Jacob and Drew Kasper, formerly WWE’s Julius and Brutus Creed, made their surprise AEW debut at Full Gear.
The brothers appeared immediately after the Young Bucks retained the AEW World Tag Team Championship against Davis & Doyle in Phoenix.
Motor City Machine Guns entered the ring afterward and congratulated Matt & Nick Jackson. Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin had earned a future title opportunity by defeating FTR in their recent best-of-five series.
Sirens then sounded before the words “Kasper Brothers” appeared on the screen.
Jacob and Drew rushed to the ring and attacked the Bucks. The Machine Guns tried to intervene, but the Kaspers turned their attention to Shelley & Sabin.
FTR’s music then played, bringing Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler and Stokely Hathaway to ringside.
Harwood & Wheeler initially confronted the newcomers. Instead of fighting them, however, FTR joined the Kaspers in attacking both the Bucks and Motor City Machine Guns.
The two teams eventually reached for the AEW World Tag Team Championship belts at the same time. Hathaway stepped between them, took possession of the titles and held them aloft.
The Kaspers then embraced Hathaway before shaking hands with FTR.
Drew subsequently addressed the camera and said the brothers wanted to be in AEW because the company had “the best damn wrestling around.”
The appearance came just over a week after Jacob and Drew left WWE following the expiration of their contracts.
Both entered professional wrestling after successful amateur careers. Jacob became a two-time NCAA All-American at Duke University and competed at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials. Drew wrestled for Otterbein University, where he earned Division III All-American honors three times.
Jacob joined WWE in 2020, with Drew following in 2021. WWE repackaged them as Julius and Brutus Creed as part of Diamond Mine in NXT.
The Creed Brothers won the 2022 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic and later became NXT Tag Team Champions. WWE moved them to the main roster in 2023 alongside Ivy Nile.
They subsequently aligned with Chad Gable as American Made in 2024.
Their final WWE appearances came during this year’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic before both men moved to the alumni section of WWE’s website earlier this month.
