Every AEW Pay-Per-View Ranked - From Worst To Best
32. Full Gear 2023
This card has two of AEW's most memorable matches for very different reasons. To start with the good, Swerve Strickland and 'Hangman' Adam Page had the best match of their entire feud in this Texas Death Match classic. The hatred that both men showed for one another fuelled this blood-soaked matchup, which started with an out-and-out brawl and ended with Swerve smashing a cinderblock over Page's back before choking him out with a chain assisted by the top rope.
The other match that lives long in the memory is the awful main event. AEW World Champion MJF had been on the pre-show teaming with Samoa Joe, who replaced the injured Adam Cole, to successfully defend the Ring Of Honor Tag Team Championship against The Gunn Club. Austin and Colten Gunn then destroyed MJF's leg, putting his AEW Championship match in jeopardy later that evening, only for MJF to emerge at the end of the night and beat Bullet Club Gold leader Jay White on one leg. It made White look ridiculously soft, in one of the worst booking decisions of Tony Khan's career to date.
These two matches wrote the headlines, but there were some other enjoyable bouts too. 'TImeless' Toni Storm won the AEW Women's Championship for a third time by beating Hikaru Shida with a frying-pan assisted hip attack, and Kenny Omega and Chris Jericho's short-lived Golden Jets team defeated The Young Bucks to steal their AEW Tag Team Championship opportunity.