Thekla is still AEW Women’s World Champion after defeating Kris Statlander once again, this time, in a two-out-of-three falls match at AEW Revolution. 

The women went to war the second the bell sounded, but Statlander got the upper hand with a suplex off the second rope. Thekla was able to steal the first fall when she bridged during a pin attempt, and grabbed the ropes where the referee couldn’t see.

Statlander dropped Thekla with a dropkick through the ropes as soon as the bell rang to kick off the second round. Statlander suplexed the champion on the outside, but Thekla sent her back-first into the steps. Back in the ring, Thekla was all on the offense, until Statlander got her on her shoulders and went to the ropes. Thekla fought out of the move and hit her spider suplex. She followed up with a cross body off the top rope to the outside, btu Statlander caught her and smashed Thekla off the barricade numerous times. Statlander absorbed some chops in the ring, but Thekla was able to lock in a submission. Statlander countered into a Sunday Night Fever for the second fall.

Thekla kicked off the third round by gouging the eyes of her opponent and sent Statlander crashing into the referee. While the official was down on the outside, Thekla took off his belt, but it was Statlander to use it as a weapon on Thekla. She hit another Sunday Night Fever, but there was no referee in the ring to count the fall. The Sisters of Sin ran out to help Thekla, but Statlander fought them off. The referee got back in the ring and caught Statlander attempting to use the belt, and while she was distracted, Thekla hit the spear. “The Toxic Spider” then hit two stomps for the victory.

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.