No Vegas? No problem. AEW Double or Nothing simply toned down the casino theme as it shifted its Memorial Day weekend event from its historical Las Vegas home to the the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, AZ.
Along with the usual stellar selection of title matches, the 2025 edition featured the finals for both the Men’s and Women’s Owen Hart Cup, as well as the latest take on Anarchy in the Arena. That was one match that more than lived up to its name, providing a bloody, wild (the action often needed a quad box on the broadcast) and unpredictable spectacle that used pretty much all of the space available to the combatants.
It was, as the announce team correctly pointed out, the kind of match that you can only see on a national level in AEW. That applies on all levels: If you are squeamish about seeing someone get stapled through their tongue, Anarchy in the Arena may not be for you. But that didn’t seem to apply to most of the fans in attendance at Double or Nothing, who ate up both the action and the rare-for-this-type-of-match happy ending.
That left it an open question whether the fans would be able to rebound for the main event, which saw Will Ospreay and Hangman Adam Page vying for the Men’s Owen Hart Cup. Big matches between two fan favorites can sometimes be tricky, but this one was framed in expert fashion by focusing on the two different paths and motivations that drove the finalists to this point: Page claiming he needed the Cup and the All In world title shot that came with it to atone for the two years he “wasted” not pursuing the top spot, Ospreay seeking the validation that would come from knocking Jon Moxley from atop the pecking order at the top of AEW.
As it turned out, the crowd did indeed bounce back in very vocal fashion as Ospreay and Page put on a fantastic display marred only ever so slightly by an uncooperative announce table. It all came without either man punking the other or departing from the high road for now, which felt like the proper decision.
Does a four and a half hour pay-per-view need to happen every time out? Probably not. But when the card is as solid top to bottom as Double or Nothing 2025, it’s fine in the moment, and even feels like a real alternative when the leading wrestling company has made its monthly showcases a bit leaner.
The next AEW pay-per-view is All In on July 12, 2025.
AEW Double or Nothing 2025 Live Results
Jamie Hayter vs. Mercedes Moné – Women’s Owen Hart Cup Final
If you enjoy two top competitors trading Boston Crabs, this match is for you. We tease because we love both of these wrestlers, and with the PPV canvas to explore, both of them are going to take advantage of it.
Can’t say this is Moné’s best ring gear ever — feel some sort of way about too many straps. The fans are similarly split in their allegiances, with some chants for the CEO and others for Hayter.
The announcers keep talking up Moné’s success at winning titles over the past year, possibly a little too much in that reverse foreshadowing way that pro wrestling does so well. Moné is doing her best to dispel that notion by hammering Hayter in the back, but Jamie fires back with a nasty lariat that leaves both women down.
The hard hits keep coming until Moné can get Hayter to the mat to try to pay off all the work she’s done on Jamie’s back. Hayter manages to power her way to her feet, eventually driving Mercedes down and following with a sliding lariat … that’s not enough to end it (cue Kendrick Lamar).
How about a Tombstone from Hayter? Cool, yes. Match-ending? No. Hayter looks like she is about to turn her foe’s lights out, but Mercedes counters with a bit of a DDT-like move that traps Jamie’s arm and smashes her head down, finally finishing the fight. Heck of a way to kick off Double or Nothing, no doubt.
Winner … and 2025 Women’s Owen Hart Cup champion: Mercedes Moné by pinfall
Excalibur, Taz and Tony Schiavone send their best wishes out to Jim Ross, who was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. We at Slam Wrestling send our love and prayers to J.R. as well, knowing he’s in for a fight but believing that it’s one he can win.
FTR vs. Danny Garcia and Nigel McGuinness
Plenty of intrigue here with McGuinness wrestling for just the fourth time after a hiatus of more than 13 years. He looks like he’s in tremendous shape, and the announcers suggest he is always in the gym. Going to be interesting to see if the typically heel announcer can stay on the same page with the incredibly babyface Garcia, who gets to hit his trademark dance in the face of Cash Wheeler pretty early.
Dax the Ax wants McGuinness in there and gets him. He’s fit enough to so some headstands in the corner but finally wears down when he finds himself one-on-two, during which Wheeler takes a second to mess with Schiavone’s hair. I did not make that up. Wheeler hits McGuinness with a cutter off the apron and start harassing the announcers (including the Spanish announcers) again.
McGuinness finally connects on a rope rebound clothesline to stop the onslaught and dives to make the hot tag to Garcia. His deadlift suplex to Dax is on target but definitely not enough to get the three count yet. The good guys hit a double team move on Dax but soon all four men are back brawling until Garcia and McGuinness can lock in tandem submissions.
A humorous moment comes when McGuinness tries to get Wheeler to apologize to Schiavone, who says “I can’t quite hear you.” FTR come up with a dynamite counter to Garcia’s attempt to execute multiple superplexes, but McGuinness hustles to break up the ensuing pinfall attempt.
Schiavone soon finds himself in danger once again after FTR nail McGuinness with a Shatter Machine on the floor. Danny takes several big moves including a double-team spike piledriver, but he’s able to barely throw his leg over the bottom rope. Dax puts him in the Sharpshooter to follow, and Daddy Magic is unsuccessful in his attempt to get involved. Garcia won’t tap out but eventually passes out. Not sure what the point of FTR winning is unless this feud is going to continue, but we shall see.
Winners: FTR by submission
Mark Briscoe vs. Ricochet – Stretcher Match
Ricochet’s heel AEW run has been something of a revelation. Who knew he had this range of character? This is also a slightly different kind of showcase of his skills, though missing a shooting star press off the apron and landing face first on the stretcher is arguably the most normal demonstration of his talent that you’d expect. Briscoe drops an elbow off the apron on Ricochet on the stretcher to fire up the fans.
No one says you can’t bring other weapons into play as well, so a chair soon enters the fray though Ricochet makes the unpopular move of preventing Briscoe from setting up a table. An even bigger crowd reaction comes when Briscoe sprays Ricochet’s head with cleaner and shines it up, sending Taz into hysterics.
Briscoe’s attempt to play tribute to the late Sabu is brought to a screeching halt by a thrown chair to the face. That would halt pretty much anything to be honest. Taz starts waxing poetic about the possible ingredients in the cleaner when Ricochet sprays Briscoe in the eyes with it, and Mark could probably use it afterward when he gets busted open by having his face smashed repeatedly into the metal stretcher, setting off the “you sick f—” chants.
Ricochet gets all the way to the ambulance and is loaded inside, but he uses a crutch to avoid having the doors closed and turns the tide with both that and a fire extinguisher. They fight back to the ring for Mark to connect on a big clothesline and the J Drilla. Instead of looking for a stretcher, Briscoe goes for a table. It looks like a perfect setup for Ricochet to move, but he doesn’t and Briscoe nails him with the Froggy Bow through the table.
Unfortunately for Briscoe, Ricochet’s beloved gold scissors are also legal, and that proves to be the deciding factor as Ricochet strikes with them right after kicking his foe in the groin, which leaves Briscoe easy prey to be locked in the ambulance. Bloody, brutal and entertaining, and again, not something we saw from Ricochet in his last career stop.
Winner: Ricochet
Sons of Texas vs. The Hurt Syndicate (c) – AEW World Tag Team Championship Match
Impressive that Double or Nothing didn’t slow down for blood cleanup after that last match. Also impressive? The fans chanting “we hurt people” when the Hurt Syndicate comes to the ring. MJF is able to lend a hand on the outside, and Sammy Guevara is the perfect size to serve as a vessel for some of Bobby Lashley’s power moves.
The announce table convo is also out of pocket now with cannabis references with MVP joining in with the crew. On commentary, not cannabis, I mean. Lashley and MJF tease being on different pages, but it’s all a charade to set up Lashley to spear Dustin Rhodes through the barricade. Shelton Benjamin prevents Guevara from pulling off a suicide dive and then finishes off Sammy with a knee shot to ensure his team retains.
Winners … and still AEW World Tag Team Champions: The Hurt Syndicate by pinfall
“Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. Kazuchika Okada (c) – AEW Continental Championship Match
No money raining for Double or Nothing? We really have turned the page on the casino gimmick. Bailey is up against it with the size disadvantage here, but of course he’s fast as crap so maybe he can just keep it moving. He’s doing that early, hitting a crane kick and a beautiful moonsault to the floor.
Okada is able to slow Speedball with a dragon screw and a flapjack, looking calm and nonplussed as he usually does. The action slows to his preferred, more deliberate pace. Bailey uses a springboard moonsault to pick the pace back up, followed by a missile dropkick and a selection of additional kicks. His running shooting star press earns a near fall.
Speedball also delivers a wild apron move and a moonsault kneedrop in the ring. Okada has a great response in the form of perhaps the world’s best dropkick, but a Bailey kick interrupts a Rainmaker attempt. A head kick scores as well, but while the ref counts the three, he sees Okada’s hand grab the bottom rope before the hand hits the canvas the third time. Barely, but still.
Bailey has thoughts of his finisher, but while flipping off the top, he eats a midair dropkick from Okada, and the ensuing Rainmaker is all she wrote. Great match though and Bailey delivered the goods.
Winner … and still AEW Continental Champion: Kazuchika Okada by pinfall
Mina Shirakawa vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm (c) – AEW Women’s World Championship Match
This one starts off as part dance contest, part wrestling match, but Mina is definitely trying to win it early as well. She uses an inverted figure four to slow the champ and get some slaps in, as one does. Storm gets it rolling when the fight goes to the floor, flipping Mina with a suplex and dragging her back into the ring for a two count. Another one follows quickly after a fisherman’s suplex … or as Taz call it, a fisherwoman’s suplex.
Poor Luther ends up taking some shots from Mina, as well as serving as a launchpad for the challenger. Plus he takes a top rope cross body when Toni moves away at the last moment.
Both women connect on some hard strikes in the center of the ring and end up on their backs at the same time. They rise to trade more shots, neither one giving an inch, until Storm can get enough momentum to snap off three straight German suplexes. Toni wants the hip attack but can’t do it thanks to the continuous assault Mina has been conducting to her knee. She changes tactics and executes a Sky High, but Mina kicks out at two.
Mina’s Glamorous Driver doesn’t seal the deal, and Storm is able to limp her way into a hip attack. The challenger responds with a Figure Four, and after Storm escapes it with a rope break, a series of pinfall counters ends with Toni delivering Storm Zero, and the Timeless one manages to retain.
Winner … and still AEW Women’s World Champion: “Timeless” Toni Storm by pinfall
Will Storm and Mina embrace after the match? They will, and more than that as they kiss and then generally bury any hard feelings.
Swerve Strickland, Willow Nightingale, The Opps and Kenny Omega vs. Death Riders and Young Bucks – Anarchy in the Arena
Swerve comes to the ring in full Predator gear, a really sweet entrance getup that includes some face paint underneath the mask. Not to be outdone, Omega has a trash can lid shield a la Captain America but with the omega symbol on it, and the Young Bucks have a founding fathers vibe going on. Still no Samoa Joe, until he pops out from behind Claudio Castagnoli up near the concourse. This match is officially underway and there’s no way to do a blow by blow on the quad camera feed we are seeing, so we’ll just hit the highlights.
Joe and Claudio fight literally outside the arena while the women are already doing crazy bumps by the barricade. Omega asks for the music to be changed and eventually is swayed by the choice of “I’m So Excited” by The Pointer Sisters. Omega asks for another switch and gets some “Bodies” by Drowning Pool instead, and the violence really picks up.
Mox looks like he’s trying to commit a felony on Powerhouse Hobbs with a fork. Hobbs escapes that predicament and hurls Wheeler Yuta off the second level of the stands, after which Omega moonsaults after him, thankfully with a bunch of security to catch them. Damn.
Tables and chairs? Yes, naturally. The action is starting to gravitate toward the ring again, which means we might be getting close to the finish. Except for the women, who are now out in the back by the production truck. Shibata and Wheeler are out there as well, then back in the bowels of the arena. Shibata wraps barbed wire around his kickpad and kicks Wheeler while we see the Young Bucks do perhaps the worst Griddy of all time. Omega makes them pay with a trash can.
Claudio does the big swing on Swerve and ends up smashing him through a speaker, right before Matthew Jackson flies off the stage with a cross body on Hobbs. The women return to ringside now too, with Marina Shafir still using a frying pan she got out at catering.
The Bucks do a double team move to Omega that is hard to describe to send Kenny through a table on the floor. Willow now is locked to one post by her earring, while the Bucks pull off another spectacular double team to spike Shibata on the floor. Shibata bravely battles his way to the ring, where he’s taking a beating from Jon Moxley and Shafir.
Things are looking bad for the faces, with the fans chanting “please help Willow.” Hobbs is on a table by the entrance, where he takes a ridiculous swanton bomb from Nicholas Jackson. The referee and Matthew are checking on Nicholas, who looked like he might have hit his head on the floor.
Hobbs fights for his life against Mox and the Bucks, but a steel chair makes things even bleaker. Here comes Swerve, however, riding over on a palette on the front of a forklift so he can hit a double Swerve Stomp on the Bucks. Prince Nana finally unlocks Willow while Hobbs is no selling like it’s his job. And now pretty much everyone is in the ring amidst multiple submission holds.
Who will fade first? No one as some high-flying moves break the holds. Nicholas Jackson has a staple gun and uses it on Hobbs, but Powerhouse just laughs it off. Swerve ends up with the staple gun and uses it liberally, though Matthew Jackson has a staple gun now as well. Strickland beats him to the punch with a staple to the groin, but Shafir delivers a low blow from behind and staples Swerve in the tongue.
Omega is handing out snapdragon suplexes, including one to Shafir after she slaps and spits on him. Even Nana and one of the refs catch some strays. Swerve and Willow team for a Meltzer driver, but the Death Riders break up the ensuing pinfall attempt.
Hook also arrives in a South Park hoodie, wielding a golf club, which isn’t the weirdest thing I’ve typed here by any means. He refuses Joe’s invitation into the ring, but Joe locks Mox in the Coquina Clutch. Unfortunately for our heroes, Gabe Kidd arrives with the briefcase and piledrives Omega.
Wheeler fills Omega’s mouth with tacks, the Bucks hit the BTE Trigger and Claudio gives him the big swing. Moxley locks in the bulldog choke but Joe roars to the rescue. The numbers game eventually defeats him, with Kidd going to the ambulance only to find a bloody Mark Briscoe coming to even the odds. A huge brawl leads to most of the combatants piling into the ambulance, clown car style. Most of the Death Riders are locked in the vehicle, and now just the Jacksons are left in the ring.
A House Call/V Trigger combo strike, and Nana pulls out Swerve’s new Reeboks with thumbtacks studded in the bottom. He hits the Swerve Stomp with those shoes on Nicholas while Omega drives Matthew off the stage through an exploding stable. Double or Nothing, you have now given us the most insane Anarchy in the Arena ever. Congrats.
Winners: Swerve Strickland, Willow Nightingale, The Opps and Kenny Omega by pinfall
Don Callis Family (Konosuke Takeshita, Josh Alexander and Kyle Fletcher) vs. Paragon
Not sure what the crowd has left after Anarchy in the Arena, and this seems like Paragon is getting set up to take a sacrificial loss here. Don Callis joins the announcers and also gets a shot in on Roderick Strong, much to the dismay of the crowd.
Callis asks how much power he’d have if he grew the Family to 20 members, and hopefully that was a rhetorical question. Also can we just say this has been an all time classic Taz commentary night? Because it has been.
A fantastic sequence of mat wrestling from Alexander and Kyle O’Reilly earns the admiration of the announcers, if not the fans who as we said, are still recovering a bit. Adam Cole is fighting one-on-three now, but his teammates arrive to save him after he takes a triple powerbomb.
Both teams showcase some impressive teamwork, but the Family prevails with an incredible show of strength by Fletcher, who uses a brainbuster to pin O’Reilly.
Winners: Don Callis Family by pinfall
RPG Vice and Lance Archer come to continue the beating on Paragon after the bell, so the numbers are definitely against the Paragon. Someone needs to come save them, and it turns out to be Brody King and Tomohiro Ishii … and Hiroshi Tanahashi! Those reinforcements prove to be enough, and the crowd even comes to life a bit at that.
Hangman Adam Page vs. Will Ospreay – Men’s Owen Hart Cup Final
Both men get special, extra dramatic entrances for this main event, which is starting at 11:48 p.m. ET. For the sickos indeed, Tony Khan. The dueling chants are very loud: “let’s go Ospreay” vs. “cowboy s–t.” A rare instance where either man winning would be a popular way to end Double or Nothing.
Page appears to really be pondering whether he wants to do clean breaks, but internal struggle has long been part of his character. A frenzied exchange sees both men go for their signature moves, with none managing to actually connect. Excalibur reminds us that even though Ospreay and Page have shared locker rooms on and off for years, this is the first time they’ve ever had a singles match.
Ospreay tries to work some strikes but ends up on his back from one mean forearm from Page. Will responds with own twist on a Phenomenal Forearm and gets the crowd to cheer. But Hangman catches him on a springboard cross body and gets hurled into the barricade with a fallaway slam.
Another fallaway slam into the buckles in the ring earns Page the match’s first near fall. He gets another with a pair of back suplexes, staying on top of Ospreay right away after the two count.
Some kicks to the face only serve to fire Ospreay up, but Hangman proves his superior in an exchange of strikes again. Will lands a heel kick and a handspring moonsault to the floor. “I love it bruv,” gushes Taz.
A Torture Rack into a Blue Thunder Bomb gets Ospreay a two count. Hangman rallies with a flurry that ends with his moonsault from the top rope to the floor. Page follows quickly with a Sharpshooter, and Ospreay has to struggle to crawl to the ropes for a break.
Both men hit moves back and forth and end up on the mat together, bringing more applause from the fans. Page breaks a stalemate with a Buckshot lariat from the turnbuckles, but Ospreay counters a follow-up and hits a Shooting Star Press to the back for a near fall.
Page flips back into a Tombstone, good for another two count. A series of counters leads to the Angel’s Wings from Hangman, with the announcers calling it both a callout and homage to Christopher Daniels.
A missed moonsault by Page leaves him exposed to a Hidden Blade from Ospreay, but Page is able to slide toward the floor to avoid anything else coming at him immediately. They end up fighting to the apron, where Ospreay uses a Styles Clash to drop Hangman to the floor. Dangerous? Just a little bit.
Back in the ring they go, where Page runs into an Oscutter and has to kick out at two. A Hidden Blade is next, though Hangman surprises the announce team by kicking out again.
Ospreay goes crazy on palm strikes and has to calm down as Bryce Remsburg has to pull him off of Page, who has semi-escaped to the apron. Hangman gets knocked to the floor, and the Spanish announce table is now in danger. They fight on top of the table, which gives way and sends them both tumbling down. Undaunted, Page gets back up and gives his foe a Deadeye on what’s left of the table.
The two competitors stare at each other from opposite sides of the ring, both threatening their finishers. Ospreay flips Hangman the bird and eats a huge Buckshot Lariat, barely managing to kick out at two.
As Page looks for a follow-up, Ospreay connects with the Hidden Blade plus Stormbreaker. Somehow, Hangman kicks out at the last moment and we battle on with Page ducking another Hidden Blade and both men down.
Considering his next move, Ospreay hits a V-Trigger, then looks for a One-Winged Angel that Page counters and nearly wins with a JML Driver. Will grabs the ropes, setting off another crazy sequence of counters that Page wins, along with the match, with another Buckshot.
Winner … and Men’s Owen Hart Cup champion: Hangman Adam Page by pinfall
After receiving the belt for winning the tourney, Hangman returns to the ring where Ospreay sits looking defeated. Page offers a handshake of respect, which Ospreay accepts as a fitting end to a long but often thrilling Double or Nothing.
