Full Gear 2019: AEW Turns Violence and Consequence into a Complete Pay-Per-View

Britt Baker made Bea Priestley submit to Lockjaw to win their Full Gear Buy-In grudge match. Priestley targeted Baker's back by pulling her against the ring post and landing a double stomp while Baker was caught on the apron, leaving Baker unable to follow up smoothly on a superplex. Priestley also escaped early Lockjaw attempts and twice threatened a quick pin. Baker rallied with a Canadian Destroyer for a near fall, survived another cradle attempt and finally connected with a superkick before securing the deciding submission. D+ (5.3) reflects a physical but uneven pre-show fight whose rivalry was more convincing than its execution. Awesome Kong and Brandi Rhodes appeared in the post-match attack on Priestley; neither was a scheduled opponent or involved in Baker's win.

Santana and Ortiz pinned Nick Jackson with Street Sweeper to defeat the Young Bucks in the opening pay-per-view tag match. Nick's damaged leg governed the final stretch: Proud n' Powerful used a dragon screw and repeated attacks to slow his comeback, and Nick collapsed while springboarding for the Meltzer Driver. Matt Jackson kept restoring the Bucks' offense with suplexes and double-team counters, but the challengers stopped More Bang for Your Buck and isolated Nick for the finishing Doomsday-style Blockbuster. The Rock 'n' Roll Express and Sammy Guevara were involved after the bell, not as legal participants. B (7.6) recognizes a long match that tied its spectacular combinations to a useful injury story, despite distracting tag-enforcement moments.

Hangman Adam Page pinned PAC with Dead Eye to settle the rivals' Full Gear rubber match. PAC had halted an attempted Buckshot Lariat by escaping to the floor and then dropped Page with a brainbuster onto a chair near the barricade. Page barely beat the ten-count; back inside, PAC continued with strikes and tried to force the Brutalizer, but Page kept reaching for a counter or rope escape. PAC's missed Black Arrow gave Page another chance, and he ultimately blocked a low-blow attempt, answered with a lariat and landed Dead Eye for the decisive fall. B (7.5) credits Page's comeback from sustained punishment and a finish built from their previous encounters rather than describing the bout as generic midcard action.

Shawn Spears pinned Joey Janela with a running Death Valley Driver after Tully Blanchard's interference turned the singles match in his favor. Spears had worked Janela into a corner, even tying his hair to the tag rope, and tried to stretch the contest with a Sharpshooter that Janela escaped at the ropes. With the referee distracted by an exposed turnbuckle, Blanchard spiked Janela in a ringside piledriver setup; Spears then put Janela away back in the ring. The result is a pinfall for Spears, not a submission or a team win for his manager. D (4.8) reflects a feud match whose slow pacing and dependence on ringside shortcuts left little to justify its length beyond the final heel-assisted sequence.

SCU retained the AEW World Tag Team Championship when Frankie Kazarian pinned Isiah Kassidy after Scorpio Sky lifted Kassidy into position for Kazarian's finishing kick. The three-way rules allowed only two wrestlers to be legal at once, creating opportunistic tags as the Lucha Brothers and Private Party tried to steal the spotlight. Marq Quen connected with a Fosbury Flop, Fenix answered with a springboard corkscrew dive onto the ringside pile, and Quen later came close with a shooting star press on Kazarian. The champions survived those near falls, escaped Private Party's finisher and secured the decision over Kassidy. Christopher Daniels' masked appearance occurred after the championship defense, not during its deciding fall. C+ (6.8) credits a lively six-man title match whose finishing kick felt less imposing than the preceding aerial exchanges.

Riho retained the AEW Women's World Championship by rolling Emi Sakura into a quick pin after surviving the challenger's heavy offense and a flurry of last-second near falls. Sakura used a middle-rope senton, arm attack and suplexes to interrupt Riho's speed, while Riho repeatedly answered with double stomps and running knees. Sakura bridged out of a top-rope double-stomp cover and nearly reversed the result with her own cradle before Riho caught her with another stomp to the head and the final cover. The small champion's narrow escape was the purpose of the finish: she had to outmaneuver her mentor, not dominate her with power. B- (7.3) credits the chain of inventive counters while recognizing that the crowd's energy never entirely caught up with the wrestling.

Chris Jericho retained the AEW World Championship when Cody's corner man MJF threw in the towel as Jericho trapped Cody in the Liontamer and stomped the challenger's head. Cody had promised never to pursue the title again if he lost, giving the referee's stoppage a consequence far beyond this defense. A missed ringside dive left Cody bleeding, while Jake Hager's interventions, a belt shot and Jericho's targeting of the injured challenger made the comeback more difficult. Cody still produced a near fall with CrossRhodes and escaped an earlier Walls of Jericho before MJF made the decisive corner decision. The finish was neither a pinfall nor Cody submitting on his own. A- (8.8) captures the stakes and escalating drama even if the towel ended the bout more abruptly than its strongest exchanges suggested. MJF's subsequent betrayal followed the official decision.

Jon Moxley pinned Kenny Omega after an elevated Paradigm Shift onto the exposed wooden ring boards to win their unsanctioned Lights Out main event. The two had fought through chairs, barbed-wire weapons, mousetraps and a broken-glass board before Moxley stripped away the canvas. Omega briefly turned the exposed floor against him with a DDT and attempted a Phoenix Splash, but Moxley moved, leaving Omega to crash on the boards before the final move. Earlier Omega's V-Trigger and a dive through a ringside table had pushed the fight outside ordinary wrestling boundaries; Moxley survived despite being driven into the barbed-wire bed. A (9.0) reflects a punishing, deliberately divisive spectacle whose outcome was still a true pinfall. The Lights Out designation meant the match was non-title and unsanctioned, not that it lacked a referee or recorded winner.