10 Most Effective Wrestling Blade Jobs Ever

10. CM Punk Sells A Pay-Per-View

Per his latest estimate, Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter has calculated that Revolution 2022 is "easily" on course to become AEW's second-highest grossing pay-per-view.

It was sold by a plethora of well-built matches. It wasn't a one match show. But if one programme sold fans on it, which achieved a massively impressive conversion of television viewership to paying audience, it was MJF Vs. CM Punk.

Deftly plotted to obscure its stipulation in plain sight, Punk and MJF created a trad wrestling masterpiece between a wisened babyface and the cowardly heel intent on ruining his legacy and subsuming it as his own. The destination was a Dog Collar match, but in an ingenious twist, MJF explored stan culture to exploit the goodness within Punk. Through the lens of a unique, captivating storyline, Punk was a good babyface for falling for the heel's ruse on the go-home Dynamite. MJF folded a superb story beat into a callback - "Old man, I'm a snake" he said, referring to both the original Summer of Punk and Punk's failure to put away Lee Moriarty and QT Marshall quickly. Long-term storytelling works.

MJF and the Pinnacle bloodied Punk, and thick streams of the red stuff cascaded from his face in an awesome - and very, very lucrative - visual.