Every AEW Pay-Per-View Ranked - From Worst To Best
16. Full Gear 2019
Full Gear 2019 marked AEW's first PPV with regular weekly television and it felt like every competitor set out to prove a point. Sure, matches like Shawn Spears vs Joey Janela and the women's title match between Hikaru Shida and Emi Sakura may be well below the type of prestigious match we've become accustomed to at an AEW PPV, but the rest of the card put All Elite Wrestling on the average fan's radar in devastating fashion.
'Hangman' Adam Page and PAC had a great match, where the two's contrasting styles gelled superbly, and the high-octane bouts between Santana & Ortiz vs The Young Bucks and a triple-threat between SCU, The Lucha Bros, and Private Party showed fans the kind of tag team brilliance that had been missing from mainstream American wrestling for far too long.
The final two matches were where AEW would flex the muscles with a little more star appeal. Cody Rhodes failed in his only shot at the AEW World Championship as he fell foul to champion Chris Jericho, and after Jon Moxley shockingly debuted at the end of the first AEW PPV, he would overcome being V-Triggered through a glass display to make a huge statement by defeating Kenny Omega in an unsanctioned Lights Out Match to close the show.