Every Major AEW Show RANKED From Worst To Best
6. Fyter Fest 2020
Out-drawn but certainly not outclassed by NXT's Great American Bash, the two-week Fyter Fest event was a sensational hybrid of episodic wrestling television and high-end pay-per-view match quality.
In the very first match, a banger, AEW also drafted further chapters in two long-long-term stories: the character dichotomy/talent parity story of MJF and Jungle Boy's legacy rivalry, and the slow-burn MJF/Wardlow break-up. Hikaru Shida and Penelope Ford over-delivered with a beautifully creative Women's Title match, and, maintaining that theme, Cody and Jake Hager worked a hell of a damn match premised on ring IQ versus brute strength. The main event of Night One was an unreal end-to-end presentation, if not an unreal match: that wholesome Best Friends entrance, juxtaposed with the insidious heel manipulation of FTR in a tremendous post-match angle, showcased the obscene range of the best doubles division in decades.
Night Two was almost worth $59.99, it was that incredible.
Kenny Omega and Hangman Page, in imperial 2020 form, worked the best version of Private Party's signature pop generator. Mr. Brodie Lee developed his cerebral monster character by controlling the events of a six-man tag like a puppetmaster. Chris Jericho Vs. Orange Cassidy told the story of the latter's character arc superbly.
But an instant classic stole the show: the Young Bucks & FTR Vs. The Lucha Bros., Butcher and the Blade was a mind-blowing display of extravagant athletic achievement deliberately designed, through Matt Jackson taking the fall, to develop the idea that it doesn't work - that FTR's style is better - to further their epic saga with the Bucks.
It boasted more narrative depth than any match to have ever been described as "methodical".