13 Match Star Ratings For AEW Full Gear 2022

Some people don't like or take seriously the star rating system in wrestling.

To them, it misses the point of what wrestling strives to do: elicit emotion. Make you feel something. This match made everybody in the crowd - made up of millenial husks, mostly - feel like a child capable of unbridled joy and awe all over again.

The Sting and Darby Allin tag team is pure and uncut pro wrestling. It is not meant to be rated. It is meant to be felt in a state of total frenzy. And yet, it was all so well-crafted with the intention of eliciting that feeling. An unreal amount of thought goes into the layout of this party match formula. It's just the best sort of wresting, in a way.

It can't be a main event concern, and it would grow tiresome if it happened all the time and you could really start to see the wires, but this quarterly rush is incomparable. There was just moment after moment of telling the TV screen to f*ck off in disbelief because you couldn't quite believe what it was beaming back at you.

There's Satnam Singh catching Darby from an unfathomable distance with the greatest of ease with one of the greatest cut-off spots you'll ever see.

There's Satnam again, because he can apparently teleport now, trying to do the same thing - but there's Sting, 63, flying into him at a deranged angle.

Is...is Sting dead?

No, he's back up and beating his chest!

Never discount Jeff Jarrett, because he's always up to something, and here, it's smashing Darby Allin's skull in with a guitar. While he's flying!

But Sting is coming back, and he's trying to put Satnam in the Scorpion Death Drop - but it looks like he's struggling to hoist a rolled-up carpet up the stairs, the f*cker is so massive.

And, amid the gonzo creativity, Jeff Jarrett was piss-funny as the carny imbecile and Darby and Jay Lethal worked a hell of a wrestling match.

No matter which body part you use to watch wrestling, the head or the heart, it was flooded with wonder.

Star Rating: ★★★★