay her dues.

The Triangle of Madness’ Skye Blue and Julia Hart will undoubtedly play a task in Saturday’s match-up, with Thekla’s two associates often playing key roles in her recent matches. While Hayter shouldn’t be alone, with a ready and willing ally in Aminata by her side, the numbers are still stacked, two to a few. With most other babyface female performers occupied with matches of their very own, it’s hard to say just who will come to Hayter and Aminata’s aid to even the rating between them and Thekla’s dastardly trio.

Hayter is a former AEW Women’s World Champion, but Thekla is a “Toxic Spider.” Just who will come out on top in St. Louis is anyone’s guess, and while we’re tentatively betting on Thekla, you’ll be wanting to only keep watching.

Written by Angeline Phu

For the primary time since AEW Double or Nothing 2022, the Jurassic Express might be wrestling a match on pay-per-view. Following their surprise reunion at AEW All Out 2025, “Jungle Boy” Jack Perry and Luchasaurus will look to finally gain a measure of revenge over The Young Bucks in a match at AEW WrestleDream 2025 that has $500,000 at stake.

It’s well established that Nick Jackson is a gambling man. In spite of everything, he is essentially the rationale why there’s half one million dollars on the road for this match because he just cannot keep away from the slot machines. Nonetheless, he should not be backing himself or his brother relating to WrestleDream because this one appears like an almost guaranteed win for the Jurassic Express.

Perry and Luchasaurus have only just come back to television, they’re unbeaten since returning to the ring, and though The Young Bucks are one in every of the best tag teams of all time at this point, there is no such thing as a reason for Matt and Nick Jackson to go over on this one. A part of the great thing about their gimmick since their loss to Swerve Strickland and Will Ospreay at AEW All In Texas has been that they’re the butt of the joke, but they thrive in that role. The Young Bucks are self aware enough to know that they will remain a must-see act on television while also putting teams over because they’ve reached that mythical stage of being a team that pulls money by having people pay to see them lose.

You do not need to wreck the momentum that Jurassic Express currently has going, and you don’t need to present the Young Bucks an excessive amount of glory since it takes away the fun of their current roles. Meaning that Jurassic Express going over at WrestleDream shouldn’t be only the logical conclusion, but in addition the one which we predict will occur. Given how well these 4 guys know one another, it needs to be a sleeper pick for match of the night, but 83% of us think it can end with Perry and Luchasaurus getting their hands raised.

Written by Sam Palmer

Darby Allin could have lost in his coffin match against Jon Moxley at All Out, but we do not think the words “I quit” are going to go away his mouth in what’s more likely to be a brutal, bloody battle to the top war against the leader of the Death Riders at WrestleDream. A complete of 83% of us here at WINC imagine Moxley’s words from Wednesday’s “Dynamite,” where he recognized that Allin won’t ever quit, and we predict Allin is walking out of St. Louis victorious.

While Moxley did say he knew Allin would not quit, Moxley also said he would not lose, so we’re not entirely sure how this match involves an in depth or how Allin makes Moxley say “I quit.” The competitors are going to place each other through hell and back, not unlike what they did during their All Out match, and there’s more likely to be loads of interference once more, as well. It could thoroughly be a threat to Marina Shafir by Allin that makes Moxley quit, but we will not consider anything Allin could do to “Mox” that might push him over the sting to have the desire to make the pain stop. That being said, we expect loads of weapons for use here, from thumb tacks, to glass tubes, and anything in between, and it isn’t more likely to stay, and even finish, throughout the ring.

We predict Allin is finally defeating Moxley at WrestleDream, but neither man goes to return out of the battle unscathed. This is likely to be a match where a few of the more weak-stomached fans could have to look at through their fingers, and greater than three-fourths of us imagine that is due partially to what Allin goes to do to Moxley to win.

Written by Daisy Ruth

One in every of the most important talents that AEW CEO and President Tony Khan has been his matchmaking. Obviously it helps that he has one of the loaded rosters of all time, but Khan has a knack for having the ability to put two wrestlers together, whether or not it’s in a tag team or as opponents, and it just manages to work perfectly. Of the pairings that Khan has put together lately, Kyle Fletcher and Mark Briscoe are one of the successful, and their series of matches has warranted them a spot on the AEW WrestleDream 2025 card.

This Saturday will see Fletcher and Briscoe wrestle one another for the fifth time, with this match arguably having the most important stakes as it can be on pay-per-view for the AEW TNT Championship. Briscoe picked up two victories in 2024, while Fletcher has picked two victories in 2025, resulting in this ultimate rubber match that we predict Fletcher will emerge victorious from.

Given the exertions that he has put in over the past few years, it’s possible that Khan could reward Briscoe with a filler run with the AEW TNT Championship. With that said, Fletcher is on the perfect run of his profession because the TNT Champion and it just seems too early to place an end to his run now. He proved that he can hang within the fundamental event scene because of his performance against Hangman Page at AEW All Out 2025, and that match could have convinced just a few people backstage that he’s ready for a fundamental event push now, but Fletcher is a man who can put respect back on the TNT Championship by having an extended, competitive reign that ultimately makes another person by having him being beaten many months down the road.

If this match is anything like their previous 4, this needs to be a superb bout, but once the dust settles, we predict that “The Protostar” will retain his title and hold it for a very long time.

Written by Sam Palmer

Brodido might be making the fifth defense of their AEW World Tag Team Championship inside 60 days this weekend, facing the Don Callis Family pairing of Unified Champion Kazuchika Okada and IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Konosuke Takeshita. 

Since capturing the titles from the Hurt Syndicate, having pinned FTR at Forbidden Door in a three-way, the pairing of Brody King and Bandido have defended them each on AEW and CMLL programming, and are coming off a recent defense against the Gates of Agony of their pursuit of momentum after retaining them against three other teams – JetSpeed, Josh Alexander and Hechicero, and the Young Bucks – in a ladder match at All Out in Toronto. 

Okada and Takeshita are on a rather different journey, having found success as singles stars and been brought reluctantly under the identical umbrella because of Don Callis; their journey for the tag titles shouldn’t be entirely their design, but quite a bifold try to keep his family ticking forward quite than against each other, and so as to add more gold to the faction already in possession of the IWGP, Unified, and TNT titles. Nonetheless, in getting their opportunity the challengers do hold a victory over Brodido, and would only need to duplicate such a performance to see Callis’ goal realized. 

With all that being said, it doesn’t seem likely for lightning to strike twice, reflected with the 61% majority vote for the champions to retain, especially with the challengers more focused on the problems between them – the brewing battle between Okada and his Senpai. In fact, that shows 39% have their eyes on recent champions when all is alleged and done, and it would not be the remotest possibility for either of Okada or Takeshita, let alone them together, to capture gold on any given day. Ultimately, time will tell which side of the divide made the precise call.

Written by Max Everett

Kris Statlander shocked the world when she ended the reign of a then-indestructible “Timeless” Toni Storm back at All Out, but while most former champions take time to get better before rechallenging, Storm is prepared for her rematch. At WrestleDream, Statlander will put her AEW Women’s World Championship on the road against former titleholder Storm in singles motion, and while all of us acknowledge Storm as AEW’s top girl, we at Wrestling Inc. think that St. Louis will see a Statlander victory, with 94% of us betting on a victory for the alien-turned-champ.

Statlander’s world title reign has gone fairly well up to now, with a victory over STARDOM and ROH talent Mina Shirakawa and a powerful refusal to the Death Riders earmarking her first week as champion. Storm was quick to make her challenge for a singles world title rematch, to which Statlander was quick to simply accept. The 2 have been booked to fight, interestingly, as allies in multi-woman tag matches since then, but while their teams have come out with victories, it’s clear that Statlander and Storm’s professionalism is starting to crack, as WrestleDream looms across the corner.

While Storm has been one in every of the best-booked women within the AEW women’s division, rivaled only by unbeatable talents resembling Mercedes Mone and Athena, she has a surprising track record against Statlander. Statlander has pinned Storm twice: once at All Out, and once back in January 2025, when she put Storm down for a three-count in Casino Women’s Gauntlet match qualifier. That sort of record against Storm has only been achieved by women resembling Mariah May (now-known as WWE’s Blake Monroe). Mix these statistics with the recency of Statlander’s reign, and a title retention would only make sense.

That being said, that is wrestling, where the cardboard is, infamously, subject to vary. Could we be in for one more upset at WrestleDream?

Written by Angeline Phu

The AEW Men’s World Championship match pitting “Hangman” Adam Page against Samoa Joe felt almost prefer it was thrown-together haphazardly on an episode of “Dynamite” to kick off the month of October, so none of us are convinced that Joe has any probability here. Despite it feeling strange betting against Joe, a full 100% of us here at WINC imagine Page is not losing the gold.

The in-ring aspect of the match goes to be great, and if AEW wasn’t going to establish a long-running feud for Page in between All Out and WrestleDream to proceed on through the remaining of the yr and beyond, the perfect random, for lack of a greater term, challenger was Joe. 

The lads teamed together in a trios match against the Death Riders on “Dynamite” and got in one another’s way through the bout, resulting in a brawl after Page handed Joe his AEW World Trios Championship. That then led to Page difficult him in a backstage segment later that night, and all of it just felt very rushed.

With “Hangman” being the person to finally dethrone Jon Moxley and “rescue” the championship from the Death Riders’ hostage situation, we do not think he’s losing the title in what sadly appears like a throwaway match, even whether it is against someone nearly as good as Joe. Page just became champion in July together with his Texas Death Match win at All In, and we do not think AEW goes to stop his reign at just over three months. All of us imagine “Hangman” is defeating Joe, and it’s likely his next challenger emerges as a surprise to finish the show.

Written by Daisy Ruth