AEW and NXT Wednesday Night War: 3 winners of night #19
Kenny Omega (yes, again) and PAC
Since last May, fans have waited for that signature Kenny Omega match in AEW. Yes, he’s had great outings against the likes of Chris Jericho, CIMA, and Jon Moxley, but as good as those matches were, they didn’t quite rise to the levels of the matches he had in New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), specifically when he moved to the heavyweight division.
In a 30-minute Ironman match against PAC this week, he got a chance to replicate the style of match that garnered him much acclaim and the result was an instant classic. Unsurprisingly, these two started fast and expended every spot and cool counter they could dream up — a particular high point came when PAC turned a One-Winged Angel attempt into a poison rana — but this one wasn’t bereft of storytelling; Omega and PAC buttressed their cool moves with some great bits of psychology.
After PAC got himself disqualified for using a chair to stymie Omega’s momentum, the rest of the match focused on “The B******’s” unrelenting attack and Omega’s resiliency, highlighted by Omega barely avoiding a countout — with help from The Young Bucks, who were in his corner — and later surviving PAC’s Brutalizer submission hold as time expired. And we all know how things ended in the overtime period: a One-Winged Angel from Omega and a clean pin, giving him a needed singles victory while protecting PAC, who can say he would’ve won if the clock hadn’t struck zero.
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AEW has produced some great TV moments in its first four months, but Omega and PAC gave us an epic that you only see in PPV main events.