The AEW tag team title run of Private Party is over. It ended last Wednesday on AEW Dynamite with a whimper as the exciting young team was unsurprisingly squashed by the Hurt Syndicate. While the outcome of the match was the correct booking decision, the nearly three-month title reign of Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen left so much to be desired.
The start of Private Party's title run was well-booked and full of potential. Kassidy and Quen were one of the first targets of Jon Moxley and the Death Riders because of their tenure with the company and their failure to progress their standing in the tag team division. This seemed to light a fire under Private Party, and not long after being attacked by the Death Riders, Kassidy, and Quen captured the tag team titles from one of the best tag teams of all time, the Young Bucks. It was a signature win that seemed to signify an elevated status of two of AEW's original members.
Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there. Private Party was never put into a storyline of any significance during their reign as AEW tag team champions. Their first pay-per-view title defense at AEW Full Gear was a thrown-together four-way match of little importance that the Kings of the Black Thrones dominated, despite Private Party eeking out the victory.
From there Private Party defended their tag team titles in the first and only traditional tag team match of their title run when they defeated the newly formed team of Lio Rush and Action Andretti. And while the champs retained their titles it was not exactly a momentum-building win for Kassidy and Quen. A mere eighteen days later Private Party's title run was over and the duo was no better off than they were before winning the AEW tag team titles.
Not every title reign needs to have a significant impact within the promotion. However, if done correctly, the title reign of Private Party could have done just that. Building up another team as a significant threat to win the AEW tag team titles every time out would have strengthened a very cold tag team division. Not to mention it would have been an easy segue to reinsert Private Party into the Death Riders story and brought them into the forefront of saving AEW from Moxley and company.
There were multiple avenues that AEW could have traveled down to use Private Party's title run to elevate the team, the tag team division, and a main storyline that is struggling to pick up steam. Instead, Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen are right back where they started when they were first attacked by Moxley and the Death Riders. And unless the next number of months includes Private Party building back up to recapturing the gold, this was a missed opportunity by the AEW creative team.