10 Wrestling Matches That Collapsed In Front Of Everybody
9. Kenny Omega Vs Jon Moxley (AEW Revolution 2021)
AEW took a bold step when they booked an Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch as the final chapter of their lengthy Kenny Omega/Jon Moxley programme, but the potential payoff promised exactly the amount of finality their rivalry required.
All until it embarrassed the company and every wrestler involved with a production botch for the ages.
Subjectively the match itself was hampered by a few ropey pyro displays, but all of that would have been forgiven if the conclusion had lived up to even modest expectations set by some of the classics of the genre from the mid-1990s. AEW set these expectations themselves - video packages including words from deathmatch legend Atsushi Onita played in the Dynamites leading up to the pay-per-view, and Tony Khan's post-show comments about the f*ck up implied that he also expected something far superior to what we all received.
Just about every wrestler talked themselves out of bother on the post-show Dynamite, but AEW's typically the promotion that doesn't ask that of its performers. This was a credibility-bruising clunker.