8 Unbelievable Wrestling BLUNDERS You Totally Missed
7. The Melting Bottles Of AEW
The Jon Moxley Vs. Chris Jericho programme of early 2020 only really sparked into life when the actual conflict did.
Nobody believed the initial premise that Mox would even entertain joining the Inner Circle, in the days when AEW somehow wasn't doing corporate synergy with REED Recruitment - and when he finally spurned the offer, the feud developed into something. A recently-stabbed Mox with his eye-patch looking like a badass John Carpenter protagonist at sea; Santana adding emotional weight to a subplot by revealing that his father had gone blind in his teenage years; Mox drawing hard-way blood after sticking the nut on Jericho during the riot of a go-home weigh-in: it was so inspired creatively, in hindsight the most dialled-in a passion project AEW has ever felt.
Before the conflict, in a dire segment in which he feigned joining, Mox never felt more like Dean Ambrose: a wacky agent of mischief.
It's just as well that the focus was on how awkwardly overlong it all was - everybody knew the point, it just took ages to get there - since an even more embarrassing disaster lurked in plain sight.
AEW placed liquid in sugar glass prop bottles, which naturally melted before Mox was meant to smash them over the heads of each Inner Circle member.
People rightly mock the latter years of the Ambrose character, but he at least never had actual bubbly in his wagon of weapons.