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No Holds Barred
Jon Moxley versus Kyle O’Reilly
All Hail Jon Moxley.
Early this year it was like he could do nothing correct. He spent so much time focusing on suffocating heat and beating everyone down and wrestling old codgers that it made it hard to watch the product. I mean, Adam Copeland should take some responsibility there too. And ultimately who is booking it. But Moxley did several interviews talking about how this was what he wanted. This was how wrestling should be.
Then the heat got a point where you could finally breathe a bit. It relaxed. It allowed for the light to get into the darkness. Some would say this is the point of a heel faction, but you need the good guys to win some small battles before they start winning the big ones. AEW finally figured that out. Moxley subbing for PAC and losing the Trios Championship to The Opps was an example of them getting it.
Now we’re in the reversal of this. There’s been so much babyface success. The tide has turned. The tide turning means it’s time for the bad guys to win when you don’t expect them to. Moxley destroying Will Ospreay at the end of Forbidden Door was a great example of this. They lost the match. The credits were rolling. And yet they surprised you at that point with a heinous attack.
The current belief among many is that the Death Riders are on their way to breaking up. One too many failures from Jon Moxley. First he lost the Trios Championship. Then he lost the AEW Men’s World Championship. Then they lost the 10 wrestler lights out steel cage match at Forbidden Door. Then he lost to Darby Allin. Now Moxley cost them in Blood and Guts by submitting to Kyle O’Reilly, the man he couldn’t beat in two singles matches. By the way, the reason Death Riders didn’t have the advantage? Moxley couldn’t beat Roderick Strong clean and lost by countout.
It’s a lot of losses piling up, and it’s helping built up Kyle O’Reilly by looking like Moxley’s kryptonite. This No Holds Barred match means there will be no countout or DQ finish. If Jon Moxley doesn’t win a match like this, will the Death Riders continue to follow him?
But this is also a moment for the Death Riders to once again make you think they are at their weakest for them to surprise you. Agreeing to a no holds barred match basically means the Death Riders can come in any time they want. Moxley can’t get disqualified. Maybe this ends up KOR’s moment like Page had, but it’s also him walking into the lions den.
It’ll be interesting how this all shakes out. For a lot of people this is a big moment for Kyle, and I love Kyle so I hope it is. But it also feels like we’ve been lulled into thinking this is it, this is over, this is the end for the Death Riders, and I just don’t see them going this quietly into the night. This might be the perfect moment for the Death Riders to turn their momentum around.
