There's an old saying of "one look is worth a thousand words". Well, this PPV held in Baltimore, Maryland is a great example of that proverb.
AEW once again has planned and executed a great show and that's all thanks to everybody that worked this PPV.
If this is your first time reading this then you'll definitely not know that I don't talk about the pre-show match not because I purposely avoid them but rather I always miss them for some reason and this show was no except.
The Young Bucks vs Santana And Ortiz.
The team from NYC locked in a double team submission (yea, you read that right) that included a camel clutch and a Boston crab. Nick Jackson then plants Santana with an elbow drop.
The Rock & Roll Express were on ringside and helped Matt Jackson go back to ring action and my goodness he did.
Matt delivered a northern lights suplex to Santana and Ortiz at the same time (the only appropriate time for a "this is awesome chant"). The Young Bucks were about to hit The Meltzer driver but Matt Jackson's knee gave out.
Nick did get some comeback but he ate the Street Sweeper finish and two of the members of The Inner Circle won this bout.
Speaking of the Inner Circle, they except Jericho and Jake Hager were beating up the losers of the match but The Bucks got the help from The Rock & Roll Express (even a Canadian destroyer from Ricky Mordon. Sensational).
A fun opening match. Given that they pinned a top team like The Young Bucks, maybe they could be in tag team title contention? Will see.
Hangman Adam Page vs Pac.
This is the second time in this very promotion that those two guys faced each other and it was another great match of the night.
Hangman delivered a suicide dive which wasn't as impressive as his dive back in the first episode of Dynamite but impressive nevertheless.
Page got away from Pac hitting him a shooting star press from the middle rope. Pac brutally delivered a brainbuster to Page on the steel chair.
Hangman hits the packaged driver to Pac and won the match. Adam Page had been taking some Ls so it does make sense that he's victorious in this match up.
"The Chairman" Shawn Spears vs Joey Janela.
Janela took a nasty powerslam on the outside from Shawn Spears and ever since, it was all Spears for the most part. Janela hits Spears with the double knees on the bottom rope which led to a moonsault on to self-proclaimed chairman outside the ring.
But, that wasn't enough because Janela ate a piledriver on the outside with the help of Tilly Blanchard (without the ref's knowledge) followed by a death valley driver for Shawn Spears' victory.
Golden Boy interviewed Kip Sabian and he asked Sabian about the sudden change about him? Sabian states that he'll bring back the sex appeal that AEW needs (Whatever the hell that means) to which Penelope Ford showed up and both Sabian and Ford left. So, apparently, they're a duo now? Meh.
SCU In Scorpio Sky and Frank Kazarian vs Lucha Brothers vs Private Party For The AEW World Tag Team Championship.
Isiah Cassidy and Marq Quen did a double team move which was an atomic drop then an Enzuigiri. Rey Fenix then delivered a corkscrew moonsault on every participant in this tag team title match.
After SCU retained their titles by pinning Isiah Cassidy, Pentagon stomps on the tag champs and all over sudden, Pentagon saw a masked man that looks like him and attacked Pentagon Jr.
That masked man revealed himself as the returning fallen angel, Christopher Daniels. That was a great return not gonna like. The match itself was decent though.
Riho vs Emi Sakura For The AEW Women's Championship.
I didn't know this until yesterday but apparently, Emi Sakura trained Riho when the current AEW Women's champion was 9 YEARS OLD. Great numbers of sequences in the first half of this title match.
Emi stomped Riho from the middle rope leading to a reverse Senton from Sakura. Riho gave Emi a taste of her own medicine by stomping Sakura. Riho then pinned Sakura with a roll-up and the women's champion is still the champion.
A great match with a crap ton of fun reverse sequences. Don't know where the champ goes from here but I hope it leads to something good at least.
Chris Jericho vs Cody For The AEW World Championship.
During the match, there was an "F*ck your birthday" chant which was hilarious to hear considering that it's Le Champio's birthday today. Cody landed himself so hard with that suicide dive on that ramp that his forehead was bleeding profusely.
Cody somehow came out to that by hitting Chris with a series of punches on the turnbuckle before he delivered the disaster cutter on Jericho.
Cody's mother slapped the crap outta Jericho and I literally marked out. Cody then delivered the Cross Rhodes and of course, Jericho kicked out.
Jericho ate the bionic elbow in honour of Cody's father and the champions still kicked out. Afterwards, Jericho wipes Cody with his belt to which he locked in the walls of Jericho.
Cody got out of that submission hold but he went right back to another submission movie by Jericho this time it was the liontamer which led to MJF throwing a towel and the ref ringing the bell for Chris to retain his title.
My gut feeling tells me that MJF would turn on Cody and that's exactly what happened. Nobody was shocked by MJF's actions. However, this match checked out every story teller's list of wants in a wrestling match (Get it. List? The list of Jericho?). What a match and an ending that was.
Jon Moxley vs Kenny Omega In A Lights Out Match.
One of the highlights in this match was the shotgun dropkick to Jon all the way to the crowd area.
Moxley brought up his best friend in the barbed wire bat and not only he hits Omega with that but as well as apply the pressure on Omega's back with the barbed wire bat or Barbie if you're Mick Foley.
The Cleaner brought up Barbie's arch-nemesis in the barbed wire mop and hits Moxley hard. Moxley then planted Omega with the sidewalk slam on the gold chain.
Kenny would then choke out Moxley with the gold chain leading to the suicide dive to Moxley through a table which was set up on the barricade.
There was a crap ton of barbed wire being brought up by the rest of Elite and Omega tried to deliver the one-winged angel but Moxley reversed that into a suplex on the barbed wire.
Kenny kicked Jon that went through the Full Gear branded glass. Jon tore up the ring canvas and Omega reversed Moxley's piledriver into a back body drop.
Moxley puts Kenny Omega down with that DDT and Moxley won his match. My match of the night. This was beyond madness, beyond insanity, beyond TV - 14 worthy. Shout out to both men for almost killing themselves all in the name of our God damn entertainment.
So, to recap for all of you slow mofos.
Like: The Young Bucks vs Santana And Ortiz, Hangman Page vs Pac, Christopher Daniels' return, Riho vs Emi Sakura For The AEW Women's Championship, Cody Rhodes vs Chris Jericho for the AEW World Championship, Kenny Omega vs Jon Moxley.
Didn't like: Bruh, you crazy!? I love this PPV. No Negatives for me.
A rare early review considering that I had the day off but there you go. Sound off in the comments below on what do you think about AEW's Full Gear? Follow me on the tweets @omartheplayaguy and follow this very blog for honest pro wrestling opinions. Anyways, stay safe smarks
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