Claudio Castagnoli takes on Jon Moxley in an all-Death Riders Continental Classic Blue League match tonight!
*Insert lame joke about Captain America: Civil War here*
As well in the Gold League of the 2025 Continental Classic, PAC takes on Kazuchika Okada and Kyle Fletcher faces Kevin Knight. MegaProblems face Timeless Love Bombs in the semi-final of the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Title Tournament (say that 10 times fast!) in a Hardcore Holiday Death Match!
Take it away, Sum 41!
Tony Schiavone is in the ring, introducing the one-on-one face-to-face between AEW Men’s World Champion Samoa Joe and his challenger next week at Winter is Coming Eddie Kingston! Everyone else is barred from ringside. The crowd chants “EDDIE!” and Samoa Joe jabs at Schiavone’s hair, telling him to leave the ring.
Joe jabs at the crowd, too. He says HOOK’s education was important and Joe used Kingston as a plant. The crowd is not thrilled but Kingston himself is already peeved. Joe says he knows Kingston won’t get it done again. He says he’s going to choke out Kingston.
Kingston says Joe sold his soul out HARD. Kingston taught HOOK perseverance. He says he gets shit done when he yells and screams. He doesn’t know or respect this version of Joe. Kingston says Joe now is who he used to hate in the sport. Kingston wants the Samoa Joe that he respected. If that Joe doesn’t show up, Kingston will eat him alive.
1. Kazuchika Okada (0-0-1) vs. PAC (1-0-0) in the Continental Classic Gold League
The two get intense very quick. Okada backs PAC up.
Back from commercial, PAC takes control and ascends the ropes, stalking his prey. Okada ducks the drop from PAC and hits a Standing Drop Kick, regaining some momentum. Both men are down.
Okada drops PAC and hits an elbow drop off the top rope. PAC comes back with a short-arm lariat after running the ropes. Okada is forced to kick out.
PAC nails a deadlift German suplex and Okada has to kick out again. Don Callis commends PAC’s suplex as the best in the business. Okada comes right back with a Tombstone Piledriver.
Okada climbs the ropes but PAC rushes up and hits a Brainbuster. PAC piles on with a Brutalizer but Okada fights out and reverses it!
Winner: Kazuchika Okada (1-0-1) beats PAC (1-0-1) for three points in the Gold League.
Ricochet and Gates of Agony – collectively The Demand – gloat backstage.
Renee Paquette is backstage with The Conglomeration. Roderick Strong takes on “Freshly Squeezed” Orange Cassidy on Collision. Strong isn’t having any of it. He bumps OC on his way out.
2. Kyle Fletcher (1-0-0) vs. Kevin Knight (1-0-0) in the Continental Classic Gold League
Fletcher gets backed up but Knight doesn’t take the open shot, backing off and letting his opponent recover.
Fletcher knocks down Knight and does take the open shot as he lands a kick. Knight comes right back and drops Fletcher, stepping over him. If you know basketball, you know that’s a no-no. Both are definitely confident.
Knight comes back with a clothesline, dropping Fletcher to the outside. Fletcher comes right back and the two exchange big hits. Knight hits a lariat to the outside, off the top rope, as few others can do.
Back from commercial, both land big kicks and need a moment to recover. Knight takes control with a few lariats but his midsection took a shot or two and he feels it.
Knight hits a pendulum DDT and Fletcher is forced to kick out. Fletcher gets dropped in the middle of the ring with a massive lariat. The Jet covers but The Protostar kicks out.
Knight goes for a UFO Splash but Fletcher pushes his legs back, dropping Knight on the top rope. Knight gets Fletcher in the same position as he did to Darby Allin last week, going coast-to-coast. He goes for a UFO Splash but Fletcher’s knees get up. He goes for a powerbomb and Knight kicks out! Both exchange big hits. Fletcher hits a brainbuster after multiple kicks!
Winner: Kyle Fletcher (2-0-0) beats Kevin Knight (1-0-1) for three points in the Gold League.
Don Callis gets in the ring with Josh Alexander and Hechicero joining him. Don Callis has something to say about the Young Bucks.
Back from an oddly-timed commercial, Callis says he can’t forgive them for siding with Kenny Omega. The crowd chants “KENNY!” Callis took the Young Bucks’ money. He dares them to come and take it.
They get in the ring and take on Fletcher, Alexander, and Hechicero. They get their money easily. Okada hits Matt Jackson with a Rainmaker and the beat down ensues. Jurassic Express rush to the ring and make the save!
Okada gives Perry the finger but he bites The Rainmaker’s finger! He gets hit from behind. Mark Davis is out to join the numbers game. Callis himself goes after the Bucks and Omega hits the ring. He takes out Davis and Okada. He lines up a V-Trigger for Okada but The Rainmaker slips out of the ring.
El Clon is late to the party.
3. Timeless Love Bombs vs. MegaProblems in a Hardcore Holiday Death Match in the AEW Women’s World Tag Tem Championship Match Semi-Final
Storm has a massive pearl necklace. They rush the ring and attack their opponents before the bell rings.
They hit both opponents with DDTs in the ring and then outside the ring. Storm breaks a champagne bottle on Shafir’s head, then stabs Bayne’s head with the shard in her hand. Wasting no time at all, clearly.
Shirakawa hits a slingblade on Bayne. Shirakawa drops onto Bayne but hurts herself a bit as well. They try to pick up Bayne together but she drops them both.
Shafir grabs Storm’s head with her legs and spikes her on the ring apron. Bayne tosses Shirakawa to the outside, onto Storm.
Back from commercial, The MegaProblems take firm control. Bayne and Shafir go for a sandwich hit but Storm evades and they hit each other! Shirakawa drops them. Storm Zero to Bayne onto a table.
Shirakawa drops onto Shafir on the outside. Storm helps her hit a slingblade onto a chair. Bayne breaks up the pinfall attempt.
Bayne tackles Shirakawa into a table. Shafir waits for Mother’s Milk on Storm but Storm drops Bayne with a Storm Zero onto Shafir.
Luther shows up as Santa Claus. He hands Storm a shoe. Package roll up.
Winners: Timeless Love Bombs make the final to face the Babes of Wrath next week at Winter is Coming!
The Triangle of Madness cut a pre-recorded promo and Jamie Hayter and Kris Statlander lay out a Collision challenge.
Dark Order are backstage and they pull “Hangman” Adam Page aside. They don’t want him interfering in their Trios Title match against The Opps tonight.
Renee Paquette is backstage with “The CEO” Ultimo Mone. She stops Paquette as she starts reminding Mone about her loss at Full Gear. Mone asks where Red Velvet is as she’s never on Dynamite like 13-belt Mone is. She says Velvet is in for it this Friday at ROH Final Battle.
FTR and Big Stoke are backstage. Dax Harwood wears glasses? They call out Austen Gunn and Juice Robinson. They’ll be on Collision and they dare the Bang Bang Gang to go for their titles again.
4. The Opps (c) vs. Dark Order for the AEW World Trios Championships
The Opps go right after their challengers, not giving them a moment.
The bell rings late as John Silver kicks HOOK a number of times. HOOK comes back and Alex Reynolds is sent outside the ring, met by Powerhouse Hobbs.
Katsuyori Shibata lays out Evil Uno and the champs get in the ring, waiting for their opponents to recover.
Back from commercial break, The Opps are in control but Silver hits HOOK with a suplex. Uno goes after both HOOK and Shibata. He plants both with a DDT but Hobbs comes in. Hobbs absorbs a couple of hits before getting warmed up. Silver and Reynolds make the save.
Textbook spinebuster to Uno.
Winners: The Opps retain.
Page rushes the ring, true to his word as he waited for the match to end. Shibata and Hobbs go after Page . Page ducks a lariat from Hobbs and Shibata gets it. Page gets restrained by security before he can hit Hobbs with a Buckshot Lariat.
A security guard gets hit with the Buckshot as The Opps leave in a hurry.
Renee Paquette is backstage with Don Callis, Okada, and Fletcher. Okada blames Konosuke Takeshita for what happened. Takeshita shows up and Callis and Fletcher have to get in between them.
“Hangman” Adam Page is backstage, incensed because HOOK of all people betrayed him. He lays out a challenge for next week. Hobbs and Shibata will see Page and “WHOSE HOUSE?” Swerve Strickland next week at Winter is Coming.
5. Claudio Castagnoli (1-0-0) vs. Jon Moxley (1-0-0) in the Continental Classic Blue League
Interesting wrinkle that might not be anything. Shafir accompanies Moxley as always. Castagnoli has Wheelr Yuta, PAC, and Daniel Garcia with him.
Shafir is at ringside, contrary to the rules. Referee Bryce Remsburg tells her to leave but she holds firm for a moment before leaving.
Moxley gets to the mat in a test of strength, having to get his shoulders off the mat to avoid the count. Castagnoli hits a massive stomp on Moxley’s chest. The two go at each other and Bryan Danielson mentions that, when he trained with them as the Blackpool Combat Club, they wouldn’t pull punches.
Castagnoli drops Moxley and he has to roll out of the ring to gather himself.
Back from commercial break, Moxley is cut and Castagnoli gets him into a Giant Swing. He locks in the Sharpshooter but Moxley doesn’t want to tap!
Claudio transitions into a crossface. Moxley reverses and gets two on a pinfall attempt. He goes for a Bulldog choke. The fight spills outside and Moxley gets Castagnoli back in. He hits a Cutter and a huge lariat to Castagnoli.
Castagnoli hits an uppercut in the corner. Moxley fights him off after but both men fall. Moxley hits a Stomp but Castagnoli kicks out at two. Rear naked choke but Castagnoli fights his way to his feet. He picks up Moxley and dumps him outside the ring.
Castagnoli hits Moxley with a leaping Stomp as Moxley sits on a chair outside. They both get back in the ring and Castagnoli hits a lariat. He follows with a powerbomb but Moxley kicks out!
Moxley hits a boot to Castagnoli’s chest and then nails a Paradigm Shift. He can’t follow up as both are clearly spent.
With less than five minutes left in the match, Castagnoli hits a massive uppercut and Moxley is down!
Winner: Claudio Castagnoli (2-0-0) beats Jon Moxley (1-0-1) for three points.
Marina Shafir immediately comes back to check on Moxley. Yuta goes over to him for a moment. Then Garcia.
