8 Match Star Ratings For AEW Revolution

8. BUY-IN: SCU Vs. The Dark Order

Brawling with fire early, consistent with the storyline, this was fought with a real intensity by Kazarian in the early going.

All dangerous suplexes and impactful high spots, it was an inspired choice for the Buy-In - remember the ultra-sh*tty comedy? - because it was compact, well-worked, and obscured the tentative-at-best interest in the Dark Order through a crowd fired-up for a major show, if not a major match.

But as ever, much of the excellent work was undermined by the amateurish presentation of the Dark Order. They transitioned into the heat very well, in such a way that it didn't frame Kazarian as a moron, but the reaction to the Creepers' attack sounded like a put-off drone, and not legit heat - a not ideal atmosphered intensified by chants of "spooky perverts!" during the heat. This audience, as high as hell on a white-hot fan-servicing product, continues to banter off the concept.

That heat spot dragged - and again, it probably wouldn't feel that way, if the reaction to the act was loud or earnest - but Kazarian's acrobatic tag-in was fabulous in its ingenuity, and Scorpio Sky's explosive hot tag looked typically crisp and physical.

It was a familiar story - the Dark Order's tandem work was convoluted but coherent, and when the wrestlers bled through the act, it bordered on awesome - but the Exalted One reveal needs to manifest itself as one hell of a chapter to make it worth reading.

Star Rating: ★★★