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AEW Double or Nothing 2022: Results, CM Punk Wins, Full Recap a

• Posted by Oliver Roger May 30, 2022 Filed in Society ##Sports  #Wrestling  #CM Punk Wins  19 views
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  There's a lot of news coming out of AEW Double or Nothing 2022. Most importantly, we have a new AEW Champion. CM Punk beat "Hangman" Adam Page in the main event to win the title after what was easily one of AEW's best-ever matches. The show ended with a crying Punk hoisting up his new prize for the first time.

  It was a tremendous climax to a huge show. The night began with Wardlow obliterating MJF in surprisingly decisive fashion, a whole news story unto itself given the malarkey over the weekend concerning MJF reportedly threatening to no show Double or Nothing. Elsewhere, Adam Cole and Britt Baker won their respective Owen Hart Cup finals, and Kyle O'Reilly beat Darby Allin in an unexpectedly great match. 

  The Anarchy in the Arena match ended up being perhaps too much anarchy for its own good, and ended with Jericho Appreciation Society standing tall over a fallen Bryan Danielson.  Hangman Page was the lone champion to lose at Double or Nothing, with all other champions retaining their gold. 

  Read on for a full recap of Double or Nothing 2022.

  CM Punk wins the AEW Championship

  In arguably the best AEW main event ever, CM Punk pinned Hangman Adam Page to win the AEW Championship. The Las Vegas crowd was mega into this main event from the outset. We got duelling "Let's go Hangman/CM Punk!" chants, and later "Cowboy Shit/CM Punk!" cheers. Both men were showered with both cheers and boos after almost every big move -- the crowd was truly split on this one.

  These two worked intense. The dynamic going into the match was unusual, with both being babyfaces and with Page harbouring a deep grudge against Punk that's never really been explained properly. Page wrestled the match with fabulous tenacity; you got the sense that he really did have antipathy towards Punk. This was among Page's best performances.

  CM Punk twice tried Page's Buckshot Lariat, but botched it both times. (After the match, he told the crowd to never let him try another Buckshot Lariat). The first time it led to Page going for a GTS, which Punk countered. That led into the second attempt, where Punk tried but fell on his ass -- but got up and clotheslined Page anyway. 

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  Punk tried to follow up with the high knee in the corner, but Page countered with a Last Ride Powerbomb, which he rolled into a Deadeye. That led to a great nearfall, with Punk kicking out at the last millisecond. He timed that kickout perfectly.

  Page then did Punk's Go To Sleep taunt, which got a huge heel reaction. Page attempted a GTS, but Punk escaped and hit him with a high kick. Page then hoisted Punk up for the GTS anyway, landing it this time for another excellent nearfall. Punk is so good at timing those kickouts.

  The two then exchanged kicks, and Page clotheslined Punk over the top rope. He held up the AEW Championship, yelling "this is mine" at Punk, which got a lot of boos. Page threw Punk inside the ring and attempted a Buckshot Lariat, but Punk countered into a GTS. Page struggled out, but accidentally hit the referee in doing so. Ref bump activated.

  Page decked Punk with a Lariat and then, with an evil trance, grabbed the AEW Championship belt and debated using it. At the last moment he drops it, deciding to go the moral route, then tries one last Buckshot Lariat. Once again though, Punk escaped and this time managed to land the GTS for the win.

  After the match a crying Punk holds the title up as AEW Double or Nothing went off the air.

  Rating: 5 stars. This was a winner for several reasons. First, it was one of AEW's best ever main events, one that saw arguably Hangman Page's best performance in the company yet. Second, it was a historic pro wrestling moment, with Punk returning last September and earning his place at the top of a wrestling promotion. And thirdly, it sets up Hangman Page for great new character development plus a surefire winner of a rematch. 

  Jurassic Express retain AEW Tag Team Championships

  Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus successfully defended their AEW Tag Team Championships against Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland plus Powerhouse Hobbs and Ricky Starks in a three-way tag match. Jungle Boy got the pin after their Jurassic Express powerbomb.

  This was in a tough spot for two reasons. First, it's late in a show that's been packed with a lot of action and high spots. Second, the whole premise is silly. It's a triple-threat tag match, but only two wrestlers are allowed in the ring at any given moment. That means at all times there's one team not represented in the ring, who have to hope they can somehow find a way to tag themselves in. Why would anybody tag out? It's one of those old wrestling things that don't get thought about enough.

  Still, there was some good stuff here. There was a sick sequence where Jungle Boy tried a Suicide Dive on Keith Lee but Lee caught him in mid air and Powerbombed him into Luchasauraus -- twice. Later, we got a fun showdown between Luchasaurus, Hobbs and Keith Lee that ended with Lee and Hobbs planting Luchasaurus with a huge double chokeslam. 

  Moments later, Lee somehow managed a leaping sommersault over the top rope to take out the whole field. That was crazy.

  Ricky Starks tried to win via cheating a few times, first by rolling up Jungle Boy with his feet on the rope and later by hitting Luchasaurus with one of the tag titles. Both times he was foiled by Christian Cage, who was at ringside.

  From there it was a series of big moves, with teams hitting their finishers only to have the pinfall broken up by the third team. Jungle Boy ended up as the legal man with Swerve Strickland. They had an awesome final few minutes, culminating with Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus hitting their tandem Powerbomb for the win.

  Rating: 3.5 stars.

  Jericho Appreciation Society wins Anarchy in the Arena

  Chris Jericho, Daniel Garcia, Jake Hager, Angelo Parker and Matt Menard beat the team of Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, Eddie Kingston, Santana and Ortiz in an Anarchy in the Arena match. Hager and Jericho made Danielson pass out to win for their team.

  This was a bit of a disaster at first. "Anarchy in the Arena" is a vague stipulation, which people thought would essentially just mean no rules. Indeed there were no rules. But it also apparently meant Jon Moxley's Wild Thing theme song would be played on repeat as the 10 men brawled throughout the arena.

  That's in large part the issue: It really was Anarchy in the Arena. The 10 men were split up in 5 pairs who brawled in different spots. That meant constant camera cuts to different parts of the arena -- inside the ring, in the crowd, in the back, in another part of the crowd. It was too disorienting to follow in any meaningful way. It was basically a pro wrestling music video, but not as cool as that sounds.