AEW Full Gear 2024 goes down from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, with a stacked lineup led by Jon Moxley vs. Orange Cassidy in the main event. Things get started with the “Zero Hour” pre-show, which has multiple matches scheduled and a guest panelist.
Featured below are complete AEW Full Gear results from Saturday, November 23, 2024.
AEW FULL GEAR RESULTS (NOVEMBER 23, 2024): NEWARK, N.J.
The “Zero Hour” pre-show kicks off at 6:30pm EST. to get the night off-and-running. We shoot to the panelists, who are set up at a table. Renee Paquette is joined by RJ City, Jeff Jarrett and Paul Walter Hauser. They run down the advertised lineup for tonight’s show and then immediately send us down to ringside for our opening contest.
Deonna Purrazzo (w/ Taya Valkyrie) vs. Anna Jay
Excalibur, Tony Schiavone and “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard take over on the broadcast, as Deonna Purrazzo’s theme hits. The New Jersey native emerges accompanied by Taya Valkyrie and heads to the ring for our first “Zero Hour” bout of the night. Her opponent, Anna Jay, makes her way out next by herself.
The bell sounds and the match gets started with Anna Jay in the early offensive lead. This continues while Excalibur makes a math mistake explaining how much longer remains on the broadcast. Valkyrie gets involved from the floor, which leads to Purrazzo taking over on offense.
Purrazzo spends a couple of minutes in the lead, but then Jay starts to land a variety of kicks leads to a small comeback for the babyface. Purrazzo cuts that short, locking Jay in a submission hold. Excalibur reminds everyone about Jay’s history with shoulder issues.
Jay ends up on the floor, where Valkyrie hits a big a spear that turns her inside-out. The referee caught this and decides to eject her from ringside and send her to the back, however the match continues. Valkyrie throws a huge fit as she makes her way to the back and the action continues in the ring. Purrazzo slaps her shoulder submission on Jay, but Jay counters with a roll-up for the win.
Winner: Anna Jay
Dante Martin vs. Komander vs. The Beast Mortos vs. Buddy Matthews
Backstage, Billie Starkz is interviewed when Red Velvet, Leyla Hirsch and Athena shows up. They all talk about a ROH match in literally nothing more than a time-killing segment.
They are announced as the four participants for the International Women’s Cup Qualifier at NJPW x AEW: Wrestle Dynasty 2025. We then head back to the pre-show panelists who talk more about tonight’s PPV card.
We shoot to a live backstage interview with QT Marshall, who gloats about being responsible for the packed house inside the Prudential Center tonight. All by himself. He vows to beat down Big Boom. A.J. tonight.
Back to the panelists for some more time-killing talk about the PPV matches for a few moments, before we head back to the ring for our second pre-show match. Dante Martin comes out first. Komander is out next accompanied by Alex Abrahantes.
The Beast Mortos comes out after that to a pretty big pop. Finally, The House of Black’s own Buddy Matthews comes out after the lights go out and come back on. It’s time for what is expected to be one of the best matches of the entire show, and surely the best match on the “Zero Hour” pre-show.
A loud “Buddy! Buddy! Buddy!” chant breaks out from the New Jersey crowd and then the bell sounds to get this one officially off-and-running. Matthews stalks towards Beast Mortos, but first he gets rid of Komander and Martin. He turns to Mortos and the two stare each other down as the crowd goes wild.
After they go at it for a few moments, Martin and Komander re-enter the picture. All four take turns hitting high spots until things culminate, in exciting fashion, with Matthews picking up the win out of nowhere. The crowd went ballistic again for Matthews after the match. He came off like a rock star tonight.
Winner: Buddy Matthews
QT Marshall vs. “Big Boom” A.J.
After the second bout wraps up, we head back to the panelists, who talk about Big Boom A.J. and QT Marshall coming up next as the final match on the pre-show. They send it back to “The Dapper Yapper” Justin Roberts, who introduces the special guest commentator, Paul Wight.
Wight comes out and does a big wave to introduce the special guest time keeper, The Rizzler. He comes out to a rock star reception, stroking his chin and jaw-line. He settles in at the timekeepers table and then QT Marshall is introduced. He comes out in a bedazzled robe, ala Ric Flair in his prime.
“Big Boom” A.J. comes out next with Big Justice, the latter of whom looks as happy as a kid can look. Good vibes. A.J. babbles off-mic into the camera about bringing the boom as he heads to the ring. Has anyone figured out why these dudes are famous yet? Just me?
A.J. has the longest ring entrance ever, so much so that even Excalibur and the commentators make some cracks about how long they are spending going around each side of the ringside area to clap hands with fans and yell about booming and whatnot. Total nonsense. Marshall gives his weight belt to his wife before heading in the ring.
Fans loudly chant “Boom! Boom!” as A.J. leads them on with a fist-pump as the bell sounds. They lock up, Marshall arm-drags him down and does essentially a touchdown celebration after the fact. Fans chant “You still got it!” after A.J. gets one of his own.
Did he ever have it? Isn’t that the point of his highest profile match coming this late after his career? He didn’t have it, no? Marshall takes back over after that. The camera pans over to show “a double chin-stroke” from The Rizzler. Schiavone talks about Jarrett’s bouffant hairstyle. Can’t make this stuff up, folks.
After some more slow-paced back-and-forth action, and 100 more shots of The Rizzler stroking his chin, the match builds to three big spots: Paul Wight stopping Marshall from attacking Rizzler, A.J. hitting a superplex to Marshall off the top-rope, and Big Boom hitting a spear on Marshall to set up the win for A.J. Wight and Rizzler join The Costco Guys in the ring afterwards. Crowd seemed to dig whatever all of this was.
Winner: “Big Boom” A.J.
Mercedes Mone Puts Kamille In Her Place …Again
We catch up with Mercedes Mone and Kamille walking backstage. Mone blames all of her recent problems on Kamille, who she also lambasts for pandering to fans for sympathy recently. Kamille gets in Mone’s face but hesitates. Mone tells her she didn’t say she could speak.
She tells her she can watch her match from catering tonight and she’ll show her how a real woman handles business and gets the job done. After that wraps up, the pre-show panelists introduce the Guns N’ Roses “November Rain” video package for the 10,000th time in the last week. Hey, get your money’s-worthy, Tony K!
AEW Tag-Team Championships
Private Party vs. The Outrunners vs. Kings Of The Black Throne vs. The Acclaimed
The Outrunners and The Kings of The Black Throne make their respective ring entrances, and then The Acclaimed come out to Max Caster’s freestyle rap routine. He calls himself the best rapper alive at the end and throws the mic at Anthony Bowens, who has to retrieve it before he can do his little “Scissor me, daddy” wrap-up.
The “Zero Hour” pre-show wraps up on that note. The PPV kicks off with Excalibur welcoming us to the show once again. “It’s Saturday night, and you know what that means …” and so on. Private Party make their way out for their big title defense.
The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with our first PPV match and first title match of the evening. Malakai Black and Marq Quen kick things off as the legal two men in the ring in this four-team title tilt.
