Welcome to the week one review of the AEW Continental Classic 2025 by GrapPro.
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Each wrestler in the Continental Classic will wrestle five matches to determine the top two spots of the Gold and Blue League.
At World’s End on December 27th, 2025 live on pay per view, the winner of the Gold League will face second place of the Blue League. The winner of the Blue League will face second place of the Gold League. The winners of these matches will face each other later on the show to determine the 2025 winner of the Continental Classic and the AEW Continental Champion.
Learn more about the participants of the 2025 Continental Classic here.
The matches for the first week of the Continental Classic:
AEW Dynamite – Thanksgiving Eve
November 26, 2025
Jon Moxley (1-0) defeats Mascara Dorada (0-1)
Claudio Castagnoli (1-0) defeats Orange Cassidy (0-1)
Kyle Fletcher (1-0) defeats Kazuchika Okada (0-1)
Kevin Knight (1-0) defeats Darby Allin (0-1)
AEW Collision – Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025
Konosuke Takeshita (1-0) defeats Roderick Strong (0-1)
PAC (1-0) defeats Speedball Mike Bailey (0-1)
Current Results
Blue League
Jon Moxley 1-0
Claudio Castagnoli 1-0
Konosuke Takeshita 1-0
Mascara Dorada 0-1
Orange Cassidy 0-1
Roderick Strong 0-1
Gold League
PAC 1-0
Kyle Fletcher 1-0
Kevin Knight 1-0
Darby Allin 0-1
Speedball Mike Bailey 0-1
Kazuchika Okada 0-1
Blue League Overview
I was absolutely wrong on my prediction that Jon Moxley would be going 0-5. Definitely thought that would be the way they were going and was clearly missing it. I thought AEW would zag at Full Gear on Moxley’s downfall as leader of the Death Riders but now they are zagging here. No other surprises.
Gold League Overview
The surprises are all on the side of the Gold League. Kyle Fletcher once again defeats Kazuchika Okada just like he did last year. Kevin Knight shocks Darby Allin, which means Darby has now lost his first C2 match twice. It was an upset when he lost to Brody King, even though he was wrapped in tape and beaten up from Full Gear. This time he was relatively healthy, just having lost the match to PAC at Full Gear, and yet he went down to Knight in an upset.
I usually do a review on the weeks matches but this week I’m not feeling great. I’ll instead just review the matches for tonight at Dynamite in Fishers, Indiana currently announced.
Blue League: Claudio Castagnoli (1-0) versus Jon Moxley (1-0)
I did not expect them to come out with this so early. I thought this would most definitely be a final week Continental Classic bout. That tells me that maybe the plan for this isn’t the breakdown of the Death Riders. Then again, what else could possibly happen here? It’s the leader versus his right hand man.
Nothing could create dissension in the ranks quite like having these two get a little too violent with each other. Of course, the heart of the Blackpool Combat Club was Bryan Danielson and Jon Moxley fighting at Revolution and it eventually leading to William Regal separating them and telling them to come with him. That faction is dead, and now we have the Death Riders. If Moxley wins, will Claudio just fall in line? If Claudio wins, how will that shake the confidence in Moxley of the other Death Riders? If it goes to a draw, you’d have to come back to it later.
Still, doing this in week two has me wondering just how this all shakes out.
Gold League: PAC (1-0) versus Kazuchika Okada (0-1)
Okada has to get back in the win column if he wants to defend his Continental Championship crown but he has to do it against the most aggressive member of the Death Riders. PAC and Okada met before at Dynasty 2024 when Kazuchika Okada defended the AEW Continental Championship against him. That was an incredible match that opened the show and might have got forgotten as one of the best matches of 2024. It’s also another example of how anyone saying Okada is lazy in AEW isn’t paying attention.
This is a bit of a new PAC, but he’s going to have to be as murderous and aggressive as he was with Darby Allin at Full Gear if he wants to stop Kazuchika Okada from beating him in this tournament match. Last year Okada’s first match ended with a draw, and he followed it with a win against Mark Briscoe. At worst he can take a draw, but he absolutely needs this win.
Expect more Continental Classic matches announced later tonight.
Tune in next week for coverage of week two.
