# AEW Revolution (2025)

The 2025 Revolution was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was the sixth annual Revolution and took place on March 9, 2025, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California. This was the first AEW PPV event to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
Twelve matches were contested at the event, including three on the "Zero Hour" pre-show. The main event saw Jon Moxley defeat Cope and Christian Cage by technical submission in a three-way match to retain the AEW World Championship; this originally started as a singles match between Moxley and Cope but midway through, Cage cashed in his Casino Gauntlet championship match contract to make it a three-way. In other prominent matches, "Timeless" Toni Storm defeated Mariah May in a Falls Count Anywhere match to retain the AEW Women's World Championship, Swerve Strickland defeated Ricochet to become the #1 contender for the AEW World Championship, and in the opening bout, "Hangman" Adam Page defeated MJF. Also notably, Kenny Omega defeated Konosuke Takeshita to win the AEW International Championship, becoming the first-ever AEW Grand Slam Champion.

## Production
### Background

Revolution is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event held annually by All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since 2020—it was originally held in late February but moved to early March in 2021. It is one of AEW's "Big Five" PPVs, which also includes Double or Nothing, All In, All Out, and Full Gear, their five biggest shows produced throughout the year.
On November 19, 2024, AEW announced that the sixth Revolution would take place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California on March 9, 2025. This marked the first time AEW held an event at the venue, as all of their prior events in the Los Angeles area were held at the Kia Forum in nearby Inglewood. On March 5, 2025, AEW announced a new PPV distribution deal with Amazon Prime Video wherein AEW's PPVs would be available to purchase on the platform in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, beginning with the 2025 Revolution.

### Storylines

Revolution featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines, written by AEW's writers. Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite and Collision.
At Worlds End on December 28, Jon Moxley retained his AEW World Championship in a four-way match in the main event only for FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) and Adam Copeland, who was returning from a seven month hiatus, to confront him afterwards. At Fight for the Fallen on January 1, Copeland, now known as simply "Cope", and FTR defeated Death Riders. Over the course of the following weeks Jay White, whom was one of the three other competitors in the four-way match at Worlds End, would become involved in Cope's feud with Moxley. On the January 22 episode of Dynamite, Cope defeated Pac only to be shown on the TitanTron that Death Riders had kidnapped Harwood, Wheeler and Rock 'n' Roll Express (Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton). Claudio Castagnoli then con-chair-toed Morton before attacking Cope and White in the ring. This would lead to a Brisbane Brawl at Grand Slam Australia on February 15 which Death Riders won. Following the loss, Cope vowed to dismantle Death Riders one-by-one. Starting with Pac on the February 22 episode of Collision, hitting Pac with a con-chair-to. On the February 26 episode of Dynamite with the help of White and Willow Nightingale, Cope took out Castagnoli and Marina Shafir, leaving Moxley and Wheeler Yuta left. On the March 5 episode of Dynamite, Cope defeated Yuta. After the match, an argument erupted in the ring between Yuta and Moxley, leading to Yuta walking away. Moxley then said that he would look forward to beating Cope at Revolution.

## Event

Other on-screen personnel :
| Role | Name |
| Commentators | Excalibur (Pre-show and PPV) |
| Commentators | Tony Schiavone (Pre-show and PPV) |
| Commentators | Taz (Pre-show and PPV) |
| Commentators | Nigel McGuinness (PPV) |
| Commentators | Jim Ross (AEW World & Women's title matches) |
| Commentators | Don Callis (International title and Steel cage matches) |
| Commentators | Matt Menard (Pre-show) |
| Spanish Commentators | Carlos Cabrera |
| Spanish Commentators | Alvaro Riojas |
| Spanish Commentators | Ariel Levy |
| Ring announcer | Justin Roberts (PPV) |
| Ring announcer | Arkady Aura (Pre-show) |
| Referees | Aubrey Edwards |
| Referees | Bryce Remsburg |
| Referees | Mike Posey |
| Referees | Paul Turner |
| Referees | Rick Knox |
| Referees | Stephon Smith |
| Pre-show hosts | Renee Paquette |
| Pre-show hosts | RJ City |
| Pre-show hosts | Jeff Jarrett |
| Pre-show hosts | Paul Walter Hauser |

### Main show
#### Main event
## Results

| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
| 1$^P$ | Komander and Hologram (with Alex Abrahantes) defeated Lee Johnson and Blake Christian by pinfall | Tag team match | 9:55 |
| 2$^P$ | Daniel Garcia and The Undisputed Kingdom (Adam Cole, Roderick Strong, and Kyle O'Reilly) defeated Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor, Carlie Bravo, Lee Moriarty, and Capt. Shawn Dean) by submission | Eight-man tag team match | 9:10 |
| 3$^P$ | "Big Boom!" A.J. and The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy and Mark Briscoe) (with Big Justice and The Rizzler) defeated Johnny TV and MxM Collection (Mansoor and Mason Madden) (with Taya Valkyrie) by pinfall | Trios match | 12:55 |
| 4 | "Hangman" Adam Page defeated MJF by pinfall | Singles match | 19:10 |
| 5 | Mercedes Moné (c) defeated Momo Watanabe by submission | Singles match for the AEW TBS Championship | 18:30 |
| 6 | Swerve Strickland (with Prince Nana) defeated Ricochet by pinfall | Singles match to determine the #1 contender to the AEW World Championship | 18:10 |
| 7 | Kazuchika Okada (c) defeated Brody King by pinfall | Singles match for the AEW Continental Championship | 10:55 |
| 8 | The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin) (c) (with MVP) defeated The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum) by pinfall | Tag team match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship | 8:40 |
| 9 | "Timeless" Toni Storm (c) (with Luther) defeated Mariah May by pinfall | Falls Count Anywhere match for the AEW Women's World Championship | 12:55 |
| 10 | Kenny Omega defeated Konosuke Takeshita (c) (with Don Callis) by pinfall | Singles match for the AEW International Championship | 28:30 |
| 11 | Will Ospreay defeated Kyle Fletcher by pinfall | Steel Cage match | 29:00 |
| 12 | Jon Moxley (c) defeated Cope and Christian Cage by technical submission | Three-way match for the AEW World Championship This was Cage's Casino Gauntlet cash-in match. | 26:35 |
| (c) – the champion(s) heading into the matchP – the match was broadcast on the pre-show ||||