11 Ups & 4 Downs From ALL IN 2018

3. Omega Vs. Pentagon Delivers

Kenny Omega and Pentagon beat the absolute sh*t out of each other, and it was glorious.

This always looked like an intriguing match. Penta has never worked the format Omega typically excels in (that long, dramatic, New Japan main event style), and on the flipside, Kenny rarely produces the kind of wild, violent brawls his opponent typically favours. There was a slight chance their bout could have fallen short of expectations as a result, but it didn't. It definitely didn't.

The stiffness was off the charts, with both men taking all manner of brutal strikes and head bumps. Kenny's V-Triggers were as skull-shattering as ever. Penta's chops? As stinging as they were theatric. At one point, Pentagon hit his opponent with a Package Piledriver on the apron, and as if that wasn't bat enough, his foe followed up by damn near killing the luchador with the same move (albeit in the ring).

Omega is the IWGP Heavyweight Champion, so the outcome was a dead lock. It speaks volumes to Penta's performance, then, that he had us all genuinely buying into the idea he could win by the closing stretch. His final Package Piledriver created a heat-stopping near-fall. He lost in the end, but deserves immense credit for planting doubt in what looked like a sure thing.