For probably the most part, AEW Revolution 2025 was one other stellar pay-per-view from the corporate that has made a habit out of manufacturing high-quality, big time events on pay-per-view as if it’s the best thing on this planet.
Nevertheless, the foremost bombed so hard that even probably the most loyal Jon Moxley fans are actually asking themselves “why will we keep defending this guy?” Granted, his matches with the likes of Orange Cassidy, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Darby Allin have ranged from good to implausible, really making him appear to be the boogeyman (no not that one) of AEW, but for the love of all that is sweet and pure on this world, he must drop the title. Thankfully for us, we appear to be nearing the tip of his reign of terror because the AEW World Champion, and judging by what we have got coming up in the following few months, there are quite a lot of names that would realistically take the belt from Moxley.
The primary, and truthfully the one which they need to go along with for some short term success is Swerve Strickland, who became the primary contender at Revolution by beating Ricochet, while also standing tall at the tip of the night as he claimed AEW to be his house. Moxley and Strickland will meet at Dynasty on April 6 and personally, I might love for Strickland to be champion again as he did a fantastic job as champion in 2024, and he won the title at Dynasty last yr so as to add some meat to the story. With that said, it seems pretty obvious that Tony Khan desires to pay this off at All In Texas on July 12, which brings me on to the following contender.
Darby Allin selected to potentially die on Mount Everest than be within the Death Riders story right away, and you possibly can’t help but respect it at this point because Everest looks as if the lesser of two evils. Allin was the selection everyone had in mind before the Continental Classic, and had he not gone mountaineering he might already be champion. Provided that Sting and Bryan Danielson look to be in attendance at All In Texas, Darby could easily be the person to finish the entire story.
Hangman Page is one other as he was involved towards the back end of 2024, but got muddled up in a 4 way match where the story was muddled and disjointed, but he’s mad enough to return for more in the case of the Death Riders. Finally, there is a man much more mad that Hangman, and he’s someone with a whole lot of history with everyone within the Death Riders. I do know he’s been gone for nearly a yr, but Eddie Kingston is one other man who could genuinely fix this whole story with one promo and I’m not even half kidding, and on top of that, if there’s anyone who appears to be as, if no more, ride or die for AEW than Darby, it is the Mad King.
It looks like we’re finally nearing the tip of the story, just don’t let Cope near that belt ever again, irrespective of how good Alter Bridge are.
Written by Sam Palmer
