Samoa Joe Leaves Full Gear as New AEW World Champion – Samoa Joe closed out AEW Full Gear 2025 with a major career milestone, defeating Hangman Adam Page inside a steel cage to capture the AEW Men’s World Championship. The Newark crowd witnessed a chaotic and violent main event that unfolded with constant twists, outside involvement, and a major betrayal that shifted the entire match.
The bout opened with a brief feeling-out sequence before Joe became the first to collide with the cage. The impact busted him open early, giving Page an opening to press the advantage. Page followed with a Moonsault, though Joe powered out at one. Joe attempted to create some distance with heavy boots, but Page countered by removing his own boot and repeatedly striking Joe, sending the challenger into survival mode.
Even while dealing with blood loss, Joe fired back with stiff chops and shifted the momentum by using Page’s own movement against him, launching the champion into the steel. Joe kept up the pressure by grinding Page’s face into the cage and hitting a quick Powerslam, but Page absorbed the punishment, flipped out of a German Suplex, and hurled Joe into the steel before landing a Suplex. Both men tried for the Coquina Clutch in a tense exchange, but neither locked it in. Joe then spiked Page with an STO and exposed the top turnbuckle ring, though Page dodged the steel and bit Joe’s forehead to regain control before hitting a Sunset Flip Powerbomb.
The match’s turning point arrived when Katsuyori Shibata attempted to enter the cage with Page’s title belt. Eddie Kingston stopped him, but the distraction allowed chaos to break out. Referee Paul Turner was accidentally taken down and missed Page hitting the Deadeye, which should have ended the match. Powerhouse Hobbs broke the cage door chain to assist Joe, but Page fought him off.
Page hit the Buckshot Lariat, but with the referee still down, victory remained out of reach. Hook then appeared, seemingly to revive the referee. Instead, he revealed his allegiance to The Opps, blasting Page with the championship belt. The betrayal opened the door for Joe to hit the Muscle Buster onto the title, finally securing the three-count and ending Page’s reign.
Joe now stands atop AEW once again as a two-time AEW Men’s World Champion after one of the most dramatic main events in Full Gear history.
Samoa Joe Leaves Full Gear as New AEW World Champion
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