Tony Khan then went into detail about Jon Moxley and the Death Riders’ journey in AEW in 2025, and how various factors helped make Moxley’s world title run an important part of the promotion’s storytelling in 2025.

“I also think it worked so perfectly that as we approached Double or Nothing and the Owen Hart tournament, the stakes around the chase of Jon Moxley continued to rise and rise and rise, and it helped AEW so much, as challenger after challenger came after Jon Moxley. The promotion got a huge boost from this, and it helped make AEW in 2025 very successful commercially,” Khan said. “And even though there were new ways to watch the show, our TBS numbers continued to rise and rise. And we had a really good Q1, Q2. We continued to see that great lift with Mox, and the viewership of Dynamite and Collision rose with Mox as the champion. The chase of Jon Moxley, I felt made everybody better.”

The culmination of Moxley’s year at Worlds End saw him receive strong crowd support, beginning with his match against Kyle Fletcher early in the show and growing louder during the Continental Classic final against Kazuchika Okada at the end of the night.

“But to see it all come together, and when the arena got behind Mox in that Kyle Fletcher versus Jon Moxley match, it’s one of my favorite matches. And to look at the year and put that, and then Mox versus Okada, which I thought was fantastic, and at this point, now the crowd’s behind Mox. It’s happened, that shift, that organic, that feeling in the arena, it was there, and I thought it was incredible.”

Moxley won the Continental Classic after defeating Okada in the final, capping off his year in fine fashion.