{"id":135371,"date":"2022-03-22T02:10:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T07:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=135371"},"modified":"2022-03-23T12:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:50:58","slug":"aew-revolution-ppv-special-retrospective-bryants-second-watch-thoughts-star-ratings-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/03\/22\/aew-revolution-ppv-special-retrospective-bryants-second-watch-thoughts-star-ratings-and\/","title":{"rendered":"AEW REVOLUTION PPV &#8211; SPECIAL RETROSPECTIVE: Bryant&#8217;s second-watch thoughts, star ratings, and thorough match commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-564889915\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><strong>AEW REVOLUTION &#8217;22<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>MARCH 6, 2022<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first wrestling tape I ever owned was given to me as a Christmas present. I almost didn\u2019t open it because I almost didn\u2019t find it. It had been pushed to the back and was partly hidden by the Christmas tree\u2019s skirt. Thank goodness it was shiny! It had been wrapped in red foil and topped with a stick-on bow recycled from the previous year. Had it not been shiny, I might\u2019ve missed out on one of the best presents I ever received.<\/p>\n<p>With platitudes like that, you\u2019d think it would\u2019ve been something akin to WrestleMania XVII or Starrcade 88. But no, it was WWF Insurrextion \u2014 a glorified house show with a misspelled name because we used to think the letter \u201cX\u201d was edgy. However, the show itself was far from edgy. If anything, it was \u201cblunty\u201d because whoever booked it was probably smoking a blunt when they did so. It featured legendary wrestler and Hart Dungeon graduate Shane McMahon in the main event as he battled for the WWF Championship because wow.<\/p>\n<p>As an adult who loves wrestling, I would\u2019ve watched that show with narrowed eyes, but as a kid who loved wrestling, I watched it like a lion watching a gazelle. Every moment seemed like the most important moment of my life. Watching wrestling that way felt wonderful, and quite frankly, I miss it. I\u2019ll never forget what it felt like to watch wrestling with wide-eyed wonder.<\/p>\n<p>While watching AEW Revolution, for a sliver of a second, I got to feel that wide-eyed wonder again. It happened during the MJF-Punk match when, moments earlier, Wardlow had come out and patted down a suit that looked like it might rip if his muscles sneezed. He\u2019d been desperately looking for a ring to hand MJF, and MJF had been waiting with impatient dread as the slow realization of what was happening sucked the light from his eyes. At long last, MJF\u2019s attention was averted, and Wardlow plucked the world\u2019s gaudiest ring from his pocket and placed it on the blood-stained canvas.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when it happened. That\u2019s when the wonder returned, and it felt intoxicating. It felt like my heart was in a rib-shaped elevator. It felt like my insides were exploding. It felt like wide-eyed wonder.<\/p>\n<p>When I think back on this pay-per-view, many years from now, that moment is the moment I will remember most. That might seem silly to you. You might have a different favorite moment, or you might not have liked the pay-per-view at all. If so, that\u2019s okay. Your likes and dislikes are equally valid, and my opinions are not better than yours because they\u2019re on a website. But for me, a whole night\u2019s worth of spectacular moves, death-defying stunts, and buckets of blood got upstaged by costume jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the power of storytelling.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1595215643\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>That\u2019s the power of great wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>Professional wrestlers are storytellers, and I love them for it. They\u2019re the drama kids of the sporting world. They risk their lives to make ours a little easier to escape. Sunday night, that truth was on full display. If you watch or re-watch AEW Revolution \u201922, don\u2019t watch the mat \u2014 watch the eyes. You\u2019ve probably heard the phrase \u201chis eyes tell a story,\u201d but MJF and Punk exceeded that idiom. Their eyes told a novel. This isn\u2019t to say every second of the pay-per-view was perfect. There were both highs and lows. But hey, that\u2019s how rollercoasters work, and AEW Revolution was a ride worthy of buying the souvenir picture.<\/p>\n<p>If Revolution was a story, AEW Buy-In was its prologue, and I\u2019ve been assured by literary agents that prologues are unnecessary appendages. While I don\u2019t normally agree with literary agents, I have to admit AEW\u2019s pre-show was the opposite of a counter punch to their argument. It was as overpacked as my three suitcases on an overnight trip, and I cannot fathom why it needed to be that way. Surely, Hook vs. Q.T. Marshall could have been placed on the pay-per-view, or Hirsch vs. Statlander could have been placed on Dynamite? Honestly, there was so much happening in that first hour it felt like wrestling\u2019s version of a Gish gallop.<\/p>\n<p>That said, while there weren\u2019t any three-star matches, there weren\u2019t any one-star matches either. The best bit for me was Hook vs. Marshall because Hook is indeed a handsome devil, and there are not enough fists in this world for Marshall\u2019s face. The only let-down of the pre-show was Hirsch vs. Statlander. I wasn\u2019t let down because Hirsch and Statlander aren\u2019t talented. I was let down because they very much are. I know because I do the Dark Elevation reports (You should check them out! I run an orphanage for unwanted parentheticals.), and I\u2019ve seen them put on much better matches than this. In fact, Statlander was in my \u201cmatch of the week\u201d last week. However, despite feeling the match was a bit of a disappointment, I want to take a moment to commend Statlander for keeping the match boop-free. (Boops are less wanted than my parentheticals.)<\/p>\n<p>There was also a tag match between The House of Black and Dark Triangle. I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t at least mention this match because it featured a lot of good imagery condensed into a matter of minutes, and I love imagery in wrestling. I especially enjoyed seeing members of both teams butt heads on all fours like billy goats fighting over a spooky bridge. I enjoyed seeing Malakai Black spit his mist into Redbeard\u2019s face mid-chokeslam, and I enjoyed seeing Brody King and Erick Redbeard collide like human monster trucks. If this match were a movie, it\u2019d be a B-film, but as Stephanie McMahon assured us in 2013, there\u2019s nothing wrong with being a solid B plus.<\/p>\n<p>Please don\u2019t think I\u2019m being catty. I mean, I can be catty, but there\u2019s not much to be catty about on this show. This show was a lot closer to being the cat\u2019s meow than it was to being a dead dog. Again, I\u2019m not saying there weren\u2019t lowlights, but AEW Revolution was a lot like my hair. It was chockfull of both lowlights and highlights, and it somehow still managed to turn out dashing. (Even without Cody Rhodes.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(1) CHRIS JERICHO vs. EDDIE KINGSTON\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first match on the pay-per-view proper was a good example of my aforementioned hair analogy. The match was Chris Jericho vs. Eddie Kingston, and in the opening moments, Chris Jericho got murdered a little bit. Still, somehow, someway, with the unfettered determination of a crying newborn, Jericho managed to get back to his feet and put on a stellar match! In fact, this match actually surpassed my expectations, and I am an annoyingly expectant person.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2916451191\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>This match told a story about pride. It was a familiar story, but familiar isn\u2019t the same as bad. It told the story of an emperor discovering he had no clothes and then doubling down with a ticker-tape parade. Jericho\u2019s belligerent face exclaiming, \u201cYou\u2019ll never win the big one,\u201d was the perfect prelude to Jericho\u2019s incredulous face muttering, \u201cI can\u2019t,\u201d as he walked away from Kingston\u2019s anticipative handshake.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Kingston<\/p>\n<p>MATCH RATING: ( ***1\/2)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) JURASSIC EXPRESS vs. REDRAGON vs. THE YOUNG BUCKS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the first match was about a handshake, the second match was about an earthquake\u2026 with dragons\u2026 and a three-way starring Jungle Boy! (His words; not mine.) It featured Jurassic Express, ReDRagon, and The Young Bucks vying for the titles, and boy, oh boy, did they vie. We saw a dinosaur moonsault off an apron, an impossible-looking triple clothesline, and Luke Perry\u2019s son kick out after being hit in the head with a championship belt! To be honest, I\u2019m not too enthused about people kicking out of title belts to the head, but the crowd was enthused about everything in this match. There was enough electricity buzzing through that crowd to light up Las Vegas, and I can\u2019t say the audience\u2019s fervor was unwarranted. This match had some incredible moments \u2014 Jungle Boy heaped in a pile of broken humanity, Kyle O\u2019Reilly and Matt Jackson bumping foreheads, and a shocked fan holding his head in his hands because he couldn\u2019t believe that AEW\u2019s title belts were made of plastic.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this particular bout much like I enjoy the circus, and I very much enjoy the circus. (My profile picture on Twitter is literally me juggling fire.) In a way, these three teams played with fire throughout the match. From a superkick-assisted tombstone to an inside-out doomsday device, death never felt so cheated. This match more than earned its \u201cthis is awesome chant\u201d as well as its \u201cA-E-W\u201d chant. Thank God for that last one; I thought I was watching QVC and the \u201cV\u201d stood for violence.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Jurassic Express<\/p>\n<p>MATCH RATING (****)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(3) THE FACE OF THE REVOLUTION LADDER MATCH\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of violence, the third match was a six-man Face of the Revolution ladder match based on a completely original concept. Despite having to follow a plethora of similarly marketed ladder matches, the athletes involved still found a way to make this particular match feel unique and worth my money. Every wrestler had a moment to shine. Keith Lee and Powerhouse Hobbs simultaneously chokeslammed one another off the stage. Lee slowly popped up behind Christian like a horror movie villain rising into frame. Even Taz stood out on commentary by complaining that \u201cOrange\u201d Cassidy had stolen his gimmick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was happy to see Wardlow win, and I\u2019d like to think the confidence he obtained by capturing one of Sonic the Hedgehog\u2019s rings is part of what led him to turn on MJF later in the show. I know there were some people on wrestling-Twitter (the dumpster fire of Twitter) who felt like this match \u201cburied\u201d Keith Lee. I\u2019d like to clarify something to those fans: the only reason anyone would pay a penny for your thoughts is to get change back. Stop it.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Wardlow<\/p>\n<p>MATCH RATING: (***)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(4) TAY CONTI vs. JADE CARGIL\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fourth match on the show was Tay Conti vs. Jade Cargil, and to all the naysayers out there\u2026 sure.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Cargil<\/p>\n<p>MATCH RATING: (*1\/4)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(5) C.M. PUNK vs. MJF\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to skip over this next match and circle back to it at the end because I\u2019m a loquacious person, and I don\u2019t want to derail this whole column with another master\u2019s thesis about why MJF vs. Punk was phenomenal. I could write ten-thousand words (as my Dark Elevation reports prove), and it still wouldn\u2019t be enough to adequately describe what took place during this match. It would be like trying to describe fireworks to someone who had never seen fireworks. This match was something you simply have to see for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Everyone<\/p>\n<p>MATCH RATING: (****3\/4)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(6) BRITT BAKER vs. THUNDER ROSA\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moving on to the next match, let me express my deepest sympathy to Thunder Rosa and Britt Baker. If I had to follow MJF vs. Punk, I\u2019d have thrown myself into a volcano. However, these women have more fortitude than me and kept themselves volcano free. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, they managed to put on a stellar match. This match wasn\u2019t on par with their Lights Out match, but it met all of my expectations.<\/p>\n<p>During the match, we got a Thunder Rosa\/DMD dueling chant; we got Rosa\u2019s attempt at a Lock Jaw, and we got enough interference to irritate Jim Ross. We also got an unexpected outcome, or at least, it was unexpected for me. I would have bet the farm Thunder Rosa was going to win, and I\u2019m not even a farmer.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we got something else I didn\u2019t expect. More than halfway through the match, Baker curb-stomped Rosa\u2019s face into the women\u2019s championship, and to my great surprise, she kicked out at two \u2014 thus confirming Jungle Boy\u2019s earlier discovery that AEW\u2019s title belts are made of plastic.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Baker<\/p>\n<p>MATCH RATING: (**3\/4)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(7) BRYAN DANIELSON vs. JON MOXLEY\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Renee and Brie need a support group. \u201cWives of the Convalescing Wrestlers\u201d sounds like an appropriate name. These two men will definitely be feeling this match for a long time to come. Oh, and it was a good match, too. If anyone in this business understands imagery in wrestling, it\u2019s Danielson and Moxley. So many moments from this match are burned into my brain forever \u2014 Moxley trapped in a submission as he literally clawed his way toward the bottom rope; Moxley countering Danielson by grabbing hold of his blood-soaked beard; Moxley righteously stomping Danielson\u2019s head in. (That last one was satisfying in the extreme.)<\/p>\n<p>However, the best image this match provided didn\u2019t happen during the match. It happened afterward. It was the image of William Regal standing in-between Moxley and Danielson with his nose scrunched up like he\u2019d stepped cat vomit and his face dotted with splotches of other people\u2019s blood. I\u2019m pretty sure the crowd was too wrapped up in the moment to truly appreciate Regal\u2019s acting (the truest sign of a great actor), but I imagine when they look back on the aftermath of this match, that image of Regal will be what their mind\u2019s eye sees.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Moxley<\/p>\n<p>MATCH RATING: (****)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(8) TORNADO TAG MATCH\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever wondered what it would feel like to live inside metric-montage, this match was for you. I\u2019m not a huge fan of the overused term \u201cone-man-highlight-reel,\u201d but this was a one-match-highlight-reel. In fact, despite the crowd having already seen Danielson vs. Moxley, Punk vs. MJF, and Jurassic Express vs. Plastic Belts, this match still managed to get its own \u201cthis is awesome\u201d chant. And, in my living room, it got a subtle \u201cplease don\u2019t die\u201d chant \u2014 that chant happened around the same time Sting climbed onto a balcony and jumped through a literal stack of tables. We also saw Sammy Guevara attempt suicide off the top of the set, and we saw Hardy take a scorpion death drop through a chair!<\/p>\n<p>This match opened with a pre-taped clip of a mock funeral, and I seriously fretted that it might end where it began but without the word \u201cmock.\u201d I\u2019m very grateful that did not happen. I\u2019m also grateful for Andrade\u2019s upgraded outfit \u2014 use that more.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, I said this pay-per-view felt like a rollercoaster ride. This match felt like a rollercoaster right with the seatbelt loose. It\u2019s become a clich\u00e9 for wrestling promotions to place an innocuous come-down match right before the main event. This was not that. This was the opposite of that. I spent a good portion of the match feeling sorry for anyone watching it who\u2019d been waiting to pee. Especially me. I needed that pee break so bad! Why did Tony Khan do this to me? I thought he was supposed to be the nice one?<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Darby &amp; Sting &amp; Guevara<\/p>\n<p>LOSER: Bladders everywhere<\/p>\n<p>MATCH RATING: (***)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(9) ADAM COLE vs. ADAM PAGE\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did you know both men in this match are named Adam? The crowd does.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know the difference between a liger bomb and a powerbomb? Jim Ross does\u2026 now.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know this main event was so good I did not get to the bathroom for another twenty-six minutes? Well, now you do and wish you didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>All jokes aside, this match was no joke. I started this column talking about a World Title Match match in the early aughts that lacked a bit of \u201coomph.\u201d This match had enough \u201coomph\u201d to fill the entirety of outer space. This match featured a leaping Deadeye through a table, a Panama Sunrise on the floor, and a superkick to the face of Adam Cole while he was upside-down in the middle of a moonsault.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Cole<\/p>\n<p>MATCH RATING: (****1\/4)<\/p>\n<p>I truly believe that had that final match gone on first, or third, or even fifth, the roar of the crowd would have broken the building. However, that main event had the unfortunate fate of going on after four-and-a-half hours of showstopping, heartwrenching wrestling. Yet, despite the uphill battle Adam and Adam faced, the last thought I had as AEW went off the air wasn\u2019t, \u201cFinally, this is over!\u201d \u2014 it wasn\u2019t even \u201cNow I can pee!\u201d \u2014 no, the last thought I had as the show went off the air was, \u201cGod\u2026 wrestling is good again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Actually, that last part\u2019s not entirely true. I didn\u2019t \u201cthink\u201d those words. I said them out loud. My friends were staring at the screen in silence, and the words just slipped out of my mouth without so much as thinking about them. No one in the room disagreed with me, or if they did, they didn\u2019t speak up. In fact, the friend sitting next to me said, \u201cI\u2019ve missed this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When he said those words, I thought, \u201cMe, too.\u201d I thought back to what it felt like watching that old VHS tape of WWF Insurrextion and how so many images from that tape\u2019s over-booked main event remain tattooed across the cortex of my mind. The match was absurd, but I loved it because of the images it left behind. So much of wrestling is about imagery because wrestling is about storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>That brings us back to the best match of the night, the best match of MJF\u2019s career, and possibly the best match of the year \u2014 at least, so far. If my description of C.M. Punk vs. MJF sounds hyperbolic, it\u2019s not. If you missed this, you missed out, and I hope you go out of your way to see it. These men fit a movie\u2019s worth of story into a sitcom\u2019s worth of time, yet it felt nothing at all like the overly-crowded pre-show. This match felt like it took place in a time machine because had it not been for my stopwatch, I would have sworn it was no more than ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I already went over what I thought about this match, but there really are no words to describe the magnitude of witnessing it. It was unreal. It was one of the best matches I\u2019ve seen in a long time. It got me emotionally invested, and while I get emotionally invested in a lot of matches, this was a different kind of emotion. It was the kind that grabs you by the throat and won\u2019t let go. Years from now, this match will be placed on a pedestal next to Piper vs. Valentine, and it will belong there.<\/p>\n<p>In closing, I want to be clear \u2014 when I said I agreed with my friend about \u201cmissing this,\u201d I don\u2019t mean that as a dig at WWE or, for that matter, any other promotion. I mean it as a compliment to AEW and nothing else. It\u2019s not something I said to slight anyone. I said it because I meant it, and I say the things I mean. It felt good to watch a show so engrossing as to make me forget it\u2019s not real. It felt good to watch wrestling with child-like fascination and shamelessly mark out as Wardlow pulled a ring from his pocket.<\/p>\n<p>You may not feel the same way I do, and it\u2019s okay if you don\u2019t! Everyone has the right to like what they like, and I\u2019m not here to \u201cyuck\u201d on anyone\u2019s \u201cyum.\u201d I\u2019m just here to tell you what I experienced when I watched this show, and when I watched this show, for a split second, I experienced wide-eyed wonder.<\/p>\n<p>SHOW GRADE: A<\/p>\n<h3>ALL MATCH RATINGS (Including the Pre-Show):<\/h3>\n<p>(A) LEYLA HIRSCH vs. KRIS STATLANDER (*1\/2)<\/p>\n<p>(B) Q.T. MARSHALL vs. HOOK (Match: **1\/4, Hook\u2019s Hair: *****)<\/p>\n<p>(C) PAC &amp; PENTA OSCURO &amp; ERICK REDBEARD vs. MALAKAI BLACK &amp; BRODY KING &amp; BUDDY MATTHEWS (w\/Alex Abrahantes) (**3\/4)<\/p>\n<p>(1) CHRIS JERICHO vs. EDDIE KINGSTON ( ***1\/2)<\/p>\n<p>(2) JURASSIC EXPRESS vs. THE YOUNG BUCKS vs. REDRAGON (****)<\/p>\n<p>(3) FACE OF THE REVOLUTION LADDER MATCH (***)<\/p>\n<p>(4) JADE CARGIL vs. TAY CONTI (*1\/4)<\/p>\n<p>(5) MJF vs. C.M. PUNK (****3\/4)<\/p>\n<p>(6) BRITT BAKER vs. THUNDER ROSA (**3\/4)<\/p>\n<p>(7) BRYAN DANIELSON vs. JON MOXLEY (****)<\/p>\n<p>(8) ANDRADE EL IDOLO &amp; MATT HARDY &amp; ISIAH KASSIDY (w\/Jose \u201cThe Assistant\u201d) vs. STING &amp; DARBY ALLIN &amp; SAMMY GUEVARA (***)<\/p>\n<p>(9) ADAM COLE vs. ADAM PAGE (****1\/4)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>David Bryant covers AEW Dark Elevation every week for PWTorch.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-266325372\"><div id=\"pwtor-2423778026\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>AEW REVOLUTION &#8217;22 MARCH 6, 2022 The first wrestling tape I ever owned was given to me as a Christmas present. 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