10 New Details We Just Learned About AEW Fight Forever

Indeed, the ability to dive off the barricade - or the guardrail, if you prefer - will come as a wondrous announcement to players who've desperately awaited a new way to send their chosen light heavyweight into orbit.

An approach to wrestling popularised by PAC, 'The Bastard' has been known to execute a legion of barricade-diving resplendence. Now a herculean 194-pounder with a stiffer German suplex than Brock Lesnar, PAC still implements his assortment of barricade-based attacks with as much force as he was in mid-noughties Dragon Gate. How this comes across in Fight Forever will be puzzling to see.

This will also act as a moment of freedom for AEW and Yuke's to distance themselves from traditional wrestling video game discourse as, in the WWE 2K series, there is a depressingly limited number of high-risk manoeuvres one can perform if opting to dive off the stage or the ring apron. Though a minor blunder, it's still one for AEW to consider if they want to implement the barricade-diving skill successfully. 630 sentons and Shooting Star Presses aren't necessary, but something more than a basic splash is. The PAC-standard 450 splash is a good place to start.