WWE/NJPW/AEW: Jon Moxley’s 5 best career matches

4. vs. Kenny Omega – Lights Out Match – AEW Full Gear

It almost seems too soon to put this on any “Best of” list this soon just a couple weeks after it took place, but it also, I suppose, is just a testament to just how great this match-up was.

Any dream match holding the magnitude that Jon Moxley vs. Kenny Omega held on paper alone was something that audiences would always be excited about. When the match finally arrived to our screens, fans were beyond ready to see it, especially after we were supposed to get it in August at the company’s All Out Pay-Per-View.

A returning staph infection for Moxley postponed the match, but when it was relegated to their November PPV, Full Gear, a stipulation was added: a Lights Out Match. Which is basically just a No DQ deathmatch with the promise that it’d be too violent to officially sanction.

And boy, did it get violent. Barbed wire broom. Bed of barbed wire. Steel chairs. Barbed wire bats. Gold chains.  Trash cans. Trash can lids. Exposed mat boards. You name it. Anyway these two could find a way to hurt each other, they used it.

I typically don’t go for wacky, over the top, violent deathmatches like this, but somehow, this one felt different. This didn’t feel like the usual senselessly violent hardcore match.

For every nasty word these two hurled at each other during their storyline, specifically how neither could handle the other’s world or handle each other for that matter, this was an endurance test that literally melded the best of both worlds.

Both men put out all the stops to unleash the most painful, harsh aspects of their world onto the other with the idea that whoever could handle the worst hurled at them deserved the victory.