12 Match Star Ratings For AEW Revolution 2022
7. Face Of The Revolution Ladder Match
Uneven is the most accurate word.
Even by the standards of the multi-man ladder match, the prolonged selling on the outside was glaring at various points. The lack of flow and gripping immersion was also felt when the three absolute units sprawled out by the commentary table to set up the spot in which Keith Lee and Powerhouse Hobbs were taken out by Wardlow via table wreckage carnage. There were two perfectly serviceable, working ladders in the ring. Cool as the spot was, it was a dumb decision to stray from the field. It wasn't - Wardlow ended up grabbing the brass ring - but the decision made the match feel more fake than it had to. Cool, but inelegant.
The match was elegant elsewhere.
Orange Cassidy furthered his secret smartest man on the roster gimmick by lulling the giants into positions in which they acted as either human ladders or the platform for a ladder bridge. This took ingenuity and very impressive athleticism to execute. Keith Lee was almost too powerful, not that it wasn't awesome; when he yeeted Orange Cassidy over the top rope, he almost overshot it.
Ricky Starks showed off his own creativity and athleticism to deliver a spear between the legs of a ladder, and terrified onlookers by taking a powerbomb on the suspended apparatus. In a killer finishing sequence that put over Wardlow as the fan's choice, he leapt on the suspended ladder with a mind-blowing vertical leap, threw Starks to his doom, and grabbed the brass ring.
Longer and messier than it needed to be, it was wild when it peaked and delivered the result it needed to deliver.
Star Rating: ★★★½