15 Greatest Angles In Modern Wrestling History
1. The Young Bucks Vs. FTR Non-Match
Fans want to get excited about a match. This is what the AEW of 2025/26 all too often fails to grasp. The graphic alone is not enough. The AEW of 2020 did such an awesome job of this that the promotion made fans relieved that they'd have to pay to watch FTR Vs. The Young Bucks.
FTR could cut a ring in half like no other team, and upon arriving in AEW, they cut the Elite half, enabling Hangman Page's drinking under the pretence of friendship. This disgusted Page's sober stablemates, which FTR exploited. Meanwhile, FTR and the Bucks both aspired to win the Tag Team titles. This dovetailing story reached an incredible inflection point ahead of All Out 2020.
In a brilliant and all too rare use of the old rankings system, the four highest-ranked teams competed in a gauntlet match. The teams ranked #3 and #4, logically, entered first and had to make hard work of it. This drew FTR and the Bucks perilously close to another. On free TV? In a Gauntlet match? With no build?
No: Hangman Page cost the Bucks the win by preventing Nick Jackson from executing the Meltzer Driver. His life, as shown with an effective if on-the-nose visual, had been shattered.
This was a superb display of booking; this one angle advanced Hangman's character arc, ripped the Elite apart to initiate the long build towards Full Gear 2021, and reminded fans of the enormity of the FTR Vs. The Young Bucks I. Threatening to give it away acted as a reminder that it was a premium dream match worth shelling out $50 for.