Swerve Strickland, New Level Win Texas Death, Reclaim AEW Trios Titles At Full Gear

Swerve Strickland and New Level's Kofi and Austin Creed are once again AEW World Trios Champions after a bloody Texas Death match against Adam Page, Brody King, and Bandido at AEW Full Gear 2026. The only way to win the bout was by triple knockout or surrender.

It was Strickland to demand the stipulation and Bandido to force Page to accept, after Page initially denied it due to his death match history against Strickland. He didn't want to drag his teammates into Texas Death, but the teams ended up doing battle with everything from a barbed wire-covered trombone, to barbed wire-covered tables, light tubes, panes of glass, tacks, and more.

The New Level took their first death match spot in AEW shortly after the bout began, when the champions stuck skewers into their opponent's foreheads. The match only got bloodier, with King sending himself through a barbed wire table in the corner, where he got stuck, with a cannonball after one of his opponents got out of the way.

"Hangman" and Strickland used staple guns on one another and Creed hit King with an exploding glove before almost sending Bandido into pyro on the stage. Page was sent through a pile of chairs, with window pains laid across his chest, with a Boom Drop from Kofi from the barricade.

Strickland tore at Bandido's mask, and Page jumped in to make the save. Strickland once again drank a mouthful of Page's blood, and as Page looked to hit him with a chair, Strickland spit Page's blood right back at him before hitting a Deadeye of his own.

With Bandido and King laid out on the outside, Page and Strickland did battle in the middle of the ring. In the end, it was Strickland who knocked out his nemesis with a House Call, and the referee called for the bell.