10 Wrestling Matches That Seriously Took The Piss

In just over a year and a half as an established organisation and less than that as a weekly television product, AEW have so few major mistakes that they don't tend to appear in lists that dwell on the downright offensive.

The Jon Moxley/Jake Hager programme could even be framed as a noble failure rather than a total piss take, but the expectations it failed to meet were not just that of the dedicated fanbase, but ones artificially established by head honcho Tony Khan.

Taking to Twitter, he noted in full promo mode that it was unmissable. "I believe this will be known as the best empty arena match ever", he proclaimed, calling it "the most brutal & memorable match we’ve put on TV" in a tweet that begged for likes as much as it did viewers.

Devoid of atmosphere thanks to the literal empty arena (Dynamite had experimented with using other wrestlers in the crowd rather than having shows play out to total silence) for thirty minutes the pair grappled and brawled and grappled and brawled and grappled and brawled and no earnest enthusasim or inisght about their respective backgrounds from JR on commentary could help it approach "good" let alone Khan's "best ever" carnival bark.

AEW has established an ironclad bond with their audience remarkably quickly - this clash felt like the first time in months they'd dared to test its strength.