Swerve Strickland defeated Brody King in a brutal singles match during AEW Revolution. 

Strickland was out to prove that he was he professed, “The Most Dangerous,” and exposed both the concrete beneath the rubber padding on the outside, and the bottom turnbuckle, ripping the pad off and exposing the steel beneath. But despite all of the offense he could conjure up during the match, much of it was spent with King refusing to go down or remain down for too long. 

King almost had Strickland beat with a Cannonball into that exposed corner, followed by a Michinoku Driver, but Strickland kicked out at the last second. Then King sought to make the second of Strickland’s contortions of the rules pay off; he went for a Gonzo bomb onto the exposed floor.

Strickland hit a vertebreaker on the exposed floor at ringside, fighting out of the Gonzo bomb attempt, but King beat the count at nine. He then received a Swerve Stomp and still managed to kick out at one. King refused to go down after a Last Call, but a second one put him down to the ground for the winning pinfall. 

After the match, Prince Nana revealed a cinder block from under the ring. He and Strickland set King up against the cinder block for a Swerve Stomp, but Kenny Omega’s music played and he came down to the ring to make the save, as Strickland and Nana retreated. 

Will Ospreay made his return to AEW during tonight’s Revolution pay-per-view, taking an opportunity to enact a measure of revenge against Jon Moxley and the Death Riders following Moxley’s successful Continental Championship defense.

Moxley defeated Konosuke Takeshita via choke-out after a marathon bout of more than 20 minutes, with the lights going out as Moxley and his allies made their exit. A video package hyping Ospreay’s return played, leaving Moxley unimpressed, until the wrestler made his actual entrance. Ospreay rained fists on Daniel Garcia, Wheeler Yuta, and PAC, though Moxley was able to escape unscathed, leaving Ospreay to stand triumphant in the ring before the PPV moved on.

Though it seems he’s now been cleared, Ospreay had been out of action since August, with his last match taking place at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. At that show, Ospreay took part in a star-studded Lights Out Steel Cage match, with reports emerging even before the match that Ospreay was dealing with a neck injury. He decided to go through with the bout nonetheless, and then spent the past six-plus months rehabbing the injury after a reported surgery.

AEW had been playing video packages hyping up Ospreay’s return for the last several weeks, so his appearance tonight shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Earlier in the show, Adam Copeland and Christian Cage both made their returns to the promotion, and Ronda Rousey made a surprise debut by confronting “Timeless” Toni Storm after Storm defeated Rousey’s longtime friend Marina Shafir.

Megan Bayne and Lena Kross, now known as the Divine Dominion as a team, are the second-ever AEW Women’s Tag Team Champions after dethroning the Babes of Wrath, Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron at AEW Revolution. 

Nightingale defended her TBS Championship against Kross earlier in the night on Zero Hour, but despite retaining the gold, she was beaten down at the hands of the heels before Cameron could get to her in the ring. Before the match, she was seen alongside Cameron in the trainer’s room nursing an injured shoulder, but confirmed she was cleared and going to defend the titles.

Following the bell, Bayne and Kross immediately took out Nightingale and dominated Cameron in their corner. Bayne was the legal woman, and Nightingale rallied after her partner took a beating and got “The Megasus” down and delivered a Death Valley Driver to Kross.

Bayne and Kross wouldn’t be kept down for long, however. They hit double fallaway slams to the champions, followed by double chokeslams to Nightingale for the victory.

Jon Moxley choked out Konosuke Takeshita to retain the AEW Continental Championship at Revolution. 

The title was on the line in a bout stripped of the 20-minute time limit usually reserved for it, and saw both man go well beyond what any other opponent had done to them before. 

Takeshita was busted open, Moxley became the first man to ever kick out of Raging Fire, followed by Takeshita kicking out of a Death Rider, and then also an avalanche Paradigm Shift. But that all came after 20 minutes had elapsed, and Moxley was able to maneuver the tired Takeshita into a rear choke. 

Takeshita scrambled and searched for the ropes but he was too tired to get any further, passing out in the hold and securing the retention for Moxley. It also removes the asterisk that Takeshita represented for his title reign thus far. 

Takeshita defeated Moxley in the Blue League of the Continental Classic last year, with Moxley going on to win the tournament against Okada – Okada having beaten Takeshita in the semi-finals – and thus winning the Continental Championship at Worlds End. When they met in a rematch for the title at Grand Slam Australia, the bout went to a 20-minute time limit draw, and this match was made at Revolution with no time limits.