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AEW presented Worlds End 2024 live from the Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, FL!
It’s Saturday and you know what that means!
The Zero Hour portion of the show kicked off!
Your announce team for Zero Hour was Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, and Nigel McGuinness.
Toni Storm vs. Leila Grey!
The fans chanted “She’s a rookie!” at Toni Storm.
Leila was looking for a submission early on, but Toni evaded it. Toni took down Grey with a shoulder tackle and a dropkick. Toni followed up with a back breaker, but Grey kicked out at the one-count.
Leila Grey blasted Toni with a dropkick. The fans rallied behind Toni, chanting her name. Leila hit a cutter out of nowhere and then applied a dragon sleeper. Toni reached the ropes with her boot, forcing the ref to break the hold. Toni smashed Grey with a running hip attack! Grey went for a suplex, but Toni hooked an inside cradle and continued her winning ways, pinning Grey!
“The Last Outlaw” Jeff Jarrett vs. QT Marshall!
Jarrett hip tossed QT across the ring. Jarrett sent QT over the ropes, but QT skinned the cat. QT tried to ambush Jarrett, but Jeff Jarrett knocked QT back over the top with a clothesline and then did the Fargo strut.
The fans chanted “You still got it! You still got it!”
QT did a back handspring into a kick at Jarrett. Marshall, looking lean, was cocky and began to pose. QT applied a sleeper but Jarrett suplexed his way out of it. Jarrett grabbed QT, who was on the top turnbuckle, and body slammed him. Jarrett applied a sharpshooter.
Aaron Solo ran down and jumped on the ring apron. As Jarrett was distracted, QT rolled up Jarrett for a near fall. QT rocked Jarrett with the Stroke. QT ordered Aaron to grab Jarrett’s guitar. Jay Lethal sprinted down and intervened on behalf of Jarrett. Solo and Lethal brawled to the back. Jarrett stunned QT with the Stroke and scored the pin!
Lexy Nair interviewed Toni Storm backstage, when “The Virtuosa” Deonna Purrazzo interrupted. Deonna challenged Toni to a match on Dynamite. Toni accepted and thanked Deonna for the opportunity.
8-Man Tag Match!
The Outrunners—Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd, & Top Flight—Dante & Darius Martin
vs.
Lio Rush & Action Andretti, and Murder Machines—Brian Cage & Lance Archer (with Don Callis)!
The Murder Machines battered Darius back and forth with a barrage of offense. AEW World Tag Team Champions Private Party were watching the match on a monitor backstage, scouting the competition.
Turbo tagged in and cleaned house on Lio Rush and Action Andretti with body slams. Brian Cage tried for a double suplex on the Outrunners, but they turned it around and suplexed “the Machine.” Top Flight and the Outrunners hit a quadruple biceps drop on the Murder Machines and Rush and Andretti.
Cage and Archer drilled Dante with the chokeslam power bomb combo. Lio Rush tagged himself in, came down with a frog splash and pinned Dante. The Murder Machines were furious that Lio tagged himself in and took their limelight.
After the match, AEW World Tag Team Champions Private Party walked down the ramp and taunted Action Andretti and Lio Rush!
Lexy Nair was backstage with Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, Sonjay Dutt, and Satnam Singh! Jeff Jarrett said this Wednesday at the Mother of All Simulcasts, the Last Outlaw will make an announcement about his future!
The pay-per-view portion of the night kicked off with…
AEW Continental Classic Semifinal Match!
“The Aerial Assassin” Will Ospreay
vs. The Don Callis Family’s “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher!
Ospreay dodged a charging Fletcher as the bell rang. Will went for an Os-Cutter but Fletcher blocked it. Both men showed how well they know each other in the early goings in this human game of chess. Fletcher nailed Will with a cross chop against the windpipe. Ospreay took down Fletcher with a cannonball dive off the apron!
Fletcher kicked the taste out of Will’s mouth with a pump kick. Fletcher power bombed Will onto the ring apron. Fletcher lawn darted Ospreay into the ringside barricade. Ospreay was busted wide open, bleeding from the forehead.
Fletcher hurled Ospreay again, lawn darting Ospreay into the second turnbuckle. Ospreay took Fletcher off his feet with a desperation clothesline. Will used a standing sky twister press on the Protostar for a near fall. Ospreay rocked Fletcher with a standing Spanish Fly. He hooked Fletcher’s leg, but Fletcher kicked out at the two-count.
Ospreay connected with the Os-Cutter for a near fall! Fletcher countered a poison rana with a Hidden Blade to Ospreay!
The fans chanted “A-E-W! A-E-W! A-E-W!”
Fletcher jumped at Ospreay, but Ospreay defended with a thrust kick. Fletcher rolled up Ospreay and tried to use the ropes for momentum, but the referee caught him. Ospreay nearly decapitated Fletcher with the Hidden Blade but Fletcher managed to kick out! Fletcher blasted Will with a brain buster and then the Liger Bomb, but Will raised his shoulder!
Ospreay countered a brain buster and landed the Styles Clash to pin Fletcher! Will Ospreay earned a spot in the final match of the 2024 Continental Classic!
AEW Continental Classic Semifinal Match!
“The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada vs. Ricochet!
Ricochet dropkicked Okada. Okada smoked Ricochet with a boot to the head. Okada slapped Ricochet in the back of the head. Ricochet rocked Okada with a tope suicida. Ricochet began to jaw with the fans. Ricochet followed up with a flying forearm.
Okada connected with an elbow strike in the corner. Okada rattled Ricochet with a DDT. Ricochet fired back with a middle rope moonsault and then a running shooting star press for a near fall on Okada.
Okada nailed Ricochet with a neck breaker. Okada landed an elbow drop from the top rope. Okada struck with a beautiful dropkick. Ricochet reversed a tombstone piledriver and hit the Vertigo. Ricochet landed a shooting star press and covered Okada, but Okada kicked out!
Okada avoided the Spirit Gun and fired back with a dropkick. Okada blocked a second Spirit Gun attempt and blasted Ricochet with the Rainmaker clothesline to score the pin!
Okada will face Will Ospreay in the finals of the 2024 Continental Classic tonight!
After the match, Swerve Strickland strolled out onto the stage!
Swerve: “Congratulations making it just as far as I did last year in the Continental Classic. But if memory serves, you said you were going to win the Continental Classic. Am I right? And me being a man of my word, I said if you blew it, I was going to embarrass you and I was going to make it big.
“Ever since you stepped foot here in AEW you did exactly what I thought you’d do: run your mouth. You talk a lot of mess, Ricochet, and I’m the one that has to come out here to clean up your mess. You know the best way to clean up your mess?”
Prince Nana rolled out a wagon filled with toilet paper. Prince Nana began handing rolls of toilet paper to people in the front row.
Swerve: “On the count of three we are going to wish Ricochet a Happy New Year! One, two, three, Happy New Year!”
The fans threw the toilet paper into the ring at Ricochet.
Swerve: “Happy New Year, Trevor!”
Renee Paquette interviewed Will Ospreay backstage.
Ospreay: “I don’t look too bad, do I? I thought to myself, it don’t matter. By the time I get out there, there’s one thing I need from you Orlando, carry me through this. Because I have to fight every inch of the way, but I live for this shit! I feel like I got hit by a truck, but I have to beat my mentor, Okada, and then I’m going to Disney World!”
AEW Women’s World Championship Tijuana Street Fight Match!
“The Glamour” Mariah May (c.) vs. Thunder Rosa!
Mariah May got into the face of Thunder Rosa’s father, who was sitting ringside. Thunder Rosa seized the opportunity to dive on Mariah. Back in the ring, Thunder Rosa tried to end it early with a senton.
Mariah grounded and pounded Thunder Rosa. Thunder Rosa ducked a dropkick. Mariah May stunned Thunder Rosa with a DDT on the ramp. Mariah grabbed a bottle of tequila. She spit the tequila into Thunder Rosa’s face. Thunder Rosa speared Mariah May. Thunder Rosa smashed a bottle against Mariah May’s head!
Thunder Rosa was taken off her feet by a head butt from Mariah. The champ followed up with a running knee strike for a near fall. Mariah May cracked a chair over the spine of Thunder Rosa. Thunder Rosa retaliated with a Death Valley Driver.
Thunder Rosa broke open a piñata and emptied thumbtacks out of it. Mariah spiked Thunder Rosa with the May Day onto the tacks! Mariah May wrapped barbed wire around her knee. She charged at Thunder Rosa, but Rosa moved and sent Mariah knee first into the steel ring steps. Thunder Rosa whacked Mariah with Thunder Rosa’s father’s walking cane.
Thunder Rosa ran up a table, catapulted off it, and blasted Mariah with a missile dropkick. Thunder Rosa wrapped a chain around Mariah and began to choke her. Thunder Rosa dropped the chain and bashed Mariah face first into a steel chair. Mariah pulled dirt out of a bag and threw it into Thunder Rosa’s eyes. Mariah spiked Thunder Rosa with a Storm Zero off the apron and through a table on the arena floor and picked up the victory.
“Mariah used the dirt from a graveyard in Tijuana, but her hands are clean as she leaves Orlando as AEW Women’s World Champion,” said Nigel.
Dynamite Diamond Ring Match!
MJF (c.) vs. Adam Cole!
The Undisputed Kingdom’s Mike Bennett and Matt Taven were standing at ringside.
Cole was immediately on the attack with a boot to MJF. MJF rolled out of the ring to avoid a Panama Sunrise attempt. MJF sent Cole face first into the steel ring steps to buy himself some time. Adam Cole was busted up, bleeding from the forehead.
MJF power bombed Cole onto his knee for a near fall. MJF went for a Panama Sunrise but Cole superkicked MJF out of the air. Cole cracked MJF with a back stabber and followed up with a brain buster on the knee.
Cole’s leg buckled after MJF avoided a Panama Sunrise. MJF chop blocked Cole and then stomped on Cole’s leg. MJF and Cole slugged it out in the center of the ring. MJF was bleeding from the forehead and Cole battered MJF with left and right strikes! Cole brained MJF with the Panama Sunrise and then lowered the boom for a near fall on MJF!
MJF jumped at the weakened leg of Adam Cole. MJF spat at Cole and Cole superkicked MJF! MJF grabbed a figure four leg lock on Cole and Cole was in serious trouble. Cole reversed the figure four, but MJF managed to reach the bottom rope to force the ref to break the hold.
“You are taking a look at two men who have pushed themselves to the limit,” said Schiavone.
MJF approached Taven and Bennett as the ref was tending to Cole. MJF pretended to be struck by the Undisputed Kingdom, and ref Bryce Remsburg ejected them. MJF put the Dynamite Diamond Ring on but Cole superkicked MJF. Bennett and Taven distracted the ref again, arguing with him about being ejected from ringside, and MJF kicked Cole with a low blow. Then MJF finished off Cole with the Heat Seeker!
“The Dynamite Diamond Ring remains in the hands of MJF for another year,” said Excalibur.
MJF grabbed a steel chair and wrapped it around Cole’s leg but Roderick Strong sprinted to the ring to make the save. Kyle O’Reilly came out and pulled MJF back to the ring. Strong and Kyle had MJF surrounded. Roddy and Kyle wiped out MJF with tandem offense. They held up MJF while Cole struck MJF with the Dynamite Diamond Ring. Cole, Strong, and O’Reilly hugged. Taven and Bennett joined them, and they all celebrated in the ring afterwards.
AEW International Championship Match!
“The Alpha” Konosuke Takeshita (c.) vs. Powerhouse Hobbs!
Don Callis joined the commentary team for this match.
Hobbs bulldozed Takeshita with a massive shoulder tackle. Hobbs clobbered Takeshita with an elbow strike. Takeshita retaliated, hoisting Hobbs and then dropping Hobbs on his knee, straight down onto the apron.
Takeshita punished Hobbs’ leg, stomping on the knee. Takeshita suplexed Hobbs back into the ring. Hobbs immediately clutched his knee. Hobbs ran through a lariat attempt and then connected with a cross body. Hobbs thrashed Takeshita with repeated forearm shots in the corner.
Hobbs powerslammed Takeshita, good for a two-count. Takeshita rallied back, grabbing Hobbs in a feat of strength and then planting Hobbs headfirst onto the mat. They clubbed one another with lariats. Takeshita sent Hobbs for a ride with a German Suplex. Hobbs intercepted the Power Drive Knee strike. Hobbs powerslammed Takeshita. Hobbs walloped Takeshita with a running lariat for a near fall!
“Don Callis is sweating over here,” said Tony Schiavone.
“It is not often you see Takeshita dropped like that,” added Excalibur.
Takeshita blasted Hobbs with a Blue Thunder Bomb, but Hobbs kicked out at the one-count! The champ superplexed Hobbs and followed up with a top rope senton. Hobbs served up a spinebuster, but Takeshita kicked out at the two-count!
The fans chanted “A-E-W! A-E-W! A-E-W!”
Hobbs hit a falling avalanche power slam on Takeshita. Hobbs was clutching his knee. He removed his knee brace to remove the swelling around the knee. Takeshita kicked Hobbs in the knee. Takeshita decimated Hobbs with the Raging Fire and retained his AEW International Championship!
“What an effort by Hobbs!” said Schiavone.
“The closest call yet for Takeshita,” replied Excalibur.
TBS Championship Match!
“The CEO” Mercedes Moné (c.) vs. Kris Statlander!
Statlander showed off her strength advantage, slamming the champion on the mat. Mercedes took down Stat with a hurracanrana, using Stat’s momentum against her. Statlander bashed Mercedes with a back breaker and followed up with a fallaway slam.
Mercedes stunned Statlander with a powerslam out of nowhere, with Statlander crash landing on the apron. Mercedes followed up with a running knee strike. Statlander ran out of the corner with a lariat to the champion. Mercedes answered with a backstabber for a near fall.
Mercedes went for a meteora, but Kris countered with a makeshift powerbomb. Statlander maintained control of the wrist and walloped the champion with repeated lariats. Statlander hurled Mercedes with a deadlift rolling German Suplex.
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Mercedes spiked Kris with a DDT off the ropes for a near fall! Mercedes overwhelmed Kris with a series of snap suplexes. Mercedes landed a frog splash, but Statlander kicked out at the two-count. Statlander nailed Mercedes with a package piledriver out of nowhere, but Mercedes managed to kick out before the three-count.
The champion staggered Kris with three jawbreakers. They tumbled outside the ring and Mercedes planted Statlander with the Money Maker! Kris’ boot was caught between the ring frame and the canvas and Mercedes stomped on Kris’ leg. Mercedes smashed Kris with a meteora from the apron. Statlander was forced to remove her boot because it was caught in the apron. Kris face planted Mercedes off her shoulders and covered her for a near fall.
Mercedes crushed Statlander with a belly to belly piledriver on the apron! Statlander tumbled to the arena floor. Statlander jumped into the ring just in the nick of time before the ref counted to ten! Mercedes locked on an STF, but Statlander made a desperate lunge, grabbing the bottom rope to force the ref to break the hold.
The fans chanted “Fight forever! Fight forever!”
Statlander swung for the fences with a lariat. Statlander went for Staturday Night Fever, but Mercedes escaped and applied an ankle lock. Statlander rolled out of it, but Mercedes tied up Statlander in a cradle and pinned Statlander to keep her title!
“Mercedes has vaulted herself to one of the best women’s wrestlers we’ve seen in AEW in a long time,” said Tony Schiavone.
“Kris has nothing to beat herself up about tonight with that incredible effort,” replied Excalibur.
“The sequel was even better than their first match!” added Schiavone.
2024 AEW Continental Classic Finals Match!
“The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada vs. “The Aerial Assassin” Will Ospreay!
Jim Ross joined the broadcast booth for this match.
“We’re seeing some history made here tonight,” said Jim Ross.
Okada clobbered Ospreay with an elbow strike. Ospreay answered with a stinging chop. Ospreay took down Okada with a hurracanrana. Ospreay followed up with a dive over the top rope to Okada outside the ring.
Okada spiked Will with a DDT on the arena floor. Okada followed up with a draping DDT to the floor! Okada drilled Will with a DDT in the ring for a near fall.
“Three DDTs and you have the wherewithal to kickout? I think it’s instinct,” said Jim Ross.
Okada dropkicked Will as Will was on the turnbuckles. Will’s leg got caught in the ropes. Okada saw the opportunity and targeted the right leg of Will’s, hitting a knee breaker. Ospreay escaped a tombstone attempt and rocked Okada with an Os-Cutter off the barricade.
Will flattened Okada with an Os-Cutter in the ring for a near fall! Ospreay buckled Okada with a chop. Okada got right back up and nailed Will with a neck breaker. Okada jumped off the top rope with an elbow drop. Okada launched himself at Ospreay with a John Woo dropkick!
Ospreay hit the Styles Clash out of nowhere for a near fall! Okada cracked Will with the Rainmaker, but Will kicked out of the pin attempt!
The fans chanted “Fight forever! Fight forever!”
“There must be a winner in this match,” said Excalibur.
“I am loving this match,” replied Jim Ross.
Okada went for the Rainmaker, but Ospreay countered with a standing Spanish Fly! Okada dropkicked Will, countering the Os-Cutter. Will fired back with a Rainmaker and then the Stormbreaker but Okada kicked out at the two-count!
“Unbelievable!” yelled Excalibur.
The pace quickened, Okada ducked the Hidden Blade attempt from Ospreay, and Okada knocked Ospreay’s block off with the Rainmaker. Okada covered Will and won the tournament via pinfall!
“Cumulatively I don’t know how much blood Will has lost but it has to be a lot,” said Jim Ross.
“Ospreay has nothing to hang his head about with that performance,” replied Schiavone.
Christopher Daniels appeared on the ramp to congratulate Okada.
Daniels: “Normally this would be the time when I’d come down to the ring to present you with your title, but I can no longer do that. As of today I am no longer an EVP with All Elite Wrestling. But this man is…”
Kenny Omega’s music began to play, and the Best Bout Machine walked onto the ramp!
Omega walked to the ring with the Continental Championship to present it to his longtime rival. Omega handed the belt to Okada and then Okada held up the belt in Omega’s face, taunting him.
The fans chanted “Kenny! Kenny! Kenny!”
“I think Okada feels upstaged by Kenny’s return right about now,” said Excalibur.
“I’d agree,” replied Jim Ross.
AEW World Championship 4-Way Match!
Jon Moxley (c.)
vs. “Hangman” Adam Page
vs. “Freshly Squeezed” Orange Cassidy
vs. “Switchblade” Jay White!
Cassidy threw himself at Moxley with a tope suicida. Hangman Page and Jay White started pummeling Mox, trying to remove Mox from the equation. Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta came down through the crowd to bail Moxley out of the situation.
Security intervened to try to keep the Death Riders out of the fray. Moxley flipped off Orange and booted him in the face. Page and White held back Mox as Orange pulped Mox with the Orange Punch. With the help of White and Orange, Page power bombed Moxley through the announcers’ table!
Back in the ring, Page hit Jay White with a lariat. Page followed up with a fallaway slam to Orange. The Patriarchy were watching from a skybox in the arena, Christian Cage clutching onto his contract. Hook was watching from another skybox, his business with Christian Cage far from over.
Orange rocked Page with a Stundog Millionaire. Jay White wiped out Page with a hurracanrana. Moxley blindsided Jay White with a knee strike. Orange ate a cutter from Moxley! Hangman Page and Moxley traded strikes in the center of the ring. Orange spiked Mox with a DDT!
Jay White was rocked with a discus lariat from Page. Orange served up the Orange Punch to Jay White, and then dished one out to Moxley. Page pulled the referee out of the ring as Orange tried to pin Moxley. Page blasted Orange with the Buckshot Lariat. Page hit White with a Buckshot Lariat, and then drilled Mox with a Dead Eye! Wheeler Yuta grabbed Page’s boot. Marina passed Moxley a chair, but Page kicked the chair and then hit Mox with the Buckshot Lariat.
Page kicked Orange with a low blow. Jay White planted Page and then Mox with the Blade Runner. Wheeler Yuta jumped in to tackle the ref and break up the pin attempt!
Marina Shafir snuck into the ring, but Jay White dropped her with the Blade Runner. Wheeler Yuta retaliated with a running knee strike. Moxley drilled Jay White with the Death Rider and pinned Jay White.
“I hate to tell you I told you so, but I knew this would happen,” said Tony Schiavone.
“It was when the infighting began that the match fell into Moxley’s hands, just as he predicted,” replied Excalibur.
FTR—Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler—came out, and they were joined by the returning Adam Copeland!
“The Rated R Superstar!” said Excalibur.
FTR jumped in the ring and began to brawl with Claudio and Wheeler! Copeland got in the ring and had a stare down with Moxley! Moxley swung at Copeland, but Copeland ducked it and speared Moxley! Christian Cage and the Patriarchy were dismayed but what they saw and left their skybox.
Copeland: “Moxley, you look at me when I talk to you kid. You’re all mine! Rated FTR! We’re taking it all!”
Tony Schiavone confirmed that this Wednesday it’ll be Moxley, Yuta, and Claudio against FTR and Adam Copeland in a Trios match on Dynamite!
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