Before the world can end, there must be a Zero Hour.

Well, it’s true for the AEW Worlds End pay-per-view, at least. The inaugural event comes to us tonight from the venerable Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island, set to send the year in AEW wrestling out with a bang.

The main card starts on PPV at 8 p.m. ET, but there’s wrestling to be had on the Zero Hour pre-show which begins at 6:30 p.m. More like a Zero Hour and a Half, if you will.

One title will be on the line when Hook defends his FTW Championship against the Blackpool Combat Club’s Wheeler Yuta. We’ll also see friends compete when Kris Statlander squares off with Willow Nightingale.

And in case your favorite AEW men’s wrestler isn’t on the Worlds End card, no worries: There’s a decent chance he’ll be in the Battle Royale on Zero Hour. The winner receives a TNT Championship shot somewhere down the road, so perhaps said winner will be a clue as to whether Christian Cage will retain that belt when he battles Adam Copeland on the PPV.

We have multiple team members in the building tonight and will be ready on the laptop as well, so let’s get into this pre-show.

AEW Worlds End Zero Hour results from Long Island:

• Willow Nightingale def. Kris Statlander by pinfall with Stokely Hathaway on guest commentary
• A vignette promotes Serena Deeb training for a comeback soon
• A hype video is shown for the Miro-Andrade El Idolo match
• Killswitch wins a 20-man Battle Royale for a future TNT Championship title match, last eliminating Trent Beretta
• Another hype video gets us ready for “Timeless” Toni Storm vs. Riho for the AEW Women’s World Championship
• Wheeler Yuta gets some mic time ahead of his title defense against Hook and runs down Long Island, the Islanders and the locals
• Hook def. Wheeler Yuta by submission to retain the FTW Championship