‘AEW: World’s End 2024’ PPV Review
Welcome to this review of AEW’s latest pay-per-view World’s End, which closed All Elite’s Wrestling 2024 with some shocks and surprises… The show, which took place ate the Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida, opened with Zero Hour which saw Toni Storm defeat Leila Grey, Jeff Jarrett defeat QT Marshall, Lio Rush & Action Andretti win an 8-man tag against The Outrunners, Murder Machines and Top Flight.
Match #1: AEW Continental Classic Semifinal Match – Will Ospreay def. Kyle Fletcher
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Ospreay dodged a charging Fletcher as the bell rang. Will went for an Os-Cutter but Fletcher blocked it. Both men showed how well they know each other in the early goings in this human game of chess. Fletcher nailed Will with a cross chop against the windpipe. Ospreay took down Fletcher with a cannonball dive off the apron. Fletcher kicked the taste out of Will’s mouth with a pump kick. Fletcher power bombed Will onto the ring apron. Fletcher lawn darted Ospreay into the ringside barricade. Ospreay was busted wide open, bleeding from the forehead. Fletcher hurled Ospreay again, lawn darting Ospreay into the second turnbuckle. Ospreay took Fletcher off his feet with a desperation clothesline. Will used a standing sky twister press on the Protostar for a near fall. Ospreay rocked Fletcher with a standing Spanish Fly. He hooked Fletcher’s leg, but Fletcher kicked out at the two-count. Ospreay connected with the Os-Cutter for a near fall! Fletcher countered a poison rana with a Hidden Blade to Ospreay. Fletcher jumped at Ospreay, but Ospreay defended with a thrust kick. Fletcher rolled up Ospreay and tried to use the ropes for momentum, but the referee caught him. Ospreay nearly decapitated Fletcher with the Hidden Blade but Fletcher managed to kick out! Fletcher blasted Will with a brain buster and then the Liger Bomb, but Will raised his shoulder. Ospreay countered a brain buster and landed the Styles Clash to pin Fletcher!
My Score: 4 out of 5
Match #2: AEW Continental Classic Semifinal Match – Kazuchika Okada def. Ricochet
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Ricochet dropkicked Okada. Okada smoked Ricochet with a boot to the head. Okada slapped Ricochet in the back of the head. Ricochet rocked Okada with a tope suicida. Ricochet began to jaw with the fans. Ricochet followed up with a flying forearm. Okada connected with an elbow strike in the corner. Okada rattled Ricochet with a DDT. Ricochet fired back with a middle rope moonsault and then a running shooting star press for a near fall on Okada. Okada nailed Ricochet with a neck breaker. Okada landed an elbow drop from the top rope. Okada struck with a beautiful dropkick. Ricochet reversed a tombstone piledriver and hit the Vertigo. Ricochet landed a shooting star press and covered Okada, but Okada kicked out. Okada avoided the Spirit Gun and fired back with a dropkick. Okada blocked a second Spirit Gun attempt and blasted Ricochet with the Rainmaker clothesline to score the pin!
My Score: 3.5 out of 5
Match #3: AEW Women’s World Championship Tijuana Street Fight Match – Mariah May def. Thunder Rosa
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Mariah grounded and pounded Thunder Rosa. Thunder Rosa ducked a dropkick. Mariah May stunned Thunder Rosa with a DDT on the ramp. Mariah grabbed a bottle of tequila. She spit the tequila into Thunder Rosa’s face. Thunder Rosa speared Mariah May. Thunder Rosa smashed a bottle against Mariah May’s head. Thunder Rosa was taken off her feet by a head butt from Mariah. The champ followed up with a running knee strike for a near fall. Mariah May cracked a chair over the spine of Thunder Rosa. Thunder Rosa retaliated with a Death Valley Driver. Thunder Rosa broke open a piñata and emptied thumbtacks out of it. Mariah spiked Thunder Rosa with the May Day onto the tacks! Mariah May wrapped barbed wire around her knee. She charged at Thunder Rosa, but Rosa moved and sent Mariah knee first into the steel ring steps. Thunder Rosa whacked Mariah with Thunder Rosa’s father’s walking cane. Thunder Rosa ran up a table, catapulted off it, and blasted Mariah with a missile dropkick. Thunder Rosa wrapped a chain around Mariah and began to choke her. Thunder Rosa dropped the chain and bashed Mariah face first into a steel chair. Mariah pulled dirt out of a bag and threw it into Thunder Rosa’s eyes. Mariah spiked Thunder Rosa with a Storm Zero off the apron and through a table on the arena floor and picked up the victory.
My Score: 3.5 out of 5
Match #4: Dynamite Diamond Ring Match – MJF def. Adam Cole
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Cole was immediately on the attack with a boot to MJF. MJF rolled out of the ring to avoid a Panama Sunrise attempt. MJF sent Cole face first into the steel ring steps to buy himself some time. Adam Cole was busted up, bleeding from the forehead. MJF power bombed Cole onto his knee for a near fall. MJF went for a Panama Sunrise but Cole superkicked MJF out of the air. Cole cracked MJF with a back stabber and followed up with a brain buster on the knee. Cole’s leg buckled after MJF avoided a Panama Sunrise. MJF chop blocked Cole and then stomped on Cole’s leg. MJF and Cole slugged it out in the center of the ring. MJF was bleeding from the forehead and Cole battered MJF with left and right strikes! Cole brained MJF with the Panama Sunrise and then lowered the boom for a near fall on MJF. MJF jumped at the weakened leg of Adam Cole. MJF spat at Cole and Cole superkicked MJF! MJF grabbed a figure four leg lock on Cole and Cole was in serious trouble. Cole reversed the figure four, but MJF managed to reach the bottom rope to force the ref to break the hold. MJF approached Taven and Bennett as the ref was tending to Cole. MJF pretended to be struck by the Undisputed Kingdom, and ref Bryce Remsburg ejected them. MJF put the Dynamite Diamond Ring on but Cole superkicked MJF. Bennett and Taven distracted the ref again, arguing with him about being ejected from ringside, and MJF kicked Cole with a low blow. Then MJF finished off Cole with the Heat Seeker!
My Score: 3 out of 5
Match #5: AEW International Championship Match – Konosuke Takeshita def. Powerhouse Hobbs
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Hobbs bulldozed Takeshita with a massive shoulder tackle. Hobbs clobbered Takeshita with an elbow strike. Takeshita retaliated, hoisting Hobbs and then dropping Hobbs on his knee, straight down onto the apron. Takeshita punished Hobbs’ leg, stomping on the knee. Takeshita suplexed Hobbs back into the ring. Hobbs immediately clutched his knee. Hobbs ran through a lariat attempt and then connected with a cross body. Hobbs thrashed Takeshita with repeated forearm shots in the corner. Hobbs powerslammed Takeshita, good for a two-count. Takeshita rallied back, grabbing Hobbs in a feat of strength and then planting Hobbs headfirst onto the mat. They clubbed one another with lariats. Takeshita sent Hobbs for a ride with a German Suplex. Hobbs intercepted the Power Drive Knee strike. Hobbs powerslammed Takeshita. Hobbs walloped Takeshita with a running lariat for a near fall. Takeshita blasted Hobbs with a Blue Thunder Bomb, but Hobbs kicked out at the one-count! The champ superplexed Hobbs and followed up with a top rope senton. Hobbs served up a spinebuster, but Takeshita kicked out at the two-count! Hobbs hit a falling avalanche power slam on Takeshita. Hobbs was clutching his knee. He removed his knee brace to remove the swelling around the knee. Takeshita kicked Hobbs in the knee. Takeshita decimated Hobbs with the Raging Fire and retained his AEW International Championship!
My Score: 3.5 out of 5
Match #6: TBS Championship Match – Mercedes Moné def. Kris Statlander
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Statlander showed off her strength advantage, slamming the champion on the mat. Mercedes took down Stat with a hurracanrana, using Stat’s momentum against her. Statlander bashed Mercedes with a back breaker and followed up with a fallaway slam. Mercedes stunned Statlander with a powerslam out of nowhere, with Statlander crash landing on the apron. Mercedes followed up with a running knee strike. Statlander ran out of the corner with a lariat to the champion. Mercedes answered with a backstabber for a near fall. Mercedes went for a meteora, but Kris countered with a makeshift powerbomb. Statlander maintained control of the wrist and walloped the champion with repeated lariats. Statlander hurled Mercedes with a deadlift rolling German Suplex. Mercedes spiked Kris with a DDT off the ropes for a near fall! Mercedes overwhelmed Kris with a series of snap suplexes. Mercedes landed a frog splash, but Statlander kicked out at the two-count. Statlander nailed Mercedes with a package piledriver out of nowhere, but Mercedes managed to kick out before the three-count. The champion staggered Kris with three jawbreakers. They tumbled outside the ring and Mercedes planted Statlander with the Money Maker! Kris’ boot was caught between the ring frame and the canvas and Mercedes stomped on Kris’ leg. Mercedes smashed Kris with a meteora from the apron. Statlander was forced to remove her boot because it was caught in the apron. Kris face planted Mercedes off her shoulders and covered her for a near fall. Mercedes crushed Statlander with a belly to belly piledriver on the apron! Statlander tumbled to the arena floor. Statlander jumped into the ring just in the nick of time before the ref counted to ten! Mercedes locked on an STF, but Statlander made a desperate lunge, grabbing the bottom rope to force the ref to break the hold. Statlander swung for the fences with a lariat. Statlander went for Staturday Night Fever, but Mercedes escaped and applied an ankle lock. Statlander rolled out of it, but Mercedes tied up Statlander in a cradle and pinned Statlander to keep her title!
My Score: 3.5 out of 5
Match #7: AEW Continental Classic Final – Kazuchika Okada def. Will Ospreay
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Okada clobbered Ospreay with an elbow strike. Ospreay answered with a stinging chop. Ospreay took down Okada with a hurracanrana. Ospreay followed up with a dive over the top rope to Okada outside the ring. Okada spiked Will with a DDT on the arena floor. Okada followed up with a draping DDT to the floor! Okada drilled Will with a DDT in the ring for a near fall. Okada dropkicked Will as Will was on the turnbuckles. Will’s leg got caught in the ropes. Okada saw the opportunity and targeted the right leg of Will’s, hitting a knee breaker. Ospreay escaped a tombstone attempt and rocked Okada with an Os-Cutter off the barricade. Will flattened Okada with an Os-Cutter in the ring for a near fall! Ospreay buckled Okada with a chop. Okada got right back up and nailed Will with a neck breaker. Okada jumped off the top rope with an elbow drop. Okada launched himself at Ospreay with a John Woo dropkick. Ospreay hit the Styles Clash out of nowhere for a near fall! Okada cracked Will with the Rainmaker, but Will kicked out of the pin attempt. Okada went for the Rainmaker, but Ospreay countered with a standing Spanish Fly! Okada dropkicked Will, countering the Os-Cutter. Will fired back with a Rainmaker and then the Stormbreaker but Okada kicked out at the two-count! The pace quickened, Okada ducked the Hidden Blade attempt from Ospreay, and Okada knocked Ospreay’s block off with the Rainmaker. Okada covered Will and won the tournament via pinfall!
My Score: 4.5 out of 5
Match #8: AEW World Championship 4-Way Match – Jon Moxley def. “Hangman” Adam Page, Orange Cassidy, and Jay White
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Cassidy threw himself at Moxley with a tope suicida. Hangman Page and Jay White started pummeling Mox, trying to remove Mox from the equation. Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta came down through the crowd to bail Moxley out of the situation. Security intervened to try to keep the Death Riders out of the fray. Moxley flipped off Orange and booted him in the face. Page and White held back Mox as Orange pulped Mox with the Orange Punch. With the help of White and Orange, Page power bombed Moxley through the announcers’ table. Back in the ring, Page hit Jay White with a lariat. Page followed up with a fallaway slam to Orange. The Patriarchy were watching from a skybox in the arena, Christian Cage clutching onto his contract. Hook was watching from another skybox, his business with Christian Cage far from over. Orange rocked Page with a Stundog Millionaire. Jay White wiped out Page with a hurracanrana. Moxley blindsided Jay White with a knee strike. Orange ate a cutter from Moxley! Hangman Page and Moxley traded strikes in the center of the ring. Orange spiked Mox with a DDT. Jay White was rocked with a discus lariat from Page. Orange served up the Orange Punch to Jay White, and then dished one out to Moxley. Page pulled the referee out of the ring as Orange tried to pin Moxley. Page blasted Orange with the Buckshot Lariat. Page hit White with a Buckshot Lariat, and then drilled Mox with a Dead Eye! Wheeler Yuta grabbed Page’s boot. Marina passed Moxley a chair, but Page kicked the chair and then hit Mox with the Buckshot Lariat. Page kicked Orange with a low blow. Jay White planted Page and then Mox with the Blade Runner. Wheeler Yuta jumped in to tackle the ref and break up the pin attempt! Marina Shafir snuck into the ring, but Jay White dropped her with the Blade Runner. Wheeler Yuta retaliated with a running knee strike. Moxley drilled Jay White with the Death Rider and pinned Jay White.
My Score: 3 out of 5
News of the Night:
- Kenny Omega made his return to AEW, presenting the C2 title to Okada
- Adam Copeland returned alongside FTR to take on the Death Riders at the end of the main event.
Final Verdict: 4/5
You know what? Once again, no matter what you think about AEW’s weekly shows, the company can always put on one hell of a PPV and World’s End is no different. We got banger after banger, and even the live crowd got turned around by some of these matches, going from seemingly uninterested to screaming “Fight Forever” for a number of matches – in particular the women’s title match between Mone & Statlander, which was easily Mone’s best work in AEW in some time. Of course the MVP of this pay-per-view was Will Ospreay, you put in not one but TWO great matches, one of which could be in the talking for MOTY. Seriously. The fact we got the return of both Kenny Omega AND Adam Copeland was just the cherry on top of an already awesome cake!
