From messy and baffling title pictures to a certain codiverse that was even more bizarre than you remember.

I am Gareth, this is What Culture Wrestling, and here are 12 exact moments AW booking stopped making sense.

Number 12, the interim AW world title picture, June 1st, 2022. On the June 1st,

22 Dynamite, new AW world champion CM Punk was scheduled to wrestle Max Castor and the guns

alongside FTR. He just about gutted it through what was meant to be a low-stakes celebratory affair.

It is rather infamous in retrospect.

Punk shattered his foot and the complexion of the company by first jumping into the crowd.

Silly-filly.

He vacated the belt on the subsequent edition of Rampage.

But because Tony Kahn wanted to strap Punk back up as soon as was practicable,

he created an interim world title, and this idea was, well, disastrous.

So firstly, it seemed to annoy the guy who got it, John Moxley,

because it cast him as inferior to and a placeholder for CM Punk, resulting in an infamous

programme teeming with political tension.

This didn't do much for Mox.

Even though he was one of the absolute best wrestlers in the world, it portrayed him

as solid, reliable, dependable.

Words you don't tend to associate with genuine superstars.

The process of arriving at Mox was also quite baffling.

Ahead of Forbidden Door, at which Mox represented AEW against New Japan Pro Wrestling's

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Khan booked a battle royal to determine Mox's opponent for the

number one contender spot. And that man was Kyle O'Reilly, who outlasted top stars such as

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