AEW WrestleDream Results: October 17, 2026 – Will Ospreay Wins First Clockwork Carnage, Mercedes Moné Retains AEW Women’s World Title, Ilja Dragunov Debuts, More
AEW WrestleDream was live on HBO Max PPV from Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, the first WrestleDream in Florida, which also became home to AEW’s first Clockwork Carnage! That main event saw AEW World Champion Will Ospreay retain his championship in an environment that was even more chaotic than anyone expected, with such a loaded field.
Ospreay had to fight off a late comeback from Adam Copeland to level The Rated-R Superstar with a Hidden Blade and pin him right before time expired. That gave Ospreay 3 points to break a 4-way tie with Copeland, Samoa Joe and Darby Allin and the victory to retain the AEW World Championship!
Plus, AEW Women’s World Champion Mercedes Moné survived the toxicity of Thekla to keep her title thanks to some help from her protective mask. We learned that the newest member of AEW is Ilja Dragunov, and Dragunov’s trademark intensity was on full display as he soaked in the huge ovation from the crowd!
We also have new AEW World Trios Champions in “Hangman” Adam Page, Bandido and Brody King after they beat Swerve Strickland and The New Level 2-1 in a 2-out-of-3 Falls match! AEW World Tag Team Champions the Young Bucks took advantage of some miscommunication to keep their titles from “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher and “The Jet” Kevin Knight!
AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley looked down and out against challenger Mark Davis, but he fought through a nasty cut over his eye to beat Davis by submission and keep his championship. AEW National Champion Andrade El Ídolo also kept his reign alive by turning away Tommaso Ciampa.
All that and so much more went down at WrestleDream!
AEW WrestleDream Results From Orlando
AEW Saturday Tailgate Brawl: Divine Dominion ("Colossal" Lena Kross and "Megasus" Megan Bayne) def. Artist of STARDOM Champions Triangle of Madness' Sisters of Sin (Skye Blue and Julia Hart)
These two sides have been allies in the past, but with both teams trying to get into AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship contention, the intensity was there from the jump. Kross quickly went after Hart, looking for revenge after Hart blinded her with the Black Mist on Dynamite, the remnants of which remained on Kross’ face. Hart frustrated Kross by staying away from her until she turned Kross over with a headscissors. Blue tagged in and rolled up Kross for a one-count, only for Kross to get back up to drop Blue with a thrust kick. Bayne tagged in and worked Blue over in the corner until Blue escaped her grasp and hit a headscissors from the second rope. Blue hit a handspring elbow in the corner and adjusted her strategy for a rising knee against the ropes. Bayne avoided a DDT and caught Blue’s crossbody attempt, but Blue swung around for a near-fall!
Blue got sent to the DD corner and initially fought off both Bayne and Kross, but a big kick to Kross left Blue open for Bayne to pull her from the apron back into the ring with a back suplex! What power from Bayne! Divine Dominion remained in control of Blue with constant punishment in their corner. Bayne let Blue get close to a tag, only to knock Hart off the apron. Blue hit a desperation DDT and tagged Hart as Bayne tagged Kross. Hart lit up Kross with chops and tried a jumping clothesline followed by a pair of Sole Foods to send Kross to the corner. She caught Bayne with the same move and a thrust kick to knock her from the ring. Kross was taken over by Hart with a ropewalk arm drag. Hart tried to pin Kross with a crucifix, but she managed to kick out.
Blue made a blind tag as Kross was sent to the apron. Kross blasted Hart with a forearm, but as she tried to get back in the ring, Blue spiked her head into the mat with a running headscissors! Sisters of Sin hit a double front suplex and a pair of thrust kicks. Blue covered Kross, so Bayne went to break it up and wound up hitting Kross instead! Bayne ran Hart and Blue into each other before dumping both with a German Suplex! Kross and Bayne worked over Hart and Blue in the corners until Hart and Blue reversed in the middle with thrust kicks, only for Divine Dominion to lay them out with flying clotheslines. Bayne and Blue fought on the ropes until Blue trapped Bayne’s head in the buckles for a thrust kick! Blue powerbombed Bayne out of the corner and tagged Hart. Kross threw Blue out of the ring as Hart tried a moonsault from the top, which saw her land on her feet and into the waiting grasp of Kross. Bayne blasted Hart with a thrust kick into a German Suplex from Kross! Bayne covered, but Blue got in to make the save!
With Blue and Bayne trading shots, Kross made a blind tag as Bayne lifted Blue for a front suplex. Kross followed with a driving knee strike and sent Blue to the floor. Hart tried to kick off of Bayne for a DDT on Kross, but Kross blocked it, and Divine Dominion hit From Heaven to Hell for the pinfall victory!
AEW Saturday Tailgate Brawl: Don Callis Family's Wardlow, Josh Alexander & Jake Doyle def. Alex Breeze, Papi D & Rhys Maddox
Breeze, D and Maddox tried to attack Alexander at the bell, so he dumped Breeze with a German Suplex and threw D to the floor for a shoulder block from Doyle. Breeze was dumped to the outside into an uppercut from Doyle, who continued in the ring for a huge gut check on Maddox. Alexander dropped Maddox with a front slam on the apron as he jumped to the floor! Ouch! Alexander returned to the ring and crushed Maddox with a diving crossbody that put Maddox in a heap on the floor. Alexander threw Maddox back in, so Maddox tried to get away and then threw some weak shots until Wardlow reared back and devastated Maddox with a lariat. Wardlow dropped the straps and called for the Powerbomb Symphony! He dropped Maddox for the first powerbomb, and the crowd called for another. Breeze was thrown back in, so Wardlow powerbombed him! D was the last to face Wardlow, and he felt the Symphony with a pair of powerbombs. The Callis Family simply put their boots on the demolished opponents for the dominant trios victory!
AEW Saturday Tailgate Brawl: The Dogs' Clark Connors and David Finlay & Death Riders' Claudio Castagnoli, Daniel Garcia, Wheeler Yuta and Gabe Kidd (w/ Marina Shafir) def. The Conglomeration's Orange Cassidy, Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong (w/ Willow Nightingale) & Bang Bang Gang's "Switchblade" Jay White, Colten Gunn and Austin Gunn
This was another huge addition to the Tailgate Brawl with some unlikely allies in The Conglomeration and Bang Bang Gang. The Death Riders were out with everyone except for AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley, who was preparing for Mark Davis later on WrestleDream. The Gunns were alone on the ramp until the music of “Switchblade” Jay White played, and he made his way out to the ramp as a big surprise! The reports of White’s demise may have been premature after the injury he suffered at last month’s Tailgate Brawl. Tony Schiavone relayed that White was cleared right before this match, per Tony Khan!
Strong and Connors opened this one, but a very intense Strong took it right to Connors and brought in Cassidy. The rest of the team each took turns helping Cassidy with double suplexes until Castagnoli stopped the festivities by reversing Cassidy and O’Reilly for a double suplex of his own! Castagnoli picked up Cassidy and began a giant swing that never seemed to end while the Dogs ran around the ring taking out anyone in their way! Castagnoli continued the giant swing long after and started to slow down, only to pick up the speed! He finally dropped Cassidy and stumbled out of the ring after, a clear side effect of that much spinning.
The dazed Cassidy was an easy target to isolate, with Wheeler Yuta handling much of the offense until Cassidy hit a Stundog Millionaire and tagged Austin Gunn. Gunn went to work on Yuta and then Garcia with his trademark quickness until he found himself on the wrong end of a double team, with Finlay tipping the scales back to his team’s side. With Gunn in trouble, his corner was completely cleared out. However, Gunn managed to fight out of the opposite corner and made the tag to White. He unloaded on everyone in his way! Finlay and Garcia ate back body drops, and Kidd and Castagnoli were taken down by Dragon Screws. Orange Cassidy hit a springboard flip to the outside and wiped out Yuta and Castagnoli!
Back in the ring, White spiked Finlay with a DDT for a near-fall. Finlay blocked a Blade Runner and stopped White with a big backbreaker over his knee. Colten tagged in and lit up Castagnoli before dropkicking him and Yuta. Garcia came in and ducked, so Colten caught him with a right hand. Colten missed a splash in the corner and found himself in the way of the Death Rider train, including Marina Shafir, who was immediately dropped by Willow Nightingale! Yuta threw Nightingale out of the ring to massive boos, but Cassidy spiked him with a DDT! Connors speared Cassidy, but was immediately lit up by a flurry from O’Reilly. Finlay took O’Reilly down with a lariat, so Strong crushed Finlay with a jumping knee. Kidd bounced Strong off the ropes for a German Suplex, so he didn’t see White waiting to take him head over heels with a Cutthroat Suplex! Garcia dropped White with Twist and Shout and found himself alone with The Gunns. Austin DDTed Garcia, so Finlay charged and ate a 3:10 to Yuma from The Gunns! Castagnoli came in, so Colten took him down with a flying clothesline!
The Gunns measured Castagnoli for 3:10 to Yuma, so Yuta got on the apron with a chair to distract the referee while Shafir pulled Austin from the ring. Colten went over to help and got crushed in the corner by Castagnoli’s running uppercut. Yuta went up top, and Castagnoli threw him onto Colten with a Fastball Special to get the pinfall win! After the match, the fight continued on the outside with White and Kidd until all 12 men, as well as Shafir and Nightingale, brawled! Officials finally got control, but there’s still plenty of tension between these two sides.
AEW WrestleDream Results From Orlando
Best-of-5 Series, Match 1: Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) def. FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) (w/ Stokely)
This match initially began on Tailgate Brawl and spilled into WrestleDream! Amazingly, this was the first time these two sides met in tag team action. There was a clear feeling-out process between the four veterans, which was pointed out by Paul Wight on commentary. Harwood controlled Shelley on the mat with a headlock until Shelley turned things around with an arm drag. He brought Harwood to the corner and Sabin tagged in for a leapfrog axe handle. Sabin stayed on Harwood until Harwood moved Sabin to the corner and tagged Harwood. Harwood hit a big uppercut in the corner, and Sabin fired back, but got taken to the corner again, so Harwood could return to the match. He peppered Sabin with stiff shots in the corner until Sabin bounced back with a back elbow that sent Harwood sprawling to the floor. FTR quickly turned things around on Sabin and isolated him from Shelley for several minutes.
Harwood sent Wheeler into the corner for an attack on Sabin, but he escaped and made the tag to Shelley, who immediately came off the top with a crossbody on FTR! MCMG sent FTR to the outside and celebrated with the crowd. FTR and Stoke regrouped on the floor for an extended time as they did everything to work the count. Wheeler tagged Harwood, but Turned stopped Wheeler from coming in because it was an illegal tag. Harwood grabbed Shelley’s belt and worked him into the ropes, so Wheeler could nail him from the apron. Wheeler tagged in and hit Shelley with a neckbreaker for a near-fall. Wheeler threw Shelley to the ropes towards Harwood, so he slid under to the floor and FTR went out after him. He dove back in, and Sabin joined him in the ring, which quickly devolved into a brawl with MCMG knocking Harwood from the ring. Sabin worked over Wheeler in the corner, but Wheeler brought him out with a Manhattan Drop. He choked Sabin over the second rope as the Tailgate Brawl came to a close!
The match continued into the start of WrestleDream, so it was accompanied by the proper PPV pyro! Back in the ring, MCMG isolated Wheeler in the ring for their patented Dream Sequence flurry of double-team offense! The crowd was lit up for all of this and chanted, “AEW!” Shelley slid to the floor, but FTR avoided him and dumped him face-first on the apron; Stokely celebrated like he won something.
He didn’t.
Shelley ate a backdrop on the apron, and Harwood continued the punishment in their corner. He knocked Shelley to the apron and distracted the referee so Wheeler could clothesline Shelley back in the ring. Harwood locked Shelley in an abdominal stretch and reached back to Wheeler for extra leverage, which brought Sabin into the ring. Referee Paul Turner stopped him, so that allowed FTR to do it again. Wheeler tried to tag in behind Turner’s back and locked in the abdominal stretch, so he tried to make Wheeler leave the ring, and Harwood came back in to grab Shelley. Shelley caught Harwood in a small package, but Turner was still preoccupied with Wheeler and turned around late to make a two-count. Shelley and Harwood took each other out with clotheslines.
Wheeler tagged in and immediately stomped Shelley to stop him from making a tag. Wheeler kept Shelley grounded until Harwood tagged in and slammed Shelley. Shelley rolled away from Harwood’s elbow drops and got to the apron. He fought off FTR and stunned Harwood over the top rope. Wheeler tried to dive onto Shelley, but Shelley moved, and Wheeler hit the announce desk! Shelley got back in the ring and tried to crawl to the corner, so Harwood grabbed him. Shelley reached until Harwood sent him off the ropes and dropped him with a chop/punch/lariat combo!
Wheeler tagged in and FTR hit an elevated front suplex for another near-fall. Shelley broke free of Wheeler, so Harwood tagged back in and traded shots with Shelley. He stopped Shelley from making the tag, so Shelley rolled him up for a two-count! Wheeler came in and grabbed Shelley’s leg, but he still managed to knock Harwood from the ring with an enzuigiri and then kicked free of Wheeler. Shelley crawled to make the tag, but Harwood pulled Sabin off the apron and drilled him on the floor! The crowd was furious and chanted, “BALD!”
Harwood returned to the ring and chopped Shelley to the mat. Harwood mockingly slapped Shelley, so he kicked Harwood away and Wheeler tagged in to charge Shelley in the corner. Shelley moved, and Wheeler went crotch-first into the middle turnbuckle! That’s a bad night in Orlando. Wheeler still tagged Harwood first, and he got in front of Shelley, but struck Sabin. However, Shelley immediately backdropped Harwood and tagged Sabin!
Sabin fired up on FTR, sending both to the floor with armdrags. He went to the apron and hit Wheeler with a kick to the chest and Harwood with a back kick to the face. Sabin took out Wheeler with a cannonball off the apron and tried to hit Harwood with a tornado DDT, but Stokely distracted Sabin, and Harwood grabbed Sabin from behind. Stokely went to hit Sabin, but Sabin moved, and Stokely nailed Harwood! Sabin pushed him in the ring and hit a springboard tornado DDT for a near-fall! Stokely knew he got bailed out there.
Wheeler pulled Sabin off the top rope, so Sabin punched him off the apron. Harwood used the opportunity to grab Sabin from behind, but Sabin reversed it and ran him into the ropes for a roll-up. Harwood kicked Sabin into the ropes on the kick-out, and Wheeler cracked Sabin with an uppercut from the floor. He stumbled back into a sit-out spinebuster and was covered, but Sabin managed to kick out in time! Harwood took a moment to gather himself until Wheeler came back in and lifted Sabin for a double-team, but Shelley broke it up by knocking Wheeler out of the ring while Sabin caught Harwood with a small package for a very close near-fall!
Shelley helped Sabin break free of Harwood, so Sabin nailed Harwood with a cutter and covered for yet another late kickout. Shelley tagged in and went to the top, but Wheeler knocked him onto the top turnbuckle and brought Sabin to the floor with a low bridge. Shelley fought Harwood off the ropes and knocked him into the ring for a top rope dropkick from Sabin! Shelley followed with a frog splash and covered, but Harwood kicked out! What a match!
Wheeler yanked Sabin from the ring, which allowed Harwood to crack Shelley with a right hand. Wheeler came back in, and they sent Shelley to the ropes, but he brought Wheeler over for a pin attempt as Sabin did the same to Harwood, and everyone kicked out! FTR fought out of the corner only to get blasted with double thrust kicks! Wheeler fell to the floor, so Sabin and Shelley cracked Harwood with a running boot/enzuigiri combo. They hit Skull and Bones on Harwood and nearly had it won, but Wheeler put Harwood’s foot on the rope!
Wheeler got knocked back to the outside, so Sabin and Shelley tried to set up Harwood for a Dirty Bomb, but Wheeler pulled Shelley to the floor and sent him into the ring post. Sabin chased out after and rolled into the ring right into Harwood’s grasp for a piledriver, as Wheeler came down from the second rope to complete the stuff piledriver! 1-2-Sabin kicked out! FTR couldn’t believe it! FTR called for a Shatter Machine, but Sabin avoided it, and Shelley nailed Harwood with another kick. MCMG quickly lit up Wheeler with strikes and dumped him with the Dirty Bomb to get the pinfall victory! The Motor City Machine Guns go up 1-0 in this best-of-5 series!
AEW Women's World Championship Match: "The CEO" Mercedes Moné (c) def. "The Toxic Spider" Thekla
Thekla had quite the entrance, as she was carried through the crowd on a Toxic Spider Throne! Moné made her entrance without the same service, but she had what Thekla wanted: the AEW Women’s World Championship! After Arkady Aura made the championship ring announcements, we were underway for the first-ever singles match between two of the best in the world!
Moné controlled the start by working Thekla over in a couple of corners before Thekla fired back. Moné took Thekla down with a Statement Marker, and Thekla was in major trouble! Thekla tried to get out, so Moné adjusted her grip, only for Thekla to bridge out and spider walk away! Moné seemed frustrated and sent Thekla to the ropes, so Thekla latched on and posed in between them! Moné went after her, but fell to the floor. Thekla slammed Moné’s masked, covered face into the apron before introducing her to a pair of barricades. Back in the ring, Thekla hit a diving crossbody for a near-fall. The crowd seemed to be behind Thekla, so she obliged them with a spider walk, only for Moné to run over and grab Thekla in a tombstone position. Moné started kneeing Thekla in the face and brought her down with a nasty lungblower! Moné covered, but Thekla kicked out.
Moné hit knees to Thekla’s back and a Meteora for another near-fall. Moné slapped Thekla and hit a suplex with a floatover pin to get yet another two-count. Moné put her knee in Thekla's back and pulled back on her arms as the crowd dueled with chants for both athletes! Moné stomped Thekla in the back and locked in a surfboard before trying another pin for a near-fall. Moné was briefly frustrated, so she regrouped and worked Thekla over in the corner. Moné tried her own version of a spider pose and charged Thekla, but Thekla caught her with a boot and sat on the top turnbuckle. Moné came back over, so Thekla locked her in a Tarantula over the ropes. Thekla hit a series of elbows and tried a headscissors, but was initially stopped, only to try again and send Moné into the second rope. Thekla hit a facewash boot to Moné in the ropes, followed by another on the apron. Moné hit a lungblower on the apron in response, which hurt her as well. She charged Thekla for a Meteora, but Thekla rolled in, and Moné went into the turnbuckle connectors! Moné was in pain on the floor, so Thekla came out with a stomp to Moné’s back from the apron!
Thekla mocked Moné’s title swing and threw her back in the ring for another near-fall. Thekla sent Moné to the corner, so Moné answered with a boot to the face and went to the top turnbuckle. Thekla slapped Moné and stood on the top rope, but Moné knocked her down, only for Thekla to transition into a Spider Suplex! She rose back up, and the crowd roared in approval! Thekla turned around and hit a double stomp from the top to the lower back of a doubled-over Moné! Thekla spider walked across the ring to set up for a spear, and she went high on Moné to lay her out! 1-2-Moné kicked out! Thekla tried to kick Moné, but she caught it and kicked Thekla in the face! Moné bounced the back of Thekla’s head off the second turnbuckle with a sunset flip bomb and followed with a high-velocity Meteora! Moné went to the middle rope and hit another Meteora for a two-count!
Moné tried for a Moné Maker, so Thekla rolled out of it and rolled into a leg lock submission across Moné’s face and arms! Moné got her foot on the rope to break it up, but Thekla followed with a stomp to the back of Moné’s head! Moné got her foot on the ropes in time to save her championship! Thekla tried to grab Moné’s legs, but was kicked away. Moné went to the apron and removed her protective facemask, unbeknownst to the referee and Thekla. Thekla went over to get Moné, so Moné blasted her in the face with the mask! Moné picked up Thekla for a Moné Maker, but Thekla rolled out of it and rolled up Moné off the ropes with a bridge for a near-fall! What a save by Mercedes! As Thekla tried to pull herself back up, the crowd chanted, “AEW!”
Thekla missed a stomp, and Moné immediately hit a Moné Maker to get the pinfall and a successful AEW Women’s World Championship defense!
Nick Wayne def. Jericho
Wayne was out first, so he was subjected to the crowd singing “Judas” as Jericho came to the ring and egged them on before the match got underway. The chants continued for Jericho as the bell rang, while Wayne tried to drown them out by covering his ears. The two came face to face, so Wayne spit at Jericho and Jericho spat right back! Jericho nailed Wayne, who rolled to the floor. Jericho followed with a baseball slide and threw Wayne into the steel steps. He tossed Wayne into the barricade and then did it again with Wayne flipping on the way before a nasty impact. Jericho passed out some beads he was wearing, including to Paul Wight, whom he stopped to embrace.
Wayne recovered and slammed Jericho’s head into the steel steps. He measured Jericho for a Canadian Destroyer, but Jericho caught him jumping off the steps and dumped him back on the steel with a release Death Valley Driver. Jericho grabbed a photographer’s camera to capture the moment. Back in the ring, Jericho chopped Wayne around the ring and put him on the top turnbuckle for punches, only for Wayne to push Jericho off the top rope and into a cameraman on the floor! Wayne went up top and nailed Jericho with an Arihara Moonsault to the floor! Wayne slammed Jericho into the steel steps and threw him back into the ring to keep the pressure on Jericho with kicks.
Jericho came back with a kick off the ropes, so Wayne answered right back with an uppercut to take Jericho down again. Wayne measured for Wayne’s World, but Jericho tripped him, and they fought up from the mat. Jericho hit chops that sent Wayne to the ropes for a high boot on Jericho. Jericho came back with one of his own and ducked Wayne’s roundhouse kick response. He chopped Wayne again and avoided Wayne’s handspring to hit a lariat. Wayne avoided a Judas Effect and nailed a roundhouse to Jericho’s face! Wayne sprung back off the ropes for Wayne’s World only to fall right back into a Codebreaker from Jericho! What a counter! Jericho covered, and Wayne kicked out. Jericho appeared to be bleeding above the right eye as they battled back to their feet. Wayne hit a stunner and came back up to follow it, but Jericho hit a brainbuster instead!
Jericho yelled at Wayne to get up and immediately knocked him back down. Jericho went to the ropes for a Lionsault, so Wayne kicked out his leg! Jericho was stuck in the ropes, so Wayne went up top and tried for a swanton bomb, only for Jericho to sit up in the nick of time! Wayne was clearly in pain, so he rolled to the floor. Jericho followed with a body press from the top to Wayne on the floor! Jericho threw Wayne in and went to the top rope, but Wayne stopped him and went up for punches. Wayne tried an avalanche hurricanrana, but Jericho powerbombed him off the top turnbuckle instead! He stacked Wayne up for the pin, but Wayne kicked out at two, and Jericho immediately rolled into the Walls of Jericho, and the fans erupted! Wayne eventually crawled to the ropes to break the hold and rolled to the floor. He grabbed a water bottle from under the ring and took a swig. When Jericho went to grab Wayne, Wayne spit in his face! Wayne grabbed Jericho on the apron and hit Wayne’s World! Wayne quickly recovered on the floor, while Jericho’s head was scrambled from hitting the hardest part of the ring.
Wayne went up top and connected with a 450 splash, but Jericho just barely kicked out in time! The crowd tried to will Jericho back to his feet, so Wayne continued to stay on Jericho and taunt him. Wayne tried Wayne’s World again, so Jericho ran underneath him and caught Wayne with a boot out of the corner. He pulled himself to the top turnbuckle, but Wayne cracked him with a jumping uppercut to the jaw. Wayne backed up for a running start and pulled Jericho off the top with a Wayne’s World! Jericho kicked out at 1! Jericho fired up, so Wayne charged at him and Jericho double-legged him for another Walls of Jericho! Orlando was on fire! Wayne rolled around to grab Jericho’s ankle, so Jericho sent him to the corner with a slingshot! Jericho caught Wayne with a bridging German Suplex for another near-fall and kept waist control.
Wayne took a wild swing that nearly hit referee Bryce Remsburg, which gave him the chance to hit Jericho with a low blow! Jericho didn’t move, and the referee came back over to admonish Wayne, who shoved him away and kicked Jericho low again! Once again, Jericho didn’t flinch, and Wayne was stunned. Jericho decked him with a right hand and revealed he was wearing a protective cup! He started to hit Wayne with the cup, so the referee took it away, which allowed Jericho to kick Wayne low! Jericho tried a Judas Effect, but Wayne fell down, and when Jericho went to grab him, Wayne used an inside cradle to pin Jericho for the win out of nowhere!
Wayne grabbed the microphone and reminded everyone that he beat Jericho again!
AEW World Tag Team Championship Match: Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) (c) def. Don Callis Family's "The Protostar" Kyle Fletcher & "The Jet" Kevin Knight
Don Callis joined commentary to watch his team challenge for the gold. Knight and Nick started things off, but Knight took Nick down quickly, which seemed to flummox the younger Jackson. Matt tagged in, so Fletcher tagged in, and the crowd was electric. Fletcher knocked Matt down with a shoulder tackle. Matt tried to get free of Fletcher and Knight with a sliced bread, but when he ran up Knight, he lost control of Fletcher. Fletcher launched Knight over his head into a dropkick on Matt. Nick came in, and Fletcher immediately grabbed him for a gutbuster on his knee, followed by Knight hitting a flipping neckbreaker! That’s right out of the Young Bucks’ playbook!
Fletcher and Knight went into the Bucks’ usual attacks in the corners complete with a mid-ring do-si-do and high-five! They added insult to injury by hitting the Young Bucks’ trademark pose! Fletcher and Knight kept Matt in the corner until Matt fought out and hit Knight with a crossbody to the floor. He jumped back in the ring, and Fletcher briefly stopped him from making a tag before he tagged in Nick. Nick immediately came off the top with a crossbody to Fletcher and Knight. He fought them both off until Matt came back in to help knock Knight to the floor with an assisted dropkick. They clotheslined Fletcher over the top, and Matt trapped Knight’s head for a running dropkick by Nick!
Matt helped launch Nick onto the top rope for a springboard moonsault onto Fletcher and Knight! Nick immediately chased Callis into the crowd! Back in the ring, the Bucks hit a double team sunset flip on Fletcher, but Knight was immediately there for a springboard clothesline to Matt. Nick tried to get a 2-for-1 on an armdrag/headscissors combo, but Fletcher was ready for it and caught him. He adjusted to put Nick on his shoulder, and Knight got unbelievable air to dropkick Nick off Fletcher’s shoulders for one of the most impressive iterations of a Doomsday Device you will ever see! Nick got kicked to the floor, so Callis choked him with a mic wire behind the referee’s back.
Fletcher and Knight completely isolated Nick in their corner with relentless offense. Nick knocked Fletcher to the floor and tried to make a tag, so Knight threw him back across the ring. Nick ran down the apron to kick Fletcher in the chest! Nick jumped back in for a facebuster on Knight and tried to come back out for a moonsault to Fletcher off the apron, but Fletcher caught him, so Nick reversed that into a DDT on the floor! Fletcher was in major trouble after that one!
Nick crawled back in, and Knight grabbed him to stop a tag, but Nick kicked him away and tagged Matt! He went after Fletcher, but Knight came in to help. In the opposite corner, Matt turned things around by hitting Fletcher with a Sliced Bread #2 running off Knight’s chest. Matt went into the locomotion Northern Lights Suplexes until Knight put on the brakes. Matt ran him into the ropes to go for a rollup, so Fletcher came in to stop it, only for Matt to bring him over with a Northern Lights Suplex and a near-fall! Fletcher tried to grab Matt and Knight came over to help, but Matt got them both with a Northern Lights Suplex, and they kicked out! Orlando thought all of that was awesome!
Knight got stuck between the top and middle ropes by Matt, so Matt pulled Fletcher over the ropes near the Bucks' corner. Nick went up top and stomped Fletcher into a powerbomb from Matt while running across the ring to bring Knight down with a backstabber! Fletcher kicked out of Matt’s cover at two! Fantastic teamwork from the Bucks!
The Bucks grabbed Fletcher, but he broke free of Matt and caught Nick with a Michinoku Driver! Nick kicked out at two. Knight tagged in, and they sent Nick to the corner. He booted them both, and Fletcher put Nick on his shoulders for another dropkick Doomsday Device, but when Knight jumped, Matt got under him, and Knight wound up on his shoulders. That gave us a mid-ring chicken fight! They threw punches until both hit poisonranas at the same time! Nick and Knight took each other out with clotheslines. Fletcher tried to rush out of the corner, but Matt jumped off his partner’s back to hit a Canadian Destroyer! Everyone was down, and the crowd chanted, “HOLY SHIT!”
Nick and Knight got into a strike battle until Nick hit a superkick, only for Knight to come back with a dropkick! Matt tagged in and hit Knight with a DDT. Fletcher came in and hit Matt with a half-and-half suplex. Nick made a blind tag to Matt, so Fletcher charged into a kick from Nick. Matt crotched Fletcher on the top rope, so Nick could bring him down with a hurricanrana! The Bucks nailed Knight with a pair of superkicks. The Bucks scaled opposite corners and counted down, but they waited too long, which allowed Fletcher and Knight to knock them down. Knight took Matt down with a top rope hurricanrana, but on the opposite side Nick brought Fletcher down hard with a top rope poisonrana! Knight came down on Nick with a UFO Splash! Fletcher couldn’t get over to make the tag, as Nick rolled to the apron. The crowd chanted, “FIGHT FOREVER!”
Nick hit Knight with a Superkick on the apron and followed with a nasty German Suplex! Fletcher cracked Nick with a big thrust kick. Nick was able to hold Fletcher long enough for Matt to springboard off the second rope to DDT Fletcher on the corner of the ring! The Bucks were fired up and tried to double-team Knight, but he shoved Matt into Nick on the barricade. He leaped up and brought Nick to the floor with a hurricanrana! Knight backed all the way up and ran off the commentary desk to lariat Nick, but he ducked, and Matt blasted Knight with a superkick! Matt grabbed Knight for a piledriver, so Nick ran down both commentary desks and flipped off to spike Knight on the floor!
Back in the ring, Fletcher quickly knocked Matt back to the floor and crushed Nick with a huge thrust kick. Fletcher tried a Sheerdrop Brainbuster, but Nick turned it into a hurricanrana for a wild near-fall! The Bucks hit Fletcher with a BTE Trigger! 1-2-FLETCHER KICKED OUT! The crowd was shocked! The Bucks were shocked! Matt rolled Fletcher over to start More Bang for Your Buck, but Fletcher got his knees up on Nick’s way down and then shoved Matt onto the top turnbuckle, trapping him in the tree of woe. He lawndarted Nick onto Matt, so with both Bucks down in the corner, Knight scaled the adjacent corner and connected on a massive coast-to-coast on the champions! Fletcher spiked Matt with a Sheerdrop Brainbuster! 1-2-Matt kicked out!
Fletcher blasted Matt with a running kick in the corner and put him on the top turnbuckle. He followed and hit Matt with another Sheerdrop Brainbuster on the top turnbuckle! As Matt crashed down, Knight somehow skied all the way across the ring for a UFO Splash! Fletcher covered, but Nick made the save just in time! The crowd came unglued at that photo finish!
Fletcher lined up another boot in the corner, but Knight tagged him in the back. A brief argument ensued until Knight went to the top rope for another coast-to-coast, only to leap right into a superkick from Nick! Fletcher hit half-and-half suplexes on Nick and Matt. He hit a running boot on Nick in the corner and tried to do the same to Matt on the opposite side, but Matt moved, and Nick followed right behind Fletcher with a knee to the face. They lit him up with a Superkick Party and called for a BTE Trigger, but as they pulled Fletcher up, Knight flew off the top rope to attack and wound up getting Fletcher instead of the Bucks! They baited him in for that one! Knight couldn’t believe what happened, so he never saw the Bucks coming when they flipped him around for a BTE Trigger to get the pinfall win! The Bucks have their second successful defense in this record-setting fourth reign!
TBS Championship 4-Way Match: TBS & CMLL World Women's Champion Persephone (c) def. Hyan, Dani Luna, Queen Aminata
Nigel McGuiness joined the commentary desk in Wight’s spot to start the next match. Persephone piefaced Aminata at the bell, which set off a chain reaction of pin attempts until Persephone thought she had control and turned her back on her opponents. She turned around to get triple-teamed by all three challengers and was knocked from the ring. Luna and Hyan wound up alone in the ring, with Luna using her power to light up Hyan with a lariat and a Northern Lights Suplex before a sliding lariat got Luna a near-fall.
Aminata came in and quickly took advantage of Luna to administer Chocolate Kisses! She booted Luna to the floor and threw her into a barricade. Aminata sat Luna in a chair and chopped her before going to the apron. Hyan cut her off with a chop followed by a flurry of offense punctuated by a snap suplex. She smashed Aminata with a fireman’s carry forward slam and a leg drop, but Persephone broke it up with a pin attempt of her own to get a near-fall. Hyan ran into a backbreaker from Persephone, who kept the offense up with a fallaway slam to Luna. Aminata stopped that from going any further and exchanged chops with Persephone until Hyan speared them both!
Luna briefly stunned Hyan and went to the second rope, but Hyan speared her on the way down! Persephone pulled Hyan out to break up the pin. Hyan speared Persephone on the floor! She celebrated with the crowd and took too long getting Persephone back in the ring, so Luna pulled her over the top rope from the apron with a deadlift German Suplex! Aminata immediately dropped Luna with Queen’s Crown and dragged her to the corner. Aminata hit a diving foot stomp from the top, but Persephone got in to break it up with a diving dropkick.
Persephone hit Aminata with knee lifts, which allowed Luna to get a clean shot on Persephone. They battled on the apron with chops until Persephone tried to German Suplex Luna to the floor. Aminata charged, so Luna blasted her and then back elbowed Persephone. Hyan hit Persephone with a baseball slide under Luna and then tried to powerbomb Luna off the apron, which she finally did when Aminata cracked Luna with another Queen’s Crown! A brutal landing for Luna! Hyan walked right into a running kick from Aminata on the apron, which landed her in a chair. Aminata took advantage with a running dropkick off the apron to the floor!
Persephone mockingly hit Aminata before throwing her back in the ring. She took too much time messing with the crowd and climbed right into a short thrust kick from Aminata. Aminata pulled her back in with Twist and Shout and connected on Off With Her Head! Hyan broke up the pin! Hyan suplexed Aminata to the corner and ran around the ring to crack her with a running knee to the side of the head. Hyan hit a Falcon Arrow on Aminata for a two-count. Persephone hit Hyan with a release German Suplex and thrust kick to Aminata. Luna stopped Persephone from hitting Hyan with a crucifix powerbomb by pulling Hyan down and running Persephone into the corner. Luna put Hyan down with a spinebuster and put Persephone on her back before grabbing Hyan to complete a fallaway slam/Samoan Drop combo!
Luna stopped Aminata with a running clothesline and followed with a Blue Thunder Bomb, so Hyan came over to break up the pin. Hyan and Luna traded shots in the middle before Luna took her down for a flurry of punches. Hyan stopped Luna with a kick to the face and used a double underhook facebuster to smash her into the mat. Persephone broke up that pin attempt from the top rope and unloaded on Hyan with punches. She slammed Hyan down from her shoulders and followed with a top rope moonsault to get the three-count on Hyan for the successful TBS Title defense!
AEW National Championship Match: Andrade El Ídolo (c) def. Tommaso Ciampa
The crowd exploded with a “HOW YOU KNOW?” chant before the bell. Ciampa offered a handshake, so Andrade nailed him. That quickly set off a brawl between the two and a rapid-fire exchange of reversals that ended in a stalemate. Andrade tried to get into Three Amigos, but only got one before Ciampa hit a German Suplex. Andrade battled back with a crossbody from the top before knocking Ciampa over the top to the floor.
Andrade started to take his pants off, much to the delight of the crowd, but Ciampa returned to stop the fun and was mercilessly booed! He choked Andrade in the corner and jokingly went to his drawstrings before getting back to work on Andrade. Ciampa took Andrade down and threw him to the floor, but when he tried to go after him, Andrade pulled him out. Andrade hit Three Amigos on the floor! He threw Ciampa back in and went up top for a split-legged moonsault! Ciampa kicked out at two and immediately bailed to the floor. Andrade followed out with a springboard tornillo! Andrade took a selfie with an adoring fan in the front row, so Ciampa had time to recover and pulled him back in. Ciampa threw Andrade to the ropes, so the champion hung on to pose, which Ciampa answered with a running knee before giving himself a round of applause.
Ciampa followed out to punish Andrade on the floor. Ciampa walked over to his daughter and took a selfie with her! Ciampa wore Andrade down in the ring and used a ripcord facebuster to surprise the champion. Once again, Ciampa teased taking his trunks off. Ciampa stomped Andrade into the corner and put him on the top turnbuckle. Ciampa attempted an Air Raid Crash, but Andrade slipped down and got a handful of trunks. Ciampa hammered down on Andrade and nailed a running knee strike to the side of Andrade’s face! Ciampa removed his trunks to reveal another set of trunks that said “I JUST KNOW” on the back. McGuiness was the lucky recipient of Ciampa’s first set of trunks.
Ciampa mocked Andrade’s call for running knees, but Andrade fired out of the corner with a clothesline. He stayed on Ciampa with additional shots to put him in the corner, but when he charged for the knee attack, Ciampa got up, and Andrade adjusted into an elbow drop neckbreaker. Andrade started to take his pants off, and the crowd went wild! Ciampa caught Andrade with his pants down, literally, and attacked him from behind. He put Andrade on the top turnbuckle, but Andrade elbowed Ciampa back to the mat. With his pants on his knees, Andrade went for a moonsault, so Ciampa rolled, but Andrade got him on the second attempt for a near-fall.
Andrade completed the pants removal and fought Ciampa on the top rope, looking for his own Air Raid Crash, so Ciampa dropped down looking for a sunset flip powerbomb, which Andrade counteracted by moonsaulting to the middle of the ring. He immediately blasted Ciampa with running knees and backed all the way up to do it again. Ciampa moved, so Andrade pushed off the turnbuckles and hit the ropes again to catch Ciampa in the ropes. Andrade covered, but Ciampa kicked out!
Andrade climbed the ropes, so Ciampa shoved him all the way to the floor. Ciampa grabbed Andrade’s pants and beat them up. He hit the pants with a Project Ciampa and ordered the referee to count. 1-2-THE PANTS KICKED OUT! A well-deserved “HOLY SHIT!” chant from the crowd!
Andrade came back in to level Ciampa with Día de los Muertos! Ciampa kicked out to survive! Andrade had Ciampa facing the middle turnbuckle and backed up to attack, but Ciampa stopped him by watching the in-arena video monitor and attacked with a big knee of his own! Ciampa backed up for another knee, so Andrade rolled him up for a near-fall. Ciampa did the same with a handful of trunks, but Andrade kicked out. They stood up to trade lariats with neither man going down until the third shot.
They stayed down before battling back to their feet. Ciampa hit a boot to the jaw, but Andrade managed to flip out of his Project Ciampa attempt and went for The DM. Ciampa escaped and jackknifed Andrade for a two-count. Ciampa got back up and was knocked right back down by a devastating Día de los Muertos! Ciampa started to get up as Andrade considered going up to the top rope. He did it anyway and moonsaulted over Ciampa, nearly landing on his feet. Ciampa shoved Andrade into a crew member and then used a cameraman and his camera as a battering ram to Andrade! Ciampa threw Andrade back in the ring and connected with his bicycle knee! Andrade kicked out just in time!
Ciampa went out and grabbed the National Title, but was stopped by the referee. He ran around the other side of the ring to grab a chair and was stopped again. While the chair was being discarded, Ciampa went to grab Andrade to spike Andrade on the title, but Andrade grabbed him first and hit his own Willow’s Bell on it! 1-2-Ciampa kicked out! Andrade picked up Ciampa and hit The DM for the win and his seventh AEW National Championship defense!
AEW World Trios Championship 2-Out-of-3 Falls Match: "Hangman" Adam Page & Brodido (ROH World Champion Bandido and Brody King) def. Swerve Strickland & The New Level (Austin Creed and Kofi) (c)
While there was plenty of tension between these two sides, the crowd certainly had fun chanting for New Level through the start of the match. Bandido and Creed started for their respective sides and exchanged reversals until Creed dropped Bandido with a rolling elbow. Kofi tagged in, and both he and Swerve entered for some triple-team offense before Kofi went for a pin and Bandido kicked out. Bandido came back with a delayed vertical suplex, which gave him the chance to tag Hangman. He threw Kofi with a fallaway slam and sprang to his feet, but when he tried to bounce off the ropes, Swerve tripped him from the outside. That incensed Page, who immediately went to the floor and spun Swerve around to attack! The crowd exploded when they came to blows, as Page threw Swerve into the timekeeper’s area.
Swerve got back up and they went at it again, but this time, the rest of the teams came over with King unloading on Swerve, knocking Kofi and Creed away in the process. Bandido tried to pull him away, but couldn’t, so he called Hangman over to help. Page tried to calm King down, but King shoved him, and Bandido had to quiet things. Page threw Kofi back in and blasted him with a big boot. The challengers isolated Kofi for an extended triple-team in the corner. King dropped him on the mat so Page could hit a running shooting star press, and Bandido came off King’s shoulder for a splash before King got Kofi with a senton splash. Kofi kicked out, so King stayed on him with huge chops in the corner. Kofi finally fought back with boots and a springboard moonsault. King tagged Bandido as Kofi tagged Creed.
Creed ran over Bandido and followed with a Russian Leg Sweep. Creed cracked Page with a big thrust kick and another from the apron to the floor. He came back with a kick to Bandido from the apron and a splash to Page on the floor! Creed DDTed Bandido from the apron back inside and tagged Swerve. He rolled Bandido into a vertical suplex and covered to get a two-count. Bandido came back for a spinning DDT on Swerve. Creed ran Bandido into the ropes, where Kofi made a blind tag. Creed held Bandido by the waist and lifted him up so Kofi could come down with a guillotine leg drop. Bandido kicked out!
Creed hit a dive to Page on the floor and then returned to the ring to grab Bandido, so Kofi could come off the top for The Midnight Hour! Kofi covered Bandido to get the three-count!
Swerve & The New Level win the first fall!
Swerve tagged in and immediately went up top for a Swerve Stomp! Kofi tried to take out Page with a crossbody to the floor, but he dove in to break up the pin. Page got into a shoving match with Swerve, but Swerve pointed out Page wasn’t the legal man, so the referee pushed Page back to the corner. Bandido crawled under Swerve and tagged Page! He met Swerve in the middle, and they fired away as the crowd came to their feet! They exchanged reversals and took each other down with clotheslines just to pop back up and haul off on each other again! Bandido and Kofi tried to get in the middle of it, but were knocked away. Swerve caught Page with a backbreaker and wanted a House Call, but Page leveled him with a lariat.
Page went to the apron and tried a Buckshot Lariat, so Swerve avoided it, only for Page to catch him with a Deadeye! Kofi and Creed pulled Swerve out to stop a pin attempt. Page went out to hit Creed and Kofi while Swerve got back in the ring on the other side. Page rolled right into a House Call from Swerve, but managed to kick out in time! Kofi tried to stop a tag, but Page made it to King! King got Creed with a Black Hole Slam, but got staggered by a kick from Swerve. Bandido popped up Swerve into a cutter, but Kofi dropped Bandido with a big boot! Page caught Kofi in midair and dropped him with a Deadeye! Creed nailed Page with a front kick, and King used a side German Suplex to take Creed to the mat. King tossed Kofi into the corner to join Creed and backed up for a cannonball.
Bandido made the tag as King ducked under a leaping Swerve to hit the cannonball on The New Level. Page took Swerve out with a Buckshot Lariat! King launched Bandido into a splash to hit Second Shooter on Creed! Bandido covered Creed for the three-count!
Page, Bandido and King win the second fall. They are tied 1-1.
Bandido threw King into the barricade for a 3-for-1 crossbody splash onto Swerve, Kofi and Creed. Page took out Swerve with a moonsault, and Bandido jumped off the ring post to take out Kofi and Creed with a senton dive! King held Creed in a guillotine over the barricade while Bandido laid under Creed with his knees up. Page got on the barricade and measured Creed, but Swerve popped up out of nowhere next to Page and flipped him off the barricade with a hurricanrana! Creed pushed King into the steel steps, and Kofi stomped Bandido to the floor. Creed held Bandido over Swerve’s knees so Kofi could stomp him from the barricade!
Creed threw Bandido back in for a Limit Break elbow, but King was in to break it up. King knocked all three opponents to the floor and followed with a massive dive to wipe out the champions! Page hit a moonsault to Creed and Bandido followed with a shooting star press, but Creed kicked out in time! Bandido hit Creed with an X Knee and picked him up for a German Suplex. Page clobbered Creed with a Buckshot Lariat into the German Suplex, but Swerve broke up the pin in time with a Swerve Stomp to Bandido! Page and Swerve were the only two standing and started slugging it out. Swerve got knocked into King on the apron, but when Page went to attack, Swerve moved, and Page hit King! Swerve tried for a House Call, but Page ducked, and King got knocked off the apron! Swerve came back with a flatliner to Page, and everyone was down!
Swerve tagged in and went up top, but Page stopped him, and Kofi went after Page on the apron. Page turned a piledriver attempt into a Dead Eye on the apron, but Swerve immediately stomped Page in the face! King knocked Swerve to the floor, but got turned around by Creed. He chopped King, but King dropped him with one heavy shot. King put Creed on the top turnbuckle and then pulled Kofi up over Creed in an attempt to superplex both men at the same time. Swerve came over to save his partners with a kick and pulled King off the top to hit a Vertebreaker! Bandido planted Swerve with a hurricanrana! He went to the top and stood up with Creed and Kofi before bringing both down with a DOUBLE AVALANCHE REVOLUTIONARY FLY! The crowd went absolutely wild!
Swerve tried to get Bandido with a Vertebreaker, but he escaped and hit Swerve with an X Knee! Bandido tried a 21 Plex, but Swerve landed on his feet! He pulled Bandido for Big Pressure, but Bandido rolled through and captured Swerve on the mat to get a three-count! Bandido, Page and King are once again AEW World Trios Champions!
While the champions celebrated, Swerve argued with Creed and Kofi that they didn’t deserve the titles, but New Level handed their titles over to King and Bandido and embraced. Swerve held the other title in front of Page, but dropped it at his feet and left with Nana. The champions resumed their celebration with the titles and pyro to cap off the victory!
Ilja Dragunov is All Elite!
Renee Paquette came out to the stage and reminded everyone that AEW is “Where the Best Wrestle,” so it was her honor to introduce the new member of All Elite Wrestling. We saw a familiar metronome on the stage from the mysterious videos this past week before the lights went out and music began to play.
Orlando knew absolutely what it meant to have Dragunov in AEW, and he marched to the ring to make his presence known to the world! After giving proper appreciation to all sides of the crowd, Dragunov conducted them as he went up the ramp
AEW Continental Championship Match: Death Riders' Jon Moxley (c) def. Don Callis Family's Mark Davis
After Davis entered alone, the Death Riders huddled around PAC’s chair before Moxley continued to the ring alone as Renee Paquette provided an update from ringside, noting that the Death Riders have not had a chance to slow down and Moxley has taken that on more than anyone. Moxley took a little more time than usual preparing himself in the corner before the bell rang.
Moxley tried to control Davis on the mat, but Davis kept getting out of everything and overpowering Moxley. Moxley tried to fight back, but Davis kept coming and hitting harder. Every time Moxley showed a sign of offense, Davis shut him down. He knocked Moxley into the corner and absolutely walloped him with a diving elbow! Moxley went to the floor and came up bleeding above the left eye. Davis targeted the cut with another elbow and continued to work over Moxley on the floor. As he threw Moxley back in the ring, Moxley’s blood covered the ropes. Moxley tried to fight back, but Davis took him to the corner and mounted him for punches before biting Moxley’s bloody forehead!
The crowd engulfed Davis in boos, so Moxley pushed Davis to the floor. Moxley hit a dive that sent Davis into the commentary desk. He started to fire up and charged Davis in the corner for a big lariat. Moxley followed with mounted punches and added a bite for good measure. Davis shook off three lariats, so Moxley dropped him with a cutter! Moxley locked in a cross armbreaker, but Davis was able to withstand it and escape. Moxley tried to mount Davis in the corner for punches, but Davis lifted him out for a powerbomb, only for Moxley to land on his feet. Davis got out of a Death Rider attempt and spun Moxley over for a sit-down suplex. He hit a diving elbow for a near-fall, so he dropped another elbow, but Moxley kicked out again.
Davis knocked Moxley to the apron and dropped him on the corner with Close Your Eyes and Count to Three! Moxley crawled around on the floor trying to beat the count and did, but immediately rolled back out and sat up against the barricade. Marina Shafir and Daniel Garcia showed up behind him and encouraged him to get back into it! Moxley rolled in the ring, and Davis tried an enzuigiri but missed, so Moxley stomped him! The Death Riders left the ringside area as the crowd chanted for Mox, and he found new energy in the ring! He exchanged shots with Davis until he gained an advantage with a barrage of headbutts. Davis knocked him to the corner, but Moxley followed him to the opposite corner. Davis answered with a dropkick to knock Moxley to the mat, but Moxley pulled himself up and leveled Davis with a huge lariat!
Davis threw everything he had at Moxley from his knees, and Moxley kept coming back! They got back to their feet, and Moxley kept asking for more! Davis answered, and Moxley tried to stay on his feet, but wound up collapsing. Davis went to grab him, so Moxley tried to slip behind for a choke, but Davis reversed it. Moxley fell back on Davis, who seemed to lock in the rear naked choke even tighter. Moxley was nearly out, but managed to slip out of Davis’ arm and rolled Davis into the Bulldog Choke. Davis stood up to break it, so Moxley jumped on his back. Davis cannonballed into the corner to break it up, and Moxley crumpled to the mat. Davis tried another piledriver on the apron, so Moxley got out of it. Davis charged, and Moxley sent him into the ring post!
Moxley dove back in with blood all over his face as he feverishly tried to get his bearings. He located Davis and dove to take him out on the floor. Moxley stayed on Davis with more punches and threw him back in the ring. Moxley stumbled to get to the top rope and did, but when he came off, Davis ducked underneath and dropped Moxley with a lariat to the back of the head. Davis dumped Moxley with a deadlift German Suplex, and the champion was out against the ropes. Davis tried to rebound him back, so Moxley ducked and hit a Death Rider! 1-2-Davis kicked out! Moxley had a wild look in his eyes as Davis tried to fire up in the corner, blood now streaming down from his head. The two met in the middle with flailing strikes, and Moxley started to find some consistent offense until Davis laid him out with a lariat.
Davis tried to pick Mox off the mat, but Moxley quickly snatched him in The Brutalizer! Davis rolled up to a seated position to break it, so Moxley went to a rear choke and jumped on Davis' back! Davis tried to push through it, but collapsed to the mat and the referee called for the bell! Moxley retains! The Death Riders came out to join Moxley, who spilled out of the ring and had another release of heavy emotions before sitting at the barricade to gather himself.
AEW World Championship Clockwork Carnage Match: AEW World Champion "The Aerial Assassin" Will Ospreay (c) def. The Opps' Samoa Joe, United Empire's "Speedball" Mike Bailey, "The Rated-R Superstar" Adam Copeland, "The Alpha" Konosuke Takeshita, AEW International Champion "The Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada of the Don Callis Family, The Demand's Ricochet and TNT Champion Darby Allin
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AEW World Champion Will Ospreay drew #1
“The Alpha” Konosuke Takeshita drew #2
The two immediately hauled off at the bell with strikes until Ospreay took Takeshita to the floor with a headscissors. Ospreay followed with a crossbody and threw Takeshita back in. He stayed on Takeshita and hit a corkscrew kick for a near-fall. Takeshita fired back with a flying clothesline, so Ospreay rolled to the floor. Takeshita followed out with a senton dive that clobbered Ospreay!
“Speedball” Mike Bailey drew #3
Takeshita cut Bailey off on the apron, so Bailey flipped over him with a sunset flip for a near-fall. Bailey took Takeshita over with a headscissors and looked for a dive. Takeshita knocked Bailey off the apron and stopped Ospreay with a big boot. Bailey and Ospreay double-teamed Takeshita, with each getting a near-fall. Takeshita bailed to the floor, so Bailey and Ospreay nodded at each other before they were about to face off. Takeshita came back in to take both down, but the next entrant was ready.
Ricochet drew #4
Ricochet stopped short of getting right in the ring to avoid Takeshita. He cautiously got in and kicked Ospreay to the floor. Takeshita and Ricochet threw Bailey to the corner, and Takeshita sent Ricochet in for a clothesline, so Ricochet did the same for Takeshita, only to roll Takeshita up for a near-fall! Takeshita hit a pair of stiff shots to Ricochet, but he came back to knock Takeshita to the floor with an enzuigiri. Ricochet hit a Spaceman dive to Ospreay on the floor and came back in battle with Takeshita. Takeshita asked Ricochet to hit him harder, only to drop Ricochet with a heavy shot.
Takeshita hit Ospreay with a jumping forearm in the corner and went up to meet him on the top rope, but Bailey joined them. Takeshita managed to fight both off and hit a double superplex! Ricochet immediately came down on Takeshita with a 450 Splash, but Takeshita kicked out to survive!
TNT Champion Darby Allin drew #5
Ricochet went out to meet Allin, so he nailed him in the gut with his skateboard. Allin stomped the skateboard on Ricochet’s back from the apron and set up a table. He put Ricochet on it and went to the top, but Ricochet had enough energy to get off the table and meet Allin on the top rope. Allin hit an Avalanche Code Red and another in the ring, but Ricochet kicked out! Allin kicked Takeshita to the floor and followed with a Coffin Drop from the top! Allin went for a low blow, but Takeshita jumped and met him with a big knee!
Takeshita blocked Ospreay’s OsCutter attempt in the ring, but couldn’t stop a Stundog Millonaire. Takeshita came back with a big elbow, so Ospreay ran up him with a kick and hit an enzuigiri.
“The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada drew #6
Okada took his time coming to the ring and met Ospreay in the middle, going head to head. They exchanged blows until Okada put Ospreay down with a flapjack. Okada dropkicked Allin from the top rope to the floor! Okada flipped off Bailey and tried to catch him with a dropkick, so Bailey hung onto the ropes and flipped off Okada! Okada ran at Bailey, so he hit a triangle moonsault onto Allin on the floor. Takeshita fought hard for a backslide on Okada and got it, but Bailey came in to break it up. He rolled both over and tried a double pin, but they both kicked out. Bailey dropped Takeshita with a kick and hooked Okada’s arms and legs for a near-fall. Okada tried to get Bailey with a Rainmaker, but he ducked, and Okada ate a nasty elbow from Takeshita.
Bailey kicked Takeshita in the face, so Takeshita booted him right back. Bailey surprised Takeshita with a Green Tea Plunge and hooked him deep, but Takeshita rolled over it and nailed a Wheelbarrow Suplex! Bailey stopped Takeshita with a kick in the corner, followed by a thrust kick. He tried for a Time Adventure kick only to land right in Takeshita’s grasp for a Blue Thunder Bomb. Takeshita followed right up with Raging Fire and pinned Bailey for the three-count!
“Speedball” Mike Bailey has been eliminated!
“The Rated R Superstar” Adam Copeland drew #7
As the crowd continued to sing Copeland’s theme, he didn’t wait for them to finish and went right into it with Ricochet. They exchanged reversals until Cope thought he had Ricochet dead to rights for a spear as the crowd reached their crescendo, but Ricochet moved, and Copeland hit the middle buckle. Ricochet came back with a running boot and went up for a shooting star press, but Cope got the knees up. Takeshita blasted Cope with a palm strike and measured for Power Strike Knee, but Copeland avoided it and pulled Takeshita down with a Cope-a-Matic. Cope charged at Takeshita for a spear, but Takeshita took that momentum into Blue Thunder Bomb! He picked Copeland back up, but Okada grabbed Takeshita from behind and nailed him with a Rainmaker and pinned him for the second elimination!
“The Alpha” Konosuke Takeshita has been eliminated.
Ospreay hit Okada with an OsCutter! Okada kicked out! Allin escaped a Stormbreaker and spiked Ospreay with a Code Red! Ospreay kicked out! Ricochet hit Allin with Vertigo! Allin kicked out! This was a flurry of elimination attempts before the final entrant locked in the field for Phase 2! Ricochet went to the top, but the music of the eighth and final entrant played.
Samoa Joe drew #8
Phase 2 (Ospreay, Allin, Ricochet, Okada, Copeland and Joe)
Ricochet tried to take out Joe with a dive before he even made it to the ring, but in perfect Joe fashion, he simply walked out of the way as Ricochet crashed and burned! Orlando was thrilled to see Ricochet fall for Joe’s oldest trick. Joe got in and dropped Okada and Ospreay. Ospreay came back, so Joe smashed him with a powerslam. Joe hit a senton splash to Allin’s bad knee and pushed him into the corner for a Muscle Buster! Joe pinned Allin for the first point of the match!
Samoa Joe: 1
Joe dove through the ropes to take out Ospreay with a forearm. With Allin still down, Ricochet pinned him for a three-count!
Ricochet: 1
Samoa Joe: 1
Cope took Ricochet down and he rolled out of the ring, so Cope never saw Okada grab him for a Rainmaker! Okada pinned Copeland for the three-count!
Okada: 1
Ricochet: 1
Samoa Joe: 1
Ricochet tried to cover Cope, but Joe pulled Ricochet in a choke. Ricochet broke it up by running Joe into the steel steps. Back in the ring, Okada stopped Ospreay’s springboard forearm with a perfectly timed dropkick! He picked up Ospreay for a Tombstone and spiked him. He picked up Ospreay for a Rainmaker, but Ospreay turned it into a Stormbreaker! 1-2-Ricochet flew off the top to break it up but landed on Okada! 1-2-Ospreay pulled Ricochet off Okada! Ospreay lined up Ricochet for a Hidden Blade, but he was ready for it and stopped Ospreay. Ricochet hit Ospreay with a boot out of the corner and tried to handspring out, only for Ospreay to grab Ricochet by the shoulders. Ospreay spun him around and nailed a Styles Clash! He pinned Ricochet for a fall!
Ospreay: 1
Okada: 1
Ricochet: 1
Samoa Joe: 1
Allin immediately came down on Ospreay with a Coffin Drop and pinned the AEW World Champion!
Allin: 1
Ospreay: 1
Okada: 1
Ricochet: 1
Samoa Joe: 1
Allin dropkicked Joe off the apron, and Copeland came back in the ring to face off with Allin. Allin offered a handshake, but instead trapped him in a La Magistral cradle for a surprise three-count!
Allin: 2
Ospreay: 1
Okada: 1
Ricochet: 1
Samoa Joe: 1
Copeland charged at Allin, so he pulled a low bridge, and Copeland spilled to the floor. Allin saw Ospreay coming at him and flipped over for a stunner. Allin tried a Code Red, but Ospreay pushed him forward, back onto his feet and leveled Allin with a Hidden Blade! Ospreay scores a pin!
Allin: 2
Ospreay: 2
Okada: 1
Ricochet: 1
Samoa Joe: 1
10 minutes remain!
Ospreay and Ricochet battled on the top rope until Ricochet hit a super hurricanrana on Ospreay, but the champion managed to kick out! A frustrated Ricochet decided to jaw with the crowd, so Ospreay fired back, and Ricochet caught him with a running boot to the jaw. Ricochet went up and hit a Shooting Star Press! Ospreay kicked out again, but he appeared to be in bad shape! Ricochet went to the floor and threw everyone into a barricade. Back in the ring, Ospreay sent Ricochet to the apron. Ospreay charged and ate a boot from Ricochet, so Ricochet never saw Cope coming, as he speared Ricochet off the apron through a table on the floor!
Joe worked on Allin on the floor, while taking a moment to look at the scoreboard. Back in the ring, Okada dropped an elbow on Ospreay from the ropes and flipped off the crowd with about five minutes left. He tried to hit a Rainmaker, but Ospreay flipped over with a standing Spanish Fly. He covered, but Okada kicked out! Back on the floor, Allin jumped off the steel steps onto Joe, who caught him and threw him right back into the corner of the steel! The crowd felt that one!
Joe got back in the ring, so Ospreay went for an OsCutter, which gave Joe the chance to just walk away. However, Ospreay never jumped, so he switched sides and tried, but Joe walked away again, and Ospreay crash-landed. Joe followed with a senton splash and the Coquina Clutch! Joe rolled Ospreay back to the middle, but Ospreay managed to get back to his feet. Joe kept the choke on, and Ospreay collapsed to the mat. He had no choice but to tap out before suffering further injury.
Allin: 2
Samoa Joe: 2
Ospreay: 2
Okada: 1
Ricochet: 1
Joe mockingly posed for the crowd and slowly kicked away at Ospreay in the corner with about 2:30 left in the match. Joe tried to pull Ospreay off the top for a Muscle Buster, but Ospreay broke free, and Cope speared Joe! He covered Joe for a three-count and his first point!
Allin: 2
Samoa Joe: 2
Ospreay: 2
Copeland: 1
Okada: 1
Ricochet: 1
Ricochet springboarded right into a spear from Cope! Cope gets another pinfall to tie for the lead!
Copeland: 2
Allin: 2
Samoa Joe: 2
Ospreay: 2
Okada: 1
Ricochet: 1
90 seconds remain!
Cope ran at Ospreay, who rolled him into an inside cradle for a near-fall. Ospreay went for a backslide, but Cope kicked out. Ospreay hit a hook kick, and Cope was down on his knees. Ospreay removed his elbow pad and ran at Cope for the Hidden Blade, but Cope ducked. Ospreay ran into an Impaler DDT with one minute remaining! Copeland didn’t go for the pin and instead pulled himself up in the corner. With 45 seconds left, Copeland looked for another spear, but ran into a dropkick from Okada. Okada tried another Rainmaker on Cope, so he ducked it and speared Okada with 20 seconds remaining! Copeland fell on top of Okada for the pin attempt only to be taken out by a Hidden Blade from Ospreay! Ospreay covered Copeland for the three-count and the lead! The clock expired right after, and the match is over! Ospreay retains!
Final Score
Ospreay: 3
Copeland: 2
Allin: 2
Samoa Joe: 2
Okada: 1
Ricochet: 1
Copeland stopped Ospreay’s celebration to shake his hand before leaving the ring. Ospreay continued to celebrate with the crowd to end WrestleDream!
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