AEW Dynasty (2025)
All Elite Wrestling pay-per-view event
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The 2025 Dynasty was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was the second annual Dynasty and took place on April 6, 2025, at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, marking AEW's first PPV event to be held in Pennsylvania.
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Promotional poster featuring various AEW wrestlers | |||
| Promotion | All Elite Wrestling | ||
| Date | April 6, 2025 | ||
| City | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||
| Venue | Liacouras Center | ||
| Attendance | 7,921[1] | ||
| Buy rate | 110,000–120,000[2] | ||
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Twelve matches were contested at the event, including two on the "Zero Hour" pre-show. In the main event, Jon Moxley defeated Swerve Strickland to retain the AEW World Championship. In other prominent matches, Kenny Omega defeated Ricochet and "Speedball" Mike Bailey in a three-way match to retain the AEW International Championship and Adam Cole defeated Daniel Garcia to win the AEW TNT Championship. The event also featured the return of The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) following a hiatus since October 2024.
Production
Background
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In April 2024, the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) held a pay-per-view (PPV) event titled Dynasty.[3] On January 22, 2025, it was announced that a second Dynasty event would take place on April 6 that year at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, marking AEW's first PPV event to be held in Pennsylvania, thus establishing Dynasty as an annual PPV event for AEW.[4]
Storylines
Dynasty featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines, written by AEW's writers. Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite and Collision, as well as Ring of Honor's (ROH) weekly television program Ring of Honor Wrestling.[5]
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Commentators | Excalibur (Pre-show and PPV) |
| Tony Schiavone (Pre-show and PPV) | |
| Taz (PPV) | |
| Nigel McGuinness (PPV) | |
| Jim Ross (Will Ospreay vs. Kevin Knight) | |
| Matt Menard (Pre-show) | |
| MVP (AEW World Tag Team Title match) | |
| Don Callis (Kyle Fletcher vs. Mark Briscoe) | |
| Spanish Commentators | Carlos Cabrera |
| Alvaro Riojas | |
| Ariel Levy | |
| Ring announcer | Justin Roberts (PPV) |
| Arkady Aura (Pre-show) | |
| Referees | Aubrey Edwards |
| Bryce Remsburg | |
| Mike Posey | |
| Paul Turner | |
| Rick Knox | |
| Stephon Smith | |
| Interviewer | Lexy Nair |
| Pre-show hosts | Renee Paquette |
| RJ City | |
| Jeff Jarrett |
Results
AEW International Championship Eliminator Tournament
| Qualifiers Dynamite (March 12) Collision (March 15) | Final Dynamite (March 19) | |||||
 Orange Cassidy | Pin | |||||
 Hechicero | 10:09 | |||||
| The Beast Mortos | 10:57 | |||||
| Orange Cassidy | — | |||||
 "Speedball" Mike Bailey | Pin | |||||
| "Speedball" Mike Bailey | Pin | |||||
| Ricochet | Pin | |||||
 Katsuyori Shibata | 12:34 | |||||
 Mark Davis | 17:57 | |||||
| Ricochet | Pin | |||||
| Mark Briscoe | 12:15 | |||||
| Mark Davis | Pin | |||||