10 Anti-WWE Moves AEW Made Out Of Spite

10. Santana Garrett Vs Tay Conti

A callback to an NXT encounter with significant Wednesday Night War lore, this contest was booked on a night loaded with two-sided spice and spite.

A super-sized SmackDown was set to go half an hour longer on Friday 16th October, overlapping and potentially throttling a portion of Rampage's regular crowd. The blue brand loaded up the show in anticipation, resulting in AEW unleashing a free YouTube pre-show that included Bryan Danielson Vs Minoru Suzuki and Santana Garrett Vs Tay Conti.

While one was the very definition of a perfect random pairing, the women's match was the total opposite.

More than just being an attempt at bettering an old NXT clash (and that was the easy bit, their original bout was lousy) Garrett/Conti was the first thing that ever defeated AEW in a viewership quarter hour in the earliest days of the two sides going head to head. On an evening defined by the ongoing niggle, this was the deftest dig.