Worlds End 2025: Moxley Wins the Continental Classic and MJF Takes the World Title

Sisters of Sin (Julia Hart and Skye Blue) defeated Hyan and Maya World by pinfall. The match is framed as Tag team match and runs 6:10. As a pre-show match, it has to create momentum before the pay-per-view proper while still feeling worthwhile on its own. The match is solid and useful, but it lacks the urgency or escalation needed to reach the top tier. The result does not rely on a championship change for its importance. At 6.1 out of 10, the rating reflects how the match works inside Worlds End 2025 as a complete show rather than treating historical importance and immediate match quality as the same thing.

Eddie Kingston defeated Zack Gibson (with James Drake) by pinfall. The match is framed as Singles match and runs 5:40. As a pre-show match, it has to create momentum before the pay-per-view proper while still feeling worthwhile on its own. The match is solid and useful, but it lacks the urgency or escalation needed to reach the top tier. The result does not rely on a championship change for its importance. At 6.3 out of 10, the rating reflects how the match works inside Worlds End 2025 as a complete show rather than treating historical importance and immediate match quality as the same thing.

Bandido pinned Rocky Romero with the 21 Plex to give himself and Máscara Dorada a Zero Hour tag victory over Romero and Mark Davis at Worlds End 2025. Romero attempted Sliced Bread while Davis used his size to stall Bandido's early power moves; Dorada turned the momentum with springboard offense and later landed a shooting star press on Romero, but the closing sequence belonged to Bandido. Dorada took Davis out of the ring so Bandido could catch Romero and deliver the 21 Plex for the deciding fall. Bandido had already earned a future AEW World Championship opportunity through the Dynamite Diamond Ring, but the match itself was a non-title tag contest rather than a new championship award. C+ (6.7) reflects a useful showcase and a precise pinfall finish without overstating the stakes of the pre-show match.

JetSpeed (Kevin Knight and "Speedball" Mike Bailey) and Jurassic Express ("Jungle" Jack Perry and Luchasaurus) defeated Josh Alexander and The Demand (Ricochet, Bishop Kaun, and Toa Liona) by pinfall. The match is framed as Eight-man tag team match and runs 9:00. As a pre-show match, it has to create momentum before the pay-per-view proper while still feeling worthwhile on its own. The match is strong rather than transcendent: its structure is convincing and its flaws never take over. The result does not rely on a championship change for its importance. At 7 out of 10, the rating reflects how the match works inside Worlds End 2025 as a complete show rather than treating historical importance and immediate match quality as the same thing.

Kazuchika Okada pinned Konosuke Takeshita after secretly striking him with a screwdriver, surviving their Continental Classic semifinal and advancing to the final. Takeshita had dominated late stretches of this rare meeting, finally landing the Power Drive Knee and nearly beating the champion, but Okada recovered when the action moved near the corner. Okada had hidden the screwdriver by the turnbuckles and retrieved it while the referee looked elsewhere. The illicit strike allowed him to score the three-count. Both men were associated with Don Callis's group, so this was a bitter intrafaction tournament result, not an IWGP championship change. Takeshita's other world title wasn't defended in the tournament.

Jon Moxley advanced to the Continental Classic final when referee Bryce Remsburg stopped the semifinal with Kyle Fletcher trapped in a choke. Fletcher repeatedly attacked Moxley's damaged ankle and survived both a Paradigm Shift and a Death Rider, turning the match into a battle of endurance. Moxley applied another choke after Fletcher's near falls, and the challenger slumped without responding to the official's check. This was a technical submission, not Fletcher voluntarily tapping or losing by an ordinary pin. Fletcher protested the stoppage after recovering and attacked the injured leg in frustration, leaving Moxley weakened before his final with Okada.

Dax Harwood pinned Austin Gunn after FTR used a second assisted piledriver on a championship belt to retain the AEW World Tag Team Championship in a Chicago Street Fight. Bang Bang Gang's Gunn and Juice Robinson fought through chairs, a trash can, table collisions and repeated attacks on Robinson's knee, but Stokely Hathaway continued helping the champions from ringside. Robinson survived FTR's Shatter Machine and Gunn broke another near fall, yet a piledriver on a trash can wore Gunn down before the title-assisted final move. Harwood made the cover on Gunn, not Robinson. The street-fight stipulation prevented the weapon use from ending the bout by disqualification.

Willow Nightingale rolled up Mercedes Moné in a backslide to retain the AEW Women's World Tag Team Championship alongside Harley Cameron against Moné and Athena. Athena controlled sections of the contest with powerful aerial attacks, while Moné threatened a submission and attacked Cameron with the Moné Maker. The challengers miscommunicated late, striking each other during attempted saves. Nightingale took advantage and trapped Moné's shoulders for the decisive fall, leaving Athena outside the official cover. Moné still held her separate TBS Championship, and Athena's ROH women's title wasn't contested. The tag title defense also intensified the disagreement between the defeated partners.

Darby Allin pinned Gabe Kidd after reversing Kidd's rear-naked choke into a sudden pinning combination. Both wrestlers bled following repeated collisions with the guardrail and steel ring structures, and Allin had already delivered Coffin Drops to Kidd in the ring and on the floor without keeping him down. Kidd survived the punishment and answered with a piledriver and heavy strikes, only for Allin to catch him while defending against the choke. The three-count was a wrestling escape, not a referee stoppage from the blood or a successful Scorpion Death Lock. The non-title contest underscored Allin's ability to absorb punishment against the New Japan-connected fighter.

Mark Briscoe pinned Wheeler Yuta after a Jay Driller to win the Mixed Nuts Mayhem tornado eight-person tag for Briscoe, Toni Storm, Roderick Strong and Orange Cassidy over Claudio Castagnoli, Daniel Garcia, Yuta and Marina Shafir. The absence of tag restrictions produced a brawl with simultaneous exchanges involving Storm and Shafir, Cassidy and Garcia, and Briscoe and the Death Riders. Late in the match Cassidy stopped Garcia with an Orange Punch and Storm knocked Yuta off balance with a hip attack, giving Briscoe an opening for the winning Jay Driller. Yuta was the pinned opponent, not Shafir or Castagnoli. No championship was on the line.

Kris Statlander pinned Jamie Hayter after Staturday Night Fever to retain the AEW Women's World Championship in a physical singles defense. Hayter survived a package piledriver and tried to finish with Hayterade, while Statlander endured an avalanche exploder and a late powerful lariat. Both women countered each other's signature strikes, and Hayter even reversed an initial Staturday Night Fever attempt into a version of the champion's own move. Statlander eventually rolled off Hayter's back and caught her with the successful finishing maneuver for the three-count. This was a legal title retention rather than a disqualification or outside-assisted victory.

Jon Moxley pinned defending Continental Classic champion Kazuchika Okada after the Death Rider to win the 2025 tournament and the AEW Continental Championship. Moxley had survived an earlier semifinal with Kyle Fletcher and carried an injured ankle into the final, which Okada attacked with dragon screws and a Texas Cloverleaf. Both wrestlers exploited referee distractions for low blows, and Okada nearly finished Moxley with the Rainmaker. Moxley recovered, answered with a Paradigm Shift and then a Death Rider for the legal pin. The victory ended Okada's 647-day Continental reign and crowned Moxley the tournament winner for the first time.

MJF pinned Samoa Joe with the Heat Seeker to win the AEW World Championship in a four-way also featuring Hangman Adam Page and Swerve Strickland. Page struck Joe with consecutive Buckshot Lariats, but MJF intercepted another attempt with a low blow that prevented Page from taking the cover. MJF then pulled Joe to the ropes and completed the Heat Seeker for the official three-count. Swerve and Page were participants but were not pinned, and Joe lost the championship despite surviving earlier assaults and help from the Opps. This was a real world-title change for MJF, not a successful Joe defense or a pin of a nonchampion challenger.