Anarchy In The Arena was a memorable affair for The Elite.
The EVPs (the Young Bucks), Kazuchika Okada and Jack Perry won a bloody and violent Anarchy In The Arena match in the main event at AEW Double Or Nothing.
The match saw everything from crashing trucks, thumbtacks, and a flame thrower, but The Elite put Bryan Danielson away after a trio of successive finishing moves. Okada hit Danielson with the Rainmaker, then the Bucks hit Danielson with an EVP Trigger. Finally, Perry nailed Danielson with a running knee for the pinfall win.
Results
Check out a recap of the main event, courtesy of our live coverage page, below:
Anarchy In The Arena: Team AEW (Bryan Danielson, Darby Allin, Dax Harwood, and Cash Wheeler) vs. The Elite (The Young Bucks, Jack Perry, and Kazuchika Okada)
FTR and Danielson attack The Elite during their entrance. Darby Allin runs in, wearing some kind of mask, as the brawl is underway. Matthew Jackson demands the crew to play the Young Bucks’ theme song, and they do. Danielson gets a microphone and tells them to play the greatest theme song in the history of wrestling. “Final Countdown” plays. The brawl continues and spills into the crowd.
Dax Harwood and Matthew Jackson fight into the concourse area. Okada and Danielson brawl in the crowd. Harwood gets a drink from a vendor. Allin hits a Coffin Drop off a balcony. Matthew demands the music to stop, as it’s too expensive. Allin and Perry are fighting backstage. Okada holds up a “Rainmaker Drive” sign and dives over the barricade and onto Danielson. Allin and Perry keep fighting backstage. Allin shoves Perry into a container full of ice and drinks. Perry hits him with a pipe.
The Young Bucks hit Shatter Machine on Harwood, who is busted open. The Elite gang up on Danielson. A “Scapegoat” bus runs through a pile, but Perry is shown knocked out behind the wheel, and Allin is nowhere to be found.
FTR hits Nicholas with a spike piledriver on the apron. They hit Matthew with a superplex/splash combo. Okada spikes Wheeler with a Tombstone. Allin makes his way back to the ring and takes the fight to Okada. Allin hits a Code Red on Okada. The Young Bucks powerbomb Allin onto some chairs. They drag him up to the entrance platform and have the crew lower the elevated platform. Danielson brawls with the Young Bucks on the stage. The Young Bucks hit Danielson with the TK Driver onto part of the set.
Results Continued
Harwood takes the fight to the Young Bucks. Wheeler joins the battle. Okada and the Bucks gain the upper hand. Okada sends Harwood through a table with an elbow drop. Nicholas sends Wheeler through a table with a dive off part of the stage. Backstage, Jack Perry grabs Tony Khan. Allin comes out with a flamethrower just as Perry drags Khan out. Allin lights Perry on fire, and the Young Bucks put him out. The Young Bucks drag Allin to the ring. Matthew goes for a 450 splash, but Darby moves, so he lands on a garbage can. Allin kicks Okada below the belt. Allin hits Okada with the Coffin Drop, but the Bucks break it up.
Okada and the Bucks gang up on Allin. Harwood fights them off. FTR hits Nicholas with the Shatter Machine. Matthew hits Harwood with an exploding chair. Okada puts a thumbtack-studded sleeve on and hits Wheeler with a Rainmaker. The Young Bucks tie Allin’s feet and have him hung upside down by the ankles from the ceiling. The Bucks superkick Allin with tack-covered shoes while he’s hung upside down.
Danielson rallies and hits the Bucks with the tack-studded shoes. He takes the fight to the Young Bucks and hits Nicholas with a chair. Okada hits Danielson with the Rainmaker. The Bucks hit Danielson with an EVP Trigger. Perry hits Danielson with a running knee for the win.
Winners: The Elite
Anarchy In The Arena
WrestleZone Managing Editor Bill Pritchard spoke with Darby Allin before AEW Double Or Nothing. Allin was sidelined with a broken foot and got hit by a bus last month.
Allin told WrestleZone he stepped in when he heard about Eddie Kingston’s injury, which he learned during a cross-country road trip.
“We started in Seattle, and we’re driving across the country. My dad [was able to] retire with the money that I can make from AEW. So I was like, ‘Hey, we’re going to do a cross-country road trip.’ I’m going to move him down to Georgia. We’re in Montana, which is like 12 hours away from Seattle. Then I find out that Eddie Kingston can’t wrestle at Anarchy in the Arena because of the injury that he had at New Japan. Then I instantly pull over. I was like, ‘I’ve got to reach out to Tony Khan and just see if there’s a possibility of me being in this match.’”
Back to Seattle
Allin explained that still had to try to get cleared, but he chose to return to Washington for Dynamite in Everett. Allin tried to get cleared as he made the trip back home and finally got the OK right before the show.
“I said I will do anything to see if I can get cleared. But right then and there, I just start driving back to Seattle because Dynamite was happening that Wednesday. So I do a 12 hour drive to Seattle. [I’m] so tired, trying to get clearance as I’m heading there,” Allin explained. “Literally, I’m in a boot, a walking boot, as I’m driving still. Me taking the walking boot off as soon as I get to the building was the first time I’d taken the boot off since the injury. I put my foot in a shoe for the first time and it was like, ‘Whoa! Alright, let’s see what happens.’ And I literally got clearance right before that Dynamite.”
