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Full Gear
Promotional poster featuring Kenny Omega and "Hangman" Adam Page
PromotionAll Elite Wrestling
DateNovember 13, 2021
CityMinneapolis, Minnesota
VenueTarget Center
Buy rate145,000[1]
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The 2021 Full Gear was the third annual Full Gear professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It took place on November 13, 2021, at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ten matches were contested at the event, including one on The Buy In pre-show.

In the main event, "Hangman" Adam Page defeated Kenny Omega to end Omega’s record-setting 346 day reign as the AEW World Championship and win the title.

In other prominent matches, CM Punk defeated Eddie Kingston, Bryan Danielson defeated Miro by technical submission in the AEW World Championship Eliminator Tournament final match, and in the opening bout, MJF defeated Darby Allin. The event also saw the AEW debut of Jay Lethal.

Production

Background

Full Gear is a pay-per-view (PPV) held annually around Veterans Day by All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since 2019. It is one of AEW's "Big Four" PPVs, which includes Double or Nothing, All Out, and Revolution, their four biggest shows produced quarterly.[2] The 2021 event will be the third event in the Full Gear chronology. It was originally scheduled to be held on November 6, 2021, at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri.[3][4] However, during All Out on September 5, it was announced that the event would instead take place on November 13, but with no reference to a location. It was reported that the event was pushed back a week to avoid competition with UFC 268 and the Canelo Álvarez vs. Caleb Plant boxing match.[5][6] On September 27, it was announced that the event had been relocated to the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[7]

Other on-screen personnel
Role Name
Commentators Jim Ross (PPV)
Tony Schiavone (Pre-show and PPV)
Excalibur (Pre-show and PPV)
Spanish commentators Alex Abrahantes
Dasha Gonzalez
Ricardo Rodriguez
French commentators Alain Mistrangélo
Norbert Feuillan
German commentators Günter Zapf
Mike Ritter
Ring announcer Justin Roberts
Referees Aubrey Edwards
Bryce Remsburg
Paul Turner
Rick Knox

Storylines

Full Gear featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[8] Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly shows Dynamite, Rampage, Dark, and Elevation and The Young Bucks' YouTube series Being The Elite.

In October 2018, prior to the formation of AEW, Adam Page joined his friends Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson), forming a group known as The Elite.[9] In January 2020, Page & Omega won the AEW World Tag Team Championship, but lost it later that year. Signs of dissent occurred during this title reign, and after more months of tension within the group, Page was removed from The Elite by The Young Bucks on the August 27, 2020, episode of Dynamite, after Page had prevented them from winning a match.[10] At the 2020 Full Gear on November 7, Page faced Omega in the finals of a tournament to determine the number one contender for the AEW World Championship, with Omega winning.[11] Omega would later go on to win the championship.[12] Nearly a year later, on the October 6, 2021, episode of Dynamite, Page, who returned from a two-month hiatus, won the Casino Ladder Match to become the number one contender for the AEW World Championship, still held by Omega.[13] On October 16, the championship match was scheduled for Full Gear.[14]

On October 8, AEW announced the return of the AEW World Championship Eliminator Tournament; an eight-man single-elimination tournament culminating at Full Gear with the winner receiving a future AEW World Championship match.[15] On the October 16 episode of Dynamite, Bryan Danielson, Orange Cassidy, Preston "10" Vance, Lance Archer, Jon Moxley, Eddie Kingston, Dustin Rhodes, and Powerhouse Hobbs were revealed as the participants.[16] However, on November 2, Moxley was removed from the tournament after he entered a rehabilitation program for alcohol addiction,[17] and he was replaced by Miro.[18]

Results

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes[27]
1Hikaru Shida and Thunder Rosa defeated Jamie Hayter and Nyla Rose (with Vickie Guerrero) by pinfallTag team match[19]12:32
2MJF defeated Darby Allin by pinfallSingles match[20]22:06
3The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fénix) (c) (with Alex Abrahantes) defeated FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) (with Tully Blanchard) by pinfallTag team match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship[21]18:36
4Bryan Danielson defeated Miro by technical submissionAEW World Championship Eliminator Tournament Final[15]
Winner receives a future AEW World Championship match.		20:06
5Christian Cage and Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus) defeated The Superkliq (Adam Cole and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)) (with Brandon Cutler and Michael Nakazawa) by pinfallFalls Count Anywhere match[22]22:35
6Cody Rhodes and Pac (with Arn Anderson) defeated Malakai Black and Andrade El Idolo (with Jose the Assistant) by pinfallTag team match[19]16:52
7Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. (c) (with Rebel and Jamie Hayter) defeated Tay Conti by pinfallSingles match for the AEW Women's World Championship[23]15:24
8CM Punk defeated Eddie Kingston by pinfallSingles match[24]11:00
9The Inner Circle (Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Santana and Ortiz) defeated Men of the Year (Ethan Page and Scorpio Sky) and American Top Team (Junior dos Santos, Andrei Arlovski, and Dan Lambert) by pinfallMinneapolis Street Fight[25]19:52
10"Hangman" Adam Page defeated Kenny Omega (c) (with Don Callis) by pinfallSingles match for the AEW World Championship[26]25:35
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

AEW World Championship Eliminator Tournament

Quarterfinals
Rampage
(October 22, 2021)[28]
Dynamite
(October 23 and 27, 2021)[29][30] 		Semifinals
Rampage
(October 29, 2021)[31]
Dynamite
(November 3, 2021)[32] 		Final
Full Gear
(November 13, 2021)[27]
         
Jon Moxley Pin
Preston "10" Vance 2:09[30]
Miro[a] Sub
Orange Cassidy 7:27[32]
Orange Cassidy Pin
Powerhouse Hobbs 8:10[28]
Miro 20:06[27]
Bryan Danielson KO
Bryan Danielson KO
Dustin Rhodes 14:45[29]
Bryan Danielson KO
Eddie Kingston 16:24[31]
Eddie Kingston Pin
Lance Archer 7:31[29]

Notes

  1. ^ Jon Moxley was originally scheduled to face Orange Cassidy on the November 3 episode of Dynamite, but Moxley was removed from the match after legitimately entering an alcohol treatment program. During the show, Miro was announced as his replacement.

See also

References

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