10 Bold Predictions For Wrestling In 2021

4. The Most Protected Finisher In Wrestling Gets Kicked Out Of

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AEW

This is bold, because it predicts something pro wrestling hasn't witnessed in eight transformative years.

Jon Moxley was such an awesome AEW World Champion: a babyface so aspirational, well-liked and convincing that you didn't want him to lose the gold. Nobody ever put the dreaded "Super" prefix in front of his good name. He was too remarkable at his job. When the date loomed - Kenny Omega was the man best positioned to dethrone him - the exact nature of the Winter Is Coming finish was widely debated. Mox had to lose convincingly for the result to hold any weight. Could he have kicked out of Omega's One-Winged Angel, a move so well-protected that only one man - Kota Ibushi - has achieved the feat?

In the shocker of the year, Omega orchestrated a cross-platform Screwjob all the more effective for AEW's well-established anti-f*ck finish policy. The One-Winged Angel was protected for another day.

That day will end at AEW All Out 2021 - as will Kenny Omega's World Title reign.

The event has twice shattered Hangman Adam Page, AEW's long-long-term Ace project. In 2019, he lost the biggest match of his career to Chris Jericho. In 2020, he lost his support network in the Elite.

In 2021, resolving a tale of redemption unparalleled in its intricacy, he, with enormous dramatic symmetry, will kick out of the One-Winged Angel to put over his grand triumph.

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