7 Ups & 0 Downs From AEW Dark (Mar 31)

2. Paradigm Shifted?

Jon Moxley debuted a new finishing sequence on last night's Dark, putting Faboo Andre away not with the Paradigm Shift, but an STF submission following a Gotch-Style Piledriver seemingly inherited from Minoru Suzuki.

This was needed. Jake Hager killed the Paradigm Shift when he popped straight up from it in last week's brawl, necessitating a switch-up. That move can't be credibly taken as a match-ender at the moment and while Mox would've probably gotten away with it against a jobber, it was nice to see him take a different route to victory.

Whether Hager's no-sell was a deliberate bridge to this new sequence or not, this was smart.

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