AEW Revolution 2022 - March 6th, 2022

 

AEW Revolution 2022 - March 6th, 2022

Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida

Attendance: 8,359
Buy Rate: 165,000-173,000

All Elite Wrestling presented it's third annual AEW Revolution pay-per-view on March 6th, 2022 from the Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida. The event aired through traditional pay-per-view outlets, as well as Bleacher Report in the United States and FITE TV internationally. In the main event, "Hangman" Adam Page defended the AEW World Championship against Adam Cole. Other prominent matches include CM Punk vs. MJF in a Dog Collar match, Jon Moxley vs. Bryan Danielson and the second-ever "Face of the Revolution" Ladder Match, with the winner receiving a future AEW TNT Championship match. The event was met with mostly positive reviews from critics and featured the AEW debuts of Swerve Strickland and William Regal.

On the February 9th episode of AEW Dynamite, after successfully defending the AEW World Championship, "Hangman" Adam Page was confronted by Adam Cole, who indicated his intentions to challenge Page for the championship as he had reached the top of the AEW rankings to become the number one contender. The following week, the match was made official for Revolution. 

During Dynamite's first episode of 2022 (also their first episode since moving to TBS from TNT), Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus) defeated The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix) to win the AEW World Tag Team Championship. After numerous title defenses, it was announced on the February 16th episode that Jurassic Express would defend the titles in a three-way tag team match at Revolution. Their opponents would be determined by a tag team battle royale on the February 23rd episode and a Casino Tag Team Royale on the March 2nd episode. reDRagon (Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish) and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) won the respective matches.

On the November 17th, 2021 episode of Dynamite, CM Punk began feuding with MJF. After Punk defeated all of the other members of MJF's stable The Pinnacle over the next few weeks, the two finally faced off on the February 2nd, 2022 episode, where MJF would defeat Punk thanks to assistance from Wardlow, giving Punk his first loss in AEW, which was also in Punk's hometown of Chicago, Illinois. On the next week's episode, Punk demanded a rematch, which MJF would grant if Punk found a partner to defeat FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) in a tag team match that night. Jon Moxley would be revealed as Punk's partner and they would go on to defeat FTR that night. The following week, Punk revealed the rematch against MJF would be a Dog Collar match at Revolution.

After remaining undefeated for months, Thunder Rosa became the number one contender to Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.'s AEW Women's World Championship, reigniting an old feud between the two. The title match was made official for Revolution on the February 16th episode of Dynamite. 

On the February 23rd episode of Dynamite, Jade Cargill retained the AEW TBS Championship against The Bunny, she touted her undefeated record of 28-0 and issued an open challenge for the title. Tay Conti came out to accept the challenge, and the match was made official for Revolution. 

At the 2021 Revolution pay-per-view, AEW held the first-ever Face of the Revolution Ladder Match, with the winner receiving a match for the AEW TNT Championship. A second match was scheduled for the 2022 event, thus establishing the match as an annual tradition at Revolution. Keith Lee, making is AEW debut, qualified first by defeating Isiah Kassidy on the February 9th episode of Dynamite. The remaining spots were filled over the next couple weeks, with Wardlow, Powerhouse Hobbs, Ricky Starks, Orange Cassidy and Christian Cage each qualifying by defeating Max Caster, Dante Martin, The Dark Order's Preston "10" Vance, Anthony Bowens and Ethan Page (respectively). 

Chris Jericho and Eddie Kingston began feuding after Kingston began insinuating to his friends (and Jericho's Inner Circle teammates) Proud and Powerful (Santana and Ortiz) that they were being held back from their full potential and should branch out on their own, when Jericho took offense to. After confronting each other on the February 23rd episode of Dynamite, match between the two was scheduled for Revolution.

On the January 19th episode of Dynamite, Jon Moxley returned after taking some time off of AEW television, dealing with his real-life alcoholism. In the following weeks, Moxley would be approached by Bryan Danielson about teaming up to "run" AEW and mentor the younger generation of wrestlers. On the February 16th episode, Moxley responded that he had never defeated Danielson regardless of what promotion they were both in and that he would only consider teaming up if they "bled together" first, indicating that he wanted a match. The following week, after Moxley saved Danielson from an attack from 2point0 (Jeff Parker and Matt Lee) and Daniel Garcia, Danielson agreed to a match at Revolution.

Pre-Show: 

Countdown to Revolution:

PPV Matches:

Pre-Show Matches:

• Leyla Hirsch def. Kris Statlander
• HOOK def. QT Marshall by submission
• 6-Man Tag Team Match: The House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King and Buddy Matthews) def. PAC, Penta Oscuro and Erick Redbeard

Main Show Matches:

• 3-Way Tag Team Match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship: Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus) (c) def. reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) to retain the titles
• "Face of the Revolution" Ladder Match: Wardlow defl Christian Cage, Keith Lee, Orange Cassidy, Powerhouse Hobbs and Ricky Starks *
• AEW TBS Championship: Jade Cargill (c) def. Tay Conti to retain the title
• Dog Collar Match: CM Punk def. MJF
• AEW Women's World Championship: Dr.  Britt Baker, D.M.D. (c) def. Thunder Rosa to retain the title
• Jon Moxley def. Bryan Danielson
• 6-Man Tornado Tag Team Match: Darby Allin, Sammy Guevara and Sting def. The Andrade-Hardy Family Office (Andrade El Idolo, Matt Hardy and Isiah Kassidy)
• AEW World Championship: "Hangman" Adam Page (c) def. Adam Cole to retain the title

*Winner received a future AEW TNT Championship match.