10 Wrestling Matches Everybody Gets Wrong

10. Kenny Omega Vs. Joey Janela - AEW DARK Episode 2

These guys shouldn't have killed themselves for a dark match. This wasn't just worthy of Dynamite; AEW squandered a pay-per-view main event.

This was a wonderful, ultra-violent pretext to a major main event match: Kenny Omega Vs. Jon Moxley at Full Gear. Omega mirrored Moxley's G1 Climax run by braving his opponent's demented, plunder-strewn battleground. This was, for all its gruesome awesomeness, a chapter in a well-crafted tale advanced through expert in-ring storytelling. The match put over Jon Moxley, implicitly, as a killer. Omega risked his skull thudding against a ladder, and bumped through the wrong side of a table, just to prepare himself for something even more brutal. This was Omega's training montage.

And though he won, he still failed the test; in a great, character-driven spot, he mocked Dean Ambrose's wacky line lariat because he still doesn't know who he's f*cking with.

This made business sense, too. The inaugural DARK failed to maintain AEW's huge buzz - no matches stood out, and one was a diminished return from a superior, PPV-calibre original - but the on-demand show may have just become appointment viewing.