This is Wrestling Inc.'s live coverage for "AEW Dynamite" Maximum Carnage 2025, with a AEW World Championship match between Jon Moxley & Powerhouse Hobbs!

Maximum Carnage from Cincinatti features a World title bout, plus the AEW in-ring return of Kenny Omega. AEW World Champion Jon Moxley defends the title tonight

Maximum Carnage. The January 8th episode of AEW Dynamite featured a Casino Gauntlet Match, and the winner would challenge Jon Moxley for the AEW World Championship at AEW Dynamite: Maximum Carnage on January 15th.

Samoa Joe returned to AEW after six months on last night's special Maximum Carnage episode of Dynamite, helping allies Hook and Katsuyori Shibata clean house against The Patriarchy.

Taz is back on commentary, as he was part of the broadcast team at AEW Dynamite: Maximum Carnage. Taz previously missed over two months as he had to get knee replacement surgery. AEW wrote him out of programming as he was attacked in the parking lot ahead of the October 2nd episode of AEW Dynamite.

Kenny Omega‘s AEW in-ring return has been announced for AEW Dynamite: Maximum Carnage on January 15th. Omega had been sidelined since December 2023 due to diverticulitis. He underwent surgery, and he did not wrestle again until NJPW x AEW Wrestle Dynasty on January 6th,

Tony Khan is promising to deliver Maximum Carnage as AEW Dynamite takes over the Andrew J. Brady Music Center in Cincinnati, OH. It just wouldn't be a show in the Queen City without hometown hero Jon Moxley being in action.