Isiah Kassidy vows to win the gold again.
Private Party (Zay and Quen) won the AEW World Tag Team Championship by beating the Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) at AEW Fright Night Dynamite. They lost the gold to the Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin) on the January 22nd episode of AEW Dynamite. Zay and Quen have been absent from AEW programming ever since.
In his newest vlog, Isiah Kassidy commented on losing the tag team titles.
“We lost the fucking championships. We lost the fucking championships. We lost it. But you know what? I’ll forever be grateful that we had championships. That’s something nobody could take away from us, that we were once a tag team champion for a nationally televised company. We are in the history books. Personally, I had a bucket list. I had a personal bucket list that I wanted to do with the championship, and I’m pretty sure I knocked out everything. I remember, I thought it’d be a really cool moment to have us as the AEW Tag Team Championship and then have Danny [Garcia] as the TNT Champion, and we did that. We had a moment where we was all champions. Yes, me and Danny went out with the championship to the club a couple of times. That’s another thing I wanted to knock off. I wanted to go to the club and bring my championship with me, and I did that twice. I definitely made a scene because you gotta make a scene. There was also this dope-ass picture a fan made. He was in Ohio, and it was like the Xbox achievement, and me, Danny, and Quen, we was all with our championships, and it was like when you beat a level in Xbox, and it had that little notification, it said, ‘Feeling restored.’ So I thought that was pretty cool. I got to show it to my family. One of the main things, coolest things that I would say I’ve done is be a champion while my favorite wrestlers, my idols, the guys who got me into this business, is also champions. That meant a lot to me. That was a really special moment, the fact that Quen and I were champions for a nationally televised company in our world, and then The Hardys, they were also tag team champions in their world. I feel like once you got the championship, you’re the best tag team in the world. That’s just my opinion. So we was on the same mountain as The Hardys for being the best tag team in the world at one point. We gonna get back there, I promise. We going to get those championships back, I promise. So that was a really cool moment because y’all know I’m a fucking mark, let’s be honest. Y’all know how special that is to me," Kassidy said.
Kassidy also commented on bringing the titles to House of Glory and said it was a full-circle moment. He reiterated that he was grateful for the title run, and he reflected on the journey up to this point. Kassidy spoke highly of Lashley and Benjamin, but he said that Private Party would get the titles back.
“I’ll forever be grateful for that, to have a championship because for a while, it definitely seemed unattainable. We fought through it, and we became champions. It took five years, but better late than never. They always say the journey is better than the destination, and I can tell you that is true. The journey is definitely better than the destination. Fighting, scratching, and clawing all these five years to finally get where you wanted, it all worked out. So yeah, I’m incredibly grateful. Bobby, Shelton, okay, let’s keep it above. We got cooked. I’ll be honest. We cooked. We got smoked by Bobby and Shelton. However, I will say, it was a pleasure facing them. Those are guys that we looked up to. To be able to share the ring with Bobby and Shelton, and also MVP, he’s one of my favorite wrestlers. But nonetheless, we gotta get our championships back. So Bobby and Shelton, just because I’m giving y’all praise and shit, I’m getting my lick back. I don’t know when, but it’s gonna happen because we ain’t just gonna go out like that. We not going out like that. We gonna come back soon. I don’t know when. But we gonna come back soon, and we gonna get those championships back," Kassidy said.
Kassidy then commented on his absence from AEW programming and said that he had been doing a lot of things that he needed to do for himself personally.
Private Party previously said that they don't plan to leave AEW. Check out their comments here.
It is not known when Private Party will return to AEW programming. Fightful will provide more information as it becomes available.
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