Jon Moxley captured his fourth AEW World Championship to finish the full-time wrestling profession of Bryan Danielson at WrestleDream 2024. The top of Danielson’s profession has been considered one of – if not the – the foremost tales on AEW programming this 12 months, with the “American Dragon” himself confirming he can be calling time in 2024 forward of final 12 months’s Continental Traditional. Regardless of the looming retirement, Danielson captured his first AEW title from Swerve Strickland at All In, defending the title per week later earlier than the stage was set for his WrestleDream battle by Moxley’s betrayal.
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Having made the promise after profitable the title that he’ll go for so long as he holds it, Moxley was difficult not just for the title however to be the one which shepherds his Blackpool Fight Membership co-founder out of wrestling, and set about his process with brutal resolve. A lot of the bout was fought exterior of the ring, with Marina Shafir stripping the ringside space of its padding to show the concrete flooring whereas Moxley labored his opponent towards the ring steps. It was the challenger, nevertheless, that felt the concrete first, seeing an tried piledriver met with a again physique drop reversal to the ground.
Even nonetheless, Moxley remained in management for a lot of the competition afterward, matching Danielson’s spurts of power with spiteful and infrequently underhanded offense. Shafir discovered herself ejected from the bout by referee Bryce Remsburg when he lastly caught on to her sly interference. However finally her absence did little to mitigate the drawback for the champion, with three Busaiku Knees unable to safe title retention, a tope suicida reversed right into a Dying Rider to the concrete, and a Gotch-style piledriver permitting for Moxley to choke Danielson out to safe the referee’s stoppage.
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