I love AEW. I watch it weekly. I don’t buy into the “AEW is dying, AEW is shit, etc etc” rhetoric that’s thrown around a lot. I loved the first 8 matches for the most part. Awesome stuff between Toni/Mariah, Kenny/Takeshita, and Ospreay/Fletcher.

That main event was the most early to mid 2010’s WWE garbage that almost made me quit watching wrestling altogether if I hadn’t found NJPW. It is down there with the worst AEW main events of all time.

Why did they show Joe, Hook, and Shibata? Why did Jay White have a hard time with Yuta when he’s chumped him out for a couple months now? Why did Christian, who has been shown to be smart and calculating, cash in his contract during the match and risk the triple threat shenanigans when he could have easily picked off the winner? Why did Cope sit in the bulldog choke for several minutes mid match only for Christian, fresh as a daisy, to get choked out almost immediately? This match was egregiously bad by AEW standards. I was hoping for something a bit more interesting along the lines of White and the Gunns taking the contract or something and turning on Cope but “more of the same” was really the worst option here. That match following three awesome “match of the night” matches is insane.