AEW Revolution 2025
March 9, 2025
Crypto.com Arena
Los Angeles, California
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Meet our reviewer:
Sean Sedor: As is the case pretty much every time he’s on one of these Sunday PPV reviews, Sean is coming into this show right after the end of a NASCAR race (this time at Phoenix Raceway). You can find Sean on Twitter @SASedor2994 and on BlueSky @sasedor2994.bsky.social. If you’re interested in some of Sean’s other escapades, you can watch him play the Formula 1 games on YouTube (just search his name and you’ll find the channel), and you can also go to the Be The Booker forums if you’d like to check out Sean’s EWR Diary, where he plays as WCW (started in 1998, currently in August of 2003).
AEW Revolution 2025 Zero Hour
Hologram & Komander def. Blake Christian & Lee Johnson
Interesting that Lee Johnson isn’t teaming up with his regular tag team partner EJ Nduka. As for Blake Christian, he’s worked in Tony Khan’s ROH sporadically since 2022, but I believe this is the first time he’s been featured on an AEW PPV pre-show (I am sure someone will check cagematch to see if I’m wrong). Christian and Johnson jumped the babyface side to get this one started, but it didn’t take long for Hologram and Komander to respond with some high-flying offense. The heel side took control after Christian connected with a splash while (I think) Komander was draped on the top rope. The action from there was going along nicely until Christian and Hologram (pretty badly) botched a poison rana on the apron. Fortunately, they did manage to recover from that mishap, and the team of Hologram and Komander ultimately picked up the win. Even with that botch, I still thought this was a very entertaining match for the time they were given. Hologram and Komander have a lot of potential as a tag team. ***1/4
AEW Revolution 2025 Zero Hour
Daniel Garcia & Undisputed Kingdom (Adam Cole Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong) def. Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor Lee Moriarty & The Infantry)
So the NASCAR race at Phoenix just ended as the entrances for this match were happening (Christopher Bell won his third race in row in a pretty wild finish). The fact that you’ve got guys like Daniel Garcia, Adam Cole, Roderick Strong, and Kyle O’Reilly wrestling on the pre-show is just another example of how absolutely loaded this AEW roster is. The babyface side actually had control of this one early, but that soon changed after Shane Taylor ran through them on the floor (Braun Strowman style). STP then worked over Garcia for a few minutes until he managed to pick up Taylor for a big back suplex. The rest of Undisputed Kingdom ran wild from there, and Garcia scored the submission win after getting one of members of The Infantry to tap out to the Dragon Tamer. Cole and Garcia had a staredown after the match (so I would presume that rematch for the TNT Title is coming). Meanwhile, The Opps were watching the match from one of the sky boxes, probably teasing trios matches with some of the teams involved in this one. Another solid match on this Zero Hour that served its purpose well enough. ***1/4
AEW Revolution 2025 Zero Hour
ROH World Title
Chris Jericho (c) vs. Gravity – Never Took Place
Gravity was actually one of the names that was released by AEW last Spring, but he showed back up recently, and was scheduled to get a shot at the ROH World Title as part of the feud his brother (Bandido) is having with Chris Jericho and the rest of The Learning Tree. However, the match never got started as Jericho attacked Gravity with his baseball bat before the bell. Bandido and Gravity were then summarily beaten down by The Learning Tree while their mother and sister were forced to watch. This assault ended with Jericho stealing Gravity’s mask and threatening the rest of the family. A really heated angle that did a very good job setting up another ROH World Title match with Jericho and Bandido (I’m actually a little surprised at just how involved the mother and sister were). Part of me feels like Jericho took The Learning Tree winning Worst Gimmick in the 2024 Observer Awards personally, because ever since then, they’ve deliberately toned down the more comedic aspects of the stable for a more serious approach (which I’m not going to complain about whatsoever). The original match between Bandido and Jericho on Collision a few weeks ago was one of Jericho’s best matches in the last few months, and with this angle heating things up, I’m actually super intrigued to see what they could do in the rematch.
AEW Revolution 2025 Zero Hour
Big Boom AJ & The Conglomeration (Mark Briscoe & Orange Cassidy) def. Johnny TV & MxM Collection
Not only are The Costco Guys back, but so is THE RIZZLER, who came out with Orange Cassidy….while also being dressed up like Orange Cassidy. That actually got a good chuckle out of me, I’m not going to lie. On the whole, this was a pretty entertaining match for what it was. Nothing fancy here by any means, but everyone involved played their respective roles perfectly. My stance on Big Boom AJ wrestling in AEW is that as long as he’s contained to these PPV pre-shows, his presence doesn’t bother me too much. I would honestly prefer situations like this where he’s contained to tag team matches over singles matches (even though his match with QT Marshall at Full Gear was a fun one to watch in the building). The last part of the match was focused on AJ, and after Big Justice snuck in to give Mason Madden a powerbomb, the babyface side got the win after a triple powerbomb from AJ and The Conglomeration. The post-match saw the Murder Machines come out, but Powerhouse Hobbs prevented them from getting involved. After he took out Madden with a spinebuster, Adam DeVine and Tony Cavalero (from the MAX Series Righteous Gemstones) got in the ring and gave Mansoor a double chokeslam. ***
Hangman” Adam Page def. MJF
MJF teased the crowd a bit by having Hangman’s old music play before he came out. These two didn’t waste any time as they started throwing hands as soon as the bell rang. MJF would quickly find an opening to go after the eyes, and followed up with an insane powerbomb onto his knee (it still amazes me that MJF doesn’t just kill his knee doing that move). MJF’s arrogance catches up with him, as it allows Hangman to get his first big shots of the match in with a high cross to the floor and a moonsault to the floor.
Back in the ring, and both men continue to trade some big moves, with MJF hitting a cradle DDT (MJF is pretty underrated in terms of some of the things he can pull off in the ring), while Hangman responded with a Deadeye and Buckshot Lariat (the latter would’ve gotten the win had MJF not gotten a foot on the bottom rope). MJF was able to avoid a charging Hangman on the floor (Hangman ended up sending himself into the steel steps), and followed up with submissions in the ring to work over the injured arm and shoulder. After giving Hangman a freaking tombstone piledriver onto an open chair on the floor (an absolutely crazy spot), MJF nearly had the match won, but Hangman just managed to beat the ten count. Hangman would respond with a beautiful counter of the Heatseeker into the Deadeye, and then followed up with an Angel’s Wings and a Buckshot Lariat.
While I don’t think this was as strong as the matches Page had with Jay White on PPV last year, this was a great way to kick off the show. MJF was excellent in his role as the cocky, arrogant asshole (as he always is), while Page gets a much needed win on PPV (he had actually lost his last three PPV matches in a row). I’m curious to see whether this feud continues beyond this show. Hangman got the win pretty decisively, but I don’t believe MJF is just going to move from this one. Before I move on, I just want to say (like I did on Twitter) how awesome it was that they got Bullet With A Name by Nonpoint (a song from the SmackDown vs. RAW 2007 soundtrack) for the video package for this feud. That was awesome, and this match was pretty awesome. ****
AEW TBS Title
Mercedes Moné (c) def. Momo Watanabe
This is not the first time that these two have met, as Mercedes actually retained the NJPW Strong Women’s Title against Momo on New Japan’s Capital Collision show in Washington, D.C. last August. After the initial opening exchange (which did feature a few rough spots here and there), Mercedes gained the advantage after a Meteora with Momo in the ropes and (after a fun battle for position on the apron) a nasty powerbomb on the floor. The crowd seemed pretty dead for the first few minutes of this one, but (of all things) a Three Amigos reversal from Momo managed to wake the crowd up a little bit. From there, Momo had a sustained run of offense with some hard kicks in the corner and a brutal Meteora off the second turnbuckle onto the apron. At this point, the crowd seemed to finally get into this one. Mercedes nearly won the match after a Statement Maker and Powerbomb, but Momo responded with an INSANE Super Uranagi off the top rope, the Peach Sunrise, and some more absolutely nasty kicks.
Mercedes managed to survive all of that, and connected with a Moné Maker before getting Momo to tap out to the Statement Maker. This was nowhere near as good as any of the matches Mercedes had with Kris Statlander, but it did remind me of the Full Gear match in the sense that it took them a long time before they finally got the crowd into it. This was trending towards being a really disappointing match in the first half (I would guess a big reason why they were so quiet was that they weren’t very familiar with Momo and thought she had almost no chance of winning), but they managed to turn it around and ultimately gave us a pretty good title bout when it was all over. That being said, I would still say their aforementioned Capital Collision bout was easily the best of their two meetings. This was far below the best matches that Mercedes has had in this run over the last several months, but certainly not the weakest. ***1/2
#1 Contender’s Match
Swerve Strickland def. Ricochet
Ricochet came out with his logo on the back of the Embassy robe that he stole from Swerve and Nana. As for Swerve, he had a….very strange entrance as a drummer (I’m sure he’s famous, but I had no idea who it was) played along to his entrance song. I have to say that this drummer sounded totally out of sync with the rest of the song, which actually detracted from the entrance. Swerve was in complete control during the first few minutes, but after things spilled out to the floor, Swerve ended up accidentally shoving down Prince Nana, who then walked out on Swerve as Ricochet went on the offensive with an awesome kick after tightrope walking on the barricade.
While he was beating down on Swerve, Ricochet decided to jaw-jack with Leslie Jones for some reason. They continued to show her as Swerve started mounting a comeback, which got cut short with a Ricochet poison rana on the apron. He then tried something on the Spanish Announce Desk, but Swerve countered with an INSANE Vertabreaker on the desk, which did not break! That was crazy. Ricochet would respond with a 630 Splash in the ring, but Swerve kicked out. Nana returning to steal the rope would lead to Ricochet taking him out with a dive AND dropping Swerve on his head on the floor with a Death Valley Driver. A tug-of-war for the robe led to some more nearfalls, but after hitting Big Pressure, Swerve finally put Ricochet down for the count. Swerve is now the #1 Contender for the AEW World Title. This looked a little shaky in the first few minutes, but they turned it around quickly and put together an excellent match. I will always love people busting out the Vertabreaker (one of my favorite moves in all of wrestling), and some of those exchanges in the second half were absolutely insane. I wasn’t too sure how this Ricochet heel run was going to go when it first started (especially since it was a little cartoonish to start), but ever since the scissor attack back in January, he’s really come into his own in this character, and this was easily his best overall performance in the ring since the heel turn. An awesome match from start to finish that will (I would presume) set up Swerve as the title challenger for the Dynasty PPV in April (a show which I will be at in Philadelphia). Swerve gave the Embassy robe back to Nana as the two celebrated the win. ****1/2
AEW Continental Title
Kazuchika Okada (c) def. Brody King
Okada’s closing in on one year as the AEW Continental Champion (only a few weeks away), but he’ll need to get through Brody King (who’s wearing some new gear tonight) before he can reach his milestone. I bet most of you probably don’t remember that Brody actually wrestled Okada in a tag team in Sumo Hall back at the 2019 Best Of The Super Juniors Finals? Fun fact of the day for you. Brody was in control in the early moments of this one until Okada avoided a running corner splash on the outside, and followed up with a DDT on the floor. Despite taking that DDT on the floor, Brody was quick to respond with more hard chops and a big superplex. Brody piled on more offense as he did manage to hit that running corner splash on the floor.
Every time Okada seemed to find an opening, Brody would quickly close it. After Brody hit a Death Valley Driver and a Cannonball in the corner, Okada once again found an opening on the floor, and managed to get a belt shot in while the referee was distracted, but that only got a two count. Brody managed to counter one lariat, but he couldn’t avoid a second one, and Okada retained his title. That was a total blast to watch. Brody King is such a cool wrestler. He just beats the absolute crap out of people, and that’s exactly what he did here. It was actually pretty interesting to see Brody take (what seemed like) 90% of the match. Okada got absolutely punished in this one, but he did just enough to survive. I did like the fact that, while he did try to cheat, Okada did get a relatively clean win in the end. Here’s to hoping that Brody gets a singles championship at some point in this company. ****
AEW World Tag Team Titles
The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin with MVP) (c) def. The Outrunners
Since the NASCAR race at Phoenix bled into the Zero Hour, I hadn’t actually had the chance to have anything for dinner. So I decided to scarf down some leftover penne while I watched what was easily the worst match of the night so far. The idea of The Outrunners challenging for the titles at all is whatever, but the booking of this match was all wrong. You could’ve given The Outrunners some hope spots here and there, but this should’ve been an easy squash for The Hurt Syndicate. Instead, the match dragged on for WAAAAAY longer than it needed to go, and The Outrunners (for some reason) held their own against a team that (thus far) has looked incredibly dominant in AEW. I guess they must’ve felt that The Outrunners were too popular to get totally squashed, but when you’ve got a dominant powerhouse team on the other side, you quickly realize that this match shouldn’t have been booked at all. The Murder Machines should’ve won the #1 Contender’s Match on TV, and they should’ve had a five-minute sprint here with The Hurt Syndicate that consisted of four big dudes throwing bombs. Instead, we got whatever the heck this match was. *
AEW Women’s World Title – The Hollywood Ending
“Timeless” Toni Storm (c) def. Mariah May
So this match was absolutely bonkers. There were Hollywood themed props on the stage, and they didn’t even wait to get in the ring, as the match kicked off with the two brawling on the stage. Luther got taken out by Mariah, and this brawling on the stage ended with Toni sending Mariah off the stage through a series of tables on the floor.
Once they got to the ring, this got even more brutal and even more violent. After Mariah gave Toni the Storm Zero on the steps, Toni got busted open, and she absolutely bled BUCKETS. We’re talking going a full ten on the Great Muta/Jay Briscoe scale here. Her face was absolutely covered in blood. The ol’ Crimson Mask as Jim Ross would say. If you thought that was crazy, it got even crazier. The two of them each taped their fists, dipped their fists in broken glass, and went to town on each other. Taipei Deathmatch Style. Toni was just an absolute mess at this point, and Mariah was starting to catch up to her on that front, as she was bleeding pretty heavily as well.
They eventually made their way back to the stage, and Toni did to Mariah what Mariah did to her many months ago. She whipped her with the AEW Women’s World Title belt, stabbed her with the shoe (after Mariah got one last May Day in), and delivered a Storm Zero through a table to finally end this fourteen month long story. I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect with this one, but it absolutely blew away my expectations. This was absolutely outstanding. Say what you will about the feud, and the Timeless Toni Storm character, and Mariah May’s title reign, but when it came time for the final blow off, these two busted their asses and absolutely delivered. I’ve said this many times before, and I’ll continue to say it, because it’s absolutely true. The trademark of the AEW women’s division are these bloody and violent death matches. Whether it’s the Britt Baker/Thunder Rosa Light’s Out Match during the Pandemic Era in Daily’s Place, the Tag Team Street Fight on the 2021 New Year’s Eve Rampage, the Kris Statlander vs. Willow Chicago Street Fight from last year’s All Out, or any others that I don’t have time to list now, the women on the AEW roster always find a way to deliver in these matches, especially if it’s in a big spot. I’m happy to say that Toni Storm and Mariah May carried on that legacy with their Hollywood Ending. As iconic as that aforementioned Baker/Rosa match was, and as much I loved that Statlander/Willow match, this might take the top spot as the best women’s hardcore match in AEW history. The sheer amount of blood we got here just makes it so memorable, and puts it over the top for me. It’s also the kind of match that you will never (and I mean NEVER) see the women in WWE do. If you put the women of AEW in a hardcore match, and put it in a big spot, it’s almost a lock that they’ll knock it out of the park, and that’s exactly what Toni and Mariah did there. This was a must-see match that will definitely be in my top ten come Match Of The Year time. *****
AEW International Title
Kenny Omega def. Konosuke Takeshita (c)
I got to see this match in-person back at All Out 2023, and it was a pretty awesome match. Given how amazing these two guys are, I’m fully expecting them to have another excellent match here. After the initial opening flurry of offense from Omega, Takeshita took control of the match and started working over the midsection. A big moment that was part of Takeshita working over the midsection saw him send Omega flying off one barricade into another barricade gut-first (after Kenny had tried to go for a moonsault).
As expected, the action picked up as Omega started to fight back. After the action once again spilled out to the floor, Omega turned over a table that Takeshita had set up a little earlier. While that did get some boos from the crowd, it did lead to two absolutely sick spots where Takeshita dropped Omega gut-first on the overturned table (first when it was completely upside down, and then again with the table on its side). The two continued to go back-and-forth in the ring, and after being on the receiving end of a big Blue Thunder Bomb and a hard lariat to the floor, Omega responded with a Springboard Sunset Flip Powerbomb to Takeshita. We would get a quick response from Takeshita with a Tombstone Piledriver and a Bastard Driver….and a hard knee strike! Omega survived all of that, and his kickouts brought the crowd in Los Angeles to their feet.
More back-and-forth striking followed, and after attempted interference from Don Callis was thwarted, a series of pin exchanges followed, and Takeshita got caught! Kenny Omega is the next AEW International Champion! A bit of an anticlimactic ending to a match that, otherwise, was downright incredible (as expected). Omega is continuing to prove that, despite everything he had to overcome at the end of 2023 and throughout 2024, he’s still one of the best wrestlers in the world today. As for Takeshita, this was another awesome match in what’s been an amazing 2025 for him thus far. I’ll definitely remember those spots on the outside with the table. That was a very creative way to use a weapon that we see so much in modern wrestling these days. I’m curious to see if we get another match between these two. I don’t see Omega winning the International Title during an exchange of flash pins as being the end of this. Perhaps a rematch at Revolution? I certainly wouldn’t mind that, since I’ll be there in Philly! Again, while I would put the All Out 2023 match ahead of this one, this was still pretty freaking awesome from start to finish. ****1/2
Steel Cage Match
Will Ospreay def. Kyle Fletcher
Before this one got started, we got the amazing visual of both men standing on the top of the Steel Cage, on opposite sides. That was super cool. Both men are also wearing white/silver, so you know that we’re probably getting blood here (in fact, Fletcher is wearing the same kickpads that got stained with Ospreay’s blood during their match at World’s End in December). After the initial opening exchange, Fletcher took control and sent Ospreay head-first into the cage, busting him open. That did not take very long!
Ospreay finally responded with a springboard that was assisted by the cage wall, and then got his chance to send Fletcher into the cage a couple of times. Fletcher bleeding from the chest after some brutal chops from Ospreay, but after being sent head-first into the cage yet again, he finally started bleeding from the head. After getting bloodied up, Fletcher managed to find an opening, and sent Ospreay into the cage again. This set up Fletcher kicking Ospreay a few times, which Ospreay completely brushed off before having another awesome exchange with Fletcher. At this point, Mark Davis showed up and broke the lock on the door so that he could give a bag of weapons to Fletcher.
Ospreay sent Davis flying to the floor, and Ospreay pulled a barbed wire bat out of the bag! He then went to town on Fletcher with the bat before Fletcher brought out the United Empire armband in an attempt to stop the beating. This opening allowed Fletcher to hit a low blow on Ospreay, and he stuffed the bloodied armband in his mouth (that was gross). While Ospreay did manage to fight back from this, his chance to win was thwarted by Mark Davis, who got in the cage and broke up the pin. A brief Aussie Open reunion was stopped by Ospreay as he fought both of them off and hit a Super OsCutter off the wall of the cage! That only got a two count, and as the brawl continued, it just got more violent. Fletcher introduced the screwdriver and stabbed Ospreay repeatedly with it before hitting a brainbuster on a chair (just like he did on Dynamite)! Thumbtacks were introduced by Fletcher, but he ended up getting the worst of it as Ospreay gave him a Styles Clash on the tacks! That still wasn’t it. These two maniacs then climbed to the top of the cage, and you just knew they were going to do something freaking insane….and they did. SPANISH FLY OFF THE TOP OF THE CAGE!! That was nuts. Fletcher then gave Ospreay some final defiant words before a Hidden Blade and a Tiger Driver 91 put Fletcher down for the count.
This was a long, bloody, violent affair that saw both of these guys just beating the absolute crap out of each other. It was going along pretty well until Mark Davis got involved and unlocked the door. Even though he just sent in a bag of weapons to Fletcher, you just knew that he was going to get involved. I know that there was the obvious story there with Aussie Open and United Empire, but the match seemed to hit a bit of a wall at this point, and it felt like it was about to go sideways. Fortunately, this Mark Davis involvement didn’t last long, and Ospreay managed to dispose of Davis before he and Fletcher went into that closing stretch. Speaking of which, that closing stretch really lifted this match back up. The Styles Clash on the tacks and the Spanish Fly off the top of the cage were both bonkers spots (both guys really ate it on the latter) are two moments that I’m definitely not going to forget for a long time. The ceiling on this one was Match Of The Year, and even though it didn’t quite reach those heights for me, it was still an awesome Steel Cage Match. Again, having a guy getting into the cage did taint this one a tad, but Fletcher and Ospreay busted their asses (figuratively and literally) in this match, and that cannot be ignored. ****3/4
AEW World Title
Jon Moxley (c) def. Adam Copeland & Christian Cage
Up to this point, I would say that this has been an awesome PPV. You did have one stinker, but hey….last year’s Revolution was the Show Of The Year, and that also had one stinker on it (Toni Storm vs. Deonna Purrazzo). However, the overall feelings on this show when it’s over is all going to depend on how this main event turns out. As a whole, the Death Riders storyline hasn’t exactly been thrilling beyond those few weeks after they first formed and turned on Bryan Danielson. Fortunately, the build to this AEW World Title bout between Jon Moxley and Adam Copeland has been pretty good over the last few weeks (particularly after the questionable call to have Moxley choke out Copeland in Australia), with Copeland taking out the rest of Moxley’s crew one by one until Mox was left all alone. These two are fully capable of having a good match, but part of me is still expecting smoke and mirrors and an assortment of other shenanigans.
I thought this got off to a good start in the opening minutes, with an opening forearm exchange and a couple of dives by Copeland to the floor. After that, Mox managed to take control, and the match definitely slowed down at this point. I don’t know what it is, but for the most part, Mox’s control periods in these big title matches haven’t been very interesting. The action did pick up a little bit after Copeland hit a spear to the floor. The mat got torn up, and Copeland did thwart Mox’s attempt to piledrive him on the exposed concrete floor, but he did hit a piledriver in the ring. Copeland managed to survive a choke, but shortly after that, Bryce Remsburg got completely wiped out when Mox tried to introduce a chair.
Now the shenanigans could begin! Copeland blocked a conchairto attempt by Mox, which led to Wheeler Yuta coming out. He attacked Copeland, and that brought out Jay White. He took out Yuta, but in attempting to hit Mox with his briefcase, he hit Copeland instead. Both White and Yuta exited stage left, leaving Mox and Copeland alone to exchange nearfalls. Copeland hit a series of Spears on Mox, and just as it appeared that Copeland had the match won, Christian got involved. He signed his contract, turning the match into a three-way, and nearly had Copeland beat, but Mox got back in and locked on the choke. Christian tried to pin Copeland, but Mox pulled him back, and he went out. Moxley retained the AEW World Title, and Adam Copeland didn’t get pinned.
Well, let’s get the good news out of the way first. They FINALLY got that Money In The Bank style title shot off of Christian Cage, and he didn’t win the AEW World Title. On that front, there’s cause for celebration. As for the match as a whole, I thought the opening portion of the match was good, but then it just lost whatever energy it might’ve had when Mox took control. Ever since he’s been in this role (outside of the Danielson match at WrestleDream where he won the title), Mox just has not been really interesting when he’s in control during these big title matches. The main event at Full Gear with Orange Cassidy was helped by Cassidy being a great underdog babyface who (with the help from some other babyfaces neutralizing the Death Riders) made you believe he could still win the match even though you knew going in that he had no chance. The Four-Way at World’s End was at least chaotic enough with so many bodies out there that it prevented the match from dragging on. None of those elements that were present in Mox’s other PPV title defenses were present here. Copeland did a fine job in the build, but he wasn’t this great underdog babyface that made you believe like Orange Cassidy did, and the match didn’t feature the kind of chaos that at least kept your attention through most of it.
This was one of those matches that was just….going along, and while it was perfectly fine, it felt like one of the WCW main events, or a WWE PPV main event from the last decade. You knew the match wasn’t ending until we got a referee bump and the shenanigans started. Jay White not outright turning on Copeland was a mid surprise, I guess. Now in terms of the actual Christian involved, I didn’t totally hate certain aspects of it (in particular, I thought Christian getting his hand on Cope for the cover while in the choke was a legitimately good nearfall), but it was a total WWE finish. It’s also worth noting that Copeland, at least to my knowledge (someone please correct me if I’m wrong), Copeland has never been pinned clean in the nearly two years he’s been in AEW. Just something that’s worth noting. Was this the worst PPV main event I’ve ever seen? Eh….not really. I can definitely think of much worse. Was this the worst PPV main event in AEW history? I don’t think it was. I would still stay that MJF vs. Cole from the first Wembley show was worse (it was technically better, but the story was way worse). However, it was definitely one of the worst PPV main events that AEW has ever put on for sure. The work from start to finish was relatively slow and not super compelling, and then we got an overbooked WCW/WWE style finish that involved run-ins and a failed Money In The Bank cash-in that just kept Copeland from taking a fall. Especially after some of the awesome wrestling we saw up and down this card, this main event was a massive disappointment, and severely hampers this show’s chances of being a true show of the year contender. Hopefully Moxley vs. Swerve (probably at Dynasty) ends up being a PPV main event than whatever this was. *1/2
