10 Greatest AEW Moments So Far

The reason AEW fans are so pumped up isn't because AEW isn't WWE.

In just five months of episodic television, the company has produced some of if not the best TV matches, babyface promos, heel promos, vignettes, parodies, angles and brawls since WWE's vaunted Attitude Era - and when Dynamite is in its stride, all of these events are packaged and built towards with an immaculate sense of pacing, escalation and drama.

Those moments - feelings, remember them? - were so good that there is no space here for anything related to Orange Cassidy, who has charmed the AEW audience to become massively over through his shrugging irony, which has been integrated into traditional kayfabe so deftly. There's no space for the Young Bucks Vs. Ortiz and Santana Texas Street Fight, which was outstanding, and apparently took place when Dynamite had jumped the shark, nor Nyla Rose's fabulous retcon win over Riho the other week.

There's also no space for the greatest ladder match ever (!), because AEW's revival of timeless wrestling magic is more significant - and life-affirming - than state-of-the-art exhilaration.

This company is amazing, it's on fire, and this is a celebration of it.

AEW Dynamite has presented banger upon banger since its inception - Fénix Vs. Nick Jackson was a scintillating match - but this equally exhilarating World Tag Team Title match stole its crown because it fused jaw-dropping state-of-the-art professional wrestling with absorbing episodic story beats.

Fénix won the GIF battle with his impossible feats of pulsating lucha, in a combined Lucha Brothers performance that incorporated their unrivalled pops into a phenomenal and organic story, but Kenny Omega's selling was next-level. He didn't just clutch his leg in agony; by rolling forwards and sideways into the hot tag, the Charley horse informed every movement, every beat, casting a spell of immersion. Hangman Page again assumed the role of hot tag dynamo in a match that built, with engineer precision, into a cauldron of wrestling excellence.

Then, at the finish, the Young Bucks arrived to congratulate their Revolution opponents as sportsmen, and in a lovely and likely inadvertent flex, they got a tug-of-war over.

And, again, it wasn't just the match, nor a hollow "moment"; that Omega suffered an injury will inform his upcoming Iron Man match with PAC, which in turn will negatively impact his performance at Revolution, which in turn will further the tension between the champions. Everything informs the next beat, and the matches are electrifying.

This storyline is a beast of constant, graceful movement.