AEW Main Event Misfire? Toni Storm Vs Mariah May! AEW Revolution 2025 Review

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00:00 - Coming up...
00:18 - MJF vs Hangman Adam Page
01:14 - Mercedes Mone vs Momo Watanabe
01:39 - Swerve Strickland vs Ricochet
02:36 - Kazuchika Okada vs Brody King
03:17 - The Hurt Syndicate vs The Outrunners
03:52 - Toni Storm vs Mariah May
05:40 - Kenny Omega vs Konosuke Takeshita
06:49 - Will Ospreay vs Kyle Fletcher
08:56 - Adam Copeland vs Jon Moxley
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00:00An all-time awesome feud ender, an all-time awesome cage match, and an all-time awful

00:07main event. I'm Luke Owen, your forever Jam That Jampion, and this is my review of

00:12AEW Revolution 2025… in about 10 or so minutes.

00:19The show kicked off in a massive way as MJF took on Hangman Page in a Sorry About That

00:23Jeff Jarrett feud match. It is wild to me that these two have only had one singles match

00:28in the history of AEW, and it was right at the start when MJF won his first diamond ring.

00:34It shows how restrained this company can be with match-ups like this, which makes them

00:38feel all the more special. And these characters are far more interesting now than they were

00:43when they faced off the first time.

00:45And those interesting characters came into focus at the end of the match, as MJF grabbed

00:49Hangman by the hair and asked two simple questions. Why you and not me? What's so special about

00:56you?

00:57It's those insecurities of Max that led to his downfall as Hangman reversed the Heatseeker

01:02into a Deadeye and hit a wicked Angel's Wings and Buckshot for the win. A superb match

01:08and a great way to open Revolution. You know, maybe this should be the main event scene.

01:14Mercedes Monet retained her TBS Championship over Momo Watanabe in a wonderfully hard-hitting

01:19match. At one point, Momo got her foe in the Tree of Woe and used her toes to strike Mercedes

01:23Mo-no, and it looked like she knocked out some of her teeth with one of her other stiff

01:27kicks, but Mercedes managed to hit the Monet Maker and Statement Maker for the win. A very

01:32good match, but I am looking forward to a bigger challenge for Monet that doesn't

01:36feel like a foregone conclusion.

01:39Speaking of awesome things, Swerve Strickland next took on Ricochet for the number one contendership

01:43to the AEW World Championship. Swerve was unhinged at the start of this one, unloading

01:48on Ricochet so much that Prince Nana tried to get Swerve off of him, but Swerve shoved

01:53Nana away. It's not like he did it on purpose or with malice, but it was enough for Nana

01:58to think it was enough and he walked out of the match. These two really laid it into each

02:03other and the action was awesome. Swerve's deadlift powerbomb into a powerslam was incredible,

02:08Ricochet's 630 was picture perfect, and what felt like a variation of Homicide's

02:12Cop Killer on the Spanish announce table was awe-inspiring. Nana came back down to get

02:17his rope, but Ricochet grabbed them and put them on. Swerve tried to dive, but Ricochet

02:21caught him with a Death Valley Driver and got in the face of Ken Yong of all people.

02:25But it was Swerve who picked up the win after a series of nearfalls. Awesome stuff, and

02:30it's a good job that Swerve is the number one contender, because it really feels like

02:34maybe this should be the main event scene.

02:37Kazuchika Okada retained his Continental Championship over local boy Brodie King in a match that

02:41was just as tremendous as we figured it would be when you see the two names written down

02:46on paper. Okada's skin was read almost immediately from the chops and strikes from King, who

02:51is a beautiful brute of a beast. Okada resorted to his cheating ways as he got a steel chair

02:56to distract the referee so he could crack Brodie with the belt, but it wasn't enough

03:00and Brodie reversed the Rainmaker with a lariat of his own. But Okada hit his gorgeous dropkick

03:06as King went for the cannonball and hit the Rainmaker for the win.

03:10This was exactly what it needed to be, but man, maybe Okada should be the main event

03:17scene.

03:18The highs of the PPV were brought down a peg or two as the Hurt Syndicate defended the

03:21Tag Team Championships against the Outrunners. It's nothing against Turbo Floyd or Truth

03:26Magnum, but it feels like we're about, I don't know, three or four months late to

03:30be capitalising on their momentum. Like, this wasn't dreadful, but it was also a bit pointless.

03:37We had our fun early with the Outrunners, but then it was time for business as the Hurt

03:41Syndicate dominated and killed the Outrunners dead to retain. This tag division needs a

03:46shot in the arm, but I've been saying that since this time last year when Sting retired

03:51holding the titles.

03:52There was a lot of discussion in the week leading up to the event and over the weekend

03:56of what should close out Revolution, with many feeling it should be Tony Storm vs. Mariah

04:00May given that it's one of AEW's best stories of the last year and this was the

04:05final chapter. So it felt odd that it came so early in the night, which both shows the

04:10depths of big stars the company has, but also exposes that women in All Elite Wrestling

04:15will always have a ceiling.

04:17The match itself was as brutal as it was beautiful. Luther got taken out early and Storm hit a

04:22sky high off the stage through a table, May hit Storm zero on the steps which gave Tony

04:27some colour and boy howdy did she ever get some colour, and then the pair of mad lads

04:33got a bucket of broken champagne bottles to do a smegging Taipei Deathmatch spot. That

04:39was so awesome. Storm stabbed May with a shard of the bottle, but Mariah responded by stabbing

04:44Storm in the… well, there's no better way to put this than to do this instead.

04:50At this point both women, but Tony Storm in particular, were a bloody mess, and then they

05:02got the thing that started all of this. The shoe. Storm stabbed May in the head at the

05:08top of the ramp and then hit a Storm Zero through a table. This was a feud ender alright,

05:14they even had The End on the big screens.

05:17Legit, I don't know what both of these women do after this, but I hope that AEW capitalises

05:23on what this feud has done for both of them. Give me a big title program for Tony Storm

05:28and another heated rivalry for Mariah May. Maybe this should have been the main event,

05:35because lesser wrestlers would struggle to get the crowd back after such an epic brawl.

05:40Thankfully, Kenny Omega and Konosuke Takeshita are not lesser wrestlers. Kenny is just perfect,

05:47isn't he? Like, he's just perfect. I've loved the matches these two have had in the

05:51past, and this one was right up there with their previous outings. The crowd did start

05:56slow but really got into it once they hit the halfway point, and were with them until

06:00the very end, going nuts when Kenny Omega kicked out at one following a series of knee

06:05strikes by Takeshita. Omega's selling of his recovery from diverticulitis was just

06:09incredible, and Takeshita working over his midsection led to great drama of Omega struggling

06:15to hit the One Winged Angel. Don Callis was superb in this match, constantly jumping up

06:21from the desk to check that Takeshita was ok, or to cheat on his behalf. And he even

06:25blocked Omega setting up for his second One Winged Angel attempt, but after a series of

06:30roll-up nearfalls, Omega got the win and is the new International Champion. Like Kenny

06:36himself, this was perfect. It also sets up Okada vs. Omega at All In in July, hopefully

06:43to merge these two midcard titles together. Because, you know, maybe this should be the

06:48main event scene.

06:50And bruv, then came Will Ospreay vs. Kyle Fletcher in a Salad Steel Cage. Will is

06:55really bloody good at showing, not telling. Or maybe telling by showing. Right off the

07:01bat, he did three spots that got over the steel cage stipulation and what it means for

07:05him as a wrestler. First, he couldn't do a springboard because the cage is too tight

07:09to the ring, then he couldn't do a handspring because he hit the sides of the cage while

07:13trying to do a flip, and then Fletcher rammed his head into the cage and he came up bleeding.

07:18He was now going to have to change up his entire game plan and meet Fletcher at his

07:23level of violence. And Fletcher is no slout for the record, wearing the same boots and

07:28kick pads that he did when he turned on Will Ospreay, so his dried blood was still on there.

07:34With Kaliseng and commentary, they want to add more blood to the collection. And boy,

07:39did they get the blood they wanted. These two kicked the crap out of each other, using

07:43barbed wire, did the cinema drama of Fletcher slowing Will's intensity down by showing

07:48him the United Empire armband, and then they did a Spanish Fly off the top of the cage.

07:56Absolutely insane. Hidden Blade by Will and a Tiger Driver 91 the movie only pulls out

08:01in dire scenarios to get the win. A superb match, and capped off a perfect three match

08:08run for this PPV.

08:11But if I may, AEW have been very good at protecting the cage stipulation and make it mean something

08:16after WWE under Vince McMahon made the cage mean sweet f***ing nothing in North American

08:22wrestling for about three decades. And I feel some of that was undermined when this cage

08:27match, a stipulation designed to not have interference, had a lot of blatant interference

08:31from Mark Davis. I get that he's a big part of the story and part of the group, but like,

08:37it did take me out of the match a bit. But that aside, maybe this should have been the

08:42main event scene. And you know what? Why isn't it? Why aren't MJF, Hangman Page,

08:48Swerve, Strickland, Ricochet, Okada, Kenny Omega, Kunasuke Takeshi, Will Ospreay and

08:51Karl Fletcher the main event scene? Oh, because these lads are.

08:57Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It can reveal that something you thought was the right move

09:01was actually the wrong one. And maybe with the benefit of hindsight, Tony Khan will see

09:05the closing out this show with Adam Copeland vs. Jon Moxley in a heatless match with TNA

09:09levels of overbooking schmoz. But here's the thing. You didn't need the benefit of

09:14hindsight to see that was going to happen.

09:17So they had a boring match. Then there was a ref bump and a visual pin on Mox. Then Wheelie

09:21Uta ran down and he chose to side with Mox rather than Cope. Then J White ran down and

09:25he took out Uta but then accidentally clocked Cope with the briefcase. Then Cope had the

09:28match won for a second time with a series of spears. Then Christian Cage pulled out

09:32the referee and then he cashed in his title shot. Then he hit Cope with a spear and Cope

09:37kicked out. Then he hit the Unprettier. But then Mox locked in the Bulldog Choke. And

09:41then Christian Cage tried to pin Cope while he was in the Bulldog Choke. And then he tapped

09:45out or passed out due to that submission and Mox retained. I promised myself I would do

09:49that in one take and I did.

09:51Thankfully the actual closing of the show was Swerve Strickland standing tall as he

09:54dove off a balcony onto Jon Moxley. I woke up in a tremendous mood to watch this show.

10:00The sun was shining in the UK for the first time this year, which means I had my first

10:04barbecue of 2025. I went for my first 5K run in about 3 years and I did it in 36 minutes

10:10which I'm super proud of. I was in a good mood.

10:14And then the majority of this pay-per-view put me in an even better mood. Outrunners

10:19vs. Hurt Syndicate aside, this was a stellar show and among the best AEW has ever put on.

10:25But man, that main event was a dud. And sometimes it is how you leave them folks. If you check

10:31online this is all people are talking about, how bad this main event was. My worry is this

10:36will be the lasting memories of AEW Revolution 2025, that match, and that's a shame. It

10:42won't be mine, and I hope it won't be yours either.

10:45Now go and watch myself, Tempest and special guest SP3 count down the best WrestleMania

10:50matches of all time. And yes, I didn't have Shawn and Taker on my list, but I literally

10:54explain why in the video.

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