AEW Fyter Fest: Live Results, Grades, and Analysis

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Joey Janela vs. Jon Moxley – Non-sanctioned Match

Justin Roberts told the fans that AEW Fyter Fest is officially over, as the following match is non-sanctioned, with no time limits. This was old school, like the NWA back in the day with lights out matches, or non-sanctioned. Fantastic stuff.

Jon Moxley made his first entrance in AEW, and I love his theme. I hope it’s released soon so I can rock out to it at home.

Moxley started the match with two hard chops and Janela sent him to the floor and followed with a suicide dive. Moxley and Janela soon brawled into the crowd. Janela threw Moxley back to ringside and threw him into the ring post. Janela brought out a table and grabbed a fans prosthetic leg to wack Moxley. Moxley grabbed a chair and brought it into the ring.

Moxley body slammed Janela while holding a chair. Janela dodged an attack and setup the chair and sat Moxley on it. He then did a senton bomb, but Moxley moved out of the way, and Janela crashed through the chair. Moxley went looking under the ring for a barbed wire wrapped chair. Janela immediately backed away as Moxley slammed Janela and the put the chair on Janela’s chest and stomped on it.

The crowd chanted “You sick ****” and Moxley took a bow. Janela cut him off before he could do a double stomp and hit a hurricanrana onto the chair on Moxley. Janela then hit Moxley in the back with the barbed wire chair. Janela picked up a table and set it up in the corner. One of the announcers asked about how to recover from a shot with a barbed wire chair, and JR said “Counseling. A couple years off work,” which was a fantastic line.

Mox tried to throw Janela over the top rope through the table, but Janela hit a Russian Leg Sweep off the apron and through the table. Both men got back in the ring, and Moxley picked up Janela and speared him through the table in the corner. Moxley grabbed two tables from under the ring and set them up. After Moxley set them up, Janela gave him the finger, and Moxley beat on him and pulled a barbed wire board from under the ring.

Moxley set up the board in the corner and tried to slam Janela through it. Janela floated over and hit a death valley driver into the board, and got a near fall. Janela nailed Moxley with a forearm, but Moxley flew out of the corner with a lariat that destroyed Janela. Janela hit a big superkick on Moxley, and Moxley ended up on the apron.

Janela pulled out a ladder form under the ring, but Moxley slid out the ring and sneaked up behind him and pulled him to the outside. Janela slammed Moxley’s head into the ring steps and put him on the tables. Janlea climbed up the ladder from in the ring and hit a flying elbow drop through the tables!

Janela pulled out a barbed wire board of his own from under the ring and he setup a bridge with it between the guardrail and the apron. Moxley got back in the ring and hit the double arm DDT. Moxley then picked Janela up and hit a death valley bomb through the barbed wire board to the floor. That was ugly. Moxley picked Janela up and then sent him back into the ring.

Janela slapped Moxley and Moxley killed him with a series of knees to the face before grabbing a bucket from under the ring. Moxley pulled a bag from the bucket and poured a pile of thumbtacks on the mat. Moxley took the boots off Joey Janela, leaving him bare foot. This is going to be bad. Moxley tried to throw him feet first, but Janela got out.

Mox did a flipping suplex bomb to him into the tacks and then sent him feet first into it too. Janela flipped Moxley off, and Moxley went back into the bucket for another bag full of thumbtacks. Moxley hit an elevated double arm DDT on Janela into the second pile of thumbtacks! Moxley gets the win.

Result: Jon Moxley

Rating ****1/2 (4.5 stars out of 5)

That was a ridiculous hardcore deathmatch. While it wasn’t a mat classic, everything these two did worked here as both men killed each other in this style. Moxley proved that he isn’t the same man he was in WWE. This isn’t Dean Ambrose. This is Jon Moxley. Janela came across as a star that could hang with Moxley, and Moxley got a big win going into Fight With the Fallen and All Out.

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Kenny Omega ran down and took out Jon Moxley with a V-Trigger. He hit a piledriver on Moxley through a table, and then a flying double stomp off from the ring through a table that was on top of Moxley. Omega brought Moxley to the stage area and sent him flying face first into a drum kit on the stage. Omega killed Moxley with a guitar to the back and walked away, leaving Moxley laying.

Moxley was being helped backstage by the refs, but Moxley shoved them away. Omega ran back out with a garbage can and smashed Moxley with it before hitting Moxley with a double arm DDT (now known as the Paradigm Shift) on the garbage can. Moxley smiled after this beating, showing he got what he wanted.

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Final Thoughts

This was an excellent showing from AEW. Aside from the unprotected chairshot to Cody’s head, everything here was great. Every match was different and told a story leading into the future shows, and played of what happened at All In and Double or Nothing. For one, I can’t wait for Fight for the Fallen.

All the little things they did here was great, with down to Moxley smiling as Omega beat the life out of him. The only criticism I have is that unprotected chairshot to Cody’s head. I understand what they were trying to do with Spears “breaking the script” but I didn’t like it. Cody getting his hands up would have been just as effective. Otherwise, this was an excellent second showing for AEW, and I’m becoming more and more invested in the stories they’re telling.

Show Rating: **** (4 stars out of 5)