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Having reviewed both Revolution from the house of All Elite Wrestling and WWE's latest show in Saudi Arabia- Super ShowDown over the past week, I have only one question for the men and women in charge. Why must every wrestling show be so long and stretched out?
That one complaint aside, I thought that AEW Revolution was a really good show but definitely not as good as some of their earlier shows were. It did help that the show happened in Chicago and that the crowd was absolutely red-hot and invested in the show that was unfolding before their eyes.
Be sure to leave a comment and let me know what you thought of the show as well. Did you think that the show was worthy of all of the hype that surrounded it?
Would you say that it was a better show of the two- Revolution or WWE Super ShowDown?
#1 Best: The tag team title match
If there a Match of the Year list up already, this match deserves to be right at the top of it. Hangman Page and Kenny Omega took on The Young Bucks, and these four men know each other inside out, so they ensured that they would steal the show with a truly smashing pro wrestling performance.
And even though Hangman Page and Kenny Omega emerged as the victors when the match was done, I wonder if the story is over considering that it did seem for a minute that Hangman Page was going to turn on his own partner. Not only was this a great match but this is how pro wrestling should be done.
Now, we are all intrigued to find out what the next chapter of this story will be and indeed, if the tag team champions will implode.
#1 Worst: Rose and Statlander aren't quite Riho
When you have to follow arguably the best match of the year, you are bound to come up a little short. Kris Statlander is a good competitor but she is not quite Kenny Omega in the ring yet and because of the same, one was forced to compare this match with the one that preceded it.
The issue with Nyla Rose as Champion is that she is not quite Riho in the ring. At least with Riho, you knew that the matches would be of a certain quality and of a certain caliber, and ever since she's dropped the title, the rest of the division has been exposed.
The easiest fix for this problem would be to have the women not wrestle as long as they did and have the contests end in a matter of no time, just like WWE did to hide Goldberg's weaknesses. Not every match has to go longer than ten minutes.
I wouldn't necessarily call it a bad match. I'd have just put this match on the pre-show, if I was the booker.
#2 Best: Darby Allin is the future
One of the matches that I did not predict would go down as well as it did was Darby Allin vs. Sammy Guevara. These are obviously two young men who know that it was their job to come out and steal the show this week. And that is exactly what they did by putting on a show to remember in a card filled with some incredible matches.
A lot of comparisons have been made between Darby Allin and Jeff Hardy and whether or not Allin manages to reach the level, he is a star already. The only thing that can probably prevent him from getting there is the style of wrestling that he seems to favor in the ring. I really do hope that he lives to a very old age because some of the dives that he pulled off were the very definition of 'suicidal'.
Sammy Guevara was a great dance partner and I can only see great things for him in All Elite Wrestling, as a member of the Inner Circle.
#2 Worst: The sheer ridiculousness of AEW
I know that the crowd in attendance was really into Orange Cassidy, but I simply don't get him. He can obviously wrestle as he showed in the scant moments where he actually kicked his act into high gear. Maybe I'm too old to appreciate something so out there as he is!
I just thought that for PAC to be presented in such a manner that he had trouble knocking off Cassidy and even traded those weak-looking kicks with him was not good. And I had the same issue with Kris Statlander as well who is a great wrestler, but in what world would someone accept an 'alien' who wrestles in the ring? You can make a similar case for The Undertaker maybe, but at least, he looks the part.
Jim Ross had a field day ripping on Statlander for her gimmick and honestly, I think that if anything is to inhibit her from reaching her fullest potential, it would be this ridiculous gimmick , which even her own announcers laugh and scoff at.
#3 Best: A brand new Champion is crowned
Chris Jericho has been the AEW Champion for the longest time and it was time for a change of guard at the top of the food chain. Jon Moxley was the right person to take the title from Chris Jericho as well, to send the fans home happy.
These are two men who've known each other from their time in WWE and they obviously have a great deal of mutual respect for one another, and this ensured that the match was very good. It was also a great way to end the show since there were no major surprises as there have been in previous pay-per-view events, making it a memorable night.
Jon Moxley cut a very passionate promo at the end of the night and even dropped an F-bomb or two during the same. This is the third title change in AEW history after Riho dropped the title to Nyla Rose and SCU dropped theirs to Kenny Omega and Hangman Page, and was probably the most memorable one thus far.
#3 Best/Worst: Cody vs. MJF
By no means am I calling this a bad match at all. I just thought that for all the hype that surrounded this match, the eventual outcome was a little disappointing, in my opinion, at least.
Somehow, I felt that Cody Rhodes vs. Wardlow inside the steel cage was a significantly better match than this one was. Even though the match was a lot more traditional than the modern matches that preceded it, we've seen in the past that Cody Rhodes is able to tell great stories in the ring, every time he steps in.
This just wasn't his night and I am glad that MJF came out as the winner because it allows for the rivalry to continue and reach an even better conclusion. And one also has to wonder whether Arn Anderson will turn on Cody Rhodes after he accidentally hit his mentor.
The following weeks should be very interesting. Congratulations All Elite Wrestling for putting on a fine, if a much longer than one would like, show.
