MJF retains AEW World Championship with stunning win over Bryan Danielson at Revolution

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MJF battled Bryan Danielson in an epic 60-minute ironman match to put a cap on All Elite Wrestling’s first pay-per-view of the year, Revolution, for the AEW World Championship.

After 60 minutes and the score tied a three apiece, AEW CEO Tony Khan refused to let the match end in a draw and made it so that the next fall would win.

MJF would outlast Danielson and make him tap to retain the AEW World Championship in one of the promotion’s most epic matches of the year.

The match started with MJF playing his mind games. He would leave the ring to waste some time after engaging with Danielson briefly. He would do it again and go into the crowd to blow off some steam with some of the fans. He then took a cup of water and threw it into the face of a young fan.

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Feb 22, 2023; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Bryan Danielson appears during AEW Dynamite at Footprint Center. (Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports)

The two then went back and forth putting on maneuver after maneuver trying to get some kind of advantage on one another. MJF missed a backflip on Danielson and the "American Dragon" would go back into the ring and then dive through the ropes at him.

Through the first 20 minutes of the match, there were no falls. The two were desperate to pick up the first fall and spent about 2 minutes rolling around the ring putting each other in different pin maneuvers and wore each other out so much the two nearly reached a 10 count as the lay on their backs catching their breaths.

Danielson would get up and score the first fall after hitting the Psycho Knee. But MJF countered with a low blow and picked up two