AEW Worlds End
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| Promotion | All Elite Wrestling | ||
| Date | December 30, 2023 | ||
| City | Uniondale, New York | ||
| Venue | Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum | ||
| Attendance | 10,093[1] | ||
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AEW Worlds End was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It took place on Saturday, December 30, 2023, at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York on Long Island, marking the company's first PPV to be held in the state of New York. The event featured the final of the inaugural Continental Classic to crown the inaugural AEW Continental Champion, and subsequently, AEW's first "American Triple Crown Champion".
Thirteen matches were contested at the event, including three on the "Zero Hour" pre-show. In the main event, Samoa Joe defeated MJF by technical submission to win the AEW World Championship. In other prominent matches, Adam Copeland defeated Christian Cage in a No Disqualification match to win the AEW TNT Championship, but later lost it to Christian after he invoked Killswitch's championship contract; and in the finals of the Continental Classic, Eddie Kingston defeated Jon Moxley to become Triple Crown Champion, retaining the ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship and winning the inaugural AEW Continental Championship. The event also saw Andrade El Ídolo's final match in AEW as his contract expired following the event.
Production
Background
On October 25, 2023, it was reported that the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) had filed to trademark the name "Worlds End".[2] Later that same night on Dynamite, AEW announced that it would hold a pay-per-view (PPV) event titled Worlds End on Saturday, December 30, 2023, at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York on Long Island, marking the company's first PPV to be held in the state of New York. Tickets went on sale on November 3, 2023.[3]
Storylines
Worlds End featured professional wrestling matches that are the result of pre-existing feuds and storylines, with results being predetermined by AEW's writers. Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite, Collision, and Rampage.
On the November 11 episode of Collision, AEW president Tony Khan announced the AEW Continental Classic (C2), a 12-man round-robin tournament similar to New Japan Pro-Wrestling's (NJPW) G1 Climax, to be held across episodes of Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision, starting from the November 22 episode of Dynamite, with the semi-finals (promoted as the League Finals) held on December 27 at Dynamite: New Year's Smash and the Championship Final held at Worlds End. Bryan Danielson announced his participation in the C2, despite his orbital bone injury.[4] Eddie Kingston also announced his participation and that his ROH World Championship of sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH) and his NJPW Strong Openweight Championship would also be on the line in the tournament final. In addition to those two titles, it was also revealed that the winner of the tournament would become the inaugural AEW Continental Champion, with the three titles then being collectively held and defended under the American Triple Crown Championship banner.[5] In the League Finals at Dynamite: New Year's Smash, Kingston and Jon Moxley won the respective Blue League and Gold League Finals, thus setting up the Championship Final at Worlds End.[6]
At Dynamite: Grand Slam on September 20, MJF defeated Samoa Joe to retain the AEW World Championship. Also during that match, MJF's tag team partner Adam Cole injured his foot after he jumped off the entrance ramp when he came out to support MJF.[7] Cole subsequently was unable to defend the ROH World Tag Team Championship with MJF, who was scheduled to defend it during the Full Gear Zero Hour pre-show on November 18. Joe offered to be MJF's partner for the title defense on the condition that MJF would give him another opportunity at the AEW World Championship. MJF initially declined, but he eventually agreed after Joe saved him from a beatdown,[8] and they retained the title, although MJF suffered a minor injury.[9] On the subsequent episode of Dynamite, after Cole convinced him to keep his promise, MJF said he would defend the AEW World Championship against Joe that night, but Joe declined as he instead wanted to face a healed up MJF in the main event at Worlds End in MJF's hometown of Long Island, and MJF accepted.[10]
At WrestleDream, after Christian Cage retained the AEW TNT Championship against Darby Allin, Cage, Luchasaurus, and Nick Wayne continued their attack on Allin until Sting attempted to make the save, but he was also attacked. As Luchasaurus and Wayne were about to perform a con-chair-to on Sting, Adam Copeland made his AEW debut and saved Sting and Allin.[11] On the following episode of Dynamite, Copeland told Cage that he came to AEW to reform their tag team so they could have one more run together before retiring, but Cage rejected the offer.[12] This would lead to a match at Full Gear where Copeland, Sting, and Allin defeated The Patriarchy (Cage, Luchasaurus, and Wayne).[13] Copeland then faced Cage for the TNT Championship on the December 6 episode of Dynamite, but lost after Wayne's mother Shayna interfered and hit Copeland with the title belt.[14] On December 16 at Collision: Winter Is Coming, Copeland challenged Cage to a No Disqualification match for the TNT Championship at Worlds End,[15] and Cage accepted.[16]
At Full Gear, The Golden Jets (Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega) defeated The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) to earn the latter's AEW World Tag Team Championship opportunity.[13] During Dynamite: Winter Is Coming on December 13, The Golden Jets called out champions Ricky Starks and Big Bill to invoke their title match for Worlds End, which was accepted.[17] However, two days later on December 15, Omega revealed he had been legitimately diagnosed with diverticulitis, thus taking him out of action indefinitely and canceling the match at Worlds End.[18] On December 23 during Collision: Holiday Bash, Jericho announced he would find a new partner for the championship match at an unknown date.[16] The following week during Dynamite: New Year's Smash, Jericho saved a returning Sammy Guevara from a beatdown by The Don Callis Family (Konosuke Takeshita, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Kyle Fletcher), with Starks and Bill subsequently coming out to attack Jericho and Guevara. Sting and Darby Allin then came out to help Jericho and Guevara clear the ring. Later, an eight-man tag team match was scheduled for Worlds End, pitting the team of the reunited Le Sex Gods (Jericho and Guevara) along with Sting and Allin against the team of Starks, Bill, and The Don Callis Family (Takeshita and Hobbs).[6]
Event
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Commentators | Excalibur (Pre-show and PPV) |
| Nigel McGuinness (Pre-show and PPV) | |
| Taz (Pre-show and PPV) | |
| Tony Schiavone (PPV) | |
| Stokely Hathaway (Pre-show) | |
| Ring announcers | Justin Roberts |
| Dasha Gonzalez | |
| Referees | Aubrey Edwards |
| Bryce Remsburg | |
| Paul Turner | |
| Rick Knox | |
| Stephon Smith | |
| Brandon Martinez | |
| Interviewer | Lexy Nair |
| Pre-show hosts | Renee Paquette |
| RJ City |
Pre-show
Preliminary matches
Main event
Aftermath
The following episode of Dynamite began with Samoa Joe stating that he would be taking everything from anyone who tried to dethrone him for the AEW World Championship.[19]
Also on Dynamite, Adam Cole, Wardlow, Roderick Strong, Matt Taven, and Mike Bennett, now dubbed the Undisputed Kingdom, taunted MJF and stated that he would never be coming back.[19]
Vikingo, Trent Beretta, Brian Cage, and Bryan Keith took part in a fatal four-way match to earn an opportunity at the Continental Crown, which was won by Beretta.[19]
Results
- ^ Order of elimination: Serpentico, Dalton Castle, Johnny TV, Lee Johnson, Angelo Parker, Alex Reynolds, John Silver, Kip Sabian, Bryan Keith, Matt Menard, Christopher Daniels, Rocky Romero, Darius Martin, Action Andretti, The Blade, The Butcher, Lance Archer, Danhausen, and Trent Beretta
- ^ Strickland was originally scheduled to face Keith Lee; as Lee was not medically cleared to compete, he was replaced by his Naturally Limitless tag team partner Rhodes.
- ^ Kingston entered the PPV as ROH World and NJPW Strong Openweight Champion
Continental Classic tournament
| Qualified to league final |
| Blue League | Gold League | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Danielson | 10 | Jon Moxley | 12 |
| Eddie Kingston[a] | 9 | Swerve Strickland | 12 |
| Andrade El Idolo | 9 | Jay White | 12 |
| Claudio Castagnoli | 7 | Rush | 6 |
| Brody King | 6 | Mark Briscoe | 3 |
| Daniel Garcia | 3 | Jay Lethal | 0 |
- ^ Kingston advanced to the Blue League final due to his head-to-head victory over Andrade breaking the tie.
| Blue League | Andrade | Castagnoli | Danielson | Garcia | King | Kingston |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrade | — | Castagnoli (15:33) |
Andrade (18:33) |
Andrade (11:02) |
Andrade (14:45) |
Kingston (15:39) |
| Castagnoli | Castagnoli (15:33) |
— | Draw (20:00) |
Castagnoli (10:27) |
King (12:34) |
Kingston (18:04) |
| Danielson | Andrade (18:33) |
Draw (20:00) |
— | Danielson (15:35) |
Danielson (15:11) |
Danielson (16:50) |
| Garcia | Andrade (11:02) |
Castagnoli (10:27) |
Danielson (15:35) |
— | Garcia (10:21) |
Kingston (12:12) |
| King | Andrade (14:45) |
King (12:34) |
Danielson (15:11) |
Garcia (10:21) |
— | King (16:41) |
| Kingston | Kingston (15:39) |
Kingston (18:04) |
Danielson (16:50) |
Kingston (12:12) |
King (16:41) |
— |
| Gold League | Briscoe | Lethal | Moxley | Rush | Strickland | White |
| Briscoe | — | Briscoe (13:53) |
Moxley (11:29) |
Rush (11:25) |
Strickland (15:44) |
White (11:19) |
| Lethal | Briscoe (13:53) |
— | Moxley (11:19) |
Rush (4:30) |
Strickland (13:51) |
White (11:24) |
| Moxley | Moxley (11:29) |
Moxley (11:19) |
— | Moxley (14:32) |
Moxley (16:23) |
White (15:09) |
| Rush | Rush (11:25) |
Rush (4:30) |
Moxley (14:32) |
— | Strickland (14:53) |
White (13:53) |
| Strickland | Strickland (15:44) |
Strickland (13:51) |
Moxley (16:23) |
Strickland (14:53) |
— | Strickland (15:27) |
| White | White (11:19) |
White (11:24) |
White (15:09) |
White (13:53) |
Strickland (15:27) |
— |
| League Finals Dynamite: New Year's Smash (December 27) | Championship Final Worlds End (December 30) | ||||||||
| Bryan Danielson | 22:37 | ||||||||
| Eddie Kingston | Pin | ||||||||
| Blue | Eddie Kingston | Pin | |||||||
| Gold | Jon Moxley | 17:16 | |||||||
| Jon Moxley | Pin | ||||||||
| Swerve Strickland Jay White | 23:14 | ||||||||
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