25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2022

Back when the AEW men's division had only two championships, the TNT Title was building a solid legacy. 

Cody Rhodes became the inaugural TNT Champion, winning that prize at Double or Nothing 2020 by defeating Lance Archer in the final of a tournament. That new title being held by a superstar of such notoriety naturally brought a level of prestige to the championship. 

The title then had a generational run of TNT Champions as Brodie Lee squashed Rhodes in less than two minutes to win the belt in one of the most shocking moments in AEW history. Rhodes would win it back 55 days later, before Darby Allin defeated him for Darby's first piece of AEW gold. Allin then dropped the title to Miro, who was enjoying the best run of his career to date as 'The Redeemer'.

However, things then began to wobble. Sammy Guevara won the title in September '21, dropped it to Cody Rhodes, then regained it as Cody left the company in January 2022. Guevara never really lived up to the champions who preceded him, and neither he nor Scorpio Sky did anything to arrest this slump when flip-flopping the title through March and April. Sky was defeated by Wardlow, but Mr. Mayhem's reign was plagued by defences against unworthy opponents from AEW's lower card. 

The TNT Championship then spent the next few years struggling to reclaim the status it had in its early years. Mark Briscoe and Kyle Fletcher seem to have brought it back to prominence recently, but the booking of 2022 was so cataclysmically bad that it took years to recover from it.