Worlds End 2024 had a tall order to accomplish, following up perhaps the best year of pay-per-views AEW has ever produced. This was also a night that had to make up for last year's underwhelming Worlds End event, creating a new legacy for this AEW PPV. It did not take long for this year's event to establish Worlds End as a special show, delivering great Continental Classic action and multiple huge championship performances.
Will Ospreay and Kazuchika Okada managed to win in the semifinals, leaving Kyle Fletcher and Ricochet heart broken. The Rainmaker then overcame the best efforts of a weakened Aerial Assassin. Every champion successfully defended their championships on this night, but every single challenger pushed those champions to their limit.
The following are the real winners and losers from World End 2024, ending their wrestling year on the best or worst note possible. If this was about the real winners and losers of 2024, Kyle Fletcher would certainly be a major winner. However, Worlds End was not his night.
He pushed Will Ospreay to the limit once again in an incredible performance that may have been even better than his first battle with The Aerial Assassin. None of that mattered as much as winning in this spot. He came out of the Gold League with the most points of any competitor, and he had already defeated Ospreay once before.
This could have been the crowning moment for Fletcher, looking to defeat Ospreay and Okada again, this time in the same night. No one had.