AEW World's End 2025: Full Match Card and Predictions

All Elite Wrestling’s final pay-per-view of the year is set for December 27, 2025, airing live from the NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The third-ever World’s End show will air on HBO Max for an additional charge and through other PPV outlets.

To run down the card, the main event will see Samoa Joe defend his World Championship against MJF, Hangman Page, and Swerve Strickland. Other matchups include a tag team Chicago Street Fight with championship stakes, the first-ever defense of the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship, and the finale of the annual Continental Classic.

Here’s the full card as announced so far

Continental Classic Semifinals A: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita

To cap off the 2025 Continental Classic, a pair of league finals will open the show. Gold League runner-up Kazuchika Okada (9) will face Blue League leader Konosuke Takeshita (13). Okada enters this match as the incumbent tournament winner and Continental Champion, a title he holds in conjunction with the International and Unified Championships.

These two members of the Don Callis Family have been trading barbs for a number of months, as the established Okada looks to stifle the rising star that is Takeshita. Okada thrives in the tournament format, with a proven track record across his four G1 Climax victories for NJPW and last year’s C2.

Despite Okada’s potential to win two C2’s consecutively, Takeshita has been on a roll that can’t be denied having wrestled the second most matches among the men’s roster this past year. Okada’s arrogance could be his undoing, opting to taunt and play mind games with his younger opponent to the point of underestimating the Alpha. 

WINNER: KONOSUKE TAKESHITA

Continental Classic Semifinals B: Kyle Fletcher vs. Jon Moxley

For the second set of bracket finals, Blue League finalist Jon Moxley (9) of the Death Riders will face Gold League leader Kyle Fletcher (9), a Don Callis Family member and TNT Champion. Moxley closes 2025 with many highs and lows, having opened the year with his stable holding World and Trios gold. By August he'd lose the title and suffered multiple high profile losses including five submissions. Nonetheless, he tops this year with the most matches in the company’s roster.

Fletcher made last year’s tournament semifinals, only to be knocked off by Will Osperay. In spite of that loss, Fletcher’s stock has managed to rise with his first singles championship, headlining his first pay-per-view, and several noteworthy performances.

The controversial Moxley is possibly the company’s most proven star- a perennial Ace that can be called upon through even the company’s leanest times. Fletcher is young and hungry for wins against established faces, especially a record-holding ex-World Champ. The odds are in favor of Fletch, who could pull the upset against a vulnerable Moxley and for whom a defeat could further compromise his role as faction leader.

WINNER: KYLE FLETCHER

AEW Women’s World Championship: Kris Statlander (c) vs. Jamie Hayter

For the Women’s World Championship, Kris Statlander will defend against Jamie Hayter. This marks Hayter’s first singles match for the belt since 2023, though she was involved in a four-way at All Out this year. Without having the likes of Thekla compromising her chances of winning, Hayter’s odds improve immensely.

Since winning the title in that aforementioned four-way, Stat has held the gold with esteem by taking on all comers in singles and tags. Hayter’s challenge marks the champ’s fourth defense in this reign, suffering all of her losses in non-title tag matches.

Stat has the edge in size but Hayter’s offense is fierce and explosive, building herself up in the months since her return from injury. The prediction sits in favor of Statlander for a successful defense. Hayter is a multi-time champion in the making, and if she can stay healthy she’ll get that jumpstarted.

WINNER: KRIS STATLANDER

Tag Team Chicago Street Fight for the AEW World Tag Team Championships: FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) (c) (with Stokely) vs. Bang Bang Gang

The World Tag Team Championships will be defended under Chicago Street Fight rules, as the champions FTR will compete against Juice Robinson and Austin Gunn of the Bang Bang Gang.

In spite of ill-timed injuries across their AEW run, the Bang Bang Gang have a lot of heart between them as made evident by their December 17th Collision loss to FTR. Robinson, who grew up in nearby Joliet, suffered a broken fibula last year which sidelined him until June that could pose an exploit for his opponents. They’ve made Robinson tap multiple times, in the aforementioned Collision and a near-Broadway hidden gem in the program’s early days.

The Chicago Metro crowd will be up for a heartbreaking experience, with the relaxed rules giving the champions more room for brutal submissions. 2026 poses a lot of possibilities for the Top Guys, closing the year with three defenses and as old foes wait in the wings.

WINNERS: FTR

AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship: The Babes of Wrath (Willow Nightingale & Harley Cameron) vs. Mercedes Moné and Athena

For the first time on pay-per-view, AEW’s brand new Women’s World Tag Team Championships will be defended as the Babes of Wrath go against the self-titled Forever ROH Women’s World Champion Athena and TBS Champion Mercedes Moné.

Although they’ve teamed in multi-woman tag matches many times across AEW and WWE, this will be the challengers’ third ever tag team match together as a duo. The last time these two teams faced, the Babes knocked them off the openers in the tournament to eventually be crowned the inaugural champions.

As to who wins, the Babes of Wrath are likely to retain given this is their first defense. Moné and Athena are strong singles wrestlers but have little experience as a tag team. They are both two strong personalities, who will do whatever it takes for their championship status. A loss here could trigger a future match between Moné and Athena, both vying for each other’s belts.

WINNERS: BABES OF WRATH

Darby Allin vs. Gabe Kidd

After dropping out of the Continental Classic due to injury, Darby Allin returns to singles action where he faces Gabe Kidd. This offers Darby a chance to get his comeuppance after Kidd choked him as a hired mercenary for the Death Riders at Blood & Guts. For those unfamiliar with Kidd and his exploits, he’s among the New Japan LA Dojo’s latest gaijin success stories as a member of Bullet Club War Dogs and a pupil of World Trios Champion Katsuyori Shibata.

Allin is among AEW’s craftiest performers, pulling high-stakes victories against the most savage of killers. Kidd fits the mold of Darby’s greatest rivals, but has his own brand of and this could be a highlight of the card. 

WINNER: DARBY ALLIN

Continental Classic Finals: Kyle Fletcher vs. Konosuke Takeshita

Accounting for the earlier predictions made, Konosuke Takeshita and Kyle Fletcher shall be the two finalists of the C2. Being admitted into the C2 for the first time, Takeshita caps a banner year that saw him become an interpromotional double champion, a G1 Climax winner, and the reigning IWGP World Heavyweight Champion.

Fletcher is no slouch either, reaching last year’s semifinals but has never beaten Takeshita across their singles encounters at a 2020 independent live event and an October 2023 Rampage. Fletcher is slightly more explosive with high impact slams and kicks, but Takeshita’s a deadly striker in his own right and didn’t take any pins in this tournament. Takeshita’s sole non-victory was a time limit draw with Claudio Castagnoli, compared to Fletcher’s 3-2 record and for that he edges out.

Upon winning the Continental Championship, Takeshita would close the year as a started it - an interpromotional double champ. The tri-contracted Alpha winning the tournament could hold wider implications between Protoshita, the wider Don Callis Family, and his Wrestle Kingdom 20 Winner Take All main event.

WINNER: KONOSUKE TAKESHITA

AEW World Championship: Samoa Joe (c)  Swerve Strickland vs. “Hangman” Adam Page vs. MJF

Originally World’s End’s main event was announced to be Joe vs. Page vs. Swerve II, a rematch from Revolution 2024. Wedging himself into the main event, MJF executed the World Championship opportunity contract earned in his Casino Gauntlet victory at All In.

Out of all the participants, MJF has worked the least amount of matches meaning he’s less worn from the year than his opponents. However, his record-setting title reign was ended by Joe at the inaugural World’s End two years ago.

A key story beat to keep an eye out for will be the relationship between Swerve and Page - former rivals turned allies. Even though they’ve committed heinous atrocities on one another, there’s a mutual respect between these two but in pursuit of championship glory they’re bound to get in each other’s way.

There are many combustible elements when considering a potential victor whether they’d be MJF’s scheming ways, Hangman’s babyface fire, Swerve’s agility, or Joe’s Opps Dojo running interference. With this in mind, Joe may be able to squeeze out of this with the title. Page and Swerve are likely to ruin each others chances, even inadvertently, while MJF’s attempt to wipe out several rivals at once may be in vain.

WINNER: SAMOA JOE