AEW WrestleDream 2025 Notes Part I: Lou Thesz’s Wife Attends, Jurassic Express Wins $500K Tag Match, Hurt Syndicate Wins AEW World Trios Titles Shot, Mina Shirakawa Answers TBS Title vs. Title Open Challenge, Mercedes Mone Breaks Ultimo Dragon Concurrent Titles Held Record

AEW
Oct 18, 2025

Lou Thesz’s Wife Charlie Attends Show

Saturday’s AEW WrestleDream 2025 event at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri featured Charlie Thesz, widow of the late wrestling legend Lou Thesz, making a special appearance.

During the start of the show, Tony Schiavone was seen at ringside and introduced Thesz who was in the crowd. Thesz talked about how a lot of great matches have happened in St. Louis and thanked Schiavone so much for having her and she couldn’t be happier to be here.

Jurassic Express Wins $500K Tag Match

Saturday’s AEW WrestleDream 2025 event also featured Jurassic Express (Jack Perry & Luchasaurus) defeating The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) in a tag team match to win the $500,000 prize.

Following the match, Jurassic Express offered their hands to help up the Young Bucks and Perry was willing to give some of their newly won money to the broke Young Bucks. This led to the Don Callis Family’s Josh Alexander, Lance Archer, and Mark Davis running out to attack Jurassic Express as the Young Bucks looked on doing nothing. The Young Bucks then left teh ring and started to make their way up the ramp only to stop after Kenny Omega’s music played. Omega came out and confronted the Young Bucks over them doing nothing before getting into the ring to try to save Jurassic Express. The Don Callis Family initially had the upper hand over Omega only for Jurassic Express to regain their senses and joined in on the brawl to clear out the ring of the Don Callis Family. Omega and Jurassic Express then left the ring together and Omega grabbed a sign from the crowd that read “Inoki Forever” in a sign of respect to the late Antonio Inoki.

Hurt Syndicate Wins Shot at AEW World Trios Titles

Saturday’s AEW WrestleDream 2025 event also featured Hurt Syndicate (MVP, Shelton Benjamin, & Bobby Lashley) defeating The Demand (Toa Liona, Bishop Kaun, & Ricochet) in a #1 Contender Trios match for the AEW World Trios Championship.

As a result of their victory, Hurt Syndicate will be facing off against The Opps (Powerhouse Hobbs, Katsuyori Shibata, & Samoa Joe) for the AEW World Trios Championship at a future show.

Mina Shirakawa Answers TBS Title vs. Title Open Challenge

Saturday’s AEW WrestleDream 2025 event also featured Interim ROH Women’s World Television Champion Mina Shirakawa making a surprise appearance.

During the show, AEW TBS Champion Mercedes Mone came out to interrupt Kris Statlander after Statlander had successfully retained her AEW Women’s World Championship against “Timeless” Toni Storm. Mone then told Statlander to get out of her ring and for her mystery champion opponent to come out to answer her title vs. title open challenge.

This led to Shirakawa coming out accepting the challenge and putting her Interim ROH Women’s World TV title on the line.

Mercedes Mone Breaks Ultimo Dragon Concurrent Titles Held Record

Saturday’s AEW WrestleDream 2025 event also featured Mercedes Mone defeating Mina Shirakawa in a Title vs. Title Open Challenge match to become the new Interim ROH Women’s World Television Champion.

Mone’s AEW TBS title was also on the line for this match.

As a result of her victory, Mone surpassed Ultimo Dragon for the most wrestling championships held at the same time at 11.

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