AEW will celebrate five years tonight in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Double or Nothing from the MGM Grand Garden with three main events.
The headliner is expected to be the Anarchy in the Arena match featuring The Elite (Young Bucks, Kazuchika Okada & Jack Perry) against FTR, Bryan Danielson & Darby Allin.
In another main event, AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland will defend against former TNT Champion Christian Cage while the other will see the AEW in-ring debut of Mercedes Mone as she challenges TBS Champion Willow Nightingale.
AEW Women’s Champion Toni Storm will defend against Serena Deeb, Will Ospreay will challenge for Roderick Strong’s AEW International title, and Chris Jericho will defend the FTW title against Hook & Katsuyori Shibata in a three-way.
In a barbed wire steel cage match, TNT Champion Adam Copeland will defend against Malakai Black while The Bang Bang Gang (Jay White & The Gunns) will defend the AEW Trios titles against Death Triangle (Lucha Bros & PAC).
Other action on the lengthy card includes Jon Moxley vs. Konosuke Takeshita and Orange Cassidy against Trent Beretta.
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Buy In
The Wrestle Aunts (Renee Paquette & RJ City) along with Jeff Jarrett welcome us to the Buy In. For those wondering, RJ made a Barbara Streisand reference 30 seconds into the show. They run down the nights matches and throw it to multiple video packages. Lexy Nair spoke to Charlie Ramone backstage, who helped construct the barbed wire steel cage for tonight’s TNT Title match and said it’s built for destruction.
Deonna Purrazzo defeated Thunder Rosa
(Hard hitting match to kick off the show, as this was another chapter in this story, as you can tell it’ll be leading to a stipulation match down the line. Purrazzo stealing the win here made sense, especially when it was a standard singles match. The crowd were loud for this, which bodes well for the rest of the night.)
Excalibur, Tony Schiavone & Matt Menard are on commentary, as Rosa’s entrance attire has some Elvis flare, but also has 21 crosses on it as a tribute to those who lost their lives in the Uvalde, Texas school shooting in 2022. After an early back and forth, Rosa sent Purrazzo to outside and followed with a baseball slide, as the crowd is loudly behind Rosa. Purrazzo tried to create space and it worked, as she leveled Rosa in the face with a big boot. Back inside, Purrazzo worked over the arm for an extended period until Rosa escaped, tried a pendulum swing, but was kicked in the face. Both ladies got a full head of steam and collided with a double clothesline for the reset, as the crowd is now doing dueling chants.
Both rise to their feet and it’s Rosa who wins the slug fest, leading to a dropkick in the ropes. Purrazzo lured Rosa into trying to go up top and hung her up in the Tree of Woe before hitting a diving shoulder to the midsection for two. Rosa fought back with a Cobra Clutch into a discus forearm for two. Purrazzo spun out of a Tijuana Bomb into the Fujiwara Armbar, but Rosa escaped into a backstabber. Rosa reapplied the Cobra Crossface, but as Rosa went to kick away from the ropes to avoid a Purrazzo rope break, Purrazzo spun close to the other ropes and held onto them to steal the pin.
-The Acclaimed & Daddy Ass are backstage with Lexy Nair and cut a fired-up promo on Brian Cage & The Gates of Agony.
-Renee Paquette welcomes Dr. Martha Hart & Tony Khan to the stage, as the Owen Hart Cup is set up on the stage. Hart said it’s great to be back in Vegas and talked about 25 years of the Owen Hart Foundation, so they have something special in mind for the Cup this year. Khan said the men and women Owen Hart Cup Tournament winners will get World Title shots. The finals will once again be in Calgary on July 10th and the title shots the winners earn will take place at All In at Wembley.
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