10 Times WWE Ripped Off AEW

10. Eye For An Eye

An eye for an eye, booking idea for a booking idea.

AEW's Eye For An Eye match was not, in fact, settled when Jon Moxley extracted Santana's eyeball from his socket. AEW ran a match marketed as Eye For An Eye as a continuation of Mox's revenge-themed programme with Chris Jericho. Mox blinded Jericho's Inner Circle underling Santana in retribution for the first blow in a quality Revolution diversion enhanced by the reality and pathos of his father enduring the same fate. It was an incredibly neat story beat.

The worst thing about WWE's Eye For An Eye match is that it's a patently ridiculous thing that you can't enjoy perversely. At the Horror Show at Extreme Rules, one must win the Seth Rollins Vs. Rey Mysterio Eye For An Eye match by extracting the eyeball from the socket of their opponent.

This is amazing dumb fun, or it should be, but it isn't. The storyline has taken itself so seriously and yet will result in everybody injuring themselves on Twitter in a race to bury it with the funniest patter. This is bathos in pro wrestling form.

WWE can't even be terrible correctly.