In the main event of AEW Revolution 2025, Wheeler Yuta attacked Cope (Edge) when the referee was down. Jay White came out to make the save, but accidentally hit Cope. Cope had Jon Moxley beat after multiple spears, but Christian Cage pulled the referee out.
Cage then cashed-in his World Title match contract to make it a Triple Threat Match. Moxley locked-in the Bulldog Choke on Cage. Cage tried to pin Cope by putting his hand on Cope while being in the choke, but Moxley pulled him away and Cage passed out, leading to Moxley retaining the title.
After the match, #1 contender Swerve Strickland attacked Moxley and said he’s going to be the next AEW World Champion.
According to the Wrestling Observer, plan for this match got changed, which led to people backstage believing that Cope didn’t want to put over Moxley and that’s why Cage got booked to lose, but that wasn’t the case:
“There was an idea for the main event that involved way more people than ended up being out there, including some returns. At the last minute, it just got axed.
I don’t know who it was or what they were going to do, but there was a second plan that didn’t take place. It wasn’t Shane McMahon for the love of God.
Whatever it was, it involved people who had been there before or had been there in the past. It was not a Shane McMahon debut.
I think what happened was there were changes to the main event, and I think people heard about that. Then they saw what almost happened with the hand on the chest, and then he got yanked off.
They came to this conclusion that [Cope] wouldn’t put the guy over. That’s not what happened. I’m 99% sure that, no matter what was planned before or after, Moxley was always retaining, and he was always going on to face Swerve at the next pay-per-view.”
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