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AEW World’s End Live Results & Updates – 12/27/2025

By Faiz Ahmed • Published Dec 27, 2025 23:40 EST
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The final AEW pay-per-view emanates live from the Now Arena near Chicago, Illinois, as the All Elite promotion gears up for an incredible night of action.

The show has some amazing matches on the card, with several of the company’s championships up for grabs tonight. The AEW World Championship will be defended in a four-way match.

Samoa Joe will defend his title against former champions Hangman Page, Swerve Stirckland, and MJF, who inserted himself in the match after cashing in the World Championship opportunity he earned by winning the Casino Gauntlet match at All In: Texas.

Meanwhile, the Continental Classic tournament will reach its conclusion tonight as well. Keeping in line with the previous year’s editions, both the semi-finals and the final of the tournament will take place tonight.

The current AEW Continental and Unified Champion, Kazuchika Okada, is still alive in the tournament and will lose the titles if he loses to Konosuke Takeshita in the semi-final tonight.

The winner of that bout will face either Jon Moxley or the third Don Callis Family member alive in the tournament, Kyle Fletcher. Many more such matches will be on offer tonight, so join in for the show!

Konosuke Takeshita vs Kazuchika Okada open the show!

The first of the two Continental Classic semi-finals scheduled for the night gets us underway in Chicago, Illinois. The two star members of the Don Callis Family, Konosuke Takeshita and Kazuchika Okada, go head-to-head against one another.

Both of these wrestlers have seen tension develop between them over the past few weeks, and they took this opportunity to address those issues. They are both wrestling a very personal and intense match till now, with both Okada and Takeshita taking the fight to each other.

Okada and Takeshita exchanged blows in the middle of the ring before Takeshita and Okada started to hit each other with their signature moves. Okada was about to go for a Raimaker before Takeshita reversed it into a blue thunder bomb.

The Alpha always seemed to have the Rainmaker scouted, as every time Okada tried the move, he would reverse it with a big move of his own. However, Okada ultimately emerged victorious but did so with the help of a foreign object.

The Rainmaker used a screwdriver to get his win as he hit the Alpha in the head with the weapon, behind the referee’s back, as he smashed the screwdriver to his head while running at him, and then went for the pin to head into the finals.

Winner: Kazuchika Okada

Jon Moxley and Kyle Fletcher fight it out in the second semifinal

The second match of the final AEW show of the year will see Jon Moxley and Kyle Fletcher fight against each other to join Kazuchika Okada in the finals of the Continental Classic 2025.

Fletcher started the match on the frontfoot but chose to slow the pace down, and that proved to be the turning point in the match. Moxley took control on the outside and dominated Fletcher in the ring side area.

Fletcher, however, showed that he can meet Moxley’s hardcore nature of wrestling. He trapped Mox’s leg between the steel steps and the ring post and proceeded to attack the steps with a running dropkick.

He then continued assaulting Mox’s left leg while inside the ring as he looked to put the former World Champion away. Fletcher hit the Michunoku Driver on Moxley for another two-count as the Death Riders’ leader showed incredible resilience.

He followed that up with a heavy clothesline to the Protostar as both men struggled to get back to their feet. They continued their brawl on the apron, where Fletcher hit Mox with a brainbuster on the apron. He narrowly avoided the 10 count and was met with a Liger bomb as soon as he entered the ring.

However, Mox kicked out of the move as well, and Fletcher then locked in the single leg crab and the ankle lock on Mox, but he got out of both submission holds. Moxley then hit Fletcher with the cut throat suplex from the top rope, which saw Fletcher land awkwardly on his neck.

He further dealt damage to his neck as he hit the Protostar with the Stomp. Fletcher recovered to hit Mox with another Brainbuster, this time in the middle of the ring, but Mox kicked out once again.

It was Fletcher’s turn to frustrate Mox as he kicked out of the Paradigm Shift once before kicking out of the Death Rider. Moxley then proceeded to choke Fletcher out with the sleeper hold and held on till the Protostar passed out in the ring, and Mox was declared the winner.

Winner: Jon Moxley

AEW World Tag Team Championships on the line next!

FTR were challenged to a Chicago Street Fight by the Bang Bang Gang after they nearly took the belts off the current tag team champions, and the Living Legends accepted the challenge earlier this week.

FTR wasted no time in starting the brawl as Dax the Axe took Juice Robinson into the crowd to continue the brawl as Cash Wheeler and Austin Gunn fought on the ramp.

FTR gained the upper hand in the match as Cash assaulted Austin with a trash can while Dax dealt heavy blows to Juice on their way back to the ring. They fought on the ring apron as Stokely set up a table beside them.

Juice turned the tide was about to put Dax through the table before Wheeler came to his tag team partner’s rescue as he hit him with a belly-to-back suplex from the top rope, and the AEW champions dominated the match for the next few minutes.

Juice Robinson then tried to turn the momentum to his side and did so for a while before Dax took him out with the AEW tag team belt, causing him to bleed from his head. They continued assaulting Robinson as they targeted his left knee with various holds and steel chair attacks.

Austin tried to come to Robison’s rescue, but he was taken out by a suicide dive by Wheeler, which put them both through a table. Juice ultimately got out of the knee hold by using the fire extinguisher.

Austin Gunn saved the match for his side after breaking up a pin following a Shatter Machine, before kicking out of a piledriver on the garbage can. However, FTR still emerged victorious, despite the best efforts of the Bang Bang Gang, as they hit a piledriver on Gunn on the AEW World Tag Team Championships to retain their belts.

Winners: FTR

Unrelated news: Former AEW star Saraya returned to wrestling

As we wait for the next match to start, a bit of unrelated news regarding the former AEW Women’s World Champion, Saraya. The 33-year-old made her debut outside of AEW tonight, making her first appearance since leaving the promotion.

She marked her return to wrestling with an appearance at Insane Wrestling Revolution, and came out to her former WWE theme song at the event, teasing a potential return to her former employers.

Babes of Wrath vs Athena and Mercedes Mone continues the action tonight

The Babes of Wrath put their newly won AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championships on the line tonight against the team of Mercedes Mone and Athena, the same team they defeated in the first round of the tournament to win the championships.

Mercedes Mone and Athena started the match on the backfoot but gradually gained control of the match after isolating Harley Cameron from Willow Nightingale. However, once Willow returned to the ring, she took control of the match again.

The Babes of Wrath then took the match to the power team of Mone and Athena, but the veteran wrestlers showed no signs of slowing down. However, their lack of chemistry as a team was evident at times as each of them hit the other once during the match.

They recovered quickly, though, and hit Willow with a combination of innovative double team offense and almost got the win before Cameron broke the pin. Mercedes then hit the Mone maker on Cameron and tried to hit the same on Willow. However, she blocked the move, used the predicament to her advantage, and pulled a surprise pin on Mone to retain the belts.

Winners: Babes of Wrath

Gabe Kidd faces Darby Allin next in Chicago

The match was off to a fast start as Allin hit a running dropkick to Gabe Kidd as soon as he entered the ring. Kidd, however, took control of the match after pushing Darby off the top rope and onto the ground before whiplashing him into the steel steps and the barricade.

He followed that up by throwing Darby over the timekeeper’s table and then smashing his face through the bottom of the steel steps, which busted his face open. Darby then returned the favor to Gabe, busting his head open as well.

Kidd tried to use the steel chair on his opponent, but he dropkicked the chair into his face, which left Gabe Kidd bleeding from his skull. They wrestled atop the ring rope for a while before Darby hit him with a Code Red from the top rope, but only earned him a two-count.

Darby paid homage to his mentor, The Sting, in the match as he hit Kidd with a Scorpion Death Drop, and followed that up with a Scorpion Death Lock, but neither got him the win. Ultimately, Allin earned the win after he surprised Gabe with a quick roll-up to come away with the victory.

Winner: Darby Allin

Mixed Nuts Mayhem sees Death Riders take on their enemies

Marina Shafir, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, and Daniel Garcia have caused a lot of trouble in AEW. Tonight, they face a combination of their enemies in Timeless Toni Storm, Roderick Strong, and The Conglomeration’s Mark Briscoe and Orange Cassidy.

The Mixed Nuts Mayhem produced incredible action right from the start as both sides traded blows and momentum throughout the match. The Death Riders were more in sync with each other throughout the match as they performed coordinated attacks on their opponents.

Orange Cassidy and Toni Storm came together and produced some excellent teamwork between themselves before Marina Shafir attacked Toni to break up that duo. Toni even hit two German suplexes on both Dani Garcia and Wheeler Yuta.

However, she paid the price after she went to attack Claudio, who put her in a giant spin. Then, Strong and Shafir, who are married to each other in real life, attacked each other out of the match. Cassidy then put the things in motion towards a win for his side.

He hit Yuta with an Orange punch, which left him seated in the corner. Toni Storm hit him with a hip attack and then sent him into Mark Briscoe, who hit him with the Reach For the Stars to get the win for his side.

Winners: Timeless Toni Storm, Roderick Strong, Mark Briscoe, and Orange Cassidy.

AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander defends her title next!

Jamie Hayter looks to become a two-time AEW Women’s World Champion tonight as she faces the current champion, Kris Statlander, in the World Title match.

Both Hayter and Statlander had each other scouted for most of the match as they went toe-to-toe with each other, before Statlander asserted her dominance over the challenger.

Hayter started a fightback and tried to overpower the champion, but Statlander damaged Jamie’s back, pushing her back-first to the ring apron and the announce desk. Hayter then countered with a missile dropkick from the announce table.

She then hit another one, back in the ring, from the middle turnbuckle, but only got a two-count from the referee. The two women then exchanged multiple strikes, but none of them managed to knock the other down long enough for a three-count.

Statlander seemed to have won the match with a package piledriver, but Hayter kicked out just in the nick of time. Both women tried to hit the other with a lariat but ducked out of the way.

Following a bit of back and forth, Statlander managed to hit the lariat on Hayter, but she countered the Saturday Night Fever from Statlander with one of her own. However, Statlander managed to retain her title at the end after a brutal match as she finally managed to hit the Saturday Night Fever.

Winner: Kris Statlander

The Continental Classic Final is the penultimate match of the show

After going through gruesome matches of their own, both Jon Moxley and Kazuchika Okada reached the finals of the 2025 edition of the Continental Classic and face each other in the penultimate match of the night.

Moxley has had a turbulent second half of the year since he lost the AEW World Championship, but it would be an amazing end to this year for him if he manages to get his hands on the Continental Championship.

The match was off to a slow start as neither competitor was at 100% when the bell rang. Okada targeted Mox’s already injured leg throughout the match, after Kyle Fletcher did the damage earlier in the night. The Rainmaker dominated the match as Mox’s leg gave him trouble.

He tried to fight back with repeated punches of his own, but Okada took him out with a single strike to the knee. The defending champion was all over Mox and never looked in any real trouble for much of the match.

Mox tried to initiate a comeback and managed to get some offense in, but Okada took control again after hitting Moxley with two successive Dragon Screws to his left knee.

Okada pushed Mox into the referee to create a diversion and hit a low blow on Moxley with the referee’s back turned. He hit the Rainmaker on Mox, but he kicked out, shocking the champion. The Rainmaker then tried to hit him with the title, but the referee saw that.

Just as the referee handed the title back outside, Mox hit Okada with a low blow of his own, and the two wrestlers started to exchange blows with each other. Okada hit another Rainmaker on Jon and tried to hit a third, but he reversed it into a Paradigm Shift.

Mox then hit a Rainmaker of his own, and followed it with another Paradigm Shift, but he kicked out at one. Frustrated, Moxley then hit him with a Stomp, and followed that up with a Death Rider to seal the win, and become the new AEW Continental Champion.

Winner: Jon Moxley

AEW World Championship match to close out the show

An entertaining night of action comes to an end with the main event of the show, which sees Samoa Joe defend his AEW World Championship against Hangman Adam Page, Swerve Strickland, and MJF.

Joe started the match on the front foot and took out all other competitors from the ring as he looked for a quick resolution to the match. However, Swereve took care of the champ as the match picked up pace.

Swerve and MJF wrestled a mini one-on-one match inside the ring while Joe and Page were lying on the outside, before Swerve took the match outside. However, it didn’t prove very fruitful for him as Joe and Hangman recovered by the time and cleared the field.

Swerve and Hangman worked together to get rid of Joe and MJF before they came face-to-face with each other in the middle of the ring. They went at it in the ring, reminding fans of the iconic rivalry they had in the promotion.

Hangman hit a Buckshot Lariat on Swerve for the win, but Joe leapt in to break up the pin. He then kicked Hangman and MJF out of the ring before focusing on Swerve Strickland.

MJF, who had been kept out of the ring for long, then made it back in the ring and proceeded to dominate the next few minutes of the match. He got a two-count on Hangman before trapping him in the Salt of the Earth submission, but broke it up to stop Samoa Joe from making Swerve faint with the Coquina Clutch.

He then locked the same move on MJF, and just when he was about to fade away, Swerve hit Joe with a House Call to keep the match alive. All four men were then left lying in the ring as they struggled to get back to their feet.

MJF was the first to get up and hit Swerve with a Panama Sunrise, but only got a two-count before Hangman Page hit him with a Deadeye. Just when it seemed like things would become difficult for the AEW World Champion, the Opps came to his rescue.

They assaulted every other wrestler in the match before turning their attention to Prince Nana. That allowed Swerve to take out both Hobbs and Shibata. Page was then distracted by Hook, which allowed Joe to catch him in the Coquina Clutch, but Swerve broke it up with the Swerve Stomp.

He was about to hit Joe with another attack from the top rope, but was pushed off the turnbuckle by MJF. Hangman looked to have won the match after taking out MJF and hitting Joe with two Buckshot Lariats, but that wasn’t the case.

Just as he was about to hit the third one on Joe, MJF intervened once again, pushing Joe out of the way and hitting Page with a low blow. He then hit Joe with the heatseeker to pin him and win the AEW World Championship at the same show he lost it two years ago.

Winner: MJF

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