10 Weapon Fails That Totally Ruined Wrestling Matches
2. AEW Catalyses A Rare Good Faith Controversy
The problem with criticising AEW for clout is that you won't be taken seriously when the promotion actually does something that warrants an absolute kicking.
The entire Matt Hardy Vs. Sammy Guevara programme of 2020 deserved an absolute kicking, but it was difficult to take much of the concern trolling seriously when there are people with visibility in the critical wrestling sphere who claim that the promotion "doesn't tell stories". Like, for f*ck's sake, here's a handy hint: look at the PPV match graphics. The wrestler on the left is feuding with the wrestler on the right. If you have to wait for these graphics to be created for this to be clarified, you are an incurable moron.
This wretched, fatalistic business almost went badly wrong before it went badly wrong; in an early angle booked to advance the programme, Guevara, unable to locate a folding chair, threw a shoot one at Hardy and ripped a gash open in his face.
At All Out, the weapon didn't fail, strictly, but the promotion failed to set up its weapons; the cherry picker used as a platform for a stunt was stupidly narrow, and the table positioned to mitigate the landing was too close.
Hardy blacked out, and was somehow permitted to keep wrestling when his skin turned a less disturbing shade of grape purple.
Something far less frivolous than a dumb wrestling match was almost ruined here.