Posted on 11/24/124 by Bob Magee
AEW presented Full Gear live from the Prudential Center in
Newark, NJ!
It’s Saturday and you know what that means!
The Zero Hour portion of the show kicked off!
Your announce team for Zero Hour was Excalibur, Tony
Schiavone, and “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard.
The Vendetta’s “The Virtuosa” Deonna Purrazzo (with Taya
Valkyrie) vs. Anna Jay!
Purrazzo grabbed a size headlock. Anna Jay slipped out and
tried a sunset flip, but Deonna escaped. Anna followed up
with a flipping neck breaker. Deonna applied a submission
after a flatliner. Anna escaped and dropped Deonna with a
thrust kick.
Deonna rocked Anna with a Russian Leg Sweep. Anna stunned
Deonna with a neck breaker. Taya speared Anna outside the
ring. The ref ejected Taya! Deonna wrenched back on Anna’s
arm, but Anna turned it into a cradle pin and scored the
victory over Deonna!
Lexy Nair was backstage with Billie Starkz and asked her
about the ROH 4-Way qualifier for the Wrestle Dynasty
International Women’s Cup!
ROH Women’s World TV Champion Red Velvet interrupted, and
then “Legit” Leyla Hirsh walked onto the scene, and she
could beat both of them. ROH Women’s World Champion Athena
said she’s beaten all of them.
4-Way Match!
Top Flight’s Dante Martin vs. LFI’s The Beast Mortos vs.
Komander vs. The House of Black’s Buddy Matthews!
Mortos put Dante and Komander is stereo wrist locks. Buddy
deposited Komander on the top rope and was looking for a
superplex, but the Beast Mortos pulled Buddy down. Dante
caught Beast with a thrust kick. Mortos flew out of the ring
with a big time tornillo to Dante. Buddy flipped over the
top rope and wiped out Mortos and Dante! Komander walked the
top rope and crash landed onto the three men below with the
space man dive!
The Beast Mortos blasted Komander with a lung blower. Mortos
popped up Dante and crushed him with a Samoan Drop. Buddy
spiked Mortos with a DDT right on the horns. Buddy drilled
Dante with a jackhammer for a near fall.
Komander regained momentum with a DDT on Matthews, but
Mortos planted Komander with an over the top crucifix bomb!
“No one can get the advantage here and the fans love it!”
said Tony Schiavone.
Komander hit the Beast with a Swanton reverse rana. Buddy
double foot stomped Dante and stole the pin!
Big Boom A.J. (with Big Justice & The Rizzler) vs. QT
Marshall!
Paul Wight was a guest commentator for this match. The
Rizzler was the special guest time keeper.
QT booted A.J. in the midsection and then applied a side
headlock. A.J. caught QT with a powerslam!
“Wow did that change the dynamics there or what!” said Paul
Wight.
QT had a security detail. They got into A.J.’s face. While
A.J. was distracted, QT jumped over the top rope. “Big Boom”
dodged QT and QT wiped out the security detail like a
bowling ball knocking down bowling pins.
A.J. took down QT with a belly-to-belly suplex. Big Justice
tried to urge on his father. A.J. blasted QT with a
spinebuster! A.J. climbed to the top rope and connected with
a flying forearm from the top! A.J. nailed QT with a power
slam for a near fall!
QT connected with a cutter but Big Boom A.J. kicked out in
the nick of time! QT approached the Rizzler, but Paul Wight
stood up and told QT to back off. QT climbed up top but A.J.
met him up there. A.J. superplexed QT back into the ring!
Aaron Solo jumped into the ring but A.J. decked him. As A.J.
was distracted, QT clobbered A.J. with a pump kick. Big
Justice jumped into the ring and speared QT! A.J. power
bombed QT and scored the pinfall victory!
“What a moment!” said Tony Schiavone.
“The CEO” Mercedes Moné was backstage with Kamille!
Mercedes told Kamille to watch her match from back in
catering tonight, giving her a tongue lashing. “Watch and
learn,” said Mercedes.
Tony Schiavone, Excalibur, and Nigel McGuinness were the
broadcast team for the pay-per-view portion of the night.
AEW World Tag Team Championship 4-Way Match!
Kings of the Black Throne—Malakai Black & Brody King
vs. The Outrunners—Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd
vs. The Acclaimed—Anthony Bowens & Max Caster
vs. Private Party (c.)—Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen!
Quen and Black went to a stalemate early on. Quen ducked The
End kick from Black. Bowens tagged in and hip tossed
Kassidy. The Outrunners used classic tandem offense on
Kassidy and then flexed and posed.
Brody nearly decapitated Turbo with a big time clothesline.
Brody superplexed Bowens while Black followed up with a
diving foot stomp! The Kings of the Black Throne continued
to dominate the match by double teaming Quen.
Bowens landed the Scissor Me Timbers on Brody as Brody was
held down by the other wrestlers. Caster hit Turbo before
Bowens and Turbo could shake hands. Bowens looked frustrated
by Caster’s actions.
Private Party landed stereo 450s on the Outrunners, but the
Outrunners kicked out of the pin attempt. The Outrunners
blasted Private Party with their bicep elbow drops. Brody
tagged himself in and leveled Truth Magnum.
The Outrunners hit the Total Recall on Brody, but the pin
attempt was broken up by Caster. Bowens and Caster were both
the legal men. Caster laid down, telling Bowens to pin him,
but Bowens declined, not wanting the match to end that way.
Caster called for the Arrival from Bowens. Caster went for
the Mic Drop on Kassidy, but Turbo interrupted it. Quen and
Kassidy served up Gin & Juice on Caster and retained the
titles!
“Get the bottles on ice because Private Party have defied
the odds here tonight at Full Gear to make their first
successful defense of the AEW World Tag Team Championships,”
said Excalibur.
Lexy Nair was backstage with Orange Cassidy!
Orange: “The Deathriders sent a message on Dynamite.
Tonight, we send a message back. AEW sends a message back.
It already started with Private Party. AEW means everything
to them. Just like it means everything to me and all these
people here tonight. You can’t understand that Jon, because
you never needed AEW.
“Tonight, I show you that AEW doesn’t need you. I take the
power. I take the symbol of everything that AEW represents
out of that briefcase and put it into my backpack!”
MJF vs. The Undisputed Kingdom’s Roderick Strong!
MJF: “Roddy, you want to know why these people like you.
It’s because you’re white trash.”
Roddy jumped behind MJF and nailed him with an emphatic
chop. Roddy stomped a mudhole into MJF on the ramp. MJF
ducked a chop from Roddy and Roddy inadvertently smacked the
steel ring post. MJF power bombed Roderick Strong on the
apron.
MJF yanked Roddy’s wrist and threw him into the turnbuckles.
Roddy retaliated with a half nelson back breaker. Roddy
countered a heat seeker and kicked MJF through the ropes,
sending MJF into the barricade. Roddy rocked MJF with a back
breaker onto the barricade!
Roddy countered a Panama Sunrise with a back breaker for a
near fall. MJF spiked Roddy with a DDT but Roddy kicked out
at the two-count.
“I have no idea how Roddy got out of that because that was
well executed,” said Tony Schiavone.
MJF spat at Roddy and Roddy fired back with chops to MJF’s
chest. Roddy locked MJF into the Texas Cloverleaf. Roddy let
go of the hold because of the damage to his hand and
shoulder. Roddy threw a hard elbow strike at MJF and MJF
crumbled to the mat.
“Fatigue is becoming an issue for both athletes,” said
Excalibur.
Roddy stunned MJF with the End of Heartache, but MJF touched
the bottom rope with his boot to prevent the pin. Roddy
cracked MJF with a gut buster and then a sick kick right on
target. MJF blocked the End of Heartache with a brain
buster! MJF wrenched back with the Salt of the Earth arm bar
and Roderick had no choice but to tap out!
After the match MJF grabbed a steel chair and brought it
into the ring. MJF sandwiched Roddy’s forearm in between the
chair and stomped on it! Adam Cole sprinted to the ring with
Matt Taven, Mike Bennett and Kyle O’Reilly and MJF retreated
out of the ring!
“I’ll get you, Max!” said Cole.
O’Reilly shoved Adam Cole and then Kyle helped Roderick
Strong to the back.
TBS Championship Match!
“The CEO” Mercedes Moné (c.) vs. Kris Statlander!
Mercedes grounded and pounded Statlander. The challenger got
to her feet and press slammed the CEO. Stat followed up with
a moonsault. Mercedes took down Kris with a hurracanrana off
the apron down onto the arena floor. Stat immediately
clutched her back.
Mercedes crashed down with a meteora on Statlander. Mercedes
whipped Stat into the steel ring steps and then charged at
Statlander, driving her knees into Statlander’s skull.
Mercedes stomped on Kris in the corner.
After another meteora, Mercedes hooked Kris’ legs for a pin
attempt, but Statlander kicked out. Mercedes countered a
power bomb attempt with a neck breaker. Mercedes smashed
Kris against the turnbuckles with a double knee strike.
Mercedes was looking for a swinging DDT off the turnbuckles,
but Statlander shoved her away. Statlander countered another
meteora attempt with a buckle bomb. Statlander power slammed
the champion. Statlander rocked Mercedes with a chaos theory
suplex, and Mercedes kicked out at 2.99!
Mercedes cracked Kris with a back stabber! Mercedes went for
another meteora, but Kris kicked out at the two-count.
Statlander retaliated with a discus lariat. Statlander hit
the Staturday Night Fever for a near fall on Mercedes!
The fans chanted “This is awesome! This is awesome!”
Mercedes spiked Kris with a DDT! Mercedes was outraged that
Kris kicked out. Mercedes stunned Kris with the Three Amigos
suplexes. Mercedes jumped off the turnbuckles, but Stat
caught her and planted Mercedes.
Mercedes dodged a 450 splash. Mercedes attacked Kris’ right
knee with elbow strikes. Mercedes landed a frog splash on
Kris’ knee, but Kris kicked out of the pin attempt. Mercedes
punished Kris with two consecutive back stabbers. She
planted Kris and covered her, but Kris kicked out! The arena
erupted in cheers!
“This is something else to behold,” said Tony Schiavone.
Mercedes escaped the Saturday Night Fever by biting Kris’
knee. Mercedes rolled up Kris and picked up the hard earned
victory!
“She earned that belt,” said Tony Schiavone.
“Kris has nothing to be ashamed of in this match, injuring
that knee and still pushing the champion very nearly to her
limit,” replied Excalibur.
The Bang Bang Gang’s “Switchblade” Jay White (with Juice
Robinson)
vs.
“Hangman” Adam Page!
Hangman suplexed Jay out of the ring and Jay immediately
clutched his leg. Page seized upon Jay’s injured leg.
Hangman bashed Jay White’s ankle against the steel ring
post. Hangman punched the ankle of Jay White.
Jay White chopped at Adam Page, but Page retaliated with a
belly to belly suplex. Jay White dropkicked the front of
Page’s knee, looking to pick apart the Hangman. Jay White
spiked Page with a DDT.
Page planted White with a fallaway slam into the
turnbuckles. Page followed up with an avalanche fallaway
slam, but Jay White kicked out at the two-count. Jay White
chop blocked Page. Jay White caught Page with a German
Suplex.
Page power bombed Jay White for a near fall! White regained
momentum with a half and half suplex on the apron! Jay White
nailed Page with another German Suplex on the arena floor.
Page wedged White’s leg between the barricades and kicked
the barricade. Page applied an ankle lock on the arena
floor. Jay White and Adam Page jumped back into the ring
just before the 10-count. Page tried for the buckshot lariat
but White intercepted it.
Jay White rocked Page with a dragon screw through the ropes.
White planted Page with a uranage. Jay White reversed an
ankle lock and applied an inverted figure four leg lock.
Page inched to the bottom rope to force the ref to break the
hold.
“What a game of strategy this match has been,” said Nigel.
Page connected with the dead eye! Page punished Jay with a
second dead eye for a near fall on Switchblade! Page and
White countered one another until Jay White blasted Page
with the Blade Runner and scored the pin!
“Once again the crowd is on their feet!” said Nigel.
“And you see Jay White reminding Adam Page he has five
career victories,” added Excalibur.
After the match, an unhinged Adam Page blindsided Jay White!
Christopher Daniels came out to try to calm down Page, but
Page clobbered CD with a strike!
“The Aerial Assassin” Will Ospreay
vs. The Don Callis Family’s “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher
(with Don Callis)!
Don Callis joined the broadcast booth for this match.
Both men charged to the center and slugged it out. Fletcher
knocked down Will with a shoulder block. Ospreay came back
with a hurracanrana. Fletcher avoided a tope and sent Will
into the barricade.
Ospreay jumped off the ring steps and wiped out Fletcher
with another hurracanrana! Back in the ring, Fletcher spiked
Will on his head with a DDT!
The fans chanted “Let’s go Ospreay! Let’s go Ospreay!”
Fletcher blasted Ospreay with a brain buster on the arena
floor! Ospreay immediately clutched his shoulder. Fletcher
fired off a draping DDT on Ospreay. Kyle applied a dragon
sleeper on Ospreay. Fletcher punished Ospreay with a
Michinoku driver!
Ospreay found the strength for a Sky Twister Press to
Fletcher on the floor! Fletcher regained momentum countering
the Os Cutter and following up with a power bomb! Will hit a
Stun Dog Millionaire. Ospreay nailed Fletcher with a
tombstone piledriver on the arena floor! Ospreay, on the
attack, hit a blue tornado on Fletcher.
The fans chanted “This is awesome! This is awesome!”
“What a friggin’ match,” said Tony Schiavone.
Ospreay connected with a Spanish Fly. Will smashed Fletcher
with the hidden blade!
“Listen to this crowd!” said Schiavone.
“Newark, New Jersey is on its feet,” replied Excalibur.
Ospreay planted Fletcher with the Styles Clash! Ospreay
followed up with the hidden blade, but Kyle kicked out in
the nick of time! Fletcher somehow managed to spike Ospreay
with a jumping tombstone piledriver from the apron to the
steel ring steps! Fletcher nailed Will with the grimstone!
Kyle leveled Will with a short arm lariat. Fletcher planted
Ospreay with a top rope brain buster and pinned Ospreay!
Mark Davis jumped into the ring to check on Ospreay after
the match.
Up next: The Champagne Championship Celebration for AEW
Women’s World Champion “The Glamour” Mariah May, with Mina
Shirakawa!
Mina Shirakawa: “This is the Champagne Championship
Celebration! Please welcome my friend, my partner, and the
love of my life, the AEW Women’s World Champion, Mariah
May!”
Mariah May: “We finally did it! This is the celebration I
always deserved. And it’s been a tough four months, but it
was all worth it to step on, beat, and kill this entire
division. Because there is not a single woman alive who can
touch me.
“And Mina! My one true friend, I couldn’t have done this
without you.”
Mina: “To the AEW Women’s World Champion Mariah May!”
Mariah: “Mina, let’s celebrate!”
Mariah swung the bottle at Mina, but Mina saw her and kicked
it out of Mariah’s hand! Mina speared Mariah off the stage
and the two wrestlers crashed through tables below!
TNT Championship Match!
“The Scapegoat” Jack Perry (c.) vs. Daniel Garcia!
“Daddy Magic” Matt Menard joined the broadcast booth for
this match.
Perry kept avoiding Garcia at the start of the match, like a
game of cat and mouse. Garcia wouldn’t back down. They
locked up and Garcia applied a wrist lock. Perry escaped and
once again retreated outside the ring, frustrating Daniel
Garcia.
Finally Garcia grabbed Perry by the hair and whipped the
champion into the guardrail. Garcia charged at Perry and
sent him over the barricade with a big boot to the face!
Perry retaliated by planting Garcia with a draping DDT onto
the arena floor. Perry drilled Daniel with another draping
DDT off the barricade.
Jack Perry hit a dropkick from the top turnbuckle. Perry
clubbed Garcia with a comebacker lariat. Garcia dumped Perry
on the back of his head with a back drop driver. Perry
caught Garcia with a drop toe hold and locked in what used
to be called the snare trap. Garcia reached the ropes,
forcing the ref to break the submission maneuver.
Perry shoved Matt Menard, perhaps looking for an easy way
out of the match. Jack Perry power bombed Garcia through the
timekeeper’s table, smirking at Menard. Daddy Magic
encouraged Garcia to get to his feet and get back to the
ring before the 10-count. Garcia made the desperate call and
just barely beat the ref’s count.
Garcia walloped Perry with a lariat! Garcia stomped a
mudhole into Perry in the corner. Garcia followed up with a
running boot slide. Garcia hit Perry with a butterfly suplex
into the turnbuckles. Garcia dropkicked Jack Perry in the
side of the head.
Perry went back to attacking Garcia’s neck. Perry grabbed
his TNT Championship belt and carried it into the ring.
Perry dropped the belt at Garcia and invited Garcia to use
the belt against him. Perry was looking to get Garcia
disqualified. Garcia handed the belt to the ref and as the
ref had his back turned, Jack Perry suckered in Garcia with
a low blow. Perry nailed Garcia with a knee strike to the
side of the head for a near fall!
“Daniel Garcia perseveres,” said Excalibur.
Perry was looking for another knee strike, but Garcia
slumped down, his eyes closed. Garcia intercepted a thrust
kick. Garcia spiked Perry with a piledriver but this time
Perry escaped the pin attempt!
Garcia blistered Perry’s chest with rapid fire chops. Garcia
stuck Perry with a piledriver. Garcia locked on the Dragon
Tamer and Perry tapped out!
“He did it, boys!” said Matt Menard.
And new TNT World Champion…Daniel Garcia!
AEW International Championship Match!
The Don Callis Family’s Konosuke Takeshita (c.) vs.
Ricochet!
Don Callis joined the broadcast booth for this match.
Takeshita knocked Ricochet out of the ring with a running
boot to Ricochet’s head. Takeshita rocked Ricochet with a
backdrop onto the timekeeper’s table. Back in the ring,
Ricochet caught Takeshita by surprise with an elbow strike.
Ricochet climbed up top but Takeshita power slammed
Ricochet.
Ricochet flipped over the top rope, stuck the landing,
crashing right onto Takeshita. Ricochet followed up with a
springboard 450 splash! Don Callis threw his headset down
and approached the ring, yelling words of encouragement to
the champion.
Takeshita stunned Ricochet with a blue thunder bomb for a
near fall. Ricochet blocked a power drive knee, but
Takeshita dished out an elbow strike in its place. Both men
traded forearms, but Takeshita knocked Ricochet to the mat,
getting the better of the exchange.
Ricochet connected with a chopping elbow strike just beneath
the jaw of Takeshita. The champion hurled Ricochet with a
release German from the top turnbuckle. Takeshita folded the
challenger in half with a power drive knee strike, but
Ricochet kicked out at the two-count. Takeshita flattened
Ricochet with a senton.
Ricochet took Takeshita down with a hurracanrana off the
turnbuckles followed by a poison rana! Ricochet landed a
shooting star press and covered Takeshita for a near fall!
Takeshita ducked the spirit gun. Takeshita blocked the
Vertigo attempt and planted Ricochet. Takeshita lowered his
knee pad, but Ricochet avoided him. Ricochet rocked
Takeshita with a twisting brain buster. Takeshita managed to
pull off the victory after planting Ricochet from the top
rope!
“What a night it’s been for the Don Callis Family,” said
Excalibur.
Swerve Strickland (with Prince Nana)
vs.
The Hurt Syndicate’s Bobby Lashley (with MVP & Shelton
Benjamin)!
Jim Ross joined the broadcast booth for this match.
Bobby Lashley bulldozed Swerve and then slammed him. Bobby
hit Swerve with a one-armed vertical suplex!
“Bobby Lashley is superhuman,” said Nigel.
Bobby Lashley powerslammed Swerve but Swerve kicked out at
the two-count. Shelton grabbed Swerve’s boot and the ref saw
it, so Shelton was ejected from ringside. Bobby caught
Swerve who attempted a dive over the top rope. Bobby whipped
Swerve into the guardrail.
Swerve brained Bobby with a DDT on the ring apron! Swerve
jumped off the ring steps and hit the Swerve Stomp, smashing
Bobby through the Spanish Announce Table! Swerve followed up
with the house call! Swerve climbed to the top turnbuckle
and connected with another Swerve Stomp! Lashley kicked out
at the last second!
After distraction from MVP, Bobby sent Swerve soaring with a
belly to belly suplex. Lashley speared Swerve through the
barricade!
“Physicality! Intensity! You’re getting it all here with
this one,” said Jim Ross.
Lashley speared Swerve again, this time inside the ring.
Lashley applied the Hurt Lock and Swerve was out. The ref
stopped the match, and Bobby Lashley was declared
victorious! After the match, Bobby Lashley put Prince Nana
in the Hurt Lock full nelson!
“What a dominant performance by Bobby Lashley!” said Nigel.
AEW World Championship Match!
The Deathriders’ Jon Moxley (c.) (with Marina Shafir)
vs. “Freshly Squeezed” Orange Cassidy!
Orange pulped Moxley with three consecutive Orange Punches
during the ring introductions. Orange followed up with a
tope suicida. Orange grounded and pounded Moxley on top of
the announcers’ desk! Orange chomped on Moxley’s forehead
and Moxley retreated. Moxley gouged at Orange’s eyes.
Moxley set Orange on a steel chair and then booted Orange in
the head. Moxley stomped on Orange’s head, sandwiching it
against the steel ring steps. Orange Cassidy was busted wide
open.
“Orange Cassidy wearing the red badge of courage,” said
Nigel.
Mox drilled Orange with a Paradigm Shift onto the steel ring
steps, the blood flowing freely from his forehead. Marina
kicked Orange in the head as the ref was distracted by
Moxley. The champion spiked Orange with a Gotch style
piledriver for a near fall.
Moxley raked Orange’s back. Orange returned the favor,
digging his fingernails into Moxley’s back! Orange jumped
off the turnbuckles, but Mox countered with a strike to
Orange’s jaw. Orange retaliated with a diving DDT!
The fans chanted “A-E-Dub! A-E-Dub!”
Orange rocked Moxley with another DDT. Orange charged but
Moxley countered with a cutter out of nowhere! They traded
strikes in the center of the ring. Orange connected with an
Orange Punch, and then a second Orange Punch! Orange rolled
up Moxley for a near fall!
Orange popped Mox with a third Orange Punch and followed it
up with a beach break, but Moxley kicked out at the two-
count! “The Bastard” Pac and Claudio Castagnoli surrounded
the ring. The Conglomeration came down to the ring to even
up the odds for Orange!
“They’re fighting for AEW!” said Nigel.
Back inside the ring, Marina was about to waffle Orange with
the case when Willow Nightingale ran to the ring and began
to brawl with Marina! As the ref had his back turned, Orange
clubbed Moxley with the case, but Mox kicked out!
Moxley held the referee while Wheeler Yuta nailed Orange
with a knee strike. Moxley finished off Orange with the
Death Rider and prevailed.
“The numbers game got Orange,” said Jim Ross.
“Orange Cassidy once again betrayed by Wheeler Yuta,” added
Excalibur.
Wheeler Yuta poured cleaning solution on top of Orange as
Moxley held Orange back. “Hangman” Page jumped in the ring
and whacked Wheeler with a steel chair! Page got in Moxley’s
face. Christian Cage blindsided Moxley with the Kill Switch!
Page walked away as Christian pondered cashing in his
contract. Jay White ambushed Christian Cage and planted
Christian with the Blade Runner! Pac and Claudio sprung back
into the ring and double teamed Jay White, descending like
jackals!
The Deathriders retreated to the back, about to get into
their pick-up truck when another car rammed into the truck!
The Deathriders commandeered another car and drove off!
Darby Allin was the one who rammed into the truck! He began
smashing the pick-up truck with his skateboard, screaming
“Let’s end this now, Moxley!”
Catch the fallout from Full Gear on AEW DYNAMITE on TBS next
Wednesday live at 8/7ct from the Wintrust Arena in Chicago,
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