10 Best Moments In AEW History

5. The Greatest Of All-Time Wins The Big One

At All In: London II - in a deafening, ultra-emotional masterpiece of a main event - Bryan Danielson finally won the big one. He defeated Swerve Strickland for the AEW World title amidst a sea of Yes! chants. Everybody in the stadium, not merely Birdie Danielson, felt like a child desperate for their hero to prevail. 

Danielson, wrestling’s preeminent genius, utilised melodrama better than anybody. He applied the concept of love not to agonise over hurting his opponent, but - upon seeing his distressed daughter in the first row - to kicking the living sh*t out of his opponent. 

Violent, bloody, distressing, euphoric: this was the perfect wrestling match. This was why you watch in the first place. 

It was Danielson’s night, but it was also a bravura Swerve Strickland performance. There are few better at portraying themselves as a badass; when Swerve shrugged off an all-time Danielson fire-up sequence, he cast true doubt over the feel-good finish with incredible body language. 

It felt like one of the most earned triumphs in the history of wrestling - a night that was as simply as special as this great sport gets.