AEW Dynamite: Winter Is Coming - Every Match Ranked Worst To Best

1. Jon Moxley Vs. Kenny Omega

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That no-good, sh*t-sucking Don Callis...

Many were predicting that Kenny Omega would wrangle the AEW World Championship out of the hands of Jon Moxley on this week's edition of Dynamite, yet nobody would have predicted the win coming in the fashion that it did, with IMPACT Wrestling's Don Callis helping to screw Moxley out of the belt.

In the build, we'd heard from Omega how this was going to be all about who was the best wrestler. No hardcore action, no weapons, no shenanigans, just two men having a wrestling match to see who was the better man. Of course, heels lie - and Kenny Omega is now most certainly on the villainous side of the fence.

The match itself was a great way to close out Winter is Coming, and it largely delivered as needed. Those hoping for an Okada vs. Omega-esque six-star match were likely left a little disappointed, but this was a remarkable TV main event that took its audience on a roller coaster of a ride.

A World Championship change on TV should always be presented as a genuinely big deal, and everybody here played their part in expertly selling this as so. From Kenny having to cheat to beat Mox, to the way the announcers put the match and its result over, to how Omega and Callis bailed from the scene of the crime, to the look on a fallen Moxley's face as he lay in the ring and took in what had just happened - this was made to feel like a major moment in time, as it should.

One mild niggle was in how long both competitors spent outside the ring, which is a recurring problem for AEW and makes the referees look like idiots, but that mild niggle is exactly that - mild. Overlooking that, Moxley and Omega gave us the perfect match for what it needed to be where it pertains to be both characters moving forward, with the Best Bout Machine cemented as the top heel in the company and Mox the pissed-off babyface out for revenge.

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