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AEW Revolution 2025 Awards

From Toni Storm becoming a legend to Edge and Moxley looking around like “we’re legends, right..RIGHT?” Here’s AEW Revolution 2025 awards

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AEW Revolution 2025 was a reminder that if you love wrestling—and I don’t mean you love celebrity cameos and friendship bracelets and nostalgia acts—but you genuinely love the athleticism and psychology of incredible in-ring performers—then this PPV is everything you ever wanted.

So let’s give out some AEW Revolution 2025 Awards:

The “Stone Cold Steve Austin Coolest Guy on Earth” Award: Swerve Strickland

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Not a single wrestler on Earth has built themselves into the coolest performer on the card like Swerve Strickland. Tony Khan gave him the ball and he turned into Iverson.

Every move Swerve makes—from the moment he walks on screen—is covered in swag.

His swag cup runneth over.

Ricochet has been on wrestling TV forever. I don’t think it’s a coincidence this is the first time I’ve enjoyed his work.

Swerve turned himself into the main character of AEW by maximizing every second of screen time, demanding our attention with one of the most insane movesets, a manager in Prince Nana we all love and demonstrating a willingness to murder his opponents

And he’s about to save us from this Jon Moxley shit.

Runner up—Takeshita: I don’t know what’s next for Takeshita now that he’s lost the International Championship to Kenny Omega in an anxiety-inducing 100mph sprint to the finish line.

He’ll most likely be off TV for a little bit.

But I know when he pops up again—randomly standing at the top of the stage, eyeing down his next opponent without saying a single word, shirtless in the flair pants, aura too strong—I will be LOCKED IN.

*whispers* We don’t need Don Callis here anymore. He isn’t adding anything to Takeshita’s presentation. He’s a distraction, subtracting from how physically dominating Takeshita is.

The “You Have Received a Direct Deposit from AEW” Award: Okada

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I love Okada.

My man shows up once a week, calls someone a bitch, works no more than 20 minutes, goes home with probably the biggest paycheck.

The “Living My Best Life” Award: Adam Cole

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Adam Cole is newly single, looking healthier than ever and he’s outside with the boys again.

Oh, and he’ll most likely be the next TNT Champion.

He’s fitter, happier, more productive and all his opps are dead.

Vince McMahon—who wanted Cole to be a manager instead of a wrestler—is a rapist, rotting at home (while his wife guts the Department of Education).

His ex Britt Baker is, well, also rotting at home (not a rapist though. Just kind of a mean girl backstage who isn’t talented enough to be).

Adam Cole is back to superkicking with his homies.

Life is good for Adam Cole.

Let’s never talk about that devil mask thing again though.

Disaster Class Award: Contract/Money in the Bank shenanigans

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I have many thoughts about the AEW Revolution 2025 ending.

I’m okay with whatever Jon Moxley and Edge were attempting to accomplish but I’m not okay with that getting the main event over Toni Storm and Mariah May concluding arguably the biggest feud in the company’s history.

We can all have our mixed opinions on the Death Riders—and by mixed opinions, I mean 100% of the fans pissed this story will not end while Jon Moxley and Tony Khan can’t get enough of it.

Moxley, Edge, Christian—3 old men who built their legacies in another ring do not need to soak up more attention than Toni Storm—who transformed herself into a superstar inside and out of the ring—and Mariah May—a woman I didn’t even know existed and was immediately excited once I show her dropkick a woman’s chest in.

We do not need to keep doing briefcases that automatically grant you title opportunities—often in the middle of already active wrestling matches.

It’s insane for Okada to have a secondary championship that requires weeks of round-robin tournament matches to win while the main world championship can be won by simply signing a contract.

Never do this shit again.

“You’re A Hooper, We Get It, Damn” Award: Mercedes Mone

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If you read my review of Grand Slam Australia, then you know Mercedes Mone has become one of my personal GOATs. She has developed herself into a global draw, capable of competing with the best women in the world, on their terms.

But baby girl, you already won me. You don’t have to keep proving how much of a sicko you are.

Momo Watanabe was legitimately kicking Mercedes Mone’s head off.

I fear Mercedes won’t make it to 2026—especially knowing her GPS redirected her route towards a smooth path to an Athena ass beating.

The “Dreams Come True” Award: Costco Guys

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I know wrestling purists don’t love celebrities coming into promotions, taking spots from more deserving talent, forced to sit in the locker room watching Travis Scott accidentally smack Cody Rhodes deaf—but Big Boom AJ is different.

He is a professional wrestler. Literally. He has a Cagematch page.

He’s wrestled about as many matches as Hook.

Clearly, Big Boom AJ—formerly known as New Jersey’s “Powerchild”—dreamed of becoming a wrestling star but life happens and he, instead, started a little family—a family that loves shopping at Costco.

And now, his life has come full circle, returning to the ring but this time, with his son in the ring with him.

I recognize it may be annoying to see this weird ass Rizzler kid rubbing his chin—seemingly unaware of why people even like him so much but knowing he must continue doing the thing the adults tell him to do so his parents keep getting paid—and I know that “We Bring The Boom” song is Who Let The Dogs Out for the terminally online—but honestly, this family is living the dream. Kinda cool. Good for them.

The “This Here Is What You Call Domination” Award: Hurt Syndicate

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I just want to praise Bobby Lashley, MVP, Shelton Benjamin and The Hurt Syndicate for being so over right now.

I love that they’re getting so much love after being treated like something WWE quickly became embarrassed by—like, why didn’t the Hurt Syndicate ever have big feuds with The Judgement Day or The Bloodline?

I will never forget Lashley not being booked at Wrestlemania but being asked to walk to the ring to hold up a trophy he won on Smackdown the night before.

Also want to get this praise in because they’re old men and if they don’t add some youth into their stable then I think Lashley might get exposed in AEW.

This Outrunners match kind of sucked and would’ve benefitted from being a one-minute squash.

BUT let’s celebrate them before they fall off in the ring and we start wondering when they plan on retiring.

WE HURT PEOPLE.

Biggest Surprise of the Night: MJF losing clean

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MJF rarely gets in the ring—resulting in some of my favorite storylines, forcing opponents to jump through hoops to face him.

And then he finally gets in the ring and when the bell goes off, he’s instantly one of the best in the world.

This is the match I was most hyped to see. MJF, Hangman and Swerve pass he baton back and forth as the main character of AEW so whenever any of them stand face-to-face, it’s the most important story of the show.

Hangman Page hasn’t won a PPV match in over a year.

And despite knowing this rivalry isn’t quite over yet, I still had no idea MJF would eat a pin in the middle of the ring without any hijinks involved.

Remember when MJF almost lit Hangman on fire?

And then MJF lost?

Yea, he’s 100000% going to light Adam Page on fire.

Soon.

The “That’s Not Gonna Work For Me, Brother” Award: Edge

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Adam Copeland had an interesting quote this week before Revolution where he told Sports Illustrated that he didn’t understand the Death Riders story.

“Well, for me, it was just confusing at first. Like, I didn’t fully understand what was happening. So I wanted to try and figure that out along with the audience, I think, and then go ‘Alright, what can be the story here?”

He then went on to explain how much work he put into almost fixing Moxley’s storyline.

So I have no choice but to look at this dogshit main event and point the finger at Edge, inserting himself into a story that he believed needed his assistance—wasting a couple of months of our time, adding Jay White for no recognizable reason—only to get to the finale of their feud and adding Christian Cage last minute so Christian could take the pinfall instead of him.

I wish Edge was as creative and interesting as he thinks he is.

The “Oh My God” Award: Will Ospreay and Kyle Fletcher

 

Jesus.

Biggest Winner: Toni Storm and Mariah May

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Most people go their entire lives without accomplishing anything meaningful.

That doesn’t mean their lives don’t matter or are insignificant but most of us try to go to work and get home safely.

Rarely are we ever in a position to create a lasting legacy the way Toni Storm and Mariah May have with their strange, hilarious, brutal, bloody, personal, old Hollywood storyline.

Toni Storm was WWE’s waste—flushed down the drain like she was disposable.

Now she’s must-see TV, a bonafide superstar cast in movies and transcending the genre. My friends who don’t follow wrestling at all know who Toni Storm is.

And at AEW Revolution 2025, she and Mariah May put together a match that will go down as one of the greatest ever.

Toni Storm is stamped in wrestling history. A generation of young fans watched she and Mariah May get into a glass-knuckle brawl.

I don’t know what Mariah May does next. AEW isn’t really great at that stuff.

But I do know, one day, she will walk out at a Royal Rumble and the room will fucking shake.

That wouldn’t be the case if it weren’t for the work she did with Toni Storm. Mariah May can headline night 1 of Wrestlemania against Charlotte Flair or Bianca Belair or Stephanie Vaquer one day and it’s all because of this night.

Biggest Loser: Jon Moxley

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You cannot continue to be considered the “Ace” of AEW while producing meaningless stinker after meaningless stinker. Kenny Omega made it very clear that the moment he is no longer capable of putting together bangers, he’s out of the ring.

Jon Moxley has been fronting the most uninspired, unremarkable, unimportant storyline in AEW history. This Death Riders run makes the MJF/Adam Cole storyline look as big as the NWO WCW invasion.

Mox vs. Cope was two old, slow, unathletic, washed, used-to-be’s, dragging each other through a match neither man seemed to bother even stretching beforehand, after a long night of nonstop, back-to-back match of the night candidates.

I love Jon Moxley’s work in AEW. But this shit suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucksballs.

 

 

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