The Revolution will be televised! But…not until Sunday. So 2 days before that AEW was looking to make 1 final push to anyone on the fence about buying the event and push they did! So let’s rank ’em!
Honorable Mention: CM Punk. He cut a promo taped after the beating Wednesday covered in blood where he said MJF wanted to call him “PG Punk” but he’s going back to the Punk MJF knew. Giving MJF the Punk he deserves. He’s going to beat him so bad his mother won’t even recognize him. Because he’s CM Punk and he’s better than you. Just a great way to really hammer home the brutality of that rivalry.
5. Keith Lee. Lee had his 2nd televised AEW match with fellow big boy JD Drake of the Wingmen. With the rest of the group barred from ringside Lee took out Drake catching him on a crossbody attempt, lifting him on to his shoulders and hitting a Big Bang Catastrophe for the win. After the match he got to do more Lee things as The Wingmen ran down and he powerbomed Bononi and yeeted Peter Avalon out of the ring and on to the crowd.
4. Erick Redbeard. This is a name I never expected to have on my list but he showed up to help Pac & Penta even the odds against The House of Black. Alex Abrahantes said they had their own monster and boy did they let Redbeard look like one. After the trios came face to face he clotheslined King out of the ring and laid waste to security first doing the Big Show-esque shove off when they surrounded him and then hitting a big boot to 1 guy, a double chokeslame to 2 more and finally a cool looking twisting suplex to the last one.
3. Andrade El Idolo. He, like both of his opponents in tonight’s main event had an incredibly impressive showing. Despite being double teamed on and off throughout the match by the faces Andrsde put up a valiant fight. His top highlight here was when he caught Sammy in your typical tower of doom powerbomb spot as he held Darby for a Suplex on the ropes but then took 3 full steps out while holding Sammy still holding Darby before delivering the slam. But sadly for Andrade with the respective 2nds (and 3rds, 4ths, etc. in the case of the AHFO) banned from ringside and the numbers game working against him he ended the night looking at the lights.
2. Darby Allin. This match was so wild that these guys are going to sweep the top 3. He didn’t win so he can’t be #1 but he wasn’t the person pinned so he’s not #3. Darby lived up to his end, or rather corner of this beautiful triangle by trying to work with Sammy early on to take out Andrade. When he hit an early Code Red on El Idolo Sammy had to break up the pin and tensions between them began to rise. Darby crotched Andrade in the corner at one point and hung him in the tree of woe but as he ran to the other end of the ring Sammy flew over him and nailed Andrade with a coast to coast as Darby flew outside. Darby got revenge though flying through the bottom and middle ropes at 100 mph to dive on to El Idolo as Sammy was balanced on the same top rope with no hands. During a backslide attempt from Darby following a pin and counter-pin series Andrade tried to attack Sammy but Sammy kicked him and spun around allowing Darby to get just wrecked with a kick from Andrade while his hands were tied up pre-backslide sending his head smashing into Sammy’s. But despite that damage he still nearly got the win late if not for some quick thinking by his fellow pillar of AEW.
1. Sammy Guevara. He reatined his title against 1 of his opponents Sunday, Andrade El Idolo and 1 of his partners, Darby Allin in a 15 minute match with 60 minutes of action stuffed inside of it! These guys were all on point tonight in what was, without exaggeration, one of the most fun triple threats I’ve ever seen! The ending came with a wild sequence that saw Darby hit a Stundog Millionaire on Andrade followed by Sammy nailing El Idolo with a GTH. Darby tossed Sammy out, hit a Coffin Drop and tried for a pin but Sammy flew in with a senton and covered Andrade himself for the pin and a successful TNT title defense. After the match Sammy extended his hand to his partner at Revolution but Darby ducked out of the ring and walked off. Go out of your way to watch this! I promise you won’t regret it!
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