6 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Dark (Feb 9)

4. Big Bastard

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PAC matches are always worth watching, whether he's working Kenny Omega in a Match of the Year Candidate or jostling with a guy like VSK on Dark.

'The Bastard' is so refined in every aspect of the in-ring game. He's one of the most complete wrestlers in the company, and what he's able to achieve with small opportunities like this proves it. Straightforward in form and layout it may have been, but everything PAC did looked so nasty and vicious, even something as simple as throwing VSK into the turnbuckle. Great stuff.

VSK made a late-match comeback that PAC predictably thwarted, ending his opponent with the Brutalizer after a big kick. An emphatic finish to a match that PAC looked p*ssed off at having to work.

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