One other AEW Revolution has come and gone. Like all skilled wrestling events, there have been winners and there have been losers, and all of those results could be found on our fastidious results page. We have talked about what we loved and hated, so now it is time to get into who won and who lost.
Winning and losing a match is not the be-all and end-all of wrestling. Losers can appear to be winners, winners can appear to be losers, and nobodies can sometimes be the largest somebodies. The show was rife with winners and losers, from MJF’s loser-y tantrum to Toni Storm and Mariah May’s victory over the remaining of the cardboard.
Without further ado, the winners and the losers from AEW Revolution 2025.
Winners: The Women’s Division
AEW Revolution was an amazing night for girls’s wrestling. Mercedes Mone and Momo Watanabe had a knock-down, drag-out brawl for the AEW TBS Championship, and Mariah May and Toni Storm had a bloody war to conclude their months-long rivalry. The show was overstuffed with big men’s matches, most of which felt like they were blurring into one another, putting the crisp and clean lines of the ladies’s matches into stark contrast.
Mone has been hit-or-miss for me personally but she had tremendous chemistry with Momo Watanabe. On a show where most of the big matches just felt like “Dynamite” most important events, Mone and Watanabe crossed into actual PPV-match greatness on Sunday, putting the oft-wayward Mone back on track. Mone has struggled with storylines for much of the yr (Remember Kamille!?) and the meat-and-potatoes showcase match was precisely the type of highlight she’s needed. Watanabe fought so hard that she injured her ankle and needed to be carried out of the world after the match, meaning that beyond the nice chemistry, she’ll be searching for a modicum of revenge in the long run.
Nearly as good because the TBS Championship Match was, the Women’s World Championship was even higher, with Mariah May and Toni Storm beating one another senseless. The match should’ve main-evented the show, especially with the cinematic ending title card following Storm’s win. Not being put within the most important event appeared to light a hearth under the ladies, who used their 12:55 perfectly.
Each matches were the type of displays that hopefully motivates the remaining of the ladies’s roster, and the AEW roster usually, to step up.
Loser: Christian Cage
Christian Cage has spent the higher a part of the previous couple of months carrying around a contract for an AEW World Title shot every time he wants it. He has haunted the perimeters of the world title scene, waiting for his time to strike.
Cage finally took that likelihood on Sunday, cashing in his contract like Seth Rollins’s Money In The Bank cash-in at WrestleMania 31. Unlike Rollins, Cage was unable to win the title; as a substitute, he passed out in Jon Moxley’s Bulldog Choke, which cost each himself and Cope the world title. While it’s endearing to me that Cage would help Cope get out of a loss on PPV, it was a really silly ending to a really interesting storyline.
Cage looked like a large geek and ultimately, the loss itself would’ve been bad enough, however the incontrovertible fact that the finish also guarantees to delay the countless feud between Christian Cage and Cope was just an added little bit of woe. While many former WWE stars have assimilated into AEW fairly well, Cage and Cope feel like they’re using the promotion to act out the storylines WWE was smart enough to maneuver on from. Each men made miraculous recoveries from injury, and now each men threaten to undo all that goodwill with more overwrought community theater.
Winner: Kenny Omega Fans
When AEW first began, one among the most important reasons people were excited concerning the promotion was the concept that Kenny Omega would finally wrestle during business hours, as a substitute of constructing people not sleep until dawn watching NJPW events. Then AEW launched and Kenny seemingly took a backseat.
A few of it was on account of injury, but for probably the most part, Omega has often been a tag or trios star in AEW, save for a world title reign that saw him play a heel. He teamed with Jericho. He feuded with the Elite. He’s barely been The Best Bout Machine. Omega’s time in AEW has been an odd one, which is why it has been so refreshing to see a brand new fire underneath him following his return from diverticulitis. From crazy promos on top of scaffolding with Will Ospreay to Sunday’s match with Konosuke Takeshita, and together with his victory over Takeshita, he appears on target to finally be the person fans remember from 2018.
With Takeshita behind him, and Okada in his crosshairs, it’ll be interesting to see how the Okada/Omega dynamic has modified.
Loser: The AEW Tag Team Division
I like goof as much as the following guy but this Outrunners thing has run its course. The joke tag team ( joke mind you) tried to go the space against the AEW Tag Team Champions and the match was kinda a large number. Overlong and over-serious, the match made the Outrunners appear to be fish out of water.
The AEW Tag Division is in a frustrating place, as they have been for much of the corporate’s tenure. At any time when there’s some momentum behind the division, something like scissoring or The Outrunners hits, and suddenly all the division pivots on a joke. I used to be actually scared we were getting a legitimate Outrunners tag team title reign, such is the corporate’s habit. The division is commonly sidetracked by jokers and clowns, often to the detriment of teams like Grizzled Young Vets or any of the opposite independent tandems who were signed, debuted, after which never heard from again.
The Hurt Syndicate, the most well liked recent thing of the top of 2024 have grow to be an afterthought just months after their debut, with no ability to showcase Shelton Benjamin’s Brock Lesnar impression or Lashley’s power in a match that’s built around 80s jokes. I do not know where the tag division goes from here. One in all the advantages of all this chaos is it could literally be anyone, like FTR but the issue is, it may very well be anyone, like The Outrunners.
