Every Major AEW Show RANKED From Worst To Best
8. Bash At The Beach 2020
This two-week event captured AEW in exquisite storytelling form: Bash At The Beach was the first stone paved towards the genuine euphoria of Revolution.
Across two scintillating and very different matches - a furious multi-man cloudburst and a tense war of unravelling sportsmanship - Kenny Omega and Hangman Page were crowned World Tag Team Champions. In a tremendously low-key post-match segment, the Bucks were clearly furious about it.
The first part sagged at the midway point - a nine-minute Mel match will do that, it was senseless exposing her for that length of time - but a glorious six-man tag booked to develop the MJF Vs. Cody rivalry picked things back up. It was hardly a classic - it was a fun 10 minutes built around DDP's nostalgia pop and MJF's sh*t heel win - but it was a live-action illustration of AEW's deft, alliance-heavy narrative approach that makes every match make sense, and delays and makes premium the big matches. The PAC Vs. Darby Allin main event was exceptional; Allin takes a battering better than anyone, and PAC administers one better than most.
The Cruise was a better spectacle than show - the long and physical PAC Vs. Jon Moxley main event wasn't best suited to the party atmosphere - but the Mox Vs. Chris Jericho programme was plotted exquisitely to incorporate the visual of Mox, on a boat, wearing an eyepatch, without it being a one-note joke.