Kyle Fletcher on His Goal To Become AEW World Champion In Future, He Felt Guilty For Singles Run Coming About After Mark Davis’ Injury, & He Would Be Excited To Have Another Full-Time Tag Run With Mark Davis

The Sportster held a recent interview with AEW International Champion Kyle Fletcher. One of the topics discussed included Fletcher’s thoughts about his goal of wanting to become the AEW World Champion someday but his current focus is on defending his title against Konosuke Takeshita and Kazuchika Okada at AEW All In 2026.

“It’s a very difficult question for me to answer right this second because I’m doing my very best to remain focused on the task at hand, the International Title. And this threat at All In but obviously I keep up with what everybody’s got going on. I keep my finger on the pulse of the wrestling world. I like to know what’s happening.

Will Ospreay and Kenny Omega is a gigantic match made for Wembley Stadium for the World Title. We’re going to see who the very best is. That World Title is something I’ve been very clear that I want and I think pro wrestling is all about timing. Everything is about being (in the) right place, right time. I’m focusing on the match at All In focusing on the triple threat. If we reassess after that point and the timing feels right, then plans will be put in place.”

Fletcher also gave his thoughts about how he initially felt guilty about his singles run and success in AEW because it came after his former Aussie Open tag team partner Mark Davis got injured.

“Oh, absolutely. I think that there was honestly a lot of guilt on my behalf. At that point, he’s not just a tag partner. We’d been teaming together for five years-plus. We’d been best friends for majority of that time so, yeah, there’s a lot of guilt and there are a lot of conversations of people telling me, you know, ‘You need to be a singles wrestler. You’ve gotten so over and you’re doing so good. It doesn’t make sense for you to be in a tag team right now’ and then in the back of my brain, I’m just like, f*ck man. But then where does that leave Davis? Then, a lot of these guilty feelings so, yes, I was stoked to be getting these opportunities but I didn’t want my best friend to be left by the wayside because of it, which is just — it makes me so happy to see what he’s doing now and how much he’s flourished. He saw something in me. He saw something in me. I have known he’s an incredible professional wrestler for as long as I’ve been wrestling. For as long as I’ve known him, I’ve known he’s been incredible so I knew it was only a matter of time. Like I said, wrestling is just about timing and opportunities and then, lo and behold, Jake Doyle got hurt when they kind of started teaming together and then Davis had this very similar singles ascent, singles resurgence. He won the National Title, and he hasn’t looked back since and it makes me, again, just incredibly grateful that I get to still kind of be a part of it and see his success.”

Fletcher also gave his thoughts about him being excited over the idea of him and Davis potentially reuniting their Aussie Open tag team as their current selves.

“I don’t know how to take that… Everything in life is about evolution and growth and we’ve just grown and changed into different people. I think if Aussie Open were to go and do a proper tag run again at some point in the future, after all this evolution and this growth, I don’t even think that Aussie Open would be the same Aussie Open that we’ve seen in the past. I don’t think that makes sense so, I agree. I think we have outgrown that version of Aussie Open. But in that same regard, it makes me excited to see what a 2026, 2027, 2028 Aussie Open full-time tag team run would look like so, if it gets to happen at some point, I would be excited to see it.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com, Fightful.com 1 & 2