10 Terrible Wrestling Moments (Saved With One Genius Fix)
1. The AEW Revolution Dud
The terrible moment:
After a sensational modernisation of a fabled match genre you could scarcely believe was real from the description alone, Kenny Omega fails to explode Jon Moxley at Revolution 2020. He did a better job of blowing up Rich Swann. It's such a shame too, because the Exploding Barbed Wire Death match is so well thought-out. The core feature of suspense is both preserved and subverted; the unique environment is utilised to both deliver and protect (!) an absolutely ingenious One-Winged Angel near-fall; the explosions without being insane were adequate at the very least. And then the whole thing blew up in AEW's face, figuratively of course, because the external production unit Tony Khan hired turned out to be a crew of absolute clown grifters.
The genius fix:
There are two.
1) Ask the guy you filmed to hype the lore of the match, Atsushi Onita, for help. He was saddened by the pyro display and even bettered it in collaboration with US indie H20 (Hardcore Hustle Organisation), which hardly has the same budget as AEW. Slip him a few more quid and he'd have obliged, surely.
2) Knowing ECW's cursed luck, anticipate that this sort of thing is doomed stateside, buy some party kazoos in advance and quickly put them in the hands of Omega and the Good Brothers. Activate Plan B as a deliberate humiliation and pretend it was the original ide. Make Jon Moxley feel like Dean Ambrose again. That's more painful to him than any bomb.