It Has Finally Been Found: The Worst Wrestling Opinion

It was a Family Guy gag they didn't even need the manatees to write. The appearance of 1999 Matt Hardy was also deliberately incongruous to the default context of pro wrestling, but it drove the events of the match; it had a meaningful purpose. He rolled back the years to deliver a signature stunt he used at the time to hand his team the advantage in what, despite the silliness, was still enough of a wrestling match. In the Money In The Bank Ladder match, WWE, under its preferred, scripted vision, penned actual, written skits. This is what they do.

Again, "If it was AEW" is totally irrelevant, because AEW didn't do skits in their DDT-style match. The comedy was organic, or was at least worked to be presented as such; Chris Jericho created yet another meme when he spotted a traffic cone, made the visual connection to a witch's hat, and thought it might be funny to wear the cone and do the witch noise. As is the case with WWE and AEW's approach to promos, there was a deliberate, scripted quality to one gag, and an extemporaneous quality to the other.

WWE's approach to cinematic wrestling doesn't really involve wrestling; the Boneyard, Firefly Fun House and Money In The Bank Ladder matches mainly welded walk-and-brawls - if that - to a plot. Even One Final Beat was more attritional war than wrestling match, in that it wouldn't have felt out of place in the context of (bad) film. Again, the troll hypothesis fails with a closer look at the wrestling in the Street Fight; only AEW sought to emulate the actual pro wrestling thrill of athletic performance with Kenny Omega's spectacular cherry picker moonsault.

You may have enjoyed one more than the other.

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