As a consequence of technical difficulties, the same old “AEW Dynamite” live coverage didn’t run tonight. Here’s a recap of all that happened on the 2025 edition of AEW Winter Is Coming. The show was headlined by AEW World Champion Samoa Joe defending his title against Eddie Kingston, in addition to the crowning of the inaugural AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champions, and two more matches in the 2025 Continental Classic Gold League.
The show opened with The Babes of Wrath, Harley Cameron, and Willow Nightingale taking up “Timeless” Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa within the finals of the AEW Women’s World Tag Title tournament. After heated, back-and-forth motion, Harley Cameron hit a Cross Rhodes and Willow Nightingale hit a Gutwrench Powerbomb on Shirakawa to develop into the inaugural champions. The win marked Harley Cameron’s first title in AEW.
The following match saw “Jungle” Jack Perry, replacing the injured Darby Allin, face AEW Unified Champion Kazuchika Okada within the C2 Gold League. Perry put up a fight against the champion, but Okada managed to drop him with a Rainmaker to earn 3 more points, bringing Okada to six points, while Perry stays at 0. After the match, Don Callis tried to get Perry to hitch The Don Callis Family, but was run off by The Young Bucks and Luchasaurus. This led to The Young Bucks accepting a challenge from Callis. The Bucks will reunite with Kenny Omega to tackle three DCF members for $1,000,000 on the AEW Holiday Bash in Manchester.
After Mark Briscoe exchanged heated words with Daniel Garcia and Wheeler Yuta, Hangman Page and Swerve Strickland placed on a dominant display against Powerhouse Hobbs and Katsuyori Shibata, battling in a chaotic Tornado Tag Match that went throughout the sector before the opening bell even rang. Strickland leveled Shibata with a House Call to get the pinfall.
The following match saw former TNT Champion Kyle Fletcher face Mike Bailey in one other Gold League match. Fletcher dominated much of the match, but Bailey’s resilience got here in clutch, allowing the barefoot star to catch Fletcher in a roll-up pin to win Bailey’s first three points within the tournament.
Then, within the principal event, AEW World Champion Samoa Joe threw hands, elbows, and suplexes at former Continental Champion Eddie Kingston. Kingston spoke earlier within the night about how he keeps coming up short in world title matches, and did his best to place up a fight against Joe, but Joe eventually caught him in a Coquina Clutch to force the submission and retain his title.