In fact, you don’t have to think much at all. That’s the type of no-brainer that every wrestling company loves. This one was really helped by having six of the better workers, and most over performers, on the roster (yes, even Otis) involved. It can be a main event for the top title, or like this, a television match thrown together at the last minute.
They continue to do great work when it comes to Triple Threats, Fatal Four Ways, Six-Man Tags, and matches of that nature. Don’t sleep on WWE at all in that category, though. AEW has done such a great job of making six-man tag matches that they had to introduce Trios Titles to make that an entire division. It’s pretty clear that WWE wanted to put the focus back on the Extreme part of Extreme Rules this year.ĭrew McIntyre, Kevin Owens & Johnny Gargano vs Austin Theory & Alpha Academy: It has been a great last few years for matches that, in one way or another, are more than just singles or regular tag bouts. 2009 saw every announced main show match feature something, but if you want to be super technical, CM Punk cashed in his Money In The Bank title shot on Jeff Hardy to end the night, and that was a regular match. You’d have to go back to 20 to find the last time Extreme Rules events saw every match on the card have an added stipulation or match type, and both of those years saw regular matches on the pre-show. It didn’t have a stipulation added, but Triple Threats in wrestling don’t feature disqualifications or count outs, which opens the door for a lot. If you want to be nice, you can add the Triple Threat between Damian Priest, Sheamus, and Jeff Hardy to the list. In case you’re curious, last year’s edition of Extreme Rules had seven matches, counting the pre-show, and only one of them had an official “Extreme” stipulation, and that was the main event that saw Roman Reigns face Finn Balor in an Extreme Rules match. There’s an “I Quit” Match, a “Good Old Fashioned Donnybrook” Match, a Ladder Match, a Strap Match, an Extreme Rules match, and a match taking place inside of the Fight Pit. So far, with only one episode of Smackdown left until the show, there have been six announced matches, and all six of them are actually “Extreme” matches with stipulations attached to them. However, WWE has done a great job in giving us what is, on paper, a tremendous card. Hell, not having the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion on the card at all is even rougher. Kudos to Jericho for bumping his ass off here.Įxtreme Rules: First and foremost, I’m well aware that not having the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship on the card is rough. He looked like a million bucks in this match, and Chris Jericho, to his credit, played a big part in that. It is now being reported that Tony Khan has finally been able to get Bandido signed to an AEW contract, though. There was word that WWE was sniffing around and seeing if he would be open to signing with them, so it wouldn’t have shocked me if he added WWE/NXT to that list before calendars hit 2023. With his AEW debut, he has now wrestled at least one match for 18 different promotions and production groups in 2022, and the year isn’t over yet. I don’t know if it’s because he didn’t want to be tied down right now, or if wrestling promoters are all universally stupid, but it’s still insane that Bandido wasn’t signed to a major deal before this match took place. Now imagine how poor the week would’ve been if this match didn’t deliver, and man, deliver it did. A lot of clunky matches, even clunkier promos, and weird moments, in general.
Joe Pesci willing, I’ll be back to normal for next week’s column.Ĭhris Jericho vs Bandido: Overall, this was one of the worst weeks of AEW programming that I can remember. For this column only, I’ll simply beef up the Power Rankings a bit and use that as the main topic. It is currently 12:23am on Wednesday, October 5th, approximately 12 or so hours before I usually like my columns to be posted, and I just now finished watching the televised wrestling for the week. I tested positive for COVID last week, and it’s still beating my ass, so I haven’t had time to write a “main topic” at all. This week is going to be different, but only out of necessity. The main topic, my Weekly Power Rankings, and then the playlist of songs I was listening to during the creation of the column. Normally, when I post a column, it consists of three different sections.
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