Tommaso Ciampa’s latest AEW title run is going to end real fast

Tommaso Ciampa won the AEW National Championship

from Andrade last weekend (Nov. 7) on Collision at Chris Jericho’s cruise. It was a big deal for Ciampa, who had been waiting all year to win championship gold after his TNT title run only lasted 11 days.

However, there’s a good chance that Ciampa’s National title run won’t even last that long. That’s because he’s defending the belt against Ilja Dragunov on Saturday night (Nov. 14) at the AEW Full Gear pay-per-view.

The announcement was made after Ciampa

had his first successful title defense on tonight’s (Nov. 11) Dynamite against Speedball Bailey, who channeled his inner Super Cena near the end of the bout as he kicked out of damn near every finisher that Ciampa threw at him.

Dragunov interrupted the Psycho Killer’s post-match celebration to point at a video graphic that made their title match official at Full Gear. Ciampa responded with a middle finger.

This is only be the Mad Dragon’s third match in AEW since his debut last month, and his first match on AEW PPV. I am certainly not betting against him.

What do you think Ciampa’s chances are of retaining Ruby when he puts the National title on the line against Ilja Dragunov at Full Gear? Let me know in the comments below, Cagesiders.

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