AEW WrestleDream 2025 was important evented by the match that had everyone anxious about what they were about to witness, the “I Quit” match between Jon Moxley and Darby Allin. After a war that saw the 2 men stab one another with skewers, drown one another in aquariums, and strangle one another with flags, Darby forced Moxley to say the words “I Quit.”
Darby kicked things off by laying the AEW flag he waved at the highest of Mount Everest in the course of the ring, which Moxley wiped his feet on. This angered Darby who kicked Moxley out of the ring and hit a Tope Suicida immediately. Moxley responded with a dropkick of his own, kicked the ring ropes into Darby’s teeth, and landed a series of strikes with a series wrapped around his fist. Moxley continued to make use of the ropes, guardrail, and the ring steps as a weapon while the blood flowed from Darby’s mouth and ear. Marina Shafir pulled picket skewers from under the ring, but as an alternative of all them, Moxley pulled one from the bunch and stabbed it under Darby’s fingernail, before continuing to work over Darby’s arm, hands and fingers.
Moxley whipped Darby into the ring steps, but Darby leaped over them and countered with an enormous dropkick, resulting in a strike exchange within the ring which ended with Darby landing a Code Red. Darby then wrapped the flag around Moxley’s neck and tried to hold him in the identical way Hangman Page did at All In Texas, but Moxley escaped by jamming his thumb into Darby’s eye. Darby went high risk over again but missed the Coffin Drop on the apron, and after rolling back within the ring, Moxley began whipping Darby together with his own belt before landing a staling Piledriver.
Darby decided to embrace the whipping and mounted a transient comeback before being cut off with a German Suplex. Nevertheless, Darby went into the backpack he brought the ring and covered Moxley in lighter fluid, before brandishing a lighter. The Death Riders tried to chop Darby off, but they were sprayed as well. With that said, Moxley recovered in time and landed a cutter.
It was then Moxley’s turn to go within the backpack and he put Darby down with a taser, before hitting Darby with a Paradigm Shift on a steel chair. Claudio Castagnoli then got involved and launched Darby from the ring and on to the announce table, with PAC dragging Darby back to the ring where Moxley was waiting to deliver a Paradigm Shift off the apron through two tables. Moxley tried to inform referee Bryce Remsburg that Darby is out of his mind and won’t quit, meaning that there’s nothing he can do to stop him. Nevertheless, Moxley had an idea.