Jon Moxley Beats Cope and Christian Cage to Retain AEW Championship at 2025 Revolution

Jon Moxley beat Cope and Christian Cage to retain the AEW World Championship at Revolution on Sunday night.

The main event started as a one-on-one between Moxley and Cope, but Cage interfered in the match and signed his AEW World Championship match contract tp make it a triple threat match. However, Moxley was able to secure the win by placing cage in his Bulldog Choke submission.

After the match, Moxley was attacked by Swerve Strickland, who is the No. 1 contender for the AEW World Championship.

After missing seven months of action due to a fractured tibia, Cope finally made his return to AEW programming at the Worlds End pay-per-view in December.

On the heels of Mox defeating "Hangman" Adam Page, Jay White and Orange Cassidy in the Worlds End main event to retain the AEW world title, Cope returned alongside FTR and confronted Moxley and his Death Riders stable.

In his first match after returning, Cope joined forces with FTR in a six-man tag team match, beating Death Riders members Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta at Fight for the Fallen.

In the weeks that followed, Cope continued to be a thorn in the side of Moxley and the Death Riders, and he did everything in his power to try to secure an AEW world title match.

The Rated-R Superstar beat Pac of the Death Riders in a singles match on the Jan. 22 episode of Dynamite, leading to a tag team street fight at Grand Slam Australia on Feb. 15, pitting Cope and White against Moxley and Claudio.

Thanks to interference from Yuta and Marina Shafir, Mox managed to choke out Cope to secure the win for his team.

Just days prior to the tag match, Cope was finally able to convince Moxley to grant him a championship opportunity thanks to a scheme he cooked up with White.

Cope and White stole the briefcase, which Moxley had been using to hold the AEW World Championship, and he threatened to open it until Mox agreed to a match at Revolution.

Although he previously held the TNT Championship, Cope entered Revolution looking to become AEW world champ for the first time, but Moxley denied him and extended his fourth reign as AEW world champion.

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