It was anyway, at the time there were loads of people saying online that Christian should be in the hall of fame, that’s why i always thought he was built that way
Christian had set a precedent for what he could do for a wwe alterative company in tna. He totally reinvented himself twice outside the fed he's one of the best
Yeah I thought it was decent as well. The only thing I can think of leading up to it was people thought it was going to be Kurt Angle so naturally that disappointed some. But Christian has done way more with his AEW run than Kurt would’ve been able to do
Full Gear 2020 is a massively underrated PPV. Not only did it put wind in AEW's sails after how disappointing All Out 2020 was, but it is top to bottom one of their most consistently good cards they've ever put together. There was no point in the night that anything felt like a weak link and the matches offered plenty of diversity. You want a fun cinematic broken universe match? You got it. You want two of the best tag teams of all time having a dream match? You got it. You want two guys trying to out-heel each other? You got it. You want to see a young talent get his first championship? You got it. You want an intense hardcore match built on top of one of the best title match builds AEW's ever done? You got it. In my opinion it is the best PPV of the Dailey's Place era.
I was at DoN 2021 and it was so awesome to be in the crowd that night. The first ppv back from lockdown. everyone in the crowd showed so much love to each other. Don't forget Daily's is an outdoor venue. It was warm. DMD became champ and the crowd stated chanted thank you shida.
Shida deserves another championship run. She won the belt on the first lockdown PPV and carried it for the women's division throughout the entire lockdown era only to lose it to Britt Baker in her first defence in front of fans. I don't know when, but she _needs_ to get a big win and raise the belt again with the entire crowd cheering for her.
All Out 2021 was my first proper AEW Experience after catching the last 15 minutes of Dynamite that Wednesday. I hadn't watched wrestling since 2003 but I was intrigued enough to buy the PPV. I fell in love with wrestling again that night.
I remember everyone being let down with the Christian Cage debut but i was super excited since he was always one of my favorites. It's good to see that a lot of people have changed their minds about him for the better.
Well Danielson just called out Okada in Japan and Okada said it's time to enter the Forbidden Door. I think there'll be a new top 5 entry very soon. Okada vs. Danielson, ZSJ vs. OC and Shibata vs. Garcia 2. Straight to the veins please
Forbidden Door 2 is (hopefully) going to be what Forbidden Door 1 was supposed to be before the injury/illness curse descended on both promotions: wall-to-wall dream matches.
It's funny; earlier on, I was just thinking as I walked home from the shops "I wonder how long AEW will need to have existed before Cultaholic have enough material for an AEW worst to best list?" Cause I was thinking there's not been nearly enough champions holding any of the belts, but I didn't even consider their PPVs
I still cannot believe people call the Christian debut a dissapointment. That's a man who has been out for 7 years and a lot of wrestlers named him as one of the best and most underrated. Sometimes wrestling fans are so stupid.
Christian is in my top 10 favourite wrestlers of all time so it wasn't a disapointment to me but they still overhyped him way too much considering his starpower. The surprise was treated as such a big deal it felt like it was gonna be Cena, Lesnar or Punk
At the time it was. Hindsight may have changed it, but it was overhyped at the time. I’d argue it took until his heel turn for him to deliver on his hype
Personally, I’d swap All Out 2022 and DoN 2022 around. I found All Out to be the bigger slog to get through despite having 2 MOTY candidates on the card. I was more engaged with DoN despite it’s length, though I may have a different opinion if I rewatched it now.
I am the opposite. I felt like DoN 2022 was hampered down because of the lukewarm crowd and the length made it drag on way too hard. The All Out 2022 felt far more engaging and helped me with getting through a long watch especially for the excitement of The Acclaimed vs. Swerve in Our Glory which was electrifying. Where's, I actually felt like I was falling asleep till William Regal made his debut appearance after the Moxley vs. Danielson match at DoN 2022 (wish I was kidding but I am not as I got off a 10 hour shift that same day)
@@TheSoundwave92 didn’t Regel debut at Revolution 2022? Regardless, I can kinda see where you’re coming from, but the DoN booking also agreed with me more; some of All Out’s matches and results baffled me (Hobbs/Starks being the prime one). Granted, I watched All Out after hearing all the news, so it wasn’t a blind watch like DoN, but regardless I don’t think they’re AEWs best effort
I haven't missed an AEW PPV since its Inception (including All In) and was at Revolution 2023- I was so cognizant and appreciative in real time, recognizing I was watching something truly special. The Iron Man Match and Texas Death Match were definitely 5 star matches, but I also felt the Trios Title Match was right there with them. Christian vs JB was also really good, as was the tag team Title match.... hell, the opener with the Lucha Bros/Mark Briscoe vs the Varsity Athletes was energetic fun to get the crowd ready Only headscratcher was keeping Hometown hero Hobbs off the card in favor for an ice cold Match between Joe and Wardlow....especially considering what they decided to do after....they should have planned ahead to allow Hobbs to win the TNT Title at the PPV. I would personally put it ahead of Forbidden Door 1 and below All Out 2021, but can't complain about a top 3 placement.
I've suspected that TK overhyped Christian to make the Punk signing even more of a big deal after the "disappointment" of getting Christian Cage at a PPV. It was the worst kept secret, but it still was a big deal after that to get Punk debuting on free TV.
AEW has this crazy habit of making these ppvs have bad builds but then putting on amazing shows. Not all have been A+'s, but most shows are at worst enjoyable and the likes of Revolution 2023, Full Gear 2021, and All Out 2021 being incredible.
I don't think Revolution 2021 is too bad to be honest. I think it's too harshly criticised for that ending. It's not the best PPV they have put on, but it's still very good from start to finish. The cinematic match with Sting was awesome too and one of my favourite cinematic style matches. A duff explosion that lasted a few seconds isn't enough to ruin the rest of the 3 and a half hours of great wrestling imo 🤷♂️
Imo even besides the main event, the undercard was weak. I recently rewatched it, & It was an average show up until the main event, then the main event downgraded it
You act like the ppvs were 10 hours. Most were slightly more than 4 hours. You shouldn’t count the pre-shows because you don’t need to watch that. I’ve havent watched a pre-show since 2020 I haven’t missed anything. The shows just had a lot of matches, but we only around 60-75 mins longer than the average ppv.
Hangman is AEW's biggest draw, AEW sold out all ppvs, many dynamites when he was the champ and they actually move tickets when they announce hangman in a card. I don't get the lackluster booking of him lately
All Out 2021 was the first AEW PPV I ever saw (and the only one that I watched all of it) and it is by far my favourite. However, I don’t watch AEW that much anymore
My wife and I celebrated our anniversary in 2021 going to Full Gear. I knew he was gonna lose but I still cheered for Omega to beat Hangmans ass. The match of the nite was definitely Danielson vs Miro though
The repeated suplex down a football field is still one of the funniest moments cause they cut to something else for a few and they are still doing suplexes down the entire football field god i love AEW I'm sorry I just do.
They only do 4 ppvs a year, completely understandable to do 3.5-4 hour shows. WWE does the same thing for their big 4 ppvs. But the ones that go over 4 hours then it becomes a slog
Saying Warglow beating MJF hasn't aged well is silly. Just because Tony couldn't capitalize and booked Warglow into oblivion after doesn't mean this wasn't one of the best long term angles AEW ever did.
Toni Storm in color is cursed but that title win eventually led to her being timeless and Mariah May and I just love her. I didn't know who she was 9 months ago or Mina and I want them both.
The double or nothing events always feel a bit strange to me because to me they are aews version of wrestlemania but their world title matches never feel like biggest ppv of the year main events
@@theharv1490 yeah I’m not sure what they ever internally perceived as their biggest show but initially for me it was definitely DoN but it’s 100% lost that over the years
Double or nothing was never their wrestlemania show tbh. I dont think theyve ever had one, all the ppvs feel equal to me. Im assuming all out is the closest one and all in/all out will be their version of night 1 & night 2 of wrestlemania
“Full gear 2020 Featured a number of rematches” including Shida Vs Rose Cody Vs Darbys And the first ever match between The Bucks and FTR…. What a rematch that was. Totally unoriginal.
All Out 2021 just isn't fair, like almost any one of those matches would have been match of the night at almost any other ppv. And yet only one match can be the best.
AEW Revolution 2020 right before the pandemic on February 29, 2020! This was six days after I turn 18 years old when I was in 11th grade and was like yes my friend can drive let’s have a crazy summer of driving and fun! Oh wait global pandemic never matter! So this PPV for me is remember as the final time before pandemic where I was genuinely excited about life and what the future held for me! Too bad AEW in the few years got worst!
AEW has always had great moments and great matches on every ppv. Now theubhavent always been the best ppvs butnthey have not had a let down like WCW did consistently or WWE with certain Wrestlemanias or December to Dismember.
When it’s not, it’s a chore to get through tho. For me, All Out 2022 and DoN 2023 are the prime examples. Yes they have some MOTY contenders in there, but watching the shows start to finish was a draining experience (at least for me)
Man, after watching WWE for so long it's nice to see that you have to stretch really hard to justify calling some of these events worse than others. The overall quality of AEW events is really high.
I didn’t know I needed this video, but as someone that became a wrestling fan because of how hot AEW was around Punk’s debut, I can’t really argue with any of the rankings since then
I've been to All In 2018, All Out 2019, and Forbidden Door 2022. I can say for certain, all 3 are in my top 3 of best wrestling shows I've been to EVER. (That excludes Rampage The First Dance because CM Punk's surprise return was really the only great thing about it, but that's still the best moment I've ever experienced at any wrestling show period). And speaking of Punk, I'm gonna see him return in that same venue of United Center on June 17th!!! So I am very excited to see whether the crowd will be cheers, boos, or back and forth, cause I honestly might do both.
