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00:00It's time once more for all elites to go beyond the waking world.
00:04I'm Tom Campbell from Cultaholic Wrestling, and this is what happened at AEW WrestleDream 2025.
00:12First things first, we have the pre-show Tailgate Brawl, which had Big Boom AJ and Big Justice
00:17hosting an actual tailgate party in Boca Raton, which got crashed in aggressive fashion by Rocky
00:23Romero and Trent Barretta, who proceeded to put a Roppongi Vice beatdown on AJ.
00:29The Monsters!
00:31There was some wrestling too, with the Deathriders defeating the Conglomeration and Paragon in
00:36eight-man tag team action, Hook and Eddie Kingston chewing through the frat house in dominant
00:42doubles fashion whilst the LFI watched on, Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale besting Penelope
00:49Ford and Megan Bain, and in a match that spilled into the start of the actual pay-per-view,
00:55complete with show opening pyro going off mid-battle, FTR defeated Jet Speed with a little help
01:02from Stokely Hathaway, gripping the grippers of speedball Mike Bailey.
01:06The show starts proper with Tony Schiavone introducing the wife of the legendary Lou Fez,
01:15Charlie Fez, at ringside. She has a front row seat for the grudge match between
01:20Tecla and Jamie Hayter, with all outside interference barred. They go back and forth with strikes,
01:28Tecla trying and failing to get distance outside the ring, meeting the LED boards and the steel
01:33steps, even getting chopped to oblivion in front of Mrs. Fez. Tecla takes the lead with a crossbody
01:40to the outside and fakes out a handshake to Charlie Fez, like the toxic spider she is,
01:47before strapping in the tarantula and proceeding to toy with Hayter. Jamie strikes back with a
01:53missile dropkick and stops a spidery comeback on the top rope, pushing back into the match with a
01:59series of kicks and a neckbreaker. The two go back and forth with really hard punches until Tecla
02:05clasps in the octopus stretch, but Hayter is able to get unstuck with a backbreaker. A spear from the
02:12spider only yields a two, but it's two beefy lariats from Jamie that prove to be the Hayter raid that
02:20drowns the spider. Queen Aminata rushes to the ring to celebrate with Jamie Hayter whilst the
02:26Triangle of Terror stare from the ramp, this tangled web still being weaved.
02:35Next, the Young Bucks, or rather the $32.17 Bucks, head to the ring with their expenses report on the
02:43screen with insufficient funds playing across the arena. Their opponents, out to Baltimore as Tarzan
02:50Boy and all the love from the AEW faithful are Jurassic Express. It's a grudge match with the
02:56winner receiving a cool $500,000. Jungle Jack Perry and Luchasaurus start strong over Matt and Nick
03:05Jackson with a dominant display by the dinosaur and some Healy shenanigans to Jack Perry distracting
03:11the referee whilst Luchasaurus bites Matt. The Bucks beat a retreat only to be dropped outside the ring by
03:17a moonsaulting Luchasaurus and a dive over the top by Jungle Jack. Jack even brains Matt Jackson with a
03:25Jurassic Express sign. What fun we are having! But the fun stops when the Bucks mount a comeback with
03:31sliced bread number two on the outside to Luchasaurus and Jack Perry alone and isolated by the Bucks.
03:38A prolonged tag team beating by Matt and Nick ends, with Perry reversing a tag combo into a head scissors
03:45and bringing the dinosaur back from extinction, who wipes out the Jacksons with a double clothesline,
03:52a plethora of kicks, and a chokeslam that sends the Jacksons crashing into one another.
03:57The Bucks avoid Doomsday from the Express and return to double teaming Jack Perry,
04:02but their combo coup de grace like a bomb only gets a two. Luchasaurus saves Perry from Doomsday
04:10outside the ring, which leads to a chicken fight and turns into the Bucks landing a cutter and a
04:16sunset flip bomb onto their opponents. Back in the ring, Perry avoids a TK driver. He isn't able to
04:22avoid a package pile driver with the stomp though, but it only yields a two. An EVP trigger to Jack Perry
04:29would have gotten the much-needed three, but Luchasaurus is on hand to stop the rot. Perry retaliates
04:36with a stunning run-up Huracanrana and German suplex combo, as Luchasaurus follows up with a chokeslam
04:43and a moonsault. Together, Jurassic Express land a Doomsday Device combo afterwards, but it's only a two.
04:50Perry lands the emphatic punch to the guts, and together, Jurassic Express land the TK driver,
04:56but Nick Jackson is there just in time to keep the dream alive. The Bucks buck up and take Perry to a
05:03superkick party in order to EVP trigger him soon after, but the three isn't found. Luchasaurus saves
05:11Perry from the TK driver, leading to a countdown to extinction for a count up to three for the Jurassic
05:18Express win. Perry and Luchasaurus get the nod and the 500k purse. In an act of kindness,
05:27Jurassic Express extend their hands to the Young Bucks and even offer some of the money they've just
05:32won, but they're blindsided by the Don Callis family members Luke Archer, Josh Alexander, and Mark
05:38Davis. The Young Bucks, instead of helping out Jurassic Express and instead of helping out the Don Callis
05:44family, just decide to leave. Enter the returning Kenny Omega, who tries to talk some sense into the
05:51Young Bucks before giving up and charging to the ramp on his own to even the odds and send the Don
05:59Callis family fleeing. The Hurt Syndicate's Tornado Trio's top contendership tussle starts
06:07immediately with Ricochet, Bishop Khan, and Toa Leona jumping MVP Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin on the
06:15way to the ring. It's a wild and a woolly brawl that sees the demand, moving the furniture to crucifix
06:22powerbomb Shelton Benjamin off the steel steps and through a table onto Bobby Lashley, leaving MVP all on his
06:32lonesome against the bold and the brave. He gets the odd shot in, but MVP takes a pasting here.
06:39Ricochet hopes to have it done with the shooting star press with a gates of agony assist, but Shelton is
06:45able to make the save. MVP dispatches the demand until Bobby comes back around and runs through him
06:52like a hot knife through gosh darn butter. An innovative double team on the GOA is followed up with a
06:59Dominator onto Ricochet for a near fall. Toa and Bishop somewhat save Ricky from a superplex by
07:05powerbombing Bobby Lashley at the same time. Still hurts Ricky though. Ricochet attempts to dive out of
07:12the ring, but Shelton Benjamin changes his trajectory with an overhead suplex out of the ring instead.
07:18Shelty B following up with a cheeky dive of his own. A moment of redemption for MVP follows when he
07:24takes down a springboarding Ricochet following up with a ballin' elbow and a fisherman suplex before
07:32the cover gets broken. Khan nearly gets Bobby down with a clutch, but a step-up kick by Shelton saves
07:38the day and leads to Bobby bashing the bishop with a spear. When the dust settles, Ricochet is all alone
07:45with the hurt syndicate. But before he can have his soul beaten from his body, Toa Leona pulls Ricochet
07:53out of the ring and steps in in his place. And he's given an almighty spear for his trouble, giving
08:00Bobby the Three, the Syndicate the win, and a future AEW trios title match.
08:07Will Mark Briscoe thrive or will Kyle Fletcher survive? The best of five is live next at WrestleDream
08:15for the AEW TNT title. Both men are two wins a piece and they start with some advantage deciding
08:22technical wrestling. Kyle steps outside the ring when the going gets a bit tough. Briscoe allows him
08:27back in to get back to the Tekkers. Fletcher strikes at this point and Briscoe returns the favour, sending
08:34the Aussie over the top and this leads to fighting around the ring. Briscoe teases a chair-assisted
08:40dive to the floor, but Fletcher takes the chair away, only to receive the boots of Briscoe anyway.
08:46Briscoe pairs this by sitting Fletcher on the chair and landing a senton over the top rope to the seated
08:52Fletch. The chicken farmer clucks up when he takes too long to attempt a somersault senton, giving
08:57Fletcher ample time to move out of the way so Mark lands on the floor. Fletcher puts the pressure
09:03right on here with a powerbomb onto the challenger onto the upright set of steel steps. Fletcher's
09:11slow, deliberate offence keeps him in control. A Michinoku driver, a back body drop and a sleeper,
09:17however, cannot keep the challenger down. Briscoe battles back with strikes to the head until both
09:24men start kicking each other and knocking each other's blocks off for a double down. When both
09:29men get back up, they exchange chops and strikes with Briscoe gaining the lead with a Fisherman's
09:35Buster. Both men get their signature moves blocked until Fletch lands a half-Nelson suplex and an
09:41incredible sit-out last-ride powerbomb. A move so powerful, he seemed to break Briscoe's belt. However,
09:49it only gets a two. Mark Briscoe tries to avoid it, but ultimately succumbs to a top rope superplex for a
09:57two count. Briscoe gets some respite when he lands a jaw-dropping Jay Driller on the apron. Briscoe will
10:04drive elbows into the evil heart of Kyle Fletcher, but they won't secure the win. An attempted Jay
10:11Driller leads to a half-and-half suplex, but Briscoe's not being denied. He drops Fletcher with the
10:16Driller, but Fletcher just barely gets one finger to the ropes to break the count. This kicks into high
10:25gear as we get to the closing moments, but it is a low blow, a lawn dart, a flying kick, and a picture-perfect
10:33top turnbuckle brain buster that allows Kyle Fletcher to put the chicken farmer down for three and retain the TNT title.
10:43The AEW Women's World Title on the line next, with timeless Tony Storm facing the intergalactic
10:53champ Chris Statlander. A feeling out process between two renders a stalemate early on. The
10:59challenger hip-attacking Stat to the floor, but Stat storms back with a moonsault off the apron.
11:06She carries Tony up the steps on her shoulders and unceremoniously dumps her back into the ring,
11:12following up with a senton for a two count. Tony attempts to find a way back against Statlander,
11:17but she's shut down with a clothesline, then a backdrop, and a twisting Vader bomb for two.
11:22The storm begins to rise though, when Tony busts out a suplex and avoids a corner attack with a
11:28tornado DDT and a tiger driver for two. Another hip attack is countered with an electric chair drop into
11:35an octopus stretch by the champ, with the challenger countering into a rear naked choke, but no taps
11:41either side. Tony turns Saturday Night Fever into a running hip attack. Stat counters a Storm Zero by
11:49protecting the neck, and she follows that up with an Area 451, but there is no three count to be found.
11:57Another Storm Zero rolls through, but Statlander weathers it and gets a nail-biting two count,
12:04wasting no time in dropping Storm with Saturday Night Fever. Stat follows up by wrapping her legs
12:09around Tony Storm's head, looking to extract a decisive submission win, but Tony is extracting the urine
12:18if she says she's tapping out here. Far from it. Tony screams for Statlander to effing kill her, which she
12:26metaphorically does with another Saturday Night Fever to get the win and retain the AEW Women's Championship.
12:35Post-match, Storm and Statlander share a hug before Tony leaves Chris to stand tall as Women's World Champion.
12:43But Stat doesn't have much time to be joyous, as the AEW TBS champion Mercedes Monet, or rather Mercedes
12:53Ultimo Monet, makes her way to the ring with the frat party holding the rest of her championships.
13:01Monet threw down an open challenge to any current champion around the world, and she shoes Chris
13:06Statlander from the ring so she can have her match. Statlander leaves, being mocked by the frat party
13:12as she goes. And this leaves Mercedes Monet's TBS open challenge to be answered by interim Ring of
13:20Honor Women's TV champion Mina Shirakawa. Both titles on the line, and Mina gets first blood when she
13:27puts Monet in a figure four to hobble and wobble her. Mina dances her way through an early lead,
13:32much to the frustration of the CEO. And Monet gives as good as she gets with a cross face and a lung
13:39blower, piling the pressure on Shirakawa, but not able to score the win yet. Monet gives us the Guerrero
13:45special, but the frog splash is blocked by an aggressive Shirakawa, leading to a strike fest of
13:52punches and drop kicks. Mina does some damage to the knee with a cloverleaf knee wrench and a dragon screw
13:59over the ropes. And from here, Mina is grinding on the champ, returning to the figure four that started
14:05the whole match. But Monet is able to roll to the ring apron and save her title. The damage has already
14:13been done though. Monet sacrifices herself to land a Moneymaker and a Meteora on the hardest part of the
14:20ring, but it's not getting that three count. Monet goes for one too many Meteoras and Mina avoids the
14:27corner attack, rallying with a discus punch and a very tight figure four, until Monet breaks it up
14:33with a cover attempt. Monet tries to use the ropes to get the three, but she is well and truly caught
14:38in 4k. Monet manipulates the referee until he's all the way behind her, so she can poke Mina in the eyes
14:45and get a near fall off the Moneymaker. A second Moneymaker is only saved by Mina at the very last
14:53possible nanosecond, grabbing the ropes to a huge ovation from the crowd. A livid Monet gets to her
15:00feet with evil intentions. She goes for a backstabber. She goes for another Moneymaker, but Mina is able
15:07to wriggle out of all of them. She is battering Monet in the corner to break up this Moneymaker. And
15:13Monet catches Mina, however, with a backslide on the rebound, puts her foot on the ropes for extra
15:20leverage. She gets the three counts. She retains her TBS title. She becomes the new interim Ring of
15:27Honor Women's TV Champion and bags her 11th title in the process. Mercedes-Money's celebration post-match
15:37is interrupted by Chris Statlander. A little revenge for the earlier issues they had, dropping Monet on the
15:45canvas and raising her Women's World title aloft. The AEW World Tag Team titles are on the line. The
15:55champs, Brodie King and Ring of Honor Champion Bandido versus the Don Callis family members, AEW Unified
16:03Champion Kazuchika Okada and the new IWGP World Champion, Konosuke Takeshita. Some ambivalence
16:11between the challengers, but they work strong against the well-oiled champions in the early
16:17going of this one. Brodie gets isolated by Okada and Takeshita. Okada knocking Bandido off the
16:23apron to the floor. Brodie King will roar to life. He'll send Takeshita to the outside and level Okada
16:30before tagging Bandido, who will twisting Senton into the match and assisted Moonsault out of the ring.
16:37The champs rally here with Bandido being catapulted into Okada and Takeshita being
16:43squished between the LED board and Brodie's body. The champs made the mistake of taking a little
16:50Macarena break, allowing Okada and Takeshita to recover and wipe them out. Okada took a beat to
16:56tell the crowd that he thought that they were number one. Nah. Bandido is bullied by the Unified champ and
17:02the IWGP champ with Brodie getting obliterated outside the ring for good measure. We get a
17:08miscalculation as Takeshita misinterprets an Okada middle finger as targeted at him. Looks like they're
17:15about to come to blows before Bandido bursts back to life and tags in Brodie King who lays waste to
17:22both of them. However, the challengers turn it around when Okada blocks a Brodie superplex and
17:29ends up absorbing an air raid crash from Okada. Brodie tags Bandido but despite being on fumes,
17:37Bandido is able to hang in there. He and Takeshita go back and forth with acid hurricane
17:42ranas a short while later. Takeshita lands a blue thunder bomb on Brodie only to catch a shooting star
17:49press from Bandido moments later. Takeshita will once more be isolating Bandido, working over his
17:56injured shoulder before bursting up from a hurricanrana with a knee to the face. He goes for
18:02one more, this time with the knee pad down but Okada tags himself in. Okada looks to hook up the
18:08Rainmaker but Bandido counters with a double knee stomp and gets Bandido back into the fight. An intense
18:15back and forth leads to all four men dropping big signature moves until a four-way German suplex
18:23with Brodie King doing the literal heavy lifting putting everybody down. When the pieces are reset,
18:30Brodie King is taken out by a stereo dropkick and knee combo by the challengers and Bandido ducks a
18:37Rainmaker leaving Takeshita to absorb Okada's own finisher. It's the one thing that they didn't want
18:44to happen. A smile appears across Okada's face seeing what he did to Takeshita and he ends up
18:52walking into a knee to the face by Bandido who then goes for the 24-plex but his shoulder gives out.
19:00Brodie's there to drop Okada on his head and encourage his buddy to give his finisher another go.
19:05As Brodie dives out of the ring onto Takeshita, Bandido does indeed try the 24-plex once more and
19:13this time he nails it, picking up the three count on Okada to retain the World Tag Team titles. We get
19:21Bandido's son joining his dad briefly in the ring to celebrate before a post-match Macarena by the champs.
19:29Backstage, Renee Paquette attempts to interview a disassociated Toni Storm. To comfort her is the
19:37former Interim Ring of Honor Women's TV Champion Mina Shirakawa. Toni Storm says,
19:42We lost everything. Shirakawa disagrees. We have each other and we see them embrace.
19:50I think we're looking at the new AEW Women's Tag Team Champions personally.
19:54The semi-main event of the evening is Hangman Page defending his AEW World title against Samoa Joe.
20:05That can only mean one thing. They're planning something really disgusting for the main event
20:11if they're getting the title match done now. Even Stevens for the first minute or so until Samoa Joe
20:16steamrolls Page with a shoulder block as he bounces off the ropes. Page gathers himself outside the ring
20:21before coming back swinging, focusing on the injured arm of Joe with an arm breaker over the ropes.
20:27It's all Page until Joe lands a walloping elbow as Page comes off the ropes and from here he dominates
20:34and systematically destroys Hangman. Page is able to stop the rot briefly when he lands a dive onto Samoa Joe,
20:41but Joe avoids a follow up one completely. But Page will hit a running drop kick before they get back
20:47into the ring and reset with Page almost immediately absorbing an STO.
20:53It's slow and deliberate from Joe. Hangers fires up. Joe drops him with a boot. Hangers fires up. Joe drops
21:01him with a power slam. Paintbrushes by Joe turn to strikes by Joe which wake Hangman up and turn this
21:07beating into a back and forth strike fest. Page starts finding himself here landing a backdrop and
21:14knocking Joe off the apron. Hangman looks like he's about to leap out of the ring, but Joe gets back
21:20into the ring. So Page instead moonsaults back into the ring, seemingly looking to land on Joe, but
21:27seemingly missing him completely. Gets a two count anyway. Joe's back in the driving seat from here,
21:33applying three consecutive submission holds, but Page is resilient and he forces a break. Joe attempts to
21:39superplex, but Hangman is able to fight out and land a sunset flip powerbomb. Page gives some fire
21:45after this, swearing like a sailor. Page is going to rock Joe with a dead eye and then land not one,
21:51not two, but three consecutive buckshot lariats to get the three and retain the AEW world title. The
22:00ops enter the ring to join Samoa Joe and Hangman Page to celebrate the match. Joe and Page embrace.
22:09And then Joe whammy levels Hangman Page and he and the ops lay a beating on the world champion. Hobbs and
22:19Shibata hold Page up so Joe can blast Page with the world title belt before hitting him with the muscle buster.
22:26The ops leave Page KO'd on the canvas and Samoa Joe steps onto Page's unconscious body as he exits.
22:35The story between Hangman Page and Samoa Joe is far from over. We cut backstage where Mercedes
22:43Monet calls out Chris Statlander for ruining her historic night and the challenge is made for a
22:50third match between the two that will take place at AEW full gear for Chris Statlander's AEW women's world
22:59title. The match isn't made official and we're told we'll have updates on the forthcoming episode of
23:06Dynamite.
23:07With that we come to our main event John Moxley versus Darby Allen in an I quit match.
23:17After Moxley wipes his feet on Darby Allen's AEW Everest flag Darby goes radio rental drop kicking
23:25Moxley out of the ring and landing a dive outside. Marina Shafia tries to grab Darby but it's a
23:31distraction tactic and Moxley takes Allen down. Mox wraps a chain around his wrists and starts punching
23:38Darby in the mouth drawing literal first blood. He also busts Darby's ear open by bouncing it off the
23:45middle rope. The pace was set when John Moxley took a skewer and drove it under Darby Allen's fingernail
23:53before biting it and stamping on it. Mox whips Darby towards the steel steps but Darby dives over them
24:01and comes back with a missile drop kick. I'm gonna be honest I'm still thinking about the skewer
24:06being driven under the fingernail. I feel a bit sick. Back in the ring after a striking affair Darby lands
24:13code red and begins choking Moxley over the top rope with the Everest flag until Mox gouges his eyes
24:19to stop him. Shafia saves Moxley from a coffin drop on the apron and Darbs is wiped out giving Mox
24:26a bit of a respite. Back in the ring Mox begins whipping Darby with his belt seemingly reluctant to
24:33do so but doing it anyway. Darby takes a right pasting here beckoning Mox on for more. Darby rallies
24:40briefly but gets shut down when Moxley turns a coffin drop into a German suplex. From here Darby
24:45goes into his bag of tricks and pulls out some lighter fluid dousing John Moxley in the stuff and
24:53getting set to set him on fire. The death riders run in deception at this point allow Mox to hit a
24:59cutter after which he wipes himself down with a towel and then goes through Darby's bag to find a
25:05taser which after a Maria Shafia low blow he's able to blast Darby in the stomach with. A death
25:11rider DDT onto a steel chair and a bulldog choke still isn't enough to make Darby submit. Claudio
25:19Castagnoli offers his services by military pressing Darby into and through the announced table.
25:26Pack then drags Darby's lifeless body around the ring so Moxley can drop him on the other side
25:32with a death rider DDT off the apron and through two tables. Still Darby Allen refuses to quit despite
25:41John Moxley screaming in his face to do so. Where do we go from here? Why a fish tank of course to
25:49attempt to drown Darby Allen. Moxley holds Darby's head underwater in the fish tank at least three times
25:58but Darby Allen still ain't saying he quits. As Moxley stalks the ring not quite sure what to do next
26:06the lights go out. When they come back on Sting is standing in the ring. He smashes Moxley with the
26:15baseball bat. The death riders get a paddle in as well. The fish tank gets destroyed with the baseball
26:21bat and then he throws the bat to Darby Allen and takes his leave. Marina Shafia gets in Sting's face as
26:28he tries to head up the ramp and Sting picks her up and takes her away with him neutralizing the
26:34death rider's secret weapon. Mox begs Darby to hit him with the bat which Darby absolutely does. Darby
26:43Allen wraps the AEW flag around Mox's neck and puts him in the sharpshooter with John Moxley
26:51eventually saying I quit to bring the match to a halt. AEW WrestleDream goes off air with Darby Allen
27:00standing tall waving the AEW flag that he took to Everest and he has just taken to hell and back
27:07with him in an I quit match against John Moxley. So that was AEW WrestleDream 2025. Let us know what you
27:17thought in the comments below. I'm Tom Campbell from Cultaholic Wrestling still thinking about
27:23that bit with Darby Allen's fingernails. Stay safe and love you bye.