10 Essential AEW Matches For New Fans
5. The Young Bucks & FTR Vs The Butcher & The Blade And The Lucha Bros - Fyter Fest 2020, Night 2
AEW's multi-man house style isn't for everybody.
Your writer included, at times. In 2019 quite a bit and then sporadically ever since, there's sometimes been sense of formality to spots and moments that should be sugar sweet and sherbet sour in equal measure. An immersion-breaking inevitability to the layout and structure, and an abdication of duties from the wrestlers feuding with one another for the sake of an only-okay sequence of dives.
This was categorically not that.
Entrenched in slow-burning programme against one another at the time, uneasy allies The Young Bucks and FTR were politely competitive with one another until the levelling up resulted in the teams performing odd couple doubles moves with each other to take the opposition down. As with most Bucks matches, the genius of the layout hid in plain sight - escalation from Nick Jackson and Rey Fenix resulted in the latter hitting the former a springboard Canadian Destroyer onto nearly everybody else in the match on the floor below.
There are ways to get a match like this very wrong, and there's been one too many examples of it over the years. As a shop window for what makes the form so intoxicating, there's none better.