AEW Full Gear is a professional wrestling event organised by AEW every year in November. Its latest edition took place on November 18, 2023 at the Kia Forum in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, California. This was the fifth edition of Full Gear.
| No. | Player/Team | Opponent | Stipulations | Winners |
| 1P | MJF (c) and Samoa Joe | The Gunns (Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn) | Tag team match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship | MJF (c) and Samoa Joe |
| 2P | Eddie Kingston (c) | Jay Lethal | ROH World Championship Match | Eddie Kingston (c) |
| 3P | Claudio Castagnoli | Buddy Matthews | Singles Match | Claudio Castagnoli |
| 4 | Hikaru Shida (c) | "Timeless" Toni Storm (with Luther) | Singles match for the AEW Women's World Championship | "Timeless" Toni Storm |
| 5 | Sting, Darby Allin, and Adam Copeland (with Ric Flair) | Christian Cage, Luchasaurus, and Nick Wayne | Six-man tag team match | Sting, Darby Allin, and Adam Copeland |
| 6 | Orange Cassidy (c) | Jon Moxley | Singles match for the AEW International Championship | Orange Cassidy (c) |
| 7 | Hangman Adam Page | Swere Strickland (with Prince Nana) | Texas Death match | Swerve Strickland |
| 8 | The Golden Jets (Kenny Omega and Chris Jericho) | The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) | Tag team match | The Golden Jets |
| 9 | Kris Statlander (c) | Julia Hart vs. Red Velvet or Skye Blue | Three-way match for the AEW TBS Championship | Julia Hart |
| 10 | Ricky Starks and Big Bill (c) | La Facción Ingobernable (Rush and Dralístico) | Four-way tag team match for AEW World Tag Team Championship | Ricky Starks and Big Bill (c) |
| 11 | MJF (c) | Jay White | Singles match for the AEW World Championship | MJF (c) |
MJF had been feuding against Adam Cole in mid-2023, but were forced to team up with him on a few occasions. During this time, the two superstars started to like each other's company and eventually became tag team named Better Than You BayBay and won the ROH World Tag Team Championship. However, Cole got soon injured and is unable to compete at Full Gear. Nonetheless, The Gunns want a title shot, and MJF will defend the gold with a mystery partner at the event. The mystery partner was soon revealed to former ROH World Champion Samoa Joe. During the pre-show, though MJF was injured, he and Samoa Joe still managed to retain the gold.
At Dynamite: Grand Slam in September 2023, Eddie Kingston defeated Claudio Castagnoli to win the ROH World Championship for the first time in his career. Soon after becoming the champion, he was challenged by a superstar who knows how to handle the title better than anyone else. Jay Lethal has won the ROH World Championship twice. The impressive feat is that, accross the two reigns, he held the belt for 707 days, which is the most held by any. At Full Gear, the current ROH Champion is set to defend his title against the longest reigning ROH Champion. At the event, the current champion managed to reign supreme in a hard-hitting contest.
A total of three matches were contested in the pre-show of Full Gear 2023. One of them saw two former WWE superstars go neck to neck in a singles match. Claudio Castagnoli of The Blackpool Combat Club fought against Buddy Matthews of House of Black at AEW Full Gear 2023. In the end, the inaugural WWE Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal winner stood tall against Buddy Matthews.
Toni Storm became the first-ever two-time AEW Women's Champion in 2023. Just a few months later, her record was surpassed by Hikaru Shida, who became the first superstar to do so thrice. Shida was also the superstar responsible for ending Storm's second title run. The two are now set to collide at Full Gear for Shida's AEW Women's Championship. At the event, Toni Storm proved to be the better superstar and won the AEW Women's Championship for the third time in her career.
At AEW WrestleDream, TNT Champion Christian Cage defended his gold against Darby Allin in a best-of-three match. Cage retained. After the match, he, Luchasauras and Nick Wayne started brutally attacking Allin and Sting. The two were rescued by a debuting Adam Copeland. While Copeland and Cage had been partners all around the world, his debut was not welcomed by Cage. A six-man tag team match between the two trios was then set up for Full Gear. Edge, Sting and Allin left the ring as the victors after a 15-minute long battle.
Orange Cassidy became the longest reigning AEW International Champion in 2023. He defended the title against Jon Moxley in the main event of All Out 2023, and lost it to the The Blackpool Combat Club member. However, just within a span of five weeks, Moxley lost the belt to Rey Fenix, who lost it back to Cassidy on Dynamite. Moxley demanded a rematch for the gold, which he will get at Full Gear. The King of Sloth Style managed to beat the Lunatic Fringe in a battle of styles.
Following a convincing win over Blackpool Combat Club at Blood and Guts, Kenny Omega, Young Bucks, and Hangman Page all went their ways once again. Page got involved in a feud against Swerve Strickland. The former Hit Row member defeated the former AEW World Champion at WrestleDream and the two stars will collide once again at Full Gear. At the event, Strickland broke Page's streak in Texas Deathmatches, and emerged victorious.
Kenny Omega and Chris Jericho started hanging around a few weeks ago and this unlikely duo was not met with pleasure from Omega's friends The Young Bucks. The latter are the current number one challengers for AEW World Tag Team Championship. A match between the two teams was set for Full Gear where if The Golden Jets win, they will get the title opportunity instead of The Bucks. However, in case Bucks win, The Golden Jets will have to disband. In a match that lasted around 21 minutes, Omega and Jericho defeated The Bucks and took their AEW World Title oppurtunity.
AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander will defend her title in a Three-Way match at AEW Full Gear. While Julia Hart has punched her ticket to the match, only one of Red Velvet or Skye Blue will make it to Full Gear. At the event, the title changed hands as Julia Hart of the House of Black finally got her hands on the AEW TBS Championship.
Ricky Starks and Big Bill are the current AEW World Tag Team Champions. They are booked to defend their gold against La Facción Ingobernable (Rush and Dralístico), FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler), and Kings of The Black Throne (Malakai Black and Brody King) in a Four Way match at Full Gear 2023. At the event, the champs managed to hold on their gold.
MJF will compete in two matches at Full Gear. Following a pre-show title defense, MJF will defend his AEW World Championship in the main event of Full Gear 2023 against Jay White. Jay White has been feuding against The MJF alongside the fellow members of Bullet Club Gold (Juice Robinson, and The Gunns). He stole MJF's title and was granted a match for the same. MJF was injured during his pre-show match where he defended the ROH World Tag Team Championship. Thus, his already injured friend Adam Cole stepped in. However, he was not medically cleared to compete and was replaced by MJF again. Finally, MJF and Jay White competed and the champion managed to retain the title.
In 2018, pro wrestlers such as Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, and Kenny Omega responded to a remark by journalist Dave Meltzer that no promotion other than WWE could sell 10000 tickets. They organized an event called All In, which sold more than 12000 tickets in less than 30 minutes. This became the stepping stone of something huge. In 2019, the superstars were met by Pakistani-American billionaire Tony Khan, who brought money on the table to kickstart a new professional wrestling promotion, which came to be known as All Elite Wrestling or simply AEW. AEW first revealed a Big Four PPV calender including Double or Nothing, All Out, Revolution and Full Gear. The first event of the latter took place in 2019. It is the only AEW event that traditionally takes place on Saturdays.
The event always takes place around The Veterans Day. The 2023 edition also took place on Saturday which collides with AEW Collision's timings. Thus, the weekly programming moved to Friday for this particular week and aired from Kia Forum only.
AEW Full Gear took place on Saturday, November 18, 2023. It took place on Saturday and the Collision of that week moved one night earlier to Fridays. The start timings of Full Gear in different countries was as follows:
USA: 8 PM ET / 5 P.M. PT (Saturday, November 18)
India: 5:30 A.M. IST (Sunday, November 19)
Australia: 11 A.M. AEDT (Sunday, November 19)
United Kingdom / Ireland: 1 A.M. BST (Sunday, November 19)
Japan: 9 A.M. (Sunday, November 19)
Saudi Arabia: 3 A.M (Sunday, November 19)
The tickets for the event went live on September 8, 2023, on AEW’s official website.
In the USA and Canada, AEW Full Gear will be streaming on Bleacher Report via their app and website. It will also air on traditional cable and satellite providers. In the USA, it will also air in select theatres, Dave & Busters, and Tom's Watch Bar locations in the United States. For International fans, AEW Full Gear will stream on AEW's official partner FITE TV and on PPV.Com in Canada. AEW FULL GEAR 2023 will air on Sky Italia, Sky Deutschland, on ESPN for fans in Australia and New Zealand, as well as EuroSport India and on StarzPlay. AEW FULL GEAR 2023 will air on YouTube for fans in Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Brazil and United Kingdom.
AEW Full Gear will take place at the Kia Forum Arena in Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, California.. The arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena. Founded in 1967, the stadium was sold to MSG company (Madison Square Garden) for $23.5 Million. They made multiple times profit on this purchase as they sold the stadium to Billionaire and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for around $400 Million in 2020.
At present, Kia Forum Arnea can accommodate between 17000 to 18000 fans.
AEW Full Gear is on November 18, 2023.
AEW Full Gear 2023 will take place live from Kia Forum Arena in Inglewood, California.
MJF defended his AEW World Championship against Jay White in the main event of AEW Full Gear 2023.
The next AEW PPV is Worlds End on December 30, 2023.
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