10 Best Wrestling Matches With The Worst Builds
9. Will Ospreay Vs. Chris Jericho - AEW All In: London
This will take some unpacking.
Chris Jericho wanted a match with Will Ospreay at Wembley because why wouldn't he want a match against Will Ospreay in 2023?
To get there, a lot of contrivance had to happen.
In May, Jericho acknowledged that he had lost a lot of big matches over the past few months. He was then courted by Don Callis who, and it's important to remember this, is one of the most evil, conniving characters in AEW. Over the next few weeks, Callis attempted, much to the chagrin of the Jericho Appreciation Society, to recruit Jericho into his Family. Jericho made the decision to banter off his useless mates, only Callis, expecting Jericho to say no, turned on him.
Why bother trying to recruit him, then?
This positioned Jericho as a terrible babyface, and Will Ospreay, Essex-born, was always going to be received by the Wembley crowd as a babyface regardless - despite his alignment with Callis.
A total nightmare of gaping plot holes and broken character alignments, it was also a complete waste of time: an infuriating, gibberish build all for a 15 minute match with duelling chants.
The actual All In: London match was fantastic:. Set against a massive, potentially unprecedented backdrop, Jericho worked a lean, abbreviated version of the Will Ospreay classic: a pissy, stiff, lung-bursting back-and-forth in which Jericho, at 52, did more than hang in there.
Ospreay was typically incredible, feeding Jericho the back of his skull to make even the most quaint of baseball slides look devastating, but Jericho created some awesome movement of his own with an unfathomable, rapid hurricanrana Stormbreaker reversal.