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AEW Revolution 2025
AEW Men’s World Championship
Cope versus Jon Moxley (c)
A World Championship should not be evaluated until the title has switched hands.
I do agree with that sentiment. It’s also an unrealistic expectation. We’re going to evaluate while in process no different to watching a sports team try to make it to the championship. We’re going to look at the pros and cons and make judgments throughout.
It’s now forgotten that while in the middle of it? Kenny Omega’s AEW Men’s World Championship was not looked at fondly. The start was good. The Exploding Death Match was a travesty. Most can’t tell you what his Double or Nothing match was or what was the build up to it. It was PAC and Orange Cassidy, a three way, with the build up being Orange Cassidy got hurt in a match with PAC.
People were talking about it at one point as a complete letdown, and saying that Kenny Omega was being booked better in Impact Wrestling as their champion. Kind of odd to read now seeing it’s respected as a great championship run. That’s because of what came after the Double or Nothing match, which is the program with Adam Page.
There was a Christian Cage program in between it, mostly forgotten, aside from the first Rampage where Christian beat Kenny Omega for the Impact Championship. Can you tell me a single thing that happened in their match at All Out? Or can you just tell me what happened after the match at All Out?
The 10 man tag between Elite and Dark Order, the time limit draw against Bryan Danielson at Grand Slam, and the Full Gear main event against Hangman Adam Page ended the title run strong, and it’s that last run we remember more than Kenny Omega playing golf or having Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson do run ins for him.
I say this all because Jon Moxley is right now in a similar spot Kenny was, and he doesn’t have a run in Impact to fall back on. He’s a lame duck champion and everyone is waiting for the day he drops the title.
This program with Cope? Let me be clear. It’s working in the building. People love Cope, and for all of the criticism I can give him? He’s at least an over star and people want to see it. But this program flies in the face of everything Moxley was trying to build up when he killed off Bryan Danielson at WrestleDream, and it’s all because everyone has to wait for Darby Allin to return from climbing Mt. Everest. This isn’t about the originals in AEW climbing the mountain to fight the man at the top. Cope is just an old WWE guy getting something he doesn’t deserve over a dozen guys who’ve been here from the beginning or close to it.
I think they’ve done a job making us care at least a little about this program, but the problem isn’t entirely Cope. The problem is Christian Cage’s Instashot. So long as that exists? There will always be that thought in the back of your head in Cope programs. Is AEW going to do the dumbest thing possible? Will they actually have Cope defeat Moxley, only for Christian Cage to cash in and beat Cope?
All signs point to this not happening, as I believe Swerve Strickland will be getting that shot at Dynasty and he won’t be facing Christian Cage or Cope. It’ll be Jon Moxley. If after Swerve we get someone like Will Ospreay or Adam Page, we will actually be ramping up this title run to the victory road. That final lap where the real programs take place. The toughest challenges for the champion. Guys who could definitely beat him and it would make sense. A real pivot is having Jon Moxley face the best guys possible before Darby.
If Moxley can run against the top babyfaces, survive by the skin of his teeth, only for the return of Darby Allin to lead to an explosive top of the mountain match at Y’All In Texas for Darby to finally take the power back in AEW and defeat Dictator Jon? That would end the championship right. We won’t be thinking about Cope. We won’t be thinking about Jeff Jarrett. We won’t be thinking about a senseless four way match or Jay White getting treated like a little buddy.
For all of the suffocating heat, for all of the screams of pivot? In the end, the best way is through. No Instashots. No ga ga. No bally hoo. Just a straight up good wrestling match, may the best man win, the best man is Jon Moxley, and we move on.
That’s what I hope at least. AEW has been able to right this ship in a lot of ways. This is the one program there’s no saving. It shouldn’t be the main event but I’m sure it will be. This is not a road to pivot. This is a road to perdition. That perdition likely ends with the return of Darby Allin, and the best way to make that road worth it? Is giving him opponents we want to see in the main event against him. Thanks Cope, but I liked you better when you were not at the top of the card. Time to go back a level below. Maybe in a tag team with Christian one last time, the thing we all actually want to see? Please? Please.
