Posted on 12/28/125 by Bob Magee

We closed out the year with the third annual AEW Worlds End
in Chicago, Illinois, in front of a sold-out NOW Arena on
PPV with a night that saw multiple new champions crowned in
our AEW Worlds End results!

In the main event, MJF pinned Samoa Joe to regain the AEW
World Championship for the first time since he lost the
title to Joe at Worlds End two years ago. Jon Moxley won the
2025 Continental Classic after defeating Kyle Fletcher in
the semifinals and reigning Continental Champion Kazuchika
Okada in the finals. That ended Okada’s 647-day reign as
Continental Champion and was Moxley’s first ever C2
tournament win, after reaching the finals and losing to
Eddie Kingston in 2023. After the match, Moxley said the
Continental Championship belonged to the fans and every
single person who was part of the Continental Classic.

But it wasn’t all about new champions. AEW Women’s World
Champion Kris Statlander retained over Jamie Hayter in a
hard-hitting affair. AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions
Babes of Wrath turned away TBS Champion Mercedes Moné and
ROH Women’s World Champion Athena. Plus, FTR beat Bang Bang
Gang in a Chicago Street Fight to remain the AEW World Tag
Team Champions, and much more.

Here's everything that happened at AEW Worlds End and Zero
Hour on December 27, 2025, including your full results and
match recaps.

AEW Worlds End Full Match Results

AEW Zero Hour Tag Match: Sisters of Sin (Julia Hart and Skye
Blue) def. Hyan & Maya World

Zero Hour opened up with this intriguing tag team showdown,
as Blue and Hyan started things for their respective teams.
Hyan didn’t seem overcome by the big spotlight, as she was
right with Blue until she decided to offer a handshake,
which Blue took as an invite to kick her in the gut. Hart
tagged in to hit a double flapjack on Hyan, but the Sisters
of Sin didn’t keep the advantage for long, and World was
able to tag in to hit a slingshot senton. Hyan and World
tried to hit stereo dives to the outside, but forearms met
them on their way through the ropes. Sisters of Sin followed
with swinging neckbreakers off the apron!

Hart rolled Hyan back in and slammed her head off the mat
before bringing Blue in for a handspring palm strike. Blue
hit a snapmare and a kick to Hyan before sending Hyan into
the corner, where Hart locked in a tarantula over the ropes
so Blue could hit a running dropkick. That got her a two
count, so Blue tried for a suplex, but Hyan fought through
and hit one of her own. Blue tried to stop Hyan from making
the tag, but got a pump kick for her efforts, and World
tagged in. World and Hart tagged in at the same time, yet
World quickly struck with a pair of strikes followed by a
leaping elbow in the corner. She avoided Hart and ran up the
ropes to come back down with a dropkick. 

World hit a big double stomp on Hart for another two-count.
Hyan tagged back in, but Hart avoided the double team by
sending World to the outside and stunning Hyan with a boot.
Blue tagged in and nailed a superkick on Hyan after Hyan did
the same to Hart. World came back in and got into a strike
battle with Blue, which allowed her to hit Code Blue, but
Hyan was still legal.  Hyan ran into a pair of kicks from
Sisters of Sin before they hit a combo uranage, securing the
pinfall victory.

AEW Zero Hour Singles Match: Eddie Kingston def. Grizzled
Young Veterans’ Zack Gibson

As we’ve become accustomed to, Gibson took over his own ring
announcement, but was immediately cut off by Kingston’s
music. Kingston marched down to the ring and went after both
Gibson and James Drake before sending the latter to the
outside, which allowed the bell to ring. Kingston stayed on
Gibson and nailed a big chop, but Drake felt the need to get
involved when he grabbed Kingston’s foot near the ropes.
Kingston immediately went to the floor to grab Drake, so
Gibson dove from the ring into Kingston’s back on the
outside!

Gibson started talking trash to Kingston as he tried to
continue his attack. That seemed to fire up Kingston, who
won a strike battle until Gibson dropped to the mat and
grabbed a single leg on Kingston. Once again, Gibson taunted
Kingston, and once again, Kingston rose to his feet as
Gibson laid in chops. Kingston fought through those and hit
chops of his own before knocking Gibson down with a back
elbow. Kingston nailed a clothesline in the corner and then
the machine gun chops. Kingston built up speed and put his
boot across Gibson’s face, which brought Drake back onto the
apron. He choked Kingston with a scarf behind the referee’s
back, which allowed Gibson to hit a lungblower from the
second rope! Kingston kicked out at the last possible
moment, so Gibson taunted him again and told Kingston to
stay down as Kingston smiled through Gibson’s shots to the
face. A final slap was enough for Kingston, as he unloaded
on Gibson with his own shots until Gibson fought back with
palm strikes. Kingston answered with a slap to the jaw and
an enzuigiri to set up Gibson for a DDT that earned him a
three count!

Drake immediately attacked after the bell and choked
Kingston with a scarf, as the Grizzled Young Veterans had
Kingston in dire straits. That was until Ortiz, Kingston’s
best friend, ran out to chase off GYV. Kingston seemed
surprised by the help, but walked out with Ortiz in
appreciation.

AEW Zero Hour Tag Match: ROH World Champion Bandido & CMLL
Trios an Historic Welterweight Champion Máscara Dorada def.
Mark Davis & Rocky Romero

This special tag match was our first chance to see Bandido
since he won the Dynamite Diamond Ring to earn a shot at
whoever the AEW World Champion is at the end of Worlds End
at Dynamite Maximum Carnage on January 14th!

Bandido and Davis started things, and while Bandido had
plenty of power, it was hard to employ against the bigger
Davis, as he was able to run through Bandido’s chop and lay
him out with a huge clothesline, followed by a chop that put
Bandido back on the mat. Bandido tried a bodyslam, but Davis
escaped and hit one of his own. He immediately followed with
a senton and then just knelt on Bandido for a sloppy cover
that only got a two. 

Romero tagged in only for Bandido to escape his grasp with a
back elbow, which allowed a tag to Dorada! He came right off
the top with a springboard crossbody and stayed on Romero
with a headscissors takeover. He ran the ropes to kick Davis
off the apron and then bounced off the top ropes on two
different sides of the ring to build momentum for an armdrag
on Romero. Romero hung himself into the ropes, so Dorada
dove at him anyway, but wound up getting caught by Davis on
the outside. While he was in Davis’ clutches, Romero ran
down the apron with a big kick to Dorada’s back. Bandido ran
around the ring to save his partner from a double-team, and
while he was able to take down Romero with a headscissors,
he walked right into a right hand from Davis. With Bandido
seated against the guardrail, Davis got a running start and
crushed the ROH World Champion with all of his body weight.

Back in the ring, Romero hit a dropkick on Dorada and
celebrated like he won the World Cup. Davis tagged back in,
but Dorada tried to fight his way through him and finally
did; he could make the tag to Bandido. He nearly press-
slammed Romero with one hand, but Davis saved his partner.
Bandido hit a pair of boots in the corner and Dorada came
off the top to hit a crossbody on Davis and Romero, but they
caught him. Bandido was ready with a tornillo from the top
to take down Davis and Romero. With Romero isolated in the
wrong corner, he tried to get away, only for Dorada and
Romero to sandwich him with kicks in the corner. Dorada
nailed a facebuster on Romero, and Bandido came off the top
with a frog splash! Davis makes the save in the nick of
time!

Davis hit a leaping kick on Bandido, and Romero followed
with a sliced bread, but it only got a two-count. Romero and
Davis punished Bandido in their corner with running
clotheslines and chops. Dorada came in to save Bandido from
a double-team by kicking Romero off the top and sending
Davis to the floor with a hurricanrana. Bandido hit Romero
with an X Knee, and Dorada followed with a shooting star
press, but he wasn’t done, as Bandido launched him over the
top onto Davis on the floor. Bandido hit Romero with the 21
Plex to get the pinfall victory for his team!

After the match, we learned that El Clon would be coming to
Collision in 2026!

AEW Zero Hour Tag Match: JetSpeed (“Speedball” Mike Bailey
and “The Jet” Kevin Knight) & Jurassic Express (Jack Perry
and Luchasaurus) def. Josh Alexander & The Demand (AEW
National Champion Ricochet, Toa Liona and Bishop Kaun)

After JetSpeed made their entrance, Jurassic Express started
making their way to the ring, but were attacked from behind
by The Demand! Ricochet nailed Perry in the back of the head
with the AEW National Title, as GOA took out Luchasaurus.
Bailey and Knight ran up the ramp to help their teammates,
but Josh Alexander joined the fray to keep the numbers
advantage for his team. While Ricochet handled Bailey near
the ring, Perry did what he could to save Luchasaurus, only
to be taken out by a suplex on the ramp from Kaun. Kaun and
Liona carried a lifeless Luchasaurus to the back, as
Ricochet and Alexander waved from ringside. However, they
didn’t see JetSpeed come over the top with a pair of
planchas! 

The bell finally rang as JetSpeed executed some tandem
offense to send Alexander over the top to the outside.
Ricochet ran at JetSpeed, so they sent him over the top to
the floor onto GOA and Alexander. The Demand tried to
regroup on the outside, which left Alexander to get nailed
with a standing UFO Splash from Knight that got an early
two-count. Knight tagged Bailey, who ran Alexander into the
top turnbuckle. As Alexander argued with the referee,
Ricochet shoved Bailey off the top, which caused him to hit
the apron on the way down in a dangerous landing.

On the outside, Kaun threw Knight into the guardrail, then
threw Bailey back into the ring, where Ricochet went for a
pin and got a two. He continued to beat Bailey down, as they
isolated him in the wrong corner. Kaun mockingly encouraged
the Speedball chants as he sent Bailey back into their
corner so that The Demand and Alexander could keep the
punishment going on Bailey. Back on the ramp, Perry was
trying to make it to the ring, but was still in bad shape
from the pre-match beatdown. 

Bailey finally found some daylight with some kicks to Kaun,
but when he tried to tag Knight, Ricochet pulled him off the
apron and sent him into the front row. Alexander tagged in
and went for a powerbomb, only for Bailey to escape and
squash Alexander with moonsault knees! Perry was on the
apron and wanted in! Bailey tagged in Perry, and he unloaded
on Kaun and Alexander before hanging Liona over the top to
send him to the floor. Ricochet charged, but Perry ducked
him and came back with a flying clothesline. Alexander came
back and ate a jumping DDT for his troubles, although Kaun
saved him.

The Demand hit an array of triple-team offense, including a
shooting star press from Ricochet, but JetSpeed made the
save. They hit a pair of superkicks on Alexander to send him
to the outside. GOA tried to double-team Bailey, but he
escaped a charge from Liona, and Knight came from the other
side of the ring to hit a flying clothesline on Kaun. Perry
got a couple of near-falls on Ricochet, but Ricochet came
back with a lariat and a Death Valley Driver, only for Perry
to kick out of the somewhat messy cover. Ricochet loaded up
his Spirit Gun only to be stopped in his tracks by the music
of Jurassic Express, as a bandaged up Luchasaurus made his
way back down the aisle! He took down Kaun and Alexander
with lariats! Back in the ring, Ricochet missed a Spirit Gun
on Perry, who made the tag to Luchasaurus! He clobbered
Ricochet with a clothesline as Bailey nailed a triangle
moonsault to Liona on the outside while Knight took out
Alexander and Kaun with a springboard. Luchasaurus dropped
Ricochet with a one-armed chokeslam and tagged Perry back
into the match. Perry hit his patented running knee to the
side of Ricochet’s head and pinned the AEW National
Champion!

Continental Classic Semifinal: Gold League Runner-Up AEW
Unified Champion “The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada def. Blue
League Winner IWGP World Heavyweight Champion “The Alpha”
Konosuke Takeshita

Okada is considered the greatest tournament wrestler of all
time. Still, he was facing a man in Takeshita who just went
undefeated (4-0-1) in league matches and won the G1 Climax
in NJPW earlier this year, which led him to winning the IWGP
World Heavyweight Championship.

Our opening contest of Worlds End got a “HOLY SHIT!” chant
and a round of applause at the bell with these two meeting
for the first time one-on-one! On commentary, Don Callis
reminded us that Takeshita was a Day 1 member of the Don
Callis Family, but refused to play favorites between these
two Family members.

Okada offered a handshake, but Takeshita slapped it away.
Both men started slow, clearly trying to feel each other
out. A Rainmaker attempt nearly connected in the opening
minutes, but Takeshita reversed it and tried to hit a rising
knee, only for Okada to avoid it. Okada hit a strike, but
Takeshita came back with a flying shoulder block to take the
defending Continental Classic Champion down! Okada rolled to
the outside and feigned an arm injury, so Takeshita chased
after, and Okada immediately attacked. Takeshita tried to
take out Okada near the guardrail, but Okada hit a drop
toehold onto a chair! He followed with a DDT on the floor
and continued the attack by running Takeshita’s back-first
into the guardrail. Okada rolled Takeshita back in and tried
a lazy cover for a two. Okada avoided a quick strike from
Takeshita and hit another DDT that got a two count. 

As Okada continued his calm, methodical pace, Takeshita
changed the momentum with a brainbuster seemingly out of
nowhere! He sent Okada to the outside with a hurricanrana
and followed with a tope that nailed Okada! Back in the
ring, Takeshita hit a running boot in the corner and a
backdrop for a two count. Okada escaped Takeshita's grasp
with an eye rake, and after a pair of boots, he put
Takeshita down with a neckbreaker across his knee. Okada
quickly followed with an elbow drop from the top and flipped
off the crowd and then Takeshita! Takeshita was clearly
fired up by the disrespect and dropped Okada to his knees
with a few significant strikes. Okada came back and did the
same to Takeshita. Okada went for a tombstone, but Takeshita
reversed it into a Hitodenashi Driver, followed by a
wheelbarrow German suplex! Okada avoided the Power Drive
knee with a spinning Emerald Flosion. He tried to follow
with a Rainmaker, but Takeshita reversed it into a huge Blue
Thunder Bomb! 

Takeshita got to his feet first and went for the Power Drive
knee again, but this time, Okada caught it, and Takeshita
tried to break free. Okada hung on and brought Takeshita in
for a modified Rainmaker, but Takeshita didn’t go down!
Takeshita hit two forearms, so Okada used wrist control to
put Takeshita down with a lariat. Takeshita escaped from
Okada but ran into the corner, so Okada hit a German suplex
and hung on to try to get wrist control. Takeshita was ready
and quickly turned it into a nearfall. Takeshita came back
with a big elbow, so Okada answered with a shotgun dropkick
and then his patented dropkick! He picked up Takshita for a
Rainmaker, so Takeshita blocked it with a kick followed by a
poisonrana! Takeshita hit the Power Drive knee on the third
try, and Okada kicked out at the last possible moment. 

Okada avoided Takeshita in the corner and pulled a
screwdriver from the top turnbuckle, but Takeshita rocked
him in the back of the head and went for a Rainmaker of his
own! Okada escaped and tried another Rainmaker, but
Takeshita countered, so Okada blasted Takeshita with the
screwdriver out of the referee’s vision and scored the three
count! Okada is heading back to the finals!

Continental Classic Semifinal: Blue League Runner-Up Jon
Moxley def. Gold League Winner Kyle Fletcher

Okada will await the winner of this match in the C2 Finals
later tonight. Don Callis had not returned to commentary
after walking out with the victorious Okada following the
previous match. Renee Paquette gave us a report and noted
that Fletcher didn’t even pay attention to the previous
match because he’s been so focused on studying and preparing
for Moxley.

Fletcher and Moxley had a brief exchange before Fletcher
bailed to the outside to taunt the crowd. He returned to the
ring only to dive right back out, but this time, an
impatient Moxley followed to attack from behind! Moxley beat
Fletcher around the ringside area, including slamming his
face into the announce table. When Moxley returned to the
ring, Fletcher was waiting with a bodyslam, as he was
clearly not fazed by Moxley’s relentless nature. Fletcher
turned up the intensity with stomps in the corner and chops
around the ring. Moxley came back with strikes in the corner
and threw Fletcher to the outside once again. Moxley sent
Fletcher into the barricade, who landed in a chair, so
Moxley booted the seated Fletcher. Fletcher fought back by
running Moxley into the barricade. Moxley came back and
climbed the steps, but Fletcher pulled them out, and Moxley
fell between the steps and the ring! 

Fletcher quickly pounced on the trapped Moxley and then hit
a running kick to the steel steps! And now Moxley’s injured
left ankle became Fletcher’s full focus, as he locked in a
reverse Indian death lock and snapped back on it to do
further damage. Fletcher was locked in a single crab, but
Moxley kicked free and nailed a cutter that sent Fletcher
sprawling to the floor. Moxley followed with a dive that may
have hurt him as much as it hurt Fletcher. Moxley threw
Fletcher back in, but Fletcher was waiting there with a
Michinoku Driver that earned a near-fall! Moxley cut off
Fletcher’s running boot attempt with a lariat. The two
traded lariats until Moxley hit a running clothesline,
putting Fletcher on the mat. 

Moxley kept pushing through his pain and hit a dropkick out
of the corner before mounting Fletcher in the opposite
corner for punches. Fletcher stopped the onslaught by
pushing Moxley over the top, which was a bad landing for the
already-injured ankle. Fletcher went to the apron and tried
a running kick, but Moxley caught it and flipped Fletcher
right onto the apron. Fletcher avoided a stomp and hit a
thrust kick before dropping Moxley on the corner of the ring
with a brainbuster! Moxley looks entirely out of it!

Fletcher was happy to take the countout, yet Moxley found a
way to get back in the ring to beat the count, only for
Fletcher to catch him for a Liger Bomb, but Moxley kicked
out at two! Fletcher went back to the single crab and
wrenched it back, but he went too far, and Moxley turned it
into a bulldog choke! Fletcher grabbed Moxley’s ankle to
escape and put on an ankle lock, which he contorted until
Moxley did everything he could to get to the ropes. And the
crowd roared in approval when he did! This crowd is chanting
“MOXLEY!” 

Fletcher stomped Mox in the corner and then put him on the
top turnbuckle. Moxley bit his way free and then went to the
mat and clipped Fletcher’s knee. Moxley grabbed a choke from
the top rope and then dropped Fletcher on his head with an
avalanche cutthroat suplex! That was a gnarly landing for
Fletcher. 

Moxley stomped Fletcher, but couldn’t get over to him right
away for a pin attempt. When he did, Fletcher got up at two
and then captured Moxley in a crucifix pin for a two-count.
Fletcher hit a thrust kick, a half-and-half, and a short-
range knee strike in quick succession that looked to end it…
MOX KICKED OUT AT 1!

Fletcher hit a running boot in the corner and a brainbuster,
yet Moxley found a way to kick out again! Fletcher tried to
gather himself and slapped Moxley in the back of the head,
so Moxley slapped his hand away and flipped Fletcher off.
Fletcher answered with a massive clothesline and went to the
corner in search of something in the turnbuckles, but
couldn’t find anything, as he was seemingly looking for the
screwdriver Okada used in the last match.

He gave up and went back to Moxley, who trapped him in a
small package for a two-count. Moxley was locked in a choke,
but Fletcher rolled over the top of him to get a nearfall.
Moxley hit a Paradigm Shift, but Fletcher kicked out! Moxley
hit a Death Rider, but Fletcher kicked out again! Moxley put
another choke on Fletcher, and Fletcher tried to muscle him
off, but he collapsed to the mat and appeared to be going
out. Referee Bryce Remsburg didn’t get a response from
Fletcher and called the match! Moxley wins by referee
stoppage and advances to the C2 finals against Okada.
Fletcher came to pretty quickly and argued with Remsburg
about the decision while Moxley celebrated. Fletcher clipped
Moxley’s knee out of frustration and left the ring. 

On commentary, Bryan Danielson said, “As much as I dislike
Jon Moxley, I find what Kyle Fletcher did reprehensible.”

AEW World Tag Team Championship Chicago Street Fight: FTR
(Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) (c) def. Bang Bang Gang
(Juice Robinson and Austin Gunn)

Gunn came to the ring with a kendo stick and trash can lid
strapped to his back for this Chicago Street Fight! The four
men faced off and immediately paired off at the bell.
Harwood and Robinson fought into the crowd while Gunn and
Wheeler fought up the ramp and onto the stage. Gunn sent
Wheeler face-first into the video screen and then slammed a
trash can over his head. Wheeler stopped a Gunn charge by
blasting him with the trash can and then blasted him again
to knock him down the aisle. Harwood brought Robinson back
into the ringside area as Big Stoke set up a table on the
floor. Robinson turned things around and got Harwood on the
table. Robinson scaled the top rope, but Wheeler knocked him
down from behind to save his partner. Wheeler followed with
an avalanche suplex. 

Gunn rolled in the ring and was immediately walloped by
Harwood with a trash can. Wheeler went to the second
turnbuckle and dropped the trash can across Gunn’s top half
as it was bent across Harwood’s knee. Harwood sent Gunn
head-first into a can lodged in the turnbuckles and tried to
set up a spike piledriver, but Robinson came back in to
shove Wheeler in the ring. Gunn clotheslined himself and
Wheeler over the top rope. Meanwhile, Robinson hit a frog
splash on Harwood, who was three-quarters of the way across
the ring! Robinson got a two-count, so he called for the
right jabs and set up for the Left Hand of God, so Harwood
stopped him, only for Robinson to come back with a
clothesline, side kick, and spinbuster to get another two-
count. 

On the outside, Wheeler pushed Gunn into the steel steps
before heading to the timekeeper’s area to grab one of the
AEW World Tag Team Championships. Before he could do
anything with it back in the ring, Robinson clotheslined
Wheeler over the top rope. That was enough time for Harwood
to grab the belt and crack Robinson in the head with it. On
the outside, Gunn fought back on Wheeler with the trash can
lid and then strapped it to his back to slam into Wheeler on
the ring post. He tried it again in front of the Spanish
announce desk, but Wheeler saw it and threw Robinson over
the table!

In the ring, Robinson was busted wide open from the shot
with the belt. Wheeler chopped Robinson’s knee, and then
Stoke held it as Wheeler dropped all his weight on it.
Harwood repeatedly targeted Robinson’s knee with a chair,
slamming it over and over. Robinson kicked Harwood into
Wheeler to escape a figure four and rolled up Harwood for a
two-count. Robinson peppered Harwood with punches until
Wheeler nailed Robinson in the back of the knee with a
chair. Wheeler came off the second with a leaping stomp to
Robinson’s knee, which allowed Harwood to lock in the figure
four. Gunn put a fire extinguisher in the ring, but Wheeler
saw him and dove through the ropes, sending both men through
a table propped up on the guardrail! Robinson remained in
the figure four until he was able to grab the fire
extinguisher and blast Harwood in the face to break the
hold! A left hook and the Juice is Loose looked like it
would be enough to put Harwood away, but Stoke tackled
referee Paul Turner! Robinson stopped Stoke from using a
chair, so Stoke bailed to the outside while Robinson wailed
away on both members of FTR with the chair. Robinson went
for the knockout blow on the downed Harwood, but Stoke
grabbed the chair from behind. Robinson used the chair to
push Stoke off the apron, over the table set up on the
floor, and headfirst into the base of the announce desk!

Harwood kicked Robinson low and hit a Shatter Machine, but
Gunn came out of nowhere to save Robinson at the last
moment! Gunn stopped a trash can attack by kicking Wheeler
in the groin. Gunn missed a Famouser attempt, which allowed
Harwood to hit a piledriver on a trash can. 1-2-GUNN KICKED
OUT!

Wheeler went to the second rope and nailed a stuff
piledriver on Gunn, but Harwood picked Gunn up again, and
they hit a second stuff piledriver on one of the titles!
Gunn was busted entirely open as he lay on the mat with
Harwood covering him for the win! FTR retains the AEW World
Tag Team Titles!

AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship Match: The Babes of
Wrath (Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale) (c) def. TBS
Champion Mercedes Moné & ROH Women’s World Champion Athena

Nightingale and Moné started things, but Moné ran over to
attack Cameron. Nightingale took that opportunity to hammer
Moné with repeated clotheslines in the corner. Cameron
tagged in and put Moné down with a knee strike and Russian
leg sweep. Nightingale and Cameron hit a double sidewalk
slam on Moné, but Athena made a blind tag. They took down
Babes of Wrath with a pair of diving strikes. On the
outside, Nightingale caught Moné and powerbombed her onto
the apron, but when she posed, Athena shot through the ropes
with a missile-like dive!  Cameron hit a crossbody from the
apron onto Athena, but she caught Cameron, only for
Nightingale to save Cameron with a spear on Athena!

Nightingale rolled in Athena to get a two-count, and Cameron
tagged back in, but a hair pull from Moné on the apron
allowed Athena to make the tag. They hit a
lungblower/backstabber combo and continue the quick tags in
their corner. Moné got a nearfall after a meteora. Athena
tagged in and hit a suplex for another two-count. Moné
tagged back in with another meteora in the corner and flying
knees onto Cameron, which still wasn’t enough to keep her
down.

Athena came back in to stay on Cameron, but she hit a DDT to
escape and made the tag to Willow! Moné tagged in and ran
right into Nightingale, who crushed Moné in the corner.
Athena made a blind tag just before Nightingale put Moné
down with a spinebuster. Athena pulled Nightingale off Moné
and then somehow avoided a Nightingale headscissors takeover
with a cartwheel! Athena got out of a Death Valley Driver by
landing on her feet and hitting a rebound German suplex on
Nightingale! Athena hoisted up Willow and slammed her face-
first across her knee, but it only got a two! Athena
celebrated for too long, which allowed Nightingale to pounce
her across the ring and tag Cameron back into the match. She
cleared house on Moné and Athena and went to the top, but
Moné came back in with a big boot. Moné and Athena met
Csmeron on the top to go for a double superplex, but
Nightingale ran over and powerbombed both Moné and Athena!
Cameron came off the top with a crossbody to take out both
opponents and then hit a very rare double crucifix for
another nearfall. 

Cameron tagged in Nightingale to hit the Sole Food/backdrop
combo on Athena, but Moné came in to make the save.
Nightingale slingshotted Athena into Cameron, but Athena
turned it into a stunner on Cameron! Moné hit a backstabber
on Willow right into the Statement Maker. Nightingale rolled
through it and broke it with a Death Valley Driver. Athena
tried to make the save on the pin attempt, but Nightingale
moved, and Moné got hit instead! Athena had Nightingale by
the waist, but when Moné charged, she took out Athena!
Nightingale stacked both of them up in the corner and hit a
splash, followed by a double clothesline. Nightingale went
to the top only for Athena to sweep her feet. Athena grabbed
Nightingale for a powerbomb while Moné jumped onto Athena to
hit a powerbomb/superplex combo! Athena drove Moné onto
Nightingale, and Cameron came back in to make the save for
her partner.

Athena had Cameron in trouble for a few seconds, but Cameron
took her out with a rolling neckbreaker. Moné took out
Cameron with the Moné Maker, but Nightingale was right there
to try for a Babe with the Powerbomb. Moné escaped, so
Nightingale rolled through with a backslide and trapped Moné
for the pin! The Babes of Wrath retain the AEW Women’s World
Tag Team Titles! Athena argued with Moné after the match as
the champions celebrated with the crowd!

Darby Allin def. Gabe Kidd

Allin attacked Kidd as soon as he entered the ring with a
dropkick, but Kidd fought through it and slapped Allin off
the top rope, with his head hitting the apron on the way
down. On the outside, Kidd sent Allin flying into the
guardrail, but missed a charge. Allin quickly returned to
the ring to hit a missile dive onto Kidd! Allin slammed
Kidd’s head into the guardrail over and over before
returning to the ring to break the count. When he came back
out, Kidd lifted Allin and ran him into the timekeeper’s
area! Kidd put Allin under the steel steps and slingshotted
him into the steel!

It didn’t take long to see Allin was bleeding from the head
as he returned to the ring, which Kidd took advantage of
with a charging headbutt! Kidd bounced Allin off the
ringpost and back to the outside with a sickening thud. Kidd
took a second to put some of Allin’s blood on his face
before an elbow strike. Kidd missed a chair shot to Allin,
so Allin dropkicked the chair into Kidd’s head. Now, it was
Kidd who has been busted open by unforgiving steel. Allin
sat Kidd in a chair on the floor and came off the top with a
dropkick!

Back in the ring, Kidd stopped a charging Allin with a big
boot followed by a huge shotgun dropkick to send Allin
flying into the turnbuckles. Kidd punished Allin with more
strikes and tried for a piledriver from the second rope, but
Allin escaped with a bite to the head and deep back rakes.
He hit an avalanche code red for a two-count, so he went
back to the top and connected with a Coffin Drop. Kidd
rolled to the outside, so Allin went back to the top again
and hit another Coffin Drop to Kidd on the floor!

Allin threw Kidd back in and got a two-count, but
immediately picked Kidd up into a Scorpion Death Drop and
then locked in the Scorpion Death Lock, but Allin slumped
forward and had to let go of the hold. Kidd hung onto
Allin’s fingers so he could hit a headbutt, flying lariat,
and a piledriver, but somehow Allin kicked out! Kidd got
back on Allin with clubbing strikes and tried to lock in a
rear-naked choke, but Allin reversed the momentum and
captured Kidd on the mat for a three count! Allin wins!

Mixed Nuts Mayhem Match: Roderick Strong, “Timeless” Toni
Storm & The Conglomeration’s Orange Cassidy and TNT Champion
Mark Briscoe def. Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli, Daniel
Garcia, Wheeler Yuta and Marina Shafir)

This will be fought under tornado tag rules, so all eight
competitors struck at the bell! Storm quickly dropkicked
Shafir and mounted her in the corner for 10 punches, but
when she came down, Yuta threw her to the outside! The crowd
did not like that at all.

Briscoe took up the cause against Yuta and controlled him in
the corner, but when he was sent to the ropes, Briscoe took
the opportunity to hit a somersault dive onto Garcia on the
floor! Strong came in to hit a fireman’s carry slam on Yuta,
only to be immediately floored by a Castagnoli uppercut. He
continued the assault on Strong with boots in the corner,
but Strong came back with a jumping side kick followed by
chops in the corner. Garcia threw Strong out, so he had to
deal with Cassidy, who taunted Garcia with his old dance.
Garcia tried a choke, and Cassidy turned it into a Stundog
Millionaire. 

Cassidy mounted Garcia in the corner for exactly one punch
and then faced off with Shafir. She put her hands in her
back pockets while Cassidy had his in front. She did his
kicks, but with a bit more force, and then tripped him. He
avoided a kick, and Shafir charged, so Cassidy backdropped
her over the top. Cassidy dropkicked Garcia off the apron,
only to be attacked by Yuta and Castagnoli. All four Death
Riders took turns clobbering Cassidy in the corner until
Strong came in, but he was quickly subdued and then held for
chops by Shafir. Strong got the same treatment as Cassidy in
the corner until Briscoe came in. He suffered the same fate
as the Death Riders, who are in total control. Briscoe was
put across the second rope, but before Shafir could do any
more damage, Storm came in to cut her off.

Storm got Shafir down on the apron and nailed a hip attack
to send Shafir to the floor. Castagnoli immediately grabbed
Storm, but Briscoe made the save and lit up Castagnoli with
punches. Then, Storm and Briscoe sent Castagnoli into the
ropes and took him down with dual shoulder blocks. A
handshake between the two allowed Storm to propel Briscoe
through the ropes onto Castagnoli on the floor! 

Garcia tried to piledrive Storm, so Cassidy pulled Garcia
off with a sunset flip. Storm spun Cassidy into a back elbow
to take out Garcia, and then Cassidy did the same with Storm
into Shafir. Storm and Cassidy did a slow dance, but Yuta
tried to attack, so they hit a double-hip toss and returned
to their dance. Yuta came back after them, so Storm dipped
Cassidy into a boot on Yuta! The dance of Freshly Timeless
was ended by Shafir, who kicked Cassidy and clotheslined
Storm. Storm reversed a whip into a German suplex and tried
a hip attack in the corner, but Shafir bailed to the
outside. Castagnoli charged for an uppercut on Storm, but
she escaped in time and hit a double axehandle to Shafir
from the apron. 

Back in the ring, Cassidy hit Castagnoli with a Stundog
Millionaire for a two-count, so Briscoe came off the top
with a Froggy Bow. Yuta and Garcia immediately swarmed
Briscoe with punches and kicks until he rolled out. They did
the same to Strong and then to Cassidy, but didn’t advance
any further when Storm got back in the ring. She pushed
Garcia into Yuta and nailed a German suplex on Garcia and
then another on Yuta. Shafir came back in and sent Storm
into the corner and boxed her ears. Storm came back with The
Big Package, but Castagnoli broke it up by hoisting Storm
from the mat and depositing her on the top rope. She slapped
him in the face and hit a tornado DDT, but when she
rebounded off the ropes, he grabbed her and executed the
swing! Strong took out Castagnoli with a knee strike, only
to be confronted by Shafir!

Shafir immediately kicked Strong, so he responded with a
chop to her back. Garcia pushed Strong out of the ring and
turned into an Orange Punch! A woozy Garcia walked right
into a Storm Zero and rolled out of the ring. Yuta grabbed
Storm by the hair, but another Orange Punch saved her. Storm
nailed Yuta with a hip attack as Cassidy dove to the outside
to take out Castagnoli. Briscoe hit Yuta with a Jay Driller
to get the pinfall for his team!

After the match, the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions,
Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron, came out to celebrate
with The Conglomeration, Strong and Storm. Mina Shirakawa
and Luther soon joined them! Shirakawa leapt into Storm’s
arms, and when she was done, Cassidy did the same. And that
is what Mixed Nuts Mayhem is all about.

Mercedes Moné Sends a Direct Message to Willow Nightingale

As Lexy Nair waited outside Moné’s locker room, the TBS
Champion stormed past her and had a tantrum that a mirror
didn’t survive. She attempted to calm herself to speak to
Nair, but got riled up again when Nair insinuated that 2025
hadn’t been so good to Moné. Moné ran through her
accomplishments, but was clearly getting angrier as Nair
reminded her that she had been pinned by Nightingale earlier
tonight. Moné didn’t want to hear about Willow and then
directed her final comments at Nightingale directly when she
said this week on Dynamite at New Year’s Smash, she’s going
to beat her f****** ass! Moné returned to her locker room
and was heard screaming once again.

AEW Women’s World Championship Match: Kris Statlander (c)
def. Jamie Hayter

Statlander frustrated Hayter early, but she quickly
recovered as they traded reversals until Hayter dropped
Statlander with a shoulder tackle. Statlander got back up
and returned the favor. The two went to a stalemate, and it
turned into strikes, but Statlander caught Hayter in the
ropes with a cutter, followed by a leg drop onto Hayter
across the apron. Statlander tried a shooting star press to
the floor, but Hayter moved, and Statlander landed on her
feet! She sent Hayter into the steel steps with a slingshot
and posed for the crowd.

Back in the ring, Statlander got the first pin attempt of
the match, which earned a two. Statlander sent Hayter chest-
first into the ropes and followed with a suplex and a splash
from the second rope for a near-fall. Hayter turned things
around by reversing Statlander in the corner with an elbow,
followed by chops. Statlander came back with a body slam,
but missed a second splash attempt. Hayter clotheslined Stat
over the top onto the floor, but celebrated too soon, and
Statlander pulled her to the floor. They fought onto the
Spanish announce desk, where Hayter came off with a dropkick
to Statlander!

Hayter fed off the crowd and nailed a dropkick from the
second rope, followed by a big lariat in the corner for a
near fall. Hayter slowed Statlander down with a rear
chinlock, but Stat fought out and nailed a kick combo with a
head-first snapmare into the mat. Statlander hit a running
knee to Hayter in the corner, followed by a spinning
brainbuster that got another near fall. The two decided to
test each other’s power with significant strikes, but Hayter
took control with a neckbreaker and a sliding lariat, only
for Statlander to kick out again. Hayter and Statlander
wound up on the top rope, where Hayter nailed an avalanche
exploder suplex, but Statlander still kicked out. Statlander
turned things back around with a package piledriver, but
Hayter was the one to kick out.

Statlander went to the top, so Hayter met her there and
mounted her for punches, but Statlander escaped and nailed
an avalanche fisherman’s driver! Statlander didn’t go for
the cover and instead picked up Hayter for Statlander’s
version of Hayterade, but she missed, and Hayter dumped
Statlander on her head, which only got a two count. Hayter
picked up Statlander for Hayterade, so the champion dropped
to her feet to avoid it and then nailed Hayter with a thrust
kick. They traded kicks until Hayter hit a backbreaker, and
Statlander came back with a suplex to keep both women down
until they fought up from their knees. 

Statlander survived a strike battle and spat in Hayter’s
face. Stat blocked Hayterade and then hit one of her own.
She picked up Hayter for Staturday Night Fever, but Hayter
reversed it and hit her own version of the move! Both women
stayed down again until Statlander came spinning out of the
corner, right into a big lariat from Hayter. Statlander was
able to roll off Hayter’s back to hit Staturday Night Fever
to get the pinfall win and retain the AEW Women’s World
Championship!

Continental Classic Finals: Jon Moxley def. AEW Unified
Champion Kazuchika Okada

Before the match began, Don Callis said Okada was going to
be the first to repeat as Continental Classic Champion. He
said he tried to play nice with Moxley, but he still
remembers what Moxley did to him three years ago, as he
pointed to the scar on his forehead. Okada said Moxley has
accomplished a lot, but he can’t beat the greatest
tournament wrestler, bitch.

We also heard comments from Moxley after his earlier win. He
said he had heard about Okada for years and that Okada is at
the top of the food chain. Okada is the kind of wrestler a
guy like Moxley isn’t supposed to beat. He said the
Continental Classic is the kind of thing you dream about as
a kid because you get to lace up your boots and fight to be
the best every night. Mox told Okada he’d have to kill him
to beat him.

Both men have been to the C2 Finals before, as Moxley lost
in the inaugural finals to Eddie Kingston in 2023, and Okada
beat Will Ospreay to win the C2 last year. 

In the opening minutes, Moxley and Okada traded some
showmanship with middle fingers, but we saw Moxley’s ankle
injury come back into play when Okada swept his leg. Moxley
went outside. Okada escaped a full Nelson and went back to
Moxley’s ankle, so Moxley ripped at Okada’s eyes. Okada
picked the ankle again and dropped elbows until Moxley
punched his way loose. Moxley missed a charge in the corner,
so Okada put him on the top turnbuckle and nailed a dropkick
that sent Moxley to the floor, although his ankle got tied
up in the ropes on the way down!

Okada beat Moxley around the ringside area, but Moxley
chopped some distance between the two so he could get in the
ring. However, Okada was right there to stay on top of him,
and the two began a heavy strike battle, but Moxley couldn’t
put much on his leg because of the injury and collapsed to
the mat. Okada put a variation of the figure four on Moxley,
so Moxley headbutted his way loose. Moxley pushed Okada in
the face out of defiance, so Okada dropped him with a DDT.
Okada continued to pick apart Moxley at his speed with a
back elbow and a springboard senton. Okada nailed a
neckbreaker over his knee to get another nearfall on Moxley.
Okada went to the top and hit a beautiful elbow. Okada
flipped off the crowd and lowered the finger to Moxley, so
Mox grabbed it, and Okada escaped only for Moxley to nail a
lariat. Moxley unloaded on Okada with forearms, and Moxley
went to a figure four, but Okada made it to the ropes to
break it.

Moxley staggered around on his bad ankle, so Okada went
after it with two dragon screws, followed by a Texas
Cloverleaf. Moxley had to get up on his elbows just to make
it to the ropes. Okada punished Moxley in the corner, then
sent him to the opposite side, but Moxley reversed it and
then had Okada up for another neckbreaker. Moxley escaped
and dropped Okada on his neck with a Gotch-style piledriver!
Okada kicked out at two, so Moxley immediately went to the
Bulldog choke until Okada seemed to be going out, which gave
Moxley the chance to try the Paradigm Shift, but Okada
escaped and nearly ran Moxley into the referee in the
corner. With the referee out of position, Okada caught
Moxley with a low blow and the Rainmaker! He covered Moxley,
but the former AEW World Champion kicked out at two!

Okada went to the floor and grabbed the AEW Continental
Championship, but the referee caught him and grabbed the
title. That gave Moxley the chance to low blow Okada! The
two wound up back in the middle, and the strikes were heavy
but deliberate. Then it escalated to a much faster pace,
with Okada hitting a dropkick. Moxley got right back up!
Okada grabbed Moxley for a Rainmaker and hit it! He held on
for another, so Moxley kicked the arm away and nailed a
Paradigm Shift! Okada kicked out! 

Moxley went back to the choke, and Okada escaped to go for
another Rainmaker. Moxley avoided it and hit one of his own!
He booted Okada and hit another Paradigm Shift, but Okada
kicked out at one! Moxley stomped Okada’s head into the mat
and grabbed him for the Death Rider, which spiked Okada on
his head! Moxley makes the cover and gets the three count!
Moxley wins the Continental Classic and is the new AEW
Continental Champion. For the first time in 647 days,
someone other than Okada is the Continental Champion. This
also means Okada is no longer the AEW Unified Champion, as
he only holds the AEW International Championship.

While Tony Schiavone came into the ring to interview Moxley,
the rest of the Death Riders came out to celebrate.
Schiavone ran through all of Moxley’s accomplishments,
including tonight’s win, but Moxley took the mic and said to
hell with all that. He held up the Continental Championship
and said it doesn’t belong to him. It belongs to everyone in
the Continental Classic who came out every night and busted
their ass. It belongs to the fans who support pro wrestling.
He owes it to them and his teammates. He said they are the
hardest-working professional wrestlers in the world, not
just the people standing in the ring with him, but everyone
who had the balls to get in the ring at the Continental
Classic. 

“Everybody in AEW who shows up every single f****** day and
gives everything they have. I will continue, we will
continue to give every single bit of effort we have in our
bones every single day because there is no other
organization in professional wrestling like All Elite
Wrestling. And we want to be the elite of the elite in All
Elite Wrestling, so we give 100 goddamn every single time
because that is what my teammates, what the fans, and what
this job deserves.”

AEW World Championship 4-Way Match: MJF def. Samoa Joe (c)
vs. “Hangman” Adam Page vs. Swerve Strickland

At the bell, all four men went at it, with Page quickly
sending both MJF and Joe to the outside. Joe came back and
punished Page in the corner before sending MJF off the apron
back to the floor. Swerve came in and booted Joe in the face
out of the ring. MJF avoided Swerve and did his dance before
mocking him and the crowd. MJF pretended to clap along as he
hit the ropes, only to hit Swerve in the face with his
crotch. He took much time enjoying his work, so Swerve
booted him in the face and hit an elbow to his back from the
second rope before giving MJF a taste of his own medicine
with a crotch bump.

Swerve moonsaulted over the top onto MJF, but Joe came
through to take out Swerve. Page then came off the top with
a moonsault to take out everyone! Back in the ring, MJF
tried for the Heat Seeker, but Swerve avoided it and sent
MJF to the floor. Swerve followed with a stomp from the
apron and returned to the ring. Hangman rolled over Joe’s
back for a modified Buckshot Lariat to send him to the
floor!

That left just Swerve and Hangman in the ring, which brought
the crowd to their feet! The two rivals took a second to
grasp the magnitude of the situation, then teed off on each
other! That turned into a flurry of reversals because they
know each other so well, until Swerve hit Hangman with a
Dead Eye! Page counted the House Call with a lariat and
nailed a Buckshot Lariat on Swerve, but Joe came in to make
the save for his title. With Swerve and Hangman battling on
the top rope, Joe powerbombed them off onto MJF. Joe then
tried to pin all three men, but it only got him a trio of
two-counts. He had Swerve up for a Muscle Buster, but Swerve
escaped and dropped MJF to send him back to the outside.

Swerve hit an impressive German suplex on Joe to send him to
the floor. He put his focus back on Page and hoisted him
into a big powerslam for a near-fall. Page escaped Swerve by
backing him into the corner, which was followed by a splash
from Joe on Swerve when Page moved. Page suplexed Joe and
clotheslined MJF over the top rope. Page nailed Angel’s
Wings on Swerve and appeared to be setting up for a Buckshot
Lariat, but instead hit a moonsault to MJF on the floor. He
went back up for a Buckshot, but Swerve ducked, and Page
turned it into a Liger bomb for a two-count. Joe came back
in and put Page in the corner, but Page fought his way out
with a big boot to knock Joe to the mat. 

MJF stopped a Page charge with a back elbow and stomped on
his arm from the second rope and ran across the ring to boot
a sitting Joe. MJF turned his attention to Swerve and nailed
an Alabama Slam, followed by an armdrag into Joe. MJF
avoided a Buckshot from Hangman, but then Hangman avoided a
Heat Seeker. MJF nailed a slingshot cutter on Page to get a
nearfall, so he immediately locked in Salt of the Earth. Joe
put the Coquina Clutch on Swerve, so MJF had to let go of
Page to stop Joe. MJF tried to put Salt of the Earth on Joe,
but Joe rolled through and got the Coquina Clutch on MJF! As
the third arm was about to go down, Swerve broke it up with
a House Call on Joe! MJF cut Swerve off with a thumb to the
eye and celebrated a little too early, so Page booted him
and took a swing at Swerve. Swerve came back with one of his
own, and then the two kicked away a charging MJF. Joe tried
to clothesline Page and Swerve, but they ducked it and
knocked him to the mat with a pair of boots. Then, Swerve
put Page down with a spin kick, and all four men were down!
And the crowd rose to their feet!

Swerve went at MJF, but was stopped, and MJF hit a Panama
Sunrise for a nearfall! Page dropped MJF with a Dead Eye to
get another two-count, so he rolled to the apron for another
Buckshot attempt, only for Joe to knock him to the floor.
Swerve nailed Joe with a DDT, which must have scared The
Opps because Powerhouse Hobbs, Katsuyori Shibata, and HOOK
ran down to attack and help Joe. Joe hit Page with a Muscle
Buster, but he kicked out at two! Referee Bryce Remsburg
tried to regain order as The Opps backed Prince Nana up the
ramp, but Swerve came flying off the top with a stomp to
Shibata and Hobbs! Page got out of Joe’s Coquina Clutch and
turned his attention to HOOK on the apron. That allowed Joe
to lock it back in, so Swerve came off the top with a stomp
to Joe! Swerve and Joe fought on the top rope until Swerve
powerbombed Joe out of the corner. Swerve went back to the
top, only for MJF to push him down to the floor and off the
commentary desk! Page ran down the apron with a big boot to
knock MJF to the ground. 

Hangman measured Joe for a Buckshot Lariat and hit it! He
went to the opposite side for another, and that connected.
He went to the third side, but on his way down, MJF
connected with a low blow! MJF quickly ran over to Joe on
the apron and hit the Heat Seeker to get the pinfall! MJF IS
THE NEW AEW WORLD CHAMPION! MJF celebrated as our night came
to a Worlds End!

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