Full Gear 2025: Samoa Joe's World-Title Win Caps a Deep AEW Card

Juice Robinson snatched the $200,000 four-way tag prize for Bang Bang Gang with a roll-up on Anthony Bowens, just when Bowens and Max Caster seemed poised to take control. The reunited partners had fought over their timing and still pulled together long enough for Caster to land a top-rope elbow after Bowens cleared Bryan Keith. The Outrunners found a burst of offense after Big Bill had knocked Truth Magnum into the commentary area, but the constant changes in legal teams made a lasting advantage difficult. Robinson returned unnoticed behind Bowens for the decisive three-count, with Austin Gunn sharing the cash win. Nothing about this finish settled a tag championship: the dollar prize and Bowens-Caster partnership were the hooks. That makes the opener a lively, sometimes crowded pre-show diversion rather than a match whose consequences drive Full Gear's title picture.

Boom & Doom survived RPG Vice's ringside distractions, then finished with Big Boom AJ's PowerBoom setup and a top-rope blockbuster from QT Marshall. The Don Callis Family's Rocky Romero and Trent Beretta took advantage after Marshall was knocked to the floor, while Don Callis later drew the referee's attention at a crucial point. Beretta's cast shot and knee nearly stole the win, but Marshall broke up a double-team cover. Outside help escalated: Big Justice hit a Diamond Cutter on Romero while the referee was occupied, and Paul Wight struck Beretta after leaving commentary. The resulting pin belonged to Boom & Doom, not a championship match or a serious faction-changing upset. The physical comeback and celebrity cameos are the purpose of this twelve-minute Tailgate Brawl attraction; the chain of outside interventions also explains why its score sits below Full Gear's stronger wrestling matches.

Eddie Kingston pinned Anthony Henry with a DDT in only 1:50 while HOOK trapped JD Drake in REDRUM, preventing the second WorkHorseman from rescuing his partner. Henry and Drake had attacked Kingston and HOOK during their entrance and isolated HOOK long enough for Drake to hit a springboard senton and a spinebuster. HOOK eventually reached Kingston, and their double backdrop on Drake cleared the way for Kingston's finishing DDT on Henry. It is a short, decisive tag result rather than a competitive ten-minute contest; the ambush and quick response are practically the entire story. The score and SKIP recommendation recognize that the pairing's undefeated run advanced, but a viewer following Full Gear's major title changes can understand this one from a brief replay.

Místico made Hechicero submit to La Mística to keep the CMLL World Trios Championship with Máscara Dorada and Neón. The match had begun on Tailgate Brawl and continued when the main Full Gear broadcast started, a peculiar placement for a defending championship team. Hechicero had injured Místico's arm around the ring steps and a chair before the bell, leaving Dorada and Neón to hold off the Callis Family early. Kazuchika Okada arrived late and brought more friction than help: he and Konosuke Takeshita argued and misfired while Místico returned with his arm taped. The champions rallied through fast dives and counters before Místico caught Hechicero in the decisive submission. Okada was neither pinned nor forced to tap. The trios' retention supplied a concrete payoff, while the Callis teammates' rivalry overshadowed much of the actual title defense.

PAC pinned Darby Allin after striking him with his own bat while Wheeler Yuta distracted the referee, taking advantage of the burns Allin had suffered in their Blood & Guts feud. PAC exposed the bandages around Allin's right arm and back and threw him from the apron to the floor, but Allin survived several kicks and a German suplex. Allin then dodged the Black Arrow and trapped PAC in the Scorpion Death Lock, only for Yuta's distraction to create the opening for the bat attack. The result was an assisted pinfall, not the Brutalizer submission PAC tried earlier. No championship was at stake in this grudge match.

Toni Storm pinned Harley Cameron with The Big Package, winning the four-way tag match for Timeless Love Bombs with Mina Shirakawa over Babes of Wrath, Sisters of Sin, and Megan Bayne with Marina Shafir. Bayne and Shafir had isolated Shirakawa, while Willow Nightingale and Cameron repeatedly entered to break dangerous covers. Nightingale knocked their larger opponents from the apron and Shirakawa followed with a top-rope dive; back in the ring Cameron briefly rolled up Storm but the veteran reversed the exchange into the decisive pin. The victory awarded Storm and Shirakawa the choice of stipulation for their upcoming women's tag-title tournament semifinal; it did not itself award the new championship.

FTR regained the AEW World Tag Team Championship by pinning Bandido after a Shatter Machine, defeating defending champions Brodido despite their repeated late escapes. Brody King damaged Dax Harwood with power offense and even survived a superplex followed by a splash, while Bandido slipped free of FTR's first Shatter Machine attempt and landed the 21 Plex on Cash Wheeler. King had to break up an apparent winning cover after FTR finally hit the move on Bandido, and later crashed into the guardrail during a dive. The challengers followed a spike piledriver with another Shatter Machine to keep Bandido down. King was not pinned; the win made FTR three-time AEW tag champions.

Ricochet pinned Kevin Knight to become the inaugural AEW National Champion in the 12-man Casino Gauntlet, ending the 22:35 contest with one decisive fall. The staggered-entry format meant the contenders couldn't treat the match like a normal elimination bout: a newly arriving wrestler could change the field, but one pin could end the opportunity for everybody. Knight's defeat produced a definite first champion and a championship payoff on a crowded card. The 8.2 score rewards the match's pace and stakes without assuming the new title's future prestige.

The 20:30 No Holds Barred match gave Kyle O'Reilly and Jon Moxley room to turn a submission rivalry into something much uglier. Marina Shafir supplied Moxley with a fork, which he used to bloody O'Reilly before the fight moved through chairs and a steel chain. O'Reilly worked back toward Moxley's ankle even as his own arm took punishment. In the finish he trapped Moxley's legs in a chain-assisted ankle lock and forced a tap. A second submission loss to O'Reilly in ten days made the outcome a personal setback for Moxley rather than a championship story. The 8.8 rating credits the escalating violence and a finish earned through the match's repeated grappling exchanges.

Mark Briscoe pinned Kyle Fletcher with the Jay Driller onto scattered weapons to win the AEW TNT Championship in a brutal no-disqualification match. Fletcher had attacked with ladders and chairs, while Briscoe answered with a flipping neckbreaker onto ringside chairs and a Froggy Bow through a table. Don Callis slipped Fletcher a screwdriver, but Briscoe fought off the attempted weapon-assisted finish and eventually delivered a crucifix powerbomb from the ladder through a barbed-wire table. He then hit the Jay Driller for the legal three-count. The title change also meant Briscoe avoided the stipulated consequence of having to join the Don Callis Family if he lost.

The Young Bucks and Josh Alexander won the one-million-dollar trios match when the Jackson brothers hit the BTE Trigger on Jack Perry, defeating Perry, Luchasaurus and Kenny Omega. Omega fought through a damaged leg and survived a series of tag-team attacks, and his side nearly won after a Countdown to Extinction countered the Bucks' double Doomsday Device attempt. Alexander also trapped Omega in an ankle lock while the Bucks struck with a BTE Trigger, but the ropes saved him. The Bucks recovered and pinned Perry to claim the money. Afterward, Don Callis's group attacked Omega, only for Matt and Nick Jackson to turn on that alliance and reunite with him. This was a cash-prize trios match, not a championship bout.

Kris Statlander retained the AEW Women's World Championship by pinning Mercedes Moné after Staturday Night Fever, finally defeating a rival who had beaten her at the previous year's Full Gear. Statlander's left arm became a clear vulnerability after she missed a 450 splash and landed awkwardly on the floor. Moné punished the arm with joint manipulation, an armbar and several meteoras, preventing Statlander from lifting her for the finishing move. Statlander survived Moné's extended suplex sequence and later a pair of knees to the face before intercepting another attack with Staturday Night Fever. Moné's TBS Championship was not being defended; this was a successful women's world-title defense.

Samoa Joe pinned Hangman Adam Page after a Muscle Buster onto the AEW World Championship belt to win the AEW World Championship inside a steel cage. Page had survived heavy attacks and bloodied Joe, then landed a Dead Eye and Buckshot Lariat, but referee Paul Turner was incapacitated before he could count. Katsuyori Shibata and Powerhouse Hobbs attempted to help Joe from outside, with Eddie Kingston intercepting Shibata. HOOK appeared to assist Page but instead struck him with the title and revealed he was still aligned with the Opps. Joe hit the Muscle Buster for the counted win. Swerve Strickland returned after the bell to confront Joe, not to alter the official result.