Every Major AEW Show RANKED From Worst To Best

4. Double Or Nothing 2020

Kip Sabian Jon Moxley
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AEW has promoted better shows, but this was surely impossible as a flex. Amid the worst global crisis of the century, and living conditions that generations, plural, have never endured, AEW put a smile on people's faces where that phrase, and the word "essential," had taken on so many layers of irony that we had all but suffocated underneath them.

The undercard was strong, too.

MJF Vs. Jungle Boy was a scorcher that earned every moment of its lunacy because MJF had to betray his grab-a-hold game in the storyline to put his career rival away. Hikaru Shida Vs. Nyla Rose made such great, creative use of the set to tell its story of overcoming the monster, and Jon Moxley and Brodie Lee borrowed that trick. Their war - a progressively violent skull-rattler - ended with the perfect finish to keep the heat on the challenger. He couldn't be killed - he came back to life in an awesomely badass moment - and so Mox had to put him to sleep for another day.

But it was Stadium Stampede that sold and made the show.

Some of the most creative pro wrestlers ever, painting on a big, empty blank canvas, brushed strokes of comedy, violence, nostalgia, absurdity and genuinely mind-blowing athletic achievement in one of the most fun, innovative - and vital - wrestling matches ever.

 
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