AEW Tag Team Champions Private Party were recent guests on Talk Is Jericho. The duo talked about a variety of topics including how they became a tag team, wrestling during the pandemic, what they learned from Jon Moxley and Chris Jericho as well as their long road to the titles.
The crowd reaction during their match at AEW WresteDream actually ended up being the catalyst to their current title run. “The crowd made us have a rematch,” Isiah Kassidy said. “I feel like if the crowd wasn’t there and they weren’t invested in us, we probably wouldn’t be tag team champions. That crowd made us that night.”
Jericho went on to reveal, “There were some other plans that were kind of in the wind, but that really stuck after that match.” Private Party would win the titles from The Young Bucks on the Oct. 30 episode of AEW Dynamite in Cleveland, but it didn’t sink in that the championship switch was coming until the pair showed up to work earlier that day. “We were promised stuff early and I was like, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it.’ I think it was the day of when it hit me,” Marq Quen said. “We came in, ‘Can you sign this, sign this. You got new t-shirts, but you can’t wear this until after the match.’ That’s when I was like, ‘Okay, it’s going down.’”
Kassidy added: “We got told this the week after (WrestleDream) we were going to win the belts. I don’t believe it because anything can change. We had the six-man and then I cut a promo against the Bucks saying if we lose, we split up. I said, ‘I’m not going to believe it until I cut that promo and see the graphic.’ I cut the promo and was like, ‘We can’t go back now.’ I see the graphic, ‘If Private Party loses, they split up.’ Okay, now I believe it. That’s when I call my mom and said, ‘Hey, take off of work. I’m going to fly you guys out.’ I told her a lie. ‘This is going to be our last match.’ I didn’t tell her we were going to win the championships because I wanted her to be surprised. ‘This is our last match. I want you to be there to witness it because you witnessed all of our career.’”
Listen to the full Talk Is Jericho episode here.
