It’s time to find out who is going to become the first-ever AEW Triple Crown Champion, as the pre-match video package airs now to get us ready for our AEW Continental Classic Tournament finals showdown between longtime friends turned rivals, the Gold League winner and Blue League winner, Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston.

The video package wraps up, we return back inside the arena and we hear the familiar sounds of Eddie Kingston’s theme music. Out comes “The Mad King” to a huge ovation from his home state New York crowd. He makes his way down to the ring as Bryan Danielson joins the gang on special guest commentary for this co-main event here at the year-end AEW Worlds End 2023 pay-per-view.

Kingston settles into the squared circle and his theme music dies down. Now we hear the familiar sounds of “Wild Thing” as the Blackpool Combat Club’s own Jon Moxley makes his custom entrance through the crowd as “The Dapper Yapper” Justin Roberts does his old John Cena-style “JONNNNNNNN Moxley!” trademark introduction.

Now the bell sounds and it’s time to find out who is going to be the winner of the first-ever AEW Continental Classic tournament and who will be crowned the company’s first-ever AEW Triple Crown Champion. Danielson says Kingston is a better striker and Mox is a better grappler. Early on we see evidence of this playing out in the early action. Danielson says he can’t belive he lost to Kingston as Mox beats him down.

Mox knocks Kingston out to the floor after a striking exchange and he dives out onto him, knocking Kingston down so hard that the back of his head and back bashed into the guard rail — hard. The commentators point this out and stress this fact on the commentary several times after the fact.

Back in the ring, we see Kingston go for a strike that Mox blocks and it looks like Kingston hurt his forearm in the process. We see slow motion footage to back it up. The two continue to exchange offensive leads and then they trade chops and Kingston connects with one so hard that Mox takes a knee and actually asks him to hold on a minute, prompting laughter from the crowd and popping the commentators.

–– Here is what’s in store for tonight’s show ––

• Zero Hour – FTW Championship – FTW Rules Match: HOOK (c) vs. Wheeler Yuta.
• Zero Hour: 20-Man Battle Royale.
• Zero Hour: Kris Statlander vs. Willow Nightingale.
• AEW Continental Classic Tournament Championship Tournament Final – North American Triple Crown (AEW Continental, ROH World & NJPW STRONG Openweight Championships) Match: Jon Moxley vs. Eddie Kingston.
• AEW TNT Championship – No Disqualification Match: Christian Cage (c) vs. Adam Copeland.
• AEW Women’s World Championship Match: Toni Storm (c) (w/ Luther & Mariah May) vs. Riho.
• AEW TBS Championship Match: Julia Hart (c) vs. Abadon.
• Andrade El Idolo vs. Miro
• Swerve Strickland (w/ Prince Nana) vs. Keith Lee.
• Sting, Darby Allin & Le Sex Gods (Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara) vs. Ricky Starks, Big Bill & The Don Callis Family (Konosuke Takeshita & Powerhouse Hobbs) (w/ Don Callis).
• Brody King, Jay Lethal, Jay White & RUSH vs. Blackpool Combat Club (Bryan Danielson & Claudio Castagnoli), Daniel Garcia & Mark Briscoe.
• AEW World Championship Match: MJF (c) vs. Samoa Joe.

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