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AEW Dynasty 2025 Results: Jon Moxley Retains, The Young Bucks Return, Owen Hart Tournament Begins

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AEW returns to PPV with it's Dynasty PPV event live from inside The Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Dynasty PPV brand is on the second tier of annual AEW events, but the 2025 edition of the show should significantly impact the bigger events on the calendar this year for the company.

Jon Moxley puts his AEW World Championship on the line against Swerve Strickland in a much anticipated title bout. Strickland won the opportunity to challlenge Moxley when he defeated Ricochet at the AEW Revolution PPV last month. Strickland won the world title at last year's Dynasty event and he'll look to repeat this year.

In other action on the show, Toni Storm will defend her AEW Women's World Championship against Megan Bayne. Bayne has been a destructive force since joining AEW this year and forcefully took a shot at the world title after beating up Storm. Storm has been feuding with Mariah May for the better part of two years in AEW and now has a significantly different opponent, stylistically, in Bayne.

Also, the Owen Hart Cup Tournament kicks off on the show. Will Ospreay vs. Kevin Knight, Mercedes Mone vs. Julia Hart, and Kyle Fletcher vs Mark Briscoe will all take place in round one of the tournament. The tournament winners in both the women's and men's divisions earn a world title match at All In.

AEW Dynasty start time:

Time: 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT

Zero Hour: 6:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. PT

AEW Dynasty location:

Location: Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

How To Watch AEW Dynasty:

PPV: Amazon Prime Video, Triller TV, PPV.com, YouTube, traditional cable and satellite providers and select Dave and Busters locations nationwide.

-The show kicked off with Will Ospreay and what was a massive pop from the Philadelphia audience. Ospreay hit the ring with a ton of fire and Kevin Knight walked out next. Knight wasn't booed, but he didn't get nearly the reaction that Ospreay did.

-As Knight walked down to the ring, the announce team explained the Owen Hart Tournament and explained what was on the line for the winner. Then the match began with some counter and exchange wrestling right out of the gate.

-Knight and Ospreay exchanged hard chops throughout the entire match and Knight took over momentum with a top rope hurricanaranna that he hit without touching the ring ropes. He followed with an over the top rope splash and then countered a Styles Clash into a DDT on the outside of the ring.

-Will Ospreay defeated Kevin Knight to advance in the Men's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament. Knight took most of the match, but it was an Oscutter that turned the tide. Ospreay followed that with a Styles Clash, which didn't get the job done, but then hit the Hidden Blade for the victory. After the match, both men shook hands as the audience cheered.

-A video package aired hyping up Hurt Business vs. Learning Tree for the AEW World Tag Team Championships. From there, Big Bill and Bryan Keith made their entrance and were followed by Hurt Business with MVP.

-The match started as the audience loudly chanted "we hurt people!" MVP joined the announce team on commentary for the match.

-The chant continued on through the match that was mostly controlled by Shelton Benjamin and Bobby Lashley.

-MJF appeared in the audience and used the Dynamite Diamond Ring while punching Big Bill in the face.

-The Hurt Syndicate defeated Big Bill and Bryan Keith to retain the AEW World Tag Team Championships. After the MJF interference -- which nobody saw -- Benjamin was able to hit a German suplex on Keith and Lashley followed with a spear before Benjamin got the pin for the win.

-A video package hyped up the Mercedes Mone vs. Julia Hart first round match in the Women's Owen Hart Cup Tournament. Hart made her dark entrance and Mone followed. The two then tied up to start the action as the bell rang.

-Mercedes Mone defeated Julia Hart to advance in the Women's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament. The match was a war of attrition. In the end, both women exchanged various submission holds, but it was Mone who was able to keep Hart in the cross face longer. Hart eventually countered that submission into a two count pin attempt. Right after, Mone countered into a special leverage pin that got the victory.

-FTR made their entrance as the announce team ran down how and why Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler are not on the same page. Cope walked out next and the audience sang his song.

-The Death Riders walked out next and the audience booed. They also chanted "F**k you Yuta" before the action got rolling.

-The first hot tag was aimed to Cope from Wheeler, but Harwood jumped in and stole it. Harwood maintained some short momentum and was cutoff by a Castagnoli European uppercut. The announce team was up in arms about Dax jumping to get the tag.

-The Death Riders hit a flurry of running uppercuts on Dax Harwood and then Pac followed it with a piledriver in the middle of the ring. After, Claudio launched Pac into the air and he landed on Dax Harwood. Pac wentfor a pin, but only got a two count.

-The Death Riders defeated Rated FTR to retain the AEW World Trios Championships. Cope tried for a spear on Yuta, but almost hit Harwood instead. Cope held up, but Yuta pushed Cope into Harwood and their heads collided. Yuta then hit Harwood with a Psycho Knee for the victory.

-After the match, Rated FTR hugged one another in the ring and then Harwood attacked Cope. He hit Cope with Piledriver and then rolled to the outside of the ring to get steel chairs. Harwood set Cope up for a Conchairto and tried to get Wheeler to use the chair, but he didn't. Instead, they hit Cope with the Shatter Machine and then a top rope piledriver onto the chair. From there, Wheeler did hit Cope with the Conchairto as the audience booed. AEW doctors loaded Cope up on a stretcher as the announce team questioned FTR and whether the attack was premeditated.

-Megan Bayne made her way to the ring after a hype vignette on her feud with Toni Storm.

-A special Toni Storm Rocky style video played before Toni Storm made her entrance.

-Megan Bayne dominated the match early and in the middle, but Storm had her on the ropes after two hip attacks. Storm then hit Bayne with Storm Zero. Bayne kicked out at one.

-Toni Storm defeated Megan Bayne to retain the AEW Women's World Championship. Bayne had Storm up on her shoulders and Storm fell out of it and rolled Bayne up for the victory.

-Bayne was flabbergasted at the loss and Storm rolled out of the ring after winning and celebrated in disbelief.

-Kyle Fletcher defeated Mark Briscoe to advance in the Men's Owen Hart Cup Tournament. This was a war. Both men hit the other with power bombs onto the ring apron and guardrail. In the end, Fletcher countered a Briscoe top rope elbow drop with a kick to the face. Fletcher then nailed Briscoe with two running boots. He followed with a brainbuster onto the ring turnbuckle and covered for the victory.

-AEW aired a video that recapped the months long feud between Bandido and Chris Jericho, which led to their championship vs. mask match.

-Bandido made his entrance and was followed by Jericho. The match began with both guys tying up in the middle of the ring.

-Bandido held Jericho up in the vertical suplex position for nearly 70 seconds before dropping him to the mat. Jericho stumbled around to sell that move, but soon got momentum back when he smashed Bandido on the outside ring mats with a power bomb.

-Chris Jericho nailed Bandido with a baseball bat while the referee's back was turned and made the cover for the "win." As Jericho celebrated, Bandido's family that was sitting ringside alerted the referees that Jericho used the bat and the match was restarted.

-Bandido defeated Chris Jericho to win the ROH World Championship. Soon after the restart, Jericho started to go after Bandido's family. Bandido hit Jericho from behind and nailed him with the 21 Plex for the victory.

-Adam Cole and Daniel Garcia made their entrances for their TNT Championship match.

-Cole fell off the ring apron and tweaked his ankle early in the match and that gave Garcia control early.

-Cole took control back with a Panama Sunrise and after he hit it he rolled Garcia back into the ring. Cole tried to deliver the Boom, but Garcia fell flat to avoid the move.

-Adam Cole defeated Daniel Garcia to win the TNT Championship. Adam Cole and Daniel Garcia exchanged Panama Sunrise moves with Cole hitting the latter two. He then did hit the Boom kick on Garcia for the victory and to become the new champion.

-When the match ended, Cole celebrated. He shook Garcia's hand and Garcia raised it in the air.

-A hype video aired ahead of the AEW International Championship Triple Threat Match between Kenny Omega, Ricochet, and Mike Bailey.

-Kenny Omega defeated Ricochet and Mike Bailey to retain the AEW International Championship. The finish saw Omega hit Ricochet with a One Winged Angel off of the top rope before covering for the victory. The match itself saw each guy have points in which it seemed like they would win. Though he suffered through numerous spots that targeted his knee, Bailey almost won with a double knee stomp onto Ricochet's back. Similarly, Ricochet almost won the match after hitting a Shooting Star Press from the top rope. The match featured numerous V-Trigger moves and high flying. It also saw Mike Bailey Mr. Miagi Ricochet before crushing him with a kick to the face.

-After Omega won the match, Kazuchika Okada walked to the ring and faced off with Omega. Before drama could unfold, Omega left the ring and stormed away.

-Swerve Strickland made his entrance for the AEW World Championship match main event. Jon Moxley followed and had Marina Shafir by his side.

-Jon Moxley defeated Swerve Strickland to retain the AEW World Championship. Moxley got the victory after The Young Bucks made their return to AEW and screwed Strickland out of the championship. Swerve hit Moxley with the Swerve Stomp and was inching to him or a cover, but then the lights went out. When they came back on, The Young Bucks were in the ring. They hit Strickland with the BTE Trigger and Moxley made the cover for the win.

Prior to that interference, The Death Riders were fought off by The Ops and before that Adam Page walked down to the ring. He was seemingly going to hit Strickland with a Buckshot Lariat, but appeared to have changed his sights to Moxley. Before he could do the move, The Death Riders got to him. All of this interference was able to happen because Moxley accidentally hit the referee in the face with a steel chair.

The match itself was barbaric. Both Moxley and Strickland made the other bleed, bit the other, and put one another through tables. There was also some grappling -- especially on the part of Moxley, which slowed down the action, but allowed the audience to grab onto the pace of the match.

-The show went off the air as the announce team hinted at The Young Bucks possible showing up on Dynamite this week to explain their actions.

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Zack Heydorn
ZACK HEYDORN

Zack Heydorn has been covering the pro wrestling industry for a decade and writes news, features, and interviews for The Takedown On SI. He also hosts and cohosts a variety of WWE and AEW shows on YouTube. Heydorn is a former Assistant Editor of PWTorch and Managing Editor of SEScoops. Zack is also the author of the Hybrid Shoot book Stunning: The Wrestling Artistry of Steve Austin, which is available on Amazon. You can follow Zack on X and Bluesky.

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