AEW Double or Nothing 2022 Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

Blood flowed freely in Anarchy in the Arena as the Jericho Appreciation Society (Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Daniel Garcia, Matt Menard and Angelo Parker) battled Jon Moxley, Bryan Danielson, Eddie Kingston, Santana and Ortiz in a wild, chaotic brawl.

The fans in Las Vegas cheered the unbridled violence that spilled into the stands, into the arena corridor, around the ringside area and back into the squared circle. The AEW production team did a fantastic job of capturing the handful of fights as they unfolded around the arena and the image of a crimson-caked Kingston stalking to the ring with a gas can, determined to ignite Jericho, was haunting.

The JAS won the match when Jericho trapped Danielson in a single-leg crab and Hager choked him out with the broken ring rope. The crowd reacted appropriately, greeting the finish with silence, in awe of the fact that Blackpool Combat Club, Kingston, Santana and Ortiz lost.

It was the most obvious outcome on the entire card. After months of torment, Kingston needed to get his revenge on Jericho and Co. and end the feud for good. Instead, a faction that is so far from over that changing the channel when they come on is not out of the equation, defeated the most badass act in the company (Moxley and Danielson) and robbed Kingston of his vengeance.

No, the finish does not make fans want to wait another month to see Kingston finally shut Jericho down. This does not heat things up further in hopes of drawing for a rematch. It annoys fans who waited patiently for a payoff that never came.

Jericho as The Wizard might be harmless fun but booking missteps like this are not. Now, AEW will have to explain why a group of believable and credible badasses just lost to the sports entertainment goofballs who arrived for the match looking like a 1999 boy band.

As for the brawl itself, it was essentially every brawl we have ever seen before on AEW television. They happen so frequently at this point that pay-per-view offerings like this, no matter how favorably the fans react, lose their impact. The more you do something, the more it waters it down and adversely affects its ability to leave an impression.

This was no different.

Top Moments

• For some reason, Moxley's "Wild Thing" theme continued to play as the action started and the competitors brawled around the squared circle.
• Jericho used a fork on Moxley's eye, a throwback to their first feud over the AEW world title back in 2019-20.
• Jericho smashed the soundboard, finally ending the repetition of said theme.
• Santana and Ortiz drove Hager through a table with the Streetsweeper.
• Kingston and Menard paid homage to the Memphis concession stand brawl, complete with a mustard battle.
• Garcia, with a belt wrapped around the throat of Kingston, dragged him across the arena floor.
• Santana and Ortiz came off side-by-side ladders and drove Menard and Parker through tables.
• Kingston and Danielson descended into a physical brawl after the former doused The American Dragon in gasoline while trying to avenge the fireball thrown at him by Jericho weeks earlier.