10 Essential AEW Matches For New Fans

Despite some genuinely excellent programmes up and down those early Dynamite cards in 2019, there was a prevailing concern that the wheels were already falling off when a listless Dark Order group destroyed The Elite in a show-closing December 19th angle remembered mostly for the infamous punches that missed rather than anything that hit.

Fortunately, the company roared back into form in the mostly-forgotten non-pandemic months of 2020. Tightening up the telecasts and bringing focus back upon the wrestlers hot enough form a promotion in the first place, AEW arrived at Revolution 2020 with several red hot angles and (at least) two matches that had entered company folklore before they'd even concluded.

Kenny Omega & Hangman Page Vs The Young Bucks is a match so loaded with narrative detail that the ramifications are still being felt as of this writing a good 18 months after it took place. An exceptional doubles masterclass that forces an uncertain unit together just enough to beat the best tag team in the world, the contest - in familiar Young Bucks fashion - pays tribute to the form whilst elevating it beyond prior expectations. And that's just the quality of the in-ring.

It's not to mention a host of minuscule character choices made by the four men that feed off months of internal Elite tension and plant new seeds for years of aggravation of flux to follow. It shows off all AEW can be on one night yet simultaneously illuminates why it's worth sticking around for even longer.