10 Reasons Why AEW Is Still The KING Of Wrestling

10. It Is The Ultimate Home Of Tag Team Wrestling

WWE may have headlined three huge shows, even WrestleMania, with tag team action this year - but AEW is still the best in class.

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The Young Bucks Vs. FTR III was sensational at All In. Premised on the idea that it was a meeting between the two very best teams of this generation, they had to go the closely-contested back-and-forth route. In doing so, they executed an absurd amount of believable near-falls even by the standards of a high-end Bucks match. It just had to be the end at least three times.

Was it even the best AEW tag match of the year?

Many would point to FTR Vs. Jay White and Juice Robinson II, the struggle in which was phenomenal. The image of a shattered White using his last ounce of strength and positional genius to cut off the hot tag by simply propping himself up against Dax Harwood was iconic.

AEW is almost effortlessly brilliant with its approach to the genre, magicking up a team like Big Bill and Brian Cage overnight.

And, as with so much else in AEW, the range is key. FTR Vs. Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal wasn't a classic, but the Double Or Nothing World tag team title match was one of the most entertaining in years. It was pure, joyful schlock. The constant depths the heels plumbed, culminating in Karen Jarrett smashing Aubrey Edwards with a guitar, was cheap heat as art.

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