Whoever followed Hangman Page and Jon Moxley was going to have a troublesome time, and unfortunately for Samoa Joe and Wardlow, their AEW TNT Championship match needed to happen in front of a crowd that had almost seen every thing already on tonight.
The story going into this match was that Joe and Wardlow were tag team partners within the back end of 2022, with the ultra-cool name of WarJoe…yes really. Nevertheless, Joe would turn heel and take the AEW TNT Championship from Wardlow at Full Gear, and with him already holding the ROH World Television Championship, Joe proclaimed himself because the “King of Television.” Joe had Wardlow’s number at every turn, to the purpose where Joe cut off Wardlow’s trademark ponytail, something that “Mr. Mayhem” rocked as a tribute to his late father, and with that added motivation, he wanted war at Revolution.
This match was nice, that is really all you may say to be honest. Very like the ladies’s three-way earlier within the night, it is not a foul match, but it surely would have made far more sense if one other match was as a substitute. That being something involving Powerhouse Hobbs, who won the annual Face of the Revolution Ladder Match on “AEW Dynamite” to earn a shot at Joe’s TNT Title. You’ll think that the person who won the Face of the Revolution Ladder Match would find yourself with a match at Revolution would not you? But no, this WarJoe story had to come back to an end, and the blow-off was nothing greater than a reasonably standard TV match.
For those who really wanted, you can have had Hobbs, Joe, and Wardlow run back their three-way match from Full Gear, especially provided that Revolution 2023 took place in San Francisco, California and two thirds of the match would have been California natives. Hobbs won the title from Wardlow anyway just a few days after this show, why not try this here? Because Wardlow needed revenge on Joe, and that is one other thing, the ending is fairly bad all things considered. Wardlow, the submission specialist that he’s, chokes Joe out along with his own ending move. Like seriously? You are going to choke out Samoa Joe? A minimum of MJF used wrist tape to assist him do it at Grand Slam later that 12 months, but just an ordinary choke? I’m not a fan.
Speaking of MJF, his match literally ends with him forcing Bryan Danielson to tap to his own LeBell Lock, did producers and coaches not seek advice from one another before this show to be sure not one of the finishes were too similar? Clearly not. Easily the bottom point on what had been up up to now among the best AEW pay-per-views for a while. It didn’t really have to be on the show, the guy who had a shot at it sat in the group watching on, and Wardlow should grow his hair back because he just looks like a man with short hair.