AEW All In: MJF outlasts tag-team partner Adam Cole to retain title in front of 81,000 at Wembley in London as CM Punk gives a nod to John Cena and Hulk Hogan en route to victory

In the battle for best friends at Wembley, in front of over 81,000 people, MJF kept its AEW World Championship against his tag team partner, Adam Cole.

The pair started off the match by donning their tag team T-shirts, engaging in friendly chain wrestling, and even shaking hands. However, after an MJF eye poke, all bets were off.

The match originally ended in a draw after a double closeline – ironically – floored both men and saw them pin each other. Cole demanded that MJF go another five minutes, to which the champion replied, “Five minutes isn’t enough, Adam.” We’ll keep going until we have a winner at f*****g Wembley.’

When Cole turned down the chance to use a belt handed to him by Roddy Strong, MJF jumped at the chance to roll up the challenger and retain his world title.

MJF and Cole also opened the show they always had to finish, raising the stakes of All In in the process.

Wrestler Maxwell Jacob Friedman, also known as ‘MJF’, retained his title on Sunday in London

A legendary double closeline from the pair was enough to win the Aussie Open for the Ring of Honor tag team titles, but a tense look at the end sowed the seeds for later in the evening.

Shortly before Hook and Jack Perry made their way to the ring, former WWE star Mercedes Mone was shown in the stands to a rapturous ovation. If there’s a deal on the table for Mone to come to AEW, they need to get it over with quickly.

CM Punk opened the show with Samoa Joe, but he was met with loud cheers as he entered a packed Wembley Stadium. Joe hinted that Punk was scared after missing a dive from the turnbuckle and that he had almost the entire early start, but it was only a matter of time before the ‘true’ World Champion would turn the tide.

CM Punk impersonated John Cena and Hulk Hogan in one error, but his win would come when he delivered the Pepsi dive for the one, two, three.

Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi and Hangman Adam Page were next to face The Golden Elite; Jay White and Juice Robinson with Kanosuke Takeshita.

It was Japanese sensation Takeshita who managed to roll up a super-over Omega and steal a win after 20 minutes of action, setting the table for a singles match between the two next week in All Out.

As if the card couldn’t start off any hotter, we saw FTR and the Young Bucks face each other for the final time in their trilogy.

Jack Perry failed to retain the FTW Championship in his match with Hook (pictured)

The two-generation teams delivered a thorough clinic with the last ten minutes being a mix of pulsating near falls and draining their massive arsenal.

FTR took the win with a curvaceous Shatter Machine that was certainly cool enough to get the job done. FTR emerged as the better team, but there were no real losers in such a legendary feud.

Next, the Blackpool Combat Club led by Jon Moxley took on best friends, Eddie Kingston and Penta in a Stadium Stampede match that had a lot to offer and even more ground to gain in the vast space of Wembley.

Trent’s mother, Sue, showed up during all the chaos and provided weapons for her son’s team. It sounds as crazy as you might think. Moxley had skewers drilled into his head among other moments of sheer violence, but somehow the former AEW Champion remained prominent as the game went into its home game.

Hometown hero Saraya won the AEW Women’s title for the first time after defeating Toni Storm, Britt Baker and champion Hikaru Shida in a fatal four-way match.

Adam Cole is pictured prior to his championship match with tag team partner MJF

Storm accidentally hitting Saraya’s mom in the front row laid the groundwork for The Outcast’s implosion in the match and it was Storm falling to the Ram-Paige that ended the match.

If there wasn’t enough madness already, Darby Allin and living legend Sting took on Christian Cage and Swerve Strickland in a coffin match. Yes, a coffin match!

Sting defied fatherhood (he’s 64!) to dive through a table, while Allin’s reputation as the craziest wrestler working today grew stronger. A fall from the box – diving backwards from the top rope – to the ground and onto a box with no one sitting on it seemed to hurt a lot.

Strickland did his best to avoid being locked in the coffin, but Allin hitting the lid of the top rope on his back with the Coffin Drop seemed poetic.

Jack Perry performs reportedly having an off-screen altercation with CM Punk

Will Ospreay defeated the legendary Chris Jericho to give Great Britain their second winner of the night.

The first ever match lasted 15 minutes with Jericho controlling the first half of the matter, but in the home straight Ospreay electrified Wembley as only he can to take victory.

Before the main event, The Acclaimed won the Trios titles from the House of Black. Billy Gunn left his boots in the ring a few months ago to signal his retirement, but the WWE Hall of Famer struck gold on his return.

The announced attendance was 81,035, which would be the largest paid gate in professional wrestling history. The show is undoubtedly a momentous triumph for AEW, and it seems like just the beginning.